Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Lifespan Extension Drug Interventions Affect Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Aging.
• A Systematic Scoping Review of Surgically Manipulated Adipose Tissue and the Regulation of Energetics and Body Fat in Animals in Obesity.
• The Association Between Allostatic Load and Anthropometric Measurements Among a Multiethnic Cohort of Children.
• A Successful Nutritional Therapy for Postprandial Hypoglycemia After Bariatric Surgery.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Researchers Find Jogging May Be the Best Workout to Avoid Weight Gain.
• Study: Different Self-reported Physical Exercises Influence the Associations Between Genetic-risk-scores and Various Obesity Measures.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Evidence for an Association Between Obesity and Food Liking.
• RCT: Skipping Breakfast Before Exercise Creates a More Negative 24-hour Energy Balance.
• A Short-term Religious “fast” From Animal Products Has a Minimal Impact on Cardiometabolic Health Biomarkers Irrespective of Concurrent Shifts in Distinct Plant-based Food Groups.
• RCT: "no significant difference across labels was observed for food choices..."
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Inspiratory Exercise with Linear and Nonlinear Load on Respiratory Variables Post-Bariatric Surgery.
• RCT: "Fish and rapeseed oil used as (LC-)PUFA sources provided with complementary feeding embedded in a structured infant diet did not affect visual or cognitive development of term infants."
• RCT: Brazilian Cardioprotective Nutritional (BALANCE) Program for improvement on quality of diet and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events..."had no significant effect on the incidence of cardiovascular events or death."
• RCT: "School meals had no effect on [height-for-age and BMI-for-age z scores] in children aged 5–15 y" in Ghana.
• Meta-analysis: Whole-Grain Consumption Does Not Affect Obesity Measures.

Basic

• The Effect of Homocysteine on the Expression of CD36, PPARγ, and C/EBPα in Adipose Tissue of Normal and Obese Mice.
• IL-29 Promotes Obesity-Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance.
• Unacylated Ghrelin Stimulates Steroidogenesis in Lean Rats and Reverses Reproductive Dysfunction in High Fat Diet-Fed Rats.
• Leptin Receptor-Expressing Neurons in the Ventromedial Nucleus of the Hypothalamus Contribute to Weight Loss Caused By Fourth Ventricle Leptin Infusions.
• Taste Loss with Obesity in Mice and Men.
• Progress and Challenges in Analyzing Rodent Energy Expenditure.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption and Cardiovascular Outcomes.
• Reply: Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption and Cardiovascular Outcomes.
• Improving the Quality of Dietary Research.
• "...muscle food categories and descriptions are substantively different within and between experimental and observational studies and do not match regulatory definitions"
• Magnitude‐based Inference is Not Bayesian and is Not a Valid Method of Inference.
• Spin, Pilots, and Sacred Cows of Obesity Care.

Clinical

• Cost-effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery for People with Morbid Obesity in South Korea.
• Effectiveness And Tolerability Of Orlistat And Liraglutide In Patients With Obesity In A Real‐World Setting.

Children and Adolescents

• Decomposing Trends in Child Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Interventions for Preventing Obesity in Children.
• Childhood Obesity Leads to Adult Type 2 Diabetes and Coronary Artery Diseases: A 2-sample Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Meta-analysis: Prevalence and Trends of Overweight and Obesity in European Children From 1999 to 2016.

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: Psychosocial Outcomes Following Adolescent Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-analysis: Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery and Adverse Perinatal Outcomes.
• Long-term Adverse Events After Sleeve Gastrectomy or Gastric Bypass: A 7-year Nationwide, Observational, Population-based, Cohort Study.

Drugs

• Can Cannabis Turn the Obesity Tide?
• Health Effects of Eating Marijuana is Subject of a New Study [in Mice].
• CNS-targeting Pharmacological Interventions for the Metabolic Syndrome.
• Promise for a New Targeted Obesity Therapy Soon.
• Metformin Use and Clinical Outcomes Among Patients with Diabetes with or Without Heart Failure or Kidney Dysfunction: Observations From the SAVOR-TIMI 53 Trial.

Food & Diet

• InterACTWEL Science Gateway for Adaptation Planning in Food-Energy-Water Sectors of Local Communities.
• New Zealand's Food System is Unsustainable: A Survey of the Divergent Attitudes of Agriculture, Environment, and Health Sector Professionals Towards Eating Guidelines.
• Systematic Review: The Effect of Isolated and Synthetic Dietary Fibers on Markers of Metabolic Diseases in Human Intervention Studies.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Cardiometabolic Health: An Update of the Evidence.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: "Effectiveness and Adherence of Modified Alternate-day Calorie Restriction in Improving Activity of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease."
• An Overview of Two Decades of Diet Restriction Studies Using Drosophila.
• Gonadal Hormones Influence Core Body Temperature During Calorie Restriction.
• Change in Self-efficacy, Eating Behaviors and Food Cravings During Two Years of Calorie Restriction in Humans Without Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effects of High-intensity Interval Training and Nutrition Advice on Cardiometabolic Markers and Aerobic Fitness in Adolescent Girls with Obesity.
• No Consensus on Causality of Spine Postures or Physical Exposure and Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews.
• Meta-analysis: "Interventions Using Activity Trackers Improve Physical Activity Levels and Mobility Among Older People Compared With Control."

Economics & Sociology

• Differences in Magnitude and Rates of Change in BMI Distributions By Socioeconomic and Geographic Factors in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru, 2005–2010.
• The Association Between Obesity, Socio-Economic Status, and Neighborhood Environment: A Multi-Level Analysis of Spokane Public Schools.
• Peer Status Position Within School-Based Hierarchies and Excessive Fat Accumulation in Adulthood—A 30 Year Follow Up of a Stockholm Cohort.

