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• Dietary restriction protects against experimental cerebral malaria via leptin modulation and T-cell mTORC1 suppression.
• Risk and injury severity of obese child passengers in motor vehicle crashes.
• Study Finds Obesity Impacts Seatbelt Safety.

Contrary and Null Findings to Hypotheses or Popular Beliefs

• “Surprisingly, SATU, MONO, and POLY [fatty acids] impaired peripheral insulin sensitivity (glucose utilization divided by insulin) to a similar extent.”
• Dietary Intake of Saturated Fat Is Not Associated with Risk of Coronary Events or Mortality in Patients with Established Coronary Artery Disease.
• "In summary, supplementation with c9,t11 CLA did not improve more advanced OAN and t10,c12 CLA worsened the renal pathology" in obese rats.
• In premenopausal obese women, HF meals rich in either MUFAs, PUFAs, or SFAs did not differentially affect TEM [thermic effect of meal] or postprandial substrate oxidation.
• We could not find an association between body weight gain during infancy and the timing of AR [adiposity rebound]”.
• RCT: Water with Food Intake Does Not Influence Caloric Intake After Gastric Bypass.
• A major role for improved glucose effectiveness after RYGB was not supported by this study.
• Prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease not associated with obesity.
• In cluster quasi-experiment, an intervention Dutch Obesity Intervention in Teenagers decreased sugar-containing beverage consumption in girls, increased breakfast frequency in boys, and yet had no apparent effect on BMI overall and seemed to actually increase BMI in adolescents attending the vocational education track.

Headline vs. Study

• Headline: Clearer food labels could help with obesity epidemic, study finds.
• Study: A study of hypothetical choices of foods by subjects in an online experiment - no measures of actual food purchase, consumption, or weight changes occurred.

Sugars & Hype

• One and a half cans of fizzy drink a day raises breast cancer risk.
• Hypewatch: Media Overreach on Soda Story.
• What was missing in many stories about sugary drinks & girls’ 1st periods.
• Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and age at menarche in a prospective study of US girls.

Scholarly Dialogue

• (Mis)measurement in the study of food environment: we need better methods to solve the puzzle.
• Response to Letter on (Mis)measurement in the study of food environment: we need better methods to solve the puzzle.

Basic Science

• Obesity, diabetes symptoms in mice improved by reversing brain inflammation.
• Regulation of Substrate Oxidation Preferences in Muscle by the Peptide Hormone Adropin.
• A Neuron-Specific Deletion of the MicroRNA-Processing Enzyme DICER Induces Severe but Transient Obesity in Mice.
• Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility.
• Visualizing Hypothalamic Network Dynamics for Appetitive and Consummatory Behaviors.
• Decoding Neural Circuits that Control Compulsive Sucrose Seeking.
• Left ventricular diastolic function and cardiometabolic factors in obese normotensive children.
• Novel Peptide Reverses Obesity and Diabetes in Rodents.

Food

• Effects of long-term cycling between palatable cafeteria diet and regular chow on intake, eating patterns, and response to saccharin and sucrose.
• RCT: Probiotic supplementation prevents high-fat, overfeeding-induced insulin resistance in human subjects.
• Review of WIC Food Packages: An Evaluation of White Potatoes in the Cash Value Voucher: Letter Report.
• White Potato Redux: Experts Say Spuds Are Not Nutritional Duds.

Exercise

• RCT: Independent effects of endurance training and weight loss on peak fat oxidation in moderately overweight men.
• Objectively measured physical activity in obese women with and without migraine.
• Exercise improves quality of life in bariatric surgery candidates: Results from the Bari-Active trial.
• Fight Parkinson's: Exercise May Be The Best Therapy.
• A Review of Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and the Role of Exercise in Breast Cancer Patients.
• Exercise performance and cardiovascular health variables in 70-year-old male soccer players compared to endurance-trained, strength-trained and untrained age-matched men.
• Physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness as underappreciated modulators of obesity-related risk of sudden cardiac death.
• Excessive running could kill you: study. (CORRECTED LINK)

Behavioral

• Impact of readiness to change behavior on the effects of a multidisciplinary intervention in obese Brazilian children and adolescents.
• Extremely obese children respond better than extremely obese adolescents to lifestyle interventions.
• Wearable Devices as Facilitators, Not Drivers, of Health Behavior Change.
• Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention in Obese Individuals with Asthma. A Lot Goes a Long Way. .
• Dairy Consumption and Insulin Resistance: The Role of Body Fat, Physical Activity, and Energy Intake.
• Ethnicity and acculturation: do they predict weight status in a longitudinal study among Asian, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White early adolescent females?

Evolution, Energetics, & Ecology

• this finding, suggest[s] that energetic costs associated with incubation act as an upper limit on reproductive output of other birds.
• Developmental arrest in energy-efficient dormancy stages could present a means for long-term bet hedging over years, whereas arrest in the energy-consuming final stage may serve a similar purpose over shorter time scales.
• How dieting makes the lean fatter: From a perspective of body composition autoregulation through adipostats and proteinstats awaiting discovery.
• Moon may hold evidence of how life started on Earth, study suggests.
• Maternal health influences childhood obesity risk.

Epidemiology

• Regional disparities in obesity prevalence in the United States: A spatial regime analysis.
• Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence From English Adoptees.
• Postmenopausal weight change and incidence of fracture: post hoc findings from Women's Health Initiative Observational Study and Clinical Trials.

