Featured

• Calcineurin Links Mitochondrial Elongation with Energy Metabolism.
• Modelling Causation and Development of Feeding Patterns in Growing Pigs.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Weight-loss Super Fruit: Add Sweet Pears to Your Platter.
• Study: Cross-sectional Association Using NHANES Data; No Weight-loss.
• "No, Plus Size Models Are Not Driving Obesity Trends." ConscienHealth discusses headline vs press release vs study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Consumption of 4 Servings of Legumes Per Week Had No Significant Effect on Anthropometric Measurements, Glycemic Indices, and Lipid Profiles.
• RCT: "Limited efficacy for pioglitazone in the treatment of poorly controlled asthma in obesity, and also the potential for harm, given the weight gain in those assigned to active treatment."
• RCT: No Differential Weight Loss on Low-fat Vs. Low-carbohydrate Diets By Insulin Resistance Status Among Overweight Adults and Adults with Obesity.
• RCT: Lifestyle Intervention Delivered to Pregnant Women Did Not Significantly Reduce Weight of Untreated Partners.
• "This review indicates that macronutrient composition of a wide range of typical, non-experimental dietary fat and carbohydrate intakes has no effect on fasting substrate oxidation."

Basic

• Weight Loss-induced Changes in Adipose Tissue Proteins Associated with Fatty Acid and Glucose Metabolism Correlate with Adaptations in Energy Expenditure.
• Mitochondrial Functions Modulate Neuroendocrine Metabolic, Inflammatory, and Transcriptional Responses to Acute Psychological Stress.
• Ventral and Dorsal Striatum Networks in Obesity: Link to Food Craving and Weight Gain.
• Hepatocyte-specific Disruption of CD36 Attenuates Fatty Liver and Improves Insulin Sensitivity in HFD Fed Mice.
• MiR-212 Downregulation Contributes to the Protective Effect of Exercise Against Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Via Targeting FGF-21.
• Investigating Mechanisms Underpinning the Detrimental Impact of a High-fat Diet in the Developing and Adult Hypermuscular Myostatin Null Mouse.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• MA-CORD: Stop Ineffective Childhood Obesity Interventions.
• In Reply to Dr. Anchondo and the Ellyn Satter Institute RE: MA-CORD.
• Unsubstantiated Conclusions From Improper Statistical Design and Analysis of a RCT of Yoga for Exercise.

Clinical

• RCT: A Prevention Intervention that Embeds Weight-related Messages Within a General Parenting Program.
• The University Worksite Intervention Improved Metabolic and Behavioral Risk Factors Among Employees with Prediabetes in Ohio.
• Individual Differences Among Children in Sucrose Detection Thresholds: Relationship with Age, Gender, and Bitter Taste Genotype.

Surgery

• Energy Adaptations Persist 2 Years After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass.
• Increased Post-operative Cardiopulmonary Fitness in Gastric Bypass Patients is Explained By Weight Loss.
• Effects of Gastric Bypass and Gastric Banding on Bone Remodeling in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Drugs

• Prevention of Diet-Induced Obesity Effects on Body Weight and Gut Microbiota in Mice Treated Chronically with Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol.
• The Effect of Metformin on Neuronal Activity in the Appetite-regulating Brain Regions of Mice Fed a High-fat Diet During an Anorectic Period.

Food & Diet

• Enhancement of Fat Oxidation By Licorice Flavonoid Oil in Healthy Humans During Light Exercise.
• A Historical Review of Changes in Nutrition Standards of USDA Child Meal Programs Relative to Research Findings on the Nutritional Adequacy of Program Meals and the Diet and Nutritional Health of Participants: Implications for Future Research and the Summer Food Service Program.
• Dietary Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load and Their Relationship with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Chinese Children.
• RCT: Monosodium L-glutamate in Soup Reduces Subsequent Energy Intake From High-fat Savoury Food in Overweight and Obese Women.
• Protein Source in a High-protein Diet Modulates Reductions in Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis in Fa/fa Zucker Rats.
• The Role of Red Meat in the Diet: Nutrition and Health Benefits.

Caloric Restriction

• Whole-transcriptome Analysis of Mouse Adipose Tissue in Response to Short-term Caloric Restriction.
• The Effect of Exercise and Caloric Restriction on Cardiac NF-kB Signaling and Inflammation in Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) Rats.
• Caloric Restriction or Telmisartan Control Dyslipidemia and Nephropathy in Obese Diabetic Zücker Rats.
• Comparison of the Effects of Resveratrol and Caloric Restriction on Learning and Memory in Juvenile C57BL/6J Mice.
• Short-Term Dietary Restriction Rescues Mice From Lethal Abdominal Sepsis and Endotoxemia and Reduces the Inflammatory/Coagulant Potential of Adipose Tissue.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Making Physical Activity Counseling a Priority in Clinical Practice.
• Caloric Restriction and Exercise “mimetics’’: Ready for Prime Time?
• Correlates of Physical Activity Among Middle-Aged and Older Korean Americans at Risk for Diabetes.
• The Influence of a Ten-week Nordic Walking Training-rehabilitation Program on the Level of Lipids in Blood in Overweight and Obese Postmenopausal Women.
• Effects of Obesity on Weight-bearing Versus Weight-supported Exercise Testing in Patients with COPD.

