Featured

• Effects of Dietary Carbohydrate on Weight Gain and Gonad Production in Small Sea Urchins, Lytechinus Variegatus.
• Genome-wide Meta-analysis of 241,258 Adults Accounting for Smoking Behaviour Identifies Novel Loci for Obesity Traits.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Want a Healthy Heart? Eat Chocolate, New Study Says.
• Study: Self-reported Chocolate Intake at Baseline Was Associated with Lower Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter Incidence.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Sit-stand desks were effective in reducing workplace sedentary behaviour ...However, these changes were not sufficient to improve markers of cardiometabolic risk."
• Non-consistent Evidence that Parity is a Risk Factor for Excessive Postpartum Weight Retention.
• "Living close to play areas is not associated with healthy weight status of children aged 4–5 years old."
• No Significant Difference in the Effectiveness and Safety of an Intermittent Fasting Diet (two Day Per Week) as an Alternative to Standard Dietary Advice (portion Control Diet) for Weight Reduction in Obese Adults with Insulin Dependent T2DM Attending a 12-week Group Based Intervention.
• "This is the first study to investigate how parent distraction by technology at mealtimes is related to food parenting practices and child food neophobia; however, no significant relationships were found."
• RCT: "Our composite antenatal lifestyle intervention did not significantly reduce the risk of obesity in offspring up until age five."
• "Regardless of age, sweet preference did not differ between obese and nonobese participants and showed no association with motives for eating palatable foods."
• No "Effectiveness of a school-based intervention to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children aged 7-11 years from Poznan (Poland)."
• "Our findings suggest long-term exposure of female mice to environmentally relevant NP concentrations, outside of the developmental period, does not affect glucose homeostasis or adiposity."
• "Educational Messaging at Breakfast, Not Protein Source, Influences Appetite Response, Food Preferences, and Food Intake in Men and Women."
• "There was no significant association between rs9939609 and resistin serum level in type 2 obese diabetic women..."
• Alternatively Activated Macrophages do Not Synthesize Catecholamines or Contribute to Adipose Tissue Adaptive Thermogenesis.
• Advising Consumption of Green Vegetables, Beef, and Full-Fat Dairy Products Has No Adverse Effects on the Lipid Profiles or BMI in Children.

Basic

• Tissue-Specific Macronutrient Allocation is Directly Affected By Macronutrient Intake in the Cultured Sea Urchin, Lytechinus Variegatus, Nutrition Model.
• Nutrimiraging: Micromanaging Nutrient Sensing Pathways Through Nutrition to Promote Healthy Aging.
• The Genetics of Pooched-Out Pooches.
• The Importance of Hormonal Circadian Rhythms in Daily Feeding Patterns: An Illustration with Simulated Pigs.
• Diabetes-Induced Dysfunction of Brain Cortical Mitochondria is Partly Attenuated By Fish Oil Administration in Adult Male Wistar Rats.
• Leptin Release in Horse Adipose Tissue is Age- and Glucocorticoid Dependent.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• “Fat but Fit”? Studies Confuse, While Advocates & Journalists do Little to Clarify.
• Letter: Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery to Treat Type 2 Diabetes in Patients with a BMI < 35.
• Reply: Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery to Treat Type 2 Diabetes in Patients with a BMI < 35.
• Letter: Strengths and Limitations of Healthcare Databases in the Evaluation of Hypoglycaemia.
• Reply: Strengths and Limitations of Healthcare Databases in the Evaluation of Hypoglycaemia.
• Letter: Bariatric Surgery or Intensive Medical Therapy for Diabetes After 5 Years.

Clinical

• A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Interventions for Uncomplicated Obesity: Weight Loss, Well-being and Impact on Eating Disorders. (pdf)
• RCT: "Applying economic incentives to increase effectiveness of an outpatient weight loss program."
• The American Board of Obesity Medicine: Five-year Report.

Children and Adolescents

• Weight Trajectories of Israeli Pediatric Cancer Survivors.
• Peer Support and Adolescents’ Physical Activity: The Mediating Roles of Self-Efficacy and Enjoyment.
• From Cookies to Carrots; The Effect of Inhibitory Control Training on Children's Snack Selections.
• The Impact of Childhood Overweight and Obesity on Healthcare Utilisation.

Surgery

• Hypoglycemia Following Bariatric Surgery: Our 31-Year Experience.
• Laparoscopic Gastric Banding: Game Over?

Drugs

• Practical Use of Pharmacotherapy for Obesity.
• Liraglutide Promotes Browning of White Adipose Tissue in Mice with Diet Induced Obesity.
• Indomethacin, a Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug, Enhanced Brown Fat Activity in Vitro and in Vivo.
• Novo Nordisk Bets on New Obesity Drug Recipes.
• The Obesity Epidemic: Are Roche and Bristol-Myers Sitting on a Mighty Prospect?
• FGF21-receptor Agonists: An Emerging Therapeutic Class for Obesity-related Diseases.

