Featured

• Low sodium intake--cardiovascular health benefit or risk?
• Scientists create implantable device that produces insulin.
• Commentary: The Nutrition Elite - seems focused on supporting many popular ideas despite questionable evidence.
• Use of antibiotics in (mouse) babies is linked to obesity.

Findings Contrary to Hypotheses or Popular Beliefs

• Systematic Review: “There is no evidence that interventions delivered within primary care settings by generalist primary care teams trained in weight management achieve meaningful weight loss.”
• No association of local school wellness policy with obesity in school districts within Nebraska.
• "Although breastfeeding has been previously reported to protect against childhood obesity, we were unable to find a significant association between obesity and either longer duration of breastfeeding or later introduction to solid foods in our sample.”

Self-Report

• Self-reported health parameters compared with clinician measurements: methods in practice-based research.
• Two Self-Report Measures to Assess Sedentary Behavior (SB) in Older Adults - Neither should be used as the sole measure of SB in a study.

Basic Science

• ABCD2 Alters PPAR? Signaling in Vitro, but Does Not Impair Responses to Fenofibrate Therapy in a Mouse Model of Diet-induced Obesity.
• The effects of exogenous cortisol on myostatin transcription in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss.
• Foodborne Transmission of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy to Non-Human Primates Results in Preclinical Rapid-Onset Obesity.
• Low birth weight is associated with adiposity, impaired skeletal muscle energetics and weight loss resistance in mice.
• Bugs, Drugs, and Obesity.
• Arginine starvation-associated atypical cellular death involves mitochondrial dysfunction, nuclear DNA leakage, and chromatin autophagy.
• Key protein may be vital for immune cell survival .
• Ribosome stalling induced by mutation of a CNS-specific tRNA causes neurodegeneration.

Methods

• System and method of approximating caloric energy intake and/or macronutrient composition.
• Use of Department of Motor Vehicle records in the study of obesity and breast cancer.
• Accuracy of two Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems; a direct comparison in clinical research centre and daily life conditions.

Exercise

• Assessing environmental support for better health: Active living opportunity audits in rural communities in the southern United States.
• Relationship between perceived discrimination and sedentary behavior in adults.

Food

• A Mediterranean-like breakfast affects energy intake and appetite-related feelings.
• RCT: Human Milk Cream as a Supplement to Standard Fortification of an Exclusive Human Milk-Based Diet in Infants 750-1250 g Birth Weight.
• New study questions low salt guidelines.
• Return of hunger following a relatively high carbohydrate breakfast is associated with earlier recorded glucose peak and nadir.

Caloric Restriction

• Calorie restriction and NAD+/sirtuin counteract the hallmarks of aging.
• D-beta-hydroxybutyrate extends lifespan in C. elegans.

Epidemiology

• Maternal Ratings of Child Health and Child Obesity, Variations by Mother’s Race/Ethnicity and Nativity.
• Nutritional Risk and Body Mass Index Predict Hospitalization, Nursing Home Admissions, and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From the UAB Study of Aging With 8.5 Years of Follow-Up.
• Nineteenth Century Black and Mulatto Physical Activity, Calories, and Life Expectancy.
• Trends in Abdominal Obesity Among US Children and Adolescents.
• The Simultaneous Effects of Obesity, Insurance Choice, and Medical Visit Choice on Healthcare Costs.

Stigma

• Associations of weight stigma with cortisol and oxidative stress independent of adiposity.
• Die Another Day: The Obstacles Facing Fat People in Accessing Quality Healthcare.
• Perceptions Towards Obese Adults and Children Among Senior-level Female Nutrition and Non-nutrition Students.
• Stigma and the perpetuation of obesity.
• Too fat, too thin: Understanding bias against overweight and underweight in an Australian female university student sample.

Drugs

• The effect of ghrelin antagonist (D-Lys3) GHRP-6 on ovariectomy-induced obesity in adult female albino rats.
• Pharmacogenetics of Obesity Drug Therapy.

