Featured

• Spin in Randomised Clinical Trial Reports of Interventions for Obesity.
• Infrared Thermography, a New Method for Detection of Brown Adipose Tissue Activity After a Meal in Humans.
• Effects of Heat Stress and Insulin Sensitizers on Pig Adipose Tissue.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: McDonald's French Fries Might Hold a Cure for Baldness.
• Study: In Vitro Hair Follicle Formation on a Substrate Made with a Chemical Added to Fryer Oil; Successful Follicle Transfer... To Mice.
• News Critique: McDonald's French Fries Cannot Cure Baldness, Clarifies Scientist.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "...we reject that neighborhood environments have meaningful effects on healthy eating."
• Obesity Does Not Influence Prostate Intrafractional Motion.
• Study Finds Virtually Zero Benefit From Workplace Wellness Program in 1st Year.
• RCT: Interrupting Prolonged Sitting with Regular Activity Breaks Does Not Acutely Influence Appetite.
• Hypoxia During Resistance Exercise Does Not Affect Physical Performance, Perceptual Responses, or Neuromuscular Recovery.
• "Surprisingly, we also found that ablation of macrophage-derived IGF-1 reduces body weight in female mice by ~10%."
• Meta-analysis: "The effect of probiotics on fat mass was non-significant (-0.42 [-1.08, 0.23] kg, I2 = 84%)."

Basic

• Inducible Knockdown of Endothelial Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase-1B Promotes Neointima Formation in Obese Mice By Enhancing Endothelial Senescence.
• MiR-27b-3p Regulation in Browning of Human Visceral Adipose Related to Central Obesity.
• Genipin Ameliorates Diet-induced Obesity Via Promoting Lipid Mobilization and Browning of White Adipose Tissue in Rats.
• FNDC5 Attenuates Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Insulin Resistance Via AMPK-mediated Macrophage Polarization in Obesity.
• Membrane Trafficking Protein CDP138 Regulates Fat Browning and Insulin Sensitivity Through Controlling Catecholamine Release.
• Effect of N-Acetylcysteine on Dyslipidemia and Carbohydrate Metabolism in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Comfort of Opinion Without the Discomfort of Thought.
• A Critical Analysis of Obesity Prevention Policies and Strategies.
• A Response To: A Critical Analysis of Obesity Prevention Policies and Strategies.
• Actual Body Weight or Perceived Body Weight? Comment On: Childhood Obesity and School Absenteeism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Response to Letter On: Childhood Obesity and School Absenteeism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Clinical

• Comparison of Retinal Vascular Geometry in Obese and Non-obese Children.
• The Role of Motivation to Reduce Obesity Among Elderly People: Response to Priming Temptation in Obese Individuals.
• Weighted Vest Use During Dietary Weight Loss on Bone Health in Older Adults with Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Effects of Weight Changes in the Autonomic Nervous System.

Children and Adolescents

• Maintenance Interventions in Overweight or Obese Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• The GReat-Child™ Trial: A Quasi-Experimental Intervention on Whole Grains with Healthy Balanced Diet to Manage Childhood Obesity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• A Review: Associations Between Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder, Physical Activity, Medication Use, Eating Behaviors and Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• Sleep Duration and Incidence of Obesity in Infants, Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies.
• Provider Views on Childhood Obesity Management in Primary Care Settings: A Mixed Methods Analysis.
• Association of Weight Control Behaviors with BMI in Korean Adolescents: A Quantile Regression Approach.

Surgery

• Aspiration Therapy as a Tool to Treat Obesity: 1- to 4-Year Results in a 201-Patient Multi-Center Post-Market European Registry Study.
• Intravenous Metronidazole, Liquid Tinidazole, and Intra-vaginal Boric Acid to Cure Trichomonas in a Patient with Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Diagnosing Internal Herniation After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery: Literature Overview, Cadaver Study and the Added Value of 3D CT Angiography.