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis: Internet Use in Relation to Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Depression, Anxiety, and Sleep Disorders in US Adults with Food Insecurity.
• Greater Social Jetlag Associates with Higher HbA1c in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross Sectional Study.
• Improving Fruit and Vegetable Intake Attenuates the Genetic Association with Long-term Weight Gain.
• Review of Obesity and Periodontitis: An Epidemiological View.
• Evaluating the Associations Between Obesity and Age-related Cataract: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Investigating the Association Between Body Fat and Depression Via Mendelian Randomization.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Negative Affect is Associated with Increased Stress-eating for Women with High Perceived Life Stress.
• Cognitive Training on Eating Behaviour and Weight Loss: A Meta‐analysis and Systematic Review.

Stigma

• Perceived Weight Discrimination and Performance in Five Domains of Cognitive Function.
• Association of Bullying Victimization with Overweight and Obesity Among Adolescents From 41 Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries.
• Effects of Weight-neutral Approaches Compared with Traditional Weight-loss Approaches on Behavioral, Physical, and Psychological Health Outcomes.
• The O-Word Versus the W-Word.

Policy Related

• A Global Review of Food-Based Dietary Guidelines.
• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Stakeholder Evaluation of 2 Obesity Prevention Policies in Maine, US.
• Public Health Procedures, Alone, Will Not Prevent Child Obesity.
• Healthy Vending Contracts: Do Localized Policy Approaches Improve the Nutrition Environment in Publicly Funded Recreation and Sport Facilities?

Intergenerational Effects

• Influence of Maternal Obesity on the Long-Term Health of Offspring.
• RCT: Feasibility of Conducting an Early Pregnancy Diet and Lifestyle E-health Intervention: The Pregnancy Lifestyle Activity Nutrition (PLAN) Project.
• Antibiotic Use During Pregnancy and Childhood Overweight: A Population-based Nationwide Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Staring at Seagulls Makes Them Less Likely to Steal Your Food, New Research Shows.
• Social Ecology of Feeding in an Open Ocean.
• Refined Carbohydrates, Phenotypic Plasticity and the Obesity Epidemic.
• Impact of Energy Turnover on the Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis in Healthy Subjects.
• Testosterone Does Not Mediate Variation in Basal Metabolic Rate and Activity in Relation to Reproductive Condition and Photoperiod in White‐footed Mice (Peromyscus Leucopus).

Methods

• An Appraisal of the SDIR as an Estimate of True Individual Differences in Training Responsiveness in Parallel‐arm Exercise RCTs.
• Big Data Against Childhood Obesity, the BigO Project.
• Perspective: Dietary Biomarkers of Intake and Exposure—Exploration with Omics Approaches.
• Associations Between Self-reported Vegetable and Fruit Intake Assessed with a New Web-based 24-h Dietary Recall and Serum Carotenoids in Free-living Adults: A Relative Validation Study.

Commentary

• Nutrition Advice for Babies and Toddlers Has Been Fraught with Errors. That's About to Change.
• Fasting or Keto: Possible Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis.
• Hate and Prejudice do Not Go Quietly.
• A Reason to Put Down the Phone When You Eat.
• Is a Global Decline in Deaths From Heart Disease Ending?
• Location, Location, Location: The Distribution of Fat.
• From Weight Watchers to WW to Healthier Youth?
• WW Just Released a Weight Loss App for Kids. What Could Go Wrong?

General

• The Selection of Comparators for RCTs of Health-related Behavioral Interventions: Recommendations of an NIH Expert Panel.
• Bound Constrained Optimization of Sample Sizes Subject to Monetary Restrictions in Planning Multilevel Randomized Trials and Regression Discontinuity Studies.
• RCT: Three RCTs Evaluating the Impact of “spin” in Health News Stories Reporting Studies of Pharmacologic Treatments on Patients’/caregivers’ Interpretation of Treatment Benefit.
• Faculty Writing Groups.
• The Global Male-bias in Sex Ratio at Birth is Sustained By the Sex Ratio Genotypes of Replacement Offspring.
• Corrigendum: A Word You May Hope Never to Encounter.
• Investigating 'spin' in Scientific Journals.
• Evaluation of Spin in Abstracts of Papers in Psychiatry and Psychology Journals.
• Brain Activity and Connectivity Changes in Response to Nutritive Natural Sugars, Non-nutritive Natural Sugar Replacements and Artificial Sweeteners.
• Obesity in Indiana: Losing Weight No Easy Task.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Diabetes Research Center - Seminar Series.
• COS 2019: Opening Ceremonies and Welcoming Remarks.

Announcements

• Indiana University Students Diving for Shipwrecks with NOAA.
• IU Sets New Record with $680.2 Million in Research Grants and Awards.
• IU Simon Cancer Center Lands $13.8M Grant, Comprehensive Cancer Center Designation.
• Announcing the Launch of ASN’s Statistical Review Board.
• ObesityWeek Early Bird Registration is Open!
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• RCT: Differential Effects of Alternate‐Day Fasting Versus Daily Calorie Restriction on Insulin Resistance.
• A Critique of the Objective Function Utilized in Calculating the Thrifty Food Plan.
• T Cell–mediated Regulation of the Microbiota Protects Against Obesity.
• A Transcriptomic Atlas of Mammalian Olfactory Mucosae Reveals an Evolutionary Influence on Food Odor Detection in Humans.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: 'Traffic Light' Food Labels Reduce Calories Purchased in Hospital Cafeteria.
• Study: "A workplace cafeteria traffic light–labeling and choice architecture program was associated with [not necessarily caused] a sustained decrease in calories purchased, particularly from [red-labeled] foods."

