Featured

• Executive Function and Dysregulated Eating Behaviors in Pediatric Obesity.
• Homeostatic Circuits Selectively Gate Food Cue Responses in Insular Cortex.
• Histone Deacetylase 3 Prepares Brown Adipose Tissue for Acute Thermogenic Challenge.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Extra Virgin Olive Oil Staves Off Alzheimer's, Preserves Memory, New Study Shows.
• Press release: Temple Study: Extra-virgin Olive Oil Preserves Memory & Protects Brain Against Alzheimer's.
• Study: Extra Virgin Olive Oil Consumption Improves Behavioral Deficits, Synaptic Pathology, Aß and Tau Neuropathology, with Autophagy Activation... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Differential Effects of Effect of a High-Protein Diet Versus Standard-Protein Diet on Weight Loss and Biomarkers of Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: No Differential Effects of a Gluten-free Diet Versus a Hypocaloric Diet Among Patients with Fibromyalgia Experiencing Gluten Sensitivity-like Symptoms.
• No Differential Effects of “diets with Varying Carbohydrate Composition (fibre and Starch) …on Plasma Leptin Concentrations [or] Plasma Concentrations of Ghrelin and Insulin Like Growth Factor 1” in Horses.
• RCT: Little Effects of a Post-exercise Carbohydrate and Protein Supplement on Repeat Performance, Serum Chemistry, Insulin and Glucagon in Competitive Weight-pulling Dogs.
• RCT: "The ratio of the amount of protein intake had no effect on weight loss including the anthropometry assessment and biochemistry assessment."
• RCT: Energy Expenditure Was Higher After a High-carbohydrate Drinks than After a High Protein Drink and Also After Ingesting One Large Drink Compared with Five Smaller Drinks - Hunger Was Also Suppressed More Efficiently…after One Compared with Five Smaller Drinks - Our Findings do Not Support Nibbling to Avoid Hunger or to Keep Up EE From Morning to Noon.
• RCT: "a daily magnesium supplement of 350mg for 24 weeks does not improve endothelial function and cardiometabolic risk markers in overweight and obese middle-aged and elderly adults."
• RCT: "for overweight and slightly obese volunteers, a daily intake of 150 mg of trans-resveratrol for 4 weeks does not change plasma biomarkers of endothelial function or inflammation in the fasting state or postprandial phase."
• An Obesity Paradox: Increased BMI is Associated with Decreased Aortic Atherosclerosis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Sugar- and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and the Risks of Incident Stroke and Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Reply: Sugar- and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and the Risks of Incident Stroke and Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Letter: Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax in Mexico.
• Reply: Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax.
• Letter: Childhood and Adolescent Obesity as a Winnable Battle.
• Reply: Childhood and Adolescent Obesity as a Winnable Battle.
• Study: Body-mass Index and All-cause Mortality: Individual-participant-data Meta-analysis.
• Letter: Body-mass Index and All-cause Mortality (1).
• Letter: Body-mass Index and All-cause Mortality (2).
• Letter: Body-mass Index and All-cause Mortality (3).
• Reply: Body-mass Index and All-cause Mortality.

Basic

• Hypercapnia Accelerates Adipogenesis: A Novel Role of High Carbon Dioxide in Exacerbating Obesity.
• OX40 Promotes Obesity-Induced Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in Mice with Diet-Induced Obesity.
• The Effects of Obesity on the Efficacy of Immunotherapy.

Clinical

• RCT: The Three-trocar Sleeve Gastrectomy Can Be Safely Carried Out with a Modest Increase in Operative Time, Without Additional Early Surgical Complications and with a Greater Patient Aesthetic Satisfaction.
• Metformin Decreased the BMI Z Score and Improved Inflammatory and Cardiovascular-related Obesity Parameters in Prepubertal Children but Not in Pubertal Children.
• Frequency of Consuming Foods Predicts Changes in Cravings for Those Foods During Weight Loss: The POUNDS Lost Study.
• Pilot RCT of a Mindfulness-based Group Intervention in Adolescent Girls at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes with Depressive Symptoms.

