Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

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

Headline vs Study

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

Contrary or Null Findings

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

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

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

Basic

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

Clinical

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

Children and Adolescents

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

Surgery

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

Drugs

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

Food & Diet

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

Caloric Restriction

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

Exercise & Physical Activity

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

Economics & Sociology

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

Epidemiology

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

Psychology & Neuroscience

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

Equity and Disparities

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

Stigma

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

Policy Related

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

Intergenerational Effects

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

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

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

Methods

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

Mathematical and Quantitative

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

Commentary

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

General

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

Video & Audio

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

Announcements

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

Featured

• Effects of Exogenous Leptin on Seasonal Reproductive Responses to Interacting Environmental Cues in Female Siberian Hamsters.
• "Growing evidence suggests that obesity is a disorder of the energy homeostasis system, rather than simply arising from the passive accumulation of excess weight."
• Establishing Energy Requirements for Body Weight Maintenance: Validation of an Intake-balance Method.

Headline vs Study

• Press Release: "A large-scale effort to reduce childhood obesity in two low-income Massachusetts communities resulted in some modest improvements among schoolchildren over a relatively short period of time..."
• Study: “Overall, we did not observe a significant decrease in the percent of students with obesity from baseline to post intervention in either community in comparison with controls..."
• Headline: Science: Regular Consumption of Marijuana Keeps You Thin, Fit, and Active.
• Study: Baseline Data Table for NHANES Study of Bone Mineral Density Shows Nominal Differences (No Formal Comparisons) in BMI and Activity Among Categories of Cannabis Users.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Red Wine Polyphenols do Not Improve Obesity Associated Insulin-resistance.
• RCT: No Effect of Prescribed Low Advanced Glycation End Product Diet on Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risks in Healthy Overweight Adults.
• "Branding and obesogenic messaging in children's movies influenced some choices that children made about snack foods immediately following viewing, especially food with greatest exposure time in the film, but did not affect total calories consumed."
• Palatable Food Self-administration and Reinstatement are Not Affected By Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonism.
• RCT: No Cognitive-enhancing Effect of GLP-1 Receptor Agonism in Antipsychotic-treated, Obese Patients with Schizophrenia.
• RCT: "Twelve-week supplementation of GOS selectively increased fecal Bifidobacterium species abundance, but this did not produce significant changes in insulin sensitivity or related substrate and energy metabolism in overweight or obese prediabetic men and women."
• In beetles, "contrary to our expectations..., rather than increasing the male’s parental effort, females appeared to suppress the male’s food consumption, thereby leaving more food for their brood."
• "... the higher prevalence estimates for inadequate [folate] intakes compared with biomarkers suggest, among other factors, a systematic underestimation bias in intake data."

Basic

• Social Jet-lag Potentiates Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome When Combined with Cafeteria Diet in Rats.
• Tributyltin and Triphenyltin Exposure Promotes in Vitro Adipogenic Differentiation but Alters the Adipocyte Phenotype in Rainbow Trout.
• Maternal Western Diet Increases Adiposity Even in Male Offspring of Obesity-resistant Rat Dams: Early Endocrine Risk Markers.
• Deficiency in Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells and Type I Interferon Signalling Prevents Diet-induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Mice.
• Ablation of Neuropilin 1 in Myeloid Cells Exacerbates High-Fat Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance Through Nlrp3 Inflammasome in Vivo.
• Muscle Directs Diurnal Energy Homeostasis Through a Myokine-Dependent Hormone Module in Drosophila.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Researcher Who Tangled with CrossFit Loses Two More Papers.
• In Reply I—Prescribing More Stringent Design of RCTs of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids.

Clinical

• Effects on Diabetes Medications, Weight and A1C Among Patients with Obesity and Diabetes: 6-month Observations From a Full Meal Replacement, Low-Calorie Diet Weight Management Program.
• Google Spin-off Deploys Wearable Electronics for Huge Health Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Changes in Eating Behaviors of Children with Obesity in Response to Carbohydrate-Modified and Portion-Controlled Diets.
• Socioenvironmental, Personal, and Behavioral Correlates of Severe Obesity Among an Ethnically/Racially Diverse Sample of US Adolescents.
• Infant Feeding and Growth Trajectory Patterns in Childhood and Body Composition in Young Adulthood.