Drugs

• RCT: Effect of Lorcaserin Alone and in Combination with Phentermine on Food Cravings After 12-Week Treatment.
• Obese Children Require Lower Doses of Pantoprazole than Nonobese Peers to Achieve Equal Systemic Drug Exposures.
• The Complex Relationship Between Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain and Therapeutic Benefits: A Systematic Review and Implications for Treatment.
• Obesity and Pediatric Drug Development.

Food & Diet

• RCT: "carbohydrate mouth rinsing improves running time to exhaustion and peak treadmill speed under Ramadan fasting conditions."
• RCT: Cashew Nut Consumption Increases HDL Cholesterol and Reduces Systolic Blood Pressure in Asian Indians with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: A Preliminary Study for Evaluating the Dose-Dependent Effect of D-Allulose for Fat Mass Reduction in Adult Humans.
• Plasma Amino Acids During 8 Weeks of Overfeeding: Relation to Diet Body Composition and Fat Cell Size in the PROOF Study.
• Factors Influencing Food Choice of Athletes at International Competition Events.
• RCT: Effects of Intervention Promoting Healthy Children's Meals on Children's Ordering and Dietary Intake in a Quick-service Restaurant.
• Buttermilk and Krill Oil Phospholipids Improve Hippocampal Insulin Resistance and Synaptic Signaling in Aged Rats.

Caloric Restriction

• Butyrate Reduces Appetite and Activates Brown Adipose Tissue Via the Gut-brain Neural Circuit.
• Caloric Restriction Improves Glucose Homeostasis, Yet Increases Cardiometabolic Risk in Caveolin-1-deficient Mice.
• RCT: Is Two Days of Intermittent Energy Restriction Per Week a Feasible Weight Loss Approach in Obese Males?

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity of Young Adult University Students.
• Pilot Study: An Acute Bout of High Intensity Interval Exercise Increases 12.5 H GH Secretion.
• Is Regular Exercise an Effective Strategy for Weight Loss Maintenance?
• Systematic Review: Group Walking in Physically Healthy People to Promote Physical Activity.
• Maternal Exercise Improves the Metabolic Health of Adult Offspring.

Economics & Sociology

• Regionalization of School Youth Obesity and Overweight in Texas By Considering Both BMI and Socioeconomic Status.
• The Socioeconomic Disparities in Intakes and Purchases of Less-Healthy Foods and Beverages Have Changed Over Time in Urban Mexico.
• ‘Broad but Not Deep’: Regional Food Hubs and Rural Development in the United States.
• The Effects of Twitter Users' Gender and Weight on Viral Behavioral Intentions Toward Obesity-Related News.
• The Impact of Obesity on Wages: The Role of Personal Interactions and Job Selection. (pdf)

Epidemiology

• Adipokines are Associated with Hypertension in Metabolically Healthy Obese (MHO) Children and Adolescents: A Prospective Population-Based Cohort Study.
• Obesity and Severity of Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
• Obesity and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Disparities, Controversies, and Biology.
• Associations of Abdominal Subcutaneous and Visceral Fat with Insulin Resistance and Secretion Differ Between Men and Women: The Netherlands Epidemiology of Obesity Study.
• Sex-specific Differences in Mortality and the Obesity Paradox of Patients with Myocardial Infarction Ages >70 Y.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Desire or Disease? Framing Obesity to Influence Attributions of Responsibility and Policy Support.
• Brain Insulin Resistance in Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer Disease: Concepts and Conundrums.
• Systematic Screening for Metabolic Syndrome in Consumers with Severe Mental Illness.
• Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations.

Policy Related

• Implementation Contextual Factors Related to Youth Advocacy for Healthy Eating and Active Living.
• Current Government Actions and Potential Policy Options for Reducing Obesity in Queensland Schools.
• Process Evaluation and Costing of a Multifaceted Population-Wide Intervention to Reduce Salt Consumption in Fiji.
• Desire or Disease? Framing Obesity to Influence Attributions of Responsibility and Policy Support.

