Featured

• A Tribute to George A. Bray, MD: Progress in Obesity—Multidisciplinary Research, Multidimensional Man.
• Restricted Diet Delays Accelerated Ageing and Genomic Stress in DNA-repair-deficient Mice.
• Energetics of Sensing and Communication in Electric Fish: A Blessing and a Curse in the Anthropocene?

Headline vs. Study

• Headline: Study PROVES Eating PIZZA Could Help You LOSE Weight.
• Study: Three RCTs - only one studied weight loss and it found no effect – and pizza was never mentioned – “The Benefits of Behaving Badly on Occasion: Successful Regulation by Planned Hedonic Deviations”.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of Sour Orange (Citrus Aurantium) Peels on Anthropometric Variables in Overweight and Obese Adolescents. (pdf)
• RCT: No Evidence of a Sustained Impact a School-based Obesity Prevention Program for Adolescent Boys.
• No Obvious Effect of Insurance-mandated Medical Weight Management Before Bariatric Surgery.
• RCT: Premium-Based Financial Incentives Did Not Promote Workplace Weight Loss.
• "A meta-analysis of four studies indicated that the mobile intervention positively influenced dropout rates but was ineffective for outcomes of weight control, exercise, and sugar-sweetened beverage intake."
• RCT: "The MAMMiS study found no impact of the physical activity intervention on body composition and psychological well-being."
• Leucine Supplementation at the Onset of High-fat Feeding Does Not Prevent Weight Gain or Improve Glycemic Regulation in Male Sprague-Dawley Rats.
• Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver is Not Associated with the Relationship Between Insulin Secretion and Insulin Sensitivity in Obese Children: Matched Case–Control Study.
• Primary Inadequate Weight Loss After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass is Not Associated with Poor Cardiovascular or Metabolic Outcomes: Experience From a Single Institution.
• "It is concluded that a high protein intake (35%) compared to a normal protein intake (15%) during energy restriction does not significantly alter body composition or exercise performance in active females during a short term hypoenergetic diet."
• RCT: Six Months of Resveratrol Supplementation Has No Measurable Effect in Type 2 Diabetic Patients.

Basic

• Maternal High Fat Diet Exposure is Associated with Increased Hepcidin Levels, Decreased Myelination, and Neurobehavioral Changes in Male Offspring.
• Homeostatic Responses to Palatable Food Consumption in Satiated Rats.
• Effects of Dietary Fat Subtypes on Glucose Homeostasis During Pregnancy in Rats.
• Adipose Recruitment and Activation of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Fuel Metaflammation.
• EndoG Knockout Mice Show Increased Brown Adipocyte Recruitment in White Adipose Tissue and Improved Glucose Homeostasis.
• Bmp4 Promotes a Brown to White-like Adipocyte Shift.
• Impaired Central Leptin Signaling and Sensitivity in Rainbow Trout with High Muscle Adiposity.
• Perpetuating Effects of Androgen Deficiency on Insulin-resistance.

Clinical

• Class III Obese Women's Preferences and Concerns for Cesarean Skin Incision: A Multicenter Survey.
• Associations Between Obesity, Body Fat Distribution, Weight Loss and Weight Cycling on Serum Pesticide Concentrations.
• The Impact of Interventions that Integrate Accelerometers on Physical Activity and Weight Loss: A Systematic Review.

Children and Adolescents

• Examining Vegetable Plate Waste in Elementary Schools By Diversity and Grade.
• Geography of Adolescent Obesity in the U.S., 2007−2011.
• Preventing Obesity and Eating Disorders in Adolescents.
• Youth Susceptibility to Food and Beverage Marketing: Associations with Unhealthy Food Preferences and Choices.
• Nutrition in the First 1000 Days: The Origin of Childhood Obesity.
• Relationships Between Parental Education and Overweight with Childhood Overweight and Physical Activity in 9–11 Year Old Children: Results From a 12-Country Study.
• The Impact of Different Types of Parental Support Behaviours on Child Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and Screen Time: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Health Behavior and Metabolic Risk Factors Associated with Normal Weight Obesity in Adolescents.

Surgery

• Dealing with Diabetes and Pregnancy Following Bariatric Surgery: A Double-edged Sword?
• RCT: Ghrelin, Leptin and Glycemic Control After Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Peptide YY and Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Contribute to Decreased Food Intake After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.

Drugs

• RCT: Exenatide Once Weekly Improved 24-hour Glucose Control and Reduced Glycemic Variability in Metformin-treated Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• The Effects of Prenatal Metformin on Obesogenic Diet-induced Alterations in Maternal and Fetal Fatty Acid Metabolism.
• Low Adoption of Weight Loss Medications: A Comparison of Prescribing Patterns of Antiobesity Pharmacotherapies and SGLT2s.

Food & Diet

• Low Protein Diets Produce Divergent Effects on Energy Balance in Rats.
• Challenges to Healthy Eating Practices: A Qualitative Study of Non-Hispanic Black Men Living with Diabetes.
• The Effect of Low-carbohydrates Calorie-restricted Diet on Visceral Adipose Tissue and Metabolic Status in Psoriasis Patients Receiving TNF-alpha Inhibitors: Results of an Open Label Controlled, Prospective, Clinical Study.
• RCT: Time-restricted Feeding in Young Men Performing Resistance Training.

