Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Using Whole-group Metabolic Rate and Behaviour to Assess the Energetics of Courtship in Red-sided Garter Snakes.
• Functional Variants of the Melanocortin-4 Receptor Associated with the Odontoceti and Mysticeti Suborders of Cetaceans.
• Large Meta-analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies Identifies Five Loci for Lean Body Mass.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: "New drug could help combat obesity after scientists discover being fat ‘is all in your head.’"
• Press release: "Hunger-controlling brain cells may offer path for new obesity drugs."
• Study: Identification of a Brainstem Circuit Controlling Feeding.. In Mice. No New Drug. Not in Your Head.
• Headline: "'Switch' in brain of obese people stays on all the time, researchers say."
• Study: A Hypothalamic Phosphatase Switch Coordinates Energy Expenditure with Feeding... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Despite Claims of Effectiveness in the Paper’s Abstract, “Models to Compare the Intervention and Comparison Groups (i.e. All Three Intervention Schools Combined Compared to All Three Comparison Schools Combined) …Showed No Statistically Significant Interaction Effect on Weight, Height, BMI, BMI-z and Proportion of Overweight/obesity.”
• RCT: No Effects of Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) on Exercise-induced Oxidative Stress, Muscle Damage, and Pain Following a Half-marathon.
• "There were no associations between FT [fat taste sensitivity] rank and anthropometric measurements or hedonic ratings."
• No Significant Effect of 6 Months of Whole-body Vibration Training Improve Lean Mass and Bone Mass Acquisition of Adolescent Swimmers.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Behavioral Weight-loss Treatment Plus Motivational Interviewing Versus Attention Control.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of a Dietary Intake Following a Culturally Adapted Lifestyle Intervention Among Iraqi Immigrants to Sweden at High Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: "Our intervention did not result in a significant improvement in our primary outcome, the proportion of obese and overweight women who had gestational weight gain within IOM guidelines."
• RCT: "The HELP intervention was no more effective than a single educational session for reducing BMI in a community sample of obese adolescents."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, these data suggest that loss of ERa signaling blocks the influence of maternal HFD on energy homeostasis..."
• Full Fat Milk Consumption Protects Against [is Associated With] Severe Childhood Obesity in Latinos.

Basic

• Loss of Prion Protein is Associated with the Development of Insulin Resistance and Obesity.
• The Role of Ghrelin and Ghrelin Signaling in Aging.
• Differential Vulnerability to Adverse Nutritional Conditions in Male and Female Rats: Modulatory Role of Estradiol During Development.
• Growth, Meat and Feed Efficiency Traits of Lambs Born to Ewes Exposed to Energy Restriction During Mid-Gestation.
• Polymorphism and Methylation of the MC4R Gene in Obese and Non-Obese Dogs.
• Obesity, Adipokines, and C-peptide are Associated with Distinct Plasma Phospholipid Profiles in Adult Males, an Untargeted Lipidomic Approach.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "Fudging Conclusions About Childhood Obesity Prevention."
• Retraction of "Physical Activity: An Important Adaptative Mechanism for Body-Weight Control" "for plagiarism."
• ‘Caution, This Treatment is a Placebo. It Might Work, but It Might Not’: Why Emerging Mechanistic Evidence for Placebo Effects Does Not Legitimise Complementary and Alternative Medicines in Sport.
• The 7 Biggest Lies Popular Food Documentaries Have Told Us.

Clinical

• Review: Growth Hormone’s Effect on Adipose Tissue: Quality Versus Quantity.
• Review: Strategies to Increase the Efficacy of Using Gut Microbiota for the Modulation of Obesity.
• Chronic Hindbrain Administration of Oxytocin is Sufficient to Elicit Weight Loss in Diet-Induced Obese Rats.

Children and Adolescents

• Metabolomic Determinants of Metabolic Risk in Mexican Adolescents.
• The Effects of Traffic Light Labelling Versus Cartoon Labelling on Food and Beverage Purchases in a Children's Hospital Setting.
• Relationship of Body Fat and BMI in Young Pacific Islanders: A Cross-sectional Study in European, Melanesian and Polynesian Groups.
• A Research Agenda to Guide Progress on Childhood Obesity Prevention in Latin America.
• Review: Searching for Evidence of an Anti-Inflammatory Diet in Children: A Systematic Review of RCT's for Pediatric Obesity Interventions with a Focus on Leptin, Ghrelin, and Adiponectin.

Surgery

• Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis is Associated with Cardiac Remodeling and Dysfunction.
• The Underestimated Effect of Perioperative Exercise Interventions in Bariatric Surgery: Increasing Need for Large Impact Studies.
• Factors Associated with Achieving a BMI of Less than 30 After Bariatric Surgery.
• When to Have Bariatric Surgery: Early or Late?
• Evidence Base for Multidisciplinary Care of Pediatric/Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Patients.
• Resting-state Brain Connectivity Changes in Obese Women After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery: A Longitudinal Study.

Drugs

• SGLT2 Inhibitors and Risk of Cancer in Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• The Effect of Magnesium Supplementation on Blood Pressure in Individuals with Insulin Resistance, Prediabetes, or Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases: A Meta-analysis of RCTs. (pdf)

Food & Diet

• RCT: Increasing Intention to Cook From Basic Ingredients.
• Targeted Calorie Message Promotes Healthy Beverage Consumption Better than Charity Incentive.
• Placemats Can Help Promote Healthy Eating Among Children.
• Disparities in Snacking Trends in US Adults Over a 35 Year Period From 1977 to 2012.
• Anthocyanin in Black Rice, Soybean and Purple Corn Increase Fecal Butyric Acid and Prevent Liver Inflammation in High Fat Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• A Polyphenolic Extract From Green Tea Leaves Activates Fat Browning in High Fat Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• A High-fat, High-protein Diet Attenuates the Negative Impact of Casein-induced Chronic Inflammation on Testicular Steroidogenesis and Sperm Parameters in Adult Mice.
• Inclusion of Almonds in a Cholesterol-Lowering Diet Improves Plasma HDL Subspecies and Cholesterol Efflux to Serum in Normal-Weight Individuals with Elevated LDL Cholesterol.

