Featured

• Effects of Sex, Strain, and Energy Intake on Hallmarks of Aging in Mice. (pdf)
• Thermoregulation in Boys and Men Exercising at the Same Heat Production Per Unit Body Mass.
• The Gut Microbiome of the Sea Urchin, Lytechinus Variegatus From Their Natural Habitat Demonstrates Selective Attributes of Microbial Taxa and Predictive Metabolic Profiles.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Dig Into that Bowl of Pasta: Italian Scientists Say It Isn't Fattening.
• Study: "As a traditional component of MeD, pasta consumption was negatively associated with BMI, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio and with a lower prevalence of overweight and obesity."

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Evidence for Metabolic Adaptation in Thermic Effect of Food By Dietary Protein.
• Two Meals with Different Carbohydrate, Fat and Protein Contents Render Equivalent Postprandial Plasma Levels of Calprotectin, Cortisol, Triglycerides and Zonulin.
• Glycemic Increase Induced By Intravenous Glucose Infusion Fails to Affect Hunger, Appetite, or Satiety Following Breakfast in Healthy Men.
• Eight RCTs “revealed …that low-carbohydrate diets have no greater effect on psychosocial outcomes when compared to diets of different macronutrient composition at either short- or long-term follow-up (one-year)."
• "We found no associations of human milk intake during the neonatal hospitalization with neurodevelopment at 18 mo corrected age."
• "This study did not support the hypothesis that visceral obesity might promote Microvascular Invasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma."
• "Being overweight or obese is not associated with increased mortality among Japanese patients with Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation."
• "The present results are incompatible with the prominent dopaminergic hypofunction hypothesis that proposes that a reduction in DRD2/3 availability is associated with increased BMI..."
• "There was no difference in completion of IP chemotherapy or complications with respect to BMI..."
• RCT: "There were no significant differences in primary outcome [percent overweight] between home-based or office-based delivery or between continued home-based skills or contingency management for nonresponders to first-phase treatment."
• RCT: No Differential Effect of Beverages Sweetened with Fructose, High-fructose Corn Syrup, or Glucose on Systemic or Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Normal-weight to Obese Adults.

Basic

• The Secreted Enzyme PM20D1 Regulates Lipidated Amino Acid Uncouplers of Mitochondria.
• Effects of feed restriction on the upper temperature tolerance and heat shock response in juvenile green and white sturgeon.
• Feeding programs promoting daily feed intake stability in rabbit males reduce sperm abnormalities and improve fertility.
• Supplementing dietary sugar promotes endoplasmic reticulum stress-independent insulin resistance and fatty liver in goose.
• Luteolin reduces obesity-associated insulin resistance in mice by activating AMPKα1 signalling in adipose tissue macrophages.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Diabetes paper retracted.
• Letter: Concerns When Serum Retinol Concentration is the Primary Biological Indicator of Vitamin a Status in Intervention Studies.
• Reply To: Concerns When Serum Retinol Concentration is the Primary Biological Indicator of Vitamin a Status in Intervention Studies.
• Comment On: Utility of Screening Questionnaire, Obesity, Neck Circumference, and Sleep Polysomnography to Predict Sleep-disordered Breathing in Children and Adolescents.

Clinical

• Obesity and Diabetes: An Update.
• Peer Effects on Childhood Obesity From an Intervention Program.
• Investing in Obesity Treatment: Kaiser Permanente’s Approach to Chronic Disease Management.

Children and Adolescents

• School-based Obesity Prevention Programs in Adolescents: A Systematic Review of the Literature.
• Mobility Status as a Predictor of Obesity, Physical Activity, and Screen Time Use Among Children Aged 5-11 Years in the United States.
• Sex Differences in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Among Hispanic/Latino Youth.

Surgery

• Safety and Efficacy of 1020 Consecutive Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomies Performed as a Primary Treatment Modality for Morbid Obesity. A Single-center Experience From the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgical Accreditation Quality and Improvement Program.
• Improved Muscle Mitochondrial Capacity Following Gastric Bypass Surgery in Obese Subjects.

Drugs

• Weight Gain and Metabolic Consequences of Risperidone in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Beneficial Effects of Kinin B1 Receptor Antagonism on Plasma Fatty Acid Alterations and Obesity in Zucker Diabetic Fatty Rats.

Food & Diet

• Dietary Fried Fish Intake Increases Risk of CVD: The REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study.
• RCT: The Effects of the Combination of Egg and Fiber on Appetite, Glycemic Response and Food Intake in Normal Weight Adult.
• The Fast-Casual Conundrum: Fast-Casual Restaurant Entrées are Higher in Calories than Fast Food.
• Primary Prevention of Sexual Dysfunction with Mediterranean Diet in Type 2 Diabetes.

Caloric Restriction

• MTORC1 and SIRT1 Cooperate to Foster Expansion of Gut Adult Stem Cells During Calorie Restriction.
• Prolonged Swimming Performance Within the Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus Aculeatus) Adaptive Radiation and the Effect of Dietary Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Acute Exercise Increases Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 in Metabolic Organs and Circulation.
• The Role of Youth Sports in Promoting Children's Physical Activity and Preventing Pediatric Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Effects of Moderate and Vigorous Exercise on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Economics & Sociology

• Fashioning Fat: Inside Plus-Size Modeling (book review).
• Fashioning Fat Inside Plus-Size Modeling (book).
• Indigenous Obesity in the News: A Media Analysis of News Representation of Obesity in Australia’s Indigenous Population.
• What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Preventing Type 2 Diabetes—Addressing Socioeconomic Disadvantage.

