Featured

• The Hidden Costs of Dietary Restriction: Implications for Its Evolutionary and Mechanistic Origins.
• Evidence That Novel Flavors Unconditionally Suppress Weight Gain in the Absence of Flavor-calorie Associations in Rats.
• Murine Genetic Models of Obesity: Type I Error Rates and the Power of Commonly Used Analyses as Assessed By Plasmode-based Simulation.
• Impact of Ketosis on Appetite Regulation – a Review.
• The Unidentified Hormonal Defense Against Weight Gain.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Late Bedtime in Preschool Could Bring Weight Gain.
• Study: Author: "there is a relationship... The big question is whether the relationship is a causal one."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "A step recommendation beyond 10,000 does not prevent weight or fat gain over the first year of college."
• RCT: "Probiotics did not improve mental health outcomes in this multi-ethnic cohort of pregnant women with obesity."
• RCT: "Fatty fish consumption for 6 months did not increase the serum concentrations of POPs in individuals with overweight or obesity and metabolic risk."
• RCT: "GP referral to a weight loss programme that requires patients to pay rather than offering an NHS-funded programme is acceptable; however, it results in almost no attendance."
• Correction of QRS Voltage for BMI Does Not Improve the Prediction of Fatal and Nonfatal Cardiovascular Events.
• Obesity Does Not Increase Blood Loss or Incidence of Immediate Postoperative Complications During Simultaneous Total Knee Arthroplasty.
• Magnesium Supplementation Did Not Affect the Antiseizure Property of Ketogenic Diet but Reduced Lipid Dysmetabolism in Rats.
• No Effect of Increasing Protein Intake During Military Exercise with Severe Energy Deficit on Body Composition and Performance.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Corrections requested for: "Effects of auriculotherapy on weight and body mass index reduction in patients with overweight or obesity: Systematic review and meta-analysis."
• Incorrect Design and Analysis Render Conclusion Unsubstantiated: Comment on “A Digital Movement in the World of Inactive Children: Favourable Outcomes of Playing Active Video Games in a Pilot Randomized Trial”.
• Article: A School-Based, Peer-Led, Social Marketing Intervention to Engage Spanish Adolescents in a Healthy Lifestyle (“We are Cool”—Som La Pera Study): A Parallel-Cluster Randomized Controlled Study.
• Letter: Incorrect Analyses of Cluster-Randomized Trials That Do Not Take Clustering and Nesting Into Account Likely Lead to P-Values That are Too Small.
• Reply: Response To: Comment About Statistical Analysis of a Cluster-Randomized Trial About Clustering and Nesting.

Basic

• HILPDA Uncouples Lipid Droplet Accumulation in Adipose Tissue Macrophages From Inflammation and Metabolic Dysregulation.
• PDK4‐Deficiency Reprograms Intrahepatic Glucose and Lipid Metabolism to Facilitate Liver Regeneration in Mice.
• Role of Mineralocorticoid Receptor in Adipogenesis and Obesity in Male Mice.
• Proteomic and Metabolite Profiling Reveals Profound Structural and Metabolic Reorganization of Adipocyte Mitochondria in Obesity in Mice.
• Supplementation with Nanobubble Water Alleviates Obesity-associated Markers Through Modulation of Gut Microbiota in High-fat Diet Fed Mice.
• Dissociation of Adaptive Thermogenesis From Glucose Homeostasis in Microbiome-Deficient Mice.
• Adipose Tissue-derived Stem Cell Sheet Improves Glucose Metabolism in Obese Mice.

Policy Related

• The medical care costs of obesity and severe obesity in youth: An instrumental variables approach.
• Facilitators and Barriers to Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating Healthy Vending Policies in Four Cities.

Clinical

• Interventions Commenced By Early Infancy to Prevent Childhood Obesity—The EPOCH Collaboration: An Individual Participant Data Prospective Meta‐analysis of Four RCTs.
• Characterizing Fear of Weight Gain and Sensitivity to Weight Gain in Individuals Seeking Weight Loss Treatment.
• Announcement of an Updated Belgian Consensus on the Assessment and Management of Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Excess BMI Accelerates Islet Autoimmunity in Older Children and Adolescents.
• The Relevance of Nutrition to Pediatric Oncology: A Cancer Control Perspective.
• The Medical Care Costs of Obesity and Severe Obesity in Youth: An Instrumental Variables Approach.
• Patient Characteristics and Treatment Efficacy in Pediatric Obesity over 14 Years in Sweden.
• RCT: Examining an Exam Room Poster to Prompt Communication About Weight.