Caloric Restriction

• Effects of Rapid or Slow Body Weight Reduction on Intramuscular Protein Degradation Pathways During Equivalent Weight Loss on Rats. (pdf)
• Bayesian Association Scan Reveals Loci Associated with Human Lifespan and Linked Biomarkers.
• Implementation of Longevity-promoting Supplements and Medications in Public Health Practice: Achievements, Challenges and Future Perspectives.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Effects of High-intensity Interval Versus Mild-intensity Endurance Training on Metabolic Phenotype and Corticosterone Response in Rats Fed a High-fat or Control Diet.
• Effects of a Community-based Lifestyle Intervention on Change in Physical Activity Among Economically Disadvantaged Adults with Prediabetes.
• Do Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity Spatially Cluster? Analysis of a Population-based Sample of Boston Adolescents.
• State-level Income Inequality and Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines; Differential Associations Among US Men and Women.
• Potential Causes of Elevated REE Following High-Intensity Exercise.
• Physical Activity and Body Image Among Men and Boys: A Meta-analysis.

Economics & Sociology

• Food Insecurity and Adult Overweight/obesity: Gender and Race/ethnic Disparities.
• Obesity in International Migrant Populations.
• Socio-economic Trajectories and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Older People.

Epidemiology

• Genotype–covariate Interaction Effects and the Heritability of Adult BMI.
• Social Jetlag and Metabolic Control in Non-communicable Chronic Diseases: A Study Addressing Different Obesity Statuses.
• Why is US Maternal Mortality Rising?
• Smell and Taste Dysfunction is Associated with Higher Serum Total Cholesterol Concentrations in Chinese Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Underestimation of Weight Status and a Visual Normalization Theory: Review.
• Controlled Testing of Novel Portion Control Plate Produces Smaller Self-Selected Portion Sizes Compared to Regular Dinner Plate.
• Weighing Oneself on a Scale Inhibits the Food Intake Enhancing Effect of Food Primes.
• Understanding Differences Between Summer Vs. School Obesogenic Behaviors of Children: The Structured Days Hypothesis.
• Alpha-motoneurons Maintain Biophysical Heterogeneity in Obesity and Diabetes in Zucker Rats.
• Review: Predictors, Moderators, and Mediators of Treatment Outcome Following Manualised Cognitive-behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders.
• Altered Dopamine Synaptic Markers in Postmortem Brain of Obese Subjects.

Equity and Disparities

• High Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet is Associated with Cardiovascular Protection in Higher but Not in Lower Socioeconomic Groups: Prospective Findings From the Moli-sani Study.
• Spatial analysis of food insecurity and obesity by area-level deprivation in children in early years settings in England.

Stigma

• Patient Experiences of Adjusting to Life in the First 2 Years After Bariatric Surgery.
• Fat Shaming in the Doctor's Office Can Be Mentally and Physically Harmful.

Policy Related

• Are Single Children More Likely to Be Overweight or Obese than Those with Siblings? The Influence of China's One-child Policy on Childhood Obesity.
• For a Children’s Rights Approach to Obesity Prevention: The Key Role of an Effective Implementation of the WHO Recommendations.
• A Proposal of the European Association for the Study of Obesity to Improve the ICD-11 Diagnostic Criteria for Obesity Based on the Three Dimensions Etiology, Degree of Adiposity and Health Risk.

Intergenerational Effects

• Early Life Factors, Obesity Risk, and the Metabolome of Young Adults.
• Maternal Executive Function, Infant Feeding Responsiveness and Infant Growth During the First 3 Months.
• Exposure to a High-Fat Diet During Early Development Programs Behavior and Impairs the Central Serotonergic System in Juvenile Non-Human Primates.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Complex Feeding Behaviour By Magpies in Nests with Great Spotted Cuckoo Nestlings.
• Seaside Sparrows Reveal Contrasting Food Web Responses to Large-scale Stressors in Coastal Louisiana Saltmarshes.
• Energy Expenditure in the Etiology of Human Obesity: Spendthrift and Thrifty Metabolic Phenotypes and Energy-sensing Mechanisms.
• Enhancing Natriuretic Peptide Signaling in Adipose Tissue, but Not in Muscle, Protects Against Diet-induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance.

Methods

• Validity of the Remote Food Photography Method Against Doubly Labeled Water Among Minority Preschoolers.
• Composite marginal quantile regression analysis for longitudinal adolescent BMI data.

Commentary

• A Vegan Dietitian Reviews “What the Health.”
• Better Sleep, Better Health, Less Obesity.
• Importance of Weight Loss for Bariatric Surgery Outcomes Among Patients with Obesity-related Comorbid Disease.
• Amusement Park Flap Highlights Alabama's Obesity Crisis.

