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• RCT: Breakfast Consumption Augments Appetite, Eating Behavior, and Exploratory Markers of Sleep Quality Compared to Skipping Breakfast in Healthy Young Adults.
• High CD8 T Cell Receptor Clonality and Altered CDR3 Properties are Associated with Elevated Isolevuglandins in Adipose Tissue During Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Smoking Cessation, Weight Change, Type 2 Diabetes, and Mortality.
• Clinical Perspectives on Obesity Treatment: Challenges, Gaps, and Promising Opportunities.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Eating in 10-hour Window Can Override Disease-causing Genetic Defects, Nurture Health.
• Study: Time-Restricted Feeding Prevents Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome... In Mice Lacking a Circadian Clock.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Grocery Stores are Not Associated with More Healthful Food for Participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
• Low-carbohydrate Diet Score is Associated with Higher Glycated Haemoglobin: A Secondary Analysis of the UK National Diet and Nutrition Surveys Year 1–6.
• Results of Noninvasive Prenatal RHD Testing in Gestation Week 25 are Not Affected By Maternal BMI.
• "Crayfish consumed greater quantities of macrophyte tissue when predator cues were present, and this result was unexpected and is contrary to most observations in the literature."
• Weight Status Was Not Associated with Being Sedentary or Inactive When at School.
• Among older adults "institutionalization was not associated with poorer nutritional status compared to community dwellers."
• "Dietary gluten intake during adulthood was not associated with risk of microscopic colitis among women without celiac disease."
• RCT: No Effects of Montmorency Tart Cherry Juice Supplementation and FATMAX Exercise on Fat Oxidation Rates and Cardio-metabolic Markers in Healthy Humans.

Basic

• Exercise Without Dietary Changes Alleviates Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Without Weight Loss Benefits in Mice.
• Small Adipose Tissue Stores are Characterized By Reduced Cell Volume Instead of Cell Number in Cystic Fibrosis Mouse Models.
• Programming Mediated By Fatty Acids Affects Uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP-1) in Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Cysteine Thiol Oxidation on SIRT2 Regulates Inflammation in Obese Mice with Sepsis.
• ER-Associated Ubiquitin Ligase HRD1 Programs Liver Metabolism By Targeting Multiple Metabolic Enzymes.
• Microglia Play an Active Role in Obesity-associated Cognitive Decline.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "Can a bunch of little nudges add up to a public health strategy with an effect on obesity?"
• Webinar: Event Information: Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices Across the Scientific Enterprise.
• Some Comments on the Update to BJP Guidance on Experimental Design and Analysis.
• The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research.
• Letter to the Editor and Response Regarding an Assessment of a Health Promotion Model on Obese Turkish Children.

Clinical

• Influence of Age, BMI and Comorbidity on Major Outcomes in Acute Pancreatitis, a Prospective Nation-wide Multicentre Study.
• An Evidence-Based Review of Dietary Supplements on Inflammatory Biomarkers in Obesity.
• Whole-body Vibration Training in Obese Subjects: A Systematic Review.
• Android Fat as a Determinant of Metabolic Syndrome: Sex Differences.

Children and Adolescents

• “Your Body Feels Better When You Drink Water”: Parent and School-Age Children’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Cognitions.
• BMI Does Not Capture the High Fat Mass Index and Low Fat-free Mass Index in Children with Cerebral Palsy and Proposed Statistical Models that Improve This Accuracy.
• Body Fatness at a Young Age and Risks of Eight Types of Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis of Observational Studies.
• Association of Childhood Obesity with Female Infertility in Adulthood.
• Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity Among Children and Adolescents Aged 2–19 Years: United States, 1963–1965 Through 2015–2016.

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery: Information, Misinformation, and Inertia.
• Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Bariatric Procedures in Medicare-Eligible Patients a Systematic Review.
• Long-term Weight Change and Health Outcomes for Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG) and Matched Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) Participants in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) Study.

Drugs

• Semaglutide vs Liraglutide for Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of MYL‐1501D Versus Insulin Glargine in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes After 24 Weeks: Results of the Phase III INSTRIDE 2 Study.
• Understanding of Anti‐diabetic Medication is Associated with Blood Glucose in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: At Baseline Date of the KAMOGAWA‐DM Cohort Study.
• Association of Hemoglobin A1c Levels with Use of Sulfonylureas, Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Inhibitors, and Thiazolidinediones in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Treated with Metformin.

Food & Diet

• Implicit Attitudes and Self-esteem Towards Food Images After Consuming a Sugar or Diet Beverage.
• RCT: Mode of Infant Feeding, Eating Behaviour and Anthropometry in Infants at 6-months of Age Born to Obese Women – a Secondary Analysis of the UPBEAT Trial.
• Dietary Supplementation with the Microalgae Nannochloropsis Gaditana Reduces Weight Gain and Improves Metabolic Health in Rats.
• Consumption of Cherry Out of Season Changes White Adipose Tissue Gene Expression and Morphology to a Phenotype Prone to Fat Accumulation.
• RCT: Dietary Cholesterol Contained in Whole Eggs is Not Well Absorbed and Does Not Acutely Affect Plasma Total Cholesterol Concentration in Men and Women.

