Featured

• Discrepancies in the Registries of Diet vs Drug Trials.
• Causal Effect of Sleep Duration on Body Weight in Adolescents a Population-based Study Using a Natural Experiment.
• Blue Light at Night Acutely Impairs Glucose Tolerance and Increases Sugar Intake in the Diurnal Rodent Arvicanthis Ansorgei in a Sex-dependent Manner.
• "...a stark lesson on the chasm between association and causation."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study: Lingonberries Can Fight Obesity. [Could Not Find Study, but It's Lingonberry Powder... In Mice].
• Headline: A New Study Finds Air Pollution Can Make You Fat [Cannot Find Published Study but a Press Release that Seems Related Is... In Mice].

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effects of a Caffeine-like Supplement, TeaCrine®, on Muscular Strength, Endurance and Power Performance in Resistance-trained Men.
• RCT: "In this small, pilot randomized controlled trial, there was little evidence that lycopene or green tea interventions influenced serum levels of IGF-I, IGF-II, IGFBBP-3 and IGFBP-2."
• RCT: No Significant Effects of an App-based EC Intervention Targeting Body Image.
• "The main outcome from predictive modelling of spending on fresh fruit and vegetables is that contrary to expectations, neural networks failed to outperform a linear regression model."
• Lower Carbohydrate and Higher Fat Intakes are Associated with Higher Hemoglobin A1c.
• RCT: "These findings suggest that daily repeated consumption of pure sucralose or aspartame for 2 weeks had no effect on glucose metabolism among normoglycaemic adults."
• RCT: "A multimodal web-based intervention facilitating nurses to address lifestyle changes in SMI patients did not improve patient cardiometabolic health."
• RCT: No Significant Impact of a Large Bolus Dose of L-leucine and L-isoleucine on Enteroendocrine and Pancreatic Hormones, and Glycemia in Healthy, Inactive Adults.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Trends in Obesity Among Low-Income Young Children.
• Trends in Obesity Among Low-Income Young Children—Reply.
• Comments On: Red and Processed Meat Consumption and Risk for All-Cause Mortality and Cardiometabolic Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies [Note: click 'Comments' link at site].
• Letter to the Editor: Concerns Regarding “Meta‐analysis on Pediatric Obesity Treatments and Eating Disorder Risk” of Jebeile et al.
• Commentary: Why Diet Research is So Spectacularly Thin.

Basic

• Adaptation of the Gut Microbiota to Modern Dietary Sugars and Sweeteners.
• Carvedilol Improves Glucose Tolerance and Insulin Sensitivity in Treatment of Adrenergic Overdrive in High Fat Diet-induced Obesity in Mice.
• Estradiol Regulates Daily Rhythms Underlying Diet-induced Obesity in Female Mice.
• Myeloid HMG-CoA (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A) Reductase Determines Adipose Tissue Inflammation, Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• MTOR Signaling in Brown and Beige Adipocytes: Implications for Thermogenesis and Obesity.
• MiR-129-5p Inhibits Adipogenesis Through Autophagy and May Be a Potential Biomarker for Obesity.
• Ghrelin-Mediated Hippocampal Neurogenesis: Implications for Health and Disease.
• Leptin, Obesity, and Leptin Resistance: Where are We 25 Years Later?

Clinical

• RCT: Comparison of Group Medical Visits Combined with Intensive Weight Management vs Group Medical Visits Alone for Glycemia in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Benefit-to-Risk Balance of Weight Loss Interventions in Older Adults with Obesity.
• Remotely Delivered Interventions for Obesity Treatment.
• RCT: Physical Activity Intentions and Behavior Mediate Treatment Response in an Acceptance-Based Weight Loss Intervention.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Influence of Physical Activity on Blood Pressure in Children with Overweight/obesity.
• Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Diagnostic Criteria, Therapeutic Options and Perspectives.
• Oxidative Stress and Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention in Children and Adolescents.
• No Differential Reward Responsivity and Drive, Punishment Sensitivity or Attention for Cues Signaling Reward or Punishment in Adolescents in with Obesity.
• Characterizing Obesity Interventions and Treatment for Children and Youths During 1991-2018.
• Early‐life Determinants of Excess Weight in Children Born Heavy.
• Microbiome‐immune‐metabolic Axis in the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity: Evidence and Opportunities.

Surgery

• Cancer Risk Drops in Half with Over 20% Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery.
• A Longitudinal Analysis of Wait Times for Bariatric Surgery in a Publicly Funded, Regionalized Bariatric Care System.
• Factors Mediating Type 2 Diabetes Remission and Relapse After Gastric Bypass Surgery.

