Obesity & Energetic Offerings, March 8, 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:

Findings Contrary to Hypotheses or Popular Beliefs

• Proximity to supermarkets associated with higher body mass index among overweight and obese preschool-age children. Click Here
• Obesity rates in us workers: comparatively low in food service workers. Click Here
• Editorial: The prevalence of obesity is comparatively low among foodservice employees. Click Here
• Systematic review concludes: Educational interventions are effective in treatment, but not prevention, of childhood obesity. Click Here
• Equivocal results for associations between body mass index and park proximity, size, cleanliness, and recreational facilities. Click Here
• Health Promoting Schools: interventions and strategies to increase physical activity: Little evidence for benefit on obesity. Click Here
• Morbidly obese appear to benefit more than do super obese from bariatric surgery and yet seem to be disadvantaged in the UK for access to surgery. Click Here
• RCT: Acute sodium ingestion has no effect on short-term food and water intakes, subjective appetite, thirst and glycemic response. Click Here
• RCT: An incentive-based outdoor physical activity program increases activity but has no effect on obesity. Click Here
• RCT: No effect of 6 weeks of interactive group classes followed by 6 months of culturally sensitive monthly lifestyle coaching on weight in Latino children. Click Here
• RCT: SSB and cookie reduction treatment did not produce weight loss. Click Here
• RCT: Treatment which reduces SSB consumption and alters other lifestyle factors in young children has no effect on BMI. Click Here

Correcting Misinformation

• Discovery Magazine Corrects ABC’s Sensationalist Errors on Physical Activity Study. Click Here
• Reality Check: There is No Such Thing as a Miracle Food. Click Here

Brown Fat

• Brown adipose tissue as a regulator of energy expenditure and body fat in humans. Click Here
• Numerical 3D modeling of heat transfer in human tissues for microwave radiometry monitoring of brown fat metabolism. Click Here

Commentary

• Audio: NPR – Your child’s fat, mine’s fine: Rose-colored glasses and the obesity epidemic. Click Here
• It is time to define metabolically obese but normal-weight individuals. Click Here
• Video: Gary Taubes offers his views on obesity. Click Here

Economics

• Economic globalization, inequality and body mass index: a cross-national analysis of 127 countries. Click Here
• NYT: How Economics Can Help You Lose Weight. Click Here

Physical Activity

• The association of variety on physical activity: A cross-sectional study. Click Here
• Why four workouts a week may be better than six. Click Here

Policy – Related

• Restricting marketing to children: Consensus on policy interventions to address obesity. Click Here
• The aftermath of the 2005 Institute of Medicine Report on food marketing and the diets of children and youth. Click Here
• IOM Report: Challenges and opportunities for change in food marketing to children and youth – workshop summary. Click Here
• Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges called for ban on advertising for foods high in saturated fats, sugar and salt before 9pm. Click Here

Translational – Drugs & Surgery

• RCT: Metabolic Effects of Bariatric Surgery in Patients With Moderate Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: surgery vs. intensive medical treatment. Click Here
• Exenatide as a novel weight loss modality in patients without diabetes. Click Here
• Science, clinical outcomes and the popularization of diabetes surgery. Click Here

Food & Nutrition

• Food as a hormone. Click Here
• Estimated portion sizes of snacks and beverages differ from reference amounts and are affected by appetite status in non-obese men. Click Here
• Impact of dairy products on biomarkers of inflammation: a systematic review of randomized controlled nutritional intervention studies in overweight and obese adults. Click Here
• Effects of a higher-protein breakfast on the appetitive, hormonal, and neural signals controlling energy intake regulation in overweight/obese, “breakfast-skipping,” late-adolescent girls. Click Here
• Normal protein intake is required for body weight loss and weight maintenance, and elevated protein intake for additional preservation of resting energy expenditure and fat free mass. Click Here
• Whey protein sweetened beverages reduce glycemic and appetite responses and food intake in young females. Click Here

Translational – Other

• How does time poverty affect behavior? A look at eating and physical activity. Click Here

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