Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• RCT: A Ketogenic Diet Reduces Central Obesity and Serum Insulin in Women with Ovarian or Endometrial Cancer.
• RCT: Effects of Interrupting Sedentary Behavior with Short Bouts of Moderate Physical Activity on Glucose Tolerance in Children with Overweight and Obesity.
• Body and Organ Metabolic Rates of a Cave Fish, Triplophysa Rosa: Influence of Light and Ontogenetic Variation.
• Endogenous Secretory RAGE Increases with Improvements in Body Composition and is Associated with Markers of Adipocyte Health.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Study Reports Dark Chocolate to Reduce Stress and Inflammation.
• Press release: New Studies Show Dark Chocolate Consumption Reduces Stress and Inflammation, While Improving Memory, Immunity and Mood.
• Meeting Abstract: Pre-post Analysis of EEG Frequency Modulation in 5 People Who Consumed a Dark Chocolate Bar.
• Meeting Abstract: RNAseq Analysis of 4 People Consuming a Chocolate Bar Once Daily for 8 Days Against 1 Control. No Effects Can Be Determined.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Increased package size has no effect on usage volume of peanut butter among older adults."
• RCT: "...short-term antibiotic treatment has no effects on fasting and postprandial forearm substrate metabolism and blood flow in obese men with impaired glucose metabolism...short-term strategies targeting the gut microbiota to improve metabolic health may not be effective in obese humans."
• "In conclusion, mixed evidence at best was found for the effects of flavonoid rich fruit supplementation on composite score of executive function and mood, with no evidence of effects on academic performance in 11-13 year old children."
• Acute Aerobic Exercise and Resistance Exercise Performed the Evening Prior to an OGTT Does Not Affect PPH or Insulin Responses in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• RCT: "Community-based exercise does not prevent bone loss during active WL [weight loss] in older adults."
• Short‐term Feeding of a Ketogenic Diet Induces More Severe Hepatic Insulin Resistance than an Obesogenic High‐fat Diet.
• RCT: Losartan Has No Additive Effect on the Response to Heavy Resistance Exercise in Human Elderly Skeletal Muscle.
• "There was no evidence of maternal intake of dietary antioxidants modifying the relationship between maternal binge drinking and SGA [small for gestational age] birth."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, melatonin had few effects" on metabolic health.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Stated Conclusions are Contradicted By the Data, Based on Inappropriate Statistics, and Should Be Corrected: Comment on ‘intervention for Childhood Obesity Based on Parents Only or Parents and Child Compared with Follow‐up Alone’.
• The Painful Walk Away From a Flawed Analysis.
• Correction: Different Enteral Nutrition Formulas Have No Effect on Glucose Homeostasis but on Diet-induced Thermogenesis in Critically Ill Medical Patients: An RCT.
• Intervention Fidelity in Qigong RCTs: A Method Review.
• Expression of Concern—Effect of a High-fat Mediterranean Diet on Bodyweight and Waist Circumference: A Prespecified Secondary Outcomes Analysis of the PREDIMED Randomised Controlled Trial.

Basic

• Lacteal Junction Zippering Protects Against Diet-induced Obesity.
• Cell-Specific “Competition for Calories” Drives Asymmetric Nutrient-Energy Partitioning, Obesity, and Metabolic Diseases in Human and Non-human Animals.
• Increased Susceptibility to OVX-Associated Metabolic Dysfunction in UCP1-Null Mice.
• Effects of Dietary Conjugated Linoleic Acid on Growth Performance, Tissue Adipocytokine Levels and Lipid Metabolism of Grass Carp.
• Alterations in Plasma Acylcarnitine and Amino Acid Profiles May Be Indicative of Poor Nutrition During the Suckling Period Due to Maternal Intake of an Unbalanced Diet and Predict Later Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Regulation of Blood Pressure is Influenced By Gender: A Study in Obese Zucker Rats.

Clinical

• RCT: The Effect of Special Diets on Weight and Nutritional Intake in Hematological Cancer Patients.
• Predictors of Dropout in the School-based Multi-component Intervention, ‘Mexa-se’.
• Planned Care for Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Using a Stepped-down Approach.
• Diabetes in America, 3rd Edition.
• Understanding and Overcoming the Challenge of Obesity and Overweight in the Armed Forces: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief.

Children and Adolescents

• Epigenetics and Diet in Pregnancy.
• Prenatal Diet and Child Growth at 18 Months.

Surgery

• Systematic review: Taste Changes After Bariatric Surgery.
• Decreased Chromosomal Damage in Lymphocytes of Obese Patients After Bariatric Surgery.
• Brain Glucose Uptake is Associated with Endogenous Glucose Production in Obese Subjects Before and After Bariatric Surgery and Predicts Metabolic Outcome at Follow‐up.

Drugs

• Meta-analysis: "Premixed insulin lispro provides a larger reduction in HbA1c and is associated with a significantly higher risk of hypoglycemia and greater weight gain in patients with T2DM."
• RCT: "A novel dual glucagon-like peptide and glucagon receptor agonist SAR425899: Results of randomized, placebo-controlled first-in-human and first-in-patient trials."
• RCT: Pharmaceutical Interventions for Weight-loss Maintenance: No Effect From Cabergoline.
• Anti-Obesity Therapy: From Rainbow Pills to Polyagonists.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Mediterranean and Low-Fat Diets Reduce Cardiovascular Disease After Both Heart and Lung Transplantation: 12 Month Follow Up.
• RCT: Higher Energy Intake at Dinner Decreases Parasympathetic Activity During Nighttime Sleep in Menstruating Women.
• RCT: Gut Microbial Carbohydrate Metabolism Hinders Weight Loss in Overweight Adults Undergoing Lifestyle Intervention with a Volumetric Diet. (pdf)
• RCT: Dairy Matrix Effects: Response to Consumption of Dairy Fat Differs When Eaten Within the Cheese Matrix.
• RCT: A Baru Almond–enriched Diet Reduces Abdominal Adiposity and Improves High-density Lipoprotein Concentration.
• Dietary Regulation of the Origins of Cancer.
• Anyone Object to Taking Trans Fat Out of Soybean Oil?

