Featured

• Role of Dietary Fructose and Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis in Fatty Liver Disease.
• Serum Vitamin D Concentrations in Baboons (Papio Spp.) During Pregnancy and Obesity. (pdf)
• Relationships Between Rodent White Adipose Fat Pads and Human White Adipose Fat Depots.

Headline vs Study

• Headline:  Parent’s harsh tactics raise child’s obesity risk.
• Study: Longitudinal Association Between Observed Parenting Practices and Self-reported Physical Health or Self-reported BMI in White, North-central Iowa Adolescents.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Our Results Provide No Support for the Hypothesis that SNAP Participation Causes Weight Gain.
• "Our results suggest that neither the actual nor the perceived availability of particular food outlets in the neighborhood is associated with children’s diet or BMI."
• “Instead of overweight and obese children and adolescents having higher confectionery intakes, this review [meta-analysis] shows the reverse” association.
• RCT: Vitamin D3 Supplementation Using an Oral Spray Solution Resolves Deficiency but Has No Effect on VO2 Max in Gaelic Footballers.
• Organic Food Exposure Has Little to No Effect on Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behavior. (pdf)
• RCT: "In conclusion, these data do not support increasing dietary protein and fiber at breakfast as effective strategies for modulating neural reward processing and acute ingestive behavior in overweight adults."
• "Contrary to expectations we found no reduction of [mitochondrial] complex activities with HFD [in mice]."
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Participating in a Feedback Intervention Using Text Messaging on Adolescents’ Fruit and Vegetable Intake.
• "Contrary to expectations that rural female farmers in Ngamiland Botswana would be healthy compared to their non-farming counterparts, there seems to be an observable similar trend of overweight."
• Contrary to Expectations, No Significant Differences in Body Dissatisfaction Emerge Between Rigorously Religious and Non-religious Jewish Respondents.
• Although Conventional Regression Analysis Suggested a Strong Association Between Increased BMI and Depression, Mendelian Randomization Analysis Failed to Support the Hypothesis that Increased BMI is a Causal Factor.

Basic

• Defense of Elevated Body Weight Setpoint in Diet-Induced Obese Rats on Low Energy Diet Is Mediated by Loss of Melanocortin Sensitivity in the Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus.
• Relatively Low β-Cell Responsiveness Contributes to the Association of BMI with Circulating Glucose Concentrations Measured Under Free-Living Conditions Among Pregnant African American Women.
• Neonatal Growth Restriction-Related Leptin Deficiency Enhances Leptin-Triggered Sympathetic Activation and Central Angiotensin II Receptor-Dependent Stress-Evoked Hypertension.
• Intrauterine Growth Restriction Modifies the Hedonic Response to Sweet Taste in Newborn Pups - Role of the Accumbal μ-opioid Receptors.
• Hyper-Variability in Circulating Insulin, High Fat Feeding Outcomes, and Effects of Reducing Ins2 Dosage in Male Ins1-Null Mice in a Specific Pathogen-Free Facility.
• Leptin Changes Differentiation Fate and Induces Senescence in Chondrogenic Progenitor Cells.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Incorrect Statistical Method in Parallel-groups RCT Led to Unsubstantiated Conclusions: Commentary and Response.
• Letter Addressing Dietary Challenge Tests in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients.
• Commentary on the Contribution of Polyphenism to the Obesity Epidemic.
• Exercise Timing for Controlling Glucose and Oxidative Stress: Letter.
• Exercise Timing for Controlling Glucose and Oxidative Stress: Reply.
• The Effects of an Editor Serving as One of the Reviewers During the Peer-review Process.

Clinical

• Effects of Obesity and Mild Hypohydration on Local Sweating and Cutaneous Vascular Responses During Passive Heat Stress in Females.
• Dietary Interventions in Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review of the Content, Delivery, and Outcomes of RCTs.
• Effect of Dose of Behavioral Treatment for Obesity on Binge Eating Severity.

Children and Adolescents

• The Effects of Standing Desks Within the School Classroom: A Systematic Review.
• RCT: Empowering Parents of Obese Children (EPOC): A RCT on Additional Long-Term Weight Effects of Parent Training.
• Parents' Barriers and Strategies to Promote Healthy Eating Among School-age Children.
• Well Baby Group Care: Evaluation of a Promising Intervention for Primary Obesity Prevention in Toddlers.

