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| The Obesity Society 2018 Council and Nominating Committee Elections
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More than 250 members of The Obesity Society (TOS) have voted so far in this year’s elections for the Council and Nominating Committee. More than 60 members have joined or renewed their membership with TOS as part of the voting process. Don’t miss your chance to vote! Voting is taking place now through Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, at 11:00pm (EST). Fellows and active members of TOS are eligible to vote in our new voting platform SimplyVoting. The platform is a web-based, voting system, that manages elections easily and securely. Members are required to know their MemberClicks member ID to vote. Please check your email for the unique password needed for the election process.
| Instructions for Accessing the Obesity Journal
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As part of The Obesity Society’s new and improved website, we have updated the member instructions for accessing your Obesity subscription.
At the top of the TOS homepage, you will now see a link that says “Access Obesity.”
After you click the link, you will be able to enter your TOS Username and Password. After you click “Log In,” the journal link at the top of the page will change to “Read Obesity.”
Click the link to go to our journal page on the Wiley website, where the full text of all articles plus the PDF versions will be freely available to you as a TOS member.
For any issues with journal access, please email Editorial Coordinator Deb Rice at drice@obesity.org.
Thanks for your support of Obesity, the official TOS journal!
| Advanced Registration Closing October 5, 2018
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Advance registration closes Oct. 5, 2018, for ObesityWeek. This annual meeting of TOS will be held Nov. 11-15 in Nashville, TN. Beat the crowds and register before ObesityWeek begins. Save $20. Use code TOSNEW. Register now!
Hotel rooms for ObesityWeek 2018, TOS’ annual scientific meeting set for Nov. 11-15 in Nashville, TN, are nearly sold out. Help out a colleague and save money by sharing a hotel room, so that you don’t miss this international obesity-centric event. You must register for the conference first BEFORE you make housing arrangements. To find a roommate, access the ObesityWeek Housing Share Board.
| ObesityWeek Hot Session Alert — Vanderbilt Mouse Phenotyping Center Presents Approaches to Studying Mouse Models of Obesity
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“Vanderbilt Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center Presents Approaches to Studying Mouse Models of Obesity” is a preconference event that includes informative sessions, a tour and lunch. This workshop will describe physiological, environmental, and state-of-the-art surgical tools to study mouse models of obesity. This preconference workshop requires separate registration and space is limited. This event will sell out quickly!
This preconference event will take place from 9:00am – 2:30pm on Monday, Nov. 12 at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine before the start of ObesityWeek.
Register for the preconference today.
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| ObesityWeek — TOS Academic Workshop: Bring Your CV/Biosketch for Review Nov. 12
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TOS
November 12
Join the Early Career Committee for its annual FREE preconference Academic Workshop.
This year, we are honored to have David Saslowsky, PhD from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) as our keynote speaker. Dr. Saslowsky is the Deputy Director of the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Program Director for the Career Development ("K") awards and Coordinator of the National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment program for NIDDK and DDN.
Following the keynote, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in roundtable discussions. Topics include:
- CV or Biosketch Review – Mary Evans, PhD and Youfa Wang, MD
- Navigating the Transition from Mentee to Independent Investigator –
Daniel Smith, Jr., PhD
- Developing Good Writing Habits and Getting Published –
Michelle Cardel, PhD, RD
- Interview Q&A – Angela Fitch, MD
- Time Management and Work Life Balance –
Diana Thomas, PhD
- Considerations Selecting the ‘Best Fit’ Position –
Katherine Bauer, PhD
- Negotiation and Start-up Packages – Ryan Marek, PhD
- Balancing Clinical Versus Academic Duties – Marc Andre Cornier, MD
- General Q&A – Early Career Committee Members
Finally, you can get a head start on networking at ObesityWeek with a meet-and-greet with table leaders, members of the Early Career Committee, and other attendees.
RSVP NOW
| Why Take the TOS Review Course at ObesityWeek?
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TOS President Caroline Apovian, MD, FACP, FTOS, DABOM
 “The TOS Review Course is one of the only review courses in the United States. It’s a good one! You can earn all 30 required Group One Credits by attending both the Review Course and ObesityWeek. OW attendees who want to sit for the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM) exam can have the best of both worlds at ObesityWeek 2018. They can attend the TOS Review Course to prepare for the exam and enjoy ObesityWeek 2018, since both events are in Nashville at the same time!”
| TOS Review Course for the ABOM Exam
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TOS
 A preconference event at ObesityWeek
Sunday, Nov. 11-Monday, Nov. 12, 2018
TOS Review Course follows the ABOM rubric, giving you the most concise and yet sufficiently detailed material to enhance your knowledge of exam questions. Learn from leading obesity educators and practice board-exam style questions with answers, and receive a workbook of slides to take home for future study. Earn all 30 required Group One Credits by attending both the Review Course and ObesityWeek.