Caloric Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting and Caloric Restriction: Neuroplasticity and Neurodegeneration.
• Does Calorie Restriction in Primates Increase Lifespan? Revisiting Studies on Macaques (Macaca Mulatta) and Mouse Lemurs (Microcebus Murinus).
• Caloric Restriction Inhibits Mammary Tumorigenesis in MMTV-ErbB2 Transgenic Mice Through the Suppression of ER and ErbB2 Pathways and Inhibition of Epithelial Cell Stemness in Premalignant Mammary Tissues.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Effects of High-Intensity Interval Training Versus Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training on Blood Pressure in Adults with Pre- to Established Hypertension.
• RCT: Economic Evaluation of an Intervention to Reduce Office Workers’ Sitting Time.

Economics & Sociology

• The Weight of Social Position: The Unequal Health Trajectories of Children with a Diagnosis of Overweight or Obesity. (pdf)
• Black and White Female BMI Values in the Developing Late 19th and Early 20th Century United States.
• Tuna Noodle Casserole is Tasty? The Information Network of Recipes.
• Associations of Neighborhood Socioeconomic, Natural and Built Environmental Characteristics with a 13-year Trajectory of Non-work Physical Activity Among Civil Servants in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Epidemiology

• A Cross-sectional Exploratory Analysis Between Pet Ownership, Sleep, Exercise, Health and Neighbourhood Perceptions: The Whitehall II.
• Association Between Population Mean and Distribution of Deviance in Demographic Surveys From 65 Countries: Cross Sectional Study.
• Weight Gain and Health Affliction Among Former National Football League Players.
• Dietary Inflammatory Index and Risk of First Myocardial Infarction: A Prospective Population-based Study.
• Does Abdominal Obesity Accelerate Muscle Strength Decline in Older Adults? Evidence From the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Obesity, Perceived Weight Discrimination, and Hair Cortisol: A Population-based Study.
• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among US Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• The Risk of Offspring Psychiatric Disorders in the Setting of Maternal Obesity and Diabetes.
• Sleep, Nutrition, and Physical Activity Interventions to Prevent Obesity in Infancy: Follow-up of the Prevention of Overweight in Infancy RCT at Ages 3.5 and 5 Y.
• Associations Between Systemic Inflammation, Obesity and Healthy Days.

Equity and Disparities

• Overweight and Obesity Differences Across Ethnically Diverse Subgroups of Asian American Men.
• Recent Trends, Risk Factors, and Disparities in Low Birth Weight in California, 2005–2014: A Retrospective Study.
• Mixing Up Correlation, Causation, Obesity, and Poverty.
• Sexual Dimorphism in the Behavioral Responses and the Immunoendocrine Status in D-Galactose-Induced Aging.

Stigma

• Obesity, Perceived Weight Discrimination, and Hair Cortisol: A Population-based Study.
• Stress-induced Body Dissatisfaction in Women with Binge Eating Disorder.
• Commentary: An Autopsy Long Ago with My Father.

Policy Related

• RCT: Evaluating the Effect of Increasing Package Size on Usage Volume of Peanut Butter in Older Adults.
• The Association Between Household Food Insecurity and BMI: A Prospective Growth Curve Analysis.

Intergenerational Effects

• Staying Slim During Pregnancy Carries a Price.
• Infant Breastfeeding and Childhood General, Visceral, Liver, and Pericardial Fat Measures Assessed By Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
• Bioactive Components in Human Milk are Differentially Associated with Rates of Lean and Fat Mass Deposition in Infants of Mothers with Normal Vs. Elevated BMI.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Diet and Other Environmental Factors Shape the Bacterial Communities of Fish Gut in an Eutrophic Lake.
• Reproductive Effort and Success of Males in Scramble‐competition Polygyny: Evidence for Trade‐offs Between Foraging and Mate‐search.

Methods

• Feeding Regimen Modulates Zebrafish Behavior.
• Biomarkers of Individual Foods, and Separation of Diets Using Untargeted LC-MS Based Plasma Metabolomics in an RCT.
• Isolation, Expansion, and Adipogenic Induction of CD34+CD31+ Endothelial Cells From Human Omental and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Mathematical Model of Type 1 Diabetes Involving Leptin Effects on Glucose Metabolism.

Commentary

• When It Comes to Infant Nutrition, Nuances Matter. Not Politics.
• The "Disfiguring Mayhem" of Cancer Cachexia.
• Dieting in Neverland.
• Meet the Journal Full of Baloney (and Cheese).

General

• RCT: Persisting Reductions in Depressive Symptoms in HIV-Infected Rural Adults Following Brief Telephone-Administered Interpersonal Psychotherapy.
• Can Automated Tools Reliably Rate Research Reproducibility?
• How do We Decide When (not) to Free-ride? Risk Tolerance Predicts Behavioral Plasticity in Cooperation.
• Independent Investigator Incubator (I3): A Comprehensive Mentorship Program to Jumpstart Productive Research Careers for Junior Faculty.
• Serum Calcium Concentration is Maintained When Bone Resorption is Suppressed By Osteoprotegerin in Young Growing Male Rats.
• Scientists Calculate the Speed of Death in Cells, and It's Surprisingly Slow.
• Primate Speech: How Some Species are 'wired' for Talk.

Video & Audio

• Video: What is the Relationship Between Food, Energy and Water?

