Featured

• The Impact of Early-life Sub-therapeutic Antibiotic Treatment (STAT) on Excessive Weight is Robust Despite Transfer of Intestinal Microbes.
• Human Semaphorin 3 Variants Link Melanocortin Circuit Development and Energy Balance.
• Processed Foods and Food Reward.
• A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis of the Effectiveness of Meal Replacements for Weight Loss.
• Flexibility, Variability and Constraint in Energy Management Patterns Across Vertebrate Taxa Revealed By Long‐term Heart Rate Measurements.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: TV Cereal Ads Increase Young Kids' Risk of Obesity, Cancer: Study.
• Study: Associations Between Exposure to Child-Directed TV Advertising and Preschoolers’ Intake of Advertised Cereals. No Obesity or Cancer Measured.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "We found no evidence for effectiveness of a 6‐months preschool‐based exercise program on hemodynamics, anthropometrics, activity or motor skills, but lack of process evaluations and poor fidelity preclude interpretation of the causal relation."
• RCT: "After three months of intervention, LFHC–AC, LFHC–C and LCHF diets, designed to be isocaloric, isoproteinic and normo–caloric, resulted in overall similar changes in markers of atherogenic dyslipidaemia and other lipid–related cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk markers, and similar reductions in body weight, BMI, WC and WHtR..."
• RCT: The Probiotics Used in This Study Did Not Prevent GDM in Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women.
• RCT: "Moderate to vigorous physical activity improved in intervention participants relative to usual care, but the difference was not statistically significant."
• "contrary to expectations, the three [REDDIT] communities present the same behavior pattern in a general point of view, which facilitates the development of non-directed online weight loss intervention strategies."
• "Contrary to previous work, we found no significant effect of resource availability, diet, flight type, migratory status or body mass on the non‐migratory movements of birds."
• "Beginning with 762 girls at age 11, the MEBS’ Body Dissatisfaction (BD) and Weight Preoccupation (WP) scales ...predicted significantly reduced growth in all MEBS scales and also predicted significantly reduced growth in BMI... [and] did not predict development of an ED."
• Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Influence Flight Muscle Oxidative Capacity, but Not Endurance Flight Performance in a Migratory Songbird.
• "This joint population PK analysis demonstrated reduced systemic COC [combined oral contraceptive] exposure in obese subjects (Cmax and AUCτ), but no difference in trough LNG [levonorgestrel] and EE [ethinyl estradiol] concentrations"

Basic

• Energy Oversupply to Tissues: A Single Mechanism Possibly Underlying Multiple Cancer Risk Factors.
• Zfp238 Regulates the Thermogenic Program in Cooperation with Foxo1.
• Gut Microbial Metabolites in Obesity, NAFLD and T2DM.
• SOCS3 in POMC Neurons Influences Metabolic and Cardiovascular Regulation in Mice.
• Elevated Leptin Disrupts Epithelial Polarity and Promotes Premalignant Alterations in the Mammary Gland.
• Cellular Repressor of E1A-Stimulated Genes 1 (CREG1) Promotes Uncoupling Protein 1 Expression and Brown Adipogenesis in Vitro.
• Effect of Adipocyte-Derived IGF-I on Adipose Tissue Mass and Glucose Metabolism in the Berlin Fat Mouse.
• Liver Derived FGF21 Maintains Core Body Temperature During Acute Cold Exposure.
• Deficiency of the Mitochondrial Glycerol 3‐Phosphate Dehydrogenase Contributes to Hepatic Steatosis.
• The Translational Regulator FMRP Controls Lipid and Glucose Metabolism in Mice and Humans.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• A Cluster Fuss in Obesity Studies.
• After University Goes Silent, Diabetes Journal Retracts Three Papers.
• Cutting Sugar Clears Up Liver Disease in Children?
• A Look at the EAT-Lancet Report: Can a Near-Vegan Diet Save the Planet and Feed the World?
• When an Impact Does Not Cause an Effect.
• Ensuring Trust in Nutrition Science: Request for Stakeholder Input.
• Best Practices in Nutrition Science to Earn and Keep the Public's Trust.
• Retraction: Food Security in Indigenous and Peasant Populations - a Systematic Review.

