Featured

• Nutrition From the Inside Out.
• Poverty and Obesity as Political Indicators.
• Engineering Brown Fat Into Skeletal Muscle Using Ultrasound-targeted Microbubble Destruction Gene Delivery in Obese Zucker Rats: Proof of Concept Design.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Move for Your Life: Study Finds Sitting for Long Periods of Time Can Cause Early Death.
• Headline: Sitting Too Long Without Movement May Kill You Fast: Study.
• Study: Prospective Associations Between Length of Sedentary Bouts or Total Sedentary Time and All Cause Mortality in Black and White Middle to Older Adults. No 'Cause' and No 'Fast'.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "No statistically significant differences in research topics were observed between industry- and non-industry-funded studies."
• "We observed no changes between stages in the compliance the Guidelines" for Dispensing or Distribution of Foods and Beverages at School Food Establishments in Elementary Schools in Mexico.
• RCT: No Apparent Benefit of Early Enteral Tube Feeding in Optimizing Treatment of Hyperemesis Gravidarum.
• Our Findings Suggest that Arsenic Exposure is Not Associated with Obesity, and that Urinary Creatinine and Osmolality May Be Colliders on the Causal Pathway From Arsenic Exposure to Obesity, as Common Descendants of Hydration and Body Composition.
• "Our data demonstrate that high-fat rather than high fructose consumption drives metabolically disadvantageous alterations of adipocyte differentiation involving whitening and insulin resistance in a sex-dependent manner with most deleterious effects seen upon administration of combined sucrose and fat-enriched diet in male mice."
• "Meta-analysis in type 2 diabetes showed no effect of dragon fruit ..."
• In Rats Gestational Iron Deficiency Does Not Change Body Fat or Hepatic Mitochondria in the Aged Offspring.
• RCT: "In older men and women, whey-protein drinks ...have no suppressive effect on subsequent ad libitum energy intake."

Basic

• Modulation of the Endogenous Omega-3 Fatty Acid and Oxylipin Profile in Vivo—A Comparison of the Fat-1 Transgenic Mouse with C57BL/6 Wildtype Mice on an Omega-3 Fatty Acid Enriched Diet.
• Gender-based Differences in Host Behavior and Gut Microbiota Composition in Response to High Fat Diet and Stress in a Mouse Model.
• Blocking Gp130 Signaling Suppresses Autotaxin Expression in Adipocytes and Improves Insulin Sensitivity in Diet-induced Obesity.
• Energy Restriction in Male Lambs Impairs Liver Development By Increasing Apoptosis Via the Hippo Signaling Pathway.
• Resveratrol Attenuates Hepatic Complications Associated with Insulin Resistance in Rats Fed a High Fructose Diet.
• Hypoxia in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes Suppresses Adiponectin Expression Via the PERK and IRE1 Unfolded Protein Response.
• Tumor Necrosis Factor-a and Interleukin-6 Suppress MicroRNA-1275 Transcription in Human Adipocytes Through Nuclear Factor-B.
• MiR-130a-3p Attenuates Activation and Induces Apoptosis of Hepatic Stellate Cells in Nonalcoholic Fibrosing Steatohepatitis By Directly Targeting TGFBR1 and TGFBR2.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Meta-Analysis of Sleep Duration and Obesity in Children: Fixed Effect Model or Random Effect Model?
• Letter: High-intensity Interval Training Vs. Moderate Interval Training: The Lack of Equalisation, an Ongoing Problem.
• Reply To: High-intensity Interval Training Vs. Moderate-intensity Continuous Training: The Lack of Equalization, an Ongoing Problem.
• Letter: Dietary Whole Grains and Zinc Nutriture.
• Reply To: Dietary Whole Grains and Zinc Nutriture.

Children and Adolescents

• Increased Lipolysis, Diminished Adipose Tissue Insulin Sensitivity and Impaired ß-cell Function Relative to Adipose Tissue Insulin Sensitivity in Obese Youth with Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT).
• Correlation of BMI Z-scores with Glucose and Lipid Profiles Among Overweight and Obese Children and Adolescents.
• Implementation of Best Practices in Obesity Prevention in Child Care Facilities: The Arizona Empower Program, 2013–2015.