Epidemiology

• Farm-to-Consumer Retail Outlet Use, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Obesity Status Among WIC Program Participants in Alabama.
• Associations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D with Markers of Inflammation, Insulin Resistance and Obesity in Black and White Community-dwelling Adults.
• Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Farm-to-Consumer Retail Outlet Use Among Participants of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in Alabama.
• Weighing Evidence From Mendelian Randomization—Early-Life Obesity as a Causal Factor in Multiple Sclerosis?
• RCT: Cardiovascular Events in a Physical Activity Intervention Compared with a Successful Aging Intervention.
• Differences in Obesity Rates Among Minority and White Women: The Latent Role of Maternal Stress.
• Modeling the Effect of Replacing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption with Water on Energy Intake, HBI Score, and Obesity Prevalence.
• Association of a Genetic Risk Score with BMI Across Different Birth Cohorts.
• Association of Specific Dietary Fats with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality.

Psychology

• Obesity in Female Students: Ethnicity and Self-regulation as Predicting Factors.
• The Quadratic Relationship Between BMI and Suicide Ideation: A Nonlinear Analysis of Indirect Effects.
• Whatever Gets Your Heart Pumping: The Impact of Implicitly Selected Reinforcer-focused Statements on Exercise Intensity.
• The Social and Emotional Lives of Overweight, Obese, and Severely Obese Children.
• Personality Traits and Body Weight: Evidence Using Sibling Comparisons.

Equity and Disparities

• The Obesity Penalty in the Labor Market Using Longitudinal Canadian Data.
• Health-Specific Information and Communication Technology Use and Its Relationship to Obesity in High-Poverty, Urban Communities: Analysis of a Population-Based Biosocial Survey.
• Neighborhood, Social and Cultural Factors Correlated with Obesity Risk Among Latinos Living on the U.S.-Mexican Border.

Ethics

• Ethical Evaluation of a Proposed Statutory Regulation of Food Advertising Targeted at Minors in Spain.
• Morbidly Obese and Super-obese Women Should Have Surgery Refused for Benign Conditions: AGAINST: Refusing Surgery is Both Legally and Morally Wrong.
• BJOG Debate: FOR: Morbidly Obese and Super-obese Women Should Have Surgery Refused for Benign Conditions.

Stigma

• The Power of Weight and the Weight of Power in Adolescence: A Comparison Between Young and Adult Women.
• Empathy and Perspective-Taking: Examination and Comparison of Strategies to Reduce Weight Stigma.

Policy Related

• Are There Any Successful Policies and Programmes to Fight Overweight and Obesity?
• Influence of Menu Labeling on Food Choices in Real-life Settings: A Systematic Review.
• Perverse Incentives for Health Fall Out of Favor.
• Calorie Label Formats: Using Numeric and Traffic Light Calorie Labels to Reduce Lunch Calories.
• China’s New Diet.
• Association of Higher Consumption of Foods Derived From Subsidized Commodities with Adverse Cardiometabolic Risk Among US Adults.

Intergenerational Effects

• Enhanced Steatosis and Fibrosis In Liver of Adult Offspring Exposed to Maternal High Fat Diet.
• Perinatal Maternal High-fat Diet Promotes Alterations in Hepatic Lipid Metabolism and Resistance to the Hypolipidemic Effect of Fish Oil in Adolescent Rat Offspring.
• Paternal Overweight is Associated with Increased Breast Cancer Risk in Daughters in a Mouse Model.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Longer Food Chains in Pelagic Ecosystems: Trophic Energetics of Animal Body Size and Metabolic Efficiency.
• Effects of Fluctuating Temperature and Food Availability on Reproduction and Lifespan.
• Review: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Necroptotic Pathway.
• Variation in the Age of First Reproduction: Different Strategies or Individual Quality?

Methods

• Obesity and Cognitive Decline in Adults: Effect of Methodological Choices and Confounding By Age in a Longitudinal Study.
• Non-invasive Imaging Methods to Determine Severity of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Modeling Longitudinal Obesity Data with Intermittent Missingness Using a New Latent Variable Model.

Commentary

• Documentary Filmmakers Need to Be Accountable to Their Sources and Viewers.
• Is Sugar Addictive?
• Video: TED Talk - Why You Think You're Right -- Even If You're Wrong.
• Arguments for Calling Obesity a Disease #9: Medical Education.

General

• RCT: The E-Coach Technology-assisted Care Transition System.
• Researchers Discover Oldest Evidence of 'farming' -- By Insects.
• Video: Science Bulletins: Opening Up the Pocket Shark.
• ω-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biomarkers and Coronary Heart Disease: Pooling Project of 19 Cohort Studies.
• Early-life Programming of Emotional Behaviors and Cardiovascular Function.

Video & Audio

• Video: Science Class is for Science, Right? Think Again.

Announcements

• Remembering Dr. Carlos Krumdieck.
• Driving Action and Progress on Obesity Prevention and Treatment.
• Obesity Management: Starting the Conversation: Tips for Assessment, Counseling and Reimbursement.
• 15th Annual Obesity Conference.
• Workshop on Nutrition Across the Lifespan for Healthy Aging.