03/08/19
Featured
- The Leptin Sensitizer Celastrol Reduces Age-associated Obesity and Modulates Behavioral Rhythms.
- Best (but Oft-forgotten) Practices: Missing Data Methods in Randomized Controlled Nutrition Trials.
- The Need for Greater Rigor in Childhood Nutrition and Obesity Research.
- RCT: "Among overweight or obese adults with subsyndromal depressive symptoms, multinutrient supplementation compared with placebo and food-related behavioral activation therapy compared with no therapy did not reduce episodes of major depressive disorder during 1 year."
Headline vs Study
- Headline: Instagram Stars Could Make Kids Fatter. Healthier? Not So Much, Study Says.
- Study: "Influencer marketing of unhealthy foods increased children’s immediate food intake, whereas the equivalent marketing of healthy foods had no effect." Effects on obesity not tested.
Contrary or Null Findings
- No Significant Effect of Participation in Structured Programming to Prevent Unhealthy Weight Gain During the Summer in School-aged Children From Low-income Neighbourhoods on Weight Gain.
- No Benefit with Early GDM Screening in Obese Women.
- RCT: "Empirically treating hospitalized severely malnourished children during the stabilization phase with lactose-free, reduced-carbohydrate milk formula did not improve clinical outcomes."
- RCT: No Effect of Fish Protein Supplementation on Glucose Metabolism in Older Nursing Home Residents.
- RCT: "Intention-to-treat analysis showed that light therapy ...had no effect on insulin sensitivity..."
- RCT: "…no significant time or group × time effect for fish oil versus placebo for liver fat, liver enzymes, anthropometry, or body composition including VAT (p > 0.05 for all), with similar finding for sub-analysis of participants with NAFLD."
- RCT: No Significant Differences Between Treatment and Control Groups in Eight Week Trial of Aerobic Interval-Resistance Training Combined with Chamomile Consumption on Body Composition and Glucose Homeostasis in Overweight and Obese Women.
- RCT: "Offering a multi-component physical activity intervention to 30-49 year-olds with low levels of VO2max had no effect on the change in VO2max from baseline to twelve months compared with routine care."
Basic
- Obesity, Diabetes, and the Gut Microbiome: An Updated Review.
- Protein-coding Variants Implicate Novel Genes Related to Lipid Homeostasis Contributing to Body-fat Distribution.
- Deletion of Robo4 Prevents High Fat Diet Induced Adipose Artery and Systemic Metabolic Dysfunction.
- The Antagonist Effect of Arachidonic Acid on GLUT4 Gene Expression By Nuclear Receptor Type II Regulation.
- Beta 3 Adrenergic Receptor Activation Rescues Metabolic Dysfunction in Female Estrogen Receptor Alpha-Null Mice.
- Parasitic Gut Infection in Libellula Pulchella Causes Functional and Molecular Resemblance of Dragonfly Flight Muscle to Skeletal Muscle of Obese Vertebrates.
- Ablation of Adipocyte Creatine Transport Impairs Thermogenesis and Causes Diet-Induced Obesity.
- Identification of a Natural Beige Adipose Depot in Mice.
- Differential Effects of Diet and Weight on Taste Responses in Diet-induced Obese Mice.
- Housing Temperature Modulates the Impact of Diet-Induced Rise in Fat Mass on Adipose Tissue Before and During Pregnancy in Rats.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- Research Supporting Chile's Anti-Obesity Regulations Doesn't Tell Us If the Regulations Work.
- A.I. Gives Cheesecake and Brats an A+ in Nutrition?
Clinical
- 'Just Because I'm Old It Doesn't Mean I Have to Be Fat': A Qualitative Study Exploring Older Adults' Views and Experiences of Weight Management.
- Weight Loss and Weight Gain Among Participants in a Community-based Weight Loss Challenge.
- Infographic. The Effects of Frequency, Intensity, Duration and Volume of Walking Interventions on CVD Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-regression Analysis of RCTs Among Inactive Healthy Adults.
- RCT: Improved Menstrual Function in Obese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome After Behavioural Modification Intervention.
- "One year of a digitally supported [comprehensive continuous care intervention] significantly improved surrogates of NAFLD and advanced fibrosis in patients with T2D."