Announcements

• 7 Midwest Colleges Named Among Most Beautiful Campuses in US.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• RCT: Success in Achieving the Targets of the 20-Year Infancy-Onset Dietary Intervention: Association with Insulin Sensitivity and Serum Lipids.
• Adult Energy Requirements Predicted From Doubly Labeled Water.
• Subjective Social Status is Associated with Compensation for Large Meals - a Prospective Pilot Study.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Scientists Say Simple Vaccine Could Prevent Obesity.
• Meeting abstract: In Cross-sectional Sample of 93 Women with Breast Cancer, 19.2 with Normal Weight, 11.5% with Overweight, and 69.2% with Obesity Were Positive for Adenovirus 36. No Vaccine; No Prevention.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Meta-analysis: "Prenatal exercise does not causally impact birth weight, fat mass, or large-for-gestational-age status in a clinically relevant way."
• RCT: "there was no effect of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans−based diet on their primary outcomes, including change in fasting insulin, glucose, triglycerides, and oral glucose tolerance."
• “…access to Convenience Stores Within 1-mile Was Associated with Meeting the Daily USDA Vegetable Intake Recommendation. This Finding is Contrary to Literature Related to Food Intake, Obesity, and Food Access…”.
• "We found no evidence to suggest that one year of aerobic exercise alters telomere attrition significantly in healthy postmenopausal women."
• Macrophage Markers are Poorly Associated with Liver Histology in Children with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• RCT: "The study revealed that the intervention had no short-term effect on time spent on MVPA or sedentary. This study does not support a strong emphasis on behaviour change on an individual level as a way of targeting general health and risk reduction at a population level."
• "In conclusion, CPAP does not improve glycemic control measure as HbA1c."
• RCT: Whole body vibration "WBV did not affect most of the clinical parameters in children with obesity..."
• RCT: "the fat oxidation and the decrease of fat mass may not be influenced by the type of food previously consumed before exercise."

Basic

• JMJD2B/KDM4B Inactivation in Adipose Tissue Accelerates Obesity and Systemic Metabolic Abnormalities in Mice.
• In Mice, Autotaxin-Lysophosphatidic Acid Signaling Contributes to Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance in Muscle and Impairs Mitochondrial Metabolism.
• Loss of Nucleobindin-2 Causes Insulin Resistance in Obesity Without Impacting Satiety or Adiposity in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Altered Levels of Adipokines in the Central Nervous System Impact Glucose Metabolism in Murine Hippocampal Neurons.
• TGR5 Activation Induces Cytoprotective Changes in the Heart and Improves Myocardial Adaptability to Physiologic, Inotropic, and Hemodynamic Stress in Mice.
• Inhibition of Glycosphingolipid Synthesis Reverses Skin Inflammation and Hair Loss in ApoE−/− Mice Fed Western Diet.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Dramatic Decreases in BMI Percentiles, but Valid Conclusions Can Only Come From Valid Analyses.
• Response To: Dramatic Decreases in BMI Percentiles, but Valid Conclusions Can Only Come From Valid Analyses.
• Corrigendum For: A Multicomponent, School-Based Intervention, the Shaping Healthy Choices Program, Improves Nutrition-Related Outcomes.
• Fact Check: Is Sugar Consumption Down While Obesity Rates Have Risen?
• Controversial Points in the Obesity Paradox in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease.
• Reply To: “Controversial Points in the Obesity Paradox in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease”.
• The Role of Phenotypic Plasticity and Palatability.
• Here’s Why It’s So Impossible to Get Reliable Diet Advice From the News.
• An Analysis of Methods Used to Synthesize Evidence and Grade Recommendations in Food-based Dietary Guidelines.
• Childhood Obesity: A Glimmer of Hope or a Wish?

Clinical

• "This meta-analysis of six RCTs demonstrated that there are beneficial effects of exercise, reduced caloric dietary intake or, preferably, a combination of exercise and diet on breast cancer-related endogenous sex hormones in physically inactive postmenopausal women."
• RCT: Family-based Intervention Using Face-to-face Sessions and Social Media to Improve Malay Primary School Children's Adiposity.
• Meta-analysis: Associations Between Obesity and Insomnia Diagnosis and Symptoms.

Children and Adolescents

• Availability of Food and Beverage Items on School Canteen Menus and Association with Items Purchased By Children of Primary-school Age.
• Effect of a Technology-Integrated, Nutrition Education Program on Low-Income Youths’ Dietary Intake.
• RCT: Effect of a Behavioral Intervention for Underserved Preschool-Age Children on Change in BMI.
• RCT: Effect of a Responsive Parenting Educational Intervention on Childhood Weight Outcomes at 3 Years of Age.
• Remission of Obesity Among a Nationally Representative Sample of US Children.

Surgery

• RCT: A Longer Biliopancreatic Limb in Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Improves Weight Loss in the First Years After Surgery.
• Does Body Contouring After Bariatric Weight Loss Enhance Quality of Life? A Systematic Review of QOL Studies.
• Trends in Procedure Type, Patient Characteristics, and Outcomes Among Persons with Knee Osteoarthritis Undergoing Bariatric Surgery, 2005–2014.
• Bariatric Surgery and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis.
• Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Failed Vertical Banded Gastroplasty.

Drugs

• Metformin for Women Who are Overweight or Obese During Pregnancy for Improving Maternal and Infant Outcomes.
• Sex and BMI Alter the Benefits and Risks of Sulfonylureas and Thiazolidinediones in Type 2 Diabetes: A Framework for Evaluating Stratification Using Routine Clinical and Individual Trial Data.
• RCT: "Metformin compared with placebo has beneficial effects on anthropometric and metabolic indicators in the management of childhood obesity."

Food & Diet

• RCT: Egg Consumption May Improve Factors Associated with Glycemic Control and Insulin Sensitivity in Adults with Pre- and Type II Diabetes.
• The Impact of Major Dietary Patterns on Glycemic Control, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Weight Loss in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Network Meta-analysis.
• Formulation and Evaluation of a Satiety-inducing Carbonated Beverage that Forms a Bubble-containing Gel in the Stomach.
• Treatment with Camu Camu (Myrciaria Dubia) Prevents Obesity By Altering the Gut Microbiota and Increasing Energy Expenditure in Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• A Clinician’s Guide for Trending Cardiovascular Nutrition Controversies: Part II.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Comparing the Effectiveness of an Individual Planning Intervention with Collaborative Planning in Adolescent Friendship Dyads to Enhance Physical Activity (TWOgether).
• Neither Repetition Duration, Nor Number of Muscle Actions Affect Strength Increases, Body Composition, Muscle Size or Fasted Blood Glucose in Trained Males and Females.
• Exercise Response Variations in Skeletal Muscle PCr Recovery Rate and Insulin Sensitivity Relate to Muscle Epigenomic Profiles in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Chronic Forced Exercise Inhibits Stress-induced Reinstatement of Cocaine Conditioned Place Preference.