Surgery

• Converting a Sleeve Gastrectomy to a Gastric Bypass for Weight Loss Failure—Is It Worth It?
• Relationship Between the Nutritional Status of Vitamin a Per Trimester of Pregnancy with Maternal Anthropometry and Anemia After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.

Drugs

• Cannabis Use is Associated with Reduced Prevalence of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Morinda Citrifolia L. Leaf Extract Prevent Weight Gain in Sprague-Dawley Rats Fed a High Fat Diet.
• GLP-1/glucagon Receptor Co-agonism for Treatment of Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Metabolic Effects of Intermittent Fasting.
• Ultra-processed Foods in Human Health: A Critical Appraisal.
• A Ketogenic Diet Extends Longevity and Healthspan in Adult Mice.
• Ketogenic Diet Reduces Midlife Mortality and Improves Memory in Aging Mice.

Caloric Restriction

• Beneficial Effects of a Dietary Weight Loss Intervention on Human Gut Microbiome Diversity and Metabolism are Not Sustained During Weight Maintenance.
• Direct Comparison of Methionine Restriction with Leucine Restriction on the Metabolic Health of C57BL/6J Mice.
• Presurgical Weight Loss Affects Tumour Traits and Circulating Biomarkers in Men with Prostate Cancer.
• Partitioning of Adipose Lipid Metabolism By Altered Expression and Function of PPAR Isoforms After Bariatric Surgery.
• Resveratrol and Caloric Restriction Prevent Hepatic Steatosis By Regulating SIRT1-autophagy Pathway and Alleviating Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in High-fat Diet-fed Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Obesity History and Daily Patterns of Physical Activity at Age 60–64 Years: Findings From the MRC National Survey of Health and Development.
• Physical Training Improves Visceral Adipose Tissue Health By Remodelling Extracellular Matrix in Rats with Estrogen Absence: A Gene Expression Analysis.
• Physiological Adaptations to Resistance Exercise as a Function of Age.

Economics & Sociology

• The Non-Linear Relationship Between BMI and Health Care Costs and the Resulting Cost Fraction Attributable to Obesity.
• Religious Attendance and Body Mass: An Examination of Variations By Race and Gender.
• Does Exposure to the Food Environment Differ By Socioeconomic Position.
• Variations in Obesity Rates Between US Counties: Impacts of Activity Access, Food Environments, and Settlement Patterns.

Epidemiology

• Association Between Obesity and Migraine in Women.
• Is the Effect of BMI on Hypertension Modified By the Elevation? A Cross-Sectional Study of Rural Areas in Japan.
• Metabolic Syndrome Risks Following the Great Recession in Rural Black Young Adults.
• Prevalence and Trends in Lifetime Obesity in the U.S., 1988–2014.
• Association Between Weight and Health-Related Quality of Life in the Elderly Women.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Body-scaled Action in Obesity During Locomotion: Insights on the Nature and Extent of Body Representation Disturbances.
• Do Implicit Attitudes Toward Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Prospectively Predict Objective Physical Activity Among Persons with Obesity?
• An Experiment Assessing Effects of Personalized Feedback About Genetic Susceptibility to Obesity on Attitudes Towards Diet and Exercise.
• Depressive Symptoms During Adolescence Predict Adulthood Obesity Among Black Females.
• Neuropsychological Functioning in Mid-life Treatment-Seeking Adults with Obesity: A Cross-sectional Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Insulin-sensitive and Insulin-resistant Obese and Non-obese Phenotypes: Role in Prediction of Incident Pre-diabetes in a Longitudinal Biracial Cohort.
• Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Associations of Overall and Central Body Fatness with Circulating Hormones and Metabolic Factors in US Men.
• Maximum Lifetime BMI and Mortality in Mexican American Adults: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (1988–1994) and NHANES 1999–2010.

Ethics

• It is Ethical to Recommend Against Assisted Reproductive Treatment for Women with a High BMI.
• Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: Quality, Outcomes, and Debates.

Stigma

• RCT: Challenging Fat Talk: An Experimental Investigation of Reactions to Body Disparaging Conversations.
• Parental Support for Overweight Students to Cope with Weight-Related Teasing.

