Featured

• Optimizing the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans: The Selection Process.
• Historical Perspective on the Rise and Fall and Rise of Antibiotics and Human Weight Gain.
• Ectopic Fat Deposition Contributes to Age-associated Pathology in Caenorhabditis Elegans.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study: Body Shaming Can Literally Make People Sick.
• Study: Weight Bias Internalization Scale Cross-sectionally Associated with Metabolic Syndrome in Some Analyses.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Menu labeling may decrease the calories ordered among individuals with AN or BN and increase calories ordered among individuals with BED."
• RCT: Acute Low-intensity Cycling with Blood-flow Restriction Has No Effect on Metabolic Signaling in Human Skeletal Muscle Compared to Traditional Exercise.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Effects of Interpretive Nutrition Labels on Consumer Food Purchases.
• RCT: NO Significant Effects of a Mediterranean Diet on Risk of Heart Failure: Results From PREDIMED.
• RCT: Incorporating Freeze-dried Strawberry Powder Into a High-fat Meal Does Not Alter Postprandial Vascular Function or Blood Markers of Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
• Intake of Different Types of Fatty Acids in Infancy is Not Associated with Growth, Adiposity, or Cardiometabolic Health Up to 6 Years of Age.
• Habitual Physical Activity is Not Associated with Lower Cardiovascular Risk Profile or Higher Aerobic Fitness.
• RCT: "These results suggest that modest financial incentives delivered consistent with behavioral economics and behavior change theories do not undermine intrinsic motivation for weight management during obesity treatment; in fact, they yield higher levels of both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation."
• A Diet Enriched with Red Sorghum Flaked Biscuits, Compared to a Diet Containing White Wheat Flaked Biscuits, Does Not Enhance the Effectiveness of an Energy-Restricted Meal Plan in Overweight and Mildly Obese Adults.

Basic

• A Cafeteria Diet Triggers Intestinal Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in Obese Rats.
• Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry Underestimates in Vivo Lumbar Spine Bone Mineral Density in Overweight Rats.
• Administration of Chitosan-Starch Complexes Has Anti-Obesity Effects on Rats Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Intermittent Feeding Alters Sensitivity to Changes in Reward Value.
• The Effects of Short-term High-fat Feeding on Exercise Capacity: Multi-tissue Transcriptome Changes By RNA Sequencing Analysis.
• Interleukin-17A Exacerbates High-fat Diet-induced Hepatic Steatosis By Inhibiting Fatty Acid ß-oxidation.
• Ghrelin Induces Clock Gene Expression in the Liver of Goldfish in Vitro Via Protein Kinase C and Protein Kinase a Pathways.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Commentary: Improvements in Cycling Time Trial Performance are Not Sustained Following the Acute Provision of Challenging and Deceptive Feedback.
• Backlash Prompts Prominent Nutrition Researcher to Reanalyze Multiple Papers.
• Original Post Prompting Backlash/Dialogue on Deep Data Dives Etc.

Clinical

• Surrogates of Insulin Sensitivity and Indices of Cardiometabolic Profile in Obesity.
• The Influence of Age, Sex and BMI on the Effectiveness of Brisk Walking for Obesity Management in Adults. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Children and Adolescents

• POSITION STATEMENT: Curbing Summertime Weight Gain Among America’s Youth. (pdf)
• Effects of Enhancing School-Based BMI Screening Reports with Parent Education on Report Utility and Parental Intent to Modify Obesity Risk Factors.
• Modifying Provider Practice to Improve Assessment of Unhealthy Weight and Lifestyle in Young Children: Translating Evidence in a Quality Improvement Initiative for At-Risk Children.

Surgery

• Omentectomy in Addition to Bariatric Surgery—a 5-Year Follow-up.
• Recent Trends in Endoscopic Bariatric Therapies.

Drugs

• Central Nervous Insulin Administration Before Nocturnal Sleep Decreases Breakfast Intake in Healthy Young and Elderly Subjects.
• Ghrelin Agonist Capromorelin Oral Solution (ENTYCE®) Increases Food Consumption and Body Weight When Administered for 4 Consecutive Days to Healthy Adult Beagle Dogs in a Randomized, Masked, Placebo Controlled Study.
• Technology: RCT: Comparison of Exenatide and Acarbose on Intra-abdominal Fat Content in Patients with Obesity and Type-2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• High-disinhibition Restrained Eaters are Disinhibited By Self-regulatory Depletion in the Food-related Inhibitory Control.
• Breakfast: The Most Important Meal of the Day?
• Four-Week Consumption of Malaysian Honey Reduces Excess Weight Gain and Improves Obesity-Related Parameters in High Fat Diet Induced Obese Rats.
• Meal Timing and Frequency: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

Caloric Restriction

• Glycation Inhibitors Extend Yeast Chronological Lifespan By Reducing Advanced Glycation End Products and By Back Regulation of Proteins Involved in Mitochondrial Respiration.
• Intestinal Invalidation of the Glucose Transporter GLUT2 Delays Tissue Distribution of Glucose and Reveals an Unexpected Role in Gut Homeostasis.
• Aging and Caloric Restriction Impact Adipose Tissue, Adiponectin, and Circulating Lipids.
• Alleviation of Senescence and Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition in Aging Kidney By Short-term Caloric Restriction and Caloric Restriction Mimetics.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Calorie Restriction-induced Weight Loss and Exercise Have Differential Effects on Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria Despite Similar Effects on Insulin Sensitivity.
• Effect of a 5-Month Worksite Physical Activity Program on Tertiary Employees Overall Health and Fitness.
• Sex Differences in the Response of Total PYY and GLP-1 to Moderate-intensity Continuous and Sprint Interval Cycling Exercise.
• Economic Analysis of Primary Care-Based Physical Activity Counseling in Older Men: The VA-LIFE Trial.
• RCT: Exercise During Pregnancy to Prevent Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Improve Pregnancy Outcome in Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women.