Surgery

• The Inequity of Bariatric Surgery: Publicly Insured Patients Undergo Lower Rates of Bariatric Surgery with Worse Outcomes.
• The Role of Aprepitant in Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting After Bariatric Surgery.
• Body Composition and Bone Health in Adolescents After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Severe Obesity.

Drugs

• RCT: The Effects of Testosterone on Body Composition in Obese Men are Not Sustained After Cessation of Testosterone Treatment.
• Self-administered Nicotine Differentially Impacts Body Weight Gain in Obesity-prone and Obesity-resistant Rats.
• Epidemiology of Obesity and Pharmacologic Treatment Options.
• Thyroid Hormone Receptor Beta in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus is Essential for the Physiological Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight in Mice.

Food & Diet

• Wasted Food, Wasted Nutrients: Nutrient Loss From Wasted Food in the United States and Comparison to Gaps in Dietary Intake.
• Energy Density of Foods and Diets in Mexico and Their Monetary Cost By Socioeconomic Strata: Analyses of ENSANUT Data 2012.
• Video-Based Grocery Shopping Intervention Effect on Purchasing Behaviors Among Latina Shoppers.
• Science Plays a Starring Role in Documentary Film, Food Evolution.
• Should 1000 IU Be the New RDA for Vitamin D?
• High-fat Diet and Aging Interact to Produce Neuroinflammation and Impair Hippocampal- and Amygdalar-dependent Memory.
• Diet-induced Impulsivity: Effects of a High-fat and a High-sugar Diet on Impulsive Choice in Rats.

Caloric Restriction

• Aging and Caloric Restriction Research: A Biological Perspective with Translational Potential.
• High-Intensity Interval Training and Calorie Restriction Promote Remodeling of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Chemical Activation of a Food Deprivation Signal Extends Lifespan.
• Reducing Calorie Intake May Not Help You Lose Body Weight.
• Obesity and Malnutrition Similarly Alters the Renin-angiotensin System and Inflammation in Mice and Human Adipose.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Increasing Walking in the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: The Walk to Fly Study.
• A Novel Smartphone Accelerometer Application for Low-Intensity Activity and Energy Expenditure Estimations in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Exercise Training Improves Fat Metabolism Independent of Total Energy Expenditure in Sedentary Overweight Men, but Does Not Restore Lean Metabolic Phenotype.
• Do Placebo Expectations Influence Perceived Exertion During Physical Exercise?

Economics & Sociology

• Changes in the Food Environment Over Time: Examining 40 Years of Data in the Framingham Heart Study.
• Gender and Social Mobility Modify the Effect of Birth Weight on Total and Central Obesity.
• Socioeconomic Status: The Missing Link Between Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus?
• Motherhood, Fatherhood and Midlife Weight Gain in a US Cohort: Associations Differ By Race/ethnicity and Socioeconomic Position.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Complications Following Trauma in Patients with Obesity.
• Geographic Variability in Gestational Weight Gain: A Multilevel Population-based Study of Women Having Term Births in Florida (2005-2012).
• Walking for Transportation or Leisure Among U.S. Women and Men — National Health Interview Survey, 2005–2015.
• Review: How Much Variance in Insulin Resistance is Explained By Obesity?
• Childhood Obesity Prevention in the Women, Infants, and Children Program: Outcomes of the MA-CORD Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effect of Television Watching and Portion Size on Intake During a Meal.
• Correlates of Severe Obesity Among Ethnically/Racially Diverse Adolescents.
• Change in Use of Sleep Medications After Gastric Bypass Surgery or Intensive Lifestyle Treatment in Adults with Obesity.
• Is It Me or My Hormones? Neuroendocrine Activation Profiles to Visual Food Stimuli Across the Menstrual Cycle.

Equity and Disparities

• Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Hispanic Youth with Dysglycemia: Risk for Subclinical Atherosclerosis?
• A Systematic Review: Racial and Ethnic Minority Enrollment in RCTs of Behavioural Weight Loss Utilizing Technology.
• Missed Opportunity? Leveraging Mobile Technology to Reduce Racial Health Disparities.
• Framing Health Equity: US Health Disparities in Comparative Perspective.

Stigma

• Does Psychological Functioning Mediate the Relationship Between Bullying Involvement and Weight Loss Preoccupation in Adolescents? A Two-stage Cross-sectional Study.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination and High-risk Health-related Behaviors.