Clinical

• The Increasing Prevalence of Obesity in Residents of U.S. Nursing Homes: 2005–2015.
• How Should We Approach and Discuss Children’s Weight with Parents? A Qualitative Analysis of Recommendations From Parents of Preschool-Aged Children to Physicians.
• The ‘obesity Paradox’ in Action with Cancer Immunotherapy.

Children and Adolescents

• Long and Short of It: Early Response Predicts Longer‐Term Outcomes in Pediatric Weight Management.
• Home and Family Environment Related to Development of Obesity: A 21-Year Longitudinal Study.
• Diet Quality on Days Without Breakfast or Lunch – Identifying Targets to Improve Adolescents’ Diet.
• Are Children with Clinical Obesity at Increased Risk of Inpatient Hospital Admissions? An Analysis Using Linked Electronic Health Records in the UK Millennium Cohort Study.

Surgery

• Recent Trends in Intensive Treatments of Obesity: Is Academic Research Matching Public Interest?
• Virtual Reality Single-Port Sleeve Gastrectomy Training Decreases Physical and Mental Workload in Novice Surgeons.
• Ongoing Inconsistencies in Weight Loss Reporting Following Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review.

Drugs

• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Oral Basal Insulin Versus Subcutaneous Insulin Glargine in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Clinical Considerations Regarding the Use of Obesity Pharmacotherapy in Adolescents with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effect of a Low Free Sugar Diet vs Usual Diet on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescent Boys.
• "Nearly a quarter (23.4%) of working adults obtained foods at work during the week, and the foods they obtained averaged 1,292 kcal per person per week."
• Canada’s New Food Guide.
• Carbon Footprint of Self-selected US Diets: Nutritional, Demographic, and Behavioral Correlates.
• Food Portion Size Influences Accompanying Beverage Selection in Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• REVIEW: Dietary Restriction and Neuroinflammation: A Potential Mechanistic Link.
• Caloric Restriction Prevents the Development of Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Mice on a High Fat Diet.
• Dietary Restriction and Gonadal Signaling Differentially Regulate Post‐development Quality Control Functions in Caenorhabditis Elegans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Prevalence of Low Back Pain Among Adolescents in Relation to the Weight of School Bags.
• We found no evidence for effectiveness of a 6‐months preschool‐based exercise program on hemodynamics, anthropometrics, activity or motor skills."
• Correlates of Light Physical Activity Among Cancer Survivors.
• Measuring Change in Trials of Physical Activity Interventions: A Comparison of Self-report Questionnaire and Accelerometry Within the PACE-UP Trial.
• Effects of Exergaming on Motor Skill Competence, Perceived Competence, and Physical Activity in Preschool Children.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighborhood Racial/ethnic Segregation and BMI: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
• The Association Between Baseline Acculturation Level and 5-year Change in Adiposity Among Puerto Ricans Living on the Mainland United States.
• Overweight/obesity Among Social Network Members Has an Inverse Relationship with Baltimore Public Housing Residents' BMI.

Epidemiology

• Long-term Metabolic Effects of a High Birth Weight.
• Housing and Health: New Evidence Using Biomarker Data.
• "The frequency and prevalence of key cardiovascular risk factors, particularly diabetes and obesity, continue to increase in US adults..."
• Estimating Effect of Obesity on Stroke Using G-Estimation.
• Residential Relocation and Obesity After a Natural Disaster: A Natural Experiment From the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
• Progressive Increases in Fat Mass Occur in Adults Living with HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy, but Patterns Differ By Sex and Anatomic Depot.
• Genetic Architecture of Human Thinness Compared to Severe Obesity.
• Repurposing Large Health Insurance Claims Data to Estimate Genetic and Environmental Contributions in 560 Phenotypes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Metabolically Healthy Status and BMI in Relation to Depression: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies.
• Assessment of Bidirectional Relationships Between Physical Activity and Depression Among Adults - a 2-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Personality Traits and Diabetes Incidence Among Postmenopausal Women.
• Test-retest Reliability of Attention Bias for Food: Robust Eye-tracking and Reaction Time Indices.
• Alterations in BMI and Waist-to-hip Ratio in Never and Minimally Treated Patients with Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Insulin Action in the Brain Regulates Mitochondrial Stress Responses and Reduces Diet-induced Weight Gain.

