12/08/17
Featured
- Disclosures in Nutrition Research. Why It Is Different.
- Recipient-Biased Competition for an Intracellularly Generated Cross-Fed Nutrient is Required for Coexistence of Microbial Mutualists.
- Twitter-derived Neighborhood Characteristics Associated with Obesity and Diabetes.
- Examining Plausibility of Self-Reported Energy Intake Data: Considerations for Method Selection.
Headline vs Study
- A Heaping Helping of Half-baked Health Headlines: 6 Examples.
- Headline: CBT [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy] Can Help Binge Eaters Lose Weight.
- Study: Secondary Analysis of Look AHEAD Trial Associates Self-reported Binge Eating with Less Weight Loss.
Contrary or Null Findings
- RCT: "Despite a theoretically informed and extensively piloted intervention that achieved high levels of engagement, follow-up, and fidelity of delivery, we found no effect of the intervention on preventing overweight or obesity."
- RCT: No Significant Evidence for Efficacy of Behavioral Weight Loss (BWL) Intervention on Decreasing Headaches in Women with Comorbid Migraine and Overweight or Obesity.
- RCT: No Effects of a Hypoenergetic Diet Rich in Alpha-linolenic Acid on Fatty Acid Composition of Serum Phospholipids in Overweight and Obese Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
- RCT: Null Effects of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Program on Household Food and Nutrition Security.
- Moringa Oleifera Leaf Had No Effect on Glycemic Control.
- Fucoxanthin and Its Metabolite Fucoxanthinol do Not Induce Browning in Human Adipocytes.
- "Contrary to prediction, Norwegian mothers with greater prepregnancy weight concerns had a higher likelihood of initiating breastfeeding."
- "Interestingly and contrary to previous findings, there was no effect of exercise on 24-hour mean glucose."
- Dietary Sugar Intake Was Associated with Increased Body Fatness, but Decreased Cardiovascular Mortality in Chinese Elderly.
Basic
- Obesity and the Tumor Microenvironment.
- Cardiomyocyte Antihypertrophic Effect of Adipocyte Tissue Conditioned Medium From Rats and Its Abrogation By Obesity is Mediated By the Leptin to Adiponectin Ratio.
- Acute High-fat Feeding Leads to Disruptions in Glucose Homeostasis and Worsens Stroke Outcome in Mice.
- DNA Methylation Signatures at Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Genes are Associated with Adiposity and Insulin Resistance.
- The Circadian Clock Regulates Adipogenesis By a Per3 Crosstalk Pathway to Klf15 in Mice.
- Resveratrol-Induced Effects on Body Fat Differ Depending on Feeding Conditions.
- Knockdown of Angiopoietin-like 2 Mimics the Benefits of Intermittent Fasting on Insulin Responsiveness and Weight Loss in Mice.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- Retraction Watch: What If You Find Out a Paper Relied on Expired Herbal Supplement?
- Comment On: An Increase in Dietary Supplement Exposures Reported to US Poison Control Centers.
- Comment and Response On: Metformin for Obesity in Prepubertal and Pubertal Children: An RCT.
- Comment On: The Increasing Problem of Subclinical and Overt Hypervitaminosis D in India: An Institutional Experience and Review.
- A Critical View on Primary and Secondary Outcome Measures in Nutrition Trials.
- Letter: Clinical Nutrition Education in Medical Schools: Results of an ESPEN Survey.
- Letter: Reproducible Evidence Shows that Exclusive Enteral Nutrition Significantly Reduces Faecal Calprotectin Concentrations in Children with Active Crohn's Disease.
- Reply: Reproducible Evidence Shows that Exclusive Enteral Nutrition Significantly Reduces Faecal Calprotectin Concentrations in Children with Active Crohn's Disease.
Clinical
- Popular Weight Loss Strategies: A Review of Four Weight Loss Techniques.
- A 13-week Low Glycemic Load Diet and Lifestyle Modification Program Combining Low Glycemic Load Protein Shakes and Targeted Nutraceuticals Improved Weight Loss and Cardio-metabolic Risk Factors.
- Perceptions of Nutrition Education in the Current Medical School Curriculum.