Policy Related

• Food Labeling; Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail Food Establishments; Extension of Compliance Date; Request for Comments.
• Autonomous Vehicles: Good or Bad for Our Health?
• Final Recommendation Statement Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Effect of Mare Obesity and Endocrine Function on Foal Birthweight in Thoroughbreds.
• Gender Differences Between Parental Pregnancy Characteristics and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescents.
• Maternal Gestational Weight Gain and Objectively Measured Physical Activity Among Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Scientists are Studying Chimpanzee Food as a Way to Treat Human Diseases, Including Cancer.
• Pharyngeal Stimulation with Sugar Triggers Local Searching Behavior in Drosophila.
• Monoaminergic Integration of Diet and Social Signals in the Brains of Juvenile Spadefoot Toads.
• Mice Shed Weight When They Can’t Smell—but Not Because They Stop Eating.

Methods

• Accuracy of Food Photographs for Quantifying Food Servings in a Lunch Meal Setting Among Danish Children and Adults.
• Developing a Digital Photography-based Method for Dietary Analysis in Self-serve Dining Settings.
• Best (but Oft-forgotten) Practices: Mediation Analysis.
• Challenges in Conducting Clinical Nutrition Research.
• A New Tool to Assess Human Fat Grafts Transplanted Into Nude Mice Using a NMR Device.

Commentary

• Offensive Words to Grab Attention and Block Progress.
• In Defense of Fat.
• Commentary on Failure of Food Desert Removal as Strategy.
• What Cookies and Meth Have in Common.
• Leptin's Physiologic Role: Does the Emperor of Energy Balance Have No Clothes?

General

• Instructional videos: Healthcare Triage - Experimental Design.
• Will Pruning the Biomedical Field Keep It Alive?
• Feeding During Dialysis-risks and Uncertainties.
• Racial Bias in Judgments of Physical Size and Formidability: From Size to Threat. (PDF)
• Effects of Cola-Flavored Beverages and Caffeine on Streptococcus Mutans Biofilm Formation and Metabolic Activity.
• Video: Women in Science.
• Video: Making Faces: The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face.
• How Pythons Regenerate Their Organs and Other Secrets of the Snake Genome.
• Video: Biologist Sean B. Carroll on Ecosystem Resilience.
• Field Tests Show How Pesticides Can Wreak Havoc on Honeybees.
• Chilean Scientists Produce Biodiesel From Microalgae.

Video & Audio

• “Obesity, Energetics, & Longevity: Social, Experimental, Evolutionary, & Epidemiologic Perspectives.”
• “Secondhand Sugars: Role of Dietary Sugars in the Early Development of Obesity and Metabolic Risk.”
• “A Longitudinal Study of Obesity & Type II Diabetes: Lessons Regarding the New Dietary & Obesity Guidelines.”
• “Attempts to Address the Fundamental Flaw in Obesity Research with New (and Old) Technology.”
• “Effects of Obesogenic Dietary Environment & Adverse Psychosocial Experience on Food Intake & the Brain in Non-Human Primates.”
• Audio: Taste Cell Regeneration.

Announcements

• Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute Set a Goal of Enrolling 34,000 Products in Its SmartLabel Program.
• World Obesity: Obesity and Reproduction – Call for Abstracts. (PDF).
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.

• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.

Featured

• Do Dynamic Fat and Fat-free Mass Changes Follow Theoretical Driven Rules in Athletes?
• Adiposity-Based Chronic Disease as a New Diagnostic Term: The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American College of Endocrinology Position Statement.
• Health Policies for Obesity: How to Get There!

