05/12/17
Featured
- Obesity Researchers Barbara Kahn and Mitchell Lazar Elected to National Academy of Sciences.
- Obesity-related Health Impacts of Fuel Excise Taxation- an Evidence Review and Cost-effectiveness Study.
- Lipidomics and RNA-Seq Study of Lipid Regulation in Aphis Gossypii Parasitized By Lysiphlebia Japonica.
- Lsd1 Prevents Age-programed Loss of Beige Adipocytes.
Headline vs Study
- Headline: Why Cinnamon is Insanely Good for You.
- ASBMB Meeting abstract: Study Investigating Docking of Cinnamon Polyphenols (Not Cinnamon) to Sirtuin-1 (Not You).
- Headline: Cinnamon May Reduce the Harms of a High-fat Diet.
- AHA Meeting abstract: Study of Cinnamon Extract (not Cinnamon)...In Rats.
Contrary or Null Findings
- Eating Compared to Skipping Breakfast Has No Discernible Benefit for Obesity-related Anthropometrics: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
- RCT: "Dairy food interventions generally had no effect on bone mineral acquisition or body composition either within or between weight groups."
- RCT: No Effect of Increasing Dairy Calcium Intake of Adolescent Girls on Changes in Body Fat and Weight.
- RCT: "FFH [Families for Health] was neither effective nor cost-effective for the management of obesity compared with UC [usual care]."
- RCT: "Replenishment with a large dose of vitamin D3 to patients with T2D and vitamin D deficiency did not change insulin sensitivity or insulin secretion."
- "Despite their deep phylogenetic divergence, all species [of flies] had similar microbiotas, thus failing to support predictions of the phylosymbiosis hypothesis."
- "Dietary intake and adipose tissue content of long-chain n-3 PUFAs were neither consistently nor appreciably associated with change in body weight or waist circumference."
- "Disclaimer labels on fashion shoot images do not protect body satisfaction."
Basic
- Conditionally Pathogenic Gut Microbes Promote Larval Growth By Increasing Redox-Dependent Fat Storage in High Sugar Diet-Fed Drosophila.
- Mice with Missing Lipid-modifying Enzyme Heal Better After Heart Attack.
- Dietary Tea Polyphenols Ameliorate Metabolic Syndrome and Memory Impairment in Mice Via Circadian Clock Related Mechanisms.
- DNA-Dependent Protein Kinase (DNA-PK) Promotes the Mitochondrial, Metabolic, and Physical Decline that Occurs During Aging.
- Modulation of Heme Oxygenase 1 (HO-1) By Ferulic Acid Attenuates Adipocyte Differentiation in 3T3-L1 Cells.
- Metabolic and Biochemical Stressors in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy.
- DNA-PK Promotes the Mitochondrial, Metabolic, and Physical Decline that Occurs During Aging.
- Temporal and Tissue-specific Requirements for T-lymphocyte IL-6 Signalling in Obesity-associated Inflammation and Insulin Resistance.
- Micro RNAs Mediating Effects of Adipose Angiotensinogen in Adipocyte Inflammation and ER Stress.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- PubMed Commons Comment on “Effects of Promoting Long-term, Exclusive Breastfeeding on Adolescent Adiposity, Blood Pressure, and Growth Trajectories: A Secondary Analysis of a” RCT.”
- Does Diet Soda Cause Strokes and Dementia?
- Letter: The IRGM Rs10065172 Variant Increases the Risk for Steatosis but Not for Liver Damage Progression in Italian Obese Children.
- Reply To: The IRGM Rs10065172 Variant Increases the Risk for Steatosis but Not for Liver Damage Progression in Italian Obese Children.
- Letter: Obesity and Helicobacter Pylori: An Undefined Association.
- Editorial: Metformin-associated Lactic Acidosis (MALA): Moving Towards a New Paradigm?
- Letter: Epicardial Obesity - Bariatric Surgery in a Geriatric Population.
- Reply To: The Lipid Accumulation Product is a Powerful Tool to Predict Metabolic Syndrome in Undiagnosed Brazilian Adults.
Clinical
- RCT: Extended and Standard Duration Weight-loss Programme Referrals for Adults in Primary Care (WRAP).
- FGF21 is a Sugar-Induced Hormone Associated with Sweet Intake and Preference in Humans.
Children and Adolescents
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Examining the Effectiveness of Mobile Health Technologies in Using Self-Monitoring for Pediatric Weight Management.
- Inverse Correlation Between Helicobacter Pylori Colonization and Pediatric Overweight.
Surgery
- Variation in Outcomes at Bariatric Surgery Centers of Excellence.
- Mental Illness in Bariatric Surgery: A Cohort Study From the PORTAL Network.
Drugs
- Pharmacological Inhibition of Adipose Triglyceride Lipase Corrects High-fat Diet-induced Insulin Resistance and Hepatosteatosis in Mice.
- The Role and Potential Therapeutic Implications of the Fibroblast Growth Factors in Energy Balance and Type 2 Diabetes.
- Zafgen (ZFGN) Reports Positive Topline Phase 1 Data for ZGN-1061.
- Phentermine Lowers Weight, Systolic BP in Adults with Obesity.
Food & Diet
- RCT: Cashew Consumption Reduces Total and LDL Cholesterol.
- RCT: Effects of an Egg-based, Carbohydrate-restricted Diet on Body Composition, Fat Distribution, and Metabolic Health in Older Adults with Obesity: Preliminary Results.
Caloric Restriction
- Effect of Caloric Restriction on Plasma Melatonin Levels in Aged Rhesus Macaques.
- Survival of the House Fly (Diptera: Muscidae) on Truvia and Other Sweeteners.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- The Metabolic Power and Energetic Demands of Elite Gaelic Football Match Play.
