Featured

• Who are We Testing? Self-selection Bias in Laboratory-based Eating Behaviour Studies.
• RCT: Contrasting the Effects of 4 Low-calorie Sweeteners and Sucrose on Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Comparative Analyses of Chromatin Landscape in White Adipose Tissue Suggest Humans May Have Less Beigeing Potential than Other Primates.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Spinach Has Doping Effect, New Research Says.
• Press release: Spinach Extract Improves Athletic Performance, Study Shows.
• Study: Extracts Containing Ecdysterone, a Compound Found in Spinach, Resulted in Increases in Muscle Mass and Performance. No Spinach Consumed. [Insert Popeye Joke Here].

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effect of Engaging Children to Support Parental Weight Loss.
• RCT: "In a routine prenatal care setting in Germany, lifestyle advice modified single aspects of dietary behavior, but not energy intake or overall dietary quality."
• RCT: Breakfast is Brain Food? No Significant Effect on Grade Point Average of a Rural Group Randomized Program to Promote School Breakfast in Total Sample.
• RCT: No Effect of Mindfulness-based Group Intervention on BMI or Adiposity in Adolescents At-risk for Excess Weight Gain.
• RCT: Null Effect of Serial Anthropometric Measurements and Motivational Text Messages on Weight Reduction Among Workers.
• "...we find no credible evidence that an individual's BMI is affected by the polygenic risk score for BMI of their full sibling when controlling for the individual's own polygenic risk score for BMI."
• "Our findings suggest greater vulnerability to impairments in executive functions among Hispanics with hypertension and obesity, contrary to the notion of a Hispanic health paradox for cognitive aging."
• "Our analyses do not support the healthy obese concept, with no evidence that the adverse effect of obesity on outcomes was reduced by improved muscle quality."

Basic

• Ghrelin Receptor in AgRP Neurons Regulates Metabolic Adaptation to Calorie Restriction.
• Effects of High‐Fat Diet and Body Mass on Bone Morphology and Mechanical Properties in 1100 Advanced Intercross Mice.
• EPA and DHA Elicit Distinct Transcriptional Responses to High-Fat Feeding in Skeletal Muscle and Liver.
• Deletion of the Enzyme Dihydroceramide Desaturase-1 (DES1) Improves Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis in Mice.
• Chronic Light Cycle-Disruption Alters Central Insulin and Leptin Signalling as Well as Metabolic Markers in Male Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Meta-analysis Should Be Carried Out Objectively and Rigorously.
• Expression of Concern: Is Interval Training the Magic Bullet for Fat Loss? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Comparing Moderate-intensity Continuous Training with High-intensity Training (HIIT).

Clinical

• Mechanisms of Association of Sleep and Metabolic Syndrome. (pdf)
• RCT: Health Coaching to Encourage Obese Adults to Enroll in Commercially-available Weight Management Programs.
• Meta-analysis: Association of Weight Loss Interventions with Changes in Biomarkers of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Effects of the Girls on the Move Program on Adiposity and Aerobic Performance (secondary Outcomes) in Low-income Adolescent Girls.
• Is Sport Enough? Contribution of Sport to Overall Moderate- to Vigorous-intensity Physical Activity Among Adolescents.
• Childhood and Adolescent Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Is It Different From Adults?
• Systematic Review: Barriers and Enablers that Influence Overweight/Obesity/Obesogenic Behavior in Adolescents From Lower-Middle Income Countries.

Surgery

• Meal Patterns After Bariatric Surgery in Mice and Rats.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Bariatric Surgery.
• Bariatric Surgery, Clinical Outcomes, and Healthcare Burden in Hispanics in the USA.

Drugs

• BaroNova’s TransPyloric Shuttle Earns FDA-Approval to Treat Obesity.
• Body Weight Management and Safety with Efpeglenatide in Adults Without Diabetes.
• Efficacy and Safety of Liraglutide in Indian Adolescents with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Environmental Interventions to Reduce the Consumption of Sugar-sweetened Beverages and Their Effects on Health.
• Meta-analysis: Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Overweight or Obese Individuals.
• Meta-analysis: Relation of Vegetarian Dietary Patterns with Major Cardiovascular Outcomes in Prospective Cohort Studies.
• Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves 24-Hour Glucose Levels and Affects Markers of the Circadian Clock, Aging, and Autophagy in Humans.
• Restricting Carbohydrates at Breakfast is Sufficient to Reduce 24-hour Exposure to Postprandial Hyperglycemia and Improve Glycemic Variability.

Caloric Restriction

• Short-term Calorie Restriction and 17α-estradiol Administration Elicit Divergent Effects on Proteostatic Processes and Protein Content in Metabolically Active Tissues.
• Caloric Restriction Alters Postprandial Responses of Essential Brain Metabolites in Young Adult Mice.
• Contribution of Changes in Body Composition and Adaptive Thermogenesis to the Decline in Resting Metabolic Rate During Prolonged Calorie-Restricted Weight Loss.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Neighborhood Walkability and Aerobic Physical Activity Among Latinos.
• Coaching the Coach: Evaluation of a Supplemental Facilitator Training to Complement the Bingocize® Health Promotion Program.
• Physical Training, Ucp1 Expression, Mitochondrial Density and Coupling in Adipose Tissue From Women with Obesity.
• RCT: Time-restricted Feeding Plus Resistance Training in Active Females.
• Relationship of Consistency in Timing of Exercise Performance and Exercise Levels Among Successful Weight Loss Maintainers.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Correlates of Overweight and Obesity Among Ever-married Urban Women in Bangladesh.
• Associations of Multidimensional Socioeconomic and Built Environment Factors with BMI Trajectories Among Youth in Geographically Heterogeneous Communities.
• Association of Weight Change Patterns in Late Adolescence with Young Adult Wage Differentials.

