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• Neighbors' foreclosures associated with weight gain.
• Diabetes-related impairment in bone strength is established early in the life course.

Findings Contrary to Hypotheses and Popular Ideas

• There is insufficient evidence that PE laws reduce student weight gain.
• RCT: No significant difference in weight loss between a new dietary strategy based on macronutrient composition and the American Heart Association guidelines.
• RCT: We found no evidence of an improvement in physical function following vitamin D3 supplementation for 1 year.
• Obesity, as determined by BMI, does not impact upon uterine natural killer cell density in the peri-implantation endometrium.
• No Evidence for a Role of Adipose Tissue-Derived Serum Amyloid A in the Development of Insulin Resistance or Obesity-Related Inflammation in hSAA1+/- Transgenic Mice.
• Serum leptin has no association with coronary collateral development in patients with non-ST- elevation acute coronary syndromes: an observational study.
• Chewing effort does not affect appetitive sensations or gut peptide secretion 

Psychology

• Desire lies in the eyes: Attention bias for chocolate is related to craving and self-endorsed eating permission.
• Shame and Pride in How to Look Good Naked
• Personality and Risk of Diabetes in Adults
• Underestimating calorie content when healthy foods are present may arise due to reference dependent anchoring

Surgery

• Does Caloric Restriction Alone Explain the Effects of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass on Glucose Metabolism? Not by a Long Limb.
• The effect of bariatric surgery on echocardiographic indices: a review of the literature.
• Effects of Bariatric Procedures versus Medical Therapy for Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
• Bariatric surgery reduces cancer risk and mortality in formerly obese patients

Sugar & Sugar Sweetened Beverages

• Sugar for the brain: the role of glucose in physiological and pathological brain function.
• Very High Fructose Intake Increases Serum LDL-Cholesterol and Total Cholesterol: A Meta-Analysis of Controlled Feeding Trials.
• Review and Commentary: The sugar-sweetened beverage wars: public health and the role of the beverage industry

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational and socioeconomic gradients of child obesity.
• Maternal obesity during pregnancy and premature mortality from cardiovascular event in adult offspring: follow-up of 1 323 275 person years.

Epidemiology

• Economic conditions and health behaviours during the ‘Great Recession
• Systematic Review of School-based Obesity Interventions Targeting African American and Hispanic Children
• Gender-Specific Findings on the Relationship between Childhood Physical Abuse and Obesity in Adulthood
• Does Inflammation Determine Metabolic Health Status in Obese and Nonobese Adults?
• Differences in Trace Metal Concentrations in Whole Blood, Plasma, and Urine of Obese and Nonobese Children
• Endocrine-metabolic adjustments during Ramadan fasting in young athletes.
• Ethnic Background Differences in Children’s Body Composition Partially Mediated by Differences in Energy Balance-Related Behaviors

Policy Related

• Agricultural subsidies and the American obesity epidemic.
• Availability of and Ease of Access to Calorie Information on Restaurant Websites
• RCT: A Food Store-Based Environmental Intervention shows equivocal evidence (p=.06) of Effect on BMI in the Navajo Nation.
• Some school districts quit healthier lunch program.
• Alternative Models to Supplement Menu Labeling.

Methods

• Direct calorimetry identifies deficiencies in respirometry for the determination of resting metabolic rate in C57Bl/6 and FVB mice.
• Collection and Visualization of Dietary Behavior and Reasons for Eating Using Twitter
• Detection of rate changes in systematic oscillations of metabolic pathways by monitoring isotope ratios.
• Development and Validation of a New Self-Report Instrument for Measuring Sedentary Behaviors and Light-Intensity Physical Activity in Adults.
• Goto-kakizaki Rats: Its Suitability as Non-obese Diabetic Animal Model for Spontaneous Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Trustworthiness of inferential tests of the indirect effect in statistical mediation analysis
• Commonality versus specificity among adiposity traits in normal-weight and moderately overweight adults

Food

• RCT: Low-Fat Milk Ingestion Prevents Postprandial Hyperglycemia-Mediated Impairments in Vascular Endothelial Function in Obese Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Hydrolyzed Casein Reduces Diet-Induced Obesity in Male C57BL/6J Mice.
• N-3 polyunsaturated Fatty acids, body fat, and inflammation in a human population
• Normal Range of Human Dietary Sodium Intake: A Perspective Based on 24-Hour Urinary Sodium Excretion Worldwide

Exercise

• Greenway Siting and Design: Relationships With Physical Activity Behaviors and User Characteristics.
• UAB study finds exercising one day a week may be enough for older women.
• Effect of 'activity monitor-based' counseling on physical activity and health-related outcomes in patients with chronic diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Activity energy expenditure is a major determinant of dietary fat oxidation and trafficking, but the deleterious effect of detraining is more marked than the beneficial effect of training at current recommendations.