General

• Sexual Diversity in the United States: Results From a Nationally Representative Probability Sample of Adult Women and Men.
• Vitamins, Supplements Effective at Boosting Call Volume to Poison Centers.
• How Better Training Can Help Fix the Research Reproducibility Crisis.
• Mechanisms Associated with an Advance in the Timing of Seasonal Reproduction in an Urban Songbird.
• Effect of Magnesium Supplementation on Blood Pressure in Individuals with Insulin Resistance, Prediabetes, or Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases: A Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Tackling Submission and Publication Bias.
• Improvement in Publication Bias Following the 2007 FDA Amendment Act.
• Use of a Spin Strategy Can Result in Unreliable Research Findings.
• Google Trends Can Improve Surveillance of Type 2 Diabetes.
• The True and the False Church What the Health: A Low-Fact Vegan Manifesto.

Video & Audio

• Whale Diet & Genetics.

Announcements

• Workshop: Advanced Therapies for Pediatric Obesity. October 13, 2017. (pdf)
• Guiding Principles for Developing Dietary Reference Intakes Based on Chronic Disease.
• CALL FOR INPUT: Ideas to Elevate the Science of Food and Agriculture on IdeaBuzz.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.

Featured

• Does Higher Education Protect Against Obesity? Evidence Using Mendelian Randomization.
• Loss of Hepatic Mitochondrial Long-Chain Fatty Acid Oxidation Confers Resistance to Diet-Induced Obesity and Glucose Intolerance.
• The Evolution of Energetic Scaling Across the Vertebrate Tree of Life.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Impact of Divorce on Children Can Lead to Obesity Later in Life.
• Study: Associations Between a Retrospective Questionnaire of Early Life Instability and Adult Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "New evidence from our updated economic simulation model reinforces that view and the conclusion that reformulation of farm subsidies would be ineffective and even counterproductive as a way of fighting US obesity."
• RCT: "Although new park programs can attract users, new programs alone may be insufficient to increase overall park use in low-income neighborhoods at times when the programs are not taking place."
• "The Manitoba policy mandating PE in grades 11 and 12 had no effect on student MVPA overall or by key student or school characteristics."
• "contrary to hypotheses, self-esteem emerged as a positive predictor of exercise addiction when controlling for body shame."
• "These data suggest that 2 years of HT [hormone therapy] has little or no effect on locomotor activity or circadian hormone patterns in menopausal macaques fed an obesogenic diet."
• "In conflict with findings in metazoans …, our results suggest that heterozygous impairment of the insulin signalling limited to peripheral tissues of adult mice fails to extend lifespan despite increased systemic insulin sensitivity, while homozygous impairment shortens lifespan."
• RCT: "Creatine supplementation prior to and during leg immobilization does not prevent or attenuate the loss of muscle mass or strength during short-term muscle disuse."
• RCT: Acute Consumption of Resistant Starch Reduces Food Intake but Has No Effect on Appetite Ratings in Healthy Subjects.
• Larval Exposure to Field-realistic Concentrations of Clothianidin Has No Effect on Development Rate, Over-winter Survival or Adult Metabolic Rate in a Solitary Bee, Osmia Bicornis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• 'Sprinkling Bad Stats on Thin Data in Childhood Obesity.'
• Editorial: Obesity and Excessive Weight Gain in Young Adults: New Targets for Prevention.
• Addressing Reverse Causation Bias in the Obesity Paradox is Not “One Size Fits All”.
• Inconsistent Guideline Recommendations for Cardiovascular Prevention and the Debate About Zeroing in on and Zeroing LDL-C Levels with PCSK9 Inhibitors.

Basic

• Cyanidin-3-Glucoside Increases Whole Body Energy Metabolism By Upregulating Brown Adipose Tissue Mitochondrial Function.
• Consumption of a High Fat Diet is Associated with Disruption of Core Clock Genes and Muscle Functional Genes in the Chinese Soft Shell Turtle.
• Blockage of Myeloid Differentiation 2 (MD2) Protects Obesity-Induced Vascular Remodeling Via Activating AMPK/Nrf2 in C57BL/6 Mice.
• Assessment of Gut Microbiota Populations in Lean and Obese Zucker Rats.
• Distinctions in Gene-specific Changes in DNA Methylation in Response to Folic Acid Supplementation Between Women with Normal Weight and Obesity.

Clinical

• RCT: Closed-Incision Negative-Pressure Therapy in Obese Patients Undergoing Cesarean Delivery.
• Initial Weight Loss Response as an Indicator for Providing Early Rescue Efforts to Improve Long-term Treatment Outcomes.
• Long-Term Outcomes of a Multidisciplinary Weight Management Intervention for Youth with Disabilities.
• Preclinical Alterations in Myocardial Microstructure in People with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Cost and Health Care Utilization Implications of Bariatric Surgery Versus Intensive Lifestyle and Medical Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association of Insulin Resistance with Near Peak Bone Mass in the Femur and Lumbar Spine of Korean Adults Aged 25-35.

Children and Adolescents

• Longitudinal Association Between Obesity and Dental Caries in Adolescents.
• Assessing Attitudes and Actions of Pediatric Dentists Toward Childhood Obesity and Sugar-sweetened Beverages.
• Comparing Insulin Sensitivity in Adolescents and Adults with Obesity and Impaired Glucose Tolerance.
• Food Addiction: A Barrier for Effective Weight Management for Obese Adolescents.
• Technology Components as Adjuncts to Family-Based Pediatric Obesity Treatment in Low-Income Minority Youth.

Surgery

• Adaptation of the By-Band RCT to By-Band-Sleeve to Include a New Intervention and Maintain Relevance of the Study to Practice. (pdf)
• Robotic Gastric Bypass May Lead to Fewer Complications Compared with Laparoscopy.
• Attitudes Among Transplant Professionals Regarding Shifting Paradigms in Eligibility Criteria for Live Kidney Donation.
• IFSO Position Statement on New Technologies for Treatment of Obesity.
• Use of Prescribed Opioids Before and After Bariatric Surgery: Prospective Evidence From a U.S. Multicenter Cohort Study.
• The Case for Stepped Care for Weight Management Following Bariatric Surgery. (pdf)

Drugs

• RCT: Galantamine Alleviates Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Drug-induced Obesity and Its Metabolic Consequences: A Review with a Focus on Mechanisms and Possible Therapeutic Options.