Policy Related

• Consolidated State Political Party Control and the Enactment of Obesity-related Policies in the United States.
• Will Government Targets to Increase Physical Activity in Children Reduce Socio-economic Inequalities in Childhood Overweight? A Policy Simulation in the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
• The Impact of a City-Level Minimum-Wage Policy on Supermarket Food Prices in Seattle-King County.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association Between Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity and Breastfeeding Duration: Data From a Nationwide Prospective Birth Cohort.
• Trajectories of Maternal Weight From Before Pregnancy Through Postpartum and Associations with Childhood Obesity.
• Female Offspring Born to Obese and Insulin Resistant Dams are Not at Increased Risk for Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction During Early Development.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Energy Metabolism and Appetite Control: Separate Roles for Fat-Free Mass and Fat Mass in the Control of Food Intake in Humans.
• Dietary Traits of the Ungulates From the HWK EE Site at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): Diachronic Changes and Seasonality.
• The Great Nutrient Collapse: The Atmosphere is Literally Changing the Food We Eat, for the Worse. And Almost Nobody is Paying Attention.
• A Hot Lunch for Herbivores: Physiological Effects of Elevated Temperatures on Mammalian Feeding Ecology.

Methods

• The Role of Glycaemic and Lipid Risk Factors in Mediating the Effect of BMI on Coronary Heart Disease: A Two-step, Two-sample Mendelian Randomisation Study.
• Reliability and Precision of the Nana Protocol to Assess Body Composition Using Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry.
• Statistical Methods for Latent Class Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping.

Obesity & Dogs

• Dog Ownership Supports the Maintenance of Physical Activity During Poor Weather in Older English Adults: Cross-sectional Results From the EPIC Norfolk Cohort.
• Success of a Weight Loss Plan for Overweight Dogs: The Results of an International Weight Loss Study.
• The Urine Metabolome Differs Between Lean and Overweight Labrador Retriever Dogs During a Feed-challenge.
• Overweight Dogs Exercise Less Frequently and for Shorter Periods: Results of a Large Online Survey of Dog Owners From the UK.
• Prevalence of Canine Obesity, Obesity-Related Metabolic Dysfunction, and Relationship with Owner Obesity in an Obesogenic Region of Spain.

Commentary

• The Young Science of Built Environments and Obesity.
• If Vegetables Were Cheaper, Would You Eat More?
• The 'Soy-ling' of Our Food: The Versatile U.S. Soybean - Soy intake may be beneficial for health, but some still want more evidence.
• Diet: Choosing How to Be Wrong.
• Head Spinning Bias About Funding Bias.
• Nutrition Counseling in Clinical Practice. How Clinicians Can do Better.
• Obesity? What Obesity? It’s Only Ideology.
• The Amazing Story of Big Chicken.

General

• Audio: Social Health.
• New Class of 'transformative' Anti-aging Drugs Set for Human Trials.
• FDA Acknowledges Qualified Health Claim Linking Early Peanut Introduction and Reduced Risk of Developing Peanut Allergy. (pdf)
• Measuring Animal Age with DNA Methylation: From Humans to Wild Animals.
• Mesothelioma and the Risk of Developing Diabetes.
• Comparative Analyses of Life-history Strategies in Asiatic and African Wild Asses Using a Demographical Approach.
• How Science is Unlocking the Secrets of Addiction.
• Psychological Safety Among Learners: When Connection is More than Just Communication.
• On Teaching: The Resilience Paradox.

Video & Audio

• National Nutrition Research Roadmap Webinar: Basic Science and Epidemiology of Nutrition.
• National Nutrition Research Roadmap Webinar: Measuring and Monitoring Individual Dietary Intake and the Food Environment.
• National Nutrition Research Roadmap Webinar: Behavioral Science of Eating Habits.
• National Nutrition Research Roadmap Webinar: Applications of Systems Science, Design, and Systems Change to Effect Population Level Change in Eating Behaviors.

Announcements

• New Book: Models of Obesity: From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy.
• Dr. Philipp Scherer Will Receive the 2017 EASD-Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Excellence in Recognition of His Research.
• Starving for Truth: Nutrition Myths and Controversies.
• Reversing Obesity & Type II Diabetes: Failing with Diet, Succeeding with Fasting - Nov 10, 2017.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.
• Research Position at Boston Children’s Hospital – Collaborate with Researchers at IU and UAB.