Featured

• Do Dynamic Fat and Fat-free Mass Changes Follow Theoretical Driven Rules in Athletes?
• Adiposity-Based Chronic Disease as a New Diagnostic Term: The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American College of Endocrinology Position Statement.
• Health Policies for Obesity: How to Get There!

Headline vs Study

• Headline: If You Want to Avoid Heart Disease, Don’t Even Think of Going Gluten-Free.
• Study: Quintile-defined Categories of Self-reported Gluten Consumption in Multivariable Adjusted Models Not Associated with Coronary Heart Disease Incidence in Adults Without Celiac Disease Unless Controlling for Refined Grain Intake.
• Commentary: Want a Verdict on Gluten-free Diets? You Won’t Find It in a Study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to expectation, the introduction of a supermarket did not result in healthy food availability more than is likely to have happened naturally."
• "Family meal frequency was not associated with odds of obesity."
• RCT: No Effects of Macro- and Micro- Nutrients on Exercise Induced Hepcidin Response in Highly-Trained Endurance Athletes.
• Explorative Placebo-Controlled Double-Blind Intervention Study with Low Doses of Inhaled Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol Reveals No Effect on Sweet Taste Intensity Perception and Liking in Humans.
• Chronic Fructose Substitution for Glucose or Sucrose in Food or Beverages Has Little Effect on Fasting Blood Glucose, Insulin, or Triglycerides: A Systematic Review & Meta-analysis.
• Meta-Analysis: "Current evidence does not allow us to conclude that fructose-containing sugars independent of food form are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes."
• "there was no significant difference in birth weight between infants born to Muslim mothers who were conceived during Ramadan (n=479) and those who were not (n=4677)."
• RCT: "Red wine polyphenols do not improve obesity associated insulin-resistance."
• "the empirical results indicate that changes in dietary knowledge among adults has no significant influence [association] on adult overweight and obesity..."
• "selection for high growth had no significant effect on survival in the present population of M. rosenbergii."
• "A CHO [carbohydrate] mouth rinse does not improve upper-body muscular strength or endurance."

Basic

• Catalase Overexpression Modulates Metabolic Parameters in a New "Stress-Less" Leptin-Deficient Mouse Model.
• Synthesis of Cytochrome C Oxidase 1 (SCO1) Inhibits Insulin Sensitivity By Decreasing Copper Levels in Adipocytes.
• Chronic High Fat Feeding Restricts Islet MRNA Translation Initiation Independently of ER Stress Via DNA Damage and P53 Activation.
• CD4+ T Cells Memorize Obesity and Promote Weight Regain.
• Social Jet-lag Potentiates Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome When Combined with Cafeteria Diet in Rats.
• Effects of Mild Calorie Restriction on Lipid Metabolism and Inflammation in Liver and Adipose Tissue.
• An Increased Dietary Supply of Medium-Chain Fatty Acids During Early Weaning in Rodents Prevents Excessive Fat Accumulation in Adulthood.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• 12 Years After Researcher Found Guilty of Misconduct, Journal Retracts Paper.
• Data Sharing Statements for Clinical Trials.

Clinical

• A Single Supplement Intervention with 3 G Cinnamon for 16 Weeks Resulted in Significant Improvements in All Components of Metabolic Syndrome in a Sample of Asian Indians in North India.
• RCT: A Combined Lifestyle Intervention Targeting Diet and Physical Activity Mediated Fasting Insulin and Body Weight.
• RCT: Effect of an Internet-Based Program on Weight Loss for Low-Income Postpartum Women.
• Recovery of Insulin Sensitivity and Optimal Body Composition After Rapid Weight Loss in Obese Dogs Fed a High-protein Medium-carbohydrate Diet.
• RCT: L-arginine Supplementation and Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Diseases in Healthy Men.
• Oral Insulin May Delay Type 1 Diabetes Onset in 'Responders'.

Children and Adolescents

• The Longitudinal Association Between Early Childhood Obesity and Fathers' Involvement in Caregiving and Decision-making.
• Intake of Energy and Protein is Associated with Overweight Risk at Age 5.5 Years.
• Cycling to School and Body Composition, Physical Fitness, and Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Gut Microbiome and Serum Metabolome Alterations in Obesity and After Weight-loss Intervention.
• Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch Leads to Better Postprandial Glucose Level and Beta Cell Function than Sleeve Gastrectomy in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Very Early After Surgery.
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for the Management of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty - a New Tool to Manage Obesity.

Drugs

• More Steady Progress on Obesity Drugs.
• Pharmacokinetic Drug Evaluation of Extended Release Lorcaserin for the Treatment of Obesity.
• GLP-1 Analogue Semaglutide Appears Promising in Phase 2 Study.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Effect of a Vegetarian vs Conventional Hypocaloric Diabetic Diet on Thigh Adipose Tissue Distribution in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association.
• How Coconut Oil Got a Reputation for Being Healthy in the First Place.
• Dietary Protein Intake and Early Menopause in the Nurses’ Health Study II.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Protects Livers From Ischemia/reperfusion Damage By Preventing Ca2+-induced Mitochondrial Permeability Transition.
• Calorie Restriction in Rodents: Caveats to Consider.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Differential in Maximal Aerobic Capacity By Sex in Collegiate Endurance Athletes Consuming a Marginally Low Carbohydrate Diet.
• RCT: Exercise's Effect on Mobility Disability in Older Adults with and Without Obesity.
• Exercise with Weight Loss Improves Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle Markers of Fatty Acid Metabolism in Postmenopausal Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Is There a ‘National Body’? How National Cultures Shape the ‘Fat’ Body and the Food Practices.
• Healthy and Unhealthy Food Prices Across Neighborhoods and Their Association with Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Proportion Black/Hispanic.
• Association Between Modifiable Risk Factors and Pharmaceutical Expenditures Among Adults with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in the United States: 2012–2013 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey.