- RCT: Effect of Integrated Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment and Problem-Solving Therapy on BMI and Depressive Symptoms Among Patients with Obesity and Depression.
Children and Adolescents
- Fat Mass Predicts Food-specific Inhibitory Control in Children.
- Serum Interleukin 15 in Adolescent Girls with Obesity, Normal Weight, and Anorexia Nervosa.
- Obesity Measured as Percent Body Fat, Relationship with BMI, and Percentile Curves for Mexican Pediatric Population.
Surgery
- Change in Gastrointestinal Symptoms Over the First 5 Years After Bariatric Surgery in a Multicenter Cohort of Adolescents.
- Contraceptive Use Among Adolescent Female Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patients.
Drugs
- Weight Loss Medications in the Treatment of Obesity and Hypertension.
- RCT: Adjunctive Telmisartan Treatment on Body Metabolism in Clozapine or Olanzapine Treated Patients with Schizophrenia.
- RCT: Effect of Liraglutide on Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Patients with Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes.
- RCT: Mineralocorticoid Antagonism Enhances Brown Adipose Tissue Function in Humans.
Food & Diet
- Effect of 8-hour Time-restricted Feeding on Sleep Quality and Duration in Adults with Obesity.
- The Effect of Canola Oil on Body Weight and Composition: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of RCTs.
- RCT: Effects of Cocoa-rich Chocolate on the Ventricle-arterial Coupling and Vascular Function of Young and Healthy Adults.
- RCT: A Plant-Based Meal Stimulates Incretin and Insulin Secretion More than an Energy- and Macronutrient-Matched Standard Meal in Type 2 Diabetes.
- RCT: Energy Drinks Induce Acute Cardiovascular and Metabolic Changes Pointing to Potential Risks for Young Adults.
- A Systematic Review of the Association of Skipping Breakfast with Weight and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents. What Should We Better Investigate in the Future?
- Fast-Food Offerings in the United States in 1986, 1991, and 2016 Show Large Increases in Food Variety, Portion Size, Dietary Energy, and Selected Micronutrients.
- REVIEW: Dietary Fibers as Emerging Nutritional Factors Against Diabetes: Focus on the Involvement of Gut Microbiota.
Caloric Restriction
- Anti-inflammatory Action of β-hydroxybutyrate Via Modulation of PGC-1α and FoxO1, Mimicking Calorie Restriction.
- Maternal Age Alters Offspring Lifespan, Fitness, and Lifespan Extension Under Caloric Restriction.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Ground Reaction Forces in Ballet: Differences Resulting From Footwear and Jump Conditions.
- RCT: "Effect of a multifactorial intervention on the increase in physical activity in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus."
- Motor Competence, Perceived Physical Competence, Physical Fitness, and Physical Activity Within Finnish Children.
- Effect of a Behavioral Intervention Strategy on Sustained Change in Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
Economics & Sociology
- The Influence of Immigrant Generation on Obesity Among Asian Americans in California From 2013 to 2014.
- Heterogeneity in the Effect of Mid-childhood Height and Weight Gain on Human Capital at Age 14-15 Years.
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Feeding Practices in Finnish Preschools.
Epidemiology
- Smoking and Obesity as Risk Factors in Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.
- Impact of Maternal BMI and Gestational Weight Gain on Pregnancy Complications: An Individual Participant Data Meta‐analysis of European, North American and Australian Cohorts.
- Reducing Waste in Nutritional Epidemiology: Review and Perspectives.
- Serum Apolipoprotein B is Associated with Increased Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Among Middle‐aged and Elderly Chinese: A Cross‐sectional and Prospective Cohort Study.
- "The risk of developing an obesity-related cancer seems to be increasing in a stepwise manner in successively younger birth cohorts in the USA."
- Obesity and Bone Health Revisited: A Mendelian Randomization Study for Koreans.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Anxiety Increases Visual Attention to Hedonic Foods: A Preliminary Eye-tracking Study on the Impact of the Interplay Between Integral and Incidental Affect on Foods.
- Overeating and Binge Eating Among Immigrants in the United States: New Terrain for the Healthy Immigrant Hypothesis.