Evolution, Energetics, & Ecology

• Reconstruction of Ancestral 16S rRNA Reveals Mutation Bias in the Evolution of Optimal Growth Temperature in the Thermotogae Phylum.
• As Humans Change Landscape, Brains of Some Animals Change, Too.
• High Repeatability of Anti-Predator Responses and Resting Metabolic Rate in a Beetle.
• Metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information.
• Altered growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor 1 axis, which may be common to other long-lived bat species, together with adaptations such as hibernation and low reproductive rate, may contribute to the exceptional lifespan of the Brandt’s bat.
• The relationship between personality and basal metabolic rate in Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus).

Drugs

• The effect of anti-obesity drugs on waist circumference: a mixed treatment comparison.
• New entrant in obesity drug race targets body, not the mind.

Clinical

• RCT: A 'maintain, don't gain' approach might be a useful alternative treatment for reducing obesity-associated disease risk among some black women
• Stand-biased desks: Evaluating a school based childhood obesity intervention for posture and comfort.
• Resistance Training Improves Indices of Muscle Insulin Sensitivity and ß-Cell Function, in Overweight/Obese, Sedentary Young Men
• RCT: Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention for Primary Prevention of Renal Decline in Type 2 Diabetics.
• RCT: Efficacy of a self-management intervention for weight control in overweight and obese adults
• RCT: No significant differences in weight change in overweight or obese patients in 25 and 30 kcal/kg groups after 12 months

Caloric Restriction

• Short-term caloric restriction, resveratrol, or combined treatment regimens initiated in late-life alter mitochondrial protein expression profiles in a fiber-type specific manner in aged animals.
• Long-term calorie restriction decreases metabolic cost of movement and prevents decrease of physical activity in the rhesus monkeys

Mortality

• The Impact of Obesity on US Mortality Levels: The Importance of Age and Cohort Factors in Population Estimates
• Combined effect of obesity and cardio-metabolic abnormality on the risk of cardiovascular disease: A meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

Basic Science

• Nutrient-sensing mechanisms in the gut as therapeutic targets for diabetes.
• A single pair of interneurons commands the Drosophila feeding motor program.
• Anti-obesity Phenotypic Screening Looking to Increase OBR Cell Surface Expression.
• TDP-43, an ALS Linked Protein, Regulates Fat Deposition and Glucose Homeostasis
• Signaling mechanisms of glucose-induced F-actin remodeling in pancreatic islet ß cells (review)
• Thioredoxin-interacting protein regulates insulin transcription through microRNA-204
• The insulin sensitizing effect of topiramate involves KATP channel activation in the central nervous system

Gut-Microbiome

• Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers
• Dietary intervention impact on gut microbial gene richness

Aging

• Calf circumference, frailty and physical performance among older adults
• Prevalence of obesity in New York nursing homes: associations with facility characteristics

Genetics

• Genome-wide Association Analysis of Blood-Pressure Traits in African-Ancestry Individuals Reveals Common Associated Genes in African and Non-African Populations
• Sexual dimorphism in fat distribution and metabolic profile in mice offspring from diet-induced obese mothers
• Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals Genetic Architecture of Eating Behavior in Pigs and Its Implications for Humans Obesity by Comparative Mapping
• Association Between a Genetic Variant Related to Glutamic Acid Metabolism and Coronary Heart Disease in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes

General Science

• Are Forensic Experts Biased by the Side That Retained Them?
• What Is the Enemy in CME, Conflicts of Interest or Bias?
• To Replicate or Not to Replicate: The Case of Pharmacogenetic Studies.
• The Evolution of Social Monogamy in Mammals.
• U.S. scientist operates colleague's brain from across campus.
• US studies may overestimate effect sizes in softer research
• Mini Human 'Brains' Grown in a Dish
• Bias and adverse effects of homeopathy: is scientific criticism in homeopathy a mission impossible?
• Single Gene Change Increases Mouse Lifespan by 20 percent
• A two-step manuscript submission process can reduce publication bias.
• Association of Coffee Consumption With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
• Evidence for new periodic table element boosted
• Raphe GABAergic Neurons Mediate the Acquisition of Avoidance after Social Defeat
• Long-Term Artificial Sweetener Acesulfame Potassium Treatment Alters Neurometabolic Functions in C57BL/6J Mice

Commentary

• The Controversy Over Obesity as a Disease: What Psychiatrists Should Know.
• The Psychology of Distrusting G.M.O.s.
• Everything You Know about Calories is Wrong.
• A Top 10 List of Wishful Thinking in Obesity.
• What Makes You Fat: Too Many Calories, or the Wrong Carbohydrates?
• The Obesity Era.
• The Mystery Of Collective Obesity.
• Fixing Obesity, Between Little Rock and Hard Places
• Rigorously controlled studies may soon give us a definitive answer about what causes obesity—excessive calories or the wrong carbohydrates
• I Predict Gary Taubes' NuSi's First Experiment Will Show Dramatic Low-Carb Benefits.
• Michael Mosley: Eat, Fast and Live Longer.
• What’s Causing the Rise in Obesity? Everything.
• What the new obesity guidelines will tell us
• Diabetes, antihyperglycemic medications and cancer risk: smoke or fire?

Announcements

• UAB announces largest-ever fundraising campaign – Give Something; Change Everything.
• Two leadership positions available at New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children's Hospital: Center Manager and Study Director.