Epidemiology

• Differences in Dietary Glycemic Load and Hormones in New York City Adults with No and Moderate/Severe Acne.
• Estimating How Extra Calories From Alcohol Consumption are Likely an Overlooked Contributor to Youth Obesity.
• "The findings reveal that having an anxious attachment to God is associated with a greater risk of being obese..."
• The Relation Between Birthweight, Childhood BMI, and Overweight and Obesity in Late Adolescence.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Associations Between Maternal-Infant Interaction and Infant Adiposity.
• Longitudinal Association Between Fathers' Involvement in Caregiving and Early Childhood Obesity.
• Implicit Weight Bias in Children Age 9 to 11 Years.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination is Associated with High-Risk Health Behaviors.

Equity and Disparities

• Skin Deep: Enhanced Variable May Help Explain Racial Disparities in Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes.
• The Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI): Developing Workforce Capacity for Health Disparities Research. (pdf)
• Commentary: Healthy Eating and Activity Across the Lifespan (HEAL): A Call to Action to Integrate Research, Clinical Practice, Policy, and Community Resources to Address Weight-related Health Disparities.

• Prevalence and Ethnic Pattern of Diabetes and Prediabetes in China in 2013.

Stigma

• Bullying Involvement During Adolescence is Associated with Weight Loss Preoccupation.
• The Impact of Weight Misperception on Health-related Quality of Life in Korean Adults (KNHANES 2007–2014).

Policy Related

• Urban-rural Disparities in Child Nutrition-related Health Outcomes in China: The Role of Hukou Policy.
• Underestimating the Size of the Problem? UK Anaesthesia for Patients with Obesity.
• Putting the US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation for Childhood Obesity Screening in Context.
• Delaying, Not Dropping, the Nutrition Facts Label Update.
• Targeted Calorie Message Promotes Healthy Beverage Consumption Better than Charity Incentive.
• The $5.7 Billion 'Pink Slime' Lawsuit Against ABC Was Settled, Leaving the Beef Company Feeling 'vindicated.'.
• Ban on Junk Food Sales in Canadian Schools Having Positive Effect.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal BMI and Glycemia Impact the Fetal Metabolome.
• The Fetal Cardiac Response to Maternal Nutrient Restriction is Sexually Dimorphic in Baboons.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Feeding on Ripening and Over-ripening Fruit: Interactions Between Sugar, Ethanol and Polyphenol Contents in a Tropical Butterfly.
• Energetics-informed Behavioral States Reveal the Drive to Kill in African Leopards.

Methods

• Spectral Analysis Assisted Photoacoustic Imaging for Lipid Composition Differentiation.
• Development of a Bioenergetic Model for Estimating Energy Requirements and Prey Biomass Consumption of the Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops Truncatus.
• Heart Rate Measurements to Study Associations Among Energy Expenditure, Energy Intake, and Adiposity in Lean and Obese Horses.
• A New Paradigm in Sweat Based Wearable Diagnostics Biosensors Using Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs).

Commentary

• Saturated Fat: Weighed, Measured, and Found Wanting.
• ConscienHealth: "David Allison Appointed to Lead the IU School of Public Health."
• CardioBrief: My Beef with AHA's Saturated Fat Recommendations - Don't Forget the Unintended Consequences of Dietary Advice.
• Op-Ed: Vegetable Oils, (Francis) Bacon, Bing Crosby, and the AHA —Gary Taubes Responds to the AHA Presidential Advisory on Dietary Fats.
• Can a Diet that Mimics Fasting Turn Back the Clock?

General

• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Minimizing Inadvertent Distortion of Science By Scientists and Media.
• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Systems Matter: Research Environments and Institutional Integrity.
• Insufficient Antibody Validation Challenges Oestrogen Receptor Beta Research.
• Scientist Screwed Up? Send 'Em to Researcher Rehab.
• Bionic Fertilizer.
• Health, Truth, and the Bell Curve.
• Decomposing Leaves are Surprising Source of Greenhouse Gases.
• Magellanic Penguin Telomeres do Not Shorten with Age with Increased Reproductive Effort, Investment, and Basal Corticosterone.
• The Gambler's Fallacy in Research - Down the "statistical garden path" for those participating in clinical studies.
• Type 2 Immunity is Protective in Metabolic Disease but Exacerbates NAFLD Collaboratively with TGF-ß.
• Provider Competencies for the Prevention and Management of Obesity. (pdf)
• Prevalence of Sexual Dimorphism in Mammalian Phenotypic Traits.

Announcements

• Call for Nominations - AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science.
• A Conference Titled, “The Pace of Life and Feeding: Health Implications” Will Be Held at Purdue University on Oct 2-4, 2017 to Explore the Historic, Current and Future Consequences of Changing Lifestyles on Diet Quality and Health.
• 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.