Featured

• Trends in Obesity and Severe Obesity Prevalence in US Youth and Adults By Sex and Age, 2007-2008 to 2015-2016.
• Weight Stigma Goes Viral on the Internet: Systematic Assessment of YouTube Comments Attacking Overweight Men and Women.
• From Fat Cells Through an Obesity Theory.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: TV, Online Ads During Sports Events May Help Make Kids Fat.
• Study: "Sports sponsorships are commonly used to market unhealthy food and nonalcoholic beverages." No measurement of making 'kids fat'.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Apparent Influence of a Consumer-wearable Activity Tracker on Sedentary Time and Prolonged Sedentary Bouts: Secondary Analysis.
• "Living in ...[food desert] was not associated with a difference in HbA1c..."
• RCT: "Intensive nutritional intervention after hip fracture improved nutritional intake and status, but not LOS or clinical outcomes."
• Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 Does Not Directly Influence Skeletal Muscle Cell Proliferation and Differentiation or Ex Vivo Muscle Contractility.
• Meta-analysis: No Significant Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Body Fat Mass.
• Consumption of Soy-based Infant Formula is Not Associated with Early Onset of Puberty.
• RCT: No Effect of Vitamin D on Weight Change in Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of the NU-AGE Diet on Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults.

Basic

• Impaired Mitochondrial Energetics Characterize Poor Early Recovery of Muscle Mass Following Hind Limb Unloading in Old Mice.
• Targeted Deletion of Adipocyte Abca1 (ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter A1) Impairs Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Inflammation Arising From Obesity Reduces Taste Bud Abundance and Inhibits Renewal.
• Glucagon Contributes to Liver Zonation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Can You Criticize Science (or do Science) Without Looking Like an Obsessive? Maybe Not.
• The Obesity Paradox: A Misleading Term that Should Be Abandoned.
• Journal Retracts Study Linking “gut Makeover” to Weight Loss, Improved Health.
• Letter: Steps Per Day and Its Relationship to Energy Expenditures.
• Response: To Steps Per Day and Its Relationship to Energy Expenditures.

Clinical

• RCT: Intermittent V. Continuous Energy Restriction.
• Percutaneous CT Guided Cryovagotomy for the Management of Mild - Moderate Obesity: A Pilot Trial.
• ADOPT: Obesity Treatment Reaches Level of Maturity with Its Own Collaborative Initiative and Resource.
• Commentary: A Failing Grade on Knowledge of Obesity Care.
• Article: Current Knowledge of Obesity Treatment Guidelines By Health Care Professionals.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: The Application of Optimal Defaults to Improve Elementary School Lunch Selections: Proof of Concept.
• Efficacy of an Exercise Intervention Among Children with Comorbid Asthma and Obesity.
• Denying Care to Teens with Severe Obesity.

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass Versus Roux‐en‐Y Gastric Bypass for Morbid Obesity.
• Variation in Exhaled Acetone and Other Ketones in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: A Prospective Cross-sectional Study.
• Anemia and Bariatric Surgery: Results of a National French Survey on Administrative Data of 306,298 Consecutive Patients Between 2008 and 2016.
• Emotional Eating Behavior Hinders Body Weight Loss in Women After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Freeze a Nerve for Weight Loss? Not So Fast!

Drugs

• RCT: Native Oxyntomodulin Has Significant Glucoregulatory Effects Independent of Weight Loss in Obese Humans with and Without Type 2 Diabetes.
• Cost of Achieving HbA1c Treatment Targets and Weight Loss Responses with Once-Weekly Semaglutide Versus Dulaglutide in the United States.
• Hepatocyte-secreted DPP4 in Obesity Promotes Adipose Inflammation and Insulin Resistance.
• Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitors and Incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Population Based Cohort Study.
• Semaglutide Injection Phase 2 Data Presented at ENDO Demonstrated Significant Weight Loss in Adults with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Review: Nonnutritive Sweeteners in Weight Management and Chronic Disease.
• Estimated 24-Hour Urinary Sodium and Potassium Excretion in US Adults.
• Systematic review: Source of Bias in Sugar-sweetened Beverage Research.
• Dietary Carbohydrates Impair the Protective Effect of Protein Restriction Against Diabetes in NZO Mice Used as a Model of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Malnutrition, Poor Food Intake, and Adverse Healthcare Outcomes in Non-critically Ill Obese Acute Care Hospital Patients.