- Elevated Unmethylated and Methylated Insulin DNA are Unique Markers of A+β+ Ketosis Prone Diabetes.
- Oral Device Reduces Food Intake, Promotes Weight Loss in Obesity.
Children and Adolescents
- RCT: Dose, Content, and Mediators of Family-Based Treatment for Childhood Obesity.
- Between Urgent and Lifelong Matters: Overweight Children’s Voices on Health Promotion Pedagogies.
- Nutrition in the First 1000 Days: Ten Practices to Minimize Obesity Emerging From Published Science.
Surgery
- Effect of Roux-en-Y Bariatric Surgery on Lipoproteins, Insulin Resistance, and Systemic and Vascular Inflammation in Obesity and Diabetes.
- Emotion Self-Regulation Moderates the Association Between Symptoms of ADHD and Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery.
- Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Improves Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease–Related Liver Damage in Adolescents By Reshaping Cellular Interactions and Hepatic Adipocytokine Production.
Drugs
- In Vitro and in Vivo Characterization of a Novel Long-acting GLP-1 Receptor Agonist, Exendin-4–Fc Fusion Protein.
- Israeli ‘fat-melting’ Injection Claims to Help Battle Obesity.
- Commentary: Semaglutide Approved for Type 2 Diabetes.
Food & Diet
- RCT: Effects of Dark Chocolate and Almonds on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Overweight and Obese Individuals.
- RCT: The Effects of Dietary Protein Intake on Appendicular Lean Mass and Muscle Function in Elderly Men.
- Dairy Consumption and BMI Among Adults: Mendelian Randomization Analysis of 184802 Individuals From 25 Studies.
- Effects of Low Fat Versus High Fat Cheese on Glucose Homeostasis and Hepatic Lipid Metabolism in Prediabetic and Type 2 Diabetic Rats.
- Commentary: What is This Diet Thing You’re Talking About?
Caloric Restriction
- Caloric Restriction Extends Yeast Chronological Lifespan Via a Mechanism Linking Cellular Aging to Cell Cycle Regulation, Maintenance of a Quiescent State, Entry Into a Non-quiescent State and Survival in the Non-quiescent State. (pdf)
- Whitening and Impaired Glucose Utilization of Brown Adipose Tissue in a Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
- Differential Effects of Dietary Restriction Combined with Exercise vs Dietary Restriction Alone on Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissues: A Systematic Review.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Yoga Training Modulates Adipokines in Adults with High-normal Blood Pressure and Metabolic Syndrome.
- Correlates of Compliance with Recommended Levels of Physical Activity in Children.
- Optimization of the Hockey Fans in Training (Hockey FIT) Weight Loss and Healthy Lifestyle Program for Male Hockey Fans.
- Acute Exercise Alters Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Respiration and H2O2 Emission in Response to Hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic Clamp in Middle-aged Obese Men.
- Microvascular Adaptations to Exercise: Protective Effect of PGC-1 Alpha.
Economics & Sociology
- County-level Contextual Factors Associated with Diabetes Incidence in the United States.
- Socioeconomic Context as a Moderator in the Relationship Between BMI and Depression in Europe.
- Socio-economic Factors Associated with an Increase in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption.
Epidemiology
- Associations of Maternal Weight Status Before, During, and After Pregnancy with Inflammatory Markers in Breast Milk.
- Age Variation in the Association Between Obesity and Mortality in Adults.
- Associations Between Genetic Variants Associated with BMI and Trajectories of Body Fatness Across the Life Course: A Longitudinal Analysis.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- RCT: Neuromodulation Directed at the Prefrontal Cortex of Subjects with Obesity Reduces Snack Food Intake and Hunger.
- Emotional Ratings of High- and Low-calorie Food are Differentially Associated with Cognitive Restraint and Dietary Restriction.
- Behavioral Associations with Overweight in Low‐Income Children.
- BMI Trajectories From Adolescence to Early Young Adulthood: Do Adverse Life Events Play a Role?
- Gene Expression Profiles Indicate Tissue-specific Obesity Regulation Changes and Strong Obesity Relevant Tissues.
