Featured

• Invalidity of U.S. Nutritional Surveillance: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Caloric Energy Intake Data, 1971–2010.
• A risk algorithm for assessing short-term mortality for obese black and white men and women: The reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS).
• Association Study Beverages and energy intake in overweight and obese women.
• For every additional $100k in house prices, obesity rates drop by 2.3%.

Findings Contrary to Popular Hypotheses or Beliefs

• RCT: Another school-based obesity prevention program shows no effect on BMI.
• There was no association between organized sport participation and weight status, adiposity, consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages or high-fat foods.
• Elevated GDM risk in Asian-pacific Islander women is not associated with an increased rate of macrosomia.
• There were no significant effects of rat cage enrichment on weight gain or food consumption.
• Overfeeding over 24 hours does not activate brown adipose tissue in humans.

Video

• Paul Rozin “Eating and the environment.”
• Terry Snell "Searching for Dietary Supplements that Extend Lifespan".

Twins

• Characterising metabolically healthy obesity in weight-discordant monozygotic twins.
• Age at dieting onset, BMI, and dieting practices. A twin study.

Surgery

• Obese Rats’ Weight Loss Surgery May Pose Risk to Health of Offspring.
• Weight Recidivism Post-Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review.
• Your Brain after Obesity Surgery.
• Adherence and weight loss outcomes in bariatric surgery: Does cognitive function play a role?

Sugar

• Trends in added sugar supply and consumption in Australia: there is an Australian Paradox.
• Experience with Sugar Modifies Behavioral but not Taste-Evoked Medullary Responses to Sweeteners in Mice.

Stigma

• Weight stigma and narrative resistance evident in online discussions of obesity.
• Adverse Association of Obesity and Bullying on Educational Attainment and Wellbeing among Taiwanese Adolescents.
• Inching Forward Against Weight Discrimination in MA.
• The stigma of obesity surgery: Negative evaluations based on weight loss history.
• Weight bias in professionals treating eating disorders.

Resveratrol

• Resveratrol Improves Adipose Insulin Signaling and Reduces the Inflammatory Response in Adipose Tissue of Rhesus Monkeys on High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet.
• Thermogenesis is involved in the body-fat lowering effects of resveratrol in rats.

Psychology

• Taking weight-loss supplements may elicit liberation from dietary control: A laboratory experiment.
• Impulsivity makes one more susceptible to overeating after contextual appetitive conditioning.
• (Still) longing for food: Insulin reactivity modulates response to food pictures.
• Effects of witnessing fat talk on body satisfaction and psychological well-being: A cross-cultural comparison of Korea and the United States.

Policy Related

• Using Behavioral Economics to Design More Effective Food Policies to Address Obesity.
• Evidence and obesity prevention: developing evidence summaries to support decision making.
• Nudging Legally - On the Checks and Balances of Behavioural Regulation.

Mathematics

• Effects of Body Surface Area-Indexed Calculations in the Morbidly Obese: A Mathematical Analysis.
• A novel mathematical model detecting early individual changes of insulin resistance.

Methods

• Animal Models of Exercise and Obesity.
• Evidence and Recommendations for Imaging Liver Fat in Children, Based upon Systematic Review.
• The Official Positions of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry: Indications of Use and Reporting of DXA for Body Composition.
• Measurement of food reinforcement in preschool children. Associations with food intake, BMI, and reward sensitivity.
• Association of run-in periods with weight loss in obesity randomized controlled trials.
• Rapid quantification of muscle fat content and subcutaneous adipose tissue in fish using MRI.
• Comparison of physical activity energy expenditure in Japanese adolescents assessed by EW4800P triaxial accelerometry and the doubly labelled water method.

General Science

• Recommendations for a uniform assessment of publication bias related to funding source.
• I confess, I wrote the Arsenic DNA paper to expose flaws in peer-review at subscription based journals.
• Let's Restore Some Of The Funding To NIH.
• Evaluating U.S. Medical Schools' Efforts to Educate Faculty Researchers on Research Integrity and Research Misconduct Policies and Procedures.

Food

• Chronobiology and Chronomics Honor Douglas Wilson. Neither Calories Nor Anything Else are Equal at Breakfast and Dinner or Along Other Time Scales.
• Portion size: What we know and what we still need to know.
• RCT: Appetitive, dietary and health effects of almonds consumed with meals or as snacks.

Exercise

• Meta-analysis: Exercise is efficacious for reducing percent body fat in overweight and obese children and adolescents.
• Endurance Training Modulates Intramyocellular Lipid Compartmentalization and Morphology in Skeletal Muscle of Lean and Obese Women.

Evolution, Ecology and Energetics

• Effects of photoperiod and temperature on the body mass, thermogenesis, and serum leptin levels of Apodemus draco (Rodentia: Muridae) in the Hengduan Mountain region, China.
• Caloric Content of Chukchi Sea Benthic Invertebrates: Modeling Spatial and Environmental Variation.

Epidemiology

• US Male Obesity from 1800-2000: A Long Term Perspective.
• Overweight Dogs Found To Have Reduced Life Expectancies.
• The International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE): Design and methods.
• Neighbourhood economic deprivation explains racial/ethnic disparities in overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in the USA.
• Propagation of Obesity across Generations: The Roles of Differential Realized Fertility and Assortative Mating by BMI.

Commentary

• Personal responsibility and public policy do not exist in opposition.
• Training Physicians to Manage Obesity — Back to the Drawing Board.
• Obesity is not a disease: Pretending otherwise will stoke an epidemic and crush the NHS.
• Do Public Health Professionals Need To Brush Up Their Knowledge of Basic Science?

Basic Science

• Eat more, weigh less: Worm study provides clues to better fat-loss therapies for humans.
• A common biological basis of obesity and nicotine addiction.
• Neurological Researchers Find Fat May Be Linked to Memory Loss.
• Voluntary timing of food intake increases weight gain and reduces basal plasma cortisol levels in common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.).
• A comparative analysis of the pig and human genomes sheds light on genetic predisposition to over eating.
• Cadmium modulates adipocyte functions in metallothionein-null mice.
• High-fat intake during pregnancy and lactation exacerbates high-fat diet-induced complications in male offspring in mice.
• The gut microbiota reduces leptin sensitivity and the expression of the obesity-suppressing neuropeptides in the central nervous system.
• Mechanical compressive force inhibits adipogenesis of adipose stem cells.
• Elevated glucocorticoids during ovine pregnancy increase appetite and produce glucose deregulation and adiposity in their granddaughters in response to ad libitum feeding at 1 year of age.

Clinical and Translational

• The impact of weight loss on the 24-h profile of circulating peptide YY and its association with 24-h ghrelin in normal weight premenopausal women.
• RCT: Reducing TV Watching During Adult Obesity Treatment.
• Computer simulations of obesity effects on occupant injury in frontal impacts.
• Obesity in show dogs.
• Weight-Loss Drug Cuts Type 2 Diabetes.
• Physical exercise and brain responses to images of high-calorie food.
• Where is the beef? Waist circumference is more highly correlated with BMI and total body fat than with abdominal visceral fat in children.