Surgery

• Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Adolescents Who Underwent Bariatric Surgery.
• Brain Free Fatty Acid Uptake Is Elevated in Morbid Obesity, and Is Irreversible 6 months After Bariatric Surgery.
• Mental Health, Loss of Control Eating, and Cognitive Functioning in Adolescents Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• How Can I Manage Anesthesia in Obese Patients?
• Dulaglutide: A Review in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association between the Use of Antidepressants and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Large, Population-Based Cohort Study in Japan.
• No Acute Effects of Exogenous Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide on Energy Intake, Appetite, or Energy Expenditure When Added to Treatment with a Long-Acting Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist in Men with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Preprint: Eating Versus Skipping Breakfast Has No Discernible Effect on Obesity-related Anthropometric Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• In Mice, Three-Month Daily Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Affects the Liver, Adipose Tissue, and Glucose Metabolism.
• The Effects of Feeding Obese Rats with Bee Bread on Leptin and Ghrelin Expression.
• New Views About the Mediterranean Diet.
• Hippocampal-dependent Appetitive Control Is Impaired By Experimental Exposure to a Western-style Diet.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• A Novel Micronutrient Blend Mimics Calorie Restriction Transcriptomics in Multiple Tissues of Mice and Increases Lifespan and Mobility in C. Elegans.
• Design and Synthesis of New Energy Restriction Mimetic Agents: Potent Anti-tumor Activities of Hybrid Motifs of Aminothiazoles and Coumarins.
• Short-Term Caloric Restriction Attenuates Obesity-Induced Pro-Inflammatory Response in Male Rhesus Macaques.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Commercially Available Capsaicin Supplement Fails to Enhance Time-to Exhaustion During Cycling. (pdf)
• Meta-analysis: Effect of Resistance Training on Whole-Body Muscle Growth in Healthy Adult Males.
• RCT: Effects of Playful Exercise of Older Adults on Balance and Physical Activity.
• Self-reported Physical Activity Status Among Adolescents in Debre Birhan Town, Ethiopia: Cross-sectional Study.
• Playing Sport Injured Is Associated with Osteoarthritis, Joint Pain and Worse Health-related Quality of Life: A Cross-sectional Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Commentary: Meat Trimmings are a Health Food Now.
• Does It Matter Who’s at Risk?: Testing Message Framing and Narrative as Moderators of the Effects of Self-referencing in Obesity Prevention Messages Targeting Hispanic Adults Living in the U.S.
• Trends in Social Inequality in Overweight and Obesity Among Adolescents in Denmark 1998–2018.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Examining Heterogeneity of Outcomes in a Weight Gain Prevention Program for Young Adults.
• Psychological Diagnoses and Weight Loss Among Appalachian Bariatric Surgery Patients.
• The Role of Memory Ability, Depth and Mode of Recall in the Impact of Memory on Later Consumption.
• Hippocampal-Dependent Inhibitory Learning and Memory Processes in the Control of Eating and Drug Taking.
• Reductions to Main Meal Portion Sizes Reduce Daily Energy Intake Regardless of Perceived Normality of Portion Size: A 5 day Cross-over Laboratory Experiment.

Equity and Disparities

• Evaluating a Pragmatic Estimate of Insulin Sensitivity in Latino Youth with Obesity.
• Dietary and Policy Priorities to Reduce the Global Crises of Obesity and Diabetes.
• Racial/Ethnic Variations in Clustered Risk Behaviors in the U.S.
• Systematic Review: Understanding and Effectively Addressing Disparities in Obesity.