Equity and Disparities

• Heterogeneity in Response to Treatment of Adolescents with Severe Obesity: The Need for Precision Obesity Medicine.
• Parental Perceptions of Child’s Medical Care and Neighborhood and Child’s Behavioral Risk Factors for Obesity in U.S. Children By BMI Classification.
• Is the Impact of Conventional Risk Factors the Same in Men and Women? Plea for a More Gender-specific Approach.

Ethics

• Viewpoint: Navigating the Ethical Boundaries of Grateful Patient Fundraising.
• Comment: Ethical Issues Involved in Grateful Patient Fundraising.
• Reply: Ethical Issues Involved in Grateful Patient Fundraising.

Policy Related

• Perceived Causes of Obesity, Emotions, and Attitudes About Discrimination Policy.
• Translating Research Findings Into Useful Policy for Noncommunicable Disease Control in the Caribbean.
• Effects of Health Star Labelling on the Healthiness of Adults' Fast Food Meal Selections: An Experimental Study.
• Interventional Effects of Weight-Loss Policy in a Healthy City Among Participants with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Cost-Effectiveness of a US National Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax with a Multistakeholder Approach: Who Pays and Who Benefits.

Intergenerational Effects

• Role of Gestational Weight Gain, Gestational Diabetes, Breastfeeding, and Hypertension in Mother-to-child Obesity Transmission.
• Dietary and Non-dietary Determinants of Linear Growth Status of Infants and Young Children in Ethiopia.
• Increased Maternal Pregnancy Complications in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Appear to Be Independent of Obesity.
• In Utero Dioxin Exposure and Cardiometabolic Risk in the Seveso Second Generation Study.
• The Impact of Maternal Obesity in Pregnancy on Placental Glucocorticoid and Macronutrient Transport and Metabolism.
• Maternal Antibiotic Use During Pregnancy and Childhood Obesity at Age 5 Years.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Drosophila Female Fertility and Juvenile Hormone Metabolism Depends on the Type of Wolbachia Infection.
• Effects of the Maternal and Current Social Environment on Female Body Mass and Reproductive Traits in Japanese Quail (Coturnix Japonica).

Methods

• Examining Validity of BMI Calculated Using Height and Weight Data From the US Driver License.
• Mediation Analysis.
• An Introduction to Economic Analysis of Food Security and Nutrition Interventions.
• Complexities in Conceptualizing and Measuring Food Literacy.
• Modeling Gene-environment Interactions in Longitudinal Family Studies: A Comparison of Methods and Their Application to the Association Between the IGF Pathway and Childhood Obesity.
• Recommendations for Methodology of Virtual Reality Clinical Trials in Health Care By an International Working Group: Iterative Study.
• Bioelectrical Impedance Vector Analysis in Obese and Overweight Children.

Commentary

• Dietary Harmony in Canada – Naturally.
• "However, most trials to date have been too small and many have used modest doses of vitamin D, yielding inconsistent results for fracture risk and no conclusive results as yet for other outcomes."
• #Diet: If We Can't Be Right, is There a Best Way to Be Wrong??
• Why Doing More Exercise Won’t Help You Burn More Calories.
• Thin Privilege From Skinny Genes.
• For Real Weight Control, Try Portion Control.

General

• The Obliterative, Dislocating Effects of Stress.
• Survey Experiments: Testing Causality in Diverse Samples.
• The Super-Donor Phenomenon in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation.
• High Self-efficacy Regarding Smoking Cessation May Weaken the Intention to Quit Smoking.
• Scientific Publishing: Progress and Promise.
• Please Stop Using This Graph to Argue Your Topic is Popular.
• On the Road to a Gene Drive in Mammals.
• Reframing Evidence-Based Policy to Align with the Evidence.
• Analysis to Improve the Strength of Beds Due to the Excess Weight of Users in Slovakia.
• When the Muses Strike: Creative Ideas of Physicists and Writers Routinely Occur During Mind Wandering.

Video & Audio

• Improving Our Nation’s Heart Health: A Conversation with NHLBI Director, Gary Gibbons.
• Shiriki Kumanyika on the Disparities in Our Food.
• Thomas Farley on the Real Returns of the Philadelphia Soda Tax.

Announcements

• Patrick Quinn Named APS Rising Star.
• NEW BOOK: Of Epidemic Proportions, Expanded Edition, 2019.
• Final Call for Abstracts: Nutrition 2019 Due February 15.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Research Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.