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• Isotopic Incorporation and the Effects of Fasting and Dietary Lipid Content on Isotopic Discrimination in Large Carnivorous Mammals.
• Retail Environments as a Venue for Obesity Prevention.
• Human Adenovirus Ad36 and Its E4orf1 Gene Enhance Cellular Glucose Uptake Even in the Presence of Inflammatory Cytokines.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Natural Indigenous Sugars Like Coco Sugar Prevent Risk of Obesity, Diabetes: Scientist.
• Study: Plenary Lecture at the 31st Philippine Chemistry Congress on Indigenous Sweeteners Sugar Composition and Glycemic Index; No Diabetes or Obesity? (pdf)

Contrary or Null Findings

• Weight and Glucose Reduction Observed with a Combination of Nutritional Agents in Rodent Models Does Not Translate to Humans in a RCT with Healthy Volunteers and Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Resting Measures of Cardiovascular Autonomic Control are Not Influenced By Energy Drink Ingestion or Postural Changes in Healthy Adults.
• RCT: No Effect of Motivational Interviewing to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
• Contrary to Our Hypothesis, We Found that Adaptive Thermogenesis at Room Temperature is Reduced in RYGB Rats.
• "Contrary to expectations, once daily glucose appeared to increase insulin sensitivity [in horses and ponies]."
• RCT "This study provides preliminary evidence that the composition of the meal consumed by a participant immediately prior to testing does not affect fat taste thresholds."

Basic

• Neural Clocks and Neuropeptide F/Y Regulate Circadian Gene Expression in a Peripheral Metabolic Tissue.
• Skeletal Muscle Action of Estrogen Receptor α is Critical for the Maintenance of Mitochondrial Function and Metabolic Homeostasis in Females.
• Non-Genetic Transmission of Obesity – It's in Your Epigenes.
• Systemic Characterization of an Obese Phenotype in the Zucker Rat Model Defining Metabolic Axes of Energy Metabolism and Host-Microbial Interactions.
• Supersize My Brain: A Cross-sectional Voxel-based Morphometry Study on the Association Between Self-reported Dietary Restraint and Regional Grey Matter Volumes.
• Human Gut Microbiota and Healthy Aging: Recent Developments and Future Prospective.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• All Diet Books Do NOT Lie — An Open Letter to Vox Editor Ezra Klein.
• Incorrect Statistical Method in Parallel-groups RCT Led to Unsubstantiated Conclusions.
• Discussion of Cause and Effect Language in Headlines.
• Letter Addressing Body Fat Distribution Versus BMI as Risk Indicator of Retinopathy in People with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Paper Linking Fecal Transplants to Obesity in Rats Retracted for Faked Data.

Clinical

• An Open Trial Evaluating an Attention Bias Modification Program for Overweight Adults Who Binge Eat.
• Moving Towards a Weight-neutral Approach to Obesity Management.
• The Clinical Outcomes of Unplanned Pregnancy in Severely Obese Women.
• The Association Between Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status and Compliance to Pediatric Weight-management Interventions – a Systematic Review.
• Obesity Prevention in Older Adults.
• RCT: Metformin in Combination with a Novel Carbohydrate Modified Diet Enhanced 12-month Weight Loss and Improved Body Composition in Ethnically Diverse Normoglycemic, Hyperinsulinemic Women with Midlife Weight Gain.
• RCT: Internet Delivered Cost-benefit Approach to Weight Loss Maintenance May Be Effective for Long-term Weight Control.
• Elevated 1-hour Post-load Glucose Reliable Predictor of Prediabetes Risk.

Children and Adolescents

• Addressing Childhood Obesity Among Children in Care: The Missing Link to Promoting Physical Well-being Outcomes.
• Children and Adolescents with Low BMI but Large Waist Circumference Remain High Risk of Elevated Blood Pressure.
• Effective Weight Loss for Children: A Meta-analysis of Intervention Studies 2002-2015.
• Children and Adolescents with Low BMI but Large Waist Circumference Remain High Risk of Elevated Blood Pressure.
• Infant BMI Can Predict Obesity at Age 2.

Surgery

• The Behavior and Biology Behind Bariatric Surgery.
• Effect of Weight Loss, Diet, Exercise, and Bariatric Surgery on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Clinical Outcomes in Overweight Heart Transplant Recipients.
• DiaRem Score Predicts Who Will Be Cured By RYGB Surgery.

Drugs

• Leptin Within the Subphysiological to Physiological Range Dose-dependently Improves Male Reproductive Function in an Obesity Mouse Model.
• RCT: Betahistine to Counteract Olanzapine-Associated Weight Gain.
• Liraglutide Alters Brain Activity Related to Highly Desirable Food Cues.

Food & Diet

• Meat Consumption Providing a Surplus Energy in Modern Diet Contributes to Obesity Prevalence: An Ecological Analysis.
• Relationship Between Fasting Plasma Glucose Levels and Maternal Food Group and Macronutrient Intakes in Pregnancy.
• Paleolithic and Mediterranean Diet Pattern Scores are Inversely Associated with Biomarkers of Inflammation and Oxidative Balance in Adults.
• Novel Bitter Melon Extracts Highly Yielded From Supercritical Extraction Reduce the Adiposity Through the Enhanced Lipid Metabolism in Mice Fed a High Fat Diet.

Sugar

• Liquid Fructose in Pregnancy Exacerbates Fructose-induced Dyslipidemia in Adult Female Offspring.
• RCT: Effects of a Behavioral and Health Literacy Intervention to Reduce Sugar-sweetened Beverages.
• Functionality of Sugars in Foods and Health.