Food & Diet

• Anti-obesity Effects of Yellow Catfish Protein Hydrolysate on Mice Fed a 45% Kcal High-fat Diet.
• Caloric Compensation in Preschool Children: Relationships with Body Mass and Differences By Food Category.
• "Consumption of a SSB during a meal markedly reduces energy efficiency and fat oxidation independent of macronutrient composition."

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Impacts Plasma MicroRNAs in Rhesus Monkeys.
• Lifelong Dietary Intervention Does Not Affect Hematopoietic Stem Cell Function.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Feasibility and Acceptability of Qigong Exercise in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in the United States.
• Physical Activity Level in People with Age Related White Matter Changes Correlates to Better Motor Performance, Lower Comorbidity and Higher Cognitive Level.
• Does Parental Support Moderate the Effect of Children's Motivation and Self-efficacy on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour?
• Transit Rider BMI Before and After Completion of Street Light-Rail Line in Utah.
• RCT: Dose and Timing of Text Messages for Increasing Physical Activity Among Pregnant Women.
• Effectiveness of Exercise Intervention on Improving Fundamental Movement Skills and Motor Coordination in Overweight/obese Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.

Economics & Sociology

• Understanding the Food Preferences of People of Low Socioeconomic Status.
• Role of Age and Acculturation in Diet Quality Among Mexican Americans.

Epidemiology

• Association of Waist-Hip Ratio to Sudden Cardiac Death and Severe Coronary Atherosclerosis in Medicolegal Autopsies.
• Association Between Full Service and Fast Food Restaurant Density, Dietary Intake and Overweight/obesity Among Adults in Delhi, India.
• Recognized Obstructive Sleep Apnea is Associated with Improved In-Hospital Outcomes After ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.
• Morbid Obesity and Diabetes are Associated with Increased Risk of Death on the Liver Transplant Waiting List.
• Associations of Weight Gain From Early to Middle Adulthood with Major Health Outcomes Later in Life.
• Obesity and Overweight in American Indian and Alaska Native Children, 2006–2015.
• 2017 National Diabetes Statistics Report Released. (pdf)

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Maternal Prepregnancy Weight and Children’s Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes.
• Parental and Child Factors Associated with Under-Estimation of Children with Excess Weight.
• Rumination in Patients with Binge-Eating Disorder and Obesity: Associations with Eating-Disorder Psychopathology and Weight-bias Internalization.
• Reward Capacity Predicts Leptin Dynamics During Laboratory-Controlled Eating in Women as a Function of BMI.
• Cardiovascular Health in Young Adulthood and Structural Brain MRI in Midlife: The CARDIA Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Hydration Status Among US Adults and the Role of Tap Water and Other Beverage Intake.
• Chronic Health Conditions and Key Health Indicators Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Older US Adults, 2013–2014.
• Does Social Selection Explain the Association Between State-Level Racial Animus and Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health in the United States?
• Addressing Disparities in Diabetes Management Through Novel Approaches to Encourage Technology Adoption and Use.
• Residential Segregation, Neighborhood Social and Physical Context in Obesity Disparities in Hispanic Preschoolers: A Conceptual Model.
• Health-equity Issues Related to Childhood Obesity: A Scoping Review.

Stigma

• Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of the Extrastriate Visual Cortex Modulates Implicit Anti-fat Bias in Male Participants.
• A Review of the Underestimation of Weight Status and a Visual Normalization Theory.

Policy Related

• Prescription for Public Open Space: Locating New Public Open Space to Combat Obesity in New Orleans.
• Promising Policies for Early Obesity Prevention.

Intergenerational Effects

• Reduced Prenatal Weight Gain And/or Augmented Postnatal Weight Gain Precedes Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Adolescent Girls.
• Impact of Preventing Excessive Gestational Weight Gain on Maternal Obesity at Age 40 Years: An Analysis of a Nationally Representative Sample.
• Association of Parental Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus with Circulating Adipokines in Nonobese Nondiabetic Offspring.
• Fetal Overnutrition and Offspring Insulin Resistance and ß-cell Function.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Growth-independent Cross-feeding Modifies Boundaries for Coexistence in a Bacterial Mutualism.
• Exogenous Stress Hormones Alter Energetic and Nutrient Costs of Development and Metamorphosis.
• The Pace-of-life: A Sex-specific Link Between Metabolic Rate and Life History in Bean Beetles.

Methods

• Applying Recovery Biomarkers to Calibrate Self-report Measures of Sodium and Potassium in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.
• Indirect Calorimetry for Understanding and Predicting Obesity.
• Identifying excess body fat ("overfat") as a growing problem worldwide.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Nationally Representative Equations that Include Resistance and Reactance for the Prediction of Percent Body Fat in Americans.
• Association Analyses Based on False Discovery Rate Implicate New Loci for Coronary Artery Disease.

Commentary

• Nutrition Science Isn’t Broken, It’s Just Wicked Hard.
• "Cholesterolphobia" and Eggs: What Do We Know?
• Fast Food: Not So Downscale, Not So Scary.
• Should You Feed Your Kid Probiotics?
• The FANTA Commentary on the “Effect [Association] of Suboptimal Breastfeeding on Preschool Overweight/obesity: A Model in PROFILES for Country-level Advocacy.” (pdf)
• Mac, Cheese, and Hot Lead.
• Associations Between the Infant Gut Microbiome and Cognitive Development.
• When Encouragement Drifts Toward Offense.