Contrary or Null Findings

• Community Gardening in a Society with High Malnutrition Prevalence Helps Reduce Malnutrition but Increases Obesity.
• No Association Between Coffee Consumption and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Improvement in Reduction of BMI and No Effect of Lipid Profile in Bariatric Surgery with Omentectomy.
• "In the age group of people around 70 years, dog ownership is not associated with reduced odds for developing T2D."
• "...watching TV during the meal was not associated with the dietary quality of what the children consumed."
• RCT: "Daily consumption of oat bran did not potentialize the beneficial effects of a traditional low-calorie diet on the prevalence of MetS and associated disorders."
• 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: "Child BMI and waist circumference changes from baseline to week 12 were not statistically different within or between groups" in a web-based family telehealth nutrition intervention to improve child weight status and dietary intake.
• "We found that the inverse association between the duration of breastfeeding and risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood is considerably weakened and no longer significant after adjustment for prenatal and postnatal factors in the infant and mother."
• "These results show that obesity-associated hypertension does not depend on the presence of leptin."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Spin in the Abstract in “Impact of Motivational Interviewing on Outcomes of an Adolescent Obesity Treatment: Results From the MI Values Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.”
• Response to Vorland et al's Letter to the Editor about "Impact of motivational interviewing on outcomes of an adolescent obesity treatment: Results from the MI Values randomized controlled pilot trial."
• A Critical Review of “A Randomized Trial of the Effects of the No-carrageenan Diet on Ulcerative Colitis Disease Activity (Nutr. Healthy Aging. 2017; 4(2): 181–192)”.
• The Human Placenta May Not Have a Microbiome After All.

Basic

• Oncogenic KRAS Reduces Expression of FGF21 in Acinar Cells to Promote Pancreatic Tumorigenesis in Mice on a High-Fat Diet.
• Knockout of the X-linked Fgf13 in the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus Impairs Sympathetic Output to Brown Fat and Causes Obesity.
• Rats that are Predisposed to Excessive Obesity Show Reduced (Leptin‐Induced) Thermoregulation Even in the Preobese State.
• Low-Calorie Sweeteners Augment Tissue-Specific Insulin Sensitivity in a Large Animal Model of Obesity.
• Sex-Dependent Differences in the Bioenergetics of Liver and Muscle Mitochondria From Mice Containing a Deletion for Glutaredoxin-2.
• The Protein Leverage Hypothesis: A 2019 Update for Obesity.
• Endogenous Hyperinsulinemia Contributes to Pancreatic Cancer Development.
• Elucidating the Regulatory Role of Melatonin in Brown, White, and Beige Adipocytes.

Clinical

• RCT: The Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Body Weight and Food Consumption in Obese Adults.
• RCT: Occupationally Tailored, Web-based, Nutrition and Physical Activity Program for Firefighters.
• Taking on Pet Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Noncomprehensive and Intermittent Obesity‐Related School Programs and Policies May Not Work: Evidence From the COMPASS Study.
• Association Between Neighbourhood Green Space and Biological Markers in School-aged Children.
• Variabilities in Childhood Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Incident Diabetes in Adulthood: The Bogalusa Heart Study.
• Early Menarche is Associated with an Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Rural Chinese Women and is Partially Mediated By BMI.
• Structural Connectivity and Weight Loss in Children with Obesity: A Study of the “connectobese”.
• Urinary Bisphenols and Obesity Prevalence Among US Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• RCT: Does Lifestyle Intervention After Gastric Bypass Surgery Prevent Weight Regain?
• Meta-analysis: Effects of Exercise Training on Weight Loss in Patients Who Have Undergone Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• RCT: Effects of Testosterone Supplementation on Body Composition and Lower-body Muscle Function During Severe Exercise- and Diet-induced Energy Deficit.
• Oral Semaglutide Reduces HbA1c, Weight in Patients with T2DM.

Food & Diet

• Co-ingestion of Whole Almonds and Almond Oil with Carbohydrate Suppresses Postprandial Glycaemia in Mice in an Insulin-dependent and Insulin-independent Manner.
• Cinnamon Attenuates Adiposity and Affects the Expression of Metabolic Genes in Diet-Induced Obesity Model of Zebrafish.
• The Social Insectivore: Peer and Expert Influence Affect Consumer Evaluations of Insects as Food.
• The Fat of the Matter: Lipoprotein Effects of Dietary Fatty Acids Vary By Body Weight Status.
• RCT: Variations in Marginal Taste Perception By BMI Classification.

Caloric Restriction

• Sex-Specific Responses of Lifespan and Fitness to Variation in Developmental Versus Adult Diets in D. Melanogaster.
• Effect of Caloric Restriction and Rapamycin on Ovarian Aging in Mice.
• Fasting Reduces Intestinal Radiotoxicity Enabling Dose-escalated Radiotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer. (pdf)

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity: Recent Study Found Risk of Obesity Increased By 43%.
• Performing Different Kinds of Physical Exercise Differentially Attenuates the Genetic Effects on Obesity Measures: Evidence From 18,424 Taiwan Biobank Participants.
• Impact of Gait Speed on the Obesity Paradox in Older Patients with Cardiovascular Disease.

Economics & Sociology

• Investigating Denominational and Church Attendance Differences in Obesity and Diabetes in Black Christian Men and Women.
• Food Insecurity Moderates the Acute Effect of Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Food Consumption.
• Preprint: "We estimated that the cost of an EATLancet diet exceeded household income for at least 1·56 billion people."

