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08/02/19

Featured

  • Studying a Possible Placebo Effect of an Imaginary Low-Calorie Diet.
  • RCT: Acute Effects of a Hallucinatory Meal on Subjective Appetite and Food Intake.
  • Overweight and Lonely? A Representative Study on Loneliness in People with Obesity and Its Determinants.
  • Repressive Gene Regulation Synchronizes Development with Cellular Metabolism.

Headline vs Study

  • Headline: Why Eating Too Much Chilli Could Lead to Memory Loss.
  • Study: Associations (not Necessarily Causation) Between Self-reported Chili Intake and Self-reported Poor Memory and Memory Decline.
  • Headline: Top Reasons Your Smartphone is Making You Gain Weight.
  • Meeting abstract: "Obesity associated with the hours of use of the smartphone in university students: The technological slavery of the future." (pdf)

Contrary or Null Findings

  • No Significant Effects of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation with Oral Capsules on BMI in Patients with Obesity.
  • RCT: Local Exercise Does Not Prevent the Aortic Stiffening Response to Acute Prolonged Sitting.
  • RCT: "on average, upper body compression garments have no effects on the performance and lactate concentration of highly trained elite canoeists."
  • RCT: No Effect of Fenugreek, Bergamot and Olive Leaf Extract on Glucose Homeostasis in Patients with Prediabetes.
  • "Surprisingly, oolong tea significantly influenced reduction in relative weight compared with control, black, and green tea; whereas black, green, and white teas had no effects on weight compared with control" [in rats].
  • "Contrary to our pre-registered predictions, the experimental manipulation of hypothesis awareness did not affect session 2 food intake."
  • "The results of pooling data from published prospective studies also showed no link between CHD and total mortality with egg consumption, whereas we observed a reverse association between egg intake and stroke mortality."

Basic

  • Antioxidants Protect Against Diabetes By Improving Glucose Homeostasis in Mouse Models of Inducible Insulin Resistance and Obesity.
  • Dietary Protein Restriction Increases Hepatic Leptin Receptor MRNA and Plasma Soluble Leptin Receptor in Male Rodents.
  • Lowering Ceramides to Overcome Diabetes.
  • Targeting a Ceramide Double Bond Improves Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis.
  • Tissue Immune Cells Fuel Obesity-Associated Inflammation in Adipose Tissue and Beyond.
  • Illuminated Night Alters Behaviour and Negatively Affects Physiology and Metabolism in Diurnal Zebra Finches.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

  • “….a Coding Error Was Made Such that a Vegan Participant Was Mistakenly Coded as a Portion-controlled Participant for Certain Analyses. The Authors Thank John A. Dawson and David B. Allison for Alerting Them to This Error.”
  • On the Evidentiary Standards for Nutrition Advice.
  • Common Sense and Plausible Mechanistic Arguments Suggest that Carbohydrates Can Influence Mood. But do They? And By How Much?
  • Downsizing Obesity: On Ancel Keys, the Origins of BMI, and the Neglect of Excess Weight as a Health Hazard in the United States From the 1950s to 1970s.
  • Letter: Revisited: Assessing the in Vivo Data on Low/no-calorie Sweeteners and the Gut Microbiota.
  • Response to the Letter to the Editor By S. Schiffman and H. Nagle: Revisiting the Data and Information that Has Collectively Established the Safety of Low/no-calorie Sweeteners, Including Sucralose.

Clinical

  • RCT: Comparing Financial Incentive Structures for Promoting Physical Activity.
  • Interpretation of Vitamin B12 Status After a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
  • Adipose Group 1 Innate Lymphoid Cells Promote Adipose Tissue Fibrosis and Diabetes in Obesity.
  • Endogenous Hyperinsulinemia Contributes to Pancreatic Cancer Development.

Children and Adolescents

  • Unintentional Error in Formula Preparation and Its Simulated Impact on Infant Weight and Adiposity.
  • Effects of Birth Weight on Body Composition and Overweight/Obesity at Early School Age.

Surgery

  • Changes in Central 24-h Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Hemodynamics 12 Months After Bariatric Surgery.
  • Pilot Trial: Percutaneous CT‐Guided Cryovagotomy in Patients with Class I or Class II Obesity.

Drugs

  • Bupropion Increases Activation in Nucleus Accumbens During Anticipation of Monetary Reward.
  • RCT: Liraglutide in Combination with Metformin May Improve the Atherogenic Lipid Profile and Decrease C-reactive Protein Level in Statin Treated Obese Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.
  • Perioperative Diabetic Ketoacidosis Associated with Sodium-glucose Co-transporter-2 Inhibitors.
  • Lifetime Marijuana Use in Relation to Insulin Resistance in Lean, Overweight, and Obese US Adults.

Food & Diet

  • Effects of White Potatoes Consumed with Eggs on Satiety, Food Intake, and Glycemic Response in Children and Adolescents.
  • Early Time‐Restricted Feeding Reduces Appetite and Increases Fat Oxidation but Does Not Affect Energy Expenditure in Humans.
  • Markers of Adipose Tissue Inflammation are Transiently Elevated During Intermittent Fasting in Women Who are Overweight or Obese.

Exercise & Physical Activity

  • Systematic Review: Barriers and Facilitators of Physical Activity Among Adults and Older Adults From Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in the UK.
  • The Impact of Keto-adaptation on Exercise Performance and the Role of Metabolic-regulating Cytokines.
  • Trends in Adherence to the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans for Aerobic Activity and Time Spent on Sedentary Behavior Among US Adults.

