Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Scarcity Mindset Alters Neural Processing Underlying Consumer Decision Making.
• RCT: The Consequences of Foster Care Versus Institutional Care in Early Childhood on Adolescent Cardiometabolic and Immune Markers.
• Social Transmission of Food Safety Depends on Synaptic Plasticity in the Prefrontal Cortex.
• Targeting Glucose Metabolism to Enhance Immunotherapy: Emerging Evidence on Intermittent Fasting and Calorie Restriction Mimetics.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study finds avocados curb appetite and help with weight loss.
• Study: This was a 6-hour RCT demonstrating effects on short-term reports of hunger – neither effects on actual food intake nor on body weight were studied.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Videogames that Encourage Healthy Behavior Did Not Alter Fasting Insulin or Other Diabetes Risks in Children.
• Lack of Improvement of Sperm Characteristics in Obese Males After Obesity Surgery Despite the Beneficial Changes Observed in Reproductive Hormones.
• RCT: Limited "effects on inflammatory and glycemia-related markers of a whole-grain pasta containing barley β-glucans and Bacillus coagulans BC30, 6086 in healthy overweight or obese volunteers."
• RCT: The Degree of Aminoacidemia After Dairy Protein Ingestion Does Not Modulate the Postexercise Anabolic Response in Young Men.
• "In our comparative cohort study of preterm infants with a gestational age of 30–33 weeks, we found no advantage to routine use of probiotics."
• "Contrary to previous research, this data suggests that men who exercise at high volume will not experience negative outcomes to their sexual function..."
• RCT: No evidence that "a planning competence training (Planungskompetenztraining, PKT) can support participants of a medical rehabilitation program to foster lifestyle change."
• "...the hypothesis was not confirmed, since the high-saturated-fat diet-induced obese rats did not present cardiac dysfunction or impaired intracellular Ca2+ handling proteins."
• "Obesity-related cancer risks appear not to be offset or eliminated by high levels of physical activity or fitness."
• RCT: No Effect of Glucomannan on Body Weight Reduction in Children and Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: "Among persons at high risk for type 2 diabetes not selected for vitamin D insufficiency, vitamin D3 supplementation at a dose of 4000 IU per day did not result in a significantly lower risk of diabetes than placebo."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Replacement of Dropouts May Bias Results: Comment on “The Effect of Green Tea Ointment on Episiotomy Pain and Wound Healing in Primiparous Women: A Randomized, Double‐blind, Placebo‐controlled Clinical Trial”.
• Error in Statistical Code in Cluster Randomized Trial on the Effect of a Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative on Obesity in Urban, School-aged Children.
• Have We Really Found the Limit of Human Endurance?
• After Outcry, USDA Will No Longer Require Scientists to Label Research ‘preliminary’.
• “Permeable to Bad Science:” Journal Retracts Paper Hailed By Proponents of Homeopathy.

Basic

• A PRDM16-Driven Metabolic Signal From Adipocytes Regulates Precursor Cell Fate.
• Cyanidin-3-O-Galactoside-Enriched Aronia Melanocarpa Extract Attenuates Weight Gain and Adipogenic Pathways in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice.
• Clcn3 Deficiency Ameliorates High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Adipose Tissue Macrophage Inflammation in Mice.
• Excessive Visceral Adiposity Induced By a High-Fat Diet is Associated with Increased Fibrosis and Decreased Immune Cellularity of the Mesenteric Lymph Node in Mice.
• Estradiol and NADPH Oxidase Crosstalk Regulates Responses to High Fat Feeding in Female Mice.
• GABA-Stimulated Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Suppress Subcutaneous Adipose Inflammation in Obesity.
• GDF15 Mediates Adiposity Resistance Through Actions on GFRAL Neurons in the Hindbrain AP/NTS.
• Decelerating Ageing and Biological Clocks By Autophagy.

Clinical

• Long-Term Effects of a Novel Continuous Remote Care Intervention Including Nutritional Ketosis for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes: 2-Year Non-randomized Clinical Trial.
• RCT: Postprandial Levels of GLP-1, GIP and Glucagon After 2 Years of Weight Loss with a Paleolithic Diet in Healthy Obese Women.
• RCT: A Lifestyle Program Targeting Women with Obesity and Infertility Improves Their Fertility.

Children and Adolescents

• Do Country-level Environmental Factors Explain Cross-national Variation in Adolescent Physical Activity? A Multilevel Study in 29 European Countries.
• RCT: Efficacy of a Home-Based Parent Training-Focused Weight Management Intervention for Preschool Children.

Surgery

• Donor Metabolic Characteristics Drive Effects of Faecal Microbiota Transplantation on Recipient Insulin Sensitivity, Energy Expenditure and Intestinal Transit Time.
• Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancers Following Bariatric Surgery: A Review.
• Comparative Study of Resting Metabolic Rate and Plasma Amino Acid Profile in Patients Who Underwent Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: 6-Month Follow-up Study.

Drugs

• RCT: Postprandial Hypoglycaemia After Roux‐en‐Y Gastric Bypass and the Effects of Acarbose, Sitagliptin, Verapamil, Liraglutide and Pasireotide.
• RCT: Assessment of Compounded Transdermal Mirtazapine as an Appetite Stimulant in Cats with Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Lack of Durable Improvements in β-Cell Function Following Withdrawal of Pharmacological Interventions in Adults with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Oral Semaglutide Versus Subcutaneous Liraglutide and Placebo in Type 2 Diabetes (PIONEER 4).

