Featured

• "Categorization of BMI and self-report bias combine to produce substantial error in the estimated hazard ratios and percent of deaths attributable to obesity."
• RCT: Impact of Intermittent Hypoxia and Exercise on Blood Pressure and Metabolic Features From Obese Subjects Suffering Sleep Apnea-hypopnea Syndrome.
• The Effects of Age and Resistance Loading on Skeletal Muscle Ribosome Biogenesis.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Flax, Sesame Seeds Could Slow Weight Gain.
• Study: Association Between Urinary Excretion of Dietary Lignan Metabolites and Weight... No Flax, No Sesame Seeds, No Causation.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Differential Effect of Treatment Assignment on Psychosocial Well-being of Adolescents in a 1-Year Telephone-Based Adiposity Prevention Study for Families.
• Anterior Fat Pad Removal Did Not Decrease the Risk of the Occurrence of AF After CABG - Despite Its Safety and Convenience, and It Should Not Be Used to Prevent New-onset Atrial Fibrillation After CABG Unless New Evidence is Provided.
• No Statistically Significant Correlation Between State High School Student Obesity Rates and Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act Compliance Scores.
• RCT: No Differential Effects (or lack thereof) of Mat, Swiss Ball, and Theraband Exercises on Abdominal Girth.
• Phys Ed Falls Short of Curing Obesity in Texas.
• Meta-analysis: "There is a lack of evidence of whether advising self-weighing without other intervention components is effective."
• NIH Study Shows No Benefit of Omega-3 or Other Nutritional Supplements for Cognitive Decline.

Basic

• Gut Microbiota: Ganoderma Lucidum, a New Prebiotic Agent to Treat Obesity?
• Diet- and Genetically-Induced Obesity Differentially Affect the Fecal Microbiome and Metabolome in Apc1638N Mice.
• Time-fixed Feeding Prevents Obesity Induced By Chronic Advances of Light/dark Cycles in Mouse Models of Jet-lag/shift Work.
• Interactions Between Gut Microbiota, Host Genetics and Diet Modulate the Predisposition to Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• Predictive Behaviors for Anxiety and Depression in Female Wistar Rats Subjected to Cafeteria Diet and Stress.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• True and True, but Not a Paradox.
• Retraction Note To: The ‘obesity Paradox’ and Survival After Colorectal Cancer: True or False?
• Amgen Finds Data Falsified in Obesity-Diabetes Study Featuring Grizzly Bears.

Clinical

• Does Obesity Have Detrimental Effects on IVF Treatment Outcomes?
• Obesity Effect on the Spine.
• A Bottle of Water Before Mealtimes Could Aid Weight Loss.
• NYT: Bigger Hospital Rooms for Bigger Patients.
• Pre-school Obesity is Inversely Associated with Vegetable Intake, Grocery Stores and Outdoor Play.
• The Association of Pediatric Obesity with Nocturnal Non-Dipping on 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring.
• Estimation of Free-living Energy Expenditure By Heart Rate and Movement Sensing: A Doubly-labelled Water Study.
• Association Between Blood Pressure Control and Risk of Recurrent Intracerebral Hemorrhage.
• VBloc(R) Neurometabolic Therapy Demonstrates 34% Excess Weight Loss in ReCharge Study Patients with Moderate Obesity and a Comorbidity.
• Advancing Breast Cancer Survivorship Among African-American Women.
• Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Weight Loss and CVD Risk Management.
• Parent and African American Daughter Obesity Prevention Interventions: An Integrative Review.

Surgery

• LAP-BAND® for BMI 30–40: 5-year Health Outcomes From the Multicenter Pivotal Study.
• What are Important Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery? An In-depth Analysis to Inform the Development of a Core Outcome Set and a Comparison Between the Views of Surgeons and Other Health Professionals (the BARIACT Study).

Drugs

• GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Exenatide Attenuates the Detrimental Effects of Obesity on Inflammatory Profile in Testis and Sperm Quality in Mice.
• RCT: Metformin Intervention in Obese Non-diabetic Patients with Breast Cancer.
• The New Obesity Drugs: An Rx for Weight Loss?
• Vildagliptin Efficacy, Safety Similar to Januvia.

