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• Exceptionally Low Daily Energy Expenditure in the Bamboo-eating Giant Panda.
• Disparate Associations Found Between Sodium, Potassium and Protein Intake with Obesity When Measured by 24 H Urinary Excretion Versus Self-report “suggesting that the Ability of Self-reported Dietary Information Using the Diet History Questionnaire for Investigating Diet-obesity Relationships is Limited”.
• Does Overweight and Obesity Impact on Self-Rated Health? Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Ordered Probit Models.
• Childhood Maltreatment Associated with Increased Risk for Visceral Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Ninety Percent of People Who Struggle with Weight Gain Have a Genetic Metabolic Disorder.
• Letter to New York Times: "I believe that 90 percent of Americans who struggle with weight gain have genetic disorders of their metabolism."
• No study; just an assertion: But here is "A Proposed Heuristic for Communicating Heritability Estimates to the General Public, with Obesity as an Example."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of Fructose Content of Low Calorie Diets on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Obese Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
• RCT: No Evidence of Enhanced Satiety Following Whey Protein- or Sucrose-enriched Water Beverages: A Dose Response Trial in Overweight Women.
• Milk Consumption After Age 9 Years Does Not Predict Age at Menarche.
• This Meta-analysis Does Not Support the Notion That Higher BMI Materially Increases Parkinson's Disease Risk.
• Induction of Heme-oxygenase-1 (HO-1) Does Not Enhance Adiponectin Production in Human Adipocytes: Evidence Against a Direct HO-1 - Adiponectin Axis.

Basic

• Broad Anti-tumor Activity of a Small Molecule That Selectively Targets the Warburg Effect and Lipogenesis.
• Cognitive and Autonomic Determinants of Energy Homeostasis in Obesity.
• Enhanced Flavor-nutrient Conditioning in Obese Rats on a High-fat, High-carbohydrate Choice Diet.
• Oil Spill Study Raises 'red Flag' About Commonly-used Compound Being an Obesegen.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Added Sugar Intake and Public Health.
• Added Sugar Intake and Public Health—Reply.
• Scaling Considerations in the Cardiovascular Pathophysiology of Obese Patients.
• Reply to Traissac et al.
• Association of Soft Drink Consumption with Increased Waist Circumference Should Be Adjusted for BMI (Traissac et al.).

Clinical

• Treatment Interventions for Early Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Diagnostic Inertia in Obesity and the Impact on Cardiovascular Risk in Primary Care: A Cross-sectional Study.
• RCT: Non-significant Effect of an Early Feeding Practices Intervention for Obesity Prevention.
• Young People with Type 1 Increasingly Likely to Be Obese, Experts Urge Dietary Changes.
• The Discriminative Ability of Waist Circumference, BMI and Waist-to-hip Ratio in Identifying Metabolic Syndrome: Variations By Age, Sex and Race.
• Identifying Glucokinase Monogenic Diabetes in a Multiethnic Gestational Diabetes Cohort: New Pregnancy Screening Criteria and Utility of HbA1c.
• Do Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors Differ By Rural Classification in Women Who Enroll in a Weight Loss Intervention?
• Controversies in Obesity Management. (pdf)

Surgery

• Weight-Loss Surgery May Help Ease Incontinence.
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Associated with Improved Olfaction Sensitivity in Morbidly Obese Patients.

Drugs

• Diet-induced Obesity and Diet-resistant Rats: Differences in the Rewarding and Anorectic Effects of D-amphetamine.
• Fluoxetine Induces Lean Phenotype in Rat By Increasing the Brown/white Adipose Tissue Ratio and UCP1 Expression.
• Putting the brakes on the "drive to eat": Pilot effects of naltrexone and reward based eating on food cravings among obese women.
• New Weight Loss Drugs, but No Magic Pill.
• Diabetes Drug Given to Obese Moms-to-Be Won't Keep Baby's Weight Down.
• An Economic Evaluation of a Weight Loss Intervention Program for People with Serious Mental Illnesses Taking Antipsychotic Medications.
• RCT: Effect of Diabetinol(®) on Glycemic Control of Subjects with Impaired Fasting Glucose.

