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• High genetic-risk individuals may benefit less from resistance exercise intervention.
• Diabetes: Helminths improve insulin sensitivity and enhance M2 macrophage numbers in WAT of obese mice.
• Neurons for hunger and thirst transmit a negative-valence teaching signal.

Contrary or Null Findings

• NYC farmers' market incentive program not associated with increased fruit and vegetable consumption in survey of total population.
• RCT: Long-Term Green Tea Extract Supplementation Does Not Affect Fat Absorption, Resting Energy Expenditure, and Body Composition in Adults.
• Compared with Feeding Infants Breast Milk or Cow-Milk Formula, Soy Formula Feeding Not Associated with Subsequent Reproductive Organ Size at 5 Years of Age.
• RCT: Consuming Beef vs. Soy Protein Has Little Effect on Appetite, Satiety, and Food Intake in Healthy Adults.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Correction: It is time to bust the myth of physical inactivity and obesity: "This paper has been temporarily removed following an expression of concern."
• Ignoring regression to the mean leads to unsupported conclusion about obesity.
• Communication of RCT Results Must Match the Study Focus.
• Reply to Brown et al.
• Epigenetics and Childhood Obesity.
• In reply—Epigenetics and Childhood Obesity.
• Objective measures are complementary to, rather than a replacement for, self-reported methods.
• Nutritional epidemiology data should be analyzed by nutritional epidemiologists.
• Authors’ response to LTE for ‘Energy balance measurement: When something is not better than nothing’.

Basic

• Oxygen deprivation and the cellular response to hypoxia in adipocytes – perspectives on white and brown adipose tissues in obesity.
• In vivo measurement of energy substrate contribution to cold-induced brown adipose tissue thermogenesis.
• The Emerging Theme of Redox Bioenergetics in Health and Disease.
• Cross-fostering immediately after birth induces a permanent microbiota shift that is shaped by the nursing mother. (pdf)
• Review: Hypothalamic ER stress: A bridge between leptin resistance and obesity.
• Short-term food restriction followed by controlled refeeding promotes gorging behavior, enhances fat deposition, and diminishes insulin sensitivity in mice.
• Blocking obesity-associated protein stops dangerous fat formation.
• Contribution of the hypothalamus and gut to weight gain susceptibility and resistance in mice.
• Profiling peripheral microRNAs in obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Clinical

• RCT: Efficacy of Different Treatment Alternatives for Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: Pickwick Study.
• Correlates of quality of life in overweight or obese breast cancer survivors at enrollment into a weight loss trial.
• The Look AHEAD Trial: Implications for Lifestyle Intervention in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: Efficacy of SmartLossSM, a smartphone-based weight loss intervention.
• Metabolomic analysis reveals altered skeletal muscle amino acid and fatty acid handling in obese humans.
• Review - Muscle loss and obesity: the health implications of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity.

Surgery

• Musculoskeletal Pain, Self-reported Physical Function, and Quality of Life in the Teen–Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) Cohort.
• Changes in vertebral bone marrow fat and bone mass after gastric bypass surgery: A pilot study.
• Adjustable gastric band feasible for treatment of type 2 diabetes, obesity.

Drugs

• Metformin prevents aggressive ovarian cancer growth in mice driven by high-energy diet: similarity with calorie restriction.
• RCT: Efficacy and safety of beloranib for weight loss in obese adults.
• FDA approves Kybella, an injection designed to decrease fat under the chin.
• 5-HT medications for the treatment of obesity.

Food & Diet

• Nutritional ecology of obesity: from humans to companion animals.
• Have a sweet tooth? New blood test could tell.
• The impact of diet on asthma and allergic diseases.
• Effective translation of current dietary guidance: understanding and communicating the concepts of minimal and optimal levels of dietary protein.
• The role of protein in weight loss and maintenance.
• Defining meal requirements for protein to optimize metabolic roles of amino acids.
• Commonly consumed protein foods contribute to nutrient intake, diet quality, and nutrient adequacy.
• Protein and healthy aging.
• A dose-response study of consuming high-fructose corn syrup–sweetened beverages on lipid/lipoprotein risk factors for cardiovascular disease in young adults.
• Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: vegetarian diets.

Caloric Restriction

• Effects of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) on metabolic tissues and the benefits of caloric restriction.
• Caloric restriction decreases orthostatic tolerance independently from 6° head-down bedrest.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• A pilot study to promote walking among obese and overweight individuals: walking buses for adults.
• The search for exercise factors in humans.
• AMPKα is critical for enhancing skeletal muscle fatty acid utilization during in vivo exercise in mice.
• New study suggests that exercise type may be less important in fight against obesity.
• Intensive lifestyle intervention including high-intensity interval training program improves insulin resistance and fasting plasma glucose in obese patients.
• High Genetic-Risk Individuals Benefit Less from Resistance Exercise Intervention.
• Impact of Intermittent Hypoxia and Exercise on Blood Pressure and Metabolic Features from Obese Subjects Suffering Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome.
• The National Physical Activity Plan: A Call to Action From the American Heart Association.