General

• RCT: Effectiveness of the Neutropenic Diet Versus Food Safety Guidelines on Infection Rate in Pediatric Oncology Patients.
• Girls with Nerve Camp Introduces Teens to Neuroscience.
• Vaccine-induced Immune Responses Against Both Gag and Env Improve Control of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Replication in Rectally Challenged Rhesus Macaques.
• Rapid Elicitation of Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies to HIV By Immunization in Cows.
• Two-arm "Freestyle" Swimming Nanorobots Open New Possibilities for Biomedical Operations.
• Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States (Including U.S. Territories), July 2017.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Gut Microbes & Longevity.
• Audio: Salt & Sour Taste Receptors.
• Audio: Photosynthetic Heart.

Announcements

• New Movie: Food Evolution.
• Workshop: Advanced Therapies for Pediatric Obesity. October 13, 2017. (pdf)
• NOW OPEN - TOS Call for Late-breaking Abstracts. (pdf)
• First World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health to Be Held May 2018 in Edinburgh.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.

Featured

• Arctic Inuit, Native American Adaptations to Cold and Body Fat Distribution May Originate From Extinct Ancient Hominid Interbreeding.
• Ciliary Hedgehog Signaling Restricts Injury-Induced Adipogenesis.
• Walking in the Shoes of Caregivers of Children with Obesity: Supporting Caregivers in Paediatric Weight Management.
• Social Status and Energy Intake: A Randomized Controlled Experiment.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Meet the Space Age Anti-gravity Treadmill Getting Athletes Back on Track After Knee Surgery.
• Press release: Anti-gravity Treadmills Get Patients Running Again After Knee Surgery.
• Study: Returning to Running Following Knee Osteochondral Repair... In a Single Case Report Using an Augmented Treadmill (unfortunately Not Actual Anti-gravity).
• Commentary: University Makes Claim on Anti-gravity Treadmill, Then Runs Away From Evidence.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Did Not Reduce Weight in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Long-term Supplementation of Decaffeinated Green Tea Extract Does Not Modify Body Weight or Abdominal Obesity Among Men at High Risk for Prostate Cancer.
• RCT: "It seems that resistance training alone can have more positive effect compared to resistance training plus ginger supplements capsule."
• Obesity Appeared to Have Little Impact [association] on Years Lived with or Without Dementia.
• Obesity Does Not Affect Outcomes in Hybrid Versus Cemented Total Knee Arthroplasty in Asians.
• Living in Unsafe Neighbourhoods Predicted a Trivial (but Statistically Significant) Gain in BMI but No Change in Childhood Overweight/obesity Risk.
• Formula-fed Infants Gained More Lean Mass (difference: 303 G; 95% CI: 137, 469 G) than Breastfed Infants, but Not Fat Mass (difference: -42 G; 95% CI: -299, 215 G).
• BMI Z-score Trajectory Groups Did Not Differ By Infant Feeding Practices, After Controlling for LGA at Birth.
• Baby-Led Weaning—Safe and Effective but Not Preventive of Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Statistical Interpretation Error in Metformin Trial Paper.
• Saturated Fats and CVD: AHA Convicts, We Say Acquit.
• Editorial: The March of Science — the True Story.

Ancient Feeding

• The Dormouse-Fattening Jars of Ancient Rome - Atlas Obscura.
• 10,000 Years Ago, North Americans Were Chowing Down on Potatoes—some Things Never Change.
• Food Web From the Ancestral Puebloans.

Basic

• Characterization of Adipogenic Activity of House Dust Extracts and Semi-Volatile Indoor Contaminants in 3T3-L1 Cells.
• Directing visceral white adipocyte precursors to a thermogenic adipocyte fate improves insulin sensitivity in obese mice.

Clinical

• Acupuncture for the Treatment of Obesity in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Obesity Burden in US Challenges SNFs.
• RCT: Innovative Approaches to Weight Loss in a High-risk Population: The Small Changes and Lasting Effects (SCALE) Trial.
• A Systematic Review of Reviews: Exploring the Relationship Between Obesity, Weight Loss and Health-related Quality of Life.
• RCT: Effects of a Physical Activity and Nutrition Program in Retirement Villages.

Surgery

• Morphofunctional Changes After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Very Low Calorie Diet in an Animal Model of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Intraoperative Ventilation of Morbidly Obese Patients Guided By Transpulmonary Pressure.
• Surgery, Suffering, and Money in Obesity and Diabetes.

Drugs

• Total Control of Fat Cells From Adipogenesis to Apoptosis Using a Xanthene Analog.
• Thyroid Hormone Receptor Beta in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus is Essential for the Physiological Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight.
• Novo Nordisk to Launch Anti-obesity Drug in India.

Food & Diet

• First Kids Breath-tested in Obesity Study.
• RCT: Equivalent Reductions in Body Weight During the Beef WISE Study: Beef's Role in Weight Improvement, Satisfaction and Energy.
• Influence of Energy Drinks on Obesity [in Rats]: A Preliminary Experimental Study.
• RCT: Effect of Aerobic Exercise and Corn Peptide on Fat Metabolism of Overweighed and Obese Female College Students.
• Coffee Drinking and Mortality in 10 European Countries: A Multinational Cohort Study.
• RCT: Consumption of a Cranberry Juice Beverage Lowered the Number of Clinical Urinary Tract Infection Episodes in Women with a Recent History of Urinary Tract Infection.
• Western Diet–Induced Dysbiosis in Farnesoid X Receptor Knockout Mice Causes Persistent Hepatic Inflammation After Antibiotic Treatment.
• Fact Check: Is Boxed Macaroni and Cheese Actually Toxic?
• RCT: (No) Effect of High-Dose vs Standard-Dose Wintertime Vitamin D Supplementation on Viral Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Young Healthy Children.