Surgery

• Evaluation of the Obesity Surgery Mortality Risk Score (OS-MRS) for the Prediction of Postoperative Complications After Primary and Revisional Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• A Video Case Report of Stomach Intestinal Pylorus Sparing Surgery (SIPS) with Laparoscopic Fundoplication (LF): A Surgical Procedure to Treat Gastrointestinal Reflux Disease (GERD) in the Setting of Morbid Obesity.

Drugs

• RCT: GLP-1 Receptors Exist in the Parietal Cortex, Hypothalamus and Medulla of Human Brains and the GLP-1 Analogue Liraglutide Alters Brain Activity Related to Highly Desirable Food Cues in Individuals with Diabetes.
• Antipsychotic-induced Weight Gain in First-episode Psychosis Patients: A Meta-analysis of Differential Effects of Antipsychotic Medications.

Food & Diet

• Associations Between Dietary Energy Density and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies.
• A Comparison of Nutrient Intakes Among Participants Following Three Popular Weight Loss Diets.
• Tocotrienols and Whey Protein Isolates Substantially Increase Exercise Endurance Capacity in Diet -Induced Obese Male Sprague-Dawley Rats.
• Dietary Raspberries Ameliorate Metabolic Syndromes in Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Navy Bean Supplementation in Obesity Increases Akkermansia Muciniphila Abundance and Attenuates Obesity Related Impairments in Gut Barrier Function.
• Re-evaluation of the Traditional Diet-heart Hypothesis: Analysis of Recovered Data From Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73).
• Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food How the Chili Pepper Got to China.
• Predictive Role of the Mediterranean Diet on Mortality in Individuals at Low Cardiovascular Risk: A 12-year Follow-up Population-based Cohort Study.

Caloric Restriction

• Hypothalamic Npy MRNA is Correlated with Increased Wheel Running and Decreased Body Fat in Calorie-restricted Rats.
• Food Restriction During Pregnancy Alters Brain's Antioxidant Network in Dams and Their Offspring.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Role of Physical Activity and Exercise in Obesity and Weight Management: Time for Critical Appraisal.
• Obesity Effects on Posture Strategy and Stability Performance During a Weight Lifting Task.
• Clinical Outcome Measures for Monitoring Physical Function in Pediatric Obesity: An Integrative Review.
• Appetite and Energy Intake Responses to Acute Energy Deficits in Females Versus Males.

Economics & Sociology

• RCT: The Effects of Experimentally Manipulated Social Status on Acute Eating Behavior.
• Neighbourhood Food, Physical Activity, and Educational Environments and Black/white Disparities in Obesity: A Complex Systems Simulation Analysis.

Epidemiology

• Association Between Overweight and Obesity and Risk of Clinically Diagnosed Knee, Hip, and Hand Osteoarthritis: A Population-based Cohort Study.
• Does Parenting Help to Explain Socioeconomic Inequalities in Children's BMI Trajectories? Longitudinal Analysis Using the Growing Up in Scotland Study.
• Motivational and Neural Correlates of Self-control of Eating: A Combined Neuroimaging and Experience Sampling Study in Dieting Female College Students.
• Protein Intake and Obesity in Young Adolescents (Review).
• Combined Early and Adult Life Risk Factor Associations for Mid-life Obesity in a Prospective Birth Cohort: Assessing Potential Public Health Impact.
• Body-Mass Index in 2.3 Million Adolescents and Cardiovascular Death in Adulthood.
• Collider Bias is Only a Partial Explanation for the Obesity Paradox.
• Obese Motorcycle Riders Have a Different Injury Pattern and Longer Hospital Length of Stay than the Normal-weight Patients.
• Obesity or Smoking: Which Factor Contributes More to the Incidence of Myocardial Infarction?

Psychology

• The Role of Emotion Regulation in Childhood Obesity: Implications for Prevention and Treatment.
• Decreased Emotional Perception in Obesity.
• Unhealthy Eating Behaviors and Weight Gain: A Prospective Study in Young and Middle-age Adults.
• Mindful Decision Making and Inhibitory Control Training as Complementary Means to Decrease Snack Consumption.
• Ghrelin: A Link Between Memory and Ingestive Behavior.
• Food Reward in Active Compared to Inactive Men: Roles for Gastric Emptying and Body Fat.
• Depression and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: The Potential Role of Metabolic Factors.

