Featured

• 25-year Weight Gain in a Racially Balanced Sample of U.S. Adults: The CARDIA Study.
• Exercise and BMI Z-score in Overweight and Obese Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of RCTs.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Diet Doc's Customized Weight Loss Programs More Effective than Anti-Inflammatory Diet.
• Study: Association Between a Proxy Dietary Anti-inflammatory Index and Incident CVD. No Comparison with Diet Doc.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effect of Behavioral Intervention and Nutrition Education Program on Serum Lipid Profile or Body Weight in Iranian Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury.
• RCT: "The [physical activity] intervention was effective in promoting improvements in some PA outcomes, but the changes were not sufficient to increase the proportion of those meeting PA recommendations."
• RCT: Time restricted feeding "reduced energy intake by ∼650 kcal per day of TRF, but did not affect total body composition within the duration of the study."
• RCT: High Intake of Regular-fat Cheese Compared with Reduced-fat Cheese Does Not Affect LDL Cholesterol or Risk Markers of the Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: No Differential Efficacy (or Lack Thereof) of a Computer-tailored Vs. Interactive Web-based Intervention for Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Depressive Symptoms.
• RCT: No Significant Differences in Body Weight or Composition Changes with Alternate Daily Fasting Versus Daily Caloric Restriction.
• RCT: No Evidence for Metabolic Adaptation in Thermic Effect of Food By Dietary Protein.
• Uniform Distributions of Glucose Oxidation and Oxygen Extraction in Gray Matter of Normal Human Brain: No Evidence of Regional Differences of Aerobic Glycolysis.
• RCT: No Significantly Different Effects of High Protein vs High Carbohydrate Diets on Weight Loss or Indicators of Sexual Function Among Obese Men.
• The (In)Effectiveness of Exercise Interventions After Bariatric Surgery?
• RCT: "Taken together, these results show no evidence of an "activitystat" effect. In the current study, imposed exercise stimuli of 150-300 min/week resulted in commensurate increases in overall energy expenditure and physical activity, with no sign of compensation in either of these constructs."

Basic

• High Fat Diet Induced-obesity Facilitates Anxiety-like Behaviors Due to GABAergic Impairment Within the Dorsomedial Hypothalamus in Rats.
• Molecular Mechanisms of Appetite and Obesity: A Role for Brain AMPK.
• Epigenetics of Lipid Phenotypes.
• Masculinized Females Produce Heavier Offspring in a Group Living Rodent.
• Estrogen Receptor Alpha Activation Enhances Mitochondrial Function and Systemic Metabolism in High‐fat‐fed Ovariectomized Mice.
• PKC-ALDH2 Pathway Plays a Novel Role in Adipocyte Differentiation.
• Shielding Mitochondria From Lipotoxicity Prevents Renal Injury.
• Cellular Senescence: Implications for Metabolic Disease.
• Restricting Feeding to the Active Phase in Middle-aged Mice Attenuates Adverse Metabolic Effects of a High-fat Diet.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Impact of high-fat feeding on basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors controlling enteroendocrine cell differentiation.
• Commentary: Can we go further in the tailoring of bariatric operations?

Clinical

• RCT: Efficacy of a Virtual Assistance-based Lifestyle Intervention in Reducing Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes in Young Employees in the Information Technology Industry in India.
• Cross-sex Hormone Therapy in Transgender Persons Affects Total Body Weight, Body Fat and Lean Body Mass: A Meta-analysis.
• Is Sleep Education an Effective Tool for Sleep Improvement and Minimizing Metabolic Disturbance and Obesity in Adolescents?
• Efficacy of a Brief Web-based Intervention with and Without SMS to Enhance Healthy Eating Behaviors Among University Students.
• Low Thyroid Hormone in Early Pregnancy Associated with Risk for Gestational Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Cardiometabolic Health in Adults Born Premature with Extremely Low Birth Weight.
• Chewing in Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity: An Exploratory Study with Behavioral Approach.
• Comparison of Sensory-specific Satiety Between Normal Weight and Overweight Children.
• With a Caesarean Section, the Path to Obesity May Begin at Birth.

Surgery

• Calorie Restriction and Not Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Explains the Acute Improvement in Glucose Control After Gastric Bypass in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Project HELP: A Remotely Delivered Behavioral Intervention for Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery.
• Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Durability of Weight Loss.

Drugs

• Perinatal Nicotine Exposure Increases Obesity Susceptibility in Adult Male Rat Offspring By Altering Early Adipogenesis.
• RCT: Long-term Treatment with Metformin in Obese, Insulin-resistant Adolescents.
• Dapagliflozin Enhances Fat Oxidation and Ketone Production in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Nut Intake Among Overweight and Obese African-American Women in the Rural South.
• RCT: Beneficial Effect of High Energy Intake at Lunch Rather than Dinner on Weight Loss in Healthy Obese Women in a Weight-loss Program.
• The prevalence of celiac disease has remained relatively stable from 2009 through 2014, although the prevalence of individuals reporting adherence to a gluten-free diet has more than tripled.”

