Posted 2/22/13

Policy-Related

• Tackling overweight and obesity: does the public health message match the science? Click Here
• Public Health Ethics and Intervening in Non-Communicable Diseases like Obesity. Click Here
• Relationship between food safety and critical violations on restaurant inspections: an empirical investigation of bacterial pathogen content. Click Here
• Video: "The Economics and Politics Obesity". Click Here
• Atwater calorie values being questioned. Click Here
• FDA Seizes Weight-Loss Supplements. Click Here

Findings Contrary to Hypotheses or Common Beliefs

• The Importance of Food Deserts to Obesity Questioned. Click Here
• Eating a larger number of high-salt foods is not associated with short-term risk of acute decompensation in patients with chronic heart failure. Click Here
• Dietary glycemic index, glycemic load, and digestible carbohydrate intake are not associated with risk of type 2 diabetes in eight European countries. Click Here
• Beverage consumption patterns did not substantially differ across weight status groups among over 2,000 children. Click Here
• Contrary to the hypothesis, the "5 a day" goal was more effective than "just 1 more" for increasing FV intake. Click Here
• No differences were found for weight, BMI, or waist in children consuming pre-sweetened vs non-presweetened cereals. Click Here

Methods

• Turning the analysis of obesity-mortality associations upside down: Modeling years of life lost through conditional distributions. Click Here
• Fat quantification using multiecho sequences with bipolar gradients: Investigation of accuracy and noise performance. Click Here
• Rapid quantification of muscle fat content and subcutaneous adipose tissue in fish using MRI. Click Here
• An automated algorithm to identify and quantify brown adipose tissue in human (18) F-FDG-PET/CT scans. Click Here
• Using wearable cameras to categorise type and context of accelerometer-identified episodes of physical activity. Click Here
• Measurement of human activity based on mobile phone's accelerometers. Click Here

Antibiotics & Gut Microbiota

• Gut Reaction: Can G.I. Bacteria Cause Weight Gain or Loss? Click Here
• Antibiotics in early life alter the murine colonic microbiome and adiposity. Click Here
• Can Antibiotics Make You Fat? Click Here

Basic Science - Drugs

• Effects of risperidone on energy balance in female C57BL/6J mice. Click Here
• Methylphenidate prevents high-fat diet (HFD)-induced learning/memory impairment in juvenile mice. Click Here
• Additive feeding inhibitory and aversive effects of naltrexone and exendin-4 combinations. Click Here

Basic Science - Caloric Restriction/Longevity

• Aging and long-term caloric restriction regulate neuropeptide Y receptor subtype densities in the rat brain. Click Here
• High carbohydrate-low protein consumption maximizes Drosophila lifespan. Click Here
• Fasting Launches CRTC to Facilitate Long-Term Memory Formation in Drosophila. Click Here
• Circulating factors induced by caloric restriction in the nonhuman primate macaca mulatta activate angiogenic processes in endothelial cells. Click Here
• Low-protein Diet Slows Alzheimer's-like disease in Mice. Click Here

Basic Science - Other

• Cats differ from other species in their cytokine and antioxidant enzyme response when developing obesity. Click Here
• High salt recruits aversive taste pathways. Click Here
• Obesity-susceptibility loci and the tails of the pediatric BMI distribution. Click Here
• The effects of cocoa supplementation, caloric restriction, and regular exercise, on oxidative stress markers of brain and memory in the rat model. Click Here
• Timed high-fat diet in the evening affects the hepatic circadian clock and PPAR?-mediated lipogenic gene expressions in mice. Click Here
• Effect of chronic unpredictable stress on short term dietary restriction and its modulation by multivitamin-mineral supplementation in mice. Click Here
• Circadian clock linked to obesity, diabetes and heart attacks. Click Here

CLINICAL, TRANSLATIONAL, BEHAVIORAL - Drugs

• Cannabis and ?(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) for weight loss? Click Here
• RCT: Naltrexone SR/Bupropion SR on weight and obesity-related risk factors(COR-II). Click Here