Drugs

• Systems Pharmacology- Based Method to Assess the Mechanism of Action of Weight- Loss Herbal Intervention Therapy for Obesity.
• Role of Angiotensin Type 2 Receptor in Improving Lipid Metabolism and Preventing Adiposity.

Food & Diet

• The in Vivo Net Energy Content of Resistant Starch and Its Effect on Macronutrient Oxidation in Healthy Adults.
• Tea Consumption Patterns in Relation to Diet Quality Among Children and Adults in the United States.
• Age- and Sex-Specific Analyses of Diet Quality and 4-Year Weight Change in Nonobese Adults Show Stronger Associations in Young Adulthood.
• RCT: Effect of a Protein Vs. Carbohydrate Preload on Energy Balance in Ad Libitum Settings.
• Heterogeneity in Metabolic Responses to Dietary Fructose.
• Maternal Intake of N-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids During Pregnancy is Associated with Differential Methylation Profiles in Cord Blood White Cells.
• Avocatin B Protects Against Lipotoxicity and Improves Insulin Sensitivity in Diet‐Induced Obesity.
• Leptin and Adiponectin Signaling Pathways are Involved in the Antiobesity Effects of Peanut Skin Extract.

Exercise and Physical Activity

• Comparison of an Acute Bout of Exercise to a Sugary Snack on Energy, Mood and Cognitive Performance.
• The Effects of Macronutrient and Energy Availability on Metabolic Responses to Exercise: Implications for Training Adaptation.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• A Discovery Platform for the Identification of Caloric Restriction Mimetics with Broad Health-improving Effects.
• Age-dependent Effects of Caloric Restriction on MTOR and Ubiquitin-proteasome Pathways in Skeletal Muscles.

Economics & Sociology

• The Moderating Role of Race/ethnicity and Nativity in the Relationship Between Perceived Discrimination and Overweight and Obesity.
• The Shift of Obesity Burden By Socioeconomic Status Between 1998 and 2017 in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Socioeconomic Status and Education Level are Associated with Dyslipidemia in Adults Not Taking Lipid-lowering Medication.
• Education and Lifestyle Predict Change in Dietary Patterns and Diet Quality of Adults 55 years and Over.
• The Impact of Neighbourhood Deprivation on Embryonic Growth Trajectories: Rotterdam Periconception Cohort.
• The Relative Caloric Prices of Healthy and Unhealthy Foods Differ Systematically Across Income Levels and Continents.

Epidemiology

• Impact of Changes in the Food, Built, and Socioeconomic Environment on BMI in US Counties.
• Is There a Link Between Progranulin, Obesity, and Parameters of the Metabolic Syndrome in Children? Findings From a Longitudinal Intervention Study.
• The Association of Sleep Disturbances with Glycemia and Obesity in Youth at Risk for or with Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association of Serum Sclerostin Levels with Low Skeletal Muscle Mass.
• Obesity and Tooth Wear Among American Adults: The Role of Sugar-sweetened Acidic Drinks.
• Causal Relationships Between Obesity and the Leading Causes of Death in Women and Men.
• Geographic Variation in Prevalence of Adult Obesity in China: Results From the 2013–2014 National Chronic Disease and Risk Factor Surveillance.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Vulnerability to Diet-induced Obesity is Associated with Greater Food Priming-induced Reinstatement of Palatable Food Seeking.
• Deficits in Executive Function and Suppression of Default Mode Network in Obesity.
• An Experientially Derived Model of Flexible and Intentional Actions for Weight Loss Maintenance After Severe Obesity.
• Toward Isolating Reward Changes in Diet-Induced Obesity: A Demand Analysis.
• Obesity Has Limited Behavioural Overlap with Addiction and Psychiatric Phenotypes.
• Excess Body Weight and Abdominal Obesity in Relation to Selected Psychosocial Characteristics in Primary School Children.
• Childhood Obesity, Cortical Structure, and Executive Function in Healthy Children.

Equity and Disparities

• The Moderating Role of Race/ethnicity and Nativity in the Relationship Between Perceived Discrimination and Overweight and Obesity: Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.
• Trends in Tract-Level Prevalence of Obesity in Philadelphia By Race-Ethnicity, Space, and Time.
• Preoperative Bariatric Surgery Programme Barriers Facing Pacific Patients in Auckland, New Zealand as Perceived By Health Sector Professionals: A Qualitative Study.