Food & Diet

• Capsaicin and Genistein Override the Action of Obestatin to Decrease Lipid Accumulation in 3T3-L1 Cells.
• Investigating the Effect of Sex and Ketosis on Weight-loss-induced Changes in Appetite.
• Different Acute Effects of Fructose and Glucose Administration on Hepatic Fat Content.
• RCT: The Effect of High Compared with Low Dairy Consumption on Glucose Metabolism, Insulin Sensitivity, and Metabolic Flexibility in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: High-protein Feeding Induces De Novo Lipogenesis in Healthy Humans.
• Animal-based and Plant-based Protein-rich Foods and Cardiovascular Health: A Complex Conundrum.
• RCT: Findings "do not provide evidence for choosing white over red meat for reducing CVD risk."
• Plant- and Animal-protein Diets in Relation to Sociodemographic Drivers, Quality, and Cost.
• Fiber Intake Predicts Weight Loss and Dietary Adherence in Adults Consuming Calorie-Restricted Diets.
• Meta-analysis: 46 Studies Identified By the FDA Demonstrates that Soy Protein Decreases Circulating LDL and Total Cholesterol Concentrations in Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• Methionine Restriction Delays Senescence and Suppresses the Senescence-associated Secretory Phenotype in the Kidney Through Endogenous Hydrogen Sulfide.
• A Novel Nutritional Supplement Prevents Muscle Loss and Accelerates Muscle Mass Recovery in Caloric-restricted Mice.
• Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves 24-Hour Glucose Levels and A
  Ects Markers of the Circadian Clock, Aging, and Autophagy in Humans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Ready to Move: A Unique University Worksite Wellness Initiative.
• Exercise Trials for Blood Pressure Control: Keeping It Real.
• Neighbourhood Built Environment and Physical Function Among Mid-to-older Aged Adults: A Systematic Review.

Economics & Sociology

• The Price of Ultra-processed Foods and Beverages and Adult Body Weight: Evidence From U.S. Veterans.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood-to-adulthood BMI Tracking in Three British Birth Cohorts.
• Examining Cumulative Inequality in the Association Between Childhood SES and BMI From Midlife to Old Age.
• BMI in Religious Contexts: Exploring the Multilevel Influences of Religion.

Epidemiology

• "Among individuals with MI, those that have engaged in any light or moderate physical activity were more likely to survive their MI."
• The Role of Country of Birth, and Genetic and Self-identified Ancestry, in Obesity Susceptibility Among African and Hispanic Americans.
• Association of Exposure to Artificial Light at Night While Sleeping with Risk of Obesity in Women.
• Clinical Manifestations and Factors Associated with Osteosarcopenic Obesity Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study in Koreans with Obesity.
• Cross-sectional and Prospective Associations of Actigraphy-Assessed Sleep Regularity with Metabolic Abnormalities.
• Tantalizing Data and Ample Buzz for Personalized Nutrition.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Precision Medicine Analysis of a Behavioral Counseling Strategy to Improve Adherence to Diabetes Self-management Among Youth.
• Review: Temperament in Obesity-related Research: Concepts, Challenges, and Considerations for Future Research.
• Lived Experience of Obese People Who Feel that They are Addicted to Food (PDF).
• Longitudinal Preliminary Study of Addiction-Like Responses to Food and Alcohol Consumption Among Individuals Undergoing Weight Loss Surgery.
• Do Emotions Cause Eating? The Role of Previous Experiences and Social Context in Emotional Eating.

Equity and Disparities

• Does the Ethnic Density Effect Extend to Obesity? A Cross-sectional Study of 415 166 Adults in East London.
• Obesity and Disparities in Human Papillomavirus Vaccination for U.S. Adolescent Girls and Young Women.
• Effects of Economic Inequality on Obesity.

Stigma

• Weight Bias in Radiology Resident Selection.
• The Role of Weight Stigma in Parental Weight Talk.
• Implications of Differing Attitudes and Experiences Between Providers and Persons with Obesity.
• Addressing Internalized Weight Bias and Changing Damaged Identifies for People Living with Obesity.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination Mediates the Prospective Association Between Obesity and Physiological Dysregulation.
• How Doctors Can Stop Stigmatizing — and Start Helping — Kids with Obesity.

Policy Related

• Insights on the Influence of Sugar Taxes on Obesity Prevention Efforts.
• USDA Launches New School Nutrition Training Website.
• Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal, but Not Paternal or Grandparental, Caffeine Intake is Associated with Childhood Obesity and Adiposity.
• Association of Infant Feeding Patterns with Taste Preferences in European Children and Adolescents: A Retrospective Latent Profile Analysis.
• Maternal and Offspring Genetic Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Offspring Birthweight Among African Ancestry Populations.
• The Effect of Maternal Dietary Habits During Pregnancy on Neonate Leptin Methylation Patterns and Gestational Age (PDF).
• Time-restricted Feeding Reduces High-fat Diet Associated Placental Inflammation and Limits Adverse Effects on Fetal Organ Development.
• Maternal Dietary Glycemic and Insulinemic Indexes are Not Associated with Birth Outcomes or Childhood Adiposity at 5 Years of Age in an Irish Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Evolution Of, and Via, Developmental Plasticity: Insights Through the Study of Scaling Relationships.
• About “spendthrift” and “thrifty” Phenotypes: Resistance and Susceptibility to Overeating Revisited.
• Elephants Have a Nose for Quantity.

Methods

• Obesity and Chemotherapy Administration: Between Empiric and Mathematic Method Review.
• Application of Stable Isotope Labels for Metabolomics in Studies in Fatty Liver Disease.

Commentary

• Diet is a Vital Sign.
• Associations of Dietary Cholesterol and Egg Consumption with Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Total Mortality.
• The History of the Bagel: A New York City Story By Way of Poland and the Lower East Side.
• Perspective: Should Exclusive Breastfeeding Still Be Recommended for 6 Months?
• Medical Misinformation and the Internet: A Call to Arms.
• Fighting for the Common Ground of Better Diet.
• The Humble Glycemic Index Marks Global Diabetes Risk.
• 5 Little-known Facts About Protein.
• Better Metadata Could Help Save the World!

General

• Functional Regulators of Bacterial Flagella.
• Monkeys Use Their 'eagle' Call to Warn Each Other About Drones.
• Definitions of Sex and Intimacy Among Gender and Sexual Minoritised Groups in Urban India.
• To What Extent is Blood a Reasonable Surrogate for Brain in Gene. Expression Studies: Estimation From Mouse Hippocampus and Spleen.
• Research Integrity is Much More than Misconduct.
• When Pigs Fly: Emotional Support Animals, Service Dogs and the Politics of Legitimacy Across Species Boundaries.
• Life Finds a Way: Parthenogenesis in Asian Water Dragons [with Video].
• The Early Origin of Feathers.
• Forensic Pollen Scientists are Helping the US Track Opioids.
• Small, Furry and Powerful: Are Mouse Lemurs the Next Big Thing in Genetics?