Food & Diet

• How Fats Influence the Microbiome.
• Benefits of Coconut Oil: Myth or Magic?
• Within-person Comparison of Eating Behaviors, Time of Eating, and Dietary Intake on Days with and Without Breakfast: NHANES 2005–2010.
• Nutrition: All Calories are Not Equal-cutting Dietary Fat is More Effective than Cutting Carbohydrates.
• The Bitter Price of Sweetness.
• Supersizing Nutrition Facts Labels.
• Objective Understanding of Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels Among Nutritionally At-Risk Individuals.
• Three Dimensions of Salad as Junk Food.
• Saturated Fat Causes Body.
• Behavioral Factors Affecting Obesity that Health/Fitness Professionals Need to Consider.
• Review: Raw Milk Consumption: Risks and Benefits.
• Sugar Intake Accelerates Development of Type 1 Diabetes, Research Finds.
• Group Aims to Show that Good Food Can Work as Well as Medicine.
• CDC Gives Schools Good Grades for Nutrition, but Asks: Where are the Salad Bars?
• Compounds in Flax & Sesame Seeds May Prevent Weight Gain.
• The Skeletal Muscle Anabolic Response to Plant- Versus Animal-Based Protein Consumption.
• Children Receiving Free or Reduced-Price School Lunch Have Higher Food Insufficiency Rates in Summer.
• Association Between Eating Speed and Metabolic Syndrome in a Three-Year Population-Based Cohort Study.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction in Lean and Obese Strains of Laboratory Rat: Effects on Body Composition, Metabolism, Growth, and Overall Health.
• Mitoprotective Dietary Approaches for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Caloric Restriction, Fasting, and Ketogenic Diets.
• Effect of Caloric Restriction on Metabolic Disorders and Pancreatic Apoptosis Associated with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adult Male Rats.
• Compromised Responses to Dietary Methionine Restriction in Adipose Tissue (but Not Liver) of Ob/ob Mice.
• Cellular and Molecular Remodeling of Inguinal Adipose Tissue Mitochondria By Dietary Methionine Restriction.
• Six and 12 Weeks of Caloric Restriction Increases β Cell Function and Lowers Fasting and Postprandial Glucose Concentrations in People with Type 2 Diabetes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effects of Resistance Training with and Without Caloric Restriction on Arterial Stiffness in Overweight and Obese Older Adults.
• Obesity, Physical Activity and Bladder Cancer.
• Do Single and Multiple Behavior Change Interventions Contain Different Behavior Change Techniques? A Comparison of Interventions Targeting Physical Activity in Obese Populations.
• Physical Activity and Liver Diseases.
• Effect of a 12-week Aerobic Training Program on Perceptual and Affective Responses in Obese Women.
• Leptin Suppresses the Rewarding Effects of Running Via STAT3 Signaling in Dopamine Neurons.

Economics & Sociology

• Utility of Acculturation in Physical Activity Research in Latina Adults an Integrative Review of Literature.
• Associations Between Socioeconomic Position and Correlates of Sedentary Behaviour Among Youth: A Systematic Review.

Epidemiology

• Novel Links Between Troubled Marriages and Appetite Regulation.
• Are Early-Life Socioeconomic Conditions Directly Related to Birth Outcomes? Grandmaternal Education, Grandchild Birth Weight, and Associated Bias Analyses.
• Caesarean Delivery and the Risk of Offspring Overweight and Obesity Over the Life Course: A Systematic Review and Bias-adjusted Meta-analysis.
• Obesity as an Associate of Staphylococcus Aureus Colonization Among Inmates in Maximum-Security Prisons in New York State.
• UAB Investigates Association Between Family Meals and Adolescent Risk Outcomes.
• Trends in Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome.
• Trends in Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome—Reply.
• Educational and Psychological Aspects Food Insecurity is Associated with Diabetes Self-care Behaviours and Glycaemic Control.
• Comparisons of Energy Cost and Economical Walking Speed at Various Gradients in Healthy, Active Younger and Older Adults.

Psychology

• RCT: Finding the Keys to Successful Adult-targeted Advertisements on Obesity Prevention: An Experimental Audience Testing Study.
• Table for Two: The Effects of Familiarity, Sex and Gender on Food Choice in Imaginary Dining Scenarios.

Equity and Disparities

• Do the Poor Pay More for Food? A Review of Food Price Disparities in Urban Environments.
• Disparities in the Availability of Farmers Markets in the United States.

Stigma

• Is Obesity Stigma Based on Perceptions of Appearance or Character? Theory, Evidence, and Directions for Further Study.
• An Examination of Weight, Weight Bias, and Health Care Utilization and Attitudes Among Emerging Adults.
• Obese, Fat, or “Just Big”? Young Adult Deployment of and Reactions to Weight Terms.
• Measuring the Effect of Ethnic and Non-ethnic Discrimination on Europeans’ Self-rated Health.