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis: The Comparison of Different Obesity Indexes and the Risk of Lung Cancer.
• Hypertension and Obesity Among Civil Aviation Pilots.
• Does Tonsillectomy Increase Obesity Risk in Children with Down Syndrome?
• Association Between Neonatal Serum Bilirubin and Childhood Obesity in Preterm Infants.
• Reported Knowledge of Typical Daily Calorie Requirements: Relationship to Demographic Characteristics in US Adults.
• Top 10 Most Obese Countries in the World According to WHO and OECD.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Women with Obesity are Not as Curvy as They Think: Consequences on Their Everyday Life Behavior.
• Reinforcing Value of Food and Non-food Alternative: Associations with BMI Z-score and Percent Fat Mass.
• RCT: Effect of Meditation on Weight Loss and Waist Circumference for Women Undergoing a Standard Weight Loss Treatment.
• Attentional Bias to Food Varies as a Function of Metabolic State Independent of Weight Status.
• Impact of Pleasure-oriented Messages on Food Choices: Is It More Effective than Traditional Health-oriented Messages to Promote Healthy Eating?
• Measures of Obesity are Associated with MRI Markers of Brain Aging: The Northern Manhattan Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Commentary: Overcoming Inequities in Obesity: What Don’t We Know that We Need to Know?
• Systematic Review: Overweight and Obesity in Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents.

Stigma

• Attitudes Toward and Beliefs About Obese Persons Across Hong Kong and Taiwan: Wording Effects and Measurement Invariance.
• Body Talk, Body Dissatisfaction, and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Mother–adolescent Girl Dyads.
• Fat is Not the Problem—Fat Stigma Is.
• The Behavioral Pathway Model to Overweight and Obesity: Coping Strategies, Eating Behaviors and BMI.
• Is an Obesity Simulation Suit in an Undergraduate Medical Communication Class a Valuable Teaching Tool?

Policy Related

• Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence.
• Food Service Guideline Policies on Local Government–Controlled Properties.
• Power in the Zambian Nutrition Policy Process.
• Public Health and Social Policy Perspectives on DOHaD.
• The Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey as a Basis for Public Policy Planning: Overweight and Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Ancient Origins of Low Lean Mass Among South Asians and Implications for Modern Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility.
• Nutritional Stress Reduces Flight Performance and Exploratory Behavior in a Butterfly.
• A Moderate Daily Dose of Resveratrol Mitigates Muscle Deconditioning in a Martian Gravity Analog [in Male Rats].
• Hummingbirds Budget Energy Flexibly in Response to Changing Resources.

Methods

• Attitudes Toward and Beliefs About Obese Persons Across Hong Kong and Taiwan: Wording Effects and Measurement Invariance.
• Smartphone-Based Blood Pressure Measurement Using Transdermal Optical Imaging Technology.
• [Anthropometric Assessment of Nutritional Status in Pregnancy: Comparison of Five Diagnostic Methods Used in Latin America].

Commentary

• Access to Care, Hurdles to Health.
• Disrupted Glucose Metabolism Led to High Levels of DNA Damage in Pancreatic Tissue.
• Patterns of Work, Leisure, and Physical Activity.
• Look for a Good Answer or Tell the Truth?
• Perirenal Adiposity and Other Excessive Intra- and Peri-Organ Fat Depots: What is the Connection?
• Use of Acupuncture in Overweight/Obese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Dietary Patterns to Mitigate Genetic Risk of Obesity.
• Diet Therapy in the Management of Chronic Pain: Better Diet Less Pain?
• Obesity in Indiana: Losing Weight No Easy Task.
• Moving Beyond Weight Bias Into Vile Hate.

General

• Contrasting Genomic Shifts Underlie Parallel Phenotypic Evolution in Response to Fishing.
• Editorial: Time's Up, CO2.
• Turtle Embryos Can Choose Their Own Sex, Shows New Research – but Why?
• Monument Plan Sparks Fossil Worries.
• Biomarkers for Aging Identified in Cross-sectional Studies Tend to Be Non-causative.
• Three Pitfalls to Avoid in Machine Learning.
• The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis.
• Cognitive and Physiological Measures in Well-Being Science: Limitations and Lessons.
• What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer.
• Preprint: Supercentenarians and the Oldest-old are Concentrated Into Regions with No Birth Certificates and Short Lifespans. (pdf)
• The Effects of Low Socioeconomic Status on Decision-making Processes.

Announcements

• Call for Manuscript Submissions: Psychosomatic Aspects of Obesity.
• IU Bloomington: Dr. Guerra-Reyes Pens New Book on Birth Care in Peru.
• IU Bloomington: Dr. Mayo-Wilson Receives $238,975 Grant From the Arnold Foundation.
• AAU Elevates IU President Michael McRobbie as Chair.
• Postdoctoral Position in Intermittent Fasting, Circadian Rhythms, & Sleep.
• Webinar: Using Skin Carotenoid Status Technology to Evaluate Community Nutrition Interventions.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Studying a Possible Placebo Effect of an Imaginary Low-Calorie Diet.
• RCT: Acute Effects of a Hallucinatory Meal on Subjective Appetite and Food Intake.
• Overweight and Lonely? A Representative Study on Loneliness in People with Obesity and Its Determinants.
• Repressive Gene Regulation Synchronizes Development with Cellular Metabolism.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Why Eating Too Much Chilli Could Lead to Memory Loss.
• Study: Associations (not Necessarily Causation) Between Self-reported Chili Intake and Self-reported Poor Memory and Memory Decline.
• Headline: Top Reasons Your Smartphone is Making You Gain Weight.
• Meeting abstract: "Obesity associated with the hours of use of the smartphone in university students: The technological slavery of the future." (pdf)