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Diego Rose on Environmental Sustainability and Our Food.
• Podcast: Rick Larrick on the Hidden Energy Cost of Our Food.
• Outdated Gender Stereotypes are Harming Science.

Announcements

• IU to Acquire Fastest University-owned AI Supercomputer.
• Web-computing Platform Was Created By IU Scientists to Support and Publish Reproducible Neuroscience Research.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).

Obituaries: Three Great Scholars, Leaders, and Friends

• Leann Birch, Who Knew How to Get a Child to Eat Peas, Dies at 72.
• Judith Schneider Stern, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at UC Davis, Died on May 8, 2019.
• Mario DiGirolamo - Born in Rome, Italy on March 31, 1934 Departed on February 5, 2019.

Featured

• Extreme Events Reveal an Alimentary Limit on Sustained Maximal Human Energy Expenditure.
• Maternal Overnutrition Programs Hedonic and Metabolic Phenotypes Across Generations Through Sperm TsRNAs.
• Metabolic Inflexibility Detected in Overweight Labradors.
• Best (but Oft Forgotten) Practices: Sample Size Planning for Powerful Studies.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Up to 25 Cups of Coffee a Day Still Safe for Heart Health, Study Says.
• Press-release: Coffee Not as Bad for Heart and Circulatory System as Previously Thought.
• Meeting abstract: No Statistically Significant Cross-sectional Correlation in Arterial Stiffness for Individuals Who Drink >3 Cups of Coffee/day Group (>25 Excluded). No Causation Established; 25-cup Drinkers Not Specifically Studied.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Despite intensive, state-of-the-art, and often creative interventions conducted by seasoned investigators, all 5 of the studies considered below failed to alter the trajectory of weight gain in their participants compared with controls."
• RCT: "In this low-income, adolescent population, neither of the family-based interventions improved BMI or health-related secondary outcomes."
• RCT: No Effect of a School-Based Comprehensive Intervention for Childhood Obesity in China on BMI.
• RCT: "the intervention did not demonstrate a significant increase in nurse visits for obesity care..."
• RCT: "There seems to be no differential effect of weight loss or its interaction with macronutrient composition on measures of satiety."
• RCT: "A smartphone based attentive eating intervention and standard dietary advice did not result in reduced energy intake or greater weight loss at 4 or 8 week follow-up than standard dietary advice alone."
• RCT: "The use of AKTIDIET® [app] to support health advice for weight loss cannot be recommended."
• "There was no difference in adjusted hospital mortality across BMI strata in subjects with moderate to severe ARDS."
• "Our [mendelian randomization] findings support that T2DM and kidney disease increase TMAO levels and observational evidence for cardiovascular diseases may be due to confounding or reverse causality."

Basic

• Impact of Dietary Sucrose on Adiposity and Glucose Homeostasis in C57BL/6J Mice Depends on Mode of Ingestion: Liquid or Solid.
• Adipose HuR Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Hypothalamic Endocannabinoids Inversely Correlate with the Development of Diet-Induced Obesity in Male and Female Mice.
• Obesity-Induced Immune Dysfunction and Immunosuppression: TEM Observation of Lymph Node Microarchitecture and Immune Cell Interactions.
• Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase is a Metabolic Checkpoint for Polarization of Macrophages to the M1 Phenotype.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• When Poorly Conducted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Can Mislead: A Critical Appraisal and Update of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Examining the Effects of Probiotics in the Treatment of Functional Constipation in Children.
• The Science Behind the Headlines.
• Make Reports of Research Misconduct Public.
• Three RCTs Evaluating the Impact of “spin” in Health News Stories Reporting Studies of Pharmacologic Treatments on Patients’/caregivers’ Interpretation of Treatment Benefit.

Clinical

• RCT: Impact of High Volume Energy Drink Consumption on Electrocardiographic and Blood Pressure Parameters.
• Low-fat Dietary Pattern and Breast Cancer Mortality By Metabolic Syndrome Degree: Secondary Analyses of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modification Randomized Trial.
• RCT: The Effects of Six‐week Resistance, Aerobic and Combined Exercises on the Pro‐inflammatory and Anti‐inflammatory Markers in Overweight Patients with Moderate Haemophilia A.
• RCT: Effects of Red Meat, White Meat, and Nonmeat Protein Sources on Atherogenic Lipoprotein Measures in the Context of Low Compared with High Saturated Fat Intake.

Children and Adolescents

• Young Children Have Higher Variability of Insulin Requirements: Observations During Hybrid Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery.
• Outcomes, Care Utilization, and Expenditures in Adolescent Pregnancy Complicated By Diabetes.
• Changes in Visceral and Subcutaneous Fat in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes in the TODAY Study.

Surgery

• Gastric Bypass Surgery in Lean Adolescent Mice Prevents Diet-induced Obesity Later in Life.
• Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery Induces Noticeable Changes of Microbiota and Their Secreting Extracellular Vesicle Composition in the Gut.

Drugs

• RCT: Effect of Liraglutide on Body Weight and Pain in the Treatment of Overweight and Knee Osteoarthritis.
• RCT: Timing of Postpartum Etonogestrel-releasing Implant Insertion and Bleeding Patterns, Weight Change, 12-month Continuation and Satisfaction Rates.
• The Contribution of Obesity to Prescription Opioid Use in the United States.
• Metformin and DPP-4 Inhibitor Differentially Modulate the Intestinal Microbiota and Plasma Metabolome of Metabolically Dysfunctional Mice.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Yogurt Improves Insulin Resistance and Liver Fat in Obese Women with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Blueberries Improve Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Function in Participants with Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Role of Calcium and Low-Fat Dairy Foods in Weight-Loss Outcomes Revisited in Overweight/Obese Postmenopausal Women.
• Low-Carb and Ketogenic Diets in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Skipping Breakfast Before Exercise Creates a More Negative 24-hour Energy Balance in Healthy Physically Active Young Men.