Children and Adolescents

• Resting Heart Rate Percentiles and Associated Factors in Children and Adolescents.
• RCT: Physical Activity Intervention Reduces Adiposity and Improves Cognitive Function in Children.

Surgery

• RCT: Three-Trocar Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Standard Five-Trocar Technique.
• Influences of Obesity and Bariatric Surgery on the Clinical and Pharmacologic Profile of Rivaroxaban.

Drugs

• The Effect of Liraglutide on Dietary Lipid Induced Insulin Resistance in Humans.
• Antiobesity Effect of a Short-Length Peptide YY Analogue after Continuous Administration in Mice.

Food & Diet

• RCT: "High intake of fatty fish, but not of lean fish, improved postprandial glucose regulation and increased the n-3 PUFA content in the leucocyte membrane in healthy overweight adults."
• Effect of Oral Cinnamon Intervention on Metabolic Profile and Body Composition of Asian Indians with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Targeting Overconsumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Vs. Overall Poor Diet Quality for Cardiometabolic Diseases Risk Prevention: Place Your Bets!
• Participants with Pharmacologically Impaired Taste Function Seek Out More Intense, Higher Calorie Stimuli.
• Obesity: Sweetener Associated with Increased Adiposity in Young Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Study Design Limitations in Rodent and Nonhuman Primate Studies.
• Anti-aging Drugs Reduce Hypothalamic Inflammation in a Sex-specific Manner.
• Role of Sulfotransferases in Resveratrol Metabolism in Human Adipocytes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Exercise Training Modulates the Hepatic Renin-angiotensin System in Fructose-fed Rats.
• RCT: Effects of Elastic Resistance Exercise on Body Composition and Physical Capacity in Older Women with Sarcopenia Obesity.
• Effects of Acute Physical Exercise on Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Status in Young, Sedentary Obese Subjects.
• Association of Resistance Exercise, Independent of and Combined with Aerobic Exercise, with the Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Inequality and Gender Differences in BMI: The Role of Unhealthy Behaviours.
• The Role of Neighborhood Economic Context on Physical Activity Among Children: Evidence From the Geographic Research on Wellbeing (GROW) Study.
• Table Talk: How Mothers and Adolescents Across Socioeconomic Status Discuss Food.
• A Dynamic Estimation of Obesity Using NHANES Data: A Pseudo-Panel Approach.
• A Discourse Analysis of Denmark’s Public Health Policy Concerning Overweight Among Pregnant Women (pdf). 
• The Impact of Marriage and Parenthood on Male BMI: Static and Dynamic Effects.
• To Break the Weight Gain - a Qualitative Study on the Experience of School Nurses Working with Overweight Children in Elementary School.

Epidemiology

• Causal Associations of Adiposity and Body Fat Distribution with Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke Subtypes, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis.
• CT-based Diagnosis of Visceral Obesity and Hepatic Steatosis is Associated with Low Urine PH.
• Association Between Weekend Catch-up Sleep and Lower Body Mass: Population-Based Study.
• Estimating the Causal Influence of BMI on Risk of Parkinson Disease: A Mendelian Randomisation Study.
• Patients with and Without Diabetes Without Significant Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease Have the Same Risk of Myocardial Infarction in a Real-World Population Receiving Appropriate Prophylactic Treatment.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Consistent Weighing to Prevent Excessive Gestational Weight Gain.
• Frequency of Consuming Foods Predicts Changes in Cravings During Weight Loss.
• Differences in Brain Reward Responses to Food Stimuli Among Twins Discordant for BMI.
• Obesity Related Comorbidities Associated with Lower Attrition Rate in Pediatric Weight Management Program (pdf).

