Featured

• Long-term Dietary Macronutrients and Hepatic Gene Expression in Aging Mice.
• Of Mice and Men: Environmental Temperature, Body Temperature, and Treatment of Obesity.
• Seeing More and Eating Less: Effects of Portion Size Granularity on the Perception and Regulation of Food Consumption.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Lack of Sleep Leads to Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• Study: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Association Between Sleep Duration and Obesity in Infants, Children, and Adolescents.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Whey protein supplementation during diet-induced weight loss does not have clinically important therapeutic effects on muscle mass or strength in middle-aged postmenopausal women with obesity."
• RCT: "A mobile health-supported behavioral intervention did not decrease the incidence of GDM."
• RCT: "replacing daily snacks for 12 weeks with oligofructose-supplemented granola bars does not differentially affect energy intake, body weight and body composition compared with a control bar."
• Hexamoll® DINCH: Lack of in Vivo Evidence for Obesogenic Properties.
• Assessing “chaotic Eating” Using Self-report and the UK Adult National Diet and Nutrition Survey: No Association Between BMI and Variability in Meal or Snack Timings.
• No Association Between Fat Tissue and Height in 5019 Children and Adolescents, Measured Between 1982 and in 2011 in Kolkata/India.
• "Contrary to the expectation that the cost of predator avoidance behaviours may be greater at warmer exposure temperatures because basal metabolic rates are higher, our results indicated that the energetic cost of foraging less was amplified at cool temperatures."
• "We believe that this survey was flawed in that the survey question that was found to be significant is confusing because it requires a ‘no’ response for an affirmative answer. Because of this, as well as there being no correlation in the other two questions, it is plausible that parental meal planning has no effect on children’s BMI."

Basic

• Hunger is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain.
• Effects of Detraining and Retraining on Muscle Energy-Sensing Network and Meteorin-Like Levels in Obese Mice.
• Prebiotic Mannan-Oligosaccharides Amplify the Hypoglycemic Effects of Metformin in Correlation with Modulating Gut Microbiota.
• Arginase Inhibition Prevents the Development of Hypertension and Improves Insulin Resistance in Obese Rats.
• Preemptive Activation of the Integrated Stress Response Protects Mice From Diet‐induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance Via Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Induction.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Bicycle Helmets and the Experimenter Effect.
• Dietary Disclosures: How Important are Non-financial Interests?

Clinical

• RCT: "Subcutaneous Infiltration of Carbon Dioxide (Carboxytherapy) for Abdominal Fat Reduction."
• RCT: Evaluation of a 12-week Lifestyle Education Intervention with or Without Partial Meal Replacement in Thai Adults with Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• Untangling Waist Circumference and Hip Circumference From BMI with a Body Shape Index, Hip Index, and Anthropometric Risk Indicator.
• Why do Practitioners Need to Read the Revised 2017 Scope/Standards Documents From the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics?
• Poor Sleep Quality is Associated with Insulin Resistance in Postmenopausal Women with and Without Metabolic Syndrome.
• Effects of Different Weight Loss Approaches on CVD Risk.
• Energy Deficit Required for Rapid Weight Loss in Elite Collegiate Wrestlers.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: No Effect of Social Network Intervention on Physical Activity Among Adolescents.
• The Association of Air Pollution with BMI: Evidence From Hong Kong’s “Children of 1997” Birth Cohort.
• Identifying Behavioral Phenotypes for Childhood Obesity.
• BMI Trajectories From Childhood: The Slippery Slope to Adult Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease. (pdf)
• Growth of Children in Greenland Exceeds the World Health Organization Growth Charts.

Surgery

• Revisional Bariatric Surgery for Weight Regain and Refractory Complications.
• Metabolic Surgery and Diabesity: A Systematic Review.
• Predictors of Preoperative Program Non-Completion in Adolescents Referred for Bariatric Surgery.
• Adolescents’ Experiences of Obesity Surgery: A Qualitative Study.

Drugs

• RCT: "Gabapentin before laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy reduces postoperative oxycodone consumption in obese patients."
• Vortioxetine Disposition in Obesity: Potential Implications for Patient Safety.
• Dietary Intake and Eating Behavior in Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Users: A Systematic Review.

Food & Diet

• Why do Mice Overeat High‐Fat Diets? How High‐Fat Diet Alters the Regulation of Daily Caloric Intake in Mice.
• Virta Health Changing Status Quo in Chronic Disease Care with Strong Cardiovascular Outcomes From Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Study.
• Fresh Food Program Makes a Difference in Type 2 Diabetes.
• A Systematic Review of Digital Interventions for Improving the Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors of Adolescents.

Caloric Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting: Is the Wait Worth the Weight?
• RCT: Effects of 2 Years of Caloric Restriction on Oxidative Status Assessed By Urinary F2‐isoprostanes.
• Limited Daily Feeding and Intermittent Feeding Have Different Effects on Regional Brain Energy Homeostasis During Aging.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Commitment Lotteries Promote Physical Activity Among Overweight Adults.
• Me Time, or We Time? Age Differences in Motivation for Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• Diet and Physical Activity as Possible Mediators of the Association Between Educational Attainment and BMI Gain Among Australian Adult.
• Early Childhood Obesity Risk Factors: Socioeconomic Adversity, Family Dysfunction, Offspring Distress, and Junk Food Self-Medication.
• AHA: Blood Test Could Offer Life-and-Death Clues for Black Diabetics.