Headline vs Study

• Headline: If You Want to Avoid Heart Disease, Don’t Even Think of Going Gluten-Free.
• Study: Quintile-defined Categories of Self-reported Gluten Consumption in Multivariable Adjusted Models Not Associated with Coronary Heart Disease Incidence in Adults Without Celiac Disease Unless Controlling for Refined Grain Intake.
• Commentary: Want a Verdict on Gluten-free Diets? You Won’t Find It in a Study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to expectation, the introduction of a supermarket did not result in healthy food availability more than is likely to have happened naturally."
• "Family meal frequency was not associated with odds of obesity."
• RCT: No Effects of Macro- and Micro- Nutrients on Exercise Induced Hepcidin Response in Highly-Trained Endurance Athletes.
• Explorative Placebo-Controlled Double-Blind Intervention Study with Low Doses of Inhaled Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol Reveals No Effect on Sweet Taste Intensity Perception and Liking in Humans.
• Chronic Fructose Substitution for Glucose or Sucrose in Food or Beverages Has Little Effect on Fasting Blood Glucose, Insulin, or Triglycerides: A Systematic Review & Meta-analysis.
• Meta-Analysis: "Current evidence does not allow us to conclude that fructose-containing sugars independent of food form are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes."
• "there was no significant difference in birth weight between infants born to Muslim mothers who were conceived during Ramadan (n=479) and those who were not (n=4677)."
• RCT: "Red wine polyphenols do not improve obesity associated insulin-resistance."
• "the empirical results indicate that changes in dietary knowledge among adults has no significant influence [association] on adult overweight and obesity..."
• "selection for high growth had no significant effect on survival in the present population of M. rosenbergii."
• "A CHO [carbohydrate] mouth rinse does not improve upper-body muscular strength or endurance."

Basic

• Catalase Overexpression Modulates Metabolic Parameters in a New "Stress-Less" Leptin-Deficient Mouse Model.
• Synthesis of Cytochrome C Oxidase 1 (SCO1) Inhibits Insulin Sensitivity By Decreasing Copper Levels in Adipocytes.
• Chronic High Fat Feeding Restricts Islet MRNA Translation Initiation Independently of ER Stress Via DNA Damage and P53 Activation.
• CD4+ T Cells Memorize Obesity and Promote Weight Regain.
• Social Jet-lag Potentiates Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome When Combined with Cafeteria Diet in Rats.
• Effects of Mild Calorie Restriction on Lipid Metabolism and Inflammation in Liver and Adipose Tissue.
• An Increased Dietary Supply of Medium-Chain Fatty Acids During Early Weaning in Rodents Prevents Excessive Fat Accumulation in Adulthood.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• 12 Years After Researcher Found Guilty of Misconduct, Journal Retracts Paper.
• Data Sharing Statements for Clinical Trials.

Clinical

• A Single Supplement Intervention with 3 G Cinnamon for 16 Weeks Resulted in Significant Improvements in All Components of Metabolic Syndrome in a Sample of Asian Indians in North India.
• RCT: A Combined Lifestyle Intervention Targeting Diet and Physical Activity Mediated Fasting Insulin and Body Weight.
• RCT: Effect of an Internet-Based Program on Weight Loss for Low-Income Postpartum Women.
• Recovery of Insulin Sensitivity and Optimal Body Composition After Rapid Weight Loss in Obese Dogs Fed a High-protein Medium-carbohydrate Diet.
• RCT: L-arginine Supplementation and Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Diseases in Healthy Men.
• Oral Insulin May Delay Type 1 Diabetes Onset in 'Responders'.

Children and Adolescents

• The Longitudinal Association Between Early Childhood Obesity and Fathers' Involvement in Caregiving and Decision-making.
• Intake of Energy and Protein is Associated with Overweight Risk at Age 5.5 Years.
• Cycling to School and Body Composition, Physical Fitness, and Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Gut Microbiome and Serum Metabolome Alterations in Obesity and After Weight-loss Intervention.
• Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch Leads to Better Postprandial Glucose Level and Beta Cell Function than Sleeve Gastrectomy in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Very Early After Surgery.
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for the Management of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty - a New Tool to Manage Obesity.

Drugs

• More Steady Progress on Obesity Drugs.
• Pharmacokinetic Drug Evaluation of Extended Release Lorcaserin for the Treatment of Obesity.
• GLP-1 Analogue Semaglutide Appears Promising in Phase 2 Study.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Effect of a Vegetarian vs Conventional Hypocaloric Diabetic Diet on Thigh Adipose Tissue Distribution in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association.
• How Coconut Oil Got a Reputation for Being Healthy in the First Place.
• Dietary Protein Intake and Early Menopause in the Nurses’ Health Study II.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Protects Livers From Ischemia/reperfusion Damage By Preventing Ca2+-induced Mitochondrial Permeability Transition.
• Calorie Restriction in Rodents: Caveats to Consider.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Differential in Maximal Aerobic Capacity By Sex in Collegiate Endurance Athletes Consuming a Marginally Low Carbohydrate Diet.
• RCT: Exercise's Effect on Mobility Disability in Older Adults with and Without Obesity.
• Exercise with Weight Loss Improves Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle Markers of Fatty Acid Metabolism in Postmenopausal Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Is There a ‘National Body’? How National Cultures Shape the ‘Fat’ Body and the Food Practices.
• Healthy and Unhealthy Food Prices Across Neighborhoods and Their Association with Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Proportion Black/Hispanic.
• Association Between Modifiable Risk Factors and Pharmaceutical Expenditures Among Adults with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in the United States: 2012–2013 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey.