Caloric Restriction

• The Effect of Calorie Restriction on Mouse Skeletal Muscle is Sex, Strain and Time-dependent.
• Pre-pubertal diet restriction reduces reactive oxygen species and restores fertility in male WNIN/Obese rat.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Large-scale Physical Activity Data Reveal Worldwide Activity Inequality.
• Effect of Child Gender and Psychosocial Factors on Physical Activity From 5th-6th Grade.
• A System Model of the Effects of Exercise on Plasma Interleukin-6 Dynamics in Healthy Individuals: Role of Skeletal Muscle and Adipose Tissue.
• Skeletal Muscle Microvascular-Linked Improvements in Glycemic Control From Resistance Training in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.

Economics & Sociology

• Trends in Smoking and Obesity Among US Adults Before, During, and After the Great Recession and Affordable Care Act Roll-out.
• The New Face of Food Insecurity.
• Influence of Neighbourhood Safety on Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Longitudinal Studies.

Epidemiology

• Abdominal Obesity and Risk of Hip Fracture: A Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies.
• Pathophysiology of Fecal Incontinence in Obese Patients: A Prospective Case-matched Study of 201 Patients.
• Impact of Obesity on Mortality in Patients with Diabetes: Meta-analysis of 20 Studies Including 250,016 Patients.
• Sarcopenic Obesity, Weight Loss, and Mortality: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
• Associations of Weight Gain From Early to Middle Adulthood with Major Health Outcomes Later in Life.
• Hurtling Toward 100 Million Americans with Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Daily Self-Weighing for Weight Gain Prevention.
• RCT: Comparison of Community-based Versus Primary Care Programs for Childhood Obesity.
• RCT: (No) Effect of Different Types of Monitoring Strategies on Weight Loss.

Equity and Disparities

• Rich and Poor in Opportunities to Walk.
• Health-equity issues related to childhood obesity: a scoping review.

Stigma

• Professional Stigma on Weight in the Pediatric Care in Italy and Andalusia.
• Supporting Caregivers of Children with Obesity in Pediatric Weight Management.
• The Effects of Messages About the Causes of Obesity on Disciplinary Action Decisions for Overweight Employees.

Policy Related

• Research Progress of Analysis of Illegal Additives in Weight-reducing Dietary Supplements.
• Policies to Promote Active Travel: Evidence From Reviews of the Literature.
• Corporate Leanwashing and Consumer Beliefs About Obesity.
• New Tax Doubles Price of Cigarettes, Energy Drinks in Saudi Arabia.
• Chocolate Milk Booted Off the Menu at SF School Cafeterias.
• Effects of a 2014 Statewide Policy Change on Cash-Value Voucher Redemptions for Fruits/Vegetables Among Participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Roles of Metabolic Thermogenesis in Body Fat Regulation in Striped Hamsters Fed High-fat Diet at Different Temperatures.
• Evolutionary Changes of Hox Genes and Relevant Regulatory Factors Provide Novel Insights Into Mammalian Morphological Modifications.
• Short Photoperiod Reverses Obesity in Siberian Hamsters Via Sympathetically Induced Lipolysis and Browning in Adipose Tissue.
• Individual Variation in Metabolic Reaction Norms Over Ambient Temperature Causes Low Correlation Between Basal and Standard Metabolic Rate.

Methods

• Development of a Dynamic Meal-Equivalent Menu Method for Personalized Nutrition Intervention Programs in Obese Population.
• Validity of a Digital Diet Estimation Method for Use with Preschool Children.
• Fitness Trackers are Dead, Long Live Digital Health.
• Microbiota Manipulations.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Modelling Hand Skin Temperature in Relation to Body Composition.
• An Intelligent Noninvasive Model for Coronary Artery Disease Detection.

Commentary

• The Case Against Sugar: Do You Agree?
• The Humble Spud Would Go on to Save Sweden From Hunger, Encourage Alcoholism and Power the Industrial Revolution.

General

• Why We Age – a New Evolutionary View.
• Why It Took Scientists So Long to Figure Out Where Babies Come From.
• How Fake News Goes Viral—Here’s the Math.
• Audio: Artificial Dye Safety.
• The March of Science — the True Story.
• Aging as a Defense Strategy Against Parasites.
• Dietary Protein Intake Above the Current RDA and Bone Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Aging Across the Tree of Life: The Importance of a Comparative Perspective for the Use of Animal Models in Aging.
• Taking on the Obesity Epidemic: Researchers Wage a Big Fat Fight in Efforts to Combat This Global Health Issue.

Announcements

• Request for Information: Rigor, Reproducibility and Statistical Power in Mental Health Research.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.
• TOS Call for Late-Breaking Abstracts.
• Global Harmonization of Methodological Approaches to Nutrient Intake Recommendations: A Workshop.

