Featured

• Genetic Overlap Between Executive Functions and BMI in Childhood.
• RCT: Video Teaching Leads to Improved Attitudes Towards Obesity.
• RCT: "Disclosures may actually drive increased brand awareness and amplify intake effects in the marketed product specifically."
• Instrumental Variable Approach to Estimating the Scalar‐on‐function Regression Model with Measurement Error with Application to Energy Expenditure Assessment in Childhood Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Fighting Obesity with a Single Cup of Coffee.
• Headline: Coffee to Fight Against Obesity and Diabetes.
• Study: Caffeine Exposure Induces Browning Features in Adipose Tissue in Vitro and Acute Thermogenic Changes in Humans. No Diabetes. No Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Abstract: "Contrary to study hypotheses, frequent family meals were associated with more, rather than less, overweight/obesity among youth with ADHD (P < .001)."
• RCT: No Effect of Meal Intake on Physiological or Perceptual Responses to Self-selected High Intensity Interval Exercise.
• Contrary to Our Hypotheses, During Negative Prediction Error (mismatched Cue-taste) Versus Matched Palatable Cue-taste, Women Showed Increased BOLD Response in the Central Operculum …and Postcentral Gyrus ….
• Contrary to the Prediction that Brain Size Evolves Through Energetic Trade-offs with Life-history, We Found that Adults, but Not Juveniles, of Fast-living Species Had Larger Relative Brain Sizes.
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, women living in households with higher production diversity did not have more diverse diets when controlling for other covariates of dietary diversity..."
• Abstract: Animal and Plant Protein Usual Intakes are Not Associated with Mortality in US Adults.
• Abstract: Bread Consumption is Not Associated with Weight-, Diabetes- and CVD-Risk Related Health Outcomes in US Adults: Results From NHANES 2011–2014.
• RCT: Docosahexaenoic and Arachidonic Acid Supplementation of Toddlers Born Preterm Does Not Affect Short-Term Growth or Adiposity.
• "This review found little evidence that interventions aimed solely at increasing water consumption reduce sugar-sweetened beverage intake."
• Reductions in Body Weight and Insulin Resistance are Not Associated with Changes in Grey Matter Volume or Cortical Thickness During the PREVIEW Study.

Basic

• Carbohydrate Sensing Through the Transcription Factor ChREBP.
• Atg7-Knockdown Reduces Chemerin Secretion in Murine Adipocytes.
• Eicosapentaenoic Acid Increases Browning Markers in Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue and Primary Adipocytes From Wild Type and UCP-1 Deficient Mice.
• Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) Promotes Visceral Obesity Due to Defective Adipose Tissue Browning.
• Dysferlin Deficiency Alters Lipid Metabolism and Remodels the Skeletal Muscle Lipidome in Mice.
• Amygdala NPY Circuits Promote the Development of Accelerated Obesity Under Chronic Stress Conditions.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Ultra-Processed Food and Obesity: The Pitfalls of Extrapolation From Short Studies.
• Comment on “a Comparative Effectiveness Study of Degludec and Insulin Glargine 300 U/mL in Insulin‐naïve Patients with Type 2 Diabetes”.
• Freshly Prepared Meals and Not Ultra-Processed Foods.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of Weighted Hula-Hooping Compared to Walking on Abdominal Fat, Trunk Muscularity, and Metabolic Parameters in Overweight Subjects.
• Effects of Exercise in Addition to a Family-Based Lifestyle Intervention Program on Hepatic Fat in Children with Overweight.
• Regression to Normal Glucose Regulation in American Indians and Alaska Natives of a Diabetes Prevention Program.
• Health Coaching to Encourage Obese Adults to Enroll in Commercially-available Weight Management Programs.

Children and Adolescents

• Impact of the B’more Healthy Communities for Kids Intervention on Diet and Food-Related Behaviors Among Low-Income Urban African American Youth and Their Adult Caregivers.
• Dietary Energy–Density and Adiposity Markers Among a Cohort of Multi-ethnic Children.
• Young Adult Cancer: Influence of the Obesity Pandemic.
• Do Children Carry the Weight of Divorce?
• Systematic Review: Snack Food and Beverage Consumption and Young Child Nutrition in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries.

