Featured

• Weight Gain During Incarceration: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Modeling of Autophagy-related Gene Expression Dynamics During Long Term Fasting in European Eel (Anguilla Anguilla).
• Maternal Obesity in the Ewe Increases Cardiac Ventricular Expression of Glucocorticoid Receptors, Proinflammatory Cytokines and Fibrosis in Adult Male Offspring.
• Body Mass Index and Subjective Social Status: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Eating Fish Improves Sleep and IQ, Study Shows.
• Headline: A Simple Diet Change to Make Your Children Smarter and Snooze Better.
• Study: Associations Among Self-reported Fish Intake, Parent-reported Sleep Quality, and Tested IQ in Children. No Causation.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: “the present study demonstrates that CRP and TNF-α are elevated in obese individuals and that one week of concurrent exercise training does not alter circulating levels of TNF-α, IL-6, or CRP."
• "Limited associations between aggregate agricultural production and aggregate nutritional outcomes were found, suggesting that the direct relationship between the two is relatively weak in Malawi."
• Quesi-Experimental Evaluaton of Active School Design Effcets Shows Decrease in School-time Sedentary Behavior but Also an Unexpected Decrease in Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity.
• College Completion Predicts Lower Depression but Higher Metabolic Syndrome Among Disadvantaged Minorities in Young Adulthood.
• Stool Donor BMI Does Not Affect Recipient Weight After a Single Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for C. Difficile Infection.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Mixed Lipid Emulsion for Prevention of Parenteral Nutrition Associated Cholestasis in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants.
• RCT: Morning Bright Light Exposure Has No Influence on Self-chosen Exercise Intensity and Mood in Overweight Individuals.
• RCT: "Post-exercise consumption of protein supplements made from dairy products appear not to compromise daily nutritional behavior and does not confer the anticipated negative impact on nutritional intake in sarcopenic older men."
• RCT: Nil Whey Protein Effect on Glycemic Control After Intense Mixed-Mode Training in Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Mean Weight Loss and Proportion Losing >5% Initial Weight Did Not Significantly Differ Between Weight Watchers Online Platform with or Without Tailored Feedback and Smart Scale at 6 Months.

Basic

• SCP4: A Small Nuclear Phosphatase Having a Big Effect on FoxOs in Gluconeogenesis.
• Cyanidin-3-Glucoside Attenuates High-Fat and High-Fructose Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice By Promoting the Thermogenic Capacity of Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Mitochondrial Targeted Peptides Preserve Mitochondrial Organization and Decrease Reversible Myocardial Changes Associated with Development of Early Metabolic Syndrome in Swine.
• Protein-altering Variants Associated with Body Mass Index Implicate Pathways that Control Energy Intake and Expenditure in Obesity.
• Astragalus Membranaceus-Polysaccharides Ameliorates Obesity, Hepatic Steatosis, Neuroinflammation and Cognition Impairment Without Affecting Amyloid Deposition in Metabolically Stressed APPswe/PS1dE9 Mice.
• Caffeine Affects HFD-induced Hepatic Steatosis By Multifactorial Intervention [in Rats].
• Antiobesity Efficacy of Quercetin-Rich Supplement on Diet-Induced Obese Rats: Effects on Body Composition, Serum Lipid Profile, and Gene Expression.
• Human Hepatic Lipase Overexpression in Mice Induces Hepatic Steatosis and Obesity Through Promoting Hepatic Lipogenesis and White Adipose Tissue Lipolysis and Fatty Acid Uptake.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction Note To: L-glutamine Supplementation Induces Insulin Resistance in Adipose Tissue and Improves Insulin Signalling in Liver and Muscle of Rats with Diet-induced Obesity.
• "The present communication demonstrates that even if individuals are answering a pre/post survey at random, the percentage of individuals showing improvement from the pre- to the post-survey can be surprisingly high."
• Is Live High–train Low Altitude Training Relevant for Elite Athletes? Flawed Analysis From Inaccurate Data.
• Randomized Controlled Trials or Observational Studies? It Depends on the Research Question.
• Drawing Conclusions From Within-group Comparisons and Selected Subsets of Data Leads to Unsubstantiated Conclusions: Letter Regarding Malakellis Et Al.
• Authors' Response to Letter to the Editor (above).