Economics & Sociology

• What Explains the Socioeconomic Status Gap in Activity? Educational Differences in Determinants of Physical Activity and Screentime.
• Before the Obesity Epidemic: The BMI of Canadians in the First and Second World Wars.

Epidemiology

• Metabolic Risk Factors and Mechanisms of Disease in Epithelial Ovarian. (pdf)
• Low Social Rank Bigger Health Risk than Obesity: Study.
• Trends in Obesity, Overweight, and Malnutrition Among Children and Adolescents in Shenyang, China in 2010 and 2014: A Multiple Cross-sectional Study.
• Deaths Attributable to Diabetes in the United States: Comparison of Data Sources and Estimation Approaches.

Psychology

• Fathers' Engagement in Pediatric Obesity Programs: A Systematic Review.
• Neuropsychological Function in Morbid Obesity.
• Stepped-care Approach to Weight Loss.
• Can Health “halos” Extend to Food Packaging? An Investigation Into Food Healthfulness Perceptions and Serving Sizes on Consumption Decisions.
• Self-reported Overeating and Attributions for Food Intake.
• Body Dissatisfaction in Individuals with Obesity Compared to Normal-Weight Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Trajectories of Weight Change and Predictors Over 18-Month Weight Loss Treatment.

Equity and Disparities

• Physicians' Counseling on Exercise Increased Moderately...Some Disparities Narrowed and Even Reversed.
• International Comparisons in Underserved Health: Issues, Policies, Needs and Projection.
• Primary Care of the Medically Underserved.
• Commentary: Advancing Access and Equity: The Vision of a New Generation in Cancer Control.

Stigma

• Body Image and Adolescence: A Behavioral Impairment Model.
• Meta-Analysis: Body Dissatisfaction in Individuals with Obesity Compared to Normal-Weight Individuals.
• Body Size Attitudes and Body Image Perception Among Preschool Children and Their Parents. (pdf)
• Rigid Dietary Control, Flexible Dietary Control, and Intuitive Eating: Evidence for Their Differential Relationship to Disordered Eating and Body Image Concerns.
• Book Review: Fat-Talk Nation - the Human Costs of America’s War on Fat.
• Internalized Weight Stigma Mediates and Moderates Physical Activity Outcomes.

Policy Related

• Advocacy Coalitions Involved in California's Menu Labeling Policy Debate: Exploring Coalition Structure, Policy Beliefs, Resources, and Strategies.
• Piece of Cake? A Q-study on Public, Private and Non-governmental Obesity Frames.
• Regulations Under International Human Rights Law and Under EU Law - Two Different Regimes that Could Be Better Harmonized?: The Case of Food and Health.
• HIV / AIDS, Obesity and Stigma: A New Era for Non-discrimination Law?'
• Optimizing the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans: The Selection Process (2017).
• Revenge of the Lunch Lady.

Intergenerational Effects

• Predictors of Infant Body Composition at 5 Months of Age.
• Associations Between Human Breast Milk Hormones and Adipocytokines and Infant Growth and Body Composition in the First 6months of Life.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Total Energy Expenditure in Captive Capuchins (Sapajus Apella).
• Practice Makes Perfect: Performance Optimisation in ‘arboreal’ Parkour Athletes Illuminates the Evolutionary Ecology of Great Ape Anatomy.
• Usefulness of Motion Sensors to Estimate Energy Expenditure in Children and Adults: A Narrative Review of Studies Using DLW.
• Does the Membrane Pacemaker Theory of Metabolism Explain the Size Dependence of Metabolic Rate in Marine Mussels?

Methods

• Accuracy of BMI Cutoff Points for Obesity According to DXA Body Fat Estimates in Brazilian Adolescents.
• The Effect of Random Error on Diagnostic Accuracy Illustrated with the Anthropometric Diagnosis of Malnutrition.
• Estimation of Post-Mortem Interval Using Decomposition Scales for Hanging Bodies.
• Researchers Develop Wearable, Low-cost Sensor to Measure Skin Hydration.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Comparing Methods of Targeting Obesity Interventions in Populations: An Agent-based Simulation.
• Using reduced rank regression methods to identify dietary patterns associated with obesity: a cross-country study among European and Australian adolescents.

Commentary

• Neglecting Social Rank in Obesity Prevention Strategies.
• A Diet of Alternative Facts.
• Willpower is a Dangerous, Old Idea that Needs to Be Scrapped.
• Females No Longer Neglected in Obesity Research.
• Two Authors State "Sugar isn't that different to smoking for pregnant women."
• Propelling the Paradigm Shift from Reductionism to Systems Nutrition.
• Sensible Public Health or Sugar Shaming?
• The Case for Sugar.
• Window of Light the Way, the Truth, and the Perfect Diet.

General

• You Ought to Have a Look: On Fixing Science.
• Behind the Smoke-Screen of Vaping: E-Cigarettes.
• Slides From Presentations at DOJ on Scientific Rigor By David Allison, Eric Lander, and Others.
• Fake Science & Health News: The Harm It Causes & How You Can Protect Yourself.
• Informing Policy with Science.

Announcements

• 5TH ANNUAL WEIGHT STIGMA CONFERENCE.
• UAB's Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) invites you to join us at our NIH-funded short course on “The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity;" Applications due March 3rd.
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research;” Applications Due March 31st.
• National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium “Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies”, March 8 - 10, 2017.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.