Caloric Restriction

• Aging and Nutrition: Theories, Consequences, and Impact of Nutrients.
• Metabolic Disequilibrium and Aging: Modifying Favorably with Calorie Restriction and Calorie Restriction Mimetics. (pdf)
• Energy Metabolism and Intermittent Fasting: The Ramadan Perspective.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• PART 1: Cycling is Associated with a Lower Incidence of Cardiovascular Diseases and Death.
• PART 2: Cycling and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Including Body Composition, Blood Lipids and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Analysed as Continuous Variables.
• RCT: Effects of Interval Training on Visceral Adipose Tissue in Centrally Obese 70‐Year‐Old Individuals.
• Physical Activity Moderates the Effects of Daily Psychosocial Stressors on Ambulatory Blood Pressure.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic Review: Children of Single-parent Households are at a Higher Risk of Obesity.
• Socioeconomically Distressed Communities Associated with Long-term Mortality After Bariatric Surgery.
• Early Life Socioeconomic Status Moderates Associations Between Objective Sleep and Weight-related Indicators in Middle Childhood.
• Diet Quality Trends Among Adults with Diabetes By Socioeconomic Status in the U.S.: 1999–2014.

Epidemiology

• Night‐time Eating and Body Weight Status Among US Adults, 2007–2016.
• Combined Effect of Central Obesity and Urinary PAH Metabolites on Lung Function: A Cross-sectional Study in Urban Adults.
• Identifying Determinants of Obesity in Athens, Greece Through Global and Local Statistical Models.
• Significant Increase in Risk of Fibrosis or Cirrhosis at Time of HCV Diagnosis for Hispanics with Diabetes and Obesity Compared with Other Ethnic Groups.
• Lifestyle Risk Factors, Obesity and Infectious Disease Mortality in the General Population: Linkage Study of 97,844 Adults From England and Scotland.
• Psychosocial Factors Associated with Treatment Outcomes in Women with Obesity and Major Depressive Disorder Who Received Behavioral Activation for Depression.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Food Addiction in Adolescents: Exploration of Psychological Symptoms and Executive Functioning Difficulties in a Non-clinical Sample.
• Deconstructing Weight Management Interventions for Young Adults: Looking Inside the Black Box of the EARLY Consortium Trials.
• Ambivalence Toward Healthy and Unhealthy Food and Moderation By Individual Differences in Restrained Eating.
• Self‐regulation Foci and Mood Affect Healthy and Unhealthy Eating Behaviours Differently in Successful Weight‐loss Treatment Participants.
• Effect of Dose of Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment on Glycemic Control in Adults with Prediabetes.

Equity and Disparities

• Prepregnancy Diabetes and Breastfeeding Cessation Among Black Women in the United States.
• Weight-based Victimization Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: Implications for Substance Use and Mental Health.
• Ethnic Disparities in Adiposity: Focus on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Visceral, and Generalized Obesity.

Ethics

• Commercial Interests, Agenda Setting, and the Epistemic Trustworthiness of Nutrition Science.
• Obesity, Political Responsibility, and the Politics of Needs.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma and Physical Health: An Unconsidered ‘obesity’ Cost.
• Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors and Substance Use Among Adolescent Girls: The Harms of Weight Stigma.
• Weight‐based Teasing is Associated with Gain in BMI and Fat Mass Among Children and Adolescents At‐risk for Obesity: A Longitudinal Study.

Policy Related

• UK Sugar Tax: Historic Sales Shift to Sugar-free.
• Adolescent Obesity in the Past Decade a Systematic Review of Genetics and Determinants of Food Choice.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Nutritional Restriction During Gestation Impacts Differently on Offspring Muscular and Elastic Arteries and is Associated with Increased Carotid Resistance and Ventricular Afterload in Maturity.
• The Influence of Protein Restriction During Mid- to Late Gestation on Beef Offspring Growth, Carcass Characteristic and Meat Quality.
• Association of Preterm Birth with Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease in Adulthood.
• Hyperglycemia During Pregnancy May Raise Child's Obesity Risk.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Thermal Regime Effects on the Resting Metabolic Rate of Rattlesnakes Depend on Temperature Range.
• Predatory Behavior Changes with Satiety or Increased Insulin Levels in the Praying Mantis (Tenodera Sinensis).

Methods

• Meta-analysis: Intra-Abdominal Adipose Tissue Quantification By Alternative Versus Reference Methods.
• Development and Validation of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Equations in Adolescents with Severe Obesity.
• Development and Validation of a Tool to Assess the Rural Neighborhood Environment for Obesity in Korean Adults.
• Accuracy of a Mixed Effects Model Interpolation Technique for the Estimation of Pregnancy Weight Values.
• Evaluation of Measurement Error in 24-hour Dietary Recall for Assessing Sodium and Potassium Intake Among US Adults — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2014.

Commentary

• How Fasting May Prevent Obesity-related Insulin Resistance.
• Preventing Weight Gain More Important than Weight Loss and More Realistic to Study in Cohorts than in RCTs.
• Polyagonists for the Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes.
• Fast Relief From Excess Weight!
• The Elusive Magic of 10,000 Steps Per Day.
• Good Question: Why is Diabetes Incidence Going Down?

General

• Of Chaos, Storms and Forking Paths: The Principles of Uncertainty.
• Metamorphic Robustness Testing: Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors.
• The Role of Prosocial Behaviors in Mate Choice: A Critical Review of the Literature.
• Jumping Gene Gave Fish a Freshwater Start.
• Nutrients in the US Diet: Naturally Occurring or Enriched/fortified Food and Beverage Sources, Plus Dietary Supplements: NHANES 2009–2012.

Announcements

• EASO New Investigators United Autumn School: September 2019.
• WEBINAR: Feasibility of Online Nutrition Education in the Workplace: Working Toward Healthy Lifestyles.
• Study Spotlight: Results and Comparisons From the RISE Clinical Trial—Adult Medication Study.
• Workshop to Focus on MRI of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).