- Influence of Sedentary, Social, and Physical Alternatives on Food Reinforcement.
- Gender-Specific Relationship Between Obesity and Major Depression.
Equity and Disparities
- “The Social Divide in Obesity, Health Behaviours, and Their Determinants in European Children and Adolescents.”
- Testing the Zero-sum Game Hypothesis: An Examination of School Health Policy and Practice and Inequalities in Educational Outcomes.
Stigma
- Editorial: Obesity Stigma in Healthcare: Impacts on Policy, Practice, and Patients.
- Social Dominance Orientation, Dispositional Empathy, and Need for Cognitive Closure Moderate the Impact of Empathy-Skills Training, but Not Patient Contact, on Medical Students' Negative Attitudes Toward Higher-Weight Patients.
Policy Related
- Mandatory Calorie Disclosure: A Comprehensive Analysis of Its Effect on Consumers and Retailers.
- Systems Thinking and Simulation Modeling to Inform Childhood Obesity Policy and Practice.
- Using Cost-effectiveness Analysis to Prioritize Policy and Programmatic Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion and Obesity Prevention in Childhood. (pdf)
- Advancing Oral Health Policy and Advocacy to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Reduce Children's Consumption of Sugar-sweetened Beverages.
- District Policies and Practices Vary in Their Association with Adolescents' Consumption of Milk and 100% Fruit Juice.
- Child Nutrition Programs: Flexibilities for Milk, Whole Grains, and Sodium Requirements.
Intergenerational Effects
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- Phenotypic Plasticity and Climate Change: Can Polar Bears Respond to Longer Arctic Summers with an Adaptive Fast?
- Metabolic Health Assessment of Zoo Elephants: Management Factors Predicting Leptin Levels and the Glucose-to-insulin Ratio and Their Associations with Health Parameters.
- Does the Cost of Development Scale Allometrically with Offspring Size?
Methods
- Twitter-derived Neighborhood Characteristics Associated with Obesity and Diabetes.
- Best Practices for Using Natural Experiments to Evaluate Retail Food and Beverage Policies and Interventions.
- Chemical Similarity Enrichment Analysis (ChemRICH) as Alternative to Biochemical Pathway Mapping for Metabolomic Datasets.
- Negative Binomial Mixed Models for Analyzing Microbiome Count Data.
- World Nutrient Databases for Dietary Studies.
Mathematical and Quantitative
- Vitamin a Status in Children: Mathematical Modeling Provides New Progress on an Old Problem.
- Forecasting the Burden of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Qatar to 2050: A Novel Modeling Approach.
- A Multilevel Approach to Modeling Health Inequalities at the Intersection of Multiple Social Identities (using BMI as an Empirical Example) [corrected link].
- Ultrasonographic Quantitative Analysis of Fatty Pancreas in Obese Children: Its Correlation with Metabolic Syndrome and Homeostasis Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance.
Commentary
- Parents’ Working Hours and Childhood Obesity.
- Tracking Helps, Except When It Doesn’t.
- Imagining a Vegan U.S.: Good for Earth, Problematic for Humans.
- Beware: Baldness, Gray Hair, Obesity, and Heart Disease.
- NEJM: Childhood Obesity Prevention Won’t Be Enough.
General
- Five Ways to Fix Statistics.
- 3D Printing of Bacteria Into Functional Complex Materials.
- Data do Not Support Sex as Addictive.
- Big Data is Dead. Data is “Just Data,” Regardless of Quantity, Structure, or Speed.
- Race, Insurance Status, and Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes Before and After Enactment of the Affordable Care Act.
- Lecture playlist: The Science of Science Communication III: Inspiring Novel Collaborations and Building Capacity.
- Video: Elizabeth Blackburn: The Science of Cells that Never Get Old.
- Video: Media, Myth & Fake News.
- Webinar: Incorporating Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency Into Aging Projects and Papers.
Announcements
- Incorporating Weight Management and Physical Activity Throughout the Cancer Care Continuum: Proceedings of a Workshop.
- 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.
- IU Awarded Silver Level, Bicycle-friendly University.