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Significant Effects of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation with Oral Capsules on BMI in Patients with Obesity.
• RCT: Local Exercise Does Not Prevent the Aortic Stiffening Response to Acute Prolonged Sitting.
• RCT: "on average, upper body compression garments have no effects on the performance and lactate concentration of highly trained elite canoeists."
• RCT: No Effect of Fenugreek, Bergamot and Olive Leaf Extract on Glucose Homeostasis in Patients with Prediabetes.
• "Surprisingly, oolong tea significantly influenced reduction in relative weight compared with control, black, and green tea; whereas black, green, and white teas had no effects on weight compared with control" [in rats].
• "Contrary to our pre-registered predictions, the experimental manipulation of hypothesis awareness did not affect session 2 food intake."
• "The results of pooling data from published prospective studies also showed no link between CHD and total mortality with egg consumption, whereas we observed a reverse association between egg intake and stroke mortality."

Basic

• Antioxidants Protect Against Diabetes By Improving Glucose Homeostasis in Mouse Models of Inducible Insulin Resistance and Obesity.
• Dietary Protein Restriction Increases Hepatic Leptin Receptor MRNA and Plasma Soluble Leptin Receptor in Male Rodents.
• Lowering Ceramides to Overcome Diabetes.
• Targeting a Ceramide Double Bond Improves Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis.
• Tissue Immune Cells Fuel Obesity-Associated Inflammation in Adipose Tissue and Beyond.
• Illuminated Night Alters Behaviour and Negatively Affects Physiology and Metabolism in Diurnal Zebra Finches.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• “….a Coding Error Was Made Such that a Vegan Participant Was Mistakenly Coded as a Portion-controlled Participant for Certain Analyses. The Authors Thank John A. Dawson and David B. Allison for Alerting Them to This Error.”
• On the Evidentiary Standards for Nutrition Advice.
• Common Sense and Plausible Mechanistic Arguments Suggest that Carbohydrates Can Influence Mood. But do They? And By How Much?
• Downsizing Obesity: On Ancel Keys, the Origins of BMI, and the Neglect of Excess Weight as a Health Hazard in the United States From the 1950s to 1970s.
• Letter: Revisited: Assessing the in Vivo Data on Low/no-calorie Sweeteners and the Gut Microbiota.
• Response to the Letter to the Editor By S. Schiffman and H. Nagle: Revisiting the Data and Information that Has Collectively Established the Safety of Low/no-calorie Sweeteners, Including Sucralose.

Clinical

• RCT: Comparing Financial Incentive Structures for Promoting Physical Activity.
• Interpretation of Vitamin B12 Status After a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Adipose Group 1 Innate Lymphoid Cells Promote Adipose Tissue Fibrosis and Diabetes in Obesity.
• Endogenous Hyperinsulinemia Contributes to Pancreatic Cancer Development.

Children and Adolescents

• Unintentional Error in Formula Preparation and Its Simulated Impact on Infant Weight and Adiposity.
• Effects of Birth Weight on Body Composition and Overweight/Obesity at Early School Age.

Surgery

• Changes in Central 24-h Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Hemodynamics 12 Months After Bariatric Surgery.
• Pilot Trial: Percutaneous CT‐Guided Cryovagotomy in Patients with Class I or Class II Obesity.

Drugs

• Bupropion Increases Activation in Nucleus Accumbens During Anticipation of Monetary Reward.
• RCT: Liraglutide in Combination with Metformin May Improve the Atherogenic Lipid Profile and Decrease C-reactive Protein Level in Statin Treated Obese Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.
• Perioperative Diabetic Ketoacidosis Associated with Sodium-glucose Co-transporter-2 Inhibitors.
• Lifetime Marijuana Use in Relation to Insulin Resistance in Lean, Overweight, and Obese US Adults.

Food & Diet

• Effects of White Potatoes Consumed with Eggs on Satiety, Food Intake, and Glycemic Response in Children and Adolescents.
• Early Time‐Restricted Feeding Reduces Appetite and Increases Fat Oxidation but Does Not Affect Energy Expenditure in Humans.
• Markers of Adipose Tissue Inflammation are Transiently Elevated During Intermittent Fasting in Women Who are Overweight or Obese.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Barriers and Facilitators of Physical Activity Among Adults and Older Adults From Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in the UK.
• The Impact of Keto-adaptation on Exercise Performance and the Role of Metabolic-regulating Cytokines.
• Trends in Adherence to the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans for Aerobic Activity and Time Spent on Sedentary Behavior Among US Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status and Diet Quality in College Students.
• The Influence of Acculturation and Weight-related Behaviors on BMI Among Asian American Ethnic Subgroups.