Food & Diet

• The Plasticity of Taste Function Links the Appetitive Taste of Fats with Obesity.
• Oat Consumption Reduced Intestinal Fat Deposition and Improved Healthspan in Caenorhabditis Elegans Model.
• Oleogustus: The Unique Taste of Fat.
• Yeast with Bacteriocin From Ruminal Bacteria Enhances Glucose Utilization, Reduces Ectopic Fat Accumulation, and Alters Cecal Microbiota in Dietary-induced Obese Mice.
• Genetically High Plasma Vitamin C, Intake of Fruit and Vegetables, and Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease and All-cause Mortality: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Study: Restaurant Meals Can Be as Bad for Your Waistline as Fast Food is.
• Modelling the Health Impact of an English Sugary Drinks Duty at National and Local Levels. (pdf)
• Vitamin E Reduces Adipose Tissue Fibrosis, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress and Improves Metabolic Profile in Obesity.
• Classic Paper: Reinforcements in the Pure Food Crusade.
• Soon We’ll Be Eating Real Egg Whites That Never Passed Through a Chicken.
• That 'fitness Friendly' Bar Might Backfire.
• Food Addiction: Does Thinking Make It So?
• Association Between Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake and Proxies of Acculturation Among U.S. Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Adults.
• Nutritional Supplements in Support of Resistance Exercise to Counter Age-Related Sarcopenia.
• Diverging Global Trends in Heart Disease and Type 2 Diabetes: The Role of Carbohydrates and Saturated Fats.

Caloric Restriction

• Effect of Caloric Restriction on the SIRT1/mTOR Signaling Pathways in Senile Mice.
• Impact of Calorie Restriction on Epigenetic Factors and Metabolic Pathways During Senescence. (pdf)
• Effects of Dietary Restriction on the Expression of Lipid Metabolism and Growth Hormone Signaling Genes in the Longissimus Dorsi Muscle of Korean Cattle Steers.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Study Finds That Walking in Nature Yields Measurable Mental Benefits and May Reduce Risk of Depression.
• RCT: Resistance Exercise Reduces Body Fat and Insulin During Androgen-Deprivation Therapy 
for Prostate Cancer.
• Combined Diet and Physical Activity Promotion Programs for Prevention of Diabetes: Community Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.
• Health Benefits of Daily Walking on Mortality Among Younger-Elderly Men with or Without Major Critical Diseases in the New Integrated Suburban Seniority Investigation Project: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Effects of the "PreveDi" lifestyle modiï¬Âcation trial on metabolic syndrome.
• Short-term Effects of a Physical Activity Intervention on Obesity and Cardiovascular Fitness of 12-14-year-old Boy Students.
• Short-term Effects of a Physical Activity Intervention on Obesity and Aerobic Fitness of Adolescent Girls.
• Effects of a 12-week Healthy-life Exercise Program on Oxidized Low-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Carotid Intima-media Thickness in Obese Elderly Women.
• Diet, Exercise Fail to Prevent Gestational Diabetes in Women with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Attributable Cost of Obesity in Breast Surgery: A Matched Cohort Analysis.
• Social Inequality and Age-specific Gender Differences in Overweight and Perception of Overweight Among Swedish Children and Adolescents: A Cross-sectional Study.

Epidemiology

• Diabetes and pre-diabetes significantly higher in morbidly obese children compared to obese children.
• Maternal Prepregnancy Waist Circumference and BMI in Relation to Gestational Weight Gain and Breastfeeding Behavior: The CARDIA Study.
• FFR Availability Around the Home, but Not the Workplace, Was Associated with Greater Fast Food Consumption.
• Food Neophiles: Profiling the Adventurous Eater.
• Genome-Wide Association Study of Triglyceride Response to a High-Fat Meal Among Participants of the NHLBI Genetics of Lipid Lowering Drugs and Diet Network (GOLDN).
• Association Between Adult Stature and Energy Expenditure in Low-Income Women From Northeastern Brazil.
• An Epidemiological Study Regarding Obesity Prevalence in a Rural Area of Bihor County.
• The Role of Olive Oil in Disease Prevention: A Focus on the Recent Epidemiological Evidence From Cohort Studies and Dietary Intervention Trials.

Psychology

• Childhood Obesity and Cognitive Achievement.
• Measuring the Total Impact of Demographic and Behavioural Factors on the Risk of Obesity Accounting for the Depression Status: A Structural Model Approach Using New BMI.
• Habituation to a Stressor Predicts Adolescents' Adiposity.

Equity and Disparities

• Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error.
• Feeding Ourselves” Connects Native American Health Disparities and Federal Policies.