Economics & Sociology

• Subjective Social Status is Associated with Compensation for Large Meals – a Prospective Pilot Study.
• The Influence of Neighborhood Social Capital on Leisure-Time Physical Activity.
• Evolutionary Considerations on Social Status, Eating Behavior, and Obesity.
• Obesity and the Food System Transformation in Latin America.

Epidemiology

• Body Composition and Physical Function in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study.
• Obesity Increases the Duration of Influenza-A Virus Shedding in Adults.
• Impact of Obesity on Pediatric Acute Recurrent and Chronic Pancreatitis.
• Association of Neighborhood Geographic Spatial Factors with Rates of Childhood Obesity.
• Obesity and the Onset of Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-aged and Older Adults in China.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Mindfulness, Self-compassion, and Mindful Eating in Relation to Fat and Sugar Consumption: An Exploratory Investigation.
• Association Between Depressive Symptom Clusters and Food Attentional Bias.
• The Interplay Between Nutrition and Stress in Pregnancy: Implications for Fetal Programming of Brain Development.
• Deep Brain Stimulation for Appetite Disorders: A Review.

Equity and Disparities

• Nutritional Profile of Purchases By Store Type: Disparities By Income and Food Program Participation.
• Widening Socio-economic Disparities in Early Childhood Obesity in Los Angeles County After the Great Recession.
• Engaging Black Churches to Address Cancer Health Disparities: Project CHURCH.

Stigma

• Obesity, Fat Taxes and Their Effects on Consumers.
• A Word to the Wise: Adolescent Reactions to Parental Communication About Weight.

Policy Related

• Americans’ Perceptions About Fast Food and How They Associate with Its Consumption and Obesity Risk.
• Taxation of Sugar Sweetened Beverages and Unhealthy Foods: A Qualitative Study of Key Opinion Leaders’ Views.
• Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.
• Screening for Obesity and Intervention for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Evidence Report and Systematic Review.

Intergenerational Effects

• Programming of Central and Peripheral Insulin Resistance By Low Birthweight and Postnatal Catch-up Growth in Male Mice.
• Effect of a Responsive Parenting Educational Intervention on Childhood Weight Outcomes at 3 Years of Age.
• Maternal Lipid Concentrations During Early Pregnancy and Eating Behaviour and Energy Intake in the Offspring.
• Association Between Maternal BMI in Early Pregnancy and Anorexia Nervosa in Daughters.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• How Islands Shrink People.
• Evolutionary History and Adaptation of a Human Pygmy Population of Flores Island, Indonesia.
• Effect of Continuous and Alternating Episodes of Starvation on Behavior and Reproduction in the Red Flour Beetle.
• Does Basal Metabolism Set the Limit for Metabolic Down-regulation During Torpor?

Methods

• Association Between Serum Activin a and Metabolic Syndrome in Older Adults: Potential of Activin a as a Biomarker of Cardiometabolic Disease.
• How Accurate are Recalls of Self-Weighing Frequency? Data From a 24-Month Randomized Trial.
• Screening for Low Muscularity in Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Valid, Clinic‐friendly Approach that Predicts Mortality.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Neural Network-based Model Predictive Control for Type 1 Diabetic Rats on Artificial Pancreas System.
• A Multi-scale Metabolic Model of the Whole-Human Body.
• Duration of Retinol Isotope Dilution Studies with Compartmental Modeling Affects Model Complexity, Kinetic Parameters, and Calculated Vitamin a Stores in US Women.

Commentary

• Nostalgia for Mom’s Cooking and Food Skills.
• 'How Can Obesity Care Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?'.
• Loss of Control of HIV Viremia with OTC Weight‐Loss Drugs: A Call for Caution?
• The Integration of Pediatric Sleep Health Into Public Health in Canada.

General

• Association Between Extra-pair Paternity and Nestling Sex and Condition in the Barn Swallow.
• Editorial: Nudge, Not Sludge.
• Increased Early Offspring Growth Can Offset the Costs of Long-distance Spawning Migration in Fish.

Video & Audio

• Podcast on Sports Psychology, the Placebo Effect, and How It Can Be Used in Exercise - with Prof Jack Raglin.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• Workshop Registration: “Enhancing Natural Product Clinical Trials” - September 13-14, 2018.
• IU Researchers Receive $1.5 Million NIH Grant to Advance Study on Diabetes Risks.
• Webinar: "Implementation Science for Nutrition Education Professionals and Researchers" - September 18, 2018.
• Workshop Registration: "Current Status and Response to the Global Obesity Pandemic" - October 9, 2018.
• Meeting Registration: "2018 Indiana Healthy Weight Initiative Annual Meeting" - September 13, 2018.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• "...education reduced body size ...in middle age."
• Size Matters but Hunger Prevails—begging and Provisioning Rules in Cyanistes Caeruleus Families.
• Dynamic MTORC1-TFEB Feedback Signaling Regulates Hepatic Autophagy, Steatosis and Liver Injury in Long-term Nutrient Oversupply.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Struggle to Lose Weight? Your Gut Bacteria May Be to Blame.
• Study: Some Analyses of Some Gut Microbiota Measurements Were Associated with Successful 5% Weight Loss in 26 People Undergoing a Weight Loss Intervention. No Causation.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Food bank provision had no effect on "self-management (depressive symptoms, diabetes distress, self-care, hypoglycemia, self-efficacy) or HbA1c (RD = 0.24; 95% CI = −0.09, 0.58)."
• Among Patients Undergoing Inpatient Rehabilitation After TBI, BMI By Admission Had No Impact on Functional Outcomes.
• RCT: No Differential Effects on Weight Loss and Metabolic Health Effects From Energy-restricted Mediterranean and Central-European Diets in Postmenopausal Women.
• RCT: "A HP diet with whole eggs promotes lean mass retention with modest weight loss, but does not positively influence muscle composition, cardiometabolic health or systemic inflammation, compared to a NP diet void of eggs."
• "In China, on the day the FNLA was issued, they were associated with positive abnormal stock returns of related firms. This result is contrary to the study by Ghani and Childs (1999) that reported that the NLEA passage showed a negative impact on firms’ stock prices."
• RCT: "Six weeks of daily supplementation with a probiotic containing 5 billion Bifidobacterium BR03 and 5 billion Streptococcus thermophilus FP4 in active men and women has no effect on body composition." (PDF)
• No Effect of a Community-based Childhood Obesity Intervention Program on Changes in Most Anthropometric Variables, Incidence of Obesity, and Lifestyle Choices in Spanish Children Aged 8 to 10 Years.
• "Obesity is not associated with adverse outcomes in patients undergoing thyroid surgery."