Policy Related

• Fighting Obesity: A Campaign to Introduce Calorie Labelling on Alcoholic Drinks.
• Young Adults: Beloved By Food and Drink Marketers and Forgotten By Public Health?
• Assessing the Usefulness of Systematic Reviews for Policymakers in Public Health: A Case Study of Overweight and Obesity Prevention Interventions.
• Children Throwing Away Fruit, Vegetables From School Lunches.
• Modernizing Medicaid Managed Care: Can States Meet the Data Challenges?
• Four Fixes for Market Failures Driving Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity Regulates Gene Expression in the Hearts of Offspring.
• Early Life Origins of Metabolic Disease: Developmental Programming of Hypothalamic Pathways Controlling Energy Homeostasis.
• Programmed Regulation of Rat Offspring Adipogenic Transcription Factor (PPARγ) By Maternal Nutrition.
• Research Shows Breast Milk is Different for Boys and Girls.
• Examining the Association Between Early Life Social Adversity and BMI Changes in Childhood: A Life Course Trajectory Analysis.
• Big Babies: An Exploration of Gestational Diabetes.
• Gestational Weight Gain and BMIs Have an Impact on the Outcomes of Diabetic Mothers and Infants.
• Socioeconomic, Cultural and Demographic Maternal Factors Associated with Dietary Patterns of Infants.
• Intergenerational educational attainment, family characteristics and child obesity.
• In Utero Heat Stress Increases Postnatal Core Body Temperature in Pigs.
• First-borns Have Greater BMI and are More Likely to Be Overweight or Obese: A Study of Sibling Pairs Among 26 812 Swedish Women.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Does Reduced Perch Availability Affect Reproduction in the Brown Anole? An Experimental Test in the Laboratory.
• The Relationship of Female Physical Attractiveness to Body Fatness.
• Study Finds Black Bears in Yosemite Forage Primarily on Plants and Nuts.
• To Bask or Not to Bask: Behavioural Thermoregulation in Two Species of Dasyurid, Phascogale Calura and Antechinomys Laniger.
• Disproportionately Increased 24-h Energy Expenditure and Fat Oxidation in Young Men with Low Birth Weight During a High-fat Overfeeding Challenge.

Methods

• BMI Accuracy in Preadolescents: Can We Trust Self-Report or Should We Seek Parent Report?
• Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Obesity Indicators and Energy Balance–Related Behaviors Among New York City Public Elementary Schools.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• The Power and Perils of Big Data: It All Depends on How You Slice, Dice, and Digest It.
• New Math Could Reveal Hidden Sources of Chaos.
• Missing Data: How to Best Account for What is Not Known.
• A Conditional Count Model for Repeated Count Data and Its Application to GEE Approach.
• Statistical Approaches Used to Assess the Equity of Access to Food Outlets: A Systematic Review.

Commentary

• This Now Exists: Fat-Infused Water.
• Goals in Nutrition Science 2015-2020.
• No, You do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day.
• The Case for Teaching Ignorance.
• No Reliable Scientific Evidence of Health Benefits From Raw Milk.
• Do the Health Benefits of Eating Fish Outweigh the Risks to Our Planet?
• Chewing the Fat, Again.
• Diet Advice that Ignores Hunger.
• Evidence for Sugary Beverages and Diabetes Link is Not So Sweet, Compelling or Even Plausible.

General

• The Ethics of Ethnography.
• Private Benefits and Metabolic Conflicts Shape the Emergence of Microbial Interdependencies.
• Reporting of a Publicly Accessible Protocol and Its Association with Positive Study Findings in Cardiovascular Trials.
• Open Access Journal Provides One-Day Peer Review.
• Many Psychology Papers Fail Replication Test. (pdf)
• NPR: Scientific Findings Often Fail to Be Replicated, Researchers Say.
• Macaques Can Work Out Complex Maths to Get Food.
• Do Faith Communities Have a Role in Addressing Childhood Obesity?
• How to Review Manuscripts — Your Ultimate Checklist.
• CVD Risk and the 'obesity Paradox'.
• Engaging Primary Care Clinicians in Early Obesity Prevention Research.
• RETHINKING ENERGY BALANCE: Facts You Need to Know About Weight Loss and Management.
• Three Reasons Weight Loss Fails.
• Millennials at Work: Workplace Environments of Young Adults and Associations with Weight-related Health.
• Psychology’s Reproducibility Problem is Journalism’s Problem, Too.
• Could Lots of Coffee Up Heart Risks for Young Adults with High Blood Pressure?

Video & Audio

• Audio: Urban Ecosystems, Turing Nanopatterns, and Serving Sizes.
• Freshman 15? Maybe Not, but Many Students do Gain Weight.

Announcements

• NAM WEBINAR: Food Waste: Current Issues and Emerging Solutions.
• Film on BBQ History in Alabama Set to Premiere Next Month.
• IOM Nutrition and Aging Workshop Registration.
• The 10th International Conference on Genomics.
• Hacking Eating Tracking.
• ICO 2016 Call for Abstracts.