• "Our study corroborates other large studies on men, and the steady reduction in family size may contribute to the observed increase in adult BMI worldwide."
• Adenovirus 36 Infection: A Role in Dietary Intake and Response to In-patient Weight Management in Obese Girls.
• Effects of the Dietary ω3:ω6 Fatty Acid Ratio on Body Fat and Inflammation in Zebrafish (Danio Rerio).

Contrary or Null Findings

• ”Contrary to Commonly Held Assumptions, Weight Misperception Among a Non-clinical Sample of Youth Who Were Overweight or Obese Predicted Lower Future Weight Gain”.
• An Energy-dense Dietary Pattern Was Associated with a Lower Prevalence of Excess Weight.
• Contrary to the Hypothesized Effect, Treatment-related Increases in Plasma Adiponectin Were Not Associated with a Reduction in Albumin to Creatinine Ratios.
• "Results did not provide evidence that perceived weight bias mediates the relationship between weight status and health care outcomes."
• Review: Obesity Paradox-High BMI Has No Protective Effect in the Presence of Low Muscle Mass.

Basic

• CETP Expression Protects Female Mice From Obesity-Induced Decline in Exercise Capacity.
• Adipocyte Size as a Determinant of Metabolic Disease and Adipose Tissue Dysfunction.
• Organization of the Mammalian Metabolome According to Organ Function, Lineage Specialization, and Longevity.
• Effects of Environmental Temperature and Dietary Energy on Energy Partitioning Coefficients of Female Broiler Breeders.
• A Test of “nutritional Wisdom” in Perch (Perca Fluviatilis) By Self-selection of Encapsulated Macronutrients.
• Sucrose Preload Reduces Snacking After Mild Mental Stress in Healthy Participants as a Function of 5-hydroxytryptamine Transporter Gene Promoter Polymorphism.
• Early Life Stress Induced By Limited Nesting Material Produces Metabolic Resilience in Response to a High Fat and High Sugar Diet in Male Rats.
• Transplanted Bone Marrow-Derived Cells Contribute to Human Adipogenesis.
• Obesity-dependent Changes in Interstitial ECM Mechanics Promote Breast Tumorigenesis.
• Loss of Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier 2 in the Liver Leads to Defects in Gluconeogenesis and Compensation Via Pyruvate-Alanine Cycling.
• Activation of NF-κB Drives the Enhanced Survival of Adipose Tissue Macrophages in an Obesogenic Environment.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• No, Subjects do Not Grow Taller as a Result of Massage for Weight Loss [Letter to the Editor: Exceptional Data in Paper on “The Effect of Meridian Massage on BM, BMI, WC and HC in Simple Obesity Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial”].
• Response to Letter - Corrects Inaccurate Data.

Clinical

• Effectiveness of a New Dietetic Weight Management Food to Achieve Weight Loss in Client-owned Obese Cats.
• Stiffer breast tissue in obese women promotes tumors.
• RCT: Effects of Interrupting Children's Sedentary Behaviors with Activity on Metabolic Function.
• High Risk of Diabetes and Neurobehavioral Deficits in Individuals with Surgically Treated Hyperinsulinism.
• Too Much Weight in Midlife Tied to Earlier Alzheimer's.

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery Can Lead to Net Cost Savings to Health Care Systems: Results From a Comprehensive European Decision Analytic Model.
• Patient Race and the Likelihood of Undergoing Bariatric Surgery Among Patients Seeking Surgery.
• RCT: Bariatric–metabolic Surgery Versus Conventional Medical Treatment in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: 5 Year Follow-up.
• Long-term Metabolic Effects of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• Obesity Medications: What Does the Future Look Like?
• Leptin Applications in 2015: What Have We Learned About Leptin and Obesity?
• RCT: Chronic Ephedrine Administration Decreases Brown Adipose Tissue Activity: Implications for Obesity.
• ELIXA Trial Demonstrates Cardiovascular Safety of Type 2 Drug Lixisenatide.

Food & Diet

• Chocolate: Good for the Heart but Not the Waistline?
• RCT: Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation Reduces Inflammation in Obese Pregnant Women.
• Acute Cocoa Supplementation Increases Postprandial HDL Cholesterol and Insulin in Obese Adults with Type 2 Diabetes After Consumption of a High-Fat Breakfast.

Caloric Restriction

• The Effects of Graded Levels of Calorie Restriction: IV. Non-linear Change in Behavioural Phenotype of Mice in Response to Short-term Calorie Restriction.
• Differential Expression of Hypothalamic, Metabolic and Inflammatory Genes in Response to Short-term Calorie Restriction in Juvenile Obese- and Lean-prone JCR Rats.
• Mechanism By Which Caloric Restriction Improves Insulin Sensitivity in Sedentary Obese Adults.
• RCT effect of Two-Year Caloric Restriction on Bone Metabolism and Bone Mineral Density in Non-Obese Younger Adults.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Timing of Moderate-to-vigorous Exercise and Its Impact on Subsequent Energy Intake in Young Males.
• Twenty-eight Days of Exposure to 3,454 M Increases Mitochondrial Volume Density in Human Skeletal Muscle.
• Electrolyte Supplementation During Severe Energy Restriction Increases Exercise Capacity in the Heat.

Economics & Sociology

• Relationship Between Children’s BMI and Parents’ Obesity and Socioeconomic Status: A Multilevel Analysis Applied with Luxembourg Data.
• Built Environment Associations with Adiposity Parameters Among Overweight and Obese Hispanic Youth.

