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.