- Potential Moderators of the Portion Size Effect.
- Longitudinal Associations Between Emotion Regulation and Adiposity in Late Adolescence: Indirect Effects Through Eating Behaviors.
Equity and Disparities
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Association Between Adverse Childhood Experience, Perceived Discrimination and BMI.
- RCT: Effect of a Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative on Obesity in Urban School-aged Children.
Stigma
- An Exploratory Study of the Public Dining Experience of Obese People.
- The Effects of Parental and Peer Factors on Psychiatric Symptoms in Adolescents with Obesity.
- Systematic Review: Weight Bias in Educational Setting.
Policy Related
- The Effect of Randomly Providing Nutri-Score Information on Actual Purchases in Colombia.
- Hunger or Deportation: Implications of the Trump Administration’s Proposed Public Charge Rule.
- Two Year Follow-up of Schools in Randomised Trial to Assess the Sustainability of an Intervention to Improve the Implementation of a School-based Nutrition Policy.
- Communicating Risk Regarding Food Consumption: The Case of Processed Meat.
- Sodium and Potassium Dietary Reference Intake Values Updated in New Report; Introduces New Category for Sodium Based on Chronic Disease Risk Reduction.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- Predation Decreases Cohort Foraging Activity and Growth, Yet Increases Individual Size Variation in Prey.
- Brown Adipose Tissue Plays Thermoregulatory Role Within the Thermoneutral Zone in Mongolian Gerbils (Meriones Unguiculatus).
Methods
- RCT: Measurement of Health and Social Behaviors in Schoolchildren: Comparing Paper Versus Electronic Mode.
- Comparison of Psychometric Properties Between Recall Methods of Interview-based Physical Activity Questionnaires: A Systematic Review.
- Comparing Physical Activity Estimates in Children From Hip-worn Actigraph GT3X+ Accelerometers Using Raw and Counts Based Processing Methods.
- Congruent Validity of Resting Energy Expenditure Predictive Equations in Young Adults.
- Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Western Countries: Discrepancies in Published Estimates.
Commentary
- Stop the Patient Blame Game: What Actually Causes Obesity?
- Fat Cell Genes Punch the Clock to Carry Out Key Metabolic Functions.
- Addressing Medicine’s Bias Against Patients Who are Overweight.
- A National Institute of Nutrition: Of Science, Sense, and Sisyphus.
- Myths, Presumptions, and Denying Access to Obesity Care.
General
- Introducing ELife’s First Computationally Reproducible Article.
- Social Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life: A Recreation Setting Analysis.
- Too Much Academic Science is Bad Science.
- Fighting Fake Science: Barriers and Solutions.
- Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices: Recommendations From a Scientific Integrity Consortium.
- Treatment Effects in Multicenter RCTs.
- The Case for Being Skeptical of Moral Outrage.
- Will Scientific Error Checkers Become as Ubiquitous as Spell-checkers?
- The Real Cost of Knowledge.
- Senators Tell FDA to Speed Up Approvals of Generic Insulin.
- "This study found sex differences in the size of NIH funds awarded to comparable first-time female and male PIs, even at top research institutions."
Video & Audio
- Audio: Sara Bleich on Menu Labeling, Marketing and Public Health.
- Audio: Cheryl Queen on Corporate Responsibility and Power in the Food Industry.
Announcements
- July at Cornell: 2019 WHO/Cochrane/Cornell Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for Global Policy Making.
- 7th Annual Weight Stigma Conference 27th – 28th June 2019, London, Ontario, Canada.
- 6th Canadian Obesity Summit, April 23-26, 2019, the Westin, Ottawa, Ont.
- From the Desk: Provost Robel Reflects on Campus Progress and Looks Forward.
- 3 Hoosier Cities Land on '100 Best Places to Live' List.
- Call for Papers: 7th Annual Obesity Journal Symposium.
- Body Composition Measurements From Birth Through 5 Years: Challenges, Gaps, and Existing & Emerging Technologies; May 30-31, 2019.
- NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
- UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
- IU School of Public Health Bloomington Continues Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department: Multiple Listings Posted.
- Short Courses on Obesity, Mathematics, and Causal Inference Recommence in Summer 2019!