Stigma

• We are Where We Eat: How Consumption Contexts Induce (un)Healthful Eating for Stigmatized Overweight Consumers.
• Stigma, Obesity and Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Current Research and Future Directions.

Policy Related

• Analyzing the Summertime Hunger Paradox: How We Can Improve the USDA’s Summer Meals Program for U.S. Children From Low-Income Households.
• Obesity Prevention and Treatment in School-aged Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults—Where do We Go From Here?
• FDA Statement on Extension of Menu Labeling Compliance Date.
• Why is the Federal Government Afraid of Fat?

Intergenerational Effects

• High Fructose Consumption in Pregnancy Alters the Perinatal Environment Without Increasing Metabolic Disease in the Offspring in Rodents.
• Neonatal Streptozotocin-induced Diabetes in Mothers Promotes Metabolic Programming of Adipose Tissue in Male Rat Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Sources of Diel Variation in Energetic Physiology in an Arctic-breeding, Diving Seaduck.
• Why Giant Pandas Are Lazy?
• Comparisons and Uncertainty in Fat and Adipose Tissue Estimation Techniques: The Northern Elephant Seal as a Case Study.
• Climate Change Impacts on Bumblebees Converge Across Continents.
• Snoozing Through the Storm: Torpor Use During a Natural Disaster.
• Behavioural and Physiological Responses of Wood Mice (Apodemus Sylvaticus) to Experimental Manipulations of Predation and Starvation Risk.
• Negative Energy Balance in a Male Songbird, the Abert's Towhee, Constrains the Testicular Endocrine Response to Luteinizing Hormone Stimulation.
• Suppressed Bone Remodeling in Black Bears Conserves Energy and Bone Mass During Hibernation.

Methods

• Assessment of Fat and Lean Mass By Quantitative Magnetic Resonance: A Future Technology of Body Composition Research?
• Encapsulation Thermogenic Preadipocytes for Transplantation Into Adipose Tissue Depots.
• How Reliable is Internet-based Self-reported Identity, Socio-demographic and Obesity Measures in European Adults?
• Evaluation of a Novel Canine Activity Monitor for At-home Physical Activity Analysis.
• "...the Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire significantly overestimates physical activity and is not correlated with direct measures of activity and thus should not be used in future research."

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Big Data for a Big Problem: Putting Data to Work to Tackle Obesity.

Commentary

• Selling Us Wellness.
• Good Health: Obesity Studies Have Strange Agenda.
• "Scientific evidence that excess FCCS [fructose-containing caloric sweeteners ] intake causes more deleterious effects to health than excess of other macronutrients is presently lacking."
• Deflecting Cheap Shots.
• Obesity Prevention and Treatment in School-aged Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults-Where do We Go From Here?

General

• Different Immune Cells Mediate Mechanical Pain Hypersensitivity in Male and Female Mice.
• Does Math Matter?
• A Bayesian Approach to Mitigation of Publication Bias.
• Knowing More Than We Can Tell: People are Aware of Their Biased Self-Perceptions.
• Striking Longevity in a Hibernating Lemur.
• Video: Why Walk on Two Legs? The Pros and Cons of Bipedalism.
• Solving Reproducibility.
• Science is Heroic, with a Tragic (statistical) Flaw.
• Top 10 Ways to Save Science From Its Statistical Self.
• Impact, Not Impact Factor.
• How Biomedical Language May Derail Patient Understanding of Hypertension.
• Obesity Risk Knowledge, Weight Misperception, and Diet and Health-Related Attitudes Among Women Intending to Become Pregnant.
• Study Shows Bariatric Surgery More Effective Than Lifestyle Changes in Treating Type 2 Diabetes.
• Shocking Report From Medical Insiders.

Video & Audio

• Johann Hari: Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong.
• Why We Play Sports: Winning Motivates, but Can Backfire, Too.

Announcements

• ASN Principles To Guide Research Public-Private Partnerships.
• WHO Calls for Consultants on Ethics in the Implementation of Nutrition Actions for Women, Children and Adolescents.
• IOM Workshop on Food Literacy: How do Communications and Marketing Impact Consumer Knowledge and Behavior?
• National Academy of Sciences set to have its first female president.
• Evaluating Approaches to Assessing Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Data-Gathering Workshop.
• Obesity Week.
• Food as Medicine, Coast to Coast.
• The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation.
• Health Matters Webinars.