Featured

• Effects of Weight History on the Association Between Directly-Measured Adiposity and Mortality in Older Adults.
• Combining Biomarker and Self-reported Dietary Intake Data: A Review of the State of the Art and an Exposition of Concepts.
• Dissonance in Naming Adiposity: A Quantitative Survey of Naming Preferences From a Convenience Sample of Health Professional and Lay Population in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Sleeping with the TV on May Make You Gain Weight.
• Study: Association [Not Necessarily Causation] of Exposure to Artificial Light at Night While Sleeping with Risk of Obesity in Women.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of Food, Health, & Choices: Curriculum and Wellness Interventions Intervention to Decrease Childhood Obesity in Fifth-Graders.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Sport for LIFE: All Island in Children From Low Socio-economic Status.
• RCT: "Girls Active may not have had an effect on the random 90 girls per school included in the evaluation."
• RCT: "In the setting of routine prenatal care, lifestyle advice given by trained healthcare providers was not successful in limiting GWG and pregnancy complications."
• RCT: A Comprehensive Multicomponent School-based Educational Intervention Did Not Affect Fruit and Vegetable Intake at the 14-year Follow-up.
• Meta-analysis: "The current evidence suggests that quercetin intake did not show a notably favorable effect on weight loss."
• D2d Study: Vitamin D Supplementation Does Not Significantly Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: "Supplementation with lunasin-enriched soy extract for 8 weeks did not result in significant changes in serum lipids, glucose, insulin resistance, blood pressure, BMI, or waist circumference."
• RCT: A Single-Dose of a Polyphenol-Rich Fucus Vesiculosus Extract is Insufficient to Blunt the Elevated Postprandial Blood Glucose Responses Exhibited By Healthy Adults in the Evening.
• RCT: No Impact of Hunger on Male Perception of Female Physical Attractiveness in Relation to Adiposity.
• "In this updated meta-analysis, vitamin D supplementation was not associated with reduced major adverse cardiovascular events, individual CVD end points (myocardial infarction, stroke, CVD mortality), or all-cause mortality."

Basic

• Leptin’s Hunger-suppressing Effects are Mediated By the Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical Axis in Rodents.
• Obesity-associated, but Not Obesity-independent, Tumors Respond to Insulin By Increasing Mitochondrial Glucose Oxidation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Differences in Nominal Significance (DINS) Error Leads to Invalid Conclusions: Letter Regarding, “Diet Enriched with Fresh Coconut Decreases Blood Glucose Levels and Body Weight in Normal Adults”.
• Child Obesity in Leeds: Cherrypicking Data to Indicate a Fall.
• Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal.
• Using Automation to Combat the Replication Crisis: A Case Study From Controlled-rearing Studies of Newborn Chicks.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of protein quantity and type on diet induced thermogenesis in overweight adults.
• The relationship between food label use and dietary intake in adults: A systematic review.

Clinical

• How to Improve Health Literacy to Reduce Short- and Long-term Consequences of Maternal Obesity?
• Willing to Go the Extra Mile: Prospective Evaluation of an Intensified Non-surgical Treatment for Patients with Morbid Obesity.
• Effects of a Mediterranean Eating Plan on the Need for Glucose-Lowering Medications in Participants with Type 2 Diabetes: A Subgroup Analysis of the PREDIMED Trial.
• Enrolment of Families with Overweight Children Into a Program Aimed at Reducing Childhood Obesity with and Without a Weight Criterion: A Natural Experiment.
• Metabolic Adaptation is Not Observed After 8 Weeks of Overfeeding but Energy Expenditure Variability is Associated with Weight Recovery.
• Managing Obesity: Scaling the Pyramid to Success.

Children and Adolescents

• Dose Response Relationship Between Program Attendance and Children’s Outcomes in a Community Based Weight Management Program for Children and Their Families.
• Lower Incidence Rate of Type 1 Diabetes After Receipt of the Rotavirus Vaccine in the United States, 2001–2017.

Surgery

• Role of Ethnicity on Weight Loss and Attrition After Bariatric Surgery.
• Nutritional Deficiencies in Patients After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy During 12-Month Follow-Up.

Drugs

• Therapeutic Effects of Curcumin and Ursodexycholic Acid on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease [in Rats].
• The Antiobese Effect of AT1 Receptor Blockade is Augmented in Mice Lacking Mas.
• Lilly Decides to Advance Tirzepatide for Obesity.

Caloric Restriction

• Effects of Aging and Caloric Restriction on Fiber Type Composition, Mitochondrial Morphology and Dynamics in Rat Oxidative and Glycolytic Muscles.
• Effects of Timing of Food Intake and Fat/carbohydrate Ratio on Insulin Sensitivity and Preconditioning Against Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury By Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT:Telemonitoring-supported Exercise Training, Metabolic Syndrome Severity, and Work Ability in Company Employees.
• Trends in Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Dwelling Adults — United States, 2008–2017.
• A Cellular Census of Human Lungs Identifies Novel Cell States in Health and in Asthma.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Circumstances, Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Risk Measures in Children with Severe Obesity.
• Increasing Socioeconomic Disparities in Sedentary Behaviors in Chinese Children.
• Cost-effectiveness of an Educational Healthcare Circuit for Bariatric Surgery in France.