Caloric Restriction

• Intersection of Calorie Restriction and Magnesium in the Suppression of Genome-destabilizing RNA–DNA Hybrids.
• Calorie Restriction Effect on Circadian Clock Gene Expression.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Cost Effectiveness of a Multi-component School-based Physical Activity Intervention Targeting Adolescents: The ‘Physical Activity 4 Everyone’.
• RCT: Effects of a Multicomponent Physical Activity Behavior Change Intervention on Breast Cancer Survivor Health Status Outcomes.
• Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Cognitive Function in Older Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Disparities in Diabetes By Education and Race/Ethnicity in the U.S., 1973–2012.
• Income Differences in Social Control of Eating Behaviors and Food Choice Priorities Among Southern Rural Women in the US: A Qualitative Study.
• The Economics of Obesity: Food Price Policies Improve Diet Quality While Increasing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Nutrition.

Epidemiology

• BMI and All-cause Mortality Among Older Adults.
• Autism Spectrum Disorders and Metabolic Complications of Obesity.
• In U.S., Smoking Dips, but Fewer Eating Healthy Since '09.
• CDC: At Least 20 Percent of Every U.S. State's Population is Obese.

Psychology

• Influences of Sex and BMI on the Weight Level Perception of Others.
• Stopping at the Sight of Food – How Gender and Obesity Impact on Response Inhibition.
• Distress Tolerance is Linked to Unhealthy Eating Through Pain Catastrophizing.

Equity and Disparities

• Book: Distinctions in the Flesh: Social Class and the Embodiment of Inequality.
• Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality in Obesity: Looking Beyond the Obesity Threshold.

Stigma

• Weight Bias in University Health Professions Students.
• "I have to constantly prove to myself, to people, that I fit the bill": Perspectives on weight and shape control behaviors among low-income, ethnically diverse young transgender women.
• Three Reasons to Keep Ranting About Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• Regarding Obesity as a Disease: Evolving Policies and Their Implications.
• Taxation of Unprocessed Sugar or Sugar-added Foods for Reducing Their Consumption and Preventing Obesity or Other Adverse Health Outcomes.
• RCT: Effects of plain packaging, warning labels, and taxes on young people’s predicted sugar-sweetened beverage preferences.
• Information, Choice, and Obesity: Measuring the Impact of the New York City Calorie Labeling Mandate on Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Fat Feeding Augments Offspring Nephron Endowment in Mice.
• Effects of a Family-Based Childhood Obesity Treatment Program on Parental Weight Status.
• Multi-variant Study of Obesity Risk Genes in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study.
• Association Between Cesarean Birth and Risk of Obesity in Offspring in Childhood, Adolescence, and Early Adulthood.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Prenatal Brain-Body Allometry in Mammals.
• Energetic consequences and implications for food consumption models when feeding on various sizes of cod in harp seals (Phoca groenlandica).
• Energetics of feeding, social behavior, and life history in non-human primates.

Methods

• Detailed Methods of Two Home-based Vegetable Gardening Intervention Trials to Improve Diet, Physical Activity, and Quality of Life in Two Different Populations of Cancer Survivors.
• The Use of Multiple Imputation Method for the Validation of 24-h Food Recalls By Part-time Observation of Dietary Intake in School.

Commentary

• Obesity is Linked to at Least 13 Types of Cancer.
• An Unconventional Cardiologist Promotes a High-Fat Diet.
• The Effect of Tobacco Cessation on Weight Gain, Obesity, and Diabetes Risk.
• The Problem with Obesity Scorecards.
• How Do People With Obesity Spend Their Time?
• UK Proposal for Explicit Weight Discrimination in Healthcare.
• The Blame for Obesity: Genes, Environment, or Ourselves?
• Food security: A collaboration worth its weight in grain.
• NIA’s Go4Life – Maintaining good health and function.
• Obesity Reflected in the Faces of Our Pets.

General

• Flaws in FMRI Research.
• Audio: Caffeine Genetics.
• Does water kill? A call for less casual causal inferences.
• Here’s Why More than 50,000 Psychology Studies are About to Have PubPeer Entries.
• An Alarming Number of Scientific Papers Contain Excel Errors.
• MBoC Introduces Author Checklist to Enhance Research Reproducibility.
• Equity Focused Health Impact Assessment: Social Determinants of Health.
• Healthcare Disparities Affecting Americans in the U.S. Territories: A Century-Old Dilemma.
• Commentary on “Changes in Bone Health During the First Year of Cancer Treatment in Children.”.
• Inhibition of Transforming Growth Factor-β Activation Diminishes Tumor Progression and Osteolytic Bone Disease in Mouse Models of Multiple Myeloma.
• Another Classic Finding in Psychology—that You Can Smile Your Way to Happiness—just Blew Up.
• Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body.
• Improving the Peer Review of Narrative Literature Reviews.

Announcements

• OAC announces free image gallery to fight against weight bias.