Findings Contrary to Hypotheses or Popular Ideas

• Empirical evidence does not support an association between less ambitious pre-treatment goals and better treatment outcomes: a meta-analysis
• RCT: a brief lifestyle intervention delivered by generalist community nurses increased advice and referral for diet or physical activity and readiness for change in physical activity but not weight loss.
• RCT: No effect of reducing the n-6/n-3 fatty acid ratio on the maternal and fetal leptin axis in relation to infant body composition.
• Calorie restriction does not increase short-term or long-term protein synthesis.
• RCT: A high-fibre bean-rich diet was as effective as a low-carbohydrate diet for weight loss, although only the bean-rich diet lowered atherogenic lipids.

Surgery

• Weight loss is associated with improved sexual function after bariatric surgery
• Impact of Excess Skin from Massive Weight Loss on the Practice of Physical Activity in Women

Stigma

• Exploring the relationship between stigma experience and exercise behaviour in young Scottish adults.
• Big fat inequalities, thin privilege: An intersectional perspective on 'body size'.
• Physicians build less rapport with obese patients
• No Clear Winner: Effects of The Biggest Loser on the Stigmatization of Obese Persons
• Obesity, Bias, and Bedrock.
• Are Doctors Nicer to Thinner Patients?

Pregnancy

• Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index in Relation to Infant Birth Weight and Offspring Overweight/Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• Increased maternal nutrition alters development of the appetite-regulating network in the brain

Policy

• Publication bias in calorie-income elasticities revealed by meta-analysis.
• RCT: What types of nutrition menu labelling lead consumers to select less energy-dense fast food?
• RCT: The effect of calorie information disclosure depends on perceived healthfulness of the restaurant.

Methods

• Drosophila as a Model to Study Metabolic Disorders.
• The Effect of Height on Body Weight Estimation by the Photo in Internet Users and Experts.
• The Carbon Isotope Ratio of Alanine in Red Blood Cells Is a New Candidate Biomarker of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake.
• A Novel Carbon Isotope Biomarker for Dietary Sugar.
• Time trends and forecasts of body mass index from repeated cross-sectional data: A different approach.
• Prevalent BMI group misallocation in studies of BMI-based prognosis in critically ill patients
• Turning the analysis of obesity-mortality associations upside down: Modeling years of life lost through conditional distributions

Leptin

• Racial differences in adiponectin and leptin in healthy premenopausal women
• Dietary Components in the Development of Leptin Resistance.
• Ablation of Ghrelin O-Acyltransferase Does Not Improve Glucose Intolerance or Body Adiposity in Mice on a Leptin-Deficient ob/ob Background.
• Roles for Central Leptin Receptors in the Control of Meal Size.

General Science

• Opting-in: Participation bias in economic experiments.
• Perceptions of the size of an object depend on how it is desired.
• Funding Source Doesn't Affect Cancer Trial Reports
• For sand tiger sharks, a deadly, cannibalistic battle inside the womb is part of evolution
• Oxidative damage increases with reproductive energy expenditure and is reduced by food-supplementation
• Delaying gratification is not always the rational choice.

Food

• RCT: The Effects of Carbohydrate, Unsaturated Fat, and Protein Intake on Measures of Insulin Sensitivity.
• Does intake of sugarless carbonated water at physical activity cause type 2 diabetes?

Exercise

• Exercise associated with improved accuracy of compensation for previous EI, independent of weight loss.
• The relationship between aging expectations and various modes of physical activity among aging adults.

Economics

• The long-term returns of obesity prevention policies
• Denmark to scrap decades-old soft drink tax

Communication

• Researchers urge retailers not to mislead on health risks.
• A model retraction in the Journal of Neurochemistry for “unexpected effect” of a filter
• It’s time for AllTrials registered and reported
• Guidelines for Communicating the Emerging Science of Dietary Components for Health
• Heavy: Uneasy Lies the Fat that Wears a Crown.

Clinical

• RCT: Naltrexone reduction of long-term smoking cessation weight gain in women but not men.
• RCT: Alternate day fasting increases LDL particle size independently of dietary fat content in obese humans.
• AACE Comprehensive Diabetes Management Algorithm 2013
• Overweight, obesity and risk of premenopausal breast cancer according to ethnicity: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis
• Type 2 diabetes mellitus and pancreatic cancer.

Behavioral

• Characteristics of Screen Media Use Associated With Higher BMI in Young Adolescents
• Assessing the Online Social Environment (Facebook) for Surveillance of Obesity Prevalence
• The family meal panacea: exploring how different aspects of family meal occurrence, meal habits and meal enjoyment relate to young children’s diets
• Risk of completed suicide after bariatric surgery: A systematic review
• Stress, not Doughnuts, Explains Police Obesity Risk
• Delaying gratification is not always the rational choice
• Consumer Understanding of Calorie Amounts and Serving Size: Implications for Nutritional Labelling

Basic

• Study: Cat obesity ballooning
• Methane and Hydrogen Positivity on Breath Test Is Associated With Greater Body Mass Index and Body Fat
• A Surgical Model in Male Obese Rats Uncovers Protective Effects of Bile Acids Post-Bariatric Surgery
• Mild-mannered flies turn cannibal when short of food
• Effects of a single bout of walking exercise on blood coagulation parameters in obese women
• Resistance to aerobic exercise training in rats causes metabolic dysfunction and reveals novel exercise-regulated signaling networks
• Evidence for two types of brown adipose tissue in humans
• Fat provisioning in winter impairs egg production during the following spring: A landscape-scale study of Cyanistes caeruleus.
• In vitro indeterminate teleost myogenesis appears to be dependent on Pax3.

Video

• Steven Smith: "Unraveling the Molecular Origins of Body Fat Distribution"
• Lora Burke: "The Integration of mHealth in a Program of Behavior Change Research"

Announcements

• The Food Forum Workshop on Sustainable Diets: Food for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet
• Conference: Enhancing the Public Health Nutrition Workforce: Strategies to Promote Healthy Diets and Physically Active Lifestyles
• U.S. Lawmaker Proposes New Criteria for Choosing NSF Grants
• 1^st Annual Workshop on Metabolomics
• The Obesity Society (TOS) Guidelines for Accepting Funds from External Sources