02/08/19
Featured
- A Trial Comparing Emergency Front of Neck Airway Performance in a Novel Obese-synthetic Neck, Meat-modified Obese Neck and Conventional Slim Manikin.
- Illustration of Measurement Error Models for Reducing Biases in Nutrition and Obesity Research Using 2D Body Composition Data.
- Metformin Prolongs Lifespan Through Remodeling the Energy Distribution Strategy in Silkworm, Bombyx Mori.
- Meta-Analysis: “This Study Suggests that the Addition of Breakfast Might Not Be a Good Strategy for Weight Loss, Regardless of Established Breakfast Habit”.
Headline vs Study
- Headline: Here's the Simple Way to Lose Weight and Keep It Off, According to Science.
- Study: Multiple Studies Cited, None Demonstrating Simplicity, None Establishing Weight Kept Off. Interesting Mechanistic Results Like This Study.
Contrary or Null Findings
- RCT: A School-Based Comprehensive Intervention for Childhood Obesity in China did not mitigate excess weight gain.
- RCT: “An education and nutritional counseling program for overweight women, starting after 3 months of gestation, did not significantly change post-natal excessive weight gain of infants or prevent overweight in mothers and children 2 years after delivery”.
- No Strong Evidence Supporting Effectiveness of Diabetes Self-Management Education Programs for US Latinos at Improving Emotional Distress: A Systematic Review.
- Rate of Weight Loss Not Associated with Health Outcomes After Controlling for Total Weight Loss.
- RCT: "There is no benefit of maintaining serum 25(OH)D above 30 ng/mL compared with the Institute of Medicine recommendation (20 ng/mL) in preventing falls in healthy older black American women."
- RCT: No Significant Effects on Mood and Quality of Life Changes in Pregnancy and Postpartum of a Behavioral Intervention Targeting Excess Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
- RCT: No Significant Effect of Donor Milk Supplementation on Breastfeeding Outcomes in Term Newborns.
- RCT: Protein Timing Has No Effect on Lean Mass, Strength and Functional Capacity Gains Induced By Resistance Exercise in Postmenopausal Women.
Basic
- Improving Post-Operative Outcomes in Aged and Diabetic Obese Mice.
- Identification of Metabolic Pathways Related to the Bisphenol A-induced Adipogenesis in Differentiated Murine Adipocytes By Using RNA-sequencing.
- Omega 3 Rich Diet Modulates Energy Metabolism Via GPR120-Nrf2 Crosstalk in a Novel Antioxidant Mouse Model.
- Inflammation and ER Stress Differentially Regulate STAMP2 Expression and Localization in Adipocytes.
- Hyperoxia Improves Carbohydrate Metabolism By Browning of White Adipocytes in Obese Type 2 Diabetic Rats.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- The Cluster Fuss Continues with Two New Studies.
- Food Packaging Journal to Retract Paper By Researchers in Thailand.
- Total Recall: Brazilian Journal Issues “total Retraction” of Plagiarized Paper.
- ”EAT-Lancet Report is One-sided, Not Backed By Rigorous Science”.
Clinical
- Effect of Class III and Class IV Obesity on Oocyte Retrieval Complications and Outcomes.
- Patients' Autonomy as a Negotiated Order: An Ethnographic Perspective on the Clinical Management of Childhood Obesity.
- Emerging Cancer Trends Among Young Adults in the USA: Analysis of a Population-based Cancer Registry.
Children and Adolescents
- Food Insecurity and Maternal Morbidity During Pregnancy in the National Children's Study.
- Clinical Considerations Regarding the Use of Obesity Pharmacotherapy in Adolescents with Obesity.
- Patterns of BMI Milestones in Early Life and Cardiometabolic Risk in Early Adolescence.
- Where Children Live: Examining Whether Neighborhood Crime and Poverty is Associated with Overweight and Obesity Among Low-Income Preschool-Aged Primary Care Patients.
Surgery
- The Influence of Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Intermittent Hypoxia in Carotid Adventitial Vasa Vasorum.
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis Post Bariatric Surgery.
Drugs
- Psychiatric Adverse Events and Effects on Mood with Prolonged-release Naltrexone/bupropion Combination Therapy: A Pooled Analysis.
- RCT: Liraglutide Effects in a Paediatric (7‐11 Y) Population with Obesity.
- Linifanib Exerts Dual Anti-obesity Effect By Regulating Adipocyte Browning and Formation.
- Emerging Role of SGLT-2 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Obesity.
Food & Diet
- RCT: "liver and muscle fat deposition is enhanced when sucrose overfeeding is associated with a low protein, high fat diet compared to a high protein, low fat diet."
- The Ketogenic Diet Influences Taxonomic and Functional Composition of the Gut Microbiota in Children with Severe Epilepsy.
- Anticatabolic Effects of Ketone Bodies in Skeletal Muscle.
Caloric Restriction
- Effect of Caloric Restriction and Weight Loss on Energy Expenditure.
- Diverse Metabolic Reactions Activated During 58-hr Fasting are Revealed By Non-targeted Metabolomic Analysis of Human Blood.
- Impact of Intermittent Fasting (5:2) on Ketone Body Production in Healthy Female Subjects.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Accelerometer Compared with Questionnaire Measures of Physical Activity in Relation to Body Size and Composition.
- Improving Dietary Protein Quality Reduces the Negative Effects of Physical Inactivity on Body Composition and Muscle Function.
- Exercise and the Timing of Snack Choice: Healthy Snack Choice is Reduced in the Post-Exercise State.
- Moderate Intensity Aerobic Exercise Improves Skeletal Muscle Quality in Older Adults.
- Effect of Combining Pre‐exercise Carbohydrate Intake and Repeated Short Sprints on the Blood Glucose Response to Moderate‐intensity Exercise in Young Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes.