Epidemiology

• Intake of Vegetables and Fruits Through Young Adulthood is Associated with Better Cognitive Function in Midlife in the US General Population.
• Association Between Serum Vitamin B12 Concentration and Obesity in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults.
• BMI and Body Composition in Relation to 14 Cardiovascular Conditions in UK Biobank: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Older Adults with Lowest Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes: Results From a Large and Diverse US Cohort (2003–2016).
• Body Composition and Falls Risk in Older Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Perceived Weight Discrimination Mediates the Prospective Association Between Obesity and Physiological Dysregulation: Evidence From a Population-Based Cohort.
• Dietary Choline is Related to Neural Efficiency During a Selective Attention Task Among Middle-aged Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Nutrition Transition, Overweight and Obesity Among Rural-to-urban Migrant Women in Kenya.
• The Relationship Between Obesity and Depression Among Federally Qualified Health Center Patients. (pdf)
• Food Cue Reactivity in Food Addiction: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.
• BMI-associated Gene Variants in FTO and Cardiometabolic and Brain Disease: Obesity or Pleiotropy?

Equity and Disparities

• Disparities in Trajectories of Changes in the Unhealthy Food Environment in New York City: A Latent Class Growth Analysis, 1990–2010.
• Decomposing Ethnic Differences in BMI and Obesity Rates Among New Zealand Pre-schoolers.
• Disparities in Food Access Around Homes and Schools for New York City Children.

Stigma

• Fat Shaming is Making People Sicker and Heavier.
• Book Chapter: Philosophy, Bias, Stigma.
• Weight-based Victimization, Eating Behaviors, and Weight-related Health in Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents.

Policy Related

• FDA MedWatch Alert: Fecal Microbiota for Transplantation: Safety Communication.
• Getting Real on Rationality—Behavioral Science, Nudging, and Public Policy.
• Taxes and front-of-package labels improve the healthiness of beverage and snack purchases.
• The Dismal Record of Soda Taxes. (pdf)
• Person-centred, Safe and Effective Care in Maternity Services: The Need for Greater Change Towards Best Practice.
• Primer on US Food and Nutrition Policy and Public Health: Protect School Nutrition Standards.
• Canada Announces Its First-ever Food Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Offspring Body Composition in Adulthood: Results From Two Birth Cohort Studies.
• Steroid Hormones in Cord Blood Mediate the Association Between Maternal Prepregnancy BMI and Birth Weight.
• Prenatal Risk Predicts Preschooler Executive Function: A Cascade Model.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Dietary Ecomorphological Dispersion and Phenotypic Integration in Felidae and Mustelidae (Mammalia; Carnivora).
• Survival is Negatively Related to Basal Metabolic Rate in Tropical Andean Birds.
• Reproductive and Environmental Drivers of Time and Activity Budgets of Striped Skunks.

Methods

• Reliability and usefulness of upper gastro intestinal contrast studies to assess pouch size in patients with weight loss failure after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
• Methodological approach to the assessment of the obesogenic environment in children and adolescents: A review of the literature.

Commentary

• Gut-based Interventions for Diabetes Move Closer to Clinical Reality.
• Partnering to Tackle the Obesity Epidemic: How Employers are Rethinking Obesity to Better Address Care, Treatment, and Engagement with Their Employees.
• Ultra-Processed Food: What Now?
• Everything You Need to Know About Whey Protein.
• Can Eating Chicken Save the Planet?
• Dietary Supplements Linked with Severe Health Events in Children, Young Adults.
• How Many Steps a Day do You Really Need? Spoiler: It Isn't 10,000.
• A Touching Concern for the Health of Mannequins.
• A Furry Fitbit? No, but Dog Owners are More Active.
• Looking for Health Outcomes From Health Policies.
• Our Daily Diet of Plastic.
• Big Changes: Bariatric Surgery, Marriage, and Divorce.

General

• John Urschel Learns the ‘Secret Code’ of Calculus.
• Limiting the Damage: Molecular Basis of Extended Healthspan in Bats.
• Copernicus's Revolutionary Ideas Reorganized the Heavens.
• Spending at Least 120 minutes a Week in Nature is Associated with Good Health and Well-being.
• Commentary on the Problem of Headlines vs Studies: Hyped-up Science Erodes Trust. Here’s How Researchers Can Fight Back.
• Sexual Conflict in Water Striders, Dragonflies and Diving Beetles.
• Quantitative Framework for Coffee Leaf Rust (Hemileia Vastatrix), Production and Futures.
• Discovery and Inhibition of an Interspecies Gut Bacterial Pathway for Levodopa Metabolism.
• A 53-Year-Old Network Coloring Conjecture is Disproved.
• Diet for One? Scientists Stalk the Dream of Personalized Nutrition.
• Can Home Cooking Reverse the Obesity Epidemic?
• One-quarter of People with Diabetes in the U.S. Are Rationing Their Insulin.
• A Twitter Account Corrects One of the Biggest Problems in Health Reporting.
• What Universities Can Learn From One of Science’s Biggest Frauds.
• Why do Zebras Have Stripes? A Hair-Raising New Theory is 'Clever, Complex and Beautiful'.
• Secretary Perdue Announces Kansas City Region as Location for ERS and NIFA.
• The Thrill of Defeat: What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner Taught Me About Being Scooped.
• EFSA Issues New Advice on Phosphates.
• In Conversation with Dr. George A. Bray, 2019 W.O. Atwater Memorial Lecturer.

Announcements

• Ellen MacArthur Foundation Launched the Food Initiative.
• Survey: Metadata2020 Survey "to understand the familiarity and usage of metadata ... in scholarly communication."
• Webinar: Innovations in the Food System: Shaping the Future of Food - a Workshop [Aug 7-8].
• Webcast: Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Meeting 2 [July 10-11].
• Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Scrutinizer of Aging, Dies at 84.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).