Equity and Disparities

• On Edge: The Impact of Race-related Vigilance on Obesity Status in African-Americans.
• Trends of Obesity, Overweight, Underweight and BMI Among Refugees in Buffalo, New York.
• Influence of Race, Ethnicity and Social Determinants of Health on Diabetes Outcomes.

Stigma

• Not Very NICE: Deviance, Stigma and Nutritional Guidelines Related to Healthy Weight and Obesity.
• Weight Stigma Experiences and Internalization Among Boys and Girls Accessing Obesity Care in Berlin, Germany.
• Attitudes Toward Obese Persons and Weight Locus of Control in Chinese Nurses: A Cross-sectional Survey.
• Predictors of Obesity Bias Among Exercise Science Students.
• Facial Attractiveness, Weight Status, and Personality Trait Attribution: The Role of Attractiveness in Weight Stigma.

Policy Related

• Obesity Trends By Industry of Employment in the United States, 2004 to 2011.
• Research-to-policy Translation for Prevention of Disordered Weight and Shape Control Behaviors: A Case Example Targeting Dietary Supplements Sold for Weight Loss and Muscle Building.
• The School Food Environment and Obesity Prevention: Progress Over the Last Decade.
• European Parliament Votes to Scrap Nutrient Profiles.
• The Impact of a Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages on Health and Health Care Costs: A Modelling Study.
• The Effects of the Danish Saturated Fat Tax on Food and Nutrient Intake and Modelled Health Outcomes: An Econometric and Comparative Risk Assessment Evaluation.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity in the Mouse Compromises the Blood-brain Barrier in the Arcuate Nucleus of Offspring.
• Maternal Obesity Epigenetically Alters Visceral Fat Progenitor Cell Properties in Male Offspring Mice.
• Maternal Obesity in Europe: Where do We Stand and How to Move Forward?
• Maternal and Fetal Lipid and Adipokine Profiles and Their Association with Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Effect of Temperature on Energetic Demands During the Last Stages of Embryonic Development and Early Life of Octopus Vulgaris (Cuvier, 1797) Paralarvae.
• Nutrition and Energetics in Rodent Longevity Research.
• Circadian System and Glucose Metabolism: Implications for Physiology and Disease.

Methods

• Comparison of Plasma Alkylresorcinols (AR) and Urinary AR Metabolites as Biomarkers of Compliance in a Short-term, Whole-grain Intervention Study.
• Obesity, Food Restriction, and Implicit Attitudes to Healthy and Unhealthy Foods: Lessons Learned From the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure.
• Validity of Muscle-to-fat Ratio as a Predictor of Adult Metabolic Syndrome.
• Methodological Quality of Behavioural Weight Loss Studies: A Systematic Review.
• Comparison Between Human and Bite-Based Methods of Estimating Caloric Intake.
• Statistical Methods for BMI: A Selective Review.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Computer Model Simulating Human Glucose Absorption and Metabolism in Health and Metabolic Disease States.
• Mediation Analysis with Matched Case-control Study Designs.
• Approximate Median Regression for Complex Survey Data with Skewed Response.

Commentary

• Vegetables, Vegetable Oils, and Dairy Fat? Please Don’t Eat the Headlines!
• Ideological Conflicts of Interest Worry Me More than Financial Conflicts.
• How Patients are Harmed By Misleading Media Messages.
• A Scorecard for Food Labeling.

General

• Publication Bias is Boring. You Should Care About It Anyway.
• Value and P Values.
• How a Hypothesis Can Be Neither True Nor False.
• Audio: What Actually Makes You Feel Better When You Go to the Doctor? We Explore the Power of a Placebo – the Most Misunderstood “medicine” of All.
• Dolphins Have a Language that Helps Them Solve Problems Together.
• Mouse Embryos Grown in Space in Breakthrough for Human Colonies.

Announcements

• The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity, Mon 6/13/2016 - Fri 6/17/2016.
• Opportunities: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Mon 7/25/2016 - Fri 7/29/2016.