Basic

• FOXO Transcription Factors in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Fat Production and Burning are Synchronized in Livers of Mice with Obesity.
• Role of Diet and Xenobiotics in the Progression of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. (PDF)
• Aldosterone Deficiency in Mice Burdens Respiration and Accentuates Diet-Induced Hyperinsulinemia and Obesity.
• Inactivation of the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase IDOL Attenuates Diet-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction in Mice.
• Elevated Pentraxin 3 in Obese Adipose Tissue Promotes Adipogenic Differentiation By Activating Neuropeptide Y Signaling.
• Histone Deacetylase 11 is an ε-N-Myristoyllysine Hydrolase.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Resistance to Facts Pops Up in Nutrition Research.
• Letter: Misrepresentation of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center Weight Loss Predictor.
• Reply To: Misrepresentation of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center Weight Loss Predictor.
• Reporting Bias in the Literature on the Associations of Health-related Behaviors and Statins with Cardiovascular Disease and All-cause Mortality.

Clinical

• RCT: Physical Training Following Gastric Bypass: Effects on Physical Activity and Quality of Life.
• RCTs: A Synergistic Formulation of Plant Extracts Decreases Postprandial Glucose and Insulin Peaks: Results From Two RCTs.
• Validation of Body Mass Index (BMI)‐related ICD‐9‐CM and ICD‐10‐CM Administrative Diagnosis Codes Recorded in US Claims Data.

Children and Adolescents

• Predicting Enrollment in Multidisciplinary Clinical Care for Pediatric Weight Management.
• Adolescents Drink More Sugar-Sweetened Beverages When Available at Home Regardless of Other Settings.
• The Persuasive Effect of Advergames Promoting Unhealthy Foods Among Children: A Meta-analysis.
• The Association Between Antibiotic Use in Infancy and Childhood Overweight or Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis.
• Poor Sleep and Obesity: Concurrent Epidemics in Adolescent Youth.
• High Blood Pressure at Early School Age Among Extreme Preterms.
• Review: Current Status on Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence: Prevalence, Etiology, Co-morbidities and Management.

Surgery

• Influence of Time Interval From Bariatric Surgery to Conception on Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcomes.
• Early Onset of Obesity and Adult Onset of Obesity as Factors Affecting Patient Characteristics Prior to Bariatric Surgery.
• The Use of Predictive Markers for the Development of a Model to Predict Weight Loss Following Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Histological Improvement of NAFLD in Patients with Obesity After Bariatric Surgery Based on Standardized NAS (NAFLD Activity Score).

Drugs

• RCT: Semaglutide Once Daily Versus Liraglutide and Placebo in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Suboptimally Controlled on Diet and Exercise with or Without Metformin.
• Meta-analysis of the Association Between Sodium-glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors and Risk of Skin Cancer Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Prognosis of Ovarian Cancer in Women with Type 2 Diabetes Using Metformin and Other Forms of Antidiabetic Medication or Statins: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Dapagliflozin in Patients with Inadequately Controlled Type 1 Diabetes (the DEPICT-2 Study).

Food & Diet

• RCT: Glucoregulatory and Cardiometabolic Profiles of Almond Vs. Cracker Snacking for 8 Weeks in Young Adults.
• Size Matters: Package Size Influences Recognition of Serving Size Information.
• Trends in Beverage Consumption Among Children and Adults, 2003‐2014.
• Audio: Prettier Produce.
• Ultra-processed Food Consumption and Excess Weight Among US Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• Complementary Intestinal Mucosa and Microbiota Responses to Caloric Restriction.
• Gene Expression of Sirtuin-1 and Endogenous Secretory Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products in Healthy and Slightly Overweight Subjects After Caloric Restriction and Resveratrol Administration.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Cross-sectional study: Physical Activity, Body Mass Index, and Health Status Among Youth with Severe Visual Impairments Aged 13–17 Years in the United States.
• Qualitative and Quantitative Comparative Study of Accelerometer Cut-points to Evaluate Physical Activity in Children with Cerebral Palsy.
• RCT: "objectively assessed physical activity levels following a culturally adapted lifestyle intervention program."
• RCT: A Tailored Telephone and Email Based Exercise Intervention Induced Reductions in Various Measures of Body Composition in Physically Inactive Adults.
• RCT: Association of Acute Increase in Plasma Neurofilament Light with Repetitive Subconcussive Head Impacts.
• RCT: Effect of E-Bike Versus Bike Commuting on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: Home‐based Exergaming Among Children with Overweight and Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Distributional Effects of Education on Health.
• Examining the Interaction of Fast-food Outlet Exposure and Income on Diet and Obesity.
• Crime, Perceived Danger, and Adiposity: The Role of Gender.