Economics & Sociology

• ARE Overweight Job Applicants Disadvantaged? Assessing the IMPACT of Adiposity on Employment Chances.
• Economic pressure and health and weight management behaviors in African American couples: A family stress perspective.
• Trends in BMI Based on Socioeconomic Status: A Report from Project Healthy Schools.
• Poor, Unsafe, and Overweight: The Role of Feeling Unsafe at School in Mediating the Association Among Poverty Exposure, Youth Screen Time, Physical Activity, and Weight Status.
• THESIS: Socioeconomic Disparities, Community Physical Environment, and Childhood Obesity in Alabama’s Black Belt Region.
• Obesogenic environments: environmental approaches to obesity prevention.
• Longitudinal association of neighborhood variables with BMI in Dutch school-age children: the KOALA Birth Cohort Study.
• “Dinner's ready!”: a qualitative exploration of the food domain across the lifecourse.

Epidemiology

• School bullying and obesity risk.
• BMI and health status in diabetic and non-diabetic individuals.
• Greater family attendance at religious services was associated with higher child BMI percentile.
• A multinomial model for comorbidity in England of long-standing cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity.
• Accuracy of body weight perception and obesity among Chinese Americans.
• The relationship between excess body weight and the risk of death from unnatural causes.
• Visceral adipose tissue is associated with microstructural brain tissue damage.
• The Obesity Paradox in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Relationship of BMI to Prognosis: A Cohort Study.

Psychology

• Eating in groups: Do multiple social influences affect intake in a fast-food restaurant?
• Leptin and the brain: Influences on brain development, cognitive functioning and psychiatric disorders.
• Mothers’ guilt responses to children’s obesity risk feedback.
• Do body-related shame and guilt mediate the association between weight status and self-esteem?
• Boredom proneness and emotion regulation predict emotional eating.
• Planning versus action: Different decision-making processes predict plans to change one’s diet versus actual dietary behavior.
• Teaching our children when to eat: how parental feeding practices inform the development of emotional eating—a longitudinal experimental design.

Stigma

• Less Blame and Shame in Canada?
• Pounds Off for Jesus: Oral Roberts University and the Fat Body, 1976 to 1978.
• Peopleâ€ÂFirst Language for Obesity. (pdf)
• LTE: The need for people-first language in our obesity journal.
• LTE: Response to “the need for people-first language in our obesity journal”.

Policy Related

• Not "fit" for hire: The United States and France on weight discrimination in employment.
• The Liberty to Feed the Poor.
• Classifying Obesity as a Disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act: How Seff v. Broward County is Incongruent with Recent ADA Litigation.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal obesity disrupts circadian rhythms of clock and metabolic genes in the offspring heart and liver.
• Maternal obesity characterized by gestational diabetes increases the susceptibility of rat offspring to hepatic steatosis via a disrupted liver metabolome.
• Review: Impact of Maternal Obesity on Fetal Programming of Cardiovascular Disease. (pdf)

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Alternative reproductive tactics in snail shell-brooding cichlids diverge in energy reserve allocation.
• Contrasting Fattening Strategies in Related Migratory Species: The Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Common Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat.
• Effect of food restriction on energy budget in hot-acclimated striped hamsters.
• Changes to Metabolism and Cell Physiology that Enable Mammalian Hibernation.
• Moving Beyond Body Condition Indices as an Estimate of Fitness in Ecological and Evolutionary Studies.
• Review: Circadian Metabolism in the Light of Evolution.

Methods

• Proton density fat-fraction is an accurate biomarker of hepatic steatosis in adolescent girls and young women.
• Interexamination repeatability and spatial heterogeneity of liver iron and fat quantification using MRI-based multistep adaptive fitting algorithm.
• Ultrasound as a non-invasive alternative for deuterium oxide dilution measurements in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina).

Commentary

• The Family Trends Behind the Rise of Child Obesity.
• Balancing BMI—rethinking the relationships between obesity, ageing and risk of dementia.
• Advancing the Care of Children and Adolescents with Severe Obesity: A Reason for Clinical Subtyping.
• Nutrition Myths and Healthy Dietary Advice in Clinical Practice.
• Eradicating Sweetened Beverages.
• One Size Cannot Fit All in Childhood Obesity.
• A Superior Kind of Food.
• Infectious Obesity.
• School Food Policies: Good News, Bad News.
• Do Health Benefits Or Nutrient Requirements Drive Diet Choices?

General

• Reconnecting the Dots — Reinterpreting Industry–Physician Relations.
• First results from psychology’s largest reproducibility test.
• PLOS ONE ousts reviewer, editor after sexist peer-review storm.
• SnapShot: Sensing and Signaling by Cilia.
• Video: This Is My Vision Of "Life" - A Conversation With Richard Dawkins.
• From the bush to the bench: the annual Nothobranchius fishes as a new model system in biology.
• Dietary input of microbes and host genetic variation shape among-population differences in stickleback gut microbiota.
• Video: Facilitating Drug Discovery: An Automated High-content Inflammation Assay in Zebrafish.
• Collapse of the world’s largest herbivores.
• Reproducibility and cell biology.

Video & Audio

• The battle over milk, essential nutrition or dairy industry scam?
• Obesity researcher speaks to Tech, busts myths.

Announcements

• Summer Institute for systematic reviews in nutrition for global policy-making.
• Obesity, Biomarkers, and Functional Foods: FF Conference at Harvard MS.
• Top Obesity Researchers Honoured at 4th Canadian Obesity Summit.
• USDA Nutrition Evidence Library Abstractor Program: Apply Now!
• Press Release: Institute of Medicine to Become National Academy of Medicine.