Economics & Sociology
- Social Determinants and Non-communicable Diseases [including Obesity]: Time for Integrated Action.
- Macroeconomic Fluctuations, Changes in Lifestyles and Mortality From Diabetes: A Quasiexperimental Study.
- Effect of Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Status on Overweight and Obesity in Children 2–15 Years of Different Ethnic Groups.
Epidemiology
- The Obesity Transition: Stages of the Global Epidemic.
- Ambient Air Pollution and Overweight and Obesity in School-aged Children in Barcelona, Spain.
- Breast Cancer Risk After Caloric Restriction During the 1944–1945 Dutch Famine.
- Metabolic Health is More Closely Associated with Decrease in Lung Function than Obesity.
- Mendelian Randomization Provides Support for Obesity as a Risk Factor for Meningioma.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Effects of Majority and Minority Peer Cues Shown Within an Audiovisual Cartoon on Children's Healthy Food Choice.
- Change in Domain-specific but Not General Psychological Flexibility Relates to Greater Weight Loss in Acceptance-Based Behavioral Treatment for Obesity.
- Food Insecurity Among Hispanic/Latino Youth: Who is at Risk and What are the Health Correlates?
- Stress and Obesity.
Equity and Disparities
- Increasing Disparities in Unhealthy Food Advertising Targeted to Hispanic and Black Youth. (pdf)
- Health Inequalities: Embodied Evidence Across Biological Layers.
- Education Attainment and Obesity: Differential Returns Based on Sexual Orientation.
- Health Behaviors and Related Disparities of Insured Adults with a Health Care Provider in the United States, 2015–2016.
- Association of Community Food Environment and Obesity Among US Adults: A Geographical Information System Analysis.
- Determinants of Severe Maternal Morbidity and Its Racial/Ethnic Disparities in New York City, 2008–2012.
- Prevalence and Factors Affecting Underweight, Overweight and Obesity Using Asian and World Health Organization Cutoffs Among Adults in Nepal: Analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2016.
Ethics
- Ethical considerations in the prevention of childhood obesity. (pdf)
- "I advocate for socially just change processes and for weightism to be considered an identity worthy of consideration as a social justice issue."
Stigma
- Mediated Effects of Eating Disturbances in the Association of Perceived Weight Stigma and Emotional Distress.
- Wage and Obesity: A New Look Into Generation Y.
- Intergenerational Association of Maternal Obesity and Child Peer Victimization in the United States.
- Association Between Body Weight Status and Suicidal Ideation Among Chinese Adolescents.
Policy Related
- Modelling the Impact of a Tax on Sweetened Beverages in the Philippines: An Extended Cost–effectiveness Analysis.
- Urban Food Environments in Africa: Implications for Policy and Research.
- Driving Policy Change to Improve Micronutrient Status in Women of Reproductive Age and Children in Southeast Asia: The SMILING Project.
Intergenerational Effects
- Lean Maternal Hyperglycemia Alters Offspring Lipid Metabolism and Susceptibility to Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice.
- Maternal Metabolic Factors During Pregnancy Predict Early Childhood Growth Trajectories and Obesity Risk.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- Giant Pandas May Have Only Recently Switched to Eating Mostly Bamboo.
- Persistent Metabolic Youth in the Aging Female Brain.
- Transitions Between Foot Postures are Associated with Elevated Rates of Body Size Evolution in Mammals.
Methods
- Are Dietary Restraint Scales Valid Measures of Acute Dietary Restriction? Unobtrusive Observational Data Suggest Not.
- Accuracy of Self-Report Versus Objective Smart-Scale Weights During 12-Week Weight Management Intervention.
- Validation of an Equation for Energy Expenditure that Does Not Require the Respiratory Quotient.
- The Water-Fat Separation Method for Determining the Fat-free Component of Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue in Humans: A Brief Review.
- Body Fat Loss Automatically Reduces Lean Mass By Changing the Fat‐Free Component of Adipose Tissue.
Mathematical and Quantitative
- Stability Analysis of Mathematical Model on the Effect of Modern Lifestyles Towards the Immune System. (pdf)
- Dynamic Energy Balance and Obesity Prevention.
- Predictive Modeling of Obesity Prevalence for the U.S. Population.
Commentary
- Positive Thinking Shows Power in Preventing Diabetes.
- How Weight Bias is Harming Us All.
- Study Review Questions Link Between Breakfast and Weight.
- Eating Breakfast is Not a Good Weight Loss Strategy, Scientists Confirm.
- Sad State of American Hearts.
General
- Including Phenotypic Causal Networks in Genome-Wide Association Studies Using Mixed Effects Structural Equation Models.
- Insights From Genomes Into the Evolutionary Importance and Prevalence of Hybridization in Nature.
- Freedom, Civility, Commerce: Contemporary Media and the Public.
- “Colors and Kindness”: Nature Photography as a Means to Support Academic Skill Development of Elementary Students at Risk.
- Inclusion of Older Adults in Research: Ensuring Relevance, Feasibility, and Rigor.
- The Evidence Project Risk of Bias Tool: Assessing Study Rigor for Both Randomized and Non-randomized Intervention Studies.
- AALAS Seminar Series: The Laboratory Animal Medical Professional’s Guide to How the 3R’s Enhance Rigor and Reproducibility.
- Some Journals, and Some Reviewers, Request a Calculation of Statistical Power Based on the Observed Effect Size After a Study Has Been Carried Out. This is Fundamentally Flawed.
- The Arrogance of Public Health Advocacy.
Announcements
- Final Call for Abstracts: Nutrition 2019 Due February 15.
- IU Bloomington: Researcher Contributes to Prominent Journal’s First Special Section on Bisexual Health.
- NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
- UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Research Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
- IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.