Featured

• Childhood Obesity Intervention Studies: A Narrative Review and Guide for Investigators, Authors, Editors, Reviewers, Journalists, and Readers to Guard against Exaggerated Effectiveness Claims.
• Developmental Exposure to a Human Relevant Mixture of Endocrine Disruptors Alters Metabolism and Adipogenesis in Zebrafish (Danio Rerio).
• Fat Mass Compared to Four Body Condition Scoring Systems in the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) in Zoo Biology.
• Associations Between Parity, Breastfeeding, and Risk of Maternal Type 2 Diabetes Among Postmenopausal Women.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Discovery Explains How Fatty Food Disrupts Appetite Control, Causing Obesity.
• Study: Gut-derived GIP Activates Central Rap1 to Impair Neural Leptin Sensitivity... In Mice Fed a Lard-based High Fat Diet.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Against our hypothesis, BMI increased more in the intervention group than in the control group (Δ=0.3kg/m2; p=0.05) with a greater decrease in %body fat among boys (Δ=-0.6%; p=0.03) in the control group" in a school-home intervention for adolescent obesity prevention.
• RCT: "in obese adolescents, vitamin E supplementation of 400 IU/day for 2 months does not significantly affect lipid profiles and adiponectin levels." (pdf)
• RCT: "A simple, individualised, Mediterranean-style diet in pregnancy did not reduce the overall risk of adverse maternal and offspring complications but has the potential to ...."
• Temporal Discounting Does Not Influence BMI.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Home-Based Exercise and Weight Loss Programs on Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema Outcomes Among Overweight Breast Cancer Survivors.
• Meta-analysis: "Zinc supplementation did not significantly improve leptin concentrations."
• Meta-analysis: "No effects of testosterone were reported for body composition..." in women.
• "The present study does not provide evidence to support that dietary supplementation with the NAD+ precursor NR serves to impact glucose tolerance, β-cell secretory capacity, α-cell function, and incretin hormone secretion in obese, non-diabetic males."
• Dietary Macronutrients do Not Differentially Affect in Healthy Overweight and Slightly Obese Men Vascular Endothelial Function During the Postprandial Phase.
• RCT: Hedonic Properties and Palatability do Not Affect Gut Hormones, Mainly Ghrelin and GLP‐1.

Ergonomics

• Mimicking Obesity and Pregnancy By Adding Load Mass Elicits Minor Postural Oscillations Compared to Backpack Weight Carrying.
• Sedentariness, Productivity, Perception and Long Term Health Effects of Sit-stand Workstation at Work: A Literature Review.

Basic

• Mitochondrial DNA Alterations in Aged Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor-knockout Mice.
• Models Integrating Genetic and Lifestyle Interactions on Two Adiposity Phenotypes for Personalized Prescription of Energy-Restricted Diets with Different Macronutrient Distribution.
• Gut-associated IgA+ Immune Cells Regulate Obesity-related Insulin Resistance.
• Sex-Specific Differences in Fat Storage, Development of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Brain Structure in Juvenile HFD-Induced Obese Ldlr-/-.Leiden Mice.
• Fatty Acid and Lipopolysaccharide Effect on Beta Cells Proteostasis and Its Impact on Insulin Secretion.
• Obesity and Muscle‐macrophage Crosstalk in Humans and Mice: A Systematic Review.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Dietary Meat Categories and Descriptions in Chronic Disease Research are Substantively Different Within and Between Experimental and Observational Studies: A Systematic Review and Landscape Analysis.
• Article: Does Obesity Protect Against Death in Sepsis? A Retrospective Cohort Study of 55,038 Adult Patients*.
• Comment on: “Does Obesity Protect Against Death in Sepsis? A Retrospective Cohort Study of 55,038 Adult Patients”.
• Commentary: Rethinking Behavioral Approaches to Compliment Biological Advances to Understand the Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
• Commentary: Public Health Procedures, Alone, Will Not Prevent Child Obesity.
• Ten Tools for Exaggeration in Pediatric Obesity Studies.