Stigma

• Body Dissatisfaction Enhances Awareness and Facilitates the Consolidation of Body-Related Words During Rapid Serial Visual Presentation.
• A Qualitative Investigation of Body Weight and Weight Loss-related Attitudes of Mothers and Fathers in the Context of Food Insecurity.
• Weight Stigma Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women: A New Context of Stigmatization.
• Examining Weight Bias Among Practicing Canadian Family Physicians.

Policy Related

• Cost-Effectiveness of the Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Excise Tax in Mexico.
• “Turning mirrors into windows”: A study of participatory dynamic simulation modelling to inform health policy decisions.

Intergenerational Effects

• Do Physical Activity and Screen Time Mediate the Association Between European Fathers’ and Their Children’s Weight Status?
• Sex‐specific Effects of Leptin Administration to Pregnant Mice on the Placentae and the Metabolic Phenotypes of Offspring.
• Effects of Nutrient Intake During Pregnancy and Lactation on the Endocrine Pancreas of the Offspring. (pdf)
• Maternal Reproductive History and Premenopausal Risk of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: A Danish Cohort Study.
• Programming Effects of Maternal and Gestational Obesity on Offspring Metabolism and Metabolic Inflammation.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Honeybee Caste Lipidomics in Relation to Life-history Stages and the Long Life of the Queen.
• The Advantages of Diving Deep: Fin Whales Quadruple Their Energy Intake When Targeting Deep Krill Patches.
• Review: The Gut–Liver Axis in the Control of Energy Metabolism and Food Intake in Animals.
• MicroRNA 16-5p is Upregulated in Calorie-restricted Mice and Modulates Inflammatory Cytokines of Macrophages.

Methods

• Calculator to Estimate 10-Year Risk of Diabetes Complications.
• The Nitrogen Isotope Ratio is a Biomarker of Yup'ik Traditional Food Intake and Reflects Dietary Seasonality in Segmental Hair Analyses.
• Methods and Risks of Bias in Natural Experiments in Obesity: Opportunities for the Future Informed By a Systematic Review.
• CAPS on the Move: Crafting an Approach to Recruitment for a RCT of Community Gardening.
• The Rate of Glucose Appearance is Related to Postprandial Glucose and Insulin Responses in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Stable Isotope Studies.

Commentary

• Unexpected Clues Emerge About Why Diets Fail.
• ObesityWeek: Intermittent Fasting and Circadian Rhythms.
• The Buddy Clubs of Obesity, Nutrition, and Fitness.
• Singletons More Likely to Be Obese than Kids with Siblings: Study.
• The Case for Getting Fitter — Not Slimmer: Why Our Obsession with Weight Could Be a Mistake.
• Establishing What Constitutes a Healthy Human Gut Microbiome: State of the Science, Regulatory Considerations, and Future Directions.
• Prized and Proscribed: Our Ambivalent Feelings About Meat.
• What Exactly are Hyper-Palatable Foods.
• ObesityWeek: Ten Top Take-Home Messages.

General

• Genomic and Epidemiological Evidence of Bacterial Transmission From Probiotic Capsule to Blood in ICU Patients.
• Impact of Nutrition on Telomere Health: Systematic Review of Observational Cohort Studies and RCTs.
• Is It Really that Bad to Skip Breakfast?
• City Sicker? A Meta‐analysis of Wildlife Health and Urbanization.
• Meeting the Sexual Health Needs of Bisexual Men in the Age of Biomedical HIV Prevention: Gaps and Priorities.
• National Lipid Association Scientific Statement on the Use of Icosapent Ethyl in Statin-treated Patients with Elevated Triglycerides and High- or Very-high ASCVD Risk.
• Video: David Sloan Wilson discussed "This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
• Hadza Hunter-Gatherers and the Evolution of Human Cooperation: Evidence Against Partner Choice Models.
• Trapping Atoms in a Laser Beam Offers a New Way to Measure Gravity.
• Rural Americans are Dying More Frequently From Preventable Causes than Their Urban Counterparts.
• Rae Case Offers Clues to Staving Off Alzheimer's.

Video & Audio

• Video: Daniel Stone discussed "The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
• Video: David Allison and Others Testify Before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

Announcements

• NIA Mourns the Loss of Dr. Huber Warner.
• JNEB Sustainability (via Reductions in Food Waste and Loss) Call for Papers.
• AHA's Strategically-Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB's Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Executive Director of Development: The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington is Searching for an Energetic and Successful Development Professional to Join Our Team.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured, Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.