Surgery

• Influence of Energy Balance on the Rate of Weight Loss Throughout One Year of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: A Doubly Labeled Water Study.
• Meta-analysis: Endoscopic Gastric Plication for Morbid Obesity.
• Pros and Cons of Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Drugs

• RCT: Combined GLP-1, Oxyntomodulin, and Peptide YY Improves Body Weight and Glycemia in Obesity and Prediabetes/Type 2 Diabetes.
• Cannabidiol Inhibits Sucrose Self‐administration By CB1 and CB2 Receptor Mechanisms in Rodents.
• RCT: Effect of the Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonist Eplerenone on Liver Fat and Metabolism in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Statin Users Have an Elevated Risk of Dysglycemia and New‐onset‐diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: The Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Clinical Symptom, Weight Loss, Glycemic Control, Lipid and Hormonal Profiles, Biomarkers of Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Abstract: RCT: Effects of Protein, Fat and Both Protein and Fat on Glycemic Response of a Meal.
• Sugar in Mind: Untangling a Sweet and Sour Relationship Beyond Type 2 Diabetes.
• Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction Improves Metabolic Syndrome Independent of Weight Loss.
• A Proposed Nutrient Density Score that Includes Food Groups and Nutrients to Better Align with Dietary Guidance.
• Dietary Protein and Changes in Biomarkers of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: Effects of Caloric Restriction on Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Fatigue, and Disability Responses to Aerobic Exercise in Older Adults with Obesity.
• Refeeding Abolishes Beneficial Effects of Severe Calorie Restriction From Birth on Adipose Tissue and Glucose Homeostasis of Adult Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-omics Analysis of Elite Athletes Identifies a Performance-enhancing Microbe that Functions Via Lactate Metabolism.
• How do Novice and Improver Walkers Move in Their Home Environments? An Open-sourced Infant’s Gait Video Analysis.
• RCT: Effects of Functional and Traditional Training in Body Composition and Muscle Strength Components in Older Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Effects of Contextual Economic Factors on Childhood Obesity.
• Impact of Overweight or Obesity Trajectory on Health Expenditure in Korea.

Epidemiology

• Two-Year Weight Loss but Not BMI Predicts Mortality and Disability in an Older Japanese Community-Dwelling Population.
• Body Weight Variation Patterns as Predictors of Cognitive Decline Over a 5 Year Follow-Up Among Community-Dwelling Elderly.
• Birthweight, Lifetime Obesity and Physical Functioning in Mid-adulthood: A Nationwide Birth Cohort Study.
• Obesity‐related Cancers are Increasing in Young Adults.
• Efficacy of Population‐wide Diabetes and Obesity Prevention Programs: An Overview of Systematic Reviews on Proximal, Intermediate, and Distal Outcomes and a Meta‐analysis of Impact on BMI.
• Association Between Smoking Hookahs (Shishas) and Higher Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review of Population-Based Studies.
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis of Hemoglobin A1c as a Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease.
• Changes in Obesity Among US Children Aged 2 Through 4 Years Enrolled in WIC During 2010-2016.
• Associations Between Measures of Sarcopenic Obesity and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality: A Cohort Study and Mendelian Randomization Analysis Using the UK Biobank.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Linking Risk Attitudes, Time Preferences, and BMI in Catalonia.
• Promoting Positive Body Image and Intuitive Eating in Women with Overweight and Obesity Via an Online Intervention.
• Changing Mindset Affects Brain Responses and Portion Size Selection in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• How a Combination of Two Contradicting Concepts is Represented: The Representation of Premium Instant Noodles and Premium Yogurts By Different Age Groups.
• Association of Anxiety with High-Cost Health Care Use Among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Obesity Remodels Activity and Transcriptional State of a Lateral Hypothalamic Brake on Feeding.