- Behavioral Determinants of Physical Activity Across the Life Course.
- Physical Activity, Obesity and Survival in Diffuse Large B-cell and Follicular Lymphoma Cases.
- Exercise in Vivo Marks Human Myotubes in Vitro: Training-induced Increase in Lipid Metabolism.
Economics & Sociology
- Does Psychosocial Stress Explain Socioeconomic Inequities in 9-year Weight Gain Among Young Women?
- Estimating the Effect of Mobility and Food Choice on Obesity in a Rural, Northern Environment.
- Fatness, Fitness, and Feminism in the Built Environment: Bringing Together Physical Cultural Studies and Sociomaterialisms, to Study the “Obesogenic Environment.”
- Examining Sociodemographic Differences in Playground Availability and Quality and Associations with Childhood Obesity
Epidemiology
- Behavior Related Genes, Dietary Preferences and Anthropometric Traits.
- Characterisation of the Anthropometric Features of Airline Passengers and Their Impact on Fuel Usage in the Australian Domestic Aviation Sector.
- Ethnic Variations in the Prevalence of Sarcopenia and Sarcopenic Obesity in Older Adults.
- Is BMI Associated with Lowest Mortality Increasing Over Time?
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Stability of Children's Weight Status Over Time: Contribution of Television, Physical Activity, and Diet in Elementary School.
- Bleak Present, Bright Future: Online Episodic Future Thinking, Scarcity, Delay Discounting, and Food Demand.
- Appetitive Conditioning to Specific Times of Day.
- Gamified Working Memory Training in Overweight Individuals Reduces Food Intake but Not Body Weight.
Equity and Disparities
- Racial Disparity in Life Expectancies and Life Years Lost Associated with Multiple Obesity-related Chronic Conditions.
- Fitness Adjusted Racial Disparities in Central Adiposity Among Women in the USA Using Quantile Regression.
Stigma
- Changing Attitudes Towards Obesity.
- The Effect of a Medical Opinion on Self-perceptions of Weight.
- Qualitative: Reframing Our View of the Bariatric Patient.
- Weight, Perceptions, and Bullying Behaviors.
- Won't Stop or Can't Stop? Food Restriction as a Habitual Behavior Among Individuals with Anorexia Nervosa or Atypical Anorexia Nervosa.
Policy Related
- Pocket Money, Eating Behaviors, and Weight Status Among Chinese Children: The Childhood Obesity Study in China Mega-cities.
- Television Food and Beverage Marketing to Children in Costa Rica: Is a Regulatory Policy Needed?
- FDA Extends Menu Labeling Compliance Date to 2018.
- Senators Reintroduce Legislation to Expand Use of Telehealth Under Medicare.
Intergenerational Effects
- The Highs and Lows of Fetal Programming for Fatty Liver Disease.
- Joint Effect of Maternal Plasma Homocysteine and Prepregnancy Obesity on Child Blood Pressure: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study.
- Animal Models of Maternal High Fat Diet Exposure and Effects on Metabolism in Offspring: A Meta-regression Analysis.
- Impact of Maternal Obesity and High Fat Diet During Pregnancy and Lactation on Offspring Body Weight, Immune Function, and Resistance to Influenza Infection.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- Effects of Predatory Cues on Copper Sensitivity and Metabolic Rate in Gambusia Affinis.
- Warmer Temps Tied to Altered Microbiome in Lizards.
- Review: Metabolic Flexibility in Health and Disease.
- Increased Mitochondrial Energy Efficiency in Skeletal Muscle After Long-term Fasting. Its Relevance to Animal Performance.
Methods
- Statistical Methods to Study Variation in Associations Between Food Store Availability and Body Mass in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Impact of Food and Fluid Intake on Technical and Biological Measurement Error in Body Composition Assessment Methods in Athletes.
Mathematical and Quantitative
- Modeling the Economic and Health Impact of Increasing Children’s Physical Activity in the United States.
- Modern Methods for Modeling Change in Obesity Research in Nursing.
Commentary
- Yo-Yo Dieting: A Seductive Mix of Myth and Reality.
- Crash Test Dummies: Here's What the Obesity Epidemic is Doing to Them.
- Attention Retailers: New Research Sheds Light on How to Help Consumers Make Healthier Choices.
- Metabolic Surgery in a Pill.
- How a Billion Dollars is Being Wasted in the War on Sugar.
General
- Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Taking Stock.
- Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Distortion of Research Results.
- The Loophole in the Hedonic Treadmill.
- The Tale Teeth Tell About the Legendary Man-eating Lions of Tsavo.
- Engagement with Natural Environment a Significant Contributor to Life Satisfaction.
- Vitamin a and Retinoic Acid Combination Attenuates Neonatal Hyperoxia-Induced Neurobehavioral Impairment in Adult Mice.
- The Social Context Moderates the Relationship Between Neighborhood Safety and Adolescents' Activities.
- New Book: The Oxford Handbook on the Science of Science Communication.
- This is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like.
- Sharing Data and Materials in Psychological Science.
- Defending Biomedical Science in an Era of Threatened Funding.
- Scientists Reveal New and Improved Genome Sequence of Daphnia Pulex.
- NIH to Limit the Amount of Grant Money a Scientist Can Receive.
- Brainstorming is Not the Way to Discuss Scientific Issues.
Video & Audio
Announcements
- UAB Awarded Grant to Study Renal Control of Sodium and Salt Balance.
- EASO Summer School: Training the Trainers in the Prevention and Management of Obesity.
- UAB Seeks Obesity Medicine Physician to Be Employed by UAB’s Department of Nutrition Sciences.
- UAB's Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) invites you to join us at our NIH-funded short course on “The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity".
- UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.
- UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.