Caloric Restriction

• Combined Effects of Resistance Training and Calorie Restriction on Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission Proteins in Rat Skeletal Muscle.
• Effects of Dietary Protein Restriction on Muscle Fiber Characteristics and MTORC1 Pathway in the Skeletal Muscle of Growing-finishing Pigs.
• Caloric Restriction Turns White Fat Brown.
• Long-term Caloric Restriction in Mice May Prevent Age-related Learning Impairment Via Suppression of Apoptosis.
• Metabolic Control of Longevity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Exercising After Mentally Demanding Tasks Could Help Prevent Overeating, Study Finds.
• Exergaming and Obesity in Youth: Current Perspectives.
• RCT: Exercise and Nutritional Supplementation on Community-Dwelling Elderly Japanese Women with Sarcopenic Obesity.
• RCT: The Effect of Endurance Training on Body Composition and Blood Lipids in Older Adults.
• Rapid Weight Gain in Professional Boxing and Correlation with Fight Decisions: Analysis From 71 Title Fights.

Economics & Sociology

• Risk Preferences and Obesity: A Behavioral Economics Approach.
• Decomposing Trends in Adult BMI, Obesity, and Morbid Obesity, 1971–2012.
• Alternative Measures to BMI: Exploring Income-related Inequalities in Adiposity in Great Britain.
• Local Descriptive Norms for Overweight/obesity and Physical Inactivity, Features of the Built Environment, and 10-year Change in Glycosylated Haemoglobin.
• The Association of Religious Affiliation with Overweight/Obesity Among South Asians.

Epidemiology

• Relationship Between Low School Performance and Obesity in Adolescents: An Article Review.
• Associations Between Adolescents' Weight and Maladjustment Differ with Deviation From Weight Norms in Social Contexts.
• Methylation of SOCS3 is Inversely Associated with Metabolic Syndrome in an Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Obesity.
• Are Major Behavioral and Sociodemographic Risk Factors for Mortality.
• Maternal Characteristics Associated with the Obesogenic Quality of the Home Environment in Early Childhood.
• BMI and All-cause Mortality Among Older Adults.
• BMI, Falls, and Injurious Falls Among U.S. Adults: Findings From the 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

Psychology

• Emotion Dysregulation and Loss-of-Control Eating in Children and Adolescents.
• Environmental and Psychosocial Correlates of Objectively Measured Physical Activity Among Older Adults.
• Relationship of Behavioral Traits to Obesity and Response to Calorie Labeling.
• Caloric Estimation of Healthy and Unhealthy Foods in Normal-weight, Overweight and Obese Participants.
• Brain Regions Involved in Ingestive Behavior and Related Psychological Constructs in People Undergoing Calorie Restriction.

Equity and Disparities

• Genetic Misdiagnoses and the Potential for Health Disparities.
• The Interaction Between Maternal Race/ethnicity and Chronic Hypertension on Preterm Birth.
• Evaluating Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities By Addressing the Social Determinants of Health.
• A Closer Look at Rural-Urban Health Disparities: Associations Between Obesity and Rurality Vary By Geospatial and Sociodemographic Factors.

Stigma

• The Impact of Weight Labels on Body Image, Internalized Weight Stigma, Affect, Perceived Health, and Intended Weight Loss Behaviors in Normal-Weight and Overweight College Women.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination and 10-Year Risk of Allostatic Load Among US Adults.

Policy Related

• Association of the Berkeley Excise Tax with Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption.
• Evidence From RCTs Does Not Support Current Dietary Fat Guidelines: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Intergenerational Effects

• Causal Relationship Between Obesity-related Traits and TLR4-driven Responses at the Maternal–fetal Interface.
• Paternal High Fat Diet in Rats Leads to Renal Accumulation of Lipid and Tubular Changes in Adult Offspring.
• High-fat Diet Disrupts Metabolism in Two Generations of Rats in a Parent-of-origin Specific Manner.
• Genes and the Intergenerational Transmission of BMI and Obesity.
• Early Lactation and Infant Feeding Practices Differ By Maternal Gestational Diabetes History.
• Maternal Blood Lipid Profile During Pregnancy and Associations with Child Adiposity: Findings From the ROLO Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Artificial Selection Reveals the Energetic Expense of Producing Larger Eggs.
• Inferring Physiological Energetics of Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta Caretta) From Existing Data Using a General Metabolic Theory.
• Limits to Sustained Energy Intake XXV: Milk Energy Output and Thermogenesis in Swiss Mice Lactating at Thermoneutrality.
• Artificial Selection Reveals the Energetic Expense of Producing Larger Eggs.

Methods

• Prospective Population-based Cohort Study of Maternal Obesity as a Source of Error in Gestational Age Estimation at 11-14 Weeks.
• 3D Anthropometry: Quantifying the Shape and Size Variability Within the UK Male Offshore Oil and Gas Workforce.
• The Feasibility of Teacher and Parent Volunteers Collecting Digital Image Data of Children's Fruit and Vegetable Consumption During School Lunch.
• The Six Obesity Indices, Which One is More Compatible with Metabolic Syndrome? A Population Based Study.

Commentary

• Central Regulation of Glucose Metabolism in Humans: Fact or Fiction?
• Why do Some Foods Taste Good?
• Should You Be Drinking A2 Milk?
• Food Addiction: Helpful, Hurtful, or Just Off the Mark?
• Rethinking Unsubstantiated Nonsense About Energy Balance.
• How Much Weight Should Health News Give to Statistically Nonsignificant Results?
• Heroes of the Obesity Action Coalition.
• The Childhood Obesity Strategy.

General

• U.S. Government Agency Sues Publisher, Charging It with Deceiving Researchers.
• Mouse Microbes May Make Scientific Studies Harder to Replicate.
• The First Case of Genetically Confirmed Monozygotic Twinning in the Dog.
• Less is More: Psychologists Can Learn More By Studying Fewer People.
• Jammed Cells Expose the Physics of Cancer.
• Surprising Result - Adolescent Depression in Girls Offset By Presence of 'Boomerang Fathers'.
• New Elephant Study Shows Catastrophic Decline in Africa.
• Rewinding Memories May Help Us Recall Where the Good Stuff Is.