Epidemiology

• The Use of Virtual Reality in Patients with Eating Disorders: Systematic Review.
• Identification of an Episignature of Human Colorectal Cancer Associated with Obesity By Genome-wide DNA Methylation Analysis.
• Ectopic Fat Obesity Presents the Greatest Risk for Incident Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-based Longitudinal Study.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity, Transition to Metabolic Syndrome, and Cardiovascular Risk.
• International Comparison of Abdominal Fat Distribution Among Four Populations: The ERA-JUMP Study.
• Lifestyle Index for Mortality Prediction Using Multiple Ageing Cohorts in the USA, UK and Europe.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Revisiting the Marshmallow Test.
• Mediators of Two Selective Prevention Interventions Targeting Both Obesity and Eating Disorders.
• Portion Size and Later Food Intake: Evidence on the “normalizing” Effect of Reducing Food Portion Sizes.
• RCT: Habit-based Interventions for Weight Loss Maintenance in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Individual and Shared Effects of Social Environment and Polygenic Risk Scores on Adolescent BMI.
• Brief Exposure to Obesogenic Diet Disrupts Brain Dopamine Networks.

Equity and Disparities

• Association of Food Security Status with Overweight and Dietary Intake: Exploration of White British and Pakistani-origin Families in the Born in Bradford Cohort.
• Migration Background and Childhood Overweight in the Hannover Region in 2010-2014: A Population-based Secondary Data Analysis of School Entry Examinations.
• Does Ethnic Identification Moderate The Impact Of Depression On Obesity In Young People? Results Of a Systematic Scoping Review. (pdf)
• Exploring the Mechanisms of the Racial Disparity in Drowsy Driving. (pdf)
• The Weight Wage Penalty: A Mechanism Approach to Discrimination.
• Variations in HbA1c Across Pediatric Populations Point to Disparities in Health Care Access.

Ethics

• Considering Weight Loss Programs and Public Health Partnerships in American Evangelical Protestant Churches.
• Problematising Justice Definitions in Public Food Security Debates: Towards Global and Participative Food Justices. (pdf)

Stigma

• The Weight Wage Penalty: A Mechanism Approach to Discrimination.
• Food Addiction and Its Potential Links with Weight Stigma.
• Clinical Practices to Mitigate Weight Bias.
• Weight Bias Education for Medical School Faculty: Workshop and Assessment.
• It’s Complicated: Embracing or Avoiding Failure in Obesity.

Policy Related

• The Short-Term Impacts of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Beverage Consumption.
• Single-Family Housing Value Resilience of Walkable Versus Unwalkable Neighborhoods During a Market Downturn: Causal Evidence and Policy Implications.
• Navigating Complex Systems for Policymaking Using Simple Software Tools.

Intergenerational Effects

• Does Multiple Paternity Explain Phenotypic Variation Among Offspring in Wild Boar?
• Maternal Caffeine Intake During Pregnancy and Childhood Growth and Overweight: Results From a Large Norwegian Prospective Observational Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Temperature-influenced Energetics Model for Migrating Waterfowl.
• Inspection Behaviour and Inter-individual Cooperation in Juvenile Qingbo: The Effects of Prior Predator Exposure and Food Deprivation.

Methods

• Designing Auditory Feedback From Wearable Weightlifting Devices.
• Development of a Survey to Assess Local Health Department Organizational Processes and Infrastructure for Supporting Obesity Prevention.
• Sleep and BMI: Do (Fitbit) Bands Aid?

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Association Study, Risk Assessment, and Prediction of Children’s Growth Trajectories Through Methylation Profiles Using Functional Mixed Models.
• Dynamic functional connectivity analysis reveals improved association between brain networks and eating behaviors compared to static analysis.

Commentary

• Why a Sweaty Workout Dampens Appetite.
• The Shame of Human Nature in Words and Images.
• Childbirth: Coincidence or Cause for Obesity?
• Should You Eat Pasta?
• Making WAVES Against a Tsunami of Childhood Obesity.
• Who Added All that Sugar to Maple Syrup?

General

• Tired Walking Among Older Persons.
• Decreases in Beetle Body Size Linked to Climate Change and Warming Temperatures.
• Functional MRI in the Nile Crocodile: A New Avenue for Evolutionary Neurobiology.
• Adding Sodium Information to Casual Dining Restaurant Menus: Beneficial or Detrimental for Consumers?
• Developmental Plasticity in Reptiles: Insights Into Thermal and Maternal Effects on Chameleon Phenotypes.

Announcements

• IU Online Ranked Among Nation’s Best.
• Panel Calls for Improvements in Research on Natural Experiments to Combat the Obesity Epidemic.
• 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.