• Vivid food ads implant false memories of consuming the product Ads Implant False Memories | Wired Science | Wired.com

• The Harvard epidemiological study that was all over the news this week (potatoes) on some specific foods and lifestyles that associate with weight gain (big names in nutritional epidemiology): www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1014296

• Nice post by Caitlin Mason, the first author in the recent study on vitamin D and weight loss: Does weight loss influence vitamin D levels? | Obesity Panacea

• A great article on the surprisingly weak associations (limited research) between sugar and obesity ABC News Attacks Scientist Who Exposed Bias In Obesity Research – Trevor Butterworth – Medialand – Forbes

  David Allison, the scientist who was attacked by ABC, is well read in bias in research: www.drsharma.ca/truth-tops-bias-at-tos-meeting.html (thanks to Paul Boisvert for link)

• Olestra caused weight gain in rats: Fat substitutes linked to weight gain: Rats on high-fat diet gained more weight after eating low-calorie potato chips made with fat substitutes

  PDF of that paper here.

• Fascinating post by Yoni on a new paper challenging the statistical methods used by the obesity as contagion paper, and a good case of how difficult it can be to publish Weighty Matters: Obesity is contagious, or is it? A sober second look at obesity and social networks.

• Unfortunate: House Republicans vote to cut funds to implement food safety law – The Washington Post

• Goldacre and colleagues show that health reporting is terrible by analyzing a week’s worth of news articles: How far should we trust health reporting? | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian

• Nice PDF presentation: One way the liver changes itself – demethylation epigenetics

• Explains a lot! People Argue Just to Win, Scholars Assert -

• Dieters judge food products more based on name than other info like ingredients www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/660044

• Uncoupling the mechanisms of obesity and hypertension by targeting hypothalamic IKK-[beta] and NF-[kappa]B : Nature Medicine : Nature Publishing Group

• PLoS ONE: Impact of Cellular miRNAs on Circulating miRNA Biomarker Signatures

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.