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• Obesity Outweighs Protection Conferred By Adjuvanted Influenza Vaccination.
• RCT: The Effect of Casein Protein Prior to Sleep on Fat Metabolism in Obese Men.
• Protein-Pacing Caloric-Restriction Enhances Body Composition Similarly in Obese Men and Women During Weight Loss and Sustains Efficacy During Long-Term Weight Maintenance.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: "Eating Fat Does Not Lead to Obesity" Says Study; "Low Fat" and "Lite" Bad For You? Low Carb High Fat Diet; Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Updates.
• No study: Statement From National Obesity Forum and Public Health Collaboration. 
• Commentary: National Obesity Forum faces backlash over "Dangerous" diet advice.
• Press-release: Fish Oil Vs. Lard -- Why Some Fat Can Help or Hinder Your Diet.
• Study: High-Fat Diet Enriched in Lard or Fish Oil and Hypothalamic AMPK and Inflammatory Mediators... In Rats.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Breakfast Consumption Has No Effect on Neuropsychological Functioning in Children: A Repeated-measures Clinical Trial.
• "In MZ twin pairs, higher BMI was not associated with an increased risk of MI or death...."
• “Household Survey Data Showed No Evidence that Obesity Was Associated with an Increase in Self-reported ILI [influenza-like Illness] During the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic in England.”
• "contrary to our hypotheses, pain interference was not associated with BMI, and the mediation and moderated mediation analyses were not statistically significant."
• RCT: Plant Sterol Ester Diet Supplementation Increases Serum Plant Sterols and Markers of Cholesterol Synthesis, but Has No Effect on Total Cholesterol Levels.
• RCT: "Providing adolescents with a personalized exercise intensity prescription and asking them to follow the prescription during PE was not an effective strategy to manipulate their affective experience of exercise."
• RCT: "Traditional progressive resistance training is not effective for reducing liver fat in overweight/obese adults compared with placebo control."
• RCT: "we did not observe a reduction in GWG [gestational weight gain] among overweight/obese women who received a supervised exercise training program during their pregnancy."

Basic

• Profile of the Spleen Transcriptome in Beef Steers with Variation in Gain and Feed Intake.
• Temporal Partitioning of Cardiac Metabolism By the Cardiomyocyte Circadian Clock. 
• GM-CSF and MMP9 are Key Regulators of the Effect of Adipose Progenitor Cells Over Breast Cancer Onset and Metastatic Progression in Obesity.
• Ramalin Inhibits Differentiation of 3T3-L1 Preadipocytes and Suppresses Adiposity and Body Weight in a High-fat Diet-fed C57BL/6J Mice.
• Dendritic Cells and Adipose Tissue. 
• Interactions Between the Colonic Transcriptome, Metabolome and Microbiome in Mouse Models of Obesity-induced Intestinal Cancer.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• We’re So Confused: The Problems with Food and Exercise Studies.
• Poking Holes in Pokémon Go Health Benefit Claims–including a Study that Didn’t Exist.

Clinical

• RCT: An Internet-based Intervention with Brief Nurse Support to Manage Obesity in Primary Care (POWeR+).
• Test of Balloon Capsules for Weight Loss Called Success.
• Acupuncture for Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Is There Any Place for Acupuncture in 21st Century Medical Practice? 
• Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.

Children and Adolescents

• Rapid Weight Gain in Pediatric Refugees After US Immigration.
• Association of Missing Paternal Demographics on Infant Birth Certificates with Perinatal Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity.
• BMI and Adiposity Indicators Associated with Cardiovascular Biomarkers in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes Followed Prospectively.
• Effect of Experimental Change in Children's Sleep Duration on Television Viewing and Physical Activity.
• Can Breastfeeding Protect Against Childhood Obesity?
• Similarities Between Obesity in Pets and Children: The Addiction Model.

Surgery

• Weight Loss Surgery May Increase Fracture Risk.
• Surgical Weight Loss Via Sleeve Gastrectomy, but Not a Low-fat Diet, Reverses the Pro-tumorigenic Effects of Obesity [in Mice].
• Change in Fracture Risk and Fracture Pattern After Bariatric Surgery: Nested Case-control Study.

Drugs

• Withaferin a is a Leptin Sensitizer with Strong Antidiabetic Properties in Mice. 
• Estrogen and DPP4 Inhibitor, but Not Metformin, Exert Cardioprotection Via Attenuating Cardiac Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Obese Insulin-resistant and Estrogen-deprived Female Rats.
• Anorexic Response to Rapamycin Does Not Appear to Involve a Central Mechanism.

Food & Diet

• RCT: A Metered Intake of Milk Following Exercise and Thermal Dehydration Restores Whole-body Net Fluid Balance Better than a Carbohydrate–electrolyte Solution or Water in Healthy Young Men.
• Mediterranean Diet Score and Left Ventricular Structure and Function: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
• Vitamin D in Obesity and Weight Loss.
• Coffee Consumption and Oxidative Stress: A Review of Human Intervention Studies.
• Vitamin D Metabolism Varies Among Women in Different Reproductive States Consuming the Same Intakes of Vitamin D and Related Nutrients. 