Economics & Sociology

  • Socioeconomic Status and Diet Quality in College Students.
  • The Influence of Acculturation and Weight-related Behaviors on BMI Among Asian American Ethnic Subgroups.

Epidemiology

  • What’s New in Understanding the Risk Associated with Body Size and Shape? Pears, Apples, and Olives on Toothpicks.
  • Examining the Associations of Smoking Behavior and Obesity Among Older Adults in China: Should We Consider Food Consumption Behaviors?
  • Associations of Major Depressive Disorder with Chronic Physical Conditions, Obesity and Medication Use: Results From the PISMA-ep Study.
  • Psychological and Behavioral Effects of Obesity Prevention Campaigns.
  • Meta‐analysis: Effect of Chromium Supplementation on Anthropometric Indices of Subjects with Overweight or Obesity.
  • Utility of Waist Circumference‐to‐height Ratio as a Screening Tool for Generalized and Central Obesity Among Iranian Children and Adolescents: The CASPIAN‐V Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

  • Enhanced Attention for Visual Food Stimuli Seems to Play No Direct Causal Role in Eating Styles Associated with Overeating.
  • Overweight and Lonely? A Representative Study on Loneliness in Obese People and Its Determinants.
  • Reliance on Model-based and Model-free Control in Obesity (pdf).
  • Impact of Obesity on Central Processing Time Rather than Overall Reaction Time in Young Adult Men.
  • Overvaluation of Eating and Satiation Explains the Association of Food Insecurity and Food Intake with Obesity and Cardiometabolic Diseases.
  • RCT: Cognitive Effects of Adding Caloric Restriction to Aerobic Exercise Training in Older Adults with Obesity.

Ethics

  • Exploratory Analysis of BMI and Oncology Visit Characteristics and Length.
  • Sharing Responsibility: Responsibility for Health is Not a Zero-Sum Game.

Stigma

  • New: How Anti-obesity Bias Hinders Patients' Lifestyle Change Efforts.
  • Scoping Review: Weight Bias and Health Care Utilization.
  • Body Image in Relation to Nutritional Status in Adults From the Basque Country, Spain.
  • Weight-related Stigma Mediates the Relationship Between Weight Status and Bodily Pain: A Conceptual Model.
  • Overlooked and Understudied: Health Consequences of Weight Stigma in Men.

Policy Related

  • Washington State Supreme Court Rules that Obesity is a Disability.
  • The Productivity Gains Associated with a Junk Food Tax and Their Impact on Cost-effectiveness.
  • Saturated Fats and Health: Draft SACN Report.

Intergenerational Effects

  • Meta-analysis: Maternal Dietary Patterns and Birth Outcomes.
  • Inter-generational Link of Obesity in Term and Preterm Births: Role of Maternal Plasma Acylcarnitines.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

  • Development of Sexual Dimorphism in Two Sympatric Skinks with Different Growth Rates.
  • Human-Mediated Carrion: Effects on Ecological Processes.
  • The Heart Rate Method for Estimating Oxygen Uptake: Analyses of Reproducibility Using a Range of Heart Rates From Cycle Commuting.

Methods

  • Fat Mass Does Not Increase the Precision Error of Trabecular Bone Score Measurements.
  • Psychometric Properties of an Abbreviated Childhood Family Mealtime Questionnaire Among Overweight and Obese Hispanic Adolescents.

Mathematical and Quantitative

  • Modelling Approaches for Studying the Microbiome.
  • Role of Tri-ponderal Mass Index in Cardio-metabolic Risk Assessment in Children and Adolescents: Compared with BMI.
  • A Statistical Virtual Patient Population for the Glucoregulatory System in Type 1 Diabetes with Integrated Exercise Model.
  • Simulation Study: The Impact of Following Solid Food Feeding Guides on BMI Among Infants.
  • Anti‐incretin Effect: The Other Face of Janus in Human Glucose Homeostasis.

Commentary

  • Body Shape vs BMI as Risk Predictor in Women.
  • Calories Made Combustibly Simple.
  • Understanding the Obesity Epidemic.
  • Screen Time and Childhood Obesity: A Commentary on the Evidence Behind Current Guidelines. (pdf)
  • Healthy For Whom - Consumers or the Food and Beverage Industry?
  • Shape Matters: Apples, Olives with Normal BMI Fare Worse than Pears.
  • Immune Control of the Microbiota Prevents Obesity.
  • Why We Must Stop Fat Shaming, Weight Bias, and Discrimination Against People with Obesity.
  • Apples and Pears – Size, Shape, and Adiposity.

General

  • Evidence vs Consensus in Clinical Practice Guidelines.
  • Replicator Degrees of Freedom Allow Publication of Misleading 'Failures to Replicate'.
  • UnDisciplined: The Evolutionary Biologist and the Epidemiological Obstetrician.
  • Video: National Science Board’s Meeting, the NSF Presented a Summary of NAS Reproducibility and Replicability Report.
  • Zombie Ants are Controlled By a 'Master Puppeteer' Parasite, but We Still Don't Know How.
  • Experts Say ‘Emotion Recognition’ Lacks Scientific Foundation.
  • Should Psychology Journals Adopt Specialized Statistical Review?
  • Harms From Uninformative Clinical Trials.
  • Educational Disparities in Adult Health: U.S. States as Institutional Actors on the Association.
  • Fat Mass Compared to Four Body Condition Scoring Systems in the Asian Elephant (Elephas Maximus).

Announcements

  • IU Bloomington: Dr. Slates Named ASSP’s 2019 Outstanding Safety Educator.
  • Future of Food Summit - NYC - Sept 18.
  • Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
  • Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
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