Stigma

• Weight Stigmatization Among Physical Therapy Students and Registered Physical Therapists.
• Weight Changes and Body Image in Pregnant Women: A Challenge for Health Care Professionals.
• Investigating the Relationship between Parental Weight Stigma and Feeding Practices.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Paraben Exposure Triggers Childhood Overweight Development.
• Maternal Dietary Patterns and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Twin Pregnancies: A Longitudinal Twin Pregnancies Birth Cohort Study.
• Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes During Pregnancy Is Associated with Increased Perinatal Mortality: A Large Population‐based Cohort Study in Ontario, Canada.

Energetics, Evolution, and Ecology

• Nutritional Management, Caloric Food Intake, and Body Mass of Grey Seals (Halichoerus grypus) Under Human Care.
• Seasonal variation in energy balance of wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fucata yakui) in a warm-temperate forest: a preliminary assessment in the coastal forest of Yakushima.

Methods

• "...energy adjustment alone does not eliminate all self-reported protein reporting bias."
• Body Fat Mass Is Better Indicator Than Indirect Measurement Methods in Obese Children for Fatty Liver and Metabolic Syndrome.
• National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research Report: Advancing Measurement of Individual Behaviors Related to Childhood Obesity. (pdf)

Career and Professional Growth

• Mechanisms and Pathways to Impact in Public Health Research: A Preliminary Analysis of Research Funded By the National Institute for Health Research.
• Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines.
• Ten Simple Rules to Becoming a Principal Investigator.
• A Tribute to Robert Roy Henry—The Classic “Academic Triple Threat”: Accomplished Researcher, Inspiring Teacher, and Compassionate Clinician.
• Combating Impostor Syndrome: Tell the Negative Committee to Shut Up.

Commentary

• How Food Science Can Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change.
• Lab-grown Meat Will Be on Your Plate Soon. It Won't Be What You Expect.
• Lactose Intolerance.
• Milk: Love It, Hate It, or Whatever?
• New Research Challenges Theory of Dietary Restriction as Survival Strategy.
• Meat Sticks Rise From Junk Food to Foodie Food Health Food.
• Study Versus Headlines at Breakfast.
• An Invited Commentary on "Comparative risk of fracture for bariatric procedures in patients with obesity: A Systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis" (Int J Surg 2020; 75:13-23) Risk of fractures following bariatric procedures: less surgery is more.
• Women Empowerment Is Central to Addressing the Double Burden of Malnutrition.
• Milk and Juice are Not as Needed as You Might Think.
• When It Comes to Nutrition, We’re All Too Eager to Ignore the Evidence. Here’s Why.
• Leading Scientists Agree: Current Limits on Saturated Fats No Longer Justified.
• What Shall We Do About Diagnosing Obesity?

General

• The Magic of Randomization Versus the Myth of Real-World Evidence.
• Convergent Evolution of Tail Spines in Squamate Reptiles Driven By Microhabitat Use.
• Statistical Thinking for 21st Century Scientists.
• Preprint: Natural Experiments.
• Relationships of Inflamm-aging with Circulating Nutrient Levels, Body Composition, Age, and Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction in a Senior Horse Population.
• Socially Tolerant Lions (Panthera Leo) Solve a Novel Cooperative Problem.
• Mint Companion Plants Enhance the Attraction of the Generalist Predator Nesidiocoris Tenuis According to Its Experiences of Conspecific Mint Volatiles.
• "Greater rigor is required in reporting the methods in dental research articles, given the current pervasiveness of failure to describe the basic techniques used."
• Digital Magic, or the Dark Arts of the 21st Century—how Can Journals and Peer Reviewers Detect Manuscripts and Publications From Paper Mills?
• Obesity and Ageing: Two Sides of the Same Coin.
• Meta-analysis: Effect of Dose and Duration of Reduction in Dietary Sodium on Blood Pressure Levels.

Video & Audio

• Video: Bariatric Surgery for Kids?

Announcements

• Bariatrics and Metabolic Surgery: Surgical Updates and Implications for Primary Care.
• Journal Club Webinar: Environmental, Social, and Structural Constraints for Health Behavior: Perceptions of Young Urban Black Women During the Preconception Period—A Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative.
• TOS Annual Meeting at ObesityWeek® 2020 November 3-6.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.
• AHA's Strategically-Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB's Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.