Featured

• Childhood obesity: can the scale weigh popularity?
• Structure Function Relationship of Myo-Inositol Oxygenase in Model Drosophilids and Its Role in Obesity.
• Food Processing Does Not Affect Energy Intake in the Nectar-feeding Bat Anoura Geoffroyi.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: How Cinnamon Can Help You to Burn Holiday Fat.
• Study: Cinnamaldehyde (a compound in cinnamon) Affects Thermogenic and Metabolic Gene Expression... In Mouse Adipocytes and Human Adipose Stem Cells in Cell Culture.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Our results indicate that unhealthy dietary pattern consumed at home is associated to BMI z-score, while away-from-home food consumption is not associated."
• "There was no significant change in Total Physical Activity Score or any EPAO subscale over the intervention period."
• "Obesity and obstructive sleep apnea are not associated with worse outcomes in bronchoscopy patients."
• "these data do not support a contribution of obesity trends to asthma prevalence trends."
• "The absence of negative physical and psychological effects [associations] of weight cycling indicates that the risk of weight regain should not be a barrier to encouraging weight loss efforts in patients with severe obesity."
• "HFSC [high fat high sucrose] diet improved biomechanical properties only in LETO rats."
• RCT: "A single exposure to structured education programme did not increase physical activity or improve biochemical markers in overweight and obese women with PCOS."
• RCT: No Effect of Sleep Curtailment on Energy Intake.
• "There were no differences between milk, SSSD, NCSD, and water on insulin sensitivity."

Basic

• Lack of Mitochondrial MutS Homolog 1 in Toxoplasma Gondii Disrupts Maintenance and Fidelity of Mitochondrial DNA and Reveals Metabolic Plasticity.
• Diversity of Thermogenic Capacity Predicts Divergent Obesity Susceptibility in a Wild Rodent.
• Cold Acclimation Causes Fiber Type-Specific Responses in Glucose and Fat Metabolism in Rat Skeletal Muscles.
• Brown Fat AKT2 is a Cold-Induced Kinase that Stimulates ChREBP-Mediated De Novo Lipogenesis to Optimize Fuel Storage and Thermogenesis in Male Mice.
• Diet-resistant Obesity is Characterized By a Distinct Plasma Proteomic Signature and Impaired Muscle Fiber Metabolism.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Indestructible Myth of the Sugar High.

Clinical

• Effects of Weight Loss Interventions for Adults Who are Obese on Mortality, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Maturation of CGM and Glycemic Measurements Beyond HbA1c—A Turning Point in Research and Clinical Decisions.
• Standardizing Clinically Meaningful Outcome Measures Beyond HbA1c for Type 1 Diabetes: A Consensus Report.
• International Consensus on Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring.
• The Use of Language in Diabetes Care and Education.
• Genetic Risk Scores for Body Fat Distribution Attenuate Weight Loss in Women During Dietary Intervention.
• The Role of Behavioral Medicine in the Treatment of Obesity in Primary Care.
• Maintenance of Lost Weight and Long-Term Management of Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Pediatric Cardiovascular Morbidity of the Early Term Newborn.
• Characterization of the Stool Microbiome in Hispanic Preschool Children By Weight Status and Time.
• The Dose of Behavioral Interventions to Prevent and Treat Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-regression.

Surgery

• Position Statement: Response to Decision By Joint Committee of the Hertfordshire Valleys and the East and North Hertfordshire CCGs to Restrict Access to Elective Surgery on the Basis of BMI.
• BPS Endorses ASO Statement on Restricting Elective Surgery Based on BMI.
• The Effect of Helicobacter Pylori on Postoperative Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Effectiveness of Bariatric Surgical Procedures: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of RCTs.

Drugs

• RCT: Glucocorticoids Suppress Brown Adipose Tissue Function in Humans.
• RCT: The Efficacy and Safety of Monotherapy with the Once-weekly Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitor Omarigliptin in People with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Metformin Effects are Augmented By Chronic Intermittent Cold Stress in High Fat Diet Fed Male Wistar Rats.
• Obesity and Altered Aspirin Pharmacology.

Food & Diet

• Undervalued and Ignored: Are Humans Poorly Adapted to Energy-dense Foods?
• RCT: Effects of 3-week Total Meal Replacement Vs. Typical Food-based Diet on Human Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Food-cue Reactivity and Functional Connectivity in People with Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of a Mixed Berry Beverage on Cognitive Functions and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers.
• Shifts in Patterns and Consumption of Beverages Between 1965 and 2002.

Caloric Restriction

• Metformin Potentiates the Benefits of Dietary Restraint: A Metabolomic Study.
• Ketone Body 3-hydroxybutyrate Mimics Calorie Restriction Via the Nrf2 Activator, Fumarate, in the Retina.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Optimal Timing of Exercise for Influencing Energy Intake in Children During School Lunch.
• Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time are Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adults with Prediabetes.