Clinical

• RCT: High Definition Transcranial Pink Noise Stimulation of Anterior Cingulate Cortex on Food Craving.
• Workshop Proceedings: The Challenge of Treating Obesity and Overweight.
• Morbid Obesity is Not a Contraindication to Transport on Extracorporeal Support.

Children and Adolescents

• Systematic review: The Lifetime Costs of Overweight and Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence.
• Emotion-driven Impulsiveness and Snack Food Consumption of European Adolescents.
• Overweight/obesity Status in Preschool Children Associates with Worse Asthma but Robust Improvement on Inhaled Corticosteroids.
• NK Cells in Childhood Obesity are Activated, Metabolically Stressed, and Functionally Deficient.
• Meta-analysis: Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery in Obese Adolescents.

Surgery

• Increased Bile Acid Signals After Duodenal-Jejunal Bypass Improve Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) in a Rodent Model.
• Implications of Celiac Disease Among Patients Undergoing Gastric Bypass.
• Uncemented vs Cemented Cruciate Retaining Total Knee Arthroplasty in Patients with Body Mass Index Greater than 30.

Drugs

• Long-Term Effectiveness of Liraglutide for Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in a Real-Life Setting: A 24-Month, Multicenter, Non-interventional, Retrospective Study.
• Lisdexamfetamine: Chemistry, Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacokinetics, and Clinical Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability in the Treatment of Binge Eating Disorder.
• Obesity Exacerbates the Acute Metabolic Side Effects of Olanzapine [in Mice].
• Meta-analysis: Effects of Pioglitazone Treatment on Blood Leptin Levels in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Effect of Testosterone Treatment on Adipokines and Gut Hormones in Obese Men on a Hypocaloric Diet.

Food & Diet

• Systematic review: Childhood and Adolescent Cohorts Which Measure Whole Diet and Subsequent Adiposity.
• A Combination of Coffee Compounds Shows Insulin-Sensitizing and Hepatoprotective Effects in a Rat Model of Diet-Induced Metabolic Syndrome.
• A Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Diabetes: A Secondary Analysis From the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial.
• RCT: Effect of Alternate Day Fasting on Markers of Bone Metabolism: An Exploratory Analysis of a 6-month Randomized Controlled Trial.
• RCT: Dietary Counseling Prevented Excessive Gestational Weight Gain.

Caloric Restriction

• Docosahexaenoic Acid in Combination with Dietary Energy Restriction for Reducing the Risk of Obesity Related Breast Cancer.
• Plasticity of Lifelong Calorie-restricted C57BL/6J Mice in Adapting to a Medium-fat Diet Intervention at Old Age.
• Effects of Long-term Feed Deprivation on Body Weight Loss, Muscle Composition, Plasma Metabolites, and Intermediate Metabolism of Meagre (Argyrosomus Regius) Under Different Water Temperatures.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: The Effectiveness of Dance Interventions on Physical Health Outcomes Compared to Other Forms of Physical Activity.
• RCT: Effect of a Game-Based Intervention Designed to Enhance Social Incentives to Increase Physical Activity Among Families.

Economics & Sociology

• Predictors of Obesity, Acculturation, and Perceived Stress in Meskhetian Turk (Ahiska) Immigrants in the United States (PDF).
• Re-evaluating Food Systems and Food Security: A Global Perspective.
• Diving Into the Consumer Nutrition Environment: A Bayesian Spatial Factor Analysis of Neighborhood Restaurant Environment.
• Meta-analysis: Effectiveness of Social Media-based Interventions on Weight-related Behaviors and Body Weight Status.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Overweight and Obesity in Serbia.
• Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults, By Household Income and Education — United States, 2011–2014.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in an Italian Prison and Relation with Average Term of Detention. (pdf)
• Meta-analysis: Executive Function Performance in Obesity and Overweight Individuals.
• Rapidly Increasing Body Mass Index Among Children, Adolescents and Young Adults in a Transitioning Population, South Africa, 2008-15.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Reduced Cerebrovascular Reactivity and Increased Resting Cerebral Perfusion in Rats Exposed to a Cafeteria Diet.
• Greater Reward-Related Neuronal Response to Hedonic Foods in Women Compared with Men.
• Application of the Health Belief Model to Customers' Use of Menu Labels in Restaurants.
• Phase Relationship Between DLMO and Sleep Onset and the Risk of Metabolic Disease Among Normal Weight and Overweight/Obese Adults.
• The Impact of Replacing Sugar- By Artificially-sweetened Beverages on Brain and Behavioral Responses to Food Viewing – an Exploratory Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Early Childhood Obesity.
• Disentangling Race and Socioeconomic Status in HealthDisparities Research: An Examination of Black and White Clergy.
• Racial Differences in Weight Gain: A 5-year Longitudinal Study of Persons with Spinal Cord Injury.