Epidemiology

• Differences in Dietary Glycemic Load and Hormones in New York City Adults with No and Moderate/Severe Acne.
• Estimating How Extra Calories From Alcohol Consumption are Likely an Overlooked Contributor to Youth Obesity.
• "The findings reveal that having an anxious attachment to God is associated with a greater risk of being obese..."
• The Relation Between Birthweight, Childhood BMI, and Overweight and Obesity in Late Adolescence.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Associations Between Maternal-Infant Interaction and Infant Adiposity.
• Longitudinal Association Between Fathers' Involvement in Caregiving and Early Childhood Obesity.
• Implicit Weight Bias in Children Age 9 to 11 Years.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination is Associated with High-Risk Health Behaviors.

Equity and Disparities

• Skin Deep: Enhanced Variable May Help Explain Racial Disparities in Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes.
• The Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI): Developing Workforce Capacity for Health Disparities Research. (pdf)
• Commentary: Healthy Eating and Activity Across the Lifespan (HEAL): A Call to Action to Integrate Research, Clinical Practice, Policy, and Community Resources to Address Weight-related Health Disparities.

• Prevalence and Ethnic Pattern of Diabetes and Prediabetes in China in 2013.

Stigma

• Bullying Involvement During Adolescence is Associated with Weight Loss Preoccupation.
• The Impact of Weight Misperception on Health-related Quality of Life in Korean Adults (KNHANES 2007–2014).

Policy Related

• Urban-rural Disparities in Child Nutrition-related Health Outcomes in China: The Role of Hukou Policy.
• Underestimating the Size of the Problem? UK Anaesthesia for Patients with Obesity.
• Putting the US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation for Childhood Obesity Screening in Context.
• Delaying, Not Dropping, the Nutrition Facts Label Update.
• Targeted Calorie Message Promotes Healthy Beverage Consumption Better than Charity Incentive.
• The $5.7 Billion 'Pink Slime' Lawsuit Against ABC Was Settled, Leaving the Beef Company Feeling 'vindicated.'.
• Ban on Junk Food Sales in Canadian Schools Having Positive Effect.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal BMI and Glycemia Impact the Fetal Metabolome.
• The Fetal Cardiac Response to Maternal Nutrient Restriction is Sexually Dimorphic in Baboons.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Feeding on Ripening and Over-ripening Fruit: Interactions Between Sugar, Ethanol and Polyphenol Contents in a Tropical Butterfly.
• Energetics-informed Behavioral States Reveal the Drive to Kill in African Leopards.

Methods

• Spectral Analysis Assisted Photoacoustic Imaging for Lipid Composition Differentiation.
• Development of a Bioenergetic Model for Estimating Energy Requirements and Prey Biomass Consumption of the Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops Truncatus.
• Heart Rate Measurements to Study Associations Among Energy Expenditure, Energy Intake, and Adiposity in Lean and Obese Horses.
• A New Paradigm in Sweat Based Wearable Diagnostics Biosensors Using Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs).

Commentary

• Saturated Fat: Weighed, Measured, and Found Wanting.
• ConscienHealth: "David Allison Appointed to Lead the IU School of Public Health."
• CardioBrief: My Beef with AHA's Saturated Fat Recommendations - Don't Forget the Unintended Consequences of Dietary Advice.
• Op-Ed: Vegetable Oils, (Francis) Bacon, Bing Crosby, and the AHA —Gary Taubes Responds to the AHA Presidential Advisory on Dietary Fats.
• Can a Diet that Mimics Fasting Turn Back the Clock?

