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• RCT: No short-term effects of calorie-controlled Mediterranean or fast food dietary interventions on established biomarkers of vascular or metabolic risk in healthy individuals.
• The research behind dietary recommendations is a lot less certain than you think.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Constant family arguing can lead to childhood obesity.
• Study: Gender disparities among the association between cumulative family-level stress & adolescent weight status.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: School-based intervention - "When we use the entire sample, no estimates are statistically significant at conventional levels."
• Obesity has no effect on [association with] outcomes following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.
• Acute exercise does not decrease liver fat in men with overweight or NAFLD.
• RCT: No significant effect of an intervention of guidance to first-time mothers on 'protective' complementary feeding practices which were hypothesized to reduce childhood obesity risk on childhood anthropometry.
• Lack of efficacy of resveratrol on C-reactive protein and selected cardiovascular risk factors.
• Effects of Oral Sodium Supplementation on Indices of Thermoregulation.
• RCT: Large Doses of Vitamin D Fail to Increase 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels or to Alter Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Obese Adolescents.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Inconsistencies and inaccuracies in reporting on choice of endpoints and of statistical results in RCT of maternal diet.
• Response to ‘Inconsistencies and inaccuracies in reporting on choice of endpoints and of statistical results in RCT of maternal diet by Lewis et al.’
• Letter: Long-term Survival Following Bariatric Surgery in the VA Health System.
• Letter: The weight of the scientific evidence on BPA shows it is not a health risk.

Basic

• As the fat flies: The dynamic lipid droplets of Drosophila embryos.
• Sex-specific effects of protein and carbohydrate intake on reproduction but not lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster.
• Dependence of Hippocampal Function on ERRg-Regulated Mitochondrial Metabolism.
• Antigen- and Cytokine-Driven Accumulation of Regulatory T Cells in Visceral Adipose Tissue of Lean Mice.
• MicroRNAs provide the first evidence of genetic link between diapause and aging in vertebrates.
• Thyrotropin, insulin sensitivity negatively associated in euthyroid adolescent boys with obesity.
• Assessment of Whole-Genome Regression for Type II Diabetes.
• Autonomic imbalance may predict multiple poor metabolic outcomes.
• The microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians: antibiotic resistance is a natural feature of the human microbiota.
• Microbes help produce serotonin in gut.
• Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, and Gender Affect the Fate of Glucose in the Human Heart.

Clinical

• Medication adherence and racial differences in diabetes in the USA: an update.
• Pain Intensity and Pain Interference in Older Adults: Role of Gender, Obesity and Inflammation.
• Candy twists viable option to glucola beverage in gestational diabetes screening.

Surgery

• Dietary and Psych Predictors of Weight Loss After Gastric Bypass.
• Comparative outcomes after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Sleeve Gastrectomy on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• RCT: The REDUCE pivotal trial: a prospective, randomized controlled pivotal trial of a dual intragastric balloon for the treatment of obesity.

Drugs

• A New Drug Could Halt Weight Gain in Patients Taking These Antipsychotics.
• Past and present of antiobesity agents: Focus on monoamine modulators.
• Dapagliflozin superior to placebo for patients with type 2 diabetes, CVD.

Food & Diet

• Could nickel in foods be contributing to obesity?
• Sugar-sweetened drinks tied to lower stress .

Caloric Restriction

• Leptin intake in suckling rats restores altered T3 levels and markers of adipose tissue sympathetic drive and function caused by gestational calorie restriction.
• Caloric restriction induces heat shock response and inhibits B16F10cell tumorigenesis both in vitro and in vivo. (pdf).
• Late-onset Caloric Restriction Alters Skeletal Muscle Metabolism by Modulating Pyruvate Metabolism.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity for People with Disabilities: How Do We Reach Those with the Greatest Need? (pdf).
• Walking Boosts Outcomes for Prostate Cancer Survivors.
• RCT: Effect of Exercise Training and Weight Loss on Microvascular Function in Coronary Artery Disease.
• Exercise Training Promotes Cardioprotection through Oxygen-Sparing Action in High Fat-Fed Mice (pdf).
• Nonexercise Activity Thermogenesis in Obesity Management.
• Maximizing children's physical activity using the LET US Play principles.
• Physical Activity in Primary Stroke Prevention: Just Do It!
• RCT: Impact of physical activity on energy balance, food intake and choice in normal weight and obese children in the setting of acute social stress.
• Physical activity, BMI and blood pressure among urban poor youth in Accra, Ghana.
• Calorie Restriction and Matched Weight Loss From Exercise: Independent and Additive Effects on Glucoregulation.

Economics & Sociology

• Obesity is the New Major Cause of Cancer: Connections Between Obesity and Cancer on Facebook and Twitter.
• Do sedentary behaviors mediate associations between socio-demographic characteristics and BMI in women living in socio-economically disadvantaged neighborhoods?
• Sex, social status and physiological stress in primates: the importance of social and glucocorticoid dynamics.
• Diabetes, Race, and Functional Limitations in Older U.S. Men and Women.
• Gains in income during early childhood are associated with decreases in BMI z scores among children in the United States.