Epidemiology

• Associations of Sedentary Time with Energy Expenditure and Anthropometric Measures.
• Prevalence of Obesity, Prediabetes, and Diabetes in Sexual Minority Women of Diverse Races/Ethnicities: Findings From the 2014-2015 BRFSS Surveys.
• Gender-specific Differences of Interaction Between Cadmium Exposure and Obesity on Prediabetes in the NHANES 2007–2012 Population.
• Obesity: How Much Does It Matter for Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse?
• Clinical and Genetic Determinants of Progression of Type 2 Diabetes: A DIRECT Study.
• Overweight in the Elderly Induces a Switch in Energy Metabolism that Undermines Muscle Integrity.
• Young Adult Pregnancy Status and the Risk of Developing Overweight and Obesity Among Women and Men.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Brief Strategic Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Women with Binge Eating Disorder and Comorbid Obesity.
• RCT: Psychosocial Stress Promotes Food Intake and Enhances the Neuroenergetic Level in Men.
• Compulsive Buying: The Impact of Attitudes Toward Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Physical Appearance Investment.
• Examining the Relationship Between Obesity and Mental Health Outcomes Among Individuals Admitted to a Level I Trauma Centre.

Equity and Disparities

• RCT: Participatory Women's Groups with Cash Transfers Can Increase Dietary Diversity and Micronutrient Adequacy During Pregnancy, Whereas Women's Groups with Food Transfers Can Increase Equity in Intrahousehold Energy Allocation.
• Media Portrayal of Māori and Bariatric Surgery in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
• Risk Factors for Diabetes are Higher Among Non‐Heterosexual US High School Students.
• Acting on Non-communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-income Tropical Countries.
• Education-related Disparities in Reported Physical Activity During Leisure-time, Active Transportation, and Work Among US Adults.

Stigma

• Exploring the Importance of Overweight, Underweight, and Teasing.
• Attitudes Toward Obese People: A Comparative Study of Nursing, Education, and Social Work Students.
• An Update on Research Examining the Implications of Stigma for Access to and Utilization of Bariatric Surgery.

Policy Related

• HealthTIDE: Utilizing Aspects of Collective Impact and Other Models of Coordinated Action to Drive Statewide Obesity Prevention in Wisconsin.
• Aligning Policy Tools and Their Targets: Nudging and Utility Maximization in Policy Design.
• Health Policy and Its Unintended Consequences for Midwife-woman Partnerships: Is Normal Pregnancy at Risk When the BMI Measure is Used?
• Lessons to Learn From California’s Statewide Soda Tax Ban.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prenatal Vitamin D Supplementation to Improve Health in Offspring.
• Association of Temporal Changes in Gestational Age with Perinatal Mortality in the United States, 2007-2015.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Seasonal Variation of Energy Expenditure in Japanese Macaques (Macaca Fuscata).
• Relaxed Natural Selection Contributes to Global Obesity Increase More in Males than in Females Due to More Environmental Modifications in Female Body Mass.
• Body Temperature Variation in Free-living and Food-deprived Yellow-necked Mice Sustains an Adaptive Framework for Endothermic Thermoregulation.
• Anaerobic Fungi in Gorilla (Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla) Feces: An Adaptation to a High-Fiber Diet?
• What Determines the Metabolic Cost of Human Running Across a Wide Range of Velocities?

Methods

• Reproducibility and Replicability of Rodent Phenotyping in Preclinical Studies.
• Trial Characteristics and Appropriateness of Statistical Methods Applied for Design and Analysis of Randomized School-Based Studies Addressing Weight-Related Issues - a Literature Review.
• The Sitting-Height Index of Build, (Body Mass)/(Sitting Height)3, as an Improvement on the BMI for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Human Energy Expenditure: Advances in Organ‐tissue Prediction Models.
• Prediction of Lumbar Vertebral Body Compressive Strength of Overweight and Obese Older Adults Using Morphed Subject-specific Finite-element Models to Evaluate the Effects of Weight Loss.

Commentary

• Paul Rozin Explains How the Sense of Taste and Appetite is Shaped By the Brain.
• Does Meal Timing Really Matter for Health and Weight?
• Monetizing Outrageous Health Claims.

General

• The 15th Armitage Lecture-Randomization: The Forgotten Component of the Randomized Clinical Trial.
• The Peculiar Math that Could Underlie the Laws of Nature.
• Kissing, Cuddling, and Massage at Most Recent Sexual Event: Findings From a U.S. Nationally Representative Probability Sample.
• Negative Binomial Mixed Models for Analyzing Longitudinal Microbiome Data.
• America Just Won the World’s Hardest Math Contest. Again.
• Monkeys Pass on Brain Activity Patterns Linked to Anxiety.
• Young Cancer Survivors Have High Risk of Endocrine Diseases.
• Bioengineers Build 3D Model of Human Heart Ventricle.

Announcements

• WonderLab After Dark: A Scientific Approach to Art and Creativity in Bloomington.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• RCT: Impact of Edible Cricket Consumption on Gut Microbiota in Healthy Adults.
• Metabolic Syndrome and Extensive Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Morbidly Obese Göttingen Minipigs.
• A Polyphenol-rich Prebiotic in Combination with a Novel Probiotic Formulation Alleviates Markers of Obesity and Diabetes in Drosophila.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity May Soon Be Reversed with Gene Therapy.
• Study: FGF21 Gene Therapy as Treatment for Obesity and Insulin Resistance... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Training nurses in MI [motivational interviewing] and basic CBT to support self-management did not lead to improvements in glycaemic control or other secondary outcomes in people with T2D at 18 months."
• "Obesity prejudice did not correlate with knowledge of obesity."
• Breastfeeding Discontinuation Not Associated with Maternal Pregravid BMI.
• Time Spent in Care, the Nutrition, Physical Activity and Overall Childcare Environment Were Not Associated with Children’s Z-BMI, WHR and SST.
• RCT: Minimal to No Effects of Adapted Physical Activity to Promote Active and Healthy Ageing.
• RCT: Ineffectiveness of Effectiveness of an Intervention Including Training, Provision of Written Menu Feedback, and Printed Resources on Increasing Childcare Compliance with Nutrition Guidelines.
• "Nevertheless, while replication is clearly needed, these results suggest that moderately greater BMI in later life may modestly attenuate concomitant grey matter volume decline."
• "Adult BMI and waist circumference were not associated with glioma."
• No significant evidence in meta-analysis that omega-3 Fatty Acids are effective for the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease or Reduction of Adiposity.