General

• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Minimizing Inadvertent Distortion of Science By Scientists and Media.
• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Systems Matter: Research Environments and Institutional Integrity.
• Insufficient Antibody Validation Challenges Oestrogen Receptor Beta Research.
• Scientist Screwed Up? Send 'Em to Researcher Rehab.
• Bionic Fertilizer.
• Health, Truth, and the Bell Curve.
• Decomposing Leaves are Surprising Source of Greenhouse Gases.
• Magellanic Penguin Telomeres do Not Shorten with Age with Increased Reproductive Effort, Investment, and Basal Corticosterone.
• The Gambler's Fallacy in Research - Down the "statistical garden path" for those participating in clinical studies.
• Type 2 Immunity is Protective in Metabolic Disease but Exacerbates NAFLD Collaboratively with TGF-ß.
• Provider Competencies for the Prevention and Management of Obesity. (pdf)
• Prevalence of Sexual Dimorphism in Mammalian Phenotypic Traits.

Announcements

• Call for Nominations - AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science.
• A Conference Titled, “The Pace of Life and Feeding: Health Implications” Will Be Held at Purdue University on Oct 2-4, 2017 to Explore the Historic, Current and Future Consequences of Changing Lifestyles on Diet Quality and Health.
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.

Featured

• Executive Function and Dysregulated Eating Behaviors in Pediatric Obesity.
• Homeostatic Circuits Selectively Gate Food Cue Responses in Insular Cortex.
• Histone Deacetylase 3 Prepares Brown Adipose Tissue for Acute Thermogenic Challenge.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Extra Virgin Olive Oil Staves Off Alzheimer's, Preserves Memory, New Study Shows.
• Press release: Temple Study: Extra-virgin Olive Oil Preserves Memory & Protects Brain Against Alzheimer's.
• Study: Extra Virgin Olive Oil Consumption Improves Behavioral Deficits, Synaptic Pathology, Aß and Tau Neuropathology, with Autophagy Activation... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Differential Effects of Effect of a High-Protein Diet Versus Standard-Protein Diet on Weight Loss and Biomarkers of Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: No Differential Effects of a Gluten-free Diet Versus a Hypocaloric Diet Among Patients with Fibromyalgia Experiencing Gluten Sensitivity-like Symptoms.
• No Differential Effects of “diets with Varying Carbohydrate Composition (fibre and Starch) …on Plasma Leptin Concentrations [or] Plasma Concentrations of Ghrelin and Insulin Like Growth Factor 1” in Horses.
• RCT: Little Effects of a Post-exercise Carbohydrate and Protein Supplement on Repeat Performance, Serum Chemistry, Insulin and Glucagon in Competitive Weight-pulling Dogs.
• RCT: "The ratio of the amount of protein intake had no effect on weight loss including the anthropometry assessment and biochemistry assessment."
• RCT: Energy Expenditure Was Higher After a High-carbohydrate Drinks than After a High Protein Drink and Also After Ingesting One Large Drink Compared with Five Smaller Drinks - Hunger Was Also Suppressed More Efficiently…after One Compared with Five Smaller Drinks - Our Findings do Not Support Nibbling to Avoid Hunger or to Keep Up EE From Morning to Noon.
• RCT: "a daily magnesium supplement of 350mg for 24 weeks does not improve endothelial function and cardiometabolic risk markers in overweight and obese middle-aged and elderly adults."
• RCT: "for overweight and slightly obese volunteers, a daily intake of 150 mg of trans-resveratrol for 4 weeks does not change plasma biomarkers of endothelial function or inflammation in the fasting state or postprandial phase."
• An Obesity Paradox: Increased BMI is Associated with Decreased Aortic Atherosclerosis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Sugar- and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and the Risks of Incident Stroke and Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Reply: Sugar- and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and the Risks of Incident Stroke and Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Letter: Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax in Mexico.
• Reply: Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax.
• Letter: Childhood and Adolescent Obesity as a Winnable Battle.
• Reply: Childhood and Adolescent Obesity as a Winnable Battle.
• Study: Body-mass Index and All-cause Mortality: Individual-participant-data Meta-analysis.
• Letter: Body-mass Index and All-cause Mortality (1).
• Letter: Body-mass Index and All-cause Mortality (2).
• Letter: Body-mass Index and All-cause Mortality (3).
• Reply: Body-mass Index and All-cause Mortality.

