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• Point-of-purchase calorie labeling has little influence on calories ordered regardless of BMI.
• Calories and fat content information versus no information did not affect the participants’ selections from a fast food menu.
• RCT: No significant difference in the amount of calories consumed during lunch, after a carbohydrate or a protein breakfast- A dissertation.

Findings Contrary to Hypotheses or Popular Beliefs

• RCT: Fast food results in similar post-exercise glycogen recovery and exercise performance compared to sport supplements.
• Bariatric surgery prior to total joint arthroplasty may not provide dramatic improvements in post-arthroplasty surgical outcomes.
• RCT: High Fructose Corn Syrup and Sucrose Sweetened Milk Improve Dietary Quality during Weight Loss by Displacing Energy Dense, Nutrient Poor Foods.
• RCT: Acute ingestion of fructose or sucralose had no effect on flow-mediated dilatation measured at brachial artery.
• Life-long caloric restriction does not alter the severity of age-related osteoarthritis in mice.
• Systematic Review: Current guidelines recommend the use of fibre as first-line treatment for constipation, but not all studies support its use in adults.

Stigma

• Weight-related humor in the media: Appreciation, distaste, and anti-fat attitudes.
• Daily Insults, Judgments, and Humiliation.
• Prince Fielder, Obesity Studies and The Moral Hazard of Fat Obsession.
• Measuring up? The discursive construction of student subjectivities in the Global Children's Challenge.

Caloric Restriction

• Calorie restriction combined with resveratrol induces autophagy and protects 26-month-old rat hearts from doxorubicin-induced toxicity.
• Caloric restriction impedes age-related decline of mitochondrial function and neuronal activity.
• Positive effects of prolonged caloric restriction on the population of very small embryonic-like stem cells – hematopoietic and ovarian implications in mice.

Ghrelin

• Effects of exogenous ghrelin infusion on feed intake and metabolic parameters of energy homeostasis in Standardbred mares.
• The role of ghrelin in addiction: A review.

Endocrine Disruptors

• Serum concentrations of organochlorine pesticides associated with diabetes and obesity in Northern Benin (West Africa).
• The link between Bisphenol A, obesity, and type 2 diabetes mellitus: A review.

Clinical

• RCT: We found that children liked artificially-sweetened and sugar-sweetened beverages equally - A dissertation.
• RCT: The web-based lifestyle and medication is less expensive than live counseling while both reduced coronary heart disease risk through 12-month follow-up.
• Yogurt consumption, weight change and risk of overweight/obesity: The SUN cohort study.
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of mobile devices and weight loss with an intervention content analysis.

Exercise

• RCT: Regardless of exercise mode, supervised and structured exercise significantly improved anthropometric, functional and psychological measures in obese participants with a BMI ≥ 35.
• RCT: Effects of combined Tai Chi, resistance training and diet on percent body fat in obese older women- A dissertation.
• RCT: Short term aerobic exercise alters the reinforcing value of food in inactive adults.

Food

• RCT: Effects of the quality instead of quantity of dietary proteins on markers of satiety.
• Promoting consumption of fruit and vegetables for better health, have campaigns delivered on the goals? A review.
• Path to type 2 diabetes may be paused by eating pistachio nuts and almonds.
• Soft food texture causes diabetes without obesity in rats.
• TV portrays unhealthy foods in a positive light.

Food Supply

• Food for thought: Comparing estimates of food availability in England and Wales, 1700-1914.
• The transitional dynamics of caloric ecosystems: Changes in the food supply around the world.
• Can food availability influence economic growth – the case of African countries.

Beverages

• RCT: Lean individuals compensated precisely for the high energy beverage and solid loads from the onset of the study, whereas the obese did not alter eating patterns after consuming the higher energy beverage load.
• RCT: Effects of a price increase on purchases of sugar sweetened beverages.

Basic Science

• Insulin exerts direct, IGF-1 independent actions in growth plate chondrocytes.
• Binge-like consumption of caloric and non-caloric palatable substances in ad libitum-fed C57BL/6J mice: Pharmacological and molecular evidence of orexin involvement.
• Decreased consumption of rewarding sucrose solutions after injection of melanocortins into the ventral tegmental area of rats.
• Heart- and muscle-derived signaling system dependent on MED13 and wingless controls obesity in drosophila.
• Thiol antioxidant ß-mercaptoethanol supplementation improved functional outcomes of diet-induced obese mice.
• Role of diacylglycerol activation of PKCθ in lipid-induced muscle insulin resistance in humans.
• The Obesities:  An overview of convergent and divergent paradigms. 

Epidemiology

• Walking and proximity to the urban growth boundary and central business district.
• Letters: Prevalence of Obesity in the United States.
• BMI in young adulthood and suicidal behavior up to age 59 in a cohort of Swedish men.

Pregnancy

• RCT: Lifestyle intervention in obese pregnant women resulted in attenuation of the physiologic pregnancy-induced insulin resistance.
• Eating for 1, healthy and active for 2; feasibility of delivering novel, compact training for midwives to build knowledge and confidence in giving nutrition, physical activity and weight management advice during pregnancy.