Featured

• Weight Loss, Diet Composition and Breast Cancer Incidence and Outcome in Postmenopausal Women.
• Three-dimensional Label-free Imaging Throughout Adipocyte Differentiation By Stimulated Raman Microscopy.
• BMI and Social Interactions From Adolescence to Adulthood.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Shows How Diet Can Prevent a Mid-life Microbiome Crisis and Improve Brain Health.
• Study: "These data highlight a potential pathway by which targeting the gut microbiome with prebiotics can modulate the peripheral immune response and alter neuroinflammation..." in middle aged mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Statistically Significant Effect on Weight of a Computerised Decision-Support Tool for Health Professionals for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Weight Management Intervention for Maternal Obesity, on Maternal and Child Outcomes at 24 Months Following Birth.
• "Neither egg nor cholesterol intakes were associated with stroke risk in this cohort, regardless of apoE phenotype."
• RCT: Three Consecutive Weeks of Nutritional Ketosis Has No Effect on Cognitive Function, Sleep, and Mood, Compared with a High-carbohydrate, Low-fat Diet in Healthy Individuals.
• RCT: "Intervention with fish oil and/or probiotics during pregnancy ...conferred no benefits in lowering the risk of GDM or improving glucose metabolism in overweight and obese women."
• "Results suggest that treatment intensification is often delayed despite consistently poor glycaemic control for more than 12 months, contrary to treatment guideline recommendations."
• "Contrary to general belief, the return of large carnivores does not always translate into higher compensation costs."
• RCT: "Contrary to previous acute exercise studies, 50 min of walking before dinner in the E-PAraDiGM protocol did not affect 24-h glucose profiles."
• Meta-analysis: "Based on our findings, modulation of gut microbiota composition through pro-/ synbiotic supplements did not have favorable effects to manage overweight or obese children and adolescents."
• "In this low-income, adolescent population, neither of the family-based interventions improved BMI or health-related secondary outcomes."

Basic

• A Brain-Melanocortin-Vagus Axis Mediates Adipose Tissue Expansion Independently of Energy Intake.
• Adipose Sirtuin 6 Drives Macrophage Polarization Toward M2 Through IL-4 Production and Maintains Systemic Insulin Sensitivity in Mice and Humans.
• Pancreatic Adipocytes Mediate Hypersecretion of Insulin in Diabetes-Susceptible Mice.
• Ginger Prevents Obesity Through Regulation of Energy Metabolism and Activation of Browning in High-fat Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Obesity Impacts the Regulation of MiR-10b and Its Targets in Primary Breast Tumors.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Implementation of Randomization Requires Corrected Analyses. Comment on ”Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder—A Randomized, Controlled 12-Month Trial, Nutrients 2018, 10, 369”.
• Reply to “Comment On: Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder—A Randomized, Controlled 12-Month Trial, Nutrients 2018, 10, 369”.
• University of Sydney Pulls Claims Elderberries Can Fight Flu.
• A New Science Integrity Blog.
• Commentary: CrossFit Demands Retraction of Paper Claiming Their Participants are More Likely to Be Injured.

Clinical

• Reversing Type 2 Diabetes with Bariatric Surgery, Very Low Calorie Diets, and Carbohydrate Restriction: A Review of the Evidence.
• Altered Thyroid Function and Structure in Children and Adolescents Who are Overweight and Obese: Reversal After Weight Loss.
• RCT: Daily Self‐Weighing to Prevent Holiday‐Associated Weight Gain in Adults.
• Obesity, Weight Loss and Its Influence on Telomere Length: New Insights for Personalized Nutrition.
• RCT: Circulating Gut Microbiota Metabolite Trimethylamine-N-Oxide (TMAO) and Changes in Bone Density in Response to Weight Loss Diets.
• Clinical Insights Into the Genetic Overlap Between Obesity Susceptibility and Food Choices.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-analysis: Treatment of Obesity, with a Dietary Component, and Eating Disorder Risk in Children and Adolescents.
• Effects of School Neighborhood Food Environments on Childhood Obesity at Multiple Scales.
• Factors Affecting the Dose of Intervention Received and the Participant Satisfaction in a School-based Obesity Prevention Intervention.
• Trends in Levels of Lipids and Apolipoprotein B in US Youths Aged 6 to 19 Years, 1999-2016.
• The FTO Gene and Measured Food Intake in 5‐ to 10‐Year‐Old Children Without Obesity.
• Predictors and Patterns of Eating Behaviors Across Childhood: Results From the Generation R Study.

Surgery

• The Amount of Weight Loss Six Months After Bariatric Surgery: It Makes a Difference.
• Meta-analysis: ffect of Bariatric Surgery on Serum Inflammatory Factors of Obese Patients.
• Five-Year Outcomes of Gastric Bypass in Adolescents as Compared with Adults.

Drugs

• Trypsin Inhibitors: Promising Candidate Satietogenic Proteins as Complementary Treatment for Obesity and Metabolic Disorders?
• First-in-Human Study of Dual Inhibitor Licogliflozin Showed Significant Weight Loss in Obese Patients.
• The Effects of Licogliflozin, a Dual SGLT1/2 Inhibitor, on Body Weight in Obese Patients with or Without Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Efficacy of Balanced Nutrition Meal Replacement Diet with Altered Macromolecule Composition Along with a Caloric Restriction on Body Weight Control.
• Salt Intake and Prevalence of Overweight/obesity in Japan, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• RCT: Using the Avocado to Test the Satiety Effects of a Fat-Fiber Combination in Place of Carbohydrate Energy in a Breakfast Meal in Overweight and Obese Men and Women.
• Late‐life Time‐restricted Feeding and Exercise Differentially Alter Healthspan in Obesity [in Mice].
• Feasibility and Acceptability of a Takeaway Masterclass Aimed at Encouraging Healthier Cooking Practices and Menu Options in Takeaway Food Outlets.
• Changes in Intake of Plant-based Diets and Weight Change: Results From 3 Prospective Cohort Studies.

Caloric Restriction

• Dawn-to-sunset Fasting Suggests Potential New Treatment for Obesity-related Conditions.
• Dietary Restriction Enhances Circadian Amplitude and Delays Visual Decline By a Clock-driven Increase in Phototransduction.
• Fasting Modulates Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus of Male Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• For Fat Burning, Interval Training Beats Continuous Exercise.
• Rates of Injury From Sports, Recreation, and Leisure Activities Among Children and Adolescents Aged 1–17 Years, By Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2015–2017.
• Prevalence of Low Back Pain, Seeking Medical Care, and Lost Time Due to Low Back Pain Among Manual Material Handling Workers in the United States.
• Exercise Prevents the Adverse Effects of Maternal Obesity on Placental Vascularization and Fetal Growth.
• Interindividual Variability and Individual Responses to Exercise Training in Adolescents with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Does Employment-Based Insurance Make the US Medical Care System Unfair and Inefficient?
• Using Economic Evidence to Support Policy Decisions to Fund Interventions for Non-communicable Diseases.
• For Fashion Industry, China's Child Obesity Problem Could Be Big Business.
• The Economics of Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: A Review of the Effects on Prices, Sales, Cross-Border Shopping, and Consumption.