Basic

• Hypercapnia Accelerates Adipogenesis: A Novel Role of High Carbon Dioxide in Exacerbating Obesity.
• OX40 Promotes Obesity-Induced Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in Mice with Diet-Induced Obesity.
• The Effects of Obesity on the Efficacy of Immunotherapy.

Clinical

• RCT: The Three-trocar Sleeve Gastrectomy Can Be Safely Carried Out with a Modest Increase in Operative Time, Without Additional Early Surgical Complications and with a Greater Patient Aesthetic Satisfaction.
• Metformin Decreased the BMI Z Score and Improved Inflammatory and Cardiovascular-related Obesity Parameters in Prepubertal Children but Not in Pubertal Children.
• Frequency of Consuming Foods Predicts Changes in Cravings for Those Foods During Weight Loss: The POUNDS Lost Study.
• Pilot RCT of a Mindfulness-based Group Intervention in Adolescent Girls at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes with Depressive Symptoms.

Children and Adolescents

• Resting Heart Rate Percentiles and Associated Factors in Children and Adolescents.
• RCT: Physical Activity Intervention Reduces Adiposity and Improves Cognitive Function in Children.

Surgery

• RCT: Three-Trocar Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Standard Five-Trocar Technique.
• Influences of Obesity and Bariatric Surgery on the Clinical and Pharmacologic Profile of Rivaroxaban.

Drugs

• The Effect of Liraglutide on Dietary Lipid Induced Insulin Resistance in Humans.
• Antiobesity Effect of a Short-Length Peptide YY Analogue after Continuous Administration in Mice.

Food & Diet

• RCT: "High intake of fatty fish, but not of lean fish, improved postprandial glucose regulation and increased the n-3 PUFA content in the leucocyte membrane in healthy overweight adults."
• Effect of Oral Cinnamon Intervention on Metabolic Profile and Body Composition of Asian Indians with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Targeting Overconsumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Vs. Overall Poor Diet Quality for Cardiometabolic Diseases Risk Prevention: Place Your Bets!
• Participants with Pharmacologically Impaired Taste Function Seek Out More Intense, Higher Calorie Stimuli.
• Obesity: Sweetener Associated with Increased Adiposity in Young Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Study Design Limitations in Rodent and Nonhuman Primate Studies.
• Anti-aging Drugs Reduce Hypothalamic Inflammation in a Sex-specific Manner.
• Role of Sulfotransferases in Resveratrol Metabolism in Human Adipocytes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Exercise Training Modulates the Hepatic Renin-angiotensin System in Fructose-fed Rats.
• RCT: Effects of Elastic Resistance Exercise on Body Composition and Physical Capacity in Older Women with Sarcopenia Obesity.
• Effects of Acute Physical Exercise on Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Status in Young, Sedentary Obese Subjects.
• Association of Resistance Exercise, Independent of and Combined with Aerobic Exercise, with the Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Inequality and Gender Differences in BMI: The Role of Unhealthy Behaviours.
• The Role of Neighborhood Economic Context on Physical Activity Among Children: Evidence From the Geographic Research on Wellbeing (GROW) Study.
• Table Talk: How Mothers and Adolescents Across Socioeconomic Status Discuss Food.
• A Dynamic Estimation of Obesity Using NHANES Data: A Pseudo-Panel Approach.
• A Discourse Analysis of Denmark’s Public Health Policy Concerning Overweight Among Pregnant Women (pdf). 
• The Impact of Marriage and Parenthood on Male BMI: Static and Dynamic Effects.
• To Break the Weight Gain - a Qualitative Study on the Experience of School Nurses Working with Overweight Children in Elementary School.

Epidemiology

• Causal Associations of Adiposity and Body Fat Distribution with Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke Subtypes, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis.
• CT-based Diagnosis of Visceral Obesity and Hepatic Steatosis is Associated with Low Urine PH.
• Association Between Weekend Catch-up Sleep and Lower Body Mass: Population-Based Study.
• Estimating the Causal Influence of BMI on Risk of Parkinson Disease: A Mendelian Randomisation Study.
• Patients with and Without Diabetes Without Significant Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease Have the Same Risk of Myocardial Infarction in a Real-World Population Receiving Appropriate Prophylactic Treatment.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Consistent Weighing to Prevent Excessive Gestational Weight Gain.
• Frequency of Consuming Foods Predicts Changes in Cravings During Weight Loss.
• Differences in Brain Reward Responses to Food Stimuli Among Twins Discordant for BMI.
• Obesity Related Comorbidities Associated with Lower Attrition Rate in Pediatric Weight Management Program (pdf).