View the Review Course
Stay for scientific sessions at ObesityWeek and continue your preparation by following the Obesity Medicine Exam Prep Track!
Save $20 on ObesityWeek Registration by using code TOSNEW.
Make the commitment now!
This is your LAST CHANCE to earn Group One Credits before the Feb. 25-28, 2019, ABOM exam.
Register Now!
Learn More About ABOM Certification
| Obesity Research Spotlight — Features and Trajectories of Eating Behavior in Weight–Loss Maintenance: Results from the German Weight Control Registry
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Jennifer Graves, MD
 In the September issue of Obesity, Maria Neumann and colleagues set out to correlate eating attitudes and behaviors of those who were successful at maintaining the lost weight versus those who were not in a German population. The study identified patients who were successful at losing weight and then maintaining that lost weight for a year prior to the start of the study. They followed the participants for 2 years, and, at the end of the study, went back and categorized the weight loss participants into 2 groups: those that were successful with maintaining their weight over the 2-year study and those who were not. They measured their eating behaviors and attitudes along 3 areas: restrained eating (deliberately eating less in order to not to become heavier), emotional eating (having the desire to eat when discouraged or sad), and external eating (likelihood of eating when exposed to tasty foods).
Early on in the study, both successful and unsuccessful weight maintainers had higher levels of eating restraint compared to a general population. However, the successful weight maintainers reported less restrained and external eating compared to those who were unsuccessful weight maintainers at the beginning. By the end of the study, unsuccessful weight maintainers had a large drop in restrained eating and much higher levels of external eating compared to those who were successful. There was no significant change in emotional and external eating in successful weight maintainers. Eating restraint also decreased to some extent in the successful weight maintenance group but not to the level of those who were unsuccessful in maintaining weight.
This study highlights the complex relationship between restrained eating, emotional eating, and food cues, and demonstrates the fine balance between restraint and overeating. The primary limitation to this study is that it only demonstrates a relationship between attitudes and weight maintenance/regain. The study by Neumann and colleagues is one piece of the puzzle helping us learn more about this complex topic, but we still have much to learn about how to keep lost weight off.
| Obesity Research Spotlight — Effects of Chronic NAD Supplementation on Energy Metabolism and Diurnal Rhythm in Obese Mice
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Jennifer M. Poti, PhD
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is an essential cosubstrate in many biochemical reactions that may play an important role in regulating energy balance and circadian behaviors. Unfortunately given the typical dietary habits of Americans, levels of NAD in metabolic organs and in hypothalamic neurons are decreased by chronic consumption of a high-fat diet. Furthermore, high-fat diets have been shown to alter circadian rhythms; in mice, high-fat diets disrupt diurnal rhythms of feeding behavior and locomotor activity, shifting patterns of feeding and activity of these nocturnal creatures from nighttime to eating throughout the entire day and dampened levels of physical activity.
To gain more insight into this topic, a study published in the September issue of Obesity investigated the effects of NAD supplementation on diet-induced obesity and disruption of diurnal rhythms in a high-fat diet fed to obese mice. Mice were fed a high-fat diet for 12 weeks and received either NAD supplementation or no supplementation (saline as a control) for the last 4 weeks of the experiment. In these obese mice fed a high-fat diet, NAD supplementation lessened weight gain, recovered diurnal rhythms in locomotor activity, and decreased daytime food intake and thereby partially recovered diurnal feeding patterns compared with mice not receiving NAD. As for possible mechanisms explaining NAD effects on the day-night rhythms of metabolic behaviors, researchers found that NAD supplementation rescued daily fluctuation in transcription of the circadian clock gene PER1 and the neuropeptide NPY in the brain (hypothalamic arcuate nucleus) compared with the diet-induced obese mice not receiving NAD treatment.
Authors conclude that NAD supplementation attenuated weight gain in high-fat, diet-induced, obese mice and ameliorated obesity-related changes in day-night patterns in feeding and locomotor activity, suggesting that future research should explore the therapeutic potential of NAD supplementation in patients with obesity and altered circadian behaviors.
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| Call for Nominations — 2019 ODP Early-Stage Investigator Lecture
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National Institutes of Health
Nominations Due: Nov. 2, 2018, at 11:59pm
Winner Notified: Jan. 15, 2019
Lecture Presentation at the NIH: March 27, 2019
We are pleased to announce the 2019 Call for Nominations for the ODP Early-Stage Investigator Lecture. The award is made annually to an early career scientist who has made significant research contributions in disease prevention