Epidemiology

• Association of Sugary Beverage Consumption with Mortality Risk in US Adults.
• Decline of Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Italy From 2008 to 2016.
• Measures of General and Abdominal Obesity and Disability Severity in a Large Population of People with Multiple Sclerosis.
• Changing Impact of Obesity on Active Life Expectancy of Older Americans.
• Abdominal Obesity is More Strongly Correlated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea than General Obesity in China: Results From Two Separated Observational and Longitudinal Studies.
• Relationship Between DXA Measured Metrics of Adiposity and Glucose Homeostasis; An Analysis of the NHANES Data.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Systematic Review: Increasing Healthy Food Choices Through Nudges.
• Editorial: Preventing Weight Gain More Important than Weight Loss and More Realistic to Study in Cohorts than in RCTs.
• Obesity, Subliminal Perception and Inhibition: Neuromodulation of the Prefrontal Cortex.
• Impact of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Neural Food Cue Reactivity: Action for Health in Diabetes Brain Ancillary Study.

Equity and Disparities

• We Need a New Approach to Prevent Obesity in Low-Income Minority Populations.
• Pronounced Social Inequality in Health-related Factors and Quality of Life in Women and Men From Austria Who are Overweight or Obese.
• Regional Variation in Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence From 137 820 Adults on the Role of Neighbourhood BMI.

Stigma

• Does Dissatisfaction With, or Accurate Perception of Overweight Status Help People Reduce Weight? Longitudinal Study of Australian Adults.
• NP Student Encounters with Obesity Bias in Clinical Practice.
• Health Concerns and Moral Distaste - ‘Concern Trolling’ as a Moralizing Rhetoric.
• Male Body Dissatisfaction, Eating Disorder Symptoms, Body Composition, and Attentional Bias to Body Stimuli Evaluated Using Visual Search.

Policy Related

• Study Protocol: Exploring Network Structure and the Role of Key Stakeholders to Understand the Obesity Prevention System in an Australian Metropolitan Health Service.
• Improving the Health of Alaska Native People Through Use of a Policy Change Model and Capacity Building.
• Adherence to WHO’s Nutrition Recommendations in the UK: Dietary Patterns and Policy Implications From a National Survey.
• Policy Statement: Recommendations for the Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care: A 2019 Update: A Policy Statement From the American Stroke Association.
• Can We Stop the Obesity Epidemic?
• Assessing the Early Impact of Menu-Labeling on Calories in Chain Restaurants in Ontario, Canada.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal BMI Affects Embryo Morphokinetics: A Time-lapse Study.
• Children Exposed to Maternal Obesity or Gestational Diabetes During Early Fetal Development Have Hypothalamic Alterations that Predict Future Weight Gain.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Temporal Trends in Florida Panther Food Habits.
• Giant Tiger Sharks Eat Backyard Birds, Surprising Study Reveals.
• Section-specific H+ Fluxes in Renal Tubules of Fasted and Fed Goldfish.
• Developmental Plasticity in Metabolism but Not in Energy Reserve Accumulation in a Seasonally Polyphenic Butterfly.

Methods

• New Methods for Analysis and Interpretation of Obesity Experiments.
• Racial and Educational Disparities in Cognitive Life Expectancies: A Multivariate, Incidence-based Life Table Approach.
• Predicting Nationwide Obesity From Food Sales Using Machine Learning.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Study on the Modeling of Obesity.
• Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Estimators for the Association Between Incident Prepregnancy Obesity and Stillbirth in a Population-Based Cohort Study.

Commentary

• Time for a Holiday – Step on the Scales Please.
• Ultraprocessed Food Makes Us Fat: Forewarned, but Not Forearmed.
• A Non-BMI-Centric Approach to Diagnosing and Managing Obesity.
• Can We Walk and Chew Gum and Lose Weight All at Once?
• Sydney Playwright Presents the Human Side of Nutrition Science.
• Appetite as a Vital Sign.
• An Objective Line Between Processed and Ultra-Processed.
• Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice.
• Apples and Oranges, Tobacco and Sugar.

General

• A Solution to Psychology’s Reproducibility Problem Just Failed Its First Test.
• RCT: To Tweet or Not to Tweet, that is the Question: A Trial of Twitter Effects on Article Engagement in Medical Education.
• The Varying Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on College Graduation: Moderating and Mediating Mechanisms.
• Charcoal Toothpaste May do Harm and Not Much Good.
• Report Puts Scientific Replicability and Reproducibility Under the Microscope.
• Improving Environmental Risk Assessments of Chemicals: Steps Towards Evidence-based Ecotoxicology.
• Association Between Life Purpose and Mortality Among US Adults Older than 50 Years.
• Trends in Proportion of Women as Authors of Medical Journal Articles, 2008-2018.

Announcements

• Webinar: Using Law and Policy to Promote Health Equity and Achieve Healthy People Goals (June 13).
• Comment Request-Generic Clearance for the Development of Nutrition Education Messages and Products for the General Public: Due 06/04/2019.
• Menu Labeling Social Media Toolkit for Consumer Outreach.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).
• Short Course: Mathematical Science in Obesity Research, Baltimore, MD (June 3-7, 2019).
• Webinar: The Potential Role of Nutrition in the First 2 Years of Life in the Prevention of Child Overweight and Obesity.