Economics & Sociology

• How People Came to Believe Blueberries are the Healthiest Fruit.
• The Use of Family Rituals in Eating Behaviors in Hispanic Mothers.
• Relationship Between Individual Categories of Adverse Childhood Experience and Diabetes in Adulthood in a Sample of US Adults: Does It Differ By Gender?
• The Relationship of Socioeconomic Status with BMI Depends on the Socioeconomic Measure Used.
• Tempo-rarily Fat: A Queer Exploration of Fat Time.

Epidemiology

• Neighborhood Resources to Support Healthy Diets and Physical Activity Among US Military Veterans.
• Quality of Food Choices of Brazilian Adolescents According to Individual Earnings.
• Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better than Food Deserts in the United States.
• Psoriasis and the Risk of Diabetes: A Prospective Population-Based Cohort Study. (pdf)

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Emotional Eating and Instructed Food-cue Processing in Adolescents.
• Genetic Association of Major Depression with Atypical Features and Obesity-Related Immunometabolic Dysregulations.
• “Memory Bias” for Recall of Experiences During Initial Weight Loss is Affected By Subsequent Weight Loss Outcome.
• Correlation Between Brain Circuit Segregation and Obesity.
• Association Between Previous Success with Weight Loss Through Dietary Change and Success in a Lifestyle Modification Program.

Equity and Disparities

• Disparities in State-Specific Adult Fruit and Vegetable Consumption — United States, 2015.
• Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better than Food Deserts in the United States.

Stigma

• Abstract: Obese Teen Girls Have Lower Trust of Healthcare Providers than Healthy Weight Teen Girls.
• Policy Statement: ‘Words Can Heal or do Harm’: Policy Addresses Ways to Reduce Weight Stigma. American Association of Pediatrics.
• Policy Statement: Stigma Experienced By Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Obesogenic Behavior and Weight-Based Stigma in Popular Children’s Movies.

Policy Related

• The Cultural Competence of Health Journalists: Obesity Coverage in Four Urban News Organizations.
• Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) Position Statement: SBM Supports Curbing Summertime Weight Gain Among America's Youth.
• Nutrition and Physical Activity Related School Environment/policy Factors and Child Obesity in China: A Nationally Representative Study of 8573 Students in 110 Middle Schools.
• Potato Chips, Cookies, and Candy Oh My! Public Commentary on Proposed Rules Regulating Competitive Foods.
• Mandatory Calorie Disclosure: A Comprehensive Analysis of Its Effect on Consumers and Retailers.
• Draft Guidance for Industry: Menu Labeling Supplemental Guidance.
• An Overview of Links Between Obesity and Food Systems (pdf). (pdf)
• A Systematic Review of the Long-term Effectiveness of Work-based Lifestyle Interventions to Tackle Overweight and Obesity.
• US Health Policy and Prescription Drug Coverage of FDA-approved Medications for the Treatment of Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity and Cardiac Development in the Offspring: Study in Human Neonates and Minipigs.
• Pre-pregnancy Overweight or Obesity and Gestational Diabetes as Predictors of Body Composition in Offspring Twenty Years Later-evidence From Two Birth Cohort Studies.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Tall Young Females Get Ahead: Size-specific Fecundity in Wild Kangaroos Suggests a Steep Trade-off with Growth.
• Eco-energetic Consequences of Evolutionary Shifts in Body Size.
• Energy Expenditure and Intake During Special Operations Forces Field Training in a Jungle and Glacial Environment.
• Diversity of Thermogenic Capacity Predicts Divergent Obesity Susceptibility in a Wild Rodent.

Methods

• Suitability of Random Forest Analysis for Epidemiological Research: Exploring Sociodemographic and Lifestyle-related Risk Factors of Overweight in a Cross-sectional Design.
• Statistical and Integrative System-level Analysis of DNA Methylation Data.
• Exploring the Impact of Using Measured or Estimated Values for Height and Weight on the Relationship Between BMI and Acute Hospital Mortality.

Commentary

• Dietary Fat: Friend or Foe?
• The Stomach and Obesity: The Missing Link, at Last?
• The Important Role of Food Composition in Policies and Programmes for Better Public Health: A South African Case Study.
• How to Host Thanksgiving Dinner When Everyone Has a Dietary Restriction.
• Weight Discrimination in the Workplace: The Troubling Lack of Plus-Sized CEOs.

General

• Scientists Gave Beetle an Extra, Functional Eye.
• A Troubling Look at the Human Toll of Mountaintop Removal Mining.
• Humans as a Model Species for Sexual Selection Research.
• Scientific Trials—In the Laboratories, Not the Courts.
• How Racism and Microaggressions Lead to Worse Health.
• …But It Was the Very Best Butter! How Tests Can Be Reliable, Valid, and Worthless.
• If You Don't Measure It, You Won't Improve It: The Advancement of Recreational Therapy Through Collaborative Research.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington’s School of Public Health seeks to hire two grant administrators and grant promotion personnel to work as part of growing team.
• Post-Doc Opportunity: University of Kansas Medical Center – Cardiovascular Research Institute – Center for Physical Activity and Weight Management.
• ObesityWeek — NOW OPEN TOS 2018 Call for Symposia Submissions.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.
• Research Position at Boston Children’s Hospital – Collaborate with Researchers at IU and UAB.