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• RCT: Increased sleep in children led to reduced reported energy intake, weight loss, and lower leptin levels.
• Yellow light exposure leads to greater weight gain in chickens.
• RCT: Promoting choice can produce short-term increases in PA and decreases in sedentary behavior, as well as increased perceived autonomy during PE lessons.

Findings Contrary to Hypotheses or Popular Beliefs

• RCT: No direct link between sugar intake and liver disease.
• RCT: Postmenopausal HT and raloxifene did not increase abdominal fat loss during weight loss.
• RCT: Weight gain in college females is not prevented by isoflavone-rich soy protein.
• Try as we might, studies of the impact of nutrition labeling on fast food menus keep yielding the wrong results.
• Lack of correlation between morbid obesity and severe gastroesophageal reflux disease in candidates for bariatric surgery: Results of a large prospective study.

Caloric Restriction and Aging

• Yeast Sirtuins and the Regulation of Aging.
• Metformin: Do we finally have an anti-aging drug?
• Model-based identification of drug targets that revert disrupted metabolism and its application to ageing.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of a physical activity and healthy eating intervention to reduce stroke risk factors in older adults.
• RCT: Weight and metabolic effects of dietary weight loss and exercise interventions in postmenopausal antidepressant medication users and non-users.
• Meta-analysis and systematic review of anti-obesity drugs, diet, and exercise effects on weight-loss maintenance after a very-low-calorie diet or low-calorie diet.
• RCT: Increased sleep decreases calories ingested in pre-teens.
• RCT: Motivational Interventions lower weight gain in overweight children aged 4-7, primarily in girls.

Surgery

• Evaluation of gender-specific aspects of gastric banding procedures.
• Weight loss and regaining weight, one year after insertion of bioenterics intragastric balloon versus Atkins diet.
• Metabolic Surgery for Type 2 Diabetes: Appraisal of Clinical Evidence and Review of RCTs Comparing Surgery with Medical Therapy.
• RCT: Bariatric surgery versus standard medical therapy improved acylated ghrelin suppression at 2 years in obese patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Changes in taste perception and eating behavior after bariatric surgery-induced weight loss in women.
• Changes in sexual functioning and sex hormone levels in women following bariatric surgery.
• Adults had significant weight loss three years after bariatric surgery.

Exercise

• Dose-response association of physical activity with acute myocardial infarction: Do amount and intensity matter?
• RCT: Do soccer and Zumba exercise improve fitness and indicators of health among female hospital employees?

Food

• Resistant starch intake partly restores metabolic and inflammatory alterations in the liver of high-fat-diet-fed rats.
• RCT: Meal replacement based on Human Ration modulates metabolic risk factors during body weight loss.
• RCT: Effect of Daily Egg Ingestion with Thai Food on Serum Lipids in Hyperlipidemic Adults.
• RCT: Whole-body protein turnover response to short-term high protein diets during weight loss.

Chocolate

• Higher chocolate consumption was associated with lower total and central fatness in European adolescents.
• Effects of chocolate on cognitive function and mood: A systematic review.

Sugar

• Femoral biomechanic and microtomography from male rats submitted to dietary restriction supplemented with sucrose.
• Effects of a nonnutritive sweetener on body adiposity and energy metabolism in mice with diet-induced obesity.
• RCT: Effect of a micronutrient-fortified beverage on cognition and nutritional status of primary school children.

Epidemiology

• Human beings show corrective responses to deviations from average energy and macronutrient intakes with a lag time of 3 to 6 days, but not 1 to 2 days.
• Mealtime rituals associated with obesity.
• Early puberty in girls is associated with obesity.

Methods

• Body composition in sport: Interobserver reliability of a novel ultrasound measure of subcutaneous fat tissue.
• Changes in fat and skeletal muscle with exercise training in obese adolescents: Comparison of whole-body MRI and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry.
• Obesity trend: pick a number to fit your story.

Policy Related

• Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages: not a “holy grail” but a cup at least half; comment on “Food taxes: A new holy grail?”
• Overall and income specific effect on prevalence of overweight and obesity of 20% sugar sweetened drink tax in UK.
• Ethical Agreement and Disagreement about Obesity Prevention Policy in the United States.
• Mexican Senate passes junk-food tax.
• San Francisco joins sugary drinks fray with tax proposal.
• Educational Fast Food Menus.

Psychology

• Impulsivity mediates the association between borderline personality pathology and BMI.
• The Bright Side of Stress-Induced Eating: Eating More When Stressed but Less When Pleased.  
• Eye-tracking women’s preferences for men’s somatotypes.
• Modelling the Joint Effect of Social Determinants and Peers on Obesity Among Canadian Adults.

Stigma

• Do Parental Bonds Break Anti-fat Stereotyping?: Parental Work Ethic Ideology and Disease Concerns Predict Bias Against Heavyweight Children.
• Pass the popcorn: “Obesogenic” behaviors and stigma in children's movies.

Evolution, Energetics, and Ecology

• Latitudinal patterns in phenotypic plasticity: The case of seasonal flexibility in lizards' fat body size.
• The roles of melanin-concentrating hormone in energy balance and reproductive function: Are they connected.
• Arboreal adaptations of body fat in wild toque macaques (Macaca sinica) and the evolution of adiposity in primates.

Basic Science

• Neuropeptide y and peptide YY protect from weight loss caused by Bacille Calmette-Guérin in mice.
• Sorrento, Scripps Unite to Develop Obesity-Fighting Vaccines and Antibody Therapeutics.
• Diet-induced obesity mediated by the JNK/DIO2 signal transduction pathway.
• Transcriptomic and epigenetic changes in early liver steatosis associated to obesity: Effect of dietary methyl donor supplementation.
• DNA Study May Boost Personalized Medicine.
• Mitochondrial DNA diversity in the African American population.

Brown Fat

• Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis: ß3 adrenoreceptors as a potential target for the treatment of obesity in humans.
• Brown adipose tissue as an anti-obesity tissue in humans.
• Vagus Nerve Stimulation Increases Energy Expenditure: Relation to Brown Adipose Tissue Activity.

Transgenerational effects

• Delayed physical and neurobehavioral development and increased aggressive and depression-like behaviors in the rat offspring of dams fed a high-fat diet.
• A maternal diet of fatty fish reduces body fat of offspring compared with a maternal diet of beef and a post-weaning diet of fish improves insulin sensitivity and lipid profile in adult C57BL/6 male mice.

Commentary

• A dig through old files reminds me why I’m so critical of science.
• What now: It still takes too long and costs too much.
• Cerabino: Is handing out letters instead of candy to overweight kids at Halloween a good idea?
• Scholars’ rude awakenings.
• Marketing, Puffery, and Nutrition Research.
• A look into how and why the media ignores the science confirming that BPA poses no risk to humans.
• Salt: How much less should we eat for health?

General Science

• Doing the right thing: Scientists reward authors who report their own errors.
• Accusations of fraud spur a revolution in scientific publishing.
• Breakthroughs in animal health care may hold treatments for humans.
• Dating the Origin of Us.
• One in five Milky Way stars hosts potentially life-friendly Earths.
• Human Brain Project.

Video

• BioStats Project on Fast Food.
• Paul Breslin: "Anticipatory digestive responses to foods."
• Terry Huang: Community and Cross-Sectoral Actions in a Systems Approach to Obesity.