Epidemiology

• What’s New in Understanding the Risk Associated with Body Size and Shape? Pears, Apples, and Olives on Toothpicks.
• Examining the Associations of Smoking Behavior and Obesity Among Older Adults in China: Should We Consider Food Consumption Behaviors?
• Associations of Major Depressive Disorder with Chronic Physical Conditions, Obesity and Medication Use: Results From the PISMA-ep Study.
• Psychological and Behavioral Effects of Obesity Prevention Campaigns.
• Meta‐analysis: Effect of Chromium Supplementation on Anthropometric Indices of Subjects with Overweight or Obesity.
• Utility of Waist Circumference‐to‐height Ratio as a Screening Tool for Generalized and Central Obesity Among Iranian Children and Adolescents: The CASPIAN‐V Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Enhanced Attention for Visual Food Stimuli Seems to Play No Direct Causal Role in Eating Styles Associated with Overeating.
• Overweight and Lonely? A Representative Study on Loneliness in Obese People and Its Determinants.
• Reliance on Model-based and Model-free Control in Obesity (pdf).
• Impact of Obesity on Central Processing Time Rather than Overall Reaction Time in Young Adult Men.
• Overvaluation of Eating and Satiation Explains the Association of Food Insecurity and Food Intake with Obesity and Cardiometabolic Diseases.
• RCT: Cognitive Effects of Adding Caloric Restriction to Aerobic Exercise Training in Older Adults with Obesity.

Ethics

• Exploratory Analysis of BMI and Oncology Visit Characteristics and Length.
• Sharing Responsibility: Responsibility for Health is Not a Zero-Sum Game.

Stigma

• New: How Anti-obesity Bias Hinders Patients' Lifestyle Change Efforts.
• Scoping Review: Weight Bias and Health Care Utilization.
• Body Image in Relation to Nutritional Status in Adults From the Basque Country, Spain.
• Weight-related Stigma Mediates the Relationship Between Weight Status and Bodily Pain: A Conceptual Model.
• Overlooked and Understudied: Health Consequences of Weight Stigma in Men.

Policy Related

• Washington State Supreme Court Rules that Obesity is a Disability.
• The Productivity Gains Associated with a Junk Food Tax and Their Impact on Cost-effectiveness.
• Saturated Fats and Health: Draft SACN Report.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-analysis: Maternal Dietary Patterns and Birth Outcomes.
• Inter-generational Link of Obesity in Term and Preterm Births: Role of Maternal Plasma Acylcarnitines.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Development of Sexual Dimorphism in Two Sympatric Skinks with Different Growth Rates.
• Human-Mediated Carrion: Effects on Ecological Processes.
• The Heart Rate Method for Estimating Oxygen Uptake: Analyses of Reproducibility Using a Range of Heart Rates From Cycle Commuting.

Methods

• Fat Mass Does Not Increase the Precision Error of Trabecular Bone Score Measurements.
• Psychometric Properties of an Abbreviated Childhood Family Mealtime Questionnaire Among Overweight and Obese Hispanic Adolescents.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Modelling Approaches for Studying the Microbiome.
• Role of Tri-ponderal Mass Index in Cardio-metabolic Risk Assessment in Children and Adolescents: Compared with BMI.
• A Statistical Virtual Patient Population for the Glucoregulatory System in Type 1 Diabetes with Integrated Exercise Model.
• Simulation Study: The Impact of Following Solid Food Feeding Guides on BMI Among Infants.
• Anti‐incretin Effect: The Other Face of Janus in Human Glucose Homeostasis.

Commentary

• Body Shape vs BMI as Risk Predictor in Women.
• Calories Made Combustibly Simple.
• Understanding the Obesity Epidemic.
• Screen Time and Childhood Obesity: A Commentary on the Evidence Behind Current Guidelines. (pdf)
• Healthy For Whom - Consumers or the Food and Beverage Industry?
• Shape Matters: Apples, Olives with Normal BMI Fare Worse than Pears.
• Immune Control of the Microbiota Prevents Obesity.
• Why We Must Stop Fat Shaming, Weight Bias, and Discrimination Against People with Obesity.
• Apples and Pears – Size, Shape, and Adiposity.

General

• Evidence vs Consensus in Clinical Practice Guidelines.
• Replicator Degrees of Freedom Allow Publication of Misleading 'Failures to Replicate'.
• UnDisciplined: The Evolutionary Biologist and the Epidemiological Obstetrician.
• Video: National Science Board’s Meeting, the NSF Presented a Summary of NAS Reproducibility and Replicability Report.
• Zombie Ants are Controlled By a 'Master Puppeteer' Parasite, but We Still Don't Know How.
• Experts Say ‘Emotion Recognition’ Lacks Scientific Foundation.
• Should Psychology Journals Adopt Specialized Statistical Review?
• Harms From Uninformative Clinical Trials.
• Educational Disparities in Adult Health: U.S. States as Institutional Actors on the Association.
• Fat Mass Compared to Four Body Condition Scoring Systems in the Asian Elephant (Elephas Maximus).

Announcements

• IU Bloomington: Dr. Slates Named ASSP’s 2019 Outstanding Safety Educator.
• Future of Food Summit - NYC - Sept 18.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Obituary

• In Memoriam: TOS Member and Award Winner John G. Kral, MD, PhD.

