08/02/19
Featured
- Studying a Possible Placebo Effect of an Imaginary Low-Calorie Diet.
- RCT: Acute Effects of a Hallucinatory Meal on Subjective Appetite and Food Intake.
- Overweight and Lonely? A Representative Study on Loneliness in People with Obesity and Its Determinants.
- Repressive Gene Regulation Synchronizes Development with Cellular Metabolism.
Headline vs Study
- Headline: Why Eating Too Much Chilli Could Lead to Memory Loss.
- Study: Associations (not Necessarily Causation) Between Self-reported Chili Intake and Self-reported Poor Memory and Memory Decline.
- Headline: Top Reasons Your Smartphone is Making You Gain Weight.
- Meeting abstract: "Obesity associated with the hours of use of the smartphone in university students: The technological slavery of the future." (pdf)
Contrary or Null Findings
- No Significant Effects of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation with Oral Capsules on BMI in Patients with Obesity.
- RCT: Local Exercise Does Not Prevent the Aortic Stiffening Response to Acute Prolonged Sitting.
- RCT: "on average, upper body compression garments have no effects on the performance and lactate concentration of highly trained elite canoeists."
- RCT: No Effect of Fenugreek, Bergamot and Olive Leaf Extract on Glucose Homeostasis in Patients with Prediabetes.
- "Surprisingly, oolong tea significantly influenced reduction in relative weight compared with control, black, and green tea; whereas black, green, and white teas had no effects on weight compared with control" [in rats].
- "Contrary to our pre-registered predictions, the experimental manipulation of hypothesis awareness did not affect session 2 food intake."
- "The results of pooling data from published prospective studies also showed no link between CHD and total mortality with egg consumption, whereas we observed a reverse association between egg intake and stroke mortality."
Basic
- Antioxidants Protect Against Diabetes By Improving Glucose Homeostasis in Mouse Models of Inducible Insulin Resistance and Obesity.
- Dietary Protein Restriction Increases Hepatic Leptin Receptor MRNA and Plasma Soluble Leptin Receptor in Male Rodents.
- Lowering Ceramides to Overcome Diabetes.
- Targeting a Ceramide Double Bond Improves Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis.
- Tissue Immune Cells Fuel Obesity-Associated Inflammation in Adipose Tissue and Beyond.
- Illuminated Night Alters Behaviour and Negatively Affects Physiology and Metabolism in Diurnal Zebra Finches.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- “….a Coding Error Was Made Such that a Vegan Participant Was Mistakenly Coded as a Portion-controlled Participant for Certain Analyses. The Authors Thank John A. Dawson and David B. Allison for Alerting Them to This Error.”
- On the Evidentiary Standards for Nutrition Advice.
- Common Sense and Plausible Mechanistic Arguments Suggest that Carbohydrates Can Influence Mood. But do They? And By How Much?
- Downsizing Obesity: On Ancel Keys, the Origins of BMI, and the Neglect of Excess Weight as a Health Hazard in the United States From the 1950s to 1970s.
- Letter: Revisited: Assessing the in Vivo Data on Low/no-calorie Sweeteners and the Gut Microbiota.
- Response to the Letter to the Editor By S. Schiffman and H. Nagle: Revisiting the Data and Information that Has Collectively Established the Safety of Low/no-calorie Sweeteners, Including Sucralose.
Clinical
- RCT: Comparing Financial Incentive Structures for Promoting Physical Activity.
- Interpretation of Vitamin B12 Status After a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
- Adipose Group 1 Innate Lymphoid Cells Promote Adipose Tissue Fibrosis and Diabetes in Obesity.
- Endogenous Hyperinsulinemia Contributes to Pancreatic Cancer Development.
Children and Adolescents
- Unintentional Error in Formula Preparation and Its Simulated Impact on Infant Weight and Adiposity.
- Effects of Birth Weight on Body Composition and Overweight/Obesity at Early School Age.
Surgery
- Changes in Central 24-h Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Hemodynamics 12 Months After Bariatric Surgery.
- Pilot Trial: Percutaneous CT‐Guided Cryovagotomy in Patients with Class I or Class II Obesity.
Drugs
- Bupropion Increases Activation in Nucleus Accumbens During Anticipation of Monetary Reward.
- RCT: Liraglutide in Combination with Metformin May Improve the Atherogenic Lipid Profile and Decrease C-reactive Protein Level in Statin Treated Obese Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.
- Perioperative Diabetic Ketoacidosis Associated with Sodium-glucose Co-transporter-2 Inhibitors.
- Lifetime Marijuana Use in Relation to Insulin Resistance in Lean, Overweight, and Obese US Adults.
Food & Diet
- Effects of White Potatoes Consumed with Eggs on Satiety, Food Intake, and Glycemic Response in Children and Adolescents.
- Early Time‐Restricted Feeding Reduces Appetite and Increases Fat Oxidation but Does Not Affect Energy Expenditure in Humans.
- Markers of Adipose Tissue Inflammation are Transiently Elevated During Intermittent Fasting in Women Who are Overweight or Obese.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Systematic Review: Barriers and Facilitators of Physical Activity Among Adults and Older Adults From Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in the UK.
- The Impact of Keto-adaptation on Exercise Performance and the Role of Metabolic-regulating Cytokines.
- Trends in Adherence to the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans for Aerobic Activity and Time Spent on Sedentary Behavior Among US Adults.