Epidemiology

• First-year University is Associated with Greater Body Weight, Body Composition and Adverse Dietary Changes in Males than Females.
• Quantifying the Impact of Genes on BMI During the Obesity Epidemic.
• A Structural Equation Modeling Approach for the Association of a Healthy Eating Index with Metabolic Syndrome and Cardio-metabolic Risk Factors Among Obese Individuals.
• Systematic Review: Impact of Parental Incarceration on Body Weight Status of Children and Young Adults.
• The Effect of Reverse Causality and Selective Attrition on the Relationship Between BMI and Mortality in Postmenopausal Women.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Food Selection of Cafeteria Diet Affects Memory Dysfunction Related to Obesity.
• Can Changing the Position of Online Menu Items Increase Selection of Fruit and Vegetable Snacks?
• The Prefrontal Cortex and Obesity: A Health Neuroscience Perspective.

Equity and Disparities

• Multilevel Analysis of Socio-Demographic Disparities in Adulthood Obesity Across the United States Geographic Regions.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Retail Food Environment Around Schools in a Southern European Context.
• Dietary Beliefs and Management of Older American Indians with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Inflammation and Stress Biomarkers Mediate the Association Between Household Food Insecurity and Insulin Resistance Among Latinos with Type 2 Diabetes.

Stigma

• Three Steps to Challenge Internalized Weight Stigma.
• Weight Bias and Stigmatisation: What is It and What Can We do About It?
• Masculinity and Body Image as Negotiated Through Fat Talk.
• Regarding Obesity as a Disease is Associated with Lower Weight Bias Among Physicians: A Cross-sectional Survey Study.

Policy Related

• WHO Draft Guidelines on Dietary Saturated and Trans Fatty Acids: Time for a New Approach?
• Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy and Practice Comment on CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on ‘Driving Change’ Within the Health System. (pdf)
• Impact of State Laws Governing Physical Education on Attendance Among US High School Students, 2003 to 2017.
• Are Australians Ready for Warning Labels, Marketing Bans and Sugary Drink Taxes? Two Cross-sectional Surveys Measuring Support for Policy Responses to Sugar-sweetened Beverages.

Intergenerational Effects

• Oxidative Stress-induced Epigenetic Transcriptional Memory as a Mechanism of Programmed Endothelial Dysfunction in Large for Gestational Age Newborn of Women with Obesity.
• Shaping the Future Heart: Transgenerational Outcomes of Maternal Metabolic Syndrome.
• Association Between Self-reported Prenatal Cannabis Use and Maternal, Perinatal, and Neonatal Outcomes.
• Gestational Diabetes Exposure and Adiposity Outcomes in Childhood and Adolescence: An Analysis of Effect Modification by Breastfeeding, Diet Quality, and Physical Activity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Fishing Out a Feeding Paradox.
• Artificial Selection on Walking Distance Suggests a Mobility-sperm Competitiveness Trade-off.
• Linking Chemical Exposure to Lipid Homeostasis: A Municipal Waste Water Treatment Plant Influent is Obesogenic for Zebrafish Larvae.
• Nutritional Condition and Physiological Stress Levels of Elk in the Black Hills, South Dakota.

Methods

• Accuracy of Parent-Measured and Parent-Estimated Heights and Weights in Determining Child Weight Status.
• New Charts for the Assessment of Body Composition, According to Air-displacement Plethysmography, at Birth and Across the First 6 Mo of Life.

Commentary

• Solving the Obesity Paradox in Oncology.
• Pasteurized Bacteria for Metabolic Syndrome?
• Can’t Reverse Obesity Trends Without My Pet Project.
• Low-calorie Sweeteners: More Complicated than Sweetness Without Calories.
• Running with Headphones: Is It More Dangerous than You Think?

General

• Cumulative Meta‐Analysis of the Soy Effect Over Time.
• Socioeconomic Status Moderates the Effects of Health Cognitions on Health Behaviors Within Participants.
• Revisiting the Possibility of Reciprocal Help in Non-human Primates.
• State Statutes and Regulations Related to Human Papillomavirus Vaccination.
• Exposure: S. Aureus Skin Colonization Predisposes to Food Allergy in the LEAP and LEAP-On Studies. (pdf)
• The Insulin-like Growth Factor 2 Gene in Mammals: Organizational Complexity Within a Conserved Locus.
• RCT: Effect of an Intervention to Improve Compliance with the ARRIVE Guidelines (IICARus).
• They Turn to Facebook and YouTube to Find a Cure for Cancer — and Get Sucked Into a World of Bogus Medicine.
• A Skull Bone Discovered in Greece May Alter the Story of Human Prehistory.

Announcements

• FDA Unveils List of Suspected Unlawful Ingredients in Dietary Supplements.
• Three Steps to Challenge Internalized Weight Stigma.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).