Featured

• "Socially housed females weighed more than did any other group, and socially housed females and males had more fat than did socially isolated hamsters."
• Maternal Exposure to Western Diet Affects Adult Body Composition and Voluntary Wheel Running in a Genotype-specific Manner in Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Household Dust Makes People Fat, Groundbreaking Research Indicates.
• Study: Characterization of Adipogenic Activity of House Dust Extracts and Semi-Volatile Indoor Contaminants... In 3T3-L1 Cells.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effect of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction on Weight in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: While 12 Weeks of Resistance Exercise in PCS on ADT Improved Skeletal Muscle Mass, No Changes in Adiposity and MetS Variables Were Observed.
• RCT: No Effects of Consumption of ‘Yabukita’ or ‘Benifuuki’ Encapsulated Tea-powder on ...body Weight.
• RCT: "The prevention from weight gain by metformin cannot be explained by reduced energy intake."
• RCT: Protein Supplements After Weight Loss do Not Improve Weight Maintenance Compared with Recommended Dietary Protein Intake Despite Beneficial Effects on Appetite Sensation and Energy Expenditure.
• We Found No Association Between Preeclampsia or Preterm Delivery and Increasing Weight Gain in Triplet Pregnancies.
• RCT: No Effect of an Obesity Best Practice Alert on Physician Referral Practices.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Questions About a Famous Study on Judges Handing Out Harsher Sentences Before Lunch than After Lunch.
• Spinning for a Noble Purpose Defeats the Purpose.
• Letter: Meta-Analysis on Dietary Patterns and Pancreatic Cancer Risk: Methodological Limitations.
• Editorial: Obesity Paradox in Contemporary Cardiology Practice.
• Editorial: Global Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity.

Basic

• Nutrient Sensing Modulates Malaria Parasite Virulence.
• Acylated and Unacylated Ghrelin do Not Directly Stimulate Glucose Transport in Isolated Rodent Skeletal Muscle.
• Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Restoration Rescues the Fatty Liver Regeneration in Mice.
• The TMAO-Producing Enzyme Flavin-Containing Monooxygenase 3 Regulates Obesity and the Beiging of White Adipose Tissue.
• Acupuncture Attenuates Hyperglycemia and Improves Ovarian Function in Female Rats Subjected to Continuous Light Exposure.
• RCT: Induction of Thermogenic Adipocytes: Molecular Targets and Thermogenic Small Molecules.

Clinical

• Expression of Metabolic Syndrome in Women with Severe Obesity.
• RCT: Pretreatment Fasting Plasma Glucose and Insulin Modify Dietary Weight Loss Success: Results From 3 RCTs.
• Lipid Changes 8 Years Post Gastric Bypass in Adolescents with Severe Obesity (FABS-5+ Study).
• Body Fat Distribution is More Predictive of All-cause Mortality than Overall Adiposity.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Effect of Attendance of the Child on Body Weight, Energy Intake, and Physical Activity in Childhood Obesity Treatment.
• Implementation of a School Nurse-led Intervention for Children with Severe Obesity in New York City Schools.
• Community Policies and Programs to Prevent Obesity and Child Adiposity.
• RCT: A Community-based Motivational Personalised Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce BMI in Obese Adolescents: Results From the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme (HELP).

Surgery

• Is Routine Preoperative Esophagogastroduodenscopy Screening Necessary Prior to Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy?
• What is Known About the Correlates and Impact of Excess Skin After Bariatric Surgery?
• The Role of Attachment in Body Weight and Weight Loss in Bariatric Patients.
• Bariatric Surgery: The Future of Obesity Management in Adolescents.

Drugs

• Human Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes: An Effective, Less-Expensive Option.
• Access to Nicotine in Drinking Water Reduces Weight Gain Without Changing Caloric Intake on High Fat Diet in Male C57BL/6J Mice.
• Sodium-Glucose Cotransport-2 Inhibitors May Improve Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Factors Among People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Effects of Canagliflozin on Weight Loss in High-fat Diet-induced Obese Mice.

Food & Diet

• The Effects of an Increased Calorie Breakfast Consumed Prior to Simulated Match-play in Academy Soccer Players.
• RCT: Effects of Nut-based Snack Bars (NBSB) Vs. Prepackaged 200-kcal Portions of Typical Conventional Snack Foods, When Consumed Over a 12-week Period By a Group of Overweight Adults.
• Should We Recommend Reductions in Saturated Fat Intake or in Red/processed Meat Consumption? The SUN Prospective Cohort Study.

Caloric Restriction

• Mice Under Caloric Restriction Self-Impose a Temporal Restriction of Food Intake as Revealed By an Automated Feeder System.
• Sex-dependent Differences in Liver and Gut Metabolomic Profiles with Acarbose and Calorie Restriction in C57BL/6 Mice.
• Anti-aging Pharmacology in Cutaneous Wound Healing: Effects of Metformin, Resveratrol, and Rapamycin By Local Application.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Smartphone-based Game Like Pokémon GO May Promote Exercise.
• Active Gaming as a Form of Exercise to Induce Hypoalgesia.
• Normobaric Hypoxic Conditioning to Maximise Weight-loss and Ameliorate Cardio-metabolic Health in Obese Populations: A Systematic Review.
• High-intensity Interval Training, but Not Continuous Training, Reverses Right Ventricular Hypertrophy and Dysfunction in a Rat Model of Pulmonary Hypertension.
• Attenuating the Biologic Drive for Weight Regain Following Weight Loss: Must What Goes Down Always Go Back Up?
• Exercise Before Breakfast Increases 24-h Fat Oxidation in Female Subjects.
• Large-scale Physical Activity Data Reveal Worldwide Activity Inequality.
• Leptin, Adiponectin, and Ghrelin Responses to Endurance Exercise in Different Ambient Conditions.

Economics & Sociology

• Subjective Social Status, Life Course SES, and BMI in Young Adulthood.
• Examining How Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, Geographic Accessibility, and Informational Accessibility Influence the Uptake of a Free Population-Level Physical Activity Intervention for Children.
• Nutrition Transition and Biocultural Determinants of Obesity Among Cameroonian Migrants in Urban Cameroon and France.
• Exploring the Mediating Role of Energy Balance-related Behaviours in the Association Between Sleep Duration and Obesity in European Adults. The SPOTLIGHT Project.