Featured

• Are Corporations Nudging the Nudgers?
• Five-Year Outcomes of Gastric Bypass in Adolescents as Compared with Adults.
• The Gliotransmitter ACBP Controls Feeding and Energy Homeostasis via the Melanocortin System.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Mothers’ Microbes Modulate Metabolism During Pregnancy.
• Study: High‐fat Diet Intake Modulates Maternal Intestinal Adaptations to Pregnancy and Results in Placental Hypoxia, as Well as Altered Fetal Gut Barrier Proteins and Immune Markers... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant of Effectiveness in Total Sample of a Physical Activity Intervention in Preschoolers.
• RCT: When Objective Methods of Physical Activity are Used, No Statistically Significant Evidence of Effects in Kids Out; Evaluation of a Brief Multimodal Cluster Randomized Intervention Integrated in Health Education Lessons to Increase Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior Among Eighth Graders.
• Maternal Obesity is Not Associated with Increased Crown-rump Length in First-trimester Ultrasounds of Singleton Gestations.
• RCT: "There was no difference in the WLM of participants who received the NULevel intervention compared to participants who received standard lifestyle advice via newsletter."
• "Contrary to previous literature, our results do not support a harmful association of monosaccharides and disaccharides with NAFLD."
• RCT: No Significant of Effectiveness in Total Sample of a Physical Activity Intervention in Preschoolers.
• RCT: When Objective Methods of Physical Activity are Used, No Statistically Significant Evidence of Effects in Kids Out; Evaluation of a Brief Multimodal Cluster Randomized Intervention Integrated in Health Education Lessons to Increase Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior Among Eighth Graders.
• RCT: "Although observational data suggested that folate and vitamin B12 status are associated with body composition, random allocation of a supplement with both B-vitamins combined versus placebo did not confirm an effect on BMI or body composition."
• No Effect of Vitamin D Administration Plus Dietary Intervention on Emerging Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Salivary α-amylase Copy Number is Not Associated with Weight Trajectories and Glycemic Improvements Following Clinical Weight Loss: Results From a 2-phase Dietary Intervention Study.
• "Contrary to some previous experimental data, acute sleep deficit had no significant association with total EI..."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on Body Weight.

Basic

• Accumulation of Intramuscular Toxic Lipids, a Link between Fat Mass Accumulation and Sarcopenia.
• Offspring Exposed to Maternal High Fat Diet Exhibits Systemic Inflammation and Pancreatic Islet Dysfunction.
• Obesity-Associated Hypermetabolism and Accelerated Senescence of Bone Marrow Stromal Stem Cells Suggest a Potential Mechanism for Bone Fragility.
• Diacylglycerol Oil Reduces Fat Accumulation and Increases Protein Content By Inducing Lipid Catabolism and Protein Metabolism in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus).
• β-Lapachone Regulates Obesity Through Modulating Thermogenesis in Brown Adipose Tissue and Adipocytes: Role of AMPK Signaling Pathway.
• White Adipose Tissue Response of Obese Mice to Ambient Oxygen Restriction at Thermoneutrality: Response Markers Identified, but No WAT Inflammation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Implementation of Randomization Requires Corrected Analyses in “Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder—A Randomized, Controlled 12-Month Trial.”
• Letter & Response - Conditioning on "study" is essential for valid inference when combining individual data from multiple randomized controlled trials: a comment on Reesor et al's School-based weight management program curbs summer weight gain among low-income Hispanic middle school students. J Sch Health. 2019;89(1):59-67.
• “The Conclusions of Intervention Studies Such as Effectiveness of a Program for Reducing the Prevalence of Obesity,…could Be Impacted By RTM And, Therefore, Estimates of the Effect of an Intervention May Be Inaccurate.”.
• Digging Into Breakfast: Serving Up a Better Understanding of the Effects on Health of the “most Important Meal of the Day”.
• Mind Your Methods: Obesity Trials and the Consort Guidelines.

Clinical

• Effectiveness of social media-based lifestyle modification interventions for weight reduction in obese and overweight individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Comparing Disordered Eating and Feeding Practices in African American and Caucasian Treatment-seeking Youth with Obesity.
• No Association of Obesity Class with Trial of Labor After Cesarean Success.
• RCT: Seasonal Fluctuations in Weight and Self-weighing Behavior Among Adults in a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention.
• Testosterone Therapy in Men with Hypogonadism Prevents Progression From Prediabetes to Type 2 Diabetes: Eight-Year Data From a Registry Study.

Children and Adolescents

• The Long-Term Effects of Dietary Nutrient Intakes During the First 2 Years of Life in Healthy Infants From Developed Countries: An Umbrella Review.
• Behavioral Research Agenda in a Multietiological Approach to Child Obesity Prevention.
• Potential Solutions for Pediatric Weight Loss Programs in the Treatment of Obesity in Rural Communities.
• Feasibility of Pediatric Obesity and Prediabetes Treatment Support Through Tess, the AI Behavioral Coaching Chatbot.
• Increasing Prevalence of Diabetic Ketoacidosis at Diabetes Diagnosis Among Children in Quebec: A Population-based Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Wisdom and Wishes About Walking to School.
• US Pediatrician Practices and Attitudes Concerning Childhood Obesity: 2006 and 2017.
• Heavy Teen Boys May Face Higher Heart Disease Risk as Adults.

Surgery

• Effects of Roux En Y Gastric Bypass Surgery on Neurobehavioral Symptom Domains Associated with Severe Obesity.
• RCT: Improving Compliance with Very Low Energy Diets (VLEDs) Prior to Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• RCT: Evaluation of Treatment-Dose Enoxaparin in Acutely Ill Morbidly Obese Patients at an Academic Medical Center.
• RCT: Effects of Intermittent Versus Continuous Phentermine Therapy on Weight Reduction and Inflammatory Markers in Obese Non-diabetic Patients.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: The Effect of Canola Oil on Body Weight and Composition.
• RCT: Three Consecutive Weeks of Nutritional Ketosis Has No Effect on Cognitive Function, Sleep, and Mood Compared with a High-carbohydrate, Low-fat Diet in Healthy Individuals.
• Vegetarianism: "Shunning the Sacrilegious Taste of Blood."
• TMAO and Heart Disease: The New Red Meat Risk?

Caloric Restriction

• The Impact of Aging, Calorie Restriction and Dietary Fat on Autophagy Markers and Mitochondrial Ultrastructure and Dynamics in Mouse Skeletal Muscle.
• Growth-restriction during lactation reduced physical activity in female mice by reducing the central drive to be active and displayed a more fatigable skeletal muscle phenotype.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Gum Chewing While Walking Increases Fat Oxidation and Energy Expenditure.
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Predictor of Short‐term and Lifetime Estimated Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
• Comparative Relevance of Physical Fitness and Adiposity on Life Expectancy.
• Financial Incentives for Physical Activity in Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Neighborhood Food Environment and Physical Activity Among U.S. Adolescents.
• For Fat Burning, Interval Training Beats Continuous Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• Gender-specific Mediators of the Association Between Parental Education and Adiposity Among Adolescents.
• Food as a New Old Commons.