Food & Diet

• A Comparison of the Effect of Protein Vs. Carbohydrate Consumption on Human Energy Balance in Free-living Conditions.
• Obesity Energetics: Body Weight Regulation and the Effects of Diet Composition.
• Adverse Effects of Consuming High Fat–sugar Diets on Cognition: Implications for Understanding Obesity.
• Effects of Resistant Dextrin for Weight Loss in Overweight Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• Calorically Restricted Diets Decrease PCSK9 in Overweight Adolescents.
• Antinociceptive Effects of Caloric Restriction on Post-incisional Pain in Nonobese Rats.
• Change in the Rate of Biological Aging in Response to Caloric Restriction: CALERIE Biobank Analysis.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Comparison of Periodized and Non-Periodized Resistance Training on Maximal Strength Meta-Analysis.
• Comparison of Two Accelerometers for Measuring Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour.
• Nutrition and Physical Activity in the Management of Pediatric Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Associations Between Parenting Factors, Motivation, and Physical Activity in Overweight African American Adolescents.
• Exercise and Dietary Program-induced Weight Reduction is Associated with Cognitive Function Among Obese Adolescents.
• A National Effort to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes: Participant-Level Evaluation of CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program.

Economics & Sociology

• Long-term Neighborhood Poverty Trajectories and Obesity in a Sample of California Mothers.
• Socio-economic Status Over the Life Course and Obesity: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Early-Life Socioeconomic Status and Adult Physiological Functioning: A Life Course Examination of Biosocial Mechanisms.
• Analyzing the Impact of Public Transit Usage on Obesity.
• A Socioecological Framework for Research on Work and Obesity in Diverse Urban Transit Operators Based on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity. (pdf)

Epidemiology

• Limited Self-control, Obesity, and the Loss of Happiness.
• Participants with Normal Weight or with Obesity Show Different Relationships of 6-n-Propylthiouracil (PROP) Taster Status with BMI and Plasma Endocannabinoids.
• New Pathways from Short Sleep to Obesity? Associations between Short Sleep and "secondary" Eating and Drinking Behavior.
• Overweight, Obesity, and Risk of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity: Pooled Analysis of Individual-level Data for 120,813 Adults From 16 Cohort Studies From the USA and Europe.
• The Prevalence of Underweight, Overweight and Obesity in Bangladeshi Adults: Data From a National Survey.
• Cardiometabolic Profile of Obese Children in a Sub-Saharan African Setting: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Joint Association of Birth Weight and Physical Activity/sedentary Behavior with Obesity in Children Ages 9-11 Years From 12 Countries.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Association of Snacking Frequency and Weight Among US Toddlers and Preschoolers: Cross-Sectional Study.
• Relationship Between Weight-Related Discrimination, Body Dissatisfaction and Self-Stigma on the Desire to Weigh Less.
• Does Psychosocial Stress Explain Socioeconomic Inequities Weight Gain Among Young Women?
• Physiological and Self-Reported Disgust Reactions to Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansions on Health Insurance Coverage Through 2015 and Coverage Disparities By Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender.
• RCT: Weight Loss and Improved Metabolic Outcomes Amongst Rural African American Women in the Deep South.

Stigma

• Weight Bias Internalization Scale for Youth.
• Personal Attitudes Toward Weight in Overweight and Obese US Hemodialysis Patients.

Policy Related

• An Evaluation of the Impact of Obesity Related Legislation. (pdf)
• Understanding Perceptions of School Administrators Related to School Breakfast in a Low School Breakfast Participation State.
• Sugar Price Supports and Taxation: A Public Health Policy Paradox.
• Expected Population Weight and Diabetes Impact of the 1-peso-per-litre Tax to Sugar Sweetened Beverages in Mexico.

Intergenerational Effects

• A Systematic Examination of the Association Between Parental and Child Obesity Across Countries.
• Human Milk Insulin is Related to Maternal Plasma Insulin and BMI: But Other Components of Human Milk do Not Differ By BMI.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Comparison of Four Fitbit and Jawbone Activity Monitors with a Research-grade ActiGraph Accelerometer for Estimating Physical Activity and Energy Expenditure.
• The Evolution of Satiety: Studies in the Sea Urchin, Lytechinus Variegatus, Nutritional Model.
• Impacts of UVB Radiation on Food Consumption of Forest Specialist Tadpoles.
• Lowering Metabolic Rate Mitigates Muscle Atrophy in Western Fence Lizards.

Methods

• Availability of Two Self-administered Diet History Questionnaires for Pregnant Japanese Women: A Validation Study Using 24-hour Urinary Markers.
• RCT: Objective Assessment of Dietary Patterns By Use of Metabolic Phenotyping.

Commentary

• Contrasting Views of Obesity in Europe at ECO2017.
• How harmful are processed foods?
• Breakfast Was the Most Important Meal of the Day — Until America Ruined It.
• Ignore Lunatic Lifestyle Gurus. Sugar’s Not the New Heroin.
• What Shall We do with the O Word?
• Comment: Obesity as a Disease – Some Implications for the World Obesity Federation's Advocacy and Public Health Activities.

General

• Toxic Funding? Conflicts of Interest and Their Epistemological Significance.
• Scientific Feuds, Polemics, and Ad Hominem Arguments in Basic and Special-interest Genetics.
• The Ad Hominem Delusion that Infects Our Public Debate.
• Cooling Beaver Dams.
• Rapid, Broad-scale Gene Expression Evolution in Experimentally Harvested Fish Populations.
• Cardiovascular Mortality Differences—Place Matters.
• Does Daily Weighing Help You Lose Weight?

Announcements

• UAB Seeks Obesity Medicine Physician to Be Employed By UAB’s Department of Nutrition Sciences.
• A Workshop on Strategies to Limit Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Young Children: Evaluation of Federal, State, and Local Policies and Programs - June 21, 2017 - June 22, 2017. 
• 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.