Caloric Restriction

• Effect of Caloric Restriction on Learning Impairment in the Hippocampus of Ob/ob Mice; Through Enhanced O-GlcNAcylation and Ca2+ Homeostasis.
• Nutrient Restriction and Realimentation in Beef Cows During Early and Mid-gestation and Maternal and Fetal Hepatic and Small Intestinal in Vitro Oxygen Consumption.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Development of Participant-Informed Text Messages to Promote Physical Activity Among African American Women Attending College.
• Using a Betabinomial Distribution to Estimate the Prevalence of Adherence to Physical Activity Guidelines Among Children and Youth. (pdf)
• Lower Rate-pressure Product During Submaximal Walking: A Link to Fatigue Improvement Following a Physical Activity Intervention Among Breast Cancer Survivors.
• Parental Perceived Built Environment Measures and Active Play in Washington DC Metropolitan Children.
• Childhood Fitness Reduces the Long-term Cardiometabolic Risks Associated with Childhood Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Understanding the Food Insecurity and Obesity Relationship By Examining Potential Mediators: An Exploratory Analysis.
• Family Behaviors and Type 2 Diabetes: What to Target and How to Address in Interventions for Adults with Low Socioeconomic Status.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Healthiness of Food Choices: Exploring the Contributions of Food Expenditures.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Injury in Occupation and Industry: Role of Obesity in the National Health Interview Survey 2004 to 2013.
• The Association Between Obesity and Cognitive Function in Older Persons: How Much is Mediated By Inflammation, Fasting Plasma Glucose, and Hypertriglyceridemia?
• Body Weight and Suicidal Behavior in Adolescent Females: The Role of Self-Perceptions.
• Climate Preferences, Obesity, and Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities. (pdf)
• There is No Evidence of a Decline in U.S. Children Obesity Prevalence (1999-2014) in Any Age Group, Despite Substantial Clinical and Policy Efforts Targeting the Issue.

Psychology

• Psychological Interventions for Adults Who are Overweight or Obese.
• Affective Tone of Mothers' Statements to Restrict Their Children's Eating.
• Extremes of Eating are Associated with Reduced Neural Taste Discrimination.
• Fuel Not Fun: Reinterpreting Attenuated Brain Responses to Reward in Obesity.
• BMI is an Important Predictor for Suicide: Results From a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Psychosocial Factors as Mediators of Food Insecurity and Weight Status Among Middle School Students.

Equity and Disparities

• RCT: Effects of Experimentally Manipulated Social Status on Acute Eating Behavior.
• Gender Inequalities in Excess Adiposity and Anaemia Combine in a Large Double Burden of Malnutrition Gap Detrimental to Women in an Urban Area in North Africa.

Stigma

• Fat, Four-eyed and Female’ 30 Years Later: A Replication of Harris, Harris, and Bochner's (1982) Early Study of Obesity Stereotypes.
• Does This Tweet Make Me Look Fat? A Content Analysis of Weight Stigma on Twitter.
• Programing Effect of Maternal High Fat/High Sucrose Diet on Cardiovascular Responses and Fos Expression Following Air Jet and Restraint Stress.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination, Childhood Maltreatment, and Weight Gain in U.S. Adults with Overweight/obesity.

Policy Related

• Legislating for Weight-based Equality: National Trends in Public Support for Laws to Prohibit Weight Discrimination. (pdf)
• Obesity as a Disease: Current Policies and Implications for the Future.
• The Influence of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Health Warning Labels on Parents’ Choices.
• The [projected] Effects of Taxation on the Individual Consumption of Sugar-sweetened Beverages. (pdf)
• Food Literacy: How do Communications and Marketing Impact Consumer Knowledge, Skills, and Behavior? Workshop Summary.

Intergenerational Effects

• Autophagy Proteins are Modulated in the Liver and Hypothalamus of the Offspring of Mice with Diet-induced Obesity.
• Grand Paternal Inheritance of an Acquired Metabolic Trait Induced By Ancestral Obesity is Associated with Sperm RNA.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Bioenergetics of the Aging Heart and Skeletal Muscles: Modern Concepts and Controversies.
• Adaptation to Low Temperature Exposure Increases Metabolic Rates Independently of Growth Rates.
• RCT: Higher Body Fat Percentage is Associated with Enhanced Temperature Perception in NAFLD.

Methods

• Multiplexed Electrochemical Immunosensing of Obesity-related Hormones at Grafted Graphene-modified Electrodes.
• Validation, Optimal Threshold Determination, and Clinical Utility of the Infant Risk of Overweight Checklist for Early Prevention of Child Overweight.
• 24-h Actigraphic Monitoring of Motor Activity, Sleeping and Eating Behaviors in Underweight, Normal Weight, Overweight and Obese Children.

Commentary

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• Portion Control: Pop Sensation or Real Solution?
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• Community Intervention to Improve Health Does Just that Without Changing Obesity.
• Can Yoga Help You Lose Weight?
• Cancer Research is Broken: There’s a Replication Crisis in Biomedicine—and No One Even Knows How Deep It Runs.
• Krispy Kreme Name to Be Struck from Children’s Clinic.
• Skinny Kids Eat More Candy.

General

• The Emergence of Geroscience as an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Enhancement of Health Span and Life Span.
• If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired.
• The Reproducibility Crisis is Good for Science.
• Constant Molecular Aging Rates Vs. The Exponential Acceleration of Mortality.
• Insulin Signaling Misregulation Underlies Circadian and Cognitive Deficits in a Drosophila Fragile X Model.
• Rough Childhoods Can Have Ripple Effects for Wild Baboons.

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.
• Post-Doctoral Positions in Metabolic Disease at McMaster University.