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Disparities in Health Service Utilization Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Adjusting for Multiple Chronic Conditions.
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the U.S. Breastfeeding and Implications for Maternal and Child Health Outcomes.
• Assessing the Active Living Environment in Three Rural Towns with a High Proportion of Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders (pdf).
• Black-white Metropolitan Segregation and Self-rated Health: Investigating the Role of Neighborhood Poverty.
• Reducing US Cardiovascular Disease Burden and Disparities Through National and Targeted Dietary Policies: A Modelling Study.

Stigma

• A Systematic Review of Characteristics and Psychometric Properties of Self-Report Questionnaires Evaluating Weight Bias.
• Parents Underestimate Their Children's Weight: Implications for Obesity Prevention.
• Measuring Perceived Mistreatment: Potential Problems in Asking About “Discrimination”.

Policy Related

• Uses of Nutrient Profiling to Address Public Health Needs: From Regulation to Reformulation.
• The Rights/Development Nexus: Sen, Olson and the Obesity Rights Movement.
• Food Insecurity Measurement Among Older Adults: Implications for Policy and Food Security Governance.
• Reducing US Cardiovascular Disease Burden and Disparities Through National and Targeted Dietary Policies: A Modelling Study.
• Beyond BMI: Are Weight-loss Programs the Best Way to Improve the Health of African American Women?

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Exposure to Western Diet Affects Adult Body Composition and Voluntary Wheel Running in a Genotype-specific Manner in Mice.
• Risk of Major Congenital Malformations in Relation to Maternal Overweight and Obesity Severity.
• Long Noncoding RNAs Could Act as Vectors for Paternal Heredity of High Fat Diet-induced Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Non-random Species Loss in a Forest Herbaceous Layer Following Nitrogen Addition.
• Getting Fat or Getting Help? How Female Mammals Cope with Energetic Constraints on Reproduction.
• Human Bipedalism and Body-mass Index.
• High Peripheral Temperatures in King Penguins While Resting at Sea: Thermoregulation Versus Fat Deposition.
• Body Mass Modulates Huddling Dynamics and Body Temperature Profiles in Rabbit Pups.

Methods

• Dietary Assessment Methods in Epidemiological Research: Current State of the Art and Future Prospects.
• Composite Marginal Quantile Regression Analysis for Longitudinal Adolescent BMI Data.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Optimal Solutions for the Evolution of a Social Obesity Epidemic Model.
• Diagnosing Obesity By Mathematically Estimating Abdominal Fat.
• BMI Estimation By Using an Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System.

Commentary

• WNY Researcher Shakes Up Nutrition World with New Book on Salt.
• Audio: Science Vs: Artificial Sweeteners – Not So Sweet?
• Drink Your Whole Milk, Eat Your Butter … or Don't: The Great Fat Debate.
• Renaming (and Rethinking) Obesity.
• Vegetarian Hype in Pursuit of a Noble Purpose.
• Is There a Role for Metformin in the Treatment of Childhood Obesity?

General

• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Funder’s Perspective.
• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: The Problem with Remedies: The Need to Study Unintended Consequences.
• How Bad Science Can Lead to Bad Science Journalism — and Bad Policy.
• Wide-Open: Accelerating Public Data Release By Automating Detection of Overdue Datasets.
• Audio: Science Comics (Humor).
• Agricultural Biotechnology Helps Growers Stem Environmental Damage.
• A Maverick Professor's Remarkable Story.
• Dominance Status Alters Restraint-induced Neural Activity in Brain Regions Controlling Stress Vulnerability.
• Low Rate of Somatic Mutations in a Long-Lived Oak Tree.

Announcements

• "IU School of Public Health-Bloomington names new dean: David B. Allison." [But Obesity & Energetics Offerings will continue!].
• The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Science Breakthroughs 2030: A Strategy for Food and Agricultural Research Seeks Input From Scientists of All Disciplinary Backgrounds to Understand Where Opportunities are Emerging.
• Attend the 12th Annual Cleveland Clinic Obesity Summit.
• Q&A with TOS Executive Director- Anthony G. Comuzzie, PhD, FTOS.
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.