Epidemiology

• Gene × Dietary Pattern Interactions in Obesity: Analysis of Up to 68 317 Adults of European Ancestry.
• Secular Trends of BMI in North Indian Children with Type 1 Diabetes do Not Support the Accelerator Hypothesis.
• Body Weight, Metabolic Dysfunction, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Patients at High Risk for Cardiovascular Events or with Manifest Cardiovascular Disease: A Cohort Study.
• Prevalence of and Trends in Diabetes Among Adults in the United States, 1988-2012.

Psychology

• Eating Tasty Foods to Cope, Enhance Reward, Socialize or Conform: What Other Psychological Characteristics Describe Each of These Motives?
• How Food as a Reward is Detrimental to Children's Health, Learning, and Behavior.

Equity and Disparities

• Early Childhood Disadvantage for Sons of Mexican Immigrants: BMI Across Ages 2–5.
• Linking Obesity Prevention and Mental Health Promotion to Address Health Disparities.
• The Neoliberal Diet and Inequality in the United States.

Stigma

• About Right: About Right Body Size Management Among Normal Weight and Moderately Overweight People.
• Dr. Ken: Walking Away from Fat Shaming for Laughs.
• Gender Differences in Weight Bias Internalisation and Eating Pathology in Overweight Individuals.
• The Phenomenon of Weight-based Discrimination in South African Employment.

Policy Related

• Do High Consumers of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Respond Differently to Price Changes? A Finite Mixture IV-Tobit Approach.
• "Results suggest that neither sales tax had a statistically significant impact on the consumption of soft drinks." (PDF)

Intergenerational Effects

• Little Appetite for Obesity: Meta-analysis of the Effects of Maternal Obesogenic Diets on Offspring Food Intake and Body Mass in Rodents.
• Targeting Pregnancy as a Time to Treat Obesity.
• Effects of in Utero Exposure to Arsenic During the Second Half of Gestation on Reproductive End Points and Metabolic Parameters in Female CD-1 Mice. (PDF)
• Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity and Cause-specific Stillbirth.
• Alterations in Energy Homeostasis to Favour Adipose Tissue Gain: A Longitudinal Study in Healthy Pregnant Women.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Exploration of Energy Metabolism in the Mouse Using Indirect Calorimetry: Measurement of Daily Energy Expenditure (DEE) and Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).
• Is Bigger Better? A Possibility for Adaptation of Daphnia to Filamentous Cyanobacteria in the Face of Global Warming.
• Feed or Fight: Testing the Impact of Food Availability and Intraspecific Aggression on the Functional Ecology of an Island Lizard.
• Oxidative Phosphorylation Efficiency, Proton Conductance and Reactive Oxygen Species Production of Liver Mitochondria Correlates with Body Mass in Frogs.
• Predation Risk Modulates Diet-induced Obesity in Male C57BL/6 Mice.

Methods

• Best (but oft forgotten) practices: testing for treatment effects in randomized trials by separate analyses of changes from baseline in each group is a misleading approach.
• RCT: Effects of Awareness that Food Intake is Being Measured By a Universal Eating Monitor on the Consumption of a Pasta Lunch and a Cookie Snack in Healthy Female Volunteers.
• HORMONE MEASUREMENT GUIDELINES: Tracing Lipid Metabolism: The Value of Stable Isotopes.
• An Acetone Bio-sniffer (Gas Phase Biosensor) Enabling Assessment of Lipid Metabolism From Exhaled Breath.
• Prevalence and Characteristics of Misreporting of Energy Intake in US Adults: NHANES 2003–2012.
• Smartphone-Based Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Devices for Daily Obesity Management.
• Predicting How Many Animals Will Be Where: How to Build, Calibrate and Evaluate Individual-based Models.

Commentary

• Women Hit Out at Study Claiming Females are Fatter Because They are Not Doing Enough Housework.
• Labels Like ‘Alternative Medicine’ Don’t Matter. The Science Does.
• Do Sugars Increase Heart Disease Risk? A Review of the Evidence.
• Editorial: Breaking the Feast.
• Invested in Fighting Food Deserts Instead of Obesity?
• Food Conspiracy: Big Egg vs Little Fake Mayo.
• Why Going Hungry Doesn’t Bring Weight-loss Success.
• Dietary Fat and the Human Brain: Redefining Food for Thought.
• A Real Conversation About Obesity?

General

• Gender, Illness-Related Diabetes Social Support, and Glycemic Control Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults.
• Measures of Healthspan as Indices of Aging in Mice—A Recommendation.
• Trials are Best, Ignore the Rest: Safety and Efficacy of Digoxin.
• The Ethics of Cluster-randomized Trials Requires Further Evaluation: A Refinement of the Ottawa Statement.
• Psychology is Not in Crisis.
• P Hacking in Biology: An Open Secret. (PDF)
• Seahorse Brood Pouch Transcriptome Reveals Common Genes Associated with Vertebrate Pregnancy.
• Next Up for a Foundation's Push to Curb Bad Science: Improving Brain Research.
• Neural Coding Underlying the Cue Preference for Celestial Orientation.
• Manicured Lawns are Disrupting Frogs' Sex Hormones.

Video & Audio

• Why Animals are Needed in Research.

Announcements

• The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health invites nominations and applications for the position of Chair, Department of Epidemiology.
• Translating Research Into Action: Go4Life Month Promotes Exercise.
• Google Life Sciences Makes Diabetes Its First Big Target.
• José Fernández is Inaugural Winner of Diversity Award From the Obesity Society.
• Dr. Sara Bleich, Garrison Forest Graduate, Selected for 2015-16 Class of White House Fellows.
• NUTRICON 2015: Abstract Submission is September 15, 2015.
• Eating Through Time.
• ASN--Advances and Controversies in Clinical Nutrition Conference.