Obesity & Energetic Offerings, April 19, 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
David Allison, PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of Alabama
For several months now, my colleagues at the University of Alabama have been compiling a weekly list of selected obesity related articles in a list they call Obesity and Energetic Offerings.
The list is compiled by David B. Allison, Michelle Bohan-Brown, Emily Dhurandhar, Kathryn Kaiser, and Andrew Brown.
The following is a selection of articles from this week’s list that caught my attention:
Featured
Findings Contrary to Hypotheses and Popular Ideas
- No association of obesity with mortality among Hispanic persons.
- Attention to TV, but not TV watching time related to BMI in adolescents.
- Childhood Obesity in the Toddler Offspring Was Not Associated with Mothers’ Gestational Diabetes.
- No evidence for effects of negative emotions on eating behaviour in overweight children.
- No association between parent-perceived neighborhood safety and children’s BMI.
- Melanocortin-4 receptor mutations paradoxically reduce preference for palatable foods.
- Most studies find no association between snacking and weight or find that young people who consumed more snacks were less likely to be obese.
- Possible bias in link between obesity and PCOS
- Among older women, neighborhood walkability was not associated with BMI or risk of obesity.
- Although high dietary diversity is widely recommended, our data suggests that dietary diversity is associated with obesity.
- “Surprisingly, sweet drink consumption was associated with exercising. Watching TV was [not] associated with …salty snacks or sweet drinks.”
- RCT: No effect of vitamin D supplementation on body fat in obese adults with low vitamin D levels.
- RCT: In store promotion of fruit & vegetable promotion program led to lower self-efficacy for ability to increase F&V intake.
Surgery
- The Controversy Over Pediatric Bariatric Surgery.
- Weight Loss after Gastric Bypass Surgery in Human Obesity Remodels Promoter Methylation.
- Bariatric surgery for obese children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Lateral hypothalamic area deep brain stimulation for refractory obesity: a pilot study with preliminary data on safety, body weight, and energy metabolism.
- Groups lower threshold for bariatric surgery.
Stigma & Psychology
- The Stigmatizing Effect of Visual Media Portrayals of Obese Persons on Public Attitudes: Does Race or Gender Matter?
- Definition of obesity and charging airfare based on weight
- Is Obesity Contagious by Way of Body Image?
Policy-Related
- Unintended consequences of limiting sugary drink sizes
- Energy density and packaging format and portion size estimation.
- Evaluating equity critiques in food policy: the case of sugar-sweetened beverages.
- FDA Approves Expanded Pharmacy Distribution for Qsymia.
- London’s new health chief aims to reduce childhood obesity through policy changes
Correcting Misinformation
- Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Responds to Inaccurate and Irresponsible New York Times Article.
- The Alcohol Mixed with Energy Drink Debate: Masking the Facts!.
- Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience.
Genetics
- Obesity in labradors and golden retrievers.
- Coat colour in mouse populations selected for weight gain: Support for hitchhiking, not pleiotropy.
- New SNPs associated with severe early-onset obesity
- Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture
Food
- RCT: Prior supplementation with long chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids promotes weight loss in obese adults.
- Grizzly bears may have diet lessons that can be helpful for humans.
- CSPI Report on Children’s Meals in Restaurants.
- Balancing the benefits of calcium against the risks.
Epidemiology
- Child outdoor physical activity is reduced by prevalence of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus.
- Do Americans sacrifice exercise time for food-prep time?
- Maternal dietary glycaemic load during pregnancy and gestational weight gain, birth weight and postpartum weight retention: a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort.
Commentary
- Investing In Women In STEM: Because Girls Grow Up.
- Dietary Strategies to Increase Satiety.
- Little Fibs in Obesity Statistics Warp the True Picture.
- Who pays for science?
- Island Where Obesity May Not Be All It Seems.
Clinical
- RCT: Medifast 5 & 1 Plan for weight loss.
- Enhancing Medical Education to Address Obesity: “See One. Taste One. Cook One. Teach One.”
- Origins of Balance Disorders during a Daily Living Movement in Obese: Can Biomechanical Factors Explain Everything?
- Psychotherapy-Lite: Obesity and the Role of the Mental Health Practitioner.
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AMS
Edmonton, Alberta