Public Health

• Say good-bye to willpower.
• Researchers Say When You Eat Each Day May Be Crucial to Weight Loss.
• All body fat isn't created equal.

Clinical

• New treatment for endometriosis preserves fertility.
• Relationship Between BMI and Fracture Risk Is Mediated by Bone Mineral Density.
• Brown and beige fat in humans: thermogenic adipocytes that control energy and glucose homeostasis.
• The obesity paradox in stroke: lower mortality and lower risk of readmission for recurrent stroke in obese stroke patients.

Surgery

• Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Life Expectancy in Severely Obese Patients With Diabetes: A Decision Analysis.
• Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Versus Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding in the Super-Obese: Peri-Operative and Early Outcomes.

Drugs

• First Ever Drug Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder Approved.
• Predicting Meaningful Outcomes to Medication and Self-Help Treatments for Binge-Eating Disorder in Primary Care: The Significance of Early Rapid Response.
• Tramadol Use and the Risk of Hospitalization for Hypoglycemia in Patients With Noncancer Pain.

Policy Related

• Potential Effect of Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent Labeling on Parent Fast Food Decisions.
• Nutrition labelling: a review of research on consumer and industry response in the global South.

Psychology

• Visual weight status misperceptions of men: Why overweight can look like a healthy weight.
• Is there a role for leptin in the reduction of depression symptoms during weight loss therapy in obese adolescent girls and boys?

Aging

• Feeling Old vs Being Old Associations Between Self-perceived Age and Mortality.
• Non-hemodynamic predictors of arterial stiffness after 17 years of follow-up: the Malmö Diet and Cancer study.
• Lifestyle and Youthful Looks.
• Consumption of a whey protein-enriched diet may prevent hepatic steatosis associated with weight gain in elderly women.

Caloric Restriction

• Dieting and weight cycling as risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases: Who is really at risk?
• Calorie Restriction Attenuates Monocrotaline-induced Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Rats.
• Early leptin intervention reverses perturbed energy balance regulating hypothalamic neuropeptides in the pre- and postnatal calorie-restricted female rat offspring.
• Calorie Restriction-Mediated Replicative Lifespan Extension in Yeast Is Non-Cell Autonomous.

Economics

• Can Changing Economic Factors Explain the Rise in Obesity?
• The United States Sweetener Excise Tax Policy Analysis.

Methods

• Stick-On Tattoo Measures Blood Sugar Without Needles.
• Untangling the Causality Knot: Another Tool for Clinical Researchers.
• Development and Validation of Correction Formulas for Self-Reported Height and Weight to Estimate BMI in Adolescents. Results from the KiGGS Study.
• Air Displacement Plethysmography versus Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry in Underweight, Normal-Weight, and Overweight/Obese Individuals.

Stigma

• Obesity and internalized weight stigma: a formulation model for an emerging psychological problem.
• Physiotherapists demonstrate weight stigma.
• Weighty Consequences: Diagnostic Challenges and Practice Considerations Associated With Obesity.

Diabetes

• Material Need Insecurities, Control of Diabetes Mellitus, and Use of Health Care Resources Results of the Measuring Economic Insecurity in Diabetes Study.
• Exposure to Racial Discrimination and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Women with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass versus Sleeve Gastrectomy for Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
• A pilot study of the diabetes prevention program on weight loss for adults at community mental health centers.
• Inhaled insulin powder now available in pharmacies.

Commentary

• "Couch-potatoeism" and childhood obesity: The inverse causality hypothesis.
• David Katz: Diseases, Devices and Delusions. A new medical device is hardly the answer to the country's obesity epidemic.
• FDA: Listening to Patients' Views on New Treatments for Obesity.
• Added Fructose: A Principal Driver of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Its Consequences.
• Do we need to think beyond BMI for estimating population-level health risks?
• Trevor Butterworth: Food Addiction: Is it All in Someone Else's Head?
• Obesity Professionals Speak Out on Disabilities.
• Humor: Are you tasting the kale, obviously?

General Science

• The Epigenetic Impact of Cruciferous Vegetables on Cancer Prevention.
• The Pursuit of Beauty: Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery.
• Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet and Prediction of Incident Stroke.
• New Clues To Mysterious Kidney Disease Afflicting Sugar Cane Workers.
• American Academy of Arts & Sciences' Restoring the Foundation report on long-term sustainability of the U.S. science and engineering research system.
• Top journals crack down to deter scientific fraud.
• Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language.
• Sharing and Reporting the Results of Clinical Trials.
• Proposal Seeks to Enhance Availability of Clinical Trial Results.
• Missing Microbes: Overuse of Antibiotics with Dr. Martin Blaser.
• Even friends you have never met might help you to lose weight.
• Scientists Identify Genetic Cues for a Big Heart.

Announcements

• NCSE is seeking to hire a Director of Community Organizing and Research.
• Director of Research, Nutrition Science Initiative.
• 3rd International Workshop: Food, Nutrition & Health Claims Legislation in Europe, Washington, DC, April 30, 2015.
• TOS Early Career Webinar, Strategies to Build a Successful Research Program in Obesity-Related Research on Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 2:00 pm ET.
• Stand up for Science at AAAS! - Feb 13.
• Animal Obesity - causes, consequences and comparative aspects in Uppsala, Sweden, 14-16 June 2015.
• Cooking 101: Stanford Adds Healthy Eating Skills To The Curriculum.
• 4th International Conference on Food Digestion.
• HEALTHIER WORLD INNOVATION CHALLENGE REMINDER.
• World Obesity: Scope School London 2015.