Basic

• PNPase Knockout Results in MtDNA Loss and an Altered Metabolic Gene Expression Program.
• Could a Nanofiber Help Fight the Obesity Epidemic?
• Melatonin Increases Magnesium Concentrations in White Adipose Tissue and Pancreas of Diabetic Obese Rats.
• Peripherally Administered α-MSH Activates WAT Browning and Increases Mitochondrial Respiration in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes and Mice with Diet-Induced Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Incorrect analyses were used in “Different enteral nutrition formulas have no effect on glucose homeostasis but on diet-induced thermogenesis in critically ill medical patients: a randomized controlled trial” and corrected analyses are requested.
• Authors' Reply: “Despite not reaching overall significance, …we are convinced that our conclusion concerning a secondary endpoint that diet-induced thermogenesis is higher in patients receiving fat-based enteral nutrition, can be drawn.”
• Court Orders Journal to Retract a Paper After Supplement Seller Sues.

Clinical

• Networks for Prevention in 19 Communities at the Start of a Large-scale Community-based Obesity Prevention Initiative.
• Comparison of First Trimester Transvaginal Anatomy Scan to the Second Trimester Structural Survey in Normal Weight and Obese Populations: A Pilot Study.
• Effects of Weight Loss Intervention on Body Composition and Blood Pressure Among Overweight and Obese Women.
• Sarcopenic Obesity and Cognitive Performance.
• Association of Brain Reward Learning Response with Harm Avoidance, Weight Gain, and Hypothalamic Effective Connectivity in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa.
• Increased Risk of Hospital-acquired Foot Ulcers in People with Diabetes: Large Prospective Study and Implications for Practice.
• Glucotypes Reveal New Patterns of Glucose Dysregulation.

Children and Adolescents

• Changes in Breakfast Frequency and Composition During Adolescence: The Adolescent Nutritional Assessment Longitudinal Study, a Cohort From Brazil.
• A Novel Nutritional Intervention Improves Lung Function in Overweight/obese Adolescents with Poorly Controlled Asthma.
• Predictors of Participant Attendance Patterns in a Family-Based Intervention for Hispanic Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• Link Between Chemerin, Central Obesity, and Parameters of the Metabolic Syndrome: Findings From a Longitudinal Study in Children with Obesity Participating in a Lifestyle Intervention.
• RCT: Home‐based Exergaming Among Children with Overweight and Obesity.
• Interactive Effects of Parenting Behavior and Regulatory Skills in Toddlerhood on Child Weight Outcomes.
• Pre-pregnancy BMI Classification and Gestational Weight Gain on Neonatal Outcomes in Adolescent Mothers: A Follow-up Study.
• Intrauterine DHA Exposure and Child Body Composition at 5 Y: Exploratory Analysis of RCT of Prenatal DHA Supplementation.
• Commentary: Such a Shame About Severe Childhood Obesity.

Surgery

• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Situs Inversus.
• "I didn't have to prove to anybody that I was a good candidate": A Case Study Framing International Bariatric Tourism.
• Impact of High BMI on Surgical Outcomes and Long-term Survival Among Patients Undergoing Esophagectomy: A Meta-analysis.
• Prevalence of All-Cause Mortality and Suicide Among Bariatric Surgery Cohorts: A Meta-Analysis.
• Bachelor Scurvy, Bariatric Surgery, and Social Support.

Drugs

• RCT: "MetAP2 inhibitors represent a novel mechanism for producing meaningful weight loss and improvement in HbA1c."
• SGLT2 Inhibitors in Combination Therapy: From Mechanisms to Clinical Considerations in Type 2 Diabetes Management.
• Micronutrient Status: Potential Modifiers—Drugs and Chronic Disease.
• Outcomes of “diabetes‐friendly” vs “diabetes‐unfriendly” β‐blockers in Older Nursing Home Residents with Diabetes After Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Food & Diet

• Ibero–American Consensus on Low- and No-Calorie Sweeteners: Safety, Nutritional Aspects and Benefits in Food and Beverages.
• Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Glass Half Full or Time to Nail the Coffin Shut?
• A Systematic Review of Renal Health in Healthy Individuals Associated with Protein Intake Above the US Recommended Daily Allowance in RCTs and Observational Studies.
• Caffeine in Kidney Stone Disease: Risk or Benefit?
• Associations Between Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Total Energy, Carbohydrate, and Fat Intakes: A Systematic Review.
• Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation, Food Fortification, or Bolus Injection on Vitamin D Status in Children Aged 2–18 Years: A Meta-Analysis.
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Impacting Absorption, Metabolism, and Health Effects of Dietary Carotenoids.
• Coenzyme Q10 as Treatment for Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms—A Good Idea, But….
• Milking Dairy Data for More than They are Worth.
• Bilophila Wadsworthia Aggravates High Fat Diet Induced Metabolic Dysfunctions in Mice.
• RCT: Comprehensive Diabetes Self-Management Support From Food Banks.