Epidemiology

• A Global Evolutionary and Metabolic Analysis of Human Obesity Gene Risk Variants.
• The Association Between Childcare Arrangements and Risk of Overweight and Obesity in Childhood: A Systematic Review.
• Anthropometric and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Parents and Child Obesity in Segamat, Malaysia.
• Association of BMI with Cardiometabolic Disease in the UK Biobank: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Sense of Smell Impacts Metabolic Health and Obesity in Mice.
• Visual Food Cues Decrease Postprandial Glucose Concentrations in Lean and Obese Men Without Affecting Food Intake and Related Endocrine Parameters.
• Moderating Role of Food Cue Sensitivity in the Behavioral Response of Children to Their Neighborhood Food Environment: Cross-Sectional Study.
• Differences in Genetic and Environmental Variation in Adult BMI By Sex, Age, Time Period, and Region: Individual-Based Pooled Analysis of 40 Twin Cohorts.
• Somatostatin Neurons in the Basal Forebrain Promote High-Calorie Food Intake.

Equity and Disparities

• Exploring the Potential for Technology-based Nutrition Education Among WIC Recipients in Remote Alaska Native Communities.
• RCT: Recruitment Challenges and Enrollment Observations From a Community Based Intervention (Mothers in Motion) for Low-Income Overweight and Obese Women.
• Daily Self-weighing and Weight Gain Prevention: A Longitudinal Study of College-aged Women.
• Does Physical Activity Mediate the Association Between Perceived Neighborhood Aesthetics and Overweight/Obesity Among South African Adults Living in Selected Urban and Rural Communities?

Stigma

• Confronting Obesity, Stigma and Weight Bias in Healthcare with a Person Centred Care Approach: A Case Study.
• Weight Bias Education for Medical School Faculty: Workshop and Assessment.

Policy Related

• Food and Microbiota in the FDA Regulatory Framework.
• Evaluation of Compliance with the Spanish Code of Self-regulation of Food and Drinks Advertising Directed at Children Under the Age of 12 Years in Spain, 2012.
• Effectiveness and Equity of Sugar-sweetened Beverage Taxation.

Intergenerational Effects

• MRNA Levels of Placental Iron and Zinc Transporter Genes are Upregulated in Gambian Women with Low Iron and Zinc Status.
• Beverage Intake During Pregnancy and Childhood Adiposity.
• Exposure to a High-fat Diet During Early Development Programs Behavior and Impairs the Central Serotonergic System in Juvenile Nonhuman Primates.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Daily Energy Expenditure in the Face of Predation: Hedgehog Energetics in Rural Landscapes.
• Light Oiling of Feathers Increases Flight Energy Expenditure in a Migratory Shorebird.
• A Review of the Physiology of a Survival Expert of Big Freeze, Deep Snow, and an Empty Stomach: The Boreal Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes Procyonoides).
• Costs and Benefits of Group Living in Primates: An Energetic Perspective.
• Induced Defenses in Plants Reduce Herbivory By Increasing Cannibalism.

Methods

• New Design Improves Performance of Flexible Wearable Electronics.
• To Help Researchers Choose the Most Appropriate Measures for Their Work in Childhood Obesity, NCCOR Has Developed Four Measure Registry User Guides.
• Validity and Reliability of Total Body Volume and Relative Body Fat Mass From a 3-dimensional Photonic Body Surface Scanner.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Determining the Accuracy of Predictive Energy Expenditure (PREE) Equations in Severely Obese Adolescents.
• Best (but Oft-forgotten) Practices: Mediation Analysis.
• Does Fetal Growth Restriction Cause Later Obesity? Pitfalls in Analyzing Causal Mediators as Confounders.
• Posing Causal Questions When Analyzing Observational Data.

Commentary

• The Vegan Argument.
• Just How Bad are Those TV Dinners?
• Why Diabetes is More Common in Rural Areas.
• Leptin and the OB Gene: A Toehold for Obesity Science.
• Conflicted Feelings About a New CDC Director.

General

• Instructional videos: Healthcare Triage - Analysis and Reporting.
• Sea Sponges Stay Put with Anchors that Bend but Don’t Break.
• Panda Love Spreads to Benefit the Planet.
• Audio: Neonics and Bees.
• Longevity is Impacted By Growth Hormone Action During Early Postnatal Period.
• Snake Sex Determination Dogma Overturned.
• Computational Analysis of Lifespan Experiment Reproducibility.
• Metabolic and Genetic Markers of Biological Age.
• Resveratrol Protects From Lipopolysaccharide-induced Inflammation in the Uterus and Prevents Experimental Preterm Birth.
• Video: Disaster Management & Public Health.
• Audio: The Truth About Chimpanzee Super-strength.
• Deepest Dive Ever Under Antarctica Reveals a Shockingly Vibrant World.
• High Performance Computing Enabled Simulation of the Food-Water-Energy System: Simulation of Intensively Managed Landscapes.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Season Your Meal with All Five Senses.
• Food Failures: Too Hot In The Kitchen? Try No-Heat Cooking.

Announcements

• Dr. Donna Arnett, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Received the “Gold Heart Award,” the Top Volunteer Award From the American Heart Association, in June 2017.
• Diabetes and Obesity Researcher Charles Burant, M.D., Ph.D., Has Been Named the New Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at Michigan Medicine.
• EUFIC 2017 Annual Conference - Trust in science in the post-fact era.
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.