CLINICAL, TRANSLATIONAL, BEHAVIORAL - Exercise

• Energy Expenditure, Physical Activity, Body Weight and Body Composition. Click Here
• Obesity does not impair walking economy across a range of speeds and grades. Click Here
• RCT: The 24-h Energy Intake of Obese Adolescents Is Spontaneously Reduced after Intensive Exercise in Calorimetric Chambers. Click Here
• RCT: Incentive-Based Outdoor Physical Activity Program. Click Here

CLINICAL, TRANSLATIONAL, BEHAVIORAL - Food

• When a Calorie Is Not a Calorie. Click Here
• Bitter, Sweet Taste Preferences May Increase Risk for Metabolic Syndrome. Click Here
• A Palaeolithic-type diet associated with tissue-specific changes in ectopic fat deposition in obese women. Click Here
• Book Review: No More Food Fights! by Michele Payne-Knoper An Effort to Balance the Dialogue About Food. Click Here
• RCT: 12-week behavioral weight loss intervention shows inclusion of commercially available portion-controlled foods helpful. Click Here
• RCT: The relative carbohydrate and protein content of the diet, when combined with intensive CBT, does not significantly affect attrition rate, weight loss and psychosocial in obesity treatment. Click Here
• RCT: Alternate day fasting and endurance exercise combine to reduce body weight and favorably alter plasma lipids in obese humans. Click Here

CLINICAL, TRANSLATIONAL, BEHAVIORAL - Psychology

• Dynamic poverty experiences and development of overweight in a prospective cohort of US children ages 4 to 14. Click Here
• Children who overreact to stress at higher risk of obesity. Click Here

CLINICAL, TRANSLATIONAL, BEHAVIORAL - Other

• Birth Order Linked to Increased Risk of Diabetes, Metabolic Disorders. Click Here
• Seminal Research: New Study Says TV Watching Lowers Sperm Count. Click Here
• Obesity and early mortality in the U.S. Click Here
• RCT: Ten-week Whole-body Vibration Training Improves Body Composition and Muscle Strength in Obese Women. Click Here

Evolution & Energetics

• To Favor Survival Under Food Shortage, the Brain Disables Costly Memory. Click Here
• Phenotypic flexibility in migrating bats: seasonal variation in body composition, organ sizes and fatty acid profiles. Click Here
• Natural selection and adaptive evolution of leptin. Click Here
• Introduction, Energy Balance in Animals. Click Here

Temperature

• Wired Magazine on Cold and Weight Loss. Click Here
• Basal metabolic rate, maximum thermogenic capacity and aerobic scope in rodents: interaction between environmental temperature and torpor use. Click Here

History

• The Evolution of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB). Click Here
• Audio: Drinking History: 15 Turning Points In The Making Of An American Beverage. Click Here

Research Integrity

• Restoring Confidence in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Click Here
• Video: John Ioannidis - Reproducibility of scientific results. Click Here
• Authors of observational studies often extrapolate their results to make recommendations concerning a medical practice, typically without first calling for a RCT. Click Here
• Redefine misconduct as distorted reporting. Click Here
• Does scientific misconduct cause patient harm? The case of Joachim Boldt. Click Here

Stigma

• Headless, Hungry, and Unhealthy: A Video Content Analysis of Obese Persons Portrayed in Online News. Click Here
• Weight-Based Victimization: Bullying Experiences of Weight Loss Treatment-Seeking Youth. Click Here

Sugar

• How sugar tunes your clock. Click Here
• The sugar hypothesis of heart disease never gathered supportive data. Click Here

Announcements

• Peter Arner Receives Fernström Foundation Nordic Prize for obesity research. Click Here
• Garret FitzGerald wins Louis and Artur Lucian Award. Click Here
• Open Innovation Attacks Childhood Obesity. Click Here
• Alabama Medical Student Daniel Partain wins William A. Curry, MD, Rural Health Lecture Award for "The Weight of our Rural Communities: Partnering to Reduce Obesity". Click Here
• New science mega-prize given: Billionaires Anoint Biogeeks. Click Here
• Course: Addressing Our Pediatric Obesity Epidemic: Research to Health Policy. Click Here