Caloric Restriction

• The Impact of Aging, Calorie Restriction and Dietary Fat on Mitochondrial Ultrastructure, Dynamics and Autophagy Markers in Mouse Skeletal Muscle.
• Caloric Restriction Can Affect One-carbon Metabolism During Pregnancy in the Rat: A Transgenerational Model.
• Calorie Restriction Protects Against Apoptosis, Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress and Increased Calcium Signaling Through Inhibition of TRPV1 Channel in the Hippocampus and Dorsal Root Ganglion of Rats.
• Effect of Intermittent Compared with Continuous Energy Restricted Diet on Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Pilot Trial of an Acceptance-Based Behavioral Intervention to Promote Physical Activity Among Adolescents.
• Fifteen Minutes Daily Physical Activity May Be a New Best Target in Older Adults: The Proof Cohort Study.
• Resistance Training Alone or Combined with N-3 PUFA-Rich Diet in Older Women: Effects on Muscle Fiber Hypertrophy.

Economics & Sociology

• Foreclosures and Weight Gain: Differential Associations By Longer Neighborhood Exposure.
• Subjective Social Status and Unhealthy Behaviors Among South Korean Adults.
• Income Inequality and Health Outcomes [including Obesity] in the United States: An Empirical Analysis.

Epidemiology

• Association of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Obesity in Children.
• Secular Trends in Blood Pressure and Overweight and Obesity in Chinese Boys and Girls Aged 7 to 17 Years From 1995 to 2014.
• Association Between Long Sleep Duration and Increased Risk of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: A Review of Possible Mechanisms.
• The Physical and Mental Health Burden of Obesity in U.S. Veterans: Results From the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.
• Dietary Inflammatory Index and Site-Specific Cancer Risk: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response  Meta-Analysis.
• Obesity and Overweight Problems Among Individuals 1 to 25 Years Following Acute Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury: A NIDILRR Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Study.
• Excess Deaths Associated with Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity: An Evaluation of Potential Bias. (pdf)
• Analysis of Fractures in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Treated with Empagliflozin in Pooled Data From Placebo-Controlled Trials and a Head-to-Head Study Versus Glimepiride.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Impact of Perceived and Observed Food Environments on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Obesity: A Theory-based Study Among U.S. Older Adults.
• Does Obesity Increase the Risk of Dementia: A Literature Review.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Differences in Family Health History Knowledge of Type 2 Diabetes: Exploring the Role of Interpersonal Mechanisms.
• Enhancing Cultural Considerations in Networks and Health: A Commentary on Racial Differences in Family Health History Knowledge and Interpersonal Mechanisms.

Stigma

• Weight Self-stigma in Unhealthy Eating Behaviours: The Mediator Role of Weight-related Experiential Avoidance.
• The Weight of Internal Stigma and False Dichotomies.

Policy Related

• CRCT: Changing the Housing Environment to Reduce Obesity in Public Housing Residents.
• A Systematic Review of Strategies to Reduce Sugar‐sweetened Beverage Consumption Among 0‐year to 5‐year Olds.
• Fruit and Vegetable Intake of US Hispanics By Food Store Type: Findings From NHANES.
• Cures for Obesity and NCDs From a Perch of Privilege.

Intergenerational Effects

• Early Weight Gain in Pregnancy and Infant Birth Weight.
• Additive Effects of Household Food Insecurity During Pregnancy and Infancy on Maternal Infant Feeding Styles and Practices.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Evolution From Lean to Obese State and the Influence of Modern Human Society.
• Dietary Proteins Improve Hibernation and Subsequent Reproduction in the European Hamster, Cricetus Cricetus.
• Can Starlings Use a Reliable Cue of Future Food Deprivation to Adaptively Modify Foraging and Fat Reserves?

Methods

• Big Data vs Accurate Data in Health Research: large-scale Physical Activity Monitoring, Smartphones, Wearable Devices and Risk of Unconscious Bias.
• Relative Fat Mass (RFM) as a New Estimator of Whole-body Fat Percentage ─ a Cross-sectional Study in American Adult Individuals.
• Comparison of Body Composition Assessment By DXA and BIA According to the BMI: A Retrospective Study on 3655 Measures.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Mathematical Model for Nutrient Metabolic Chemistry.

Commentary

• Science to Explain Bogus Weight Loss Clichés.
• Perspective: Limiting Dependence on Nonrandomized Studies and Improving Randomized Trials in Human Nutrition Research: Why and How.
• Perspective: Are Large, Simple Trials the Solution for Nutrition Research?

Video & Audio

• Recent study reveals stress associated with early death in mice.
• How Much Food Would A Dino Eat For Dinner?

General

• Hope for Creaky Old Humans: Removing Aged Cells From Mice Can Restore Their Youth, Study Finds.
• Bacterial Adhesion at the Single-cell Level.
• Longitudinal Genotype–Phenotype Association Study Through Temporal Structure Auto-Learning Predictive Model.
• Inter-institutional Training of Biodiversity Informatics Specialists.
• What is Behind the Variation in Mate Quality Dependent Sex Ratio Adjustment? – a Meta‐analysis.
• High-impact and Transformative Science (HITS) Metrics: Definition, Exemplification, and Comparison.
• Education, Smoking, and Cohort Change: Forwarding a Multidimensional Theory of the Environmental Moderation of Genetic Effects.
• Diabetes-Associated Alterations in the Cecal Microbiome and Metabolome are Independent of Diet or Environment in the UC Davis Type 2-Diabetes Mellitus Rat Model.
• The Association Between Obesity and Dengue Virus (DENV) Infection in Hospitalised Patients.
• Antibiotic-induced Microbiome Depletion Alters Metabolic Homeostasis By Affecting Gut Signaling and Colonic Metabolism.
• A Coding and Non-coding Transcriptomic Perspective on the Genomics of Human Metabolic Disease.

Announcements

• New Committee Will Focus on Health of Bloomington and Surrounding Area.
• Patent: Insulin-incretin Conjugates.
• July 30: Defined Diets for Zebrafish and Other Aquatic Biomedical Research Models: Needs and Challenges Workshop.
• CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 2019 National Food Safety Education Conference.
• First International Conference on Precision Nutrition and Metabolism in Public Health and Medicine.
• A Director of Outreach, Alumni Engagement, and Events Position (PAE3PR) Within the Dean’s Office, SPH-B, is Open.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.