Ethics

• Commentary: The Ethical Dead End of Personal Responsibility.

Stigma

• Don't Harm Children By Shaming Them for Obesity; Stigma Doesn't Work, Says AAP.
• Body Weight and Bullying Victimization Among US Adolescents.
• Systematic review: Relationship Between Weight Status Perceptions and Weight Loss Attempts, Strategies, Behaviours and Outcomes.
• Everyday Discrimination in a Racially Diverse Sample of Patients with Obesity.
• A Pilot Study of Primary Care Physicians’ Attitude to Weight Loss Surgery in England: Are the Young More Prejudiced?
• Underweight Vs. Overweight/obese: Which Weight Category do We Prefer? Dissociation of Weight-related Preferences at the Explicit and Implicit Level.

Policy Related

• Wellness Penalty/Incentives Lose Again in Court.
• Targeting Sedentary Behaviour at the Policy Level.
• Threats to Belonging Threaten Health: Policy Implications for Improving Physical Well-Being.
• Evaluating Food Policy Councils Using Structural Equation Modeling.
• Other Food Policies as Obesity Policy.
• Predicted Impact of the Food and Drug Administration’s Menu-Labeling Regulations on Restaurants in 4 New Jersey Cities.

Intergenerational Effects

• Exploring the Timing and Duration of Maternal Stress Exposure: Impacts on Early Childhood BMI.
• Obesity or Overweight, a Chronic Inflammatory Status in Male Reproductive System, Leads to Mice and Human Subfertility.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Effects of Energy Reserves and Diet on Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Egg Maturation.
• The Physiological and Neuroendocrine Correlates of Hunger in the Red Junglefowl (Gallus Gallus).
• Different Physiological Roles of Insulin Receptors in Mediating Nutrient Metabolism in Zebrafish.
• Oxidation of Linoleic and Palmitic Acid in Pre-hibernating and Hibernating Common Noctule Bats Revealed By 13C Breath Testing.
• Foraging Motivation Favors the Occurrence of Lévy Walks.

Methods

• Index of Cardiometabolic Health: A New Method of Measuring Allostatic Load Using Electronic Health Records.
• Estimation of Metabolic Energy Expenditure From Core Temperature Using a Human Thermoregulatory Model.
• Editorial: Are Rodent Models Fit for Investigation of Human Obesity and Related Diseases?
• Systematic review: Mis-reporting of Self-reported Energy Intake Was Evident in All Studies.
• Measuring Temperature Induced Phase Change Kinetics in Subcutaneous Adipose Tissues Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy, MR Imaging and Spectroscopy and OCT.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Mathematical Model of the Effects of Resistance Exercise-induced Muscle Hypertrophy on Body Composition.
• Mathematical Model for Localised and Surface Heat Flux of the Human Body Obtained From Measurements Performed with a Calorimetry Minisensor.

Commentary

• Complementary Hypotheses on Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic.
• Obesity as a Disease.
• Does Chile Have the Secret for Reversing Obesity Trends?

Food Predictions for 2018

• What's Hot: 2018 Culinary Forecast. (pdf)
• Mindful Choices: The Key Food Driver for 2018. (pdf)
• Five Global Packaging Trends for 2018.
• The Most Popular Delivery Dishes of 2017 and Foods Expected to Trend in 2018.

General

• The Long and the Short of It: Sleep Duration and Health.
• Tool Spots DNA Errors in Papers.
• Big Data in Public Health: Terminology, Machine Learning, and Privacy (pdf).
• Bridging Observational Studies and Randomized Experiments By Embedding the Former in the Latter.

Announcements

• Position at IU: Director of Special Projects and Executive Assistant to the Dean.