Featured

• Meta-analysis: Effects of Dietary Protein Quantity on Bone Quantity Following Weight Loss.
• Linking Chemical Exposure to Lipid Homeostasis: A Municipal Waste Water Treatment Plant Influent is Obesogenic for Zebrafish Larvae.
• "New findings include that a woman's household SNAP participation with or without updating for last periods health status and higher local dairy product prices reduce significantly her BMI and probability of being obese."
• Methylome and Transcriptome Maps of Human Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipocytes Reveal Key Epigenetic Differences at Developmental Genes.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Genes Play a Role in Triggering Obesity, but So Does Your Diet: Study.
• Headline: Genes, Yes, but Obesity Pandemic Mostly Down to Diet: Study.
• Study: Associations between Polygenic Risk Scores and BMI Over Time. No Diet Measured.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Activity Space Metrics Not Associated with Sociodemographic Variables, Diet or Health Outcomes.
• Contrary to Previous Findings, Our Analyses Suggest the Association Between Maltreatment Experiences and Longitudinal Weight Outcomes Dissipates After Controlling for Relevant Confounders.
• "Contrary to prior studies on adult and pediatric patients with trauma, this study found no difference between obese and non-obese patients in severity of solid organ injury after blunt abdominal trauma in the adult population."
• RCT: Moderate Postmeal Walking Has No Beneficial Effects Over Resting on Postprandial Lipemia, Glycemia, Insulinemia, and Selected Oxidative and Inflammatory Parameters in Older Adults with a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Phenotype.
• Circulating Levels of the Components of the GH/IGF-1/IGFBPs Axis Total and Intact IGF-binding Proteins (IGFBP) 3 and IGFBP 4 and Total IGFBP 5, as well as PAPPA, PAPPA2 and Stanniocalcin-2 Levels are Not Altered in Response to Energy Deprivation and/or Metreleptin Administration in Humans.
• RCT: "Concurrent training using repetitions to concentric failure did not promote additional benefits for neuromuscular function, muscle thickness, or functional capacity of older individuals."
• RCT: Pedometers Alone Do Not Increase Mobility in Inpatient Rehabilitation.
• RCT: "manipulating box size had little effect [but other factors did] on child consumption, and neither box size nor quantity/variety of items consistently affected adults' consumption."
• RCT: Beetroot Juice Does Not Enhance Supramaximal Intermittent Exercise Performance in Elite Endurance Athletes.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• What’s Published in the Journal Isn’t What the Researchers Actually Did.
• Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices: Recommendations from a Scientific Integrity Consortium.
• Commentary in Journal of Food Science: Working to Improve Scientific Integrity.
• Using Behavioral Science to Inform Policies Limiting Sugary-Drink Portions: Reply to Wilson and Stolarz-Fantino (2018).

Basic

• Enzyme Associated with Detoxification Linked to Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease.
• Fibroblast Activation Protein Restrains Adipogenic Differentiation and Regulates Matrix-Mediated MTOR Signaling.
• High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity Causes Site-Specific Reprogramming of Macrophage Responses to Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide.
• Modified Apple Polysaccharide Regulates Microbial Dysbiosis to Suppress High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity in C57BL/6J Mice.
• Overproduction of Endothelin-1 in Mice Impairs Glucose Tolerance but Does Not Promote Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammation or Limit Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise.
• In Vitro Effects of Sitosterol and Sitostanol on Mitochondrial Respiration in Human Brown Adipocytes, Myotubes and Hepatocytes.

Clinical

• Systematic review of systematic reviews: Types of Interventions Targeting Dietary, Physical Activity, and Weight-Related Outcomes among University Students.
• Calories Purchased By Hospital Employees after Implementation of a Cafeteria Traffic Light–Labeling and Choice Architecture Program.
• New Reports Provide Guidance for Obesity Care.

Children and Adolescents

• Association of Obesity with Multiple Sclerosis Risk and Response to First-line Disease Modifying Drugs in Children.
• Consumption Patterns of Milk and 100% Juice in Relation to Diet Quality and Body Weight Among United States Children.
• The Role of Genetic Predisposition, Programing during Fetal Life, Family Conditions, and Post-natal Diet in the Development of Pediatric Fatty Liver Disease.
• Attempts to Lose Weight Among Adolescents Aged 16–19 in the United States, 2013–2016. (PDF)

Surgery

• RCT: Exercise Mitigates Bone Loss in Women with Severe Obesity After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Conversion from Prediabetes to Diabetes in Individuals with Obesity, 5-Years Post-Band, Sleeve, and Gastric Bypass Surgeries.

Drugs

• RCT: Glycaemic Benefit of IGlarLixi in Insulin-naive Type 2 Diabetes Patients with High HbA1c or Those with Inadequate Glycaemic Control on Two Oral Antihyperglycaemic Drugs in the LixiLan-O Randomized Trial.
• RCT: Effect of Liraglutide on Estimates of Lipolysis and Lipid Oxidation in Obese Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• The Ketogenic Diet for Obesity and Diabetes—Enthusiasm Outpaces Evidence.
• The Super Fly that Could Feed Us, End Waste and Make Plastic and Fuel.
• The Mediterranean Diet and 2-Year Change in Cognitive Function by Status of Type 2 Diabetes and Glycemic Control.
• Meta-analysis: Association Between Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Protein Leverage Coming at Us.

Caloric Restriction

• Differential Effects of Alternate‐Day Fasting Versus Daily Calorie Restriction on Insulin Resistance.
• Effects of Multiple Cycles of Weight Loss and Regain on the Body-Weight Regulatory System in Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: The Effects of Acute Exercise on Appetite, Circulating Ghrelin Concentrations and Butyrylcholinesterase Activity in Normal Weight Males with Variants of the Obesity-linked FTO Rs9939609 Polymorphism.
• The Effects of Pediatric Obesity on Patellofemoral Joint Contact Force During Walking.
• Association of Step Volume and Intensity with All-Cause Mortality in Older Women.
• Effects of a 12-Week Exercise Intervention on Subsequent Compensatory Behaviors in Adolescent Girls: An Exploratory Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Roommate Effects in Health Outcomes [including Obesity].
• Trends in Obesity Prevalence among Brazilian Adults from 2002 to 2013 by Educational Level.
• Thesis: Early Childhood Obesity – Exploring the Impact of Environmental and Social Factors and Parental Beliefs of Caring for Infants with Known Obesity Risk Factors.
• A Social-ecological Review of the Rural Versus Urban Obesity Disparity.

