Welcome to Obesity!
Formerly known as Obesity Research, Obesity is the official journal of The Obesity Society. Available in print and online, Obesity is dedicated to increasing knowledge, fostering research, and promoting better treatment for people with obesity and their loved ones. Obesity publishes important peer-reviewed research and cutting-edge reviews, commentaries, public health and medical developments.
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Volume 16, No 7
July 2008
ISSN: 1930-7381
EISSN: 1930-739X
Impact factor 3.491*
Rank: 30/93 endocrinology and metabolism
8/55 nutrition and dietetics
Editor-in-Chief:
Richard N. Bergman, PhD
* Journal Citation Reports, Thomson 2007
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In This Issue FREEEDITORIAL
Midterm Grades FREEBEHAVIOR AND PSYCHOLOGY
Bitter taste sensitivity is weight-related in children FREEINTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
GLP-1 metabolite has physiologic actions FREEGENETICS
Insulin resistance:
mitochondrial DNA
FREE News and Announcements
Fact or fiction? Do you know all the facts about obesity? Visit the FACT or FICTION page to test your knowledge and brush up on some important findings in the field.
Short sleep duration predicts an increased risk of being overweight / obese in adults. Chaput and colleagues suggest that there may be optimal sleeping hours at which body weight is regulated. They found that short sleep duration reduced the level of circulating leptin compared to that predicted by fat mass. Read the paper for free to find out more about these findings.
Highlights
Gender affects stress eating behavior in mice. Evaluating the impact of gender and stress on food-seeking behavior, Diana Pankevich and Tracy Bale found that under conditions of stress female mice more frequently sought out a preferred higher-calorie food than males. See the article for details.
Scholastic Achievement and Overweight. A study conducted by Shore et al. has observed an association between overweight and decreased scholastic achievement in middle school students. In addition to more absences and detentions, overweight students tended to have lower GPAs and reading scores than their nonoverweight peers. See the article for details.
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Research and Reviews
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