Caloric Restriction

• Sirtuins as Mediator of the Anti-Ageing Effects of Calorie Restriction in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle.
• Global Remodeling of the Mouse DNA Methylome During Aging and in Response to Calorie Restriction.
• Roux‐en‐Y Gastric Bypass Compared to Equivalent Diet Restriction: Mechanistic Insights Into Diabetes Remission.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Can a Lifestyle Intervention Increase Active Transportation in Women Aged 55-70 Years?
• RCT: Collision Activity During Training Increases Total Energy Expenditure Measured Via Doubly Labelled Water.
• RCT: Supervised Physical Training Improves Weight Loss After Roux‐en‐Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• "Despite the popularity of PA [physical activity] apps available on the commercial market, there were substantial shortcomings in the areas of data safety and likelihood of effectiveness of the apps assessed."
• 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Scientific Report. (pdf)

Economics & Sociology

• Gender, Time Use and Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Results of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health.
• The Power of Social Networks and Social Support in Promotion of Physical Activity and BMI Among African American Adults.
• Neighborhood Social and Economic Change and Retail Food Environment Change in Madrid (Spain): The Heart Healthy Hoods Study.

Epidemiology

• Fat Mass and Obesity-associated (FTO) Rs9939609 Polymorphism Modifies the Relationship Between BMI and Affective Symptoms Through the Life Course: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study.
• Is Food Insecurity Associated with Maternal Health Among UK Ethnic Groups?
• Prevalence and Trends of Overweight and Obesity in Older Adults From 10 European Countries From 2005 to 2013.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Lottery-Based Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity Among Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Personal Network Characteristics and BMI: The Role of Education Among Black Americans.
• Leveraging Delay Discounting for Health: Can Time Delays Influence Food Choice?
• The Portion Size Effect: Women Demonstrate an Awareness of Eating More than Intended When Served Larger than Normal Portions.
• Binge Eating Disorder and Morbid Obesity are Associated with Lowered Mu-opioid Receptor Availability in the Brain.

Equity and Disparities

• Socio-Economic Disparities in Attitude and Preference for Menu Labels Among Vietnamese Restaurant Customers.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood and Adolescent Body-mass Index, Weight, and Height From 1953 to 2015.

Ethics

• Cognitive Function, Consent for Participation, and Compliance with Wearable Device Protocols in Older Adults.

Stigma

• Adolescent Preferences for Weight Terminology Used By Health Care Providers.
• Weight Status and Healthcare Avoidance in Women: A Study of Weight Stigma, Body-related Shame and Guilt, and Healthcare Stress.
• Exploring Nursing Students Change in Attitude Towards Those Who are Obese and Following a Simulated Activity.

Policy Related

• Economic Analysis of Three Interventions of Different Intensity in Improving School Implementation of a Government Healthy Canteen Policy in Australia: Costs, Incremental and Relative Cost Effectiveness.
• Trends in Childhood Height and Weight, and Socioeconomic Inequalities.
• The Childhood Obesity Declines Project: A Review of Enacted Policies.
• Front-of-package Nutrition Labeling Policy: Global Progress and Future Directions.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Androgen Excess and Obesity Induce Sexually Dimorphic Anxiety-like Behavior in the Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Energetic Trade-offs and Feedbacks Between Behavior and Metabolism Influence Correlations Between Pace-of-life Attributes.
• Social Status Affects Lipid Metabolism in Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus Mykiss.

Methods

• Systematic review: Using Electronic Health Record Data for Environmental and Place Based Population Health Research.
• Functional, RF‐Trilayer Sensors for Tooth‐Mounted, Wireless Monitoring of the Oral Cavity and Food Consumption.
• A New Resting Metabolic Rate Equation for Women with Class III Obesity.

Commentary

• Diets to (Live And) Die For.
• Just Say No to Obesity.
• The Heterogeneity of Obesity.
• The Obesity Paradox: A Misleading Term that Should Be Abandoned.
• Obesity as a Threat to National Security: The Need for Precision Engagement.

General

• Neural Androgen Synthesis and Aggression: Insights From a Seasonally-breeding Rodent.
• The New Threat of 'Leak-Flavored' Propaganda.
• Outcome-dependent Associations Between Short Interpregnancy Interval and Offspring Psychological and Educational Problems: A Population-based Quasi-experimental Study.
• Social Motivation and Health in College Club Swimming.
• Predicting Pharmacy Syringe Sales to People Who Inject Drugs: Policy, Practice and Perceptions.
• Patterns of Divergence in the Morphology of Ceratopsian Dinosaurs: Sympatry is Not a Driver of Ornament Evolution.
• Did a Sugar Called Trehalose Contribute to the Clostridium Difficile Epidemic?
• The E.P.A. Says It Wants Research Transparency. Scientists See an Attack on Science.
• Structure and Distribution of an Unrecognized Interstitium in Human Tissues.

Video & Audio

• Cavefish Blood Sugar.

Announcements

• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Faculty Member to Serve on NSCA Foundation Investment Committee.
• FASEB Science Research Conference: Immunological Aspects of Metabolic Syndrome.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.