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Augments the Chemotherapeutic Response in a Murine Triple Negative Breast Cancer Model.
• Caloric Restriction Slows Tumor Growth and Metastases in Both Hormone-sensitive and Hormone-resistant Prostate Cancers.
• Effect of Astaxanthin, Vitamin E, and Vitamin C in Combination with Calorie Restriction on Sperm Quality and Quantity in Male Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• "Today's children are far less active during summer holidays than term-time, with fitness gains achieved during the school year wiped out in just six weeks."
• Effects of Physical Exercise on the Intestinal Mucosa of Rats Submitted to a Hypothalamic Obesity Condition.
• Relationship Between Physical Activity and Overweight and Obesity in Children: Findings From the 2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey National Youth Fitness Survey.
• Have Adults Lost Their Sense of Play? An Observational Study of the Social Dynamics of Physical (in)activity in German and Hawaiian Leisure Settings.

Economics & Sociology

• The Genetic Architecture of BMI From Infancy to Adulthood Modified By Parental Education.
• Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise: Birth Order and Adult Health.

Epidemiology

• Visual Representation of Body Shape in African-American and European American Women: Clinical Considerations.
• Meat in Modern Diet, Just as Bad as Sugar, Correlates with Worldwide Obesity: An Ecological Analysis.
• U.S. Domestic Cats as Sentinels for Perfluoroalkyl Substances: Possible Linkages with Housing, Obesity, and Disease.
• Metabolic Consequences of Snoring in Adolescents and Younger Adults: A Population Study in Chile.

Psychology

• Uninvolved Maternal Feeding Style Moderates the Association of Emotional Overeating to Preschoolers' BMI Z-Scores.
• Personality Differences in the Susceptibility to Stress-eating: The Influence of Emotional Control and Impulsivity.
• Messages About Appearance, Food, Weight and Exercise in “tween” Television.

Equity and Disparities

• Differences in Fairness and Trust Between Lean and Corpulent Men.
• Urban-rural Disparity of Overweight/obesity Distribution and Its Potential Association with Breast Cancer Among Chinese Females.
• Fathers’ Perceived Reasons for Their Underrepresentation in Child Health Research and Strategies to Increase Their Involvement.
• Guidelines for Research Recruitment of Underserved Populations (EERC).
• Reducing Health Inequities in the U.S: Recommendations From the NHLBI’s Health Inequities Think Tank Meeting.

Stigma

• Weight Stigmatisation in Physiotherapy: A Systematic Review.
• Weight Bias in the Paso Del Norte.
• Obesity, Weight Stigma and Discrimination. 

Policy Related

• The Efficacy of Nudge Theory Strategies in Influencing Adult Dietary Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• City Planning and Preventing Obesity.
• Can Policy Ameliorate Socioeconomic Inequities in Obesity and Obesity-related Behaviours? A Systematic Review of the Impact of Universal Policies on Adults and Children.

Intergenerational Effects

• Diet-Induced Maternal Obesity Alters Insulin Signalling in Male Mice Offspring Rechallenged with a High-Fat Diet in Adulthood.
• Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Association Between Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy and Childhood Overweight and Obesity.
• The Effects of Paternal High-fat Diet Exposure on Offspring Metabolism with Epigenetic Changes in the Mouse Adiponectin and Leptin Gene Promoters.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Energetic Cost of Rearing a Pup Seen in Soaring Metabolic Rate of Sea Otter Mom.
• Potential Arms Race in the Coevolution of Primates and Angiosperms: Brazzein Sweet Proteins and Gorilla Taste Receptors. 
• Seasonal Body Mass Changes and Feed Intake in Spectacled Bears (Tremarctos Ornatus) at Zurich Zoo.

Methods

• Healthy Food Intake Index (HFII) – Validity and Reproducibility in a Gestational-diabetes-risk Population.
• Laboratory Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• Mobile Apps for Weight Management: A Scoping Review.
• Strengthening Research Through Data Sharing.

Commentary

• Meat of the Matter: Misleading and Misunderstood.
• Obesity Treatment Prevention is Working Very Well.
• "David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson, called for a radical rethinking of human nutrition science through a new framework called 'nutritional geometry' ."
• From Obesity Resistance to Obesity Prediction and Prevention?
• The Olympic Games and Athletic Sex Assignment.

General

• "Our results showed that statistical issues arising from small number of clusters in generalized estimating equations is currently inadequately handled in cluster randomized trials."
• History of Clinical Trials: The Emergence of the RCT.
• Video: The Origins of the RNA World.
• Antiaging Trial Using Young Blood Stirs Concerns.
• Deciphering P Values: Beware False Certainty.
• Deciphering P Values: Defining Significance.
• A Statistical Definition for Reproducibility and Replicability.
• Audio: The Replication Game: How Well do Psychology Studies Hold Up?
• The Professionalization of Scientific Research.

Video & Audio

• NLM Co-sponsored Conference on Best Practices to Achieve Reproducible Research Now Available Online.

Announcements

• University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham Ranked By US News & World Report.
• UAB NORC Senior Scientist Awarded M. Powell Lawton Award for Research in Gerontology.
• Attend the 11th Annual Cleveland Clinic Obesity Summit.