07/05/19
Featured
- A Call to Action to Inform Patient-centred Approaches to Obesity Management: Development of a Disease-illness Model.
- Transgenerational Obesity and Healthy Ageing in Drosophila.
- Physical Activity is Associated with Improved Lipid and Weight-Loss Outcomes After Metabolic Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents with Severe Obesity.
Headline vs Study
- Headline: Yo-Yo Dieting Can Make You Weaker - Here’s How Much Weight Change Can Be a Problem.
- Study: Weight Cycling is Associated with [not Necessarily the Cause of] Lower Muscle Mass and Strength and a Greater Likelihood of Developing Sarcopenic Obesity.
Contrary or Null Findings
- Exploring the Myth of the Chubby Gamer: A Meta-analysis of Studies on Sedentary Video Gaming and Body Mass.
- "Consuming above a commonly recommended intake of 0.5 servings of total red meat per day, or about three 3 oz. servings per week, does not negatively influence markers of glycemic control or inflammation in groups of adults without diagnosed cardiometabolic disease."
- Metabolic Adaptation is Not Observed After 8 Weeks of Overfeeding but Energy Expenditure Variability is Associated with Weight Recovery.
- "A U.K. study that measured diet and cognitive decline over an almost 25-year period did not show an association between a healthier diet in midlife and a lower risk for dementia later in life."
- RCT: Tart Cherry Juice: No Effect on Muscle Function Loss or Muscle Soreness in Professional Soccer Players After a Match.
- RCT: No Significant Effect of Dietary Self-monitoring Through a Digital Photography App vs Calorie Tracking on Weight Loss.
- RCT: No Additional Long‐term Effect of Group Versus Individual Family Intervention in the Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
- RCT: No Significant Effect of a Family Physical Activity Planning Program on BMI.
Basic
- The Host Response to Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Scaffolds Protects Mice From Diet Induced Obesity and Glucose Intolerance.
- The Dualistic Effect of COX-2-Mediated Signaling in Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
- Adipose Tissue-Derived Autotaxin Causes Cardiomyopathy in Obese Mice.
- Electroacupuncture Reduces Body Weight By Regulating Fat Browning-Related Proteins of Adipose Tissue in HFD-Induced Obese Mice.
- NTCP Deficiency in Mice Protects Against Obesity and Hepatosteatosis.
- Obesity After Neonatal Overfeeding is Independent of Hypothalamic Microgliosisuscle Mass and Strength in a Population of Males and Females with Obesity.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- Fighting Obesity with Coffee and Headlines.
- A Source of Systematic Bias in Self-reported Physical Activity: The Cutpoint Bias Hypothesis.
- Letter: Ultra-Processed Food and Obesity: The Pitfalls of Extrapolation From Short Studies.
- Reply: Challenges Interpreting Inpatient and Outpatient Human Nutrition Studies.
- Reply to Reply.
- Identifying and Clarifying Arguments in a Recent Debate Regarding Measures Based on Memory-based Methods.
Clinical
- Public Notification: Detoxi Slim Contains Hidden Drug Ingredient.
- Safety and Efficiency of Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Obese Patients: A Case-Matched Comparative Analysis.
- Obesity and Health Care Experiences Among Women and Men Veterans.
- Association Between Regional Body Fat and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Postmenopausal Women with Normal BMI.
Children and Adolescents
- Adolescent Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption: An Extended Health Action Process Approach.
- A Look Back at Healthy Lifestyle Behavioral Patterns Among School-Age Children: Are We Neglecting Healthy Weight for Overweight Kids?
Surgery
- Meta-analysis: Banded Versus Nonbanded Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
- Changes in Gut Microbiome After Bariatric Surgery Versus Medical Weight Loss.
- Changes in Body Composition, Comorbidities, and Nutritional Status Associated with Lower Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery in Older Subjects.
- Overvaluation of Weight or Shape and Loss‐of‐Control Eating Following Bariatric Surgery.
Drugs
- Meta-analysis: Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Pharmacotherapies for the Treatment of Obesity Among Adults.
- Certain Medtronic MiniMed Insulin Pumps Have Potential Cybersecurity Risks: FDA Safety Communication.
Food & Diet
- Meta-analysis: Coffee Intake and Obesity.
- RCT: Protein Supplementation Elicits Greater Gains in Maximal Oxygen Uptake Capacity and Stimulates Lean Mass Accretion During Prolonged Endurance Training.
- Habitual Breakfast Patterns do Not Influence Appetite and Satiety Responses in Normal Vs. High-Protein Breakfasts in Overweight Adolescent Girls.
- The Case for Eating Jellyfish.
- Feeding the World with Data: Visions of Data-Driven Farming.
- Commentary: What Really Matters: Ultra-Processed or Calorie-Dense?
Caloric Restriction
- PGC-1a integrates a metabolism and growth network linked to caloric restriction.
- Sulfate assimilation regulates hydrogen sulfide production independent of lifespan and reactive oxygen species under methionine restriction condition in yeast.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Meta-analysis: Does Beef Protein Supplementation Improve Body Composition and Exercise Performance?
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness Modulates the Proportions of Monocytes and T Helper Subsets in Lean and Obese Men.
- Cannabis Use in Active Athletes: Behaviors Related to Subjective Effects.