Clinical

• This Analysis Suggests that Expanding Coverage of Anti-obesity Interventions to Eligible Individuals Could Generate $20 to $23 Billion Budgetary Savings to Medicare Over 10 Years.
• Adapting Family‐based Treatment for Paediatric Obesity.
• Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects From an Intensive Lifestyle Weight Loss Intervention on Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Data From the Look AHEAD Trial.
• Liraglutide Improves Insulin Sensitivity in High Fat Diet Induced Diabetic Mice Through Multiple Pathways.
• Case of Resected Multiple Hepatocellular Adenomas in a Young Man with Severe Obesity.
• Obesity and Pancreatic Cancer: An Update of Epidemiological Evidence and Molecular Mechanisms.
• Choosing an Adequate Test to Determine Fitness for Air Travel in Obese Individuals. (pdf)
• Meta-analysis: Acupuncture and Weight Loss in Asians.
• RCT: Intermittent Energy Restriction is Comparable to Continuous Energy Restriction for Cardiometabolic Health in Adults with Central Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• The Home and Child-care: Are Preschool-aged Children Getting Mixed Food-related Messages?
• Physical Activity Interventions Improve Quality of Life of Children with Obesity: Should We Expect Them to Also Decrease BMI?
• Understanding Rapid Infant Weight Gain Prevention.

Surgery

• Use of Phentermine-topiramate Extended Release in Combination with Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with BMI 50 Kg/m2 or More.
• Gut-Associated IgA+ Immune Cells Regulate Obesity-Related Insulin Resistance.

Drugs

• New Hormone Injection Aids Weight Loss in Obese Patients.
• Anti-Obesity Drugs Market Projected to Witness Vigorous Expansion By 2024.
• Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Insulin Tregopil in Relation to Premeal Dosing Time, Between Meal Interval, and Meal Composition in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Effects of Combined Glucocorticoid/mineralocorticoid Receptor Modulation (CORT118335) on Energy Balance, Adiposity, and Lipid Metabolism in Male Rats.

Food & Diet

• Changes in Plant-Based Diet Quality and Total and Cause-Specific Mortality.
• RCT: “consumption of approximately three servings of fat-free milk and 1200 mg of dietary Ca/d enhanced weight loss, improved body composition and promoted glycaemic control in subjects with type 2 diabetes and low habitual Ca consumption.”

Caloric Restriction

• Dietary Restriction During the Treatment of Cancer: Results of a Systematic Scoping Review.
• Early Time‐Restricted Feeding Reduces Appetite and Increases Fat Oxidation but Does Not Affect Energy Expenditure in Humans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Cardiopulmonary Profile of Individuals with Intellectual Disability.
• Comparison of Female Athlete Triad Coalition and RED-S Risk Assessment Tools.
• Thermal Behavior Alleviates Thermal Discomfort During Steady-state Exercise Without Affecting Whole-body Heat Loss.
• Meta-analysis: Behavior Change Techniques Associated with Changes in Postintervention and Maintained Changes in Self-Efficacy for Physical Activity.

Economics & Sociology

• Excess Costs and Economic Burden of Obesity-Related Cancers in the United States.
• The Association Between Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Different Strata of Socioeconomic Position: Evidence From Pooled Norwegian Health Surveys.

Epidemiology

• Intentional Weight Loss and Obesity-related Cancer Risk.
• Associations of Body Composition Trajectories with Bone Mineral Density, Muscle Function, Falls and Fractures in Older Men: The Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project.
• Meal‐Concurrent Media Use is Associated with Increased Dietary Intake with No Evidence of Next Meal Compensation in Free‐Living Adults.
• Nutritional Assessment of Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus.
• Obesity-induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance: A Mini-Review on T-cells.
• Changes in Age Distribution of Obesity-Associated Cancers.
• Impact of Obesity on Life Expectancy Among Different European Countries: Secondary Analysis of Population-level Data Over the 1975–2012 Period.
• Aluminium Levels in Hair and Urine are Associated with Overweight and Obesity in a Non-occupationally Exposed Population.
• Prevalence and Predictors of Weight Loss Maintenance: A Retrospective Population‐based Survey of European Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Epidemiology of Overweight and Obesity in Adults Living in Cameroon.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effects of Cognitive Strategies on Neural Food Cue Reactivity in Adults with Overweight/Obesity.
• A Gravitational Contribution to Perceived Body Weight.
• RCT: Evaluating a Novel Obesity Treatment Based on Internal and External Cues.
• Vacation Frequency is Associated with Metabolic Syndrome and Symptoms.
• RCT: Effects of Fruit and Vegetable Feeding Messages on Mothers and Fathers: Interactions Between Emotional State and Health Message Framing.