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Disparities in Health Service Utilization Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Adjusting for Multiple Chronic Conditions.
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the U.S. Breastfeeding and Implications for Maternal and Child Health Outcomes.
• Assessing the Active Living Environment in Three Rural Towns with a High Proportion of Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders (pdf).
• Black-white Metropolitan Segregation and Self-rated Health: Investigating the Role of Neighborhood Poverty.
• Reducing US Cardiovascular Disease Burden and Disparities Through National and Targeted Dietary Policies: A Modelling Study.

Stigma

• A Systematic Review of Characteristics and Psychometric Properties of Self-Report Questionnaires Evaluating Weight Bias.
• Parents Underestimate Their Children's Weight: Implications for Obesity Prevention.
• Measuring Perceived Mistreatment: Potential Problems in Asking About “Discrimination”.

Policy Related

• Uses of Nutrient Profiling to Address Public Health Needs: From Regulation to Reformulation.
• The Rights/Development Nexus: Sen, Olson and the Obesity Rights Movement.
• Food Insecurity Measurement Among Older Adults: Implications for Policy and Food Security Governance.
• Reducing US Cardiovascular Disease Burden and Disparities Through National and Targeted Dietary Policies: A Modelling Study.
• Beyond BMI: Are Weight-loss Programs the Best Way to Improve the Health of African American Women?

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Exposure to Western Diet Affects Adult Body Composition and Voluntary Wheel Running in a Genotype-specific Manner in Mice.
• Risk of Major Congenital Malformations in Relation to Maternal Overweight and Obesity Severity.
• Long Noncoding RNAs Could Act as Vectors for Paternal Heredity of High Fat Diet-induced Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Non-random Species Loss in a Forest Herbaceous Layer Following Nitrogen Addition.
• Getting Fat or Getting Help? How Female Mammals Cope with Energetic Constraints on Reproduction.
• Human Bipedalism and Body-mass Index.
• High Peripheral Temperatures in King Penguins While Resting at Sea: Thermoregulation Versus Fat Deposition.
• Body Mass Modulates Huddling Dynamics and Body Temperature Profiles in Rabbit Pups.

Methods

• Dietary Assessment Methods in Epidemiological Research: Current State of the Art and Future Prospects.
• Composite Marginal Quantile Regression Analysis for Longitudinal Adolescent BMI Data.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Optimal Solutions for the Evolution of a Social Obesity Epidemic Model.
• Diagnosing Obesity By Mathematically Estimating Abdominal Fat.
• BMI Estimation By Using an Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System.

Commentary

• WNY Researcher Shakes Up Nutrition World with New Book on Salt.
• Audio: Science Vs: Artificial Sweeteners – Not So Sweet?
• Drink Your Whole Milk, Eat Your Butter … or Don't: The Great Fat Debate.
• Renaming (and Rethinking) Obesity.
• Vegetarian Hype in Pursuit of a Noble Purpose.
• Is There a Role for Metformin in the Treatment of Childhood Obesity?

General

• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Funder’s Perspective.
• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: The Problem with Remedies: The Need to Study Unintended Consequences.
• How Bad Science Can Lead to Bad Science Journalism — and Bad Policy.
• Wide-Open: Accelerating Public Data Release By Automating Detection of Overdue Datasets.
• Audio: Science Comics (Humor).
• Agricultural Biotechnology Helps Growers Stem Environmental Damage.
• A Maverick Professor's Remarkable Story.
• Dominance Status Alters Restraint-induced Neural Activity in Brain Regions Controlling Stress Vulnerability.
• Low Rate of Somatic Mutations in a Long-Lived Oak Tree.

Announcements

• "IU School of Public Health-Bloomington names new dean: David B. Allison." [But Obesity & Energetics Offerings will continue!].
• The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Science Breakthroughs 2030: A Strategy for Food and Agricultural Research Seeks Input From Scientists of All Disciplinary Backgrounds to Understand Where Opportunities are Emerging.
• Attend the 12th Annual Cleveland Clinic Obesity Summit.
• Q&A with TOS Executive Director- Anthony G. Comuzzie, PhD, FTOS.
• 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.