Caloric Restriction

• Functional Gut Microbiota Remodeling Contributes to the Caloric Restriction-Induced Metabolic Improvements.
• Calorie Restriction Attenuates Hypertrophy-induced Redox Imbalance and Mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K+ Channel Repression.
• Fasting and Time of Day Independently Modulate Circadian Rhythm Relevant Gene Expression in Adipose and Skin Tissue.
• Calorie Restriction Curbs Proinflammation that Accompanies Arterial Aging, Preserving a Youthful Phenotype.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity is Related to Function and Fatigue but Not Pain in Women with Fibromyalgia: Baseline Analyses From the Fibromyalgia Activity Study with TENS (FAST).
• How Well do Activity Monitors Estimate Energy Expenditure? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Validity of Current Technologies.
• Associations of Device-measured Physical Activity Across Adolescence with Metabolic Traits: Prospective Cohort Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status and the Association Between Height and Obesity Amongst First Class Primary School Children in Ireland.
• Interaction Between Parental Education and Household Wealth on Children’s Obesity Risk.

Epidemiology

• Health and Health Behaviors During the Great Recession: A Note on Drinking, Smoking, Obesity, and Physical Activity.
• Regression Models to Predict Corrected Height, Weight, and Obesity Indicators Among University Students in Beijing, China.
• Obesity Prevalence and Voting Behaviors in the 2016 US Presidential Election.
• The Association Between 25(OH)D Levels, Frailty Status and Obesity Indices in Older Adults.
• Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity Among Adults Aged 20 and Over: United States, 1960–1962 Through 2015–2016.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Breakfast Consumption and the Attention and Concentration of 18-27 Year-old Students.
• Links Between Obesity-Induced Brain Insulin Resistance, Brain Mitochondrial Dysfunction, and Dementia.

Equity and Disparities

• Socioeconomic Inequality in Excessive Weight: The Case of Indonesia.
• Racial Differences in Rates of Change of Childhood BMI and Blood Pressure Percentiles.

Stigma

• Respectful Language and Care in Childhood Obesity.
• Discrimination and Adiposity Among Latinos.
• Weight Bias Among Exercise and Nutrition Professionals: A Systematic Review.
• Preference for People-First Language Among Patients Seeking Bariatric Surgery.
• Beware of Shaming the Shamers.
• Book Chapter: Psychosocial Consequences of Body Weight and Obesity.
• Weight Loss Surgery Patients’ Gender-Differentiated Experiences of Vanity Stigma.

Policy Related

• FDA Issues Draft Guidance on the Labeling of Dietary Supplements Containing Live Microbials.
• Draft Guidance for Industry: Policy Regarding Quantitative Labeling of Dietary Supplements Containing Live Microbials.
• A Note on Sugar Taxes and Changes in Total Calorie Consumption.

Intergenerational Effects

• Longer-term Outcomes in Offspring of GDM Mothers Treated with Metformin Versus Insulin.
• LincRNA H19 Protects From Dietary Obesity By Constraining Expression of Monoallelic Genes in Brown Fat.
• Association of Gestational Diabetes with Maternal Disorders of Glucose Metabolism and Childhood Adiposity.
• Influence of Maternal Obesity on the Association Between Common Pregnancy Complications and Risk of Childhood Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Primary Biological Motivators in Food Advertisements: Energy Density and Sexual Appeals Compete for Appetitive Motivational Activation.
• Maternal Condition and Maternal Investment During Lactation in Mantled Howler Monkeys.
• Seasonal Shifts in Reproduction Depend on Prey Availability for an Income Breeder.
• Energetic Consequences for a Northern, Range-Edge Lizard Population.

Methods

• Preliminary Feasibility and Acceptability of the Remote Food Photography Method for Assessing Nutrition in Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Reliability of Joint Kinematic Calculations Based on Direct Kinematic and Inverse Kinematic Models in Obese Children.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Adaptive Fuzzy Integral Sliding Mode Control of Blood Glucose Level in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: In Silico Studies.

Commentary

• A Hard Look at Defining Fitness to Serve.
• National Obesity Care Week: 5 Reasons to Take Action.
• Advice Regarding Alcohol Use By Individuals with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Primum Non Nocere.
• When is Milk Really Milk?
• How Unsaturated Fats Protect Against Cardiovascular Disease Revealed.
• Vitamin D Supplementation: Of Scandal, Sunlight, and Skin in the Game.
• People with Obesity – Their Heroic Battle to Defeat Their Genes in a Hostile Hypercaloric Sedentary Environment.
• Carbs, Good for You? Fat Chance!

General

• Human Milk Composition and Dietary Intakes of Breastfeeding Women of Different Ethnicity From the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of New Zealand.
• Unidirectional Transitions in Nectar Gain and Loss Suggest Food Deception is a Stable Evolutionary Strategy in Epidendrum (Orchidaceae): Insights From Anatomical and Molecular Evidence.
• Is Civility Contagious? Examining the Impact of Modeling in Online Political Discussions.
• "Knowledge Begins in Wonder": The Smithsonian Institution's Children's Room.
• Constructing and Validating a Scale of Inquisitive Curiosity.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington: Safety Program Receives Award From American Society of Safety Professionals.
• IU Bloomington: Researchers Receive Award for Significant Contribution to Industrial Hygiene.
• Staff Openings at IU SPH: Director of Special Projects and Executive Assistant to the Dean.
• NIH Seeking Nutrition Department Chief.
• FASEB Webinar: Enhancing Research Rigor and Reproducibility.
• FASEB Webinar: Promoting Good Mentoring in Science Careers.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.