- Types of Sedentary Behavior and Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Blacks: The Jackson Heart Study.
Epidemiology
- Associations Between Boys’ Early Childhood Exposure to Family and Neighborhood Poverty and BMI in Early Adolescence.
- Weight Cycling as a Risk Factor for Low Muscle Mass and Strength in a Population of Males and Females with Obesity.
- The Duration of the Interpregnancy Interval in Multiparous Women and Maternal Weight Gain Between Pregnancies: Findings From a UK Population-based Cohort.
- The Impact of Obesity and Insulin Resistance on Thyroid Cancer: A Systematic Review.
- An International Survey of Obesity and Underweight in Youth and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- RCT: Cognitive Effects of Adding Caloric Restriction to Aerobic Exercise Training in Older Adults with Obesity.
- Giving Pork the Chop: Response Inhibition Training to Reduce Meat Intake.
Economics & Sociology
- The indelible weight of place: Childhood neighborhood disadvantage, timing of exposure, and obesity across adulthood.
- Causation or Assortative Mating - The Social Dynamics in Couples With Both Partners Suffering from the Same Lifestyle Disease : A Case Series Study From a German Cohort Study of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in a Disease Management Programme.
Equity and Disparities
- Plus Size and Obese Workers: Anthropometry Estimates to Promote Inclusive Design.
- A Health Equity Approach to Obesity Efforts: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief.
- Socio-Economic, Psychosocial, Lifestyle and Community Factors do Not Explain Ethnic Inequalities in Obesity in Disadvantaged Israeli Mothers.
Stigma
- Regarding Obesity as a Disease is Associated with Lower Weight Bias Among Physicians.
- Commentary: Five Things to Know About Bullying and Weight Bias.
Policy Related
- How do Age and Major Risk Factors for Mortality Interact Over the Life-course? Implications for Health Disparities Research and Public Health Policy.
- Eat, Play, Live: RCT Within a Natural Experiment Examining the Role of Nutrition Policy and Capacity Building in Improving Food Environments in Recreation and Sport Facilities.
- Protocol of a Research Project ‘Projections of the Burden of Disease and Disability in Finland – Health Policy Prospects’ Using Cross-sectional Health Surveys and Register-based Follow-up. (pdf)
- Does the Ban on Trans-fats Improve Public Health? In Search of the Optimal Policy Response.
- ‘Market Failure’ Arguments are a Poor Guide to Policy.
Intergenerational Effects
- Meta-analysis: The Association Between Maternal BMI and Child Obesity.
- Fathers’ Obesity Might Impact Offspring’s Health.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- In Search of an Undersea Kelp Forest's Missing Nitrogen.
- De Novo Design of Symmetric Ferredoxins that Shuttle Electrons in Vivo.
- Measuring Phenotypic Flexibility By Transcriptome Time-course Analyses During Challenge Tests Before and After Energy Restriction.
- Farm Animals for Studying Muscle Development and Metabolism: Dual Purposes for Animal Production and Human Health.
Methods
- Obesity Perception Survey Among Youth in Turkey: Instrument Development and Test-retest Reliability (pdf).
- Validation of NoSAS (Neck, Obesity, Snoring, Age, Sex) Score as a Screening Tool for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Analysis in a Sleep Clinic.
Mathematical and Quantitative
- Identifying Pre-disease Signals Before Metabolic Syndrome in Mice By Dynamical Network Biomarkers.
- Real-Time Model Predictive Control of Human Bodyweight Based on Energy Intake.
Commentary
- Obesity: A Disease and a Debate for Pets, Too.
- Nutrition Experts Reveal the Biggest Misconception We All Have About Sugar.
- Clinician Roundtable: Can Dietary Interventions Prevent Asthma, Atopy in Children?
- Metabolically Healthy Obesity: What's in a Name?
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans: An Introduction.
- Does Our Poor Remembrance of Things Past Doom Much Nutrition Research?
- Obesity Takes the Brakes Off Neurological Mechanism that Stops Overeating.
- How Much Caffeine is Too Much?
- The Urgent Need for Fresh Thinking on Childhood Obesity.
- Healthy Diets and Sustainable Food Systems.
- Interpreting Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Young Clinical Populations—Folklore and Fallacy.
General
- RCT: Effectiveness of Polypill for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases.
- Puppy Love: Choosing the Perfect Pooch Poses Challenges Similar to Dating.
- Stabilizing Food Production Through Crop Diversity.
- "Heartspeakers" -- The Discovery Files.
- Ordered Quantile Normalization: A Semiparametric Transformation Built for the Cross-validation Era.
- Taste of Life: Science Outreach Made Delicious.
- Impact of Diabetes on the Symptoms of Breast Cancer Survivors.
- The Unique Neurology of the Sports Fan’s Brain.
- A General Framework for Comparing Predictions and Marginal Effects Across Models.
- Isaac Asimov Asks, “How do People Get New Ideas?”: A 1959 Essay By Isaac Asimov on Creativity.
- Fear-Based Medical Misinformation and Disease Prevention: From Vaccines to Statins.
- How Americans Decided Dogs Can’t Eat Grains.
- Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’.
Announcements
- Reproducibility and Replicability in Science: Next Steps - Sept 24.
- 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).