Ethics

• Metabolic syndrome: The construction of a 'new' medical problem and the socio-ethical consequences.
• Equity in public health ethics: The case of menu labeling policy at the local level.
• Ethical dilemmas posed in the care of obese patients in the emergency department.

Education

• Implementation of specific educational strategies succeeded in greater delivery of nutrition.
• Bringing high-value care to the inpatient teaching service.

Economics

• The freer the fatter? A panel study of the relationship between body-mass index and economic freedom.
• Better obesity care need not cost more.
• Bundled diabetes care cuts heart risk in patients.
• Body weight, eating patterns, and physical activity: The role of education.

Patient Care

• Approach to overuse of herbal and dietary supplements: A teachable moment.
• Obesity malpractice claims up 64%, study shows.
• Campaign is launched to make patients the focus of evidence based medicine.

Drugs & Devices

• RCT: Effects of the once-weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist dulaglutide on ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
• Four biotech innovations for obesity.
• RCT: Effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on impaired glucose tolerance.

Surgery

• RCT: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy versus single anastomosis (mini-) gastric bypass for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus: 5-year results.
• Duodenal switch versus Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity: systematic review and meta-analysis of weight results, diabetes resolution and early complications in single-centre comparisons.
• Ursodeoxycholic acid and diets higher in fat prevent gallbladder stones during weight loss: A meta-analysis of RCTs.

Computational

• A probabilistic model to evaluate population dietary recommendations.
• Dynamic interplay among homeostatic, hedonic, and cognitive feedback circuits regulating body weight.
• Modeling US adult obesity trends: A system dynamics model for estimating energy imbalance gap.
• A metabolic–epidemiological microsimulation model to estimate the changes in energy intake and physical activity necessary to meet the Healthy People 2020 obesity objective.

Methods

• Using crowdsourcing to evaluate published scientific literature: Methods and example.
• Unbalanced baseline in school-based interventions to prevent obesity: Adjustment can lead to bias - A systematic review.
• Modeling longitudinal obesity data with intermittent missingness using a new latent variable model.
• Can the Learning Health Care System Be Educated With Observational Data?
• Validity of a combined heart rate and motion sensor for the measurement of free-living energy expenditure in very active individuals.
• In simulation studies, exhaustive single food analysis seemed to outperform principal components analysis in finding food disease associations.
• Testing a novel method for measuring sleeping metabolic rate in neonates.
• Advantages and pitfalls in the application of mixed-model association methods.

Evolution, Energetics & Ecology

• Emergent global patterns of ecosystem structure and function from a mechanistic general ecosystem model.
• Double effort: Parental behavior of wild Azara's owl monkeys in the face of twins.
• Life history trade-offs and stress tolerance in green hydra (Hydra viridissima Pallas 1766): The importance of nutritional status and perceived population density.
• For corals adapting to climate change, it's survival of the fattest-and most flexible.
• Does despotic behavior or food search explain the occurrence of problem brown bears in Europe?

Neuroscience

• Circuits controlling energy balance and mood: Inherently intertwined or just complicated intersections? A perspective.
• Leptin signaling in astrocytes regulates hypothalamic neuronal circuits and feeding.
• Appetite signals in the brain: High fructose corn syrup sweetened cola effects hypothalamic activity as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Psychology

• Nothing tastes as good as thin feels: Low positive emotion differentiation and weight-loss activities in anorexia nervosa.
• How many calories were in those hamburgers again? Distribution density biases recall of attribute values.
• The effect of brand and caloric information on flavor perception and food consumption in restrained and unrestrained eaters.
• RCT: Cognitive behavioral therapy informed psychotherapy for PNES without and with sertraline revealed significant seizure reduction and improved comorbid symptoms and global functioning.

General Science

• Feasibility and practical considerations for heating and humidifying gases during newborn stabilisation: An in vitro model.
• Letter re: Impact of peer review on reports of randomised trials published in open peer review journals: retrospective before and after study.
• Virus plagues the pork industry and environmentalists.
• Heart function improved in rats 'by injecting discarded surgery fat'.
• First cancer immunotherapy for dogs developed.
• A chemical-free paper.
• “Nanojuice” could improve how doctors examine the gut.
• Massive impact may have created Mercury.

Commentary

• Ted Kyle on “creative causality science reporting”.
• Can you be obese and still be healthy?
• Just add sugar - But don't forget to label it.
• Don't swallow it: Six health myths you should ignore.
• Major scientific journal joins push to screen statistics in papers it publishes.
• Lies, damn lies and doctors who are bad at math.
• BBC told to stop giving equal time to science deniers.
• Video: 2 minute etymology lesson on "healthy" vs. "healthful".
• Workplace wellness meets reality.

Announcements

• Workshop on standards for quantitative MRI, July 14-16, 2014.
• Go4Life: the NIA health education campaign.