Epidemiology

• A Metabolic Obesity Profile is Associated with Decreased Gray Matter Volume in Cognitively Healthy Older Adults.
• Changes in the Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity between 2010 and 2017 in Preschoolers: A Population‐based Study.
• Natural Environments and Craving: The Mediating Role of Negative Affect.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Ergogenic Potency of Carbohydrate Mouth Rinse on Endurance Running Performance of Dehydrated Athletes.
• The Effect of the Spatial Positioning of a Healthy Food Cue on Food Choice from a Pictorial-style Menu.
• The Moderating Effects of Mindful Eating on the Relationship between Emotional Functioning and Eating Styles in Overweight and Obese Women.
• The Effect of Brief Mindfulness Training on Brain Reactivity to Food Cues during Nicotine Withdrawal: A Pilot Functional Imaging Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Trends in Health Equity in the United States by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Income, 1993-2017.
• Trends in Non‐Hispanic White Mortality in the United States by Metropolitan‐Nonmetropolitan Status and Region, 1990–2016.

Ethics

• Systematic Review: Patient Care without Borders: A Systematic Review of Medical and Surgical Tourism.
• Causes of Reporting Bias: A Theoretical Framework.

Stigma

• Mixed Methods Analysis Examining Differential Patterns of Long-Term Distress From Weight Stigma.
• Stigma: A Biocultural Proposal for Integrating Evolutionary and Political‐economic Approaches.
• Relationship between Weight-Related Self-Stigma and Mental Health for Overweight/Obese Children in Hong Kong.
• Should Obesity Be Recognised as a Disease?
• Weight Bias Internalization and Long-Term Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity.

Policy Related

• Free School Meals as an Approach to Reduce Health Inequalities among 10–12- Year-old Norwegian Children.
• Obesity Campaigners Fear New UK Prime Minister Will Bury Obesity Proposals.
• Herbal Doctor Remedies Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of All Drug Products Due to Marketing without FDA Approval and Concerns with Manufacturing Practices.
• USDA Proposes to Limit Access to Food Stamps.

Intergenerational Effects

• Children Exposed to Maternal Obesity or Gestational Diabetes Mellitus During Early Fetal Development Have Hypothalamic Alterations that Predict Future Weight Gain.
• Maternal Blood Pressure Mediates the Association Between Maternal Obesity and Infant Weight Gain in Early Postpartum.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Caloric Restriction, Longevity and Aging: Recent Contributions from Human and Non-human Primate Studies.
• African Savanna Elephants (Loxodonta africana) as an Example of a Herbivore Making Movement Choices Based on Nutritional Needs.
• Five Animals that Could Help Us Beat Human Diseases.
• The Good, the Bad and the Slimy: Experimental Studies of Hagfish Digestive and Nutritional Physiology.

Methods

• Relationships between Observations and Parental Reports of 3-5 Year Old Children's Emotional Eating Using the Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire.
• Regression Decomposition Technique toward Finding Intra-household Gender Bias of Calorie Consumption.
• Systematic review: System Dynamics and Agent‐based Obesity Models: Evaluating Obesity as Part of the Global Syndemic.
• Daily Sampling Reveals Personalized Diet-Microbiome Associations in Humans.

Commentary

• Anorexia May Be Linked to Metabolism, a Genetic Analysis Suggests.
• Dan Murphy: More Meat? Less Meat? Wrong Question.
• Fat or Fiction: The Diet-heart Hypothesis.
• Time-restricted Feeding.
• Fruits and Veggies, Talk and Reality.
• Nutrition Science is Broken. This New Egg Study Shows Why.
• The Wrongful Demonisation of All Fats Has Caused Low Carb Dieters to Lose Faith in Mainstream Science. But at What Cost?
• Is Awareness of Excess Weight a Problem?
• More Teens Trying to Lose Weight, Mostly DIY.
• Pediatricians and Obesity.

General

• Frequent Prescribed Fires Can Reduce Risk of Tick-borne Diseases.
• How a Data Detective Exposed Suspicious Medical Trials.
• NEJM: New Guidelines for Statistical Reporting in the Journal.
• If Journals Embraced Conditional Equivalence Testing, Would Research Be Better?
• What We Can Learn From Five Naturalistic Field Experiments that Failed to Shift Commuter Behavior. (PDF)
• Evidence vs Consensus in Clinical Practice Guidelines.
• Many USDA Workers to Quit as Research Agencies Move to Kansas City: ‘The Brain Drain We All Feared’.
• Exclusive: Russian Site Says It Has Brokered Authorships for More than 10,000 Researchers.
• Criminologist Posts 27-page Article Explaining Why He Asked for One of His Papers to Be Retracted.
• C. Elegans Healthier Without Longevity Gene.
• Checking Your Phone at Night Won't Necessarily Throw Off Your Internal Clock, Mouse Study Finds.
• Lemurs at Duke May Aid in Alzheimer's Research. But First They Need Your Old Phone.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Celebrating Howarth Bouis’ Contributions to Biofortification.
• Podcast: Exercise Framework, Deadlifting, Lower Back Pain, Blood Pressure, Nootropics, CGM, and More.

Announcements

• Complex Trait Analysis of Next Generation Sequence Data.
• Obesity Expert Stephen O'Rahilly to Receive $100K Taubman Prize for Excellence.
• Sept 24 - Reproducibility and Replicability in Science: Next Steps Symposium.
• IU Bloomington: Prevention Insights to Oversee Evidence-based Research for Claude McNeal Productions’ Lilly Endowment Grant.
• IU Alum "Blair Johnson receives White House award for young scientists."
• Uncharted: A Six-part Series in Search of Culinary Inspiration.
• 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).