Epidemiology

• Epigenetics in Human Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Overweight and Obesity Among School Bus Drivers in Rural Arkansas.
• Relationships Among Child Eating Behaviors and Household Food Insecurity in Youth with Obesity.
• Association of Sugary Beverage Consumption with Mortality Risk in US Adults a Secondary Analysis of Data From the REGARDS Study.
• Effect of Late-life Weight Change on Dementia Incidence: A 10-year Cohort Study Using Claim Data in Korea.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Sex-specific Roles of Cellular Inflammation and Cardiometabolism in Obesity-associated Depressive Symptomatology.
• Association of Social and Behavioral Risk Factors with Earlier Onset of Adult Hypertension and Diabetes.
• A Digital Behavioral Weight Gain Prevention Intervention in Primary Care Practice: Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
• Food Craving Predicts the Consumption of Highly Palatable Food but Not Bland Food.

Equity and Disparities

• Do Differences in Compositional Time Use Explain Ethnic Variation in the Prevalence of Obesity in Children? Analyses Using 24-hour Accelerometry.
• A Three-year Multifaceted Intervention to Prevent Obesity in Children of Mexican-heritage.
• Correlates and Inequality of Underweight and Overweight Among Women of Reproductive Age: Evidence From the 2016 Nepal Demographic Health Survey.
• Obesity, Equity and Choice.

Ethics

• Regulating Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.
• Challenging Diversity: Steering Effects of Buzzwords in Projectified Health Care - Obesity Case Study.

Stigma

• Body Image Distortion Following Social Rejection or Acceptance Cues.
• Advocating for Fat Activism in a Therapeutic Context.

Policy Related

• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes Emerging Evidence on a New Public Health Policy.
• Food Environment Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Scoping Review.
• FDA Warns of Risks Associated with Use of Unauthorized Devices for Diabetes Management Used Alone or Along with Other Devices.
• Materials & Transcripts From: Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: Meeting 1.
• Association of a Beverage Tax on Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages with Changes in Beverage Prices and Sales at Chain Retailers in a Large Urban Setting.
• Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States. (pdf)

Intergenerational Effects

• Famine Exposure During the Fetal Period Increased the Risk of Dyslipidemia in Female Adults.
• Role of miRNA in the Transmission of Metabolic Diseases Associated With Paternal Diet-Induced Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Responding to the Weather: Energy Budgeting By a Small Mammal in the Wild.
• Endocrine Disruption Alters Developmental Energy Allocation and Performance in Rana Temporaria.

Methods

• A Simple Method to Monitor Hepatic Gluconeogenesis and Triglyceride Synthesis Following Oral Sugar Tolerance Test in Obese Adolescents.
• Development of a Scale to Measure Quality of Life of Overweight Women.
• Identification of Plasma Lipid Metabolites Associated with Nut Consumption in US Men and Women.
• Perspective: Advancing Understanding of Population Nutrient–Health Relations Via Metabolomics and Precision Phenotypes.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Predicting Nationwide Obesity From Food Sales Using Machine Learning.
• The Reign of the P-value is Over: What Alternative Analyses Could We Employ to Fill the Power Vacuum?

Commentary

• Diet, RCTs, and the Religion-izing of Science: Even Good Tools Can Be Used Badly...
• RNA Messaging System Which Tells Proteins How to Behave in Cells is Functioning Differently in Diabetes.
• Severe Teen Obesity: Care Delayed May Be Health Denied.
• In Teens with Severe Obesity, Can Bariatric Surgery Wait Until Adulthood?
• "Are Fruit Juices Just as Unhealthy as Sugar-Sweetened Beverages?"
• Does Eating Ultraprocessed Food Affect Weight Gain? It’s Complicated.
• Told Ya So: It’s the Ultra-Processed Food.
• Indiana Youth Institute CEO Talks Good Eating, Ample Activity to Fight Childhood Obesity.
• Replacing Some Carbs with Avocado Might Promote Weight Loss, Study Finds.
• Help Address Food Waste and Food Insecurity: Increase Understanding of Date Labeling.
• Rural Areas Drive Global Obesity.
• What? A Low-Fat Diet Prevents Breast Cancer?
• NCDs, UHC, and Global Presumptions.
• Ultra-Processed Foods Cause Weight Gain.
• Study Puts Eggs and Dietary Cholesterol Back on the Radar.
• Radical Concept: Medical Care for a Medical Condition.

General

• "Women Untold": Documentary based on the careers of Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb, Alice Augusta Ball and Dr. Evelyn Boyd Granville.
• This 100-Million-Year-Old Squid Relative Was Entrapped in Amber Read.
• Are Vitamin D Levels Jeopardized By Sunscreen?
• Female-female Aggression in Goitered Gazelles: The Desire for Isolation.
• Senolytic Therapies for Healthy Longevity.
• The National Academies Illustrates the More Nuanced Value of Transparency in Science.
• RCT: Claims of Causality in Health News.
• REVIEW: Relationship between Diet/exercise and Pharmacotherapy to Enhance the GLP‐1 Levels in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Socioeconomic Position and Intergenerational Associations of Ideal Health Behaviors.
• You Can’t ‘Starve’ Cancer, but You Might Help Treat It with Food.
• How Did Life Arrive on Land? A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Fasting Framework, Vitamin Supplementation, Antioxidants, Time Management, Problem-solving, and More.
• Video: Exercise Dose in Children — DIC Interview.
• Podcast: Continuous Glucose Monitors – Impact of Food, Sleep, and Stress on Glucose, the Unmatched Power of CGM to Drive Behavioral Change, and the Exciting Future of CGM.

Announcements

• Webinar: The Potential Role of Nutrition in the First 2 Years of Life in the Prevention of Child Overweight and Obesity.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research (7/29-8/2 @Bloomington, IN).
• Short Course: Mathematical Science in Obesity Research (6/3-7 @Baltimore, MD).