Economics & Sociology
- Socioeconomic Status and Diet Quality in College Students.
- The Influence of Acculturation and Weight-related Behaviors on BMI Among Asian American Ethnic Subgroups.
Epidemiology
- What’s New in Understanding the Risk Associated with Body Size and Shape? Pears, Apples, and Olives on Toothpicks.
- Examining the Associations of Smoking Behavior and Obesity Among Older Adults in China: Should We Consider Food Consumption Behaviors?
- Associations of Major Depressive Disorder with Chronic Physical Conditions, Obesity and Medication Use: Results From the PISMA-ep Study.
- Psychological and Behavioral Effects of Obesity Prevention Campaigns.
- Meta‐analysis: Effect of Chromium Supplementation on Anthropometric Indices of Subjects with Overweight or Obesity.
- Utility of Waist Circumference‐to‐height Ratio as a Screening Tool for Generalized and Central Obesity Among Iranian Children and Adolescents: The CASPIAN‐V Study.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Enhanced Attention for Visual Food Stimuli Seems to Play No Direct Causal Role in Eating Styles Associated with Overeating.
- Overweight and Lonely? A Representative Study on Loneliness in Obese People and Its Determinants.
- Reliance on Model-based and Model-free Control in Obesity (pdf).
- Impact of Obesity on Central Processing Time Rather than Overall Reaction Time in Young Adult Men.
- Overvaluation of Eating and Satiation Explains the Association of Food Insecurity and Food Intake with Obesity and Cardiometabolic Diseases.
- RCT: Cognitive Effects of Adding Caloric Restriction to Aerobic Exercise Training in Older Adults with Obesity.
Ethics
- Exploratory Analysis of BMI and Oncology Visit Characteristics and Length.
- Sharing Responsibility: Responsibility for Health is Not a Zero-Sum Game.
Stigma
- New: How Anti-obesity Bias Hinders Patients' Lifestyle Change Efforts.
- Scoping Review: Weight Bias and Health Care Utilization.
- Body Image in Relation to Nutritional Status in Adults From the Basque Country, Spain.
- Weight-related Stigma Mediates the Relationship Between Weight Status and Bodily Pain: A Conceptual Model.
- Overlooked and Understudied: Health Consequences of Weight Stigma in Men.
Policy Related
- Washington State Supreme Court Rules that Obesity is a Disability.
- The Productivity Gains Associated with a Junk Food Tax and Their Impact on Cost-effectiveness.
- Saturated Fats and Health: Draft SACN Report.
Intergenerational Effects
- Meta-analysis: Maternal Dietary Patterns and Birth Outcomes.
- Inter-generational Link of Obesity in Term and Preterm Births: Role of Maternal Plasma Acylcarnitines.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- Development of Sexual Dimorphism in Two Sympatric Skinks with Different Growth Rates.
- Human-Mediated Carrion: Effects on Ecological Processes.
- The Heart Rate Method for Estimating Oxygen Uptake: Analyses of Reproducibility Using a Range of Heart Rates From Cycle Commuting.
Methods
- Fat Mass Does Not Increase the Precision Error of Trabecular Bone Score Measurements.
- Psychometric Properties of an Abbreviated Childhood Family Mealtime Questionnaire Among Overweight and Obese Hispanic Adolescents.
Mathematical and Quantitative
- Modelling Approaches for Studying the Microbiome.
- Role of Tri-ponderal Mass Index in Cardio-metabolic Risk Assessment in Children and Adolescents: Compared with BMI.
- A Statistical Virtual Patient Population for the Glucoregulatory System in Type 1 Diabetes with Integrated Exercise Model.
- Simulation Study: The Impact of Following Solid Food Feeding Guides on BMI Among Infants.
- Anti‐incretin Effect: The Other Face of Janus in Human Glucose Homeostasis.
Commentary
- Body Shape vs BMI as Risk Predictor in Women.
- Calories Made Combustibly Simple.
- Understanding the Obesity Epidemic.
- Screen Time and Childhood Obesity: A Commentary on the Evidence Behind Current Guidelines. (pdf)
- Healthy For Whom - Consumers or the Food and Beverage Industry?
- Shape Matters: Apples, Olives with Normal BMI Fare Worse than Pears.
- Immune Control of the Microbiota Prevents Obesity.
- Why We Must Stop Fat Shaming, Weight Bias, and Discrimination Against People with Obesity.
- Apples and Pears – Size, Shape, and Adiposity.
General
- Evidence vs Consensus in Clinical Practice Guidelines.
- Replicator Degrees of Freedom Allow Publication of Misleading 'Failures to Replicate'.
- UnDisciplined: The Evolutionary Biologist and the Epidemiological Obstetrician.
- Video: National Science Board’s Meeting, the NSF Presented a Summary of NAS Reproducibility and Replicability Report.
- Zombie Ants are Controlled By a 'Master Puppeteer' Parasite, but We Still Don't Know How.
- Experts Say ‘Emotion Recognition’ Lacks Scientific Foundation.
- Should Psychology Journals Adopt Specialized Statistical Review?
- Harms From Uninformative Clinical Trials.
- Educational Disparities in Adult Health: U.S. States as Institutional Actors on the Association.
- Fat Mass Compared to Four Body Condition Scoring Systems in the Asian Elephant (Elephas Maximus).