Epidemiology

• The Impact of Incarceration on Obesity: Are Prisoners with Chronic Diseases Becoming Overweight and Obese during Their Confinement?
• Screen Time is Associated with Dietary Intake in Overweight Canadian Children.
• Association between Nutritional Awareness and Diet Quality: Evidence from the Observation of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Luxembourg (ORISCAV-LUX) Study.
• Body weight in midlife and long-term risk of developing heart failure-a 35-year follow-up of the primary prevention study in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Association of Obesity with Prostate Cancer Risk Between US African American and Non-Hispanic White Men.
• Associations between socio-economic status and dietary patterns in US black and white adults.
• Why Do Thin People Have Elevated All-Cause Mortality?
• Not living with both parents is associated with more health- and developmental problems in infants aged 7 to 11 months.
• BMI and Lifetime Changes in BMI and Cancer Mortality Risk.
• Who are the obese? A cluster analysis exploring subgroups of the obese.
• Exploring racial differences in the obesity gender gap.
• Relationship between Smoking and Obesity.
• Association of obesity with socioeconomic status among adults of ages 18 to 80 years in rural Northwest China.
• High prevalence of overweight and obesity among a representative sample of Puerto Rican children.

Psychology

• Eye gaze tracking reveals heightened attention to food in adults with binge eating when viewing images of real-world scenes.
• Reported and Observed Controlling Feeding Practices Predict Child Eating Behavior after 12 Months.
• Assessing care providers' perceptions and beliefs about physical activity in infants and toddlers: baseline findings from the Baby NAP SACC study.
• The Self "Loathsome Gluttony" of Binge-eating Disorder.

Ethics

• Physicians urge Columbia University to cut its ties with Dr. Oz.
• Defining Commercial Speech in the Context of Food Marketing.

Stigma

• New MOOC: Behind the Scenes: Addressing weight bias and stigma in obesity.
• Weight Bias Impacts Our Perceptions of Competence.
• Weight stigma in physiotherapy practice: Patient perceptions of interactions with physiotherapists.

Policy Related

• Under consumers' scrutiny - an investigation into consumers' attitudes and concerns about nudging in the realm of health behavior.
• EEOC Backs Off in Wellness Program Regs.
• What do MPs [member of parliament] think of randomised controlled trials?

Intergenerational Effects

• Mighty Mums -an antenatal health care intervention can reduce gestational weight gain in women with obesity.
• Study finds perception of food available to mother can affect birthweight in mice.
• Change in level of physical activity during pregnancy in obese women.
• Association of Maternal Diabetes with Autism in Offspring.
• Maternal lifestyle characteristics during pregnancy, and the risk of obesity in the offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Nutrient-Sensing Mechanisms across Evolution.
• The ecological impact of crickets as a source of dietary protein: Not a Free Lunch.
• Circannual rhythm of resting metabolic rate of a small Afrotropical bird.
• Environmental Factors and Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor Polymorphism: Influence on the Energy Expenditure and Nutritional Status of Obese Women.
• Modulation of heart rate responses to acute stressors throughout the breeding season in a colonial seabird, the king penguin.

Methods

• The ecologic validity of fructose feeding trials: Supraphysiological feeding of fructose in human trials requires careful consideration when drawing conclusions on cardiometabolic risk.
• Long Maximal Incremental Tests Accurately Assess Aerobic Fitness in Class II and III Obese Men.
• Does Measuring Body Weight Impact Subsequent Response to Eating Behavior Questions?
• The Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour Dietary Recall for Children, 2012 Version, for Youth Aged 9 to 11 Years: A Validation Study.
• The Assertion that Controlling for Baseline (Pre-Randomization) Covariates in Randomized Controlled Trials Leads to Bias Is False.

Commentary

• Breastfeeding not a cure-all front-line strategy to prevent obesity, research shows.
• Enabling nutrient security and sustainability through systems research.
• Is the FDA unKIND?
• Religion and Fat = Protestant Christianity and Weight Loss? On the Intersections of Fat Studies and Religious Studies.
• Teaching Resources for Post-Secondary Educators Who Challenge Dominant "Obesity" Discourse.
• Luminaries on "How to Stop the Obesity Epidemic?"
• What’s the Difference Physical Activity Makes?
• Reaching Beyond Bias and Presumptions.
• Kinda Healthy?
• Don’t Bother Me with Facts about Harm Reduction.
• US societies push back against NIH reproducibility guidelines.
• New Study Says Obese People Fall Into Six 'Types.' Why This Is And Isn't True.

General

• Lancet: What is medicine's 5 sigma?
• National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track.
• The unfairer sex? Academic hiring bias: against men.
• Gender inequality in science.
• NIH's NIA Advocates Partnerships with Industry in Funding Research.
• China's medical research integrity questioned.
• Genome-wide Analysis of Body Proportion Classifies Height-Associated Variants by Mechanism of Action and Implicates Genes Important for Skeletal Development.
• Neanderthal chefs may have spiced up menus with wild herbs.
• Study: Genetic Tests of Tumors Often Give False Results.
• How dogs stole our hearts.
• Genetics and the placebo effect: the placebome.
• Arctic sea ice is a little thicker this year.
• The State Of The Cancer Nation.
• Myth-Busting Website: Fitness Pudding, Where the Proof Is.
• Interview With Lab To Leash Beagle Rescue.
• Reducing the risk of pet-associated zoonotic infections .
• Chimpanzee “Personhood” Case to Have Habeas Corpus Hearing in New York.

Video & Audio

• Carl (Chip) Lavie: "Untangling the "Heavy" Cardiovascular Burden of Obesity and the "Obesity Paradox."
• David Raubenheimer: "New Insight from Nutritional Ecology: Captive Insects, Wild Primates and the Causes of Human Obesity."

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