Equity and Disparities

• Abstract: RCT: The Effects of Experimentally Manipulated Social Status and Food Insecurity on Acute Eating Behavior and Risk for Obesity Among Adolescents.
• Obesity and gender-biased access to deceased donor kidney transplantation.

Ethics

• Obesity, Ethics, and Healthcare a Patient-centered Approach.
• Revisions of Gastric Bypass—A Moral Obligation.
• Revisions of Gastric Bypass—A Moral Obligation—Reply.

Stigma

• Abstract: Examining Correlates of Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias Among Pre-healthcare Undergraduate Students.
• Validation of the Two-Factor Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS-2F).

Policy Related

• Menu Descriptions and Nutrient Content of Food Items in U.S. Restaurants.
• Cost-Effectiveness of the U.S. Federal Restaurant Menu Calorie Labeling Law for Improving Diet and Health: A Microsimulation Modeling Study.
• Current Status and Response to the Global Obesity Pandemic: Proceedings of a Workshop.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prenatal Exposure to Acetaminophen and Overweight in Childhood.
• Sperm epimutation biomarkers of obesity and pathologies following DDT induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• A Hypothesis Linking the Energy Demand of the Brain to Obesity Risk.
• Effects of Reproduction and Environmental Factors on Body Temperature and Activity Patterns of Wolverines.
• Gene Expression Changes in Response to Field-to-lab Transition in the Argentine Ant, Linepithema Humile.

Methods

• Abstract: Testing the Validity of a Natural Spoken Language Application for the Self-Monitoring of Daily Dietary Intake.
• Assessing Activity Energy Expenditure From Body-worn Sensors During Free-living.
• The Validity of Resting Energy Expenditure Predictive Equations in Adults with Central Obesity: A Sub-sample of an RaNCD Cohort Study.

Commentary

• Twin Studies and the "Heritage of Corpulence" Part 1: Separating a shared environment from shared genes.
• Twin Studies: Determining the "Heritage of Corpulence" Part 2: The contributions of heredity and environment on obesity.
• Glaring Disparities in Obesity Effects, Care, and Policy.
• The Biggest Health Problem: Obesity.
• For Food to Be (Thy) Medicine: Of Will, and Way.
• Exercising Power Over People with Obesity.
• Obesity Leads to Higher Rates of Long-term Opioid Use for Chronic Pain.
• Vacationing Can Lead to ‘creeping Obesity’.
• When You're Told You're Too Fat to Get Pregnant.
• Fixing Hungry Microglia May Help Us Treat Obesity-related Cognitive Decline.
• The Case for Diet Soda: It Gets a Bad Rap, but the Research Tells a Different Story.
• A Lifetime of Medical Neglect.
• Poetry: Fructose-Drunk.

General

• New Evidence Supports the Presence of Microbes in the Placenta.
• Experiment with ‘lost’ Wallets Reveals that People are Surprisingly Honest.
• This Weird Animal Eats Rocks for Breakfast.
• Associations of Mental Health and Family Background with Opioid Analgesic Therapy.
• Altered Ocular Parameters From Circadian Clock Gene Disruptions.
• Repressed Wnt Signaling Accelerates the Aging Process in Mouse Eyes.
• Videos: The New Statistics: Estimation and Research Integrity.
• Do Tiny Fish Rule the Reefs?
• Ruminants: Evolutionary Past and Future Impact.
• Some Cancers are Rising in Millennials. Obesity Might Be Why.
• One Thing to Change: Anecdotes Aren’t Data.
• Detecting Bias with Generative Counterfactual Face Attribute Augmentation.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Cruel Impact of Weight Stigma.
• Podcast: Fasting as a potent antidote to obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and the many symptoms of metabolic illness.

Announcements

• Meeting Abstracts: Nutrition 2019 Abstracts Available in Current Developments in Nutrition.
• Meeting Webcast: The Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Healthy People 2030.
• First Protocols Posted for 2020 Advisory Committee Evidence Reviews.
• 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).