Economics & Sociology

• Becoming Overweight Without Gaining a Pound: Weight Evaluations and the Social Integration of Mexicans in the United States.
• Gender, BMI, and Eating Regulation in the Context of Same-sex and Heterosexual Couples.
• Is Utility-based Quality of Life Associated with Overweight in Children? Evidence From the UK WAVES RCT.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Obesity Among U.S. Workers and Associations with Occupational Factors.
• Eating Behaviours are Different in Youth with Obesity and Severe Obesity.
• How Important are Determinants of Obesity Measured at the Individual Level for Explaining Geographic Variation in BMI Distributions?
• Diet and Physical Activity in Rural vs Urban Children and Adolescents in the United States: A Narrative Review.
• The Epidemiological Transition and the Global Childhood Obesity Epidemic.
• BMI, Waist Circumference, and the Clustering of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Early Childhood.

Psychology

• Obesity Diminishes Synaptic Markers, Alters Microglial Morphology, and Impairs Cognitive Function.
• Participation as a Leader in Immersion Weight Loss Treatment: A 1-year Follow-up Study.
• Social Distortion in Weight Perception: A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic.
• Associations of Child Temperament with Child Overweight and Breakfast Habits: A Population Study in Five-Year-Olds.
• BMI is Not Related to Altruism, Fairness, Trust or Reciprocity: Experimental Evidence From the field and the Lab.

Stigma

• Call to Arms: Recognizing and Eliminating Bias Against Overweight and Obese Women in Women's Health Care.
• ‘Obese’ ‘sumo’ Babies, Morality and Maternal Identity.
• The Effects of Obesity Myths on Perceptions of Sexual Assault Victims and Perpetrators’ Credibility.

Policy Related

• Menu-Labeling Formats and Their Impact on Dietary Quality.
• The Negative Footprint Illusion: Perceptual Bias in Sustainable Food Consumption.
• Food Nutrition and Obesity Policy (book Chapter).
• Evaluating the Influence of the Revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Food Allocation Package on Healthy Food Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability in Texas.
• Targeting Population Nutrition Through Municipal Health and Food Policy: Implications of New York City’s Experiences in Regulatory Obesity Prevention.
• Food Desert and Weight Outcome: Disentangling Confounding Mechanisms (pdf).
• The Sustainable Development Goals One-Health in the World’s Development Agenda.
• New Colorado Child Care Rules Take Aim at Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Apelin Controls Fetal and Neonatal Glucose Homeostasis and is Altered By Maternal Undernutrition.
• Maternal High Fat Diet Influence Stroke Outcome in Adult Rat Offspring.
• Childhood Growth Trajectories of Etiological Subgroups of Large for Gestational Age Newborns.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Early Life Adversity Increases Foraging and Information Gathering in European Starlings, Sturnus Vulgaris.
• Controlling Synthetic Bacteria “Kill Switches” Ensure that Genetically Engineered Bacteria Survive Only in Certain Environmental Conditions.

Methods

• Evaluation of Different Methods to Handle Misreporting in Obesity Research: Evidence From the Canadian National Nutrition Survey.
• Reliability and Agreement of Adipose Tissue Fat Fraction Measurements with Water–fat MRI in Patients with Manifest Cardiovascular Disease.
• Developing a Novel Measure of Body Satisfaction Using Virtual Reality.
• Modelling BMI Distribution Using Maximum Entropy Density.
• From the Pool to the Sea: Applicable Isotope Turnover Rates and Diet to Skin Discrimination Factors for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus).
• Health Selection Into Neighborhoods Among Families in the Moving to Opportunity Program.

Commentary

• What Your Microbiome Wants for Dinner.
• Impact of Sleep Duration on Food Intake Regulation: Different Mechanisms By Sex?
• IGF1 and Adipose Tissue Homeostasis.
• Being Different in Diabetes and Obesity.
• What to do with the Data Patients Download?
• Five Dimensions of Obesity in America.
• Children's Ability to Detect Sugar Varies Widely.
• Rising Obesity Rates Put Strain on Nursing Homes.
• Part 1: Childhood Dieting: The Eating Disorder Starter Package.
• Part 2: Measuring the Cake: The Eating Disorder Starter Package.
• Decision to End Monkey Experiments Based on Finances, Not Animal Rights, NIH Says.

General

• Variations in Scientific Data Production: What Can We Learn From #Overlyhonestmethods?
• Could One Pill Help You Live Longer?
• Video: Andrea Wulf discusses "The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
• Audio: Why Science Needs Failure to Succeed.
• Video: Rachel Swaby discusses "Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World".
• Energy Use, Blue Water Footprint, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Current Food Consumption Patterns and Dietary Recommendations in the US.
• Common Ancestor of Modern Birds Lived 95 Million Years Ago.
• PubPeer and Anonymity in Science.
• NSF Responds to Research Being Deemed 'wasteful' or 'out of Touch'.
• Physicists in Europe Find Tantalizing Hints of a Mysterious New Particle.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Downsizing: Policy Options to Reduce Portion Sizes to Help Tackle Obesity.
• General Surgery and the Obese Patient.