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.