Equity and Disparities

• Disparity in Access to Bariatric Surgery Among African-American Men.
• Acceptability of a Text Message-based Intervention for Obesity Prevention in Infants From Hawai‘i and Puerto Rico WIC.
• Targeting Pregnancy-related Weight Gain to Reduce Disparities in Obesity: Baseline Results From the Healthy Babies Trial. (pdf)
• Wealth and Obesity Among U.S. Adults Entering Midlife.

Ethics

• The Moralization of Obesity.
• Parental Obligation and Medical Neglect in Childhood Obesity.
• A Framework for Increasing Equity Impact in Obesity Prevention.

Stigma

• Parental Perceptions of Obesity in School Children and Subsequent Action.
• Attitudes to and Experiences with Body Weight Control and Changes in Body Weight in Relation to All-cause Mortality in the General Population.

Policy Related

• RCT: Causal Language in Health Warning Labels and US Adults’ Perception.
• Fact Sheet: FDA's Implementation of Menu Labeling Moving Forward.
• Health Insurance for Diabetes Prevention Confers Health Benefits and Breaks Even on Cost Within 2 Years.
• Fiscal Policies for Diet and the Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases.

Intergenerational Effects

• Ancestral Paternal Obesity: Systemic Versus Local Effects on Offspring Mammary Tissue Development and Tumorigenesis.
• Transgenerational Effects of Maternal Obesity and Gestational Diabetes on Offspring Body Composition and Left Ventricle Mass: The Finnish Gestational Diabetes Prevention Study (RADIEL) 6‐year Follow‐up.
• Impact of Carers’ Smoking Status on Childhood Obesity in the Growing Up in Ireland Cohort Study.
• Maternal Overfeeding During Lactation, Rather than Overweight Per Se, Impairs the Metabolic Response to Fed/Fasting Changing Conditions in the Post‐Weaning Offspring.
• Systematic Review: Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative: Summary of the Evidence Base for Pregnancy‐related Interventions to Prevent Overweight and Obesity in Children.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Changing Nutrients, Changing Rivers.
• Breeding Latitude and Annual Cycle Timing in a Songbird.
• The Costs of Keeping Cool: Behavioural Trade-offs Between Foraging and Thermoregulation are Associated with Significant Mass Losses in an Arid-zone Bird.

Methods

• Obesity Perception Survey Among Youth in Turkey: Instrument Development and Test-retest Reliability. (pdf)
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Interventions Using Self-monitoring to Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Adults.
• Example of Triangulation: The Cancer Burden of Excessive Body Weight.

Commentary

• Adult Weight Gain Likely Explains Link Between Parity, T2DM Risk.
• Diet is a Noun.
• Comprehensive Approaches to Improving Nutrition: Future Prospects.
• What’s the Harm for Teens in Social Media?
• Employers Connecting the Dots to Obesity Care.
• Appetite for Improved Gut Health Leads to Innovation.
• Body Composition: Made to Measure.
• We Should Establish a National Institute of Nutrition.
• The Keto Diet is Popular, but is It Good for You?
• Money Talks and It Says Obesity Care Saves.
• New Research Shows There's One and Only Way to Combat Obesity. Or Maybe Not. We Probably Need More Research.

General

• Flavonoids and Cancer.
• A Comparative Study of Litter Size and Sex Composition in a Large Dataset of Callitrichine Monkeys.
• The Influence of Ecological and Life History Factors on Ectothermic Temperature–size Responses: Analysis of Three Lycaenidae Butterflies (Lepidoptera).
• Good for Self or Good for Others? The Well-being Benefits of Kindness in Two Cultures Depend on How the Kindness is Framed.
• A Bridge From Monty Hall to the Hot Hand: The Principle of Restricted Choice.
• Adjusting Trial Results for Biases in Meta‐analysis: Combining Data‐based Evidence on Bias with Detailed Trial Assessment.
• Life After Bootstrap: Residual Randomization Inference in Regression Models.
• Food Environment Research Among an Indigenous Community in Namibia – a New Approach to Explore Food Security of Rural People in Developing Countries.
• Preregistration is Hard, and Worthwhile.
• Does the Day of the Week Predict a Cesarean Section? A Statewide Analysis.

Announcements

• IU SPH Gun Violence Symposium Offers Public Health Approach to Growing Crisis.
• 12th Annual Course on Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis October 21 - 25, 2019.
• Workshop: Advancing Effective Obesity Communications - September 16, Attend in Person or Via Webcast.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.