Surgery

• Metabolic surgery: action via hormonal milieu changes, changes in bile acids or gut microbiota? A summary of the literature.
• Malabsorption Plays a Major Role in the Effects of the Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch on Energy Metabolism in Rats.
• Experience in kidney transplantation without blood transfusion: Kidney transplantation transfusion-free in Jehovah's Witnesses. .

Sweeteners

• Three Views of Added Sugar.
• The effect of non-caloric sweeteners on cognition, choice, and post-consumption satisfaction.

Evolution, Energetics, & Ecology

• Predators, energetics and fitness drive neonatal reproductive failure in red squirrels.
• Age-related obesity is a heritage of the evolutionary past.
• Inference on energetics of deep-sea fish that cannot be aged: The case of the hagfish.
• Energetics and Migration in Songbirds: Two Case Studies Examining Energetic Condition and Migration at a Northern Stopover Location.
• Reproductive costs in femal olive baboons (Papio anubis).

Clinical

• RCT: Weight loss in overweight mothers with breast cancer and their overweight daughters.
• Process Evaluation of the Enabling Mothers to Prevent Pediatric Obesity Through Web-Based Learning and Reciprocal Determinism RCT.
• Systematic Review: The effectiveness of individual, community and societal level interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity amongst children.
• Association of the degree of adiposity and duration of obesity with measures of cardiac structure and function: The CARDIA Study.
• How much should we weigh for a long and healthy life span?
• Appropriateness of the definition of ‘sedentary’ in young children: Whole-room calorimetry study.

Bone

• Review: Moderate weight loss does not necessarily compromise bone health, especially when exercise training is involved.
• Biomechanical modelling of long bones and body mass estimation in modern and fossil species.
• Is Adipocyte Differentiation the Default Lineage for Mesenchymal Stem/Progenitor Cells after Loss of Mechanical Loading? A Perspective from Space Flight and Model Systems.
• Effects of caloric restriction on nitrogen and carbon stable isotope ratios in adult rat bone.

Sarcopenia

• A healthy body habitus is more than just a normal BMI: Implications of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity.
• Sarcopenia: describing rather than defining a condition.

Psychology

• Do you "like" my photo? Facebook use maintains eating disorder risk.
• The role of both parents’ attachment pattern in understanding childhood obesity.
• Expectancy, Self-Efficacy, and Placebo Effect of a Sham Supplement for Weight Loss in Obese Adults.
• More moms worry about own weight than their children's.

General Science

• Fields Medal mathematics prize won by woman for first time in its history.
• Same Data, Different Conclusion: A statistical re-analysis has led scientists to conclude that mice are a suitable model organism for studying human inflammatory conditions afterall.
• Political Activism is not Mandated by Medical Professionalism.
• Proanthocyanidins from Grape Seeds Inhibit UV Radiation-Induced Immune Suppression in Mice: Detection and Analysis of Molecular and Cellular Targets.
• Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Fasting Blood Lipids in the Genetics of Lipid-Lowering Drugs and Diet Network Study.
• Genetic variation in the JAK/STAT/SOCS signaling pathway influences breast cancer-specific mortality through interaction with cigarette smoking and use of aspirin/NSAIDs: the Breast Cancer Health Disparities Study. .
• Mice win reprieve as genetic model for man.
• Retirement savings and physical health.
• Beyond Conflicts of Interest:  Disclosing Medical Biases.
• Decreasing Rates of Induced Labor.
• Newborn Screening for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency:  Progress and Challenges.
• Brain stimulation 'helps in stroke'.

Computational

• Mathematical model for the contribution of individual organs to non-zero y-intercepts in single and multi-compartment linear models of whole-body energy expenditure.
• A Model-Based Approach to Phenotyping Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Pediatric Obesity.

Commentary

• "Fat graft survival: physics matters - "the impact of liposuction cannula size on adipocyte viability".
• Stier: Raising taxes on certain foods, drinks does little to fight obesity.
• Humor: Study Finds 79% Of Statistics Now Sobering.
• Disgusting advertising featuring “grabbable guts” and “toxic fat”

Announcements

• Webinar: Cancer Prevention Through Immunomodulation: Does Diet Play a Role?