Intergenerational Effects

• Generation of Maternal Obesity Models in Studies of Developmental Programming in Rodents.
• Low Maternal Vitamin D Status in Pregnancy Increases the Risk of Childhood Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Free-living Greylag Geese Adjust Their Heart Rates and Body Core Temperatures to Season and Reproductive Context.
• The Geometry of Nutrient Space–Based Life-History Trade-Offs: Sex-Specific Effects of Macronutrient Intake on the Trade-Off Between Encapsulation Ability and Reproductive Effort in Decorated Crickets.
• Review: Modulation of Mitochondrial Metabolism as a Biochemical Trait in Blood Feeding Organisms: The Redox Vampire Hypothesis Redux.
• Diet-related Differences in Craniodental Morphology Between Captive-reared and Wild Coyotes, Canis Latrans (Carnivora: Canidae).

Methods

• Assessment of Salivary Adipokines Resistin, Visfatin, and Ghrelin as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Biomarkers.
• Differences in the Validity of a Visual Estimation Method for Determining Patients’ Meal Intake Between Various Meal Types and Supplied Food Items.
• Cross-validation and Out-of-sample Testing of Physical Activity Intensity Predictions Using a Wrist-worn Accelerometer.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Novel Spatiotemporal Longitudinal Methodology for Predicting Obesity Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Cerebral Functional Activity Data.
• Mathematical Analysis of Circadian Disruption and Metabolic Re-entrainment of Hepatic Gluconeogenesis: The Intertwining Entraining Roles of Light and Feeding.

Archeology & Anthropology  

• The Archaeology of Obesity: Discourse Analysis and Implications for North American Obesity Research.
• Bioanthropology of Obesity in a Population of the Autonomus Community of the Basque Country.
• Fat as Productive: Enactments of Fat in an Australian Suburb.

Ketones and Ketogenic Diet for Exercise Performance? 

• Ketone Bodies and Exercise Performance: The Next Magic Bullet or Merely Hype?
• Keto-adaptation Enhances Exercise Performance and Body Composition Responses to Training in Endurance Athletes.
• High Dietary Fat Intake Increases Fat Oxidation and Reduces Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Respiration in Trained Humans.
• Low Carbohydrate, High Fat Diet Impairs Exercise Economy and Negates the Performance Benefit From Intensified Training in Elite Race Walkers.
• Ketone Diester Ingestion Impairs Time-Trial Performance in Professional Cyclists.
• Nutritional Ketone Salts Increase Fat Oxidation but Impair High-intensity Exercise Performance in Healthy Adult Males.

Commentary

• New European Guidelines on Medical Management After Bariatric Surgery.
• Obesity & Moral Panic.
• Agricultural Technology Can Save Humanity From Starvation (Again).
• Obese Elephants.
• Community Obesity Rates Help Shape Whether Families are Overweight.
• Evidence, Not Evangelism, for Dietary Recommendations.

General

• The Effect of Ad Hominem Attacks on the Evaluation of Claims Promoted By Scientists.
• Nature Journals Tighten Rules on Non-financial Conflicts.
• Is a Statistical Test Letting Significance Slip Through the Cracks?
• Improved Estimation of Subject-level Functional Connectivity Using Full and Partial Correlation with Empirical Bayes Shrinkage.
• Altering Lipid Droplet Homeostasis Affects Coxiella Burnetii Intracellular Growth.
• Trust, Growth Mindset, and Student Commitment to Active Learning in a College Science Course.
• Athletic Training Service Characteristics for Patients with Ankle Sprains Sustained During High School Athletics.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Energy Saving Homebodies.
• Life After Research: From Hopkins to Forever Homes.

Announcements

• Seminar Series: From Biology To Behavior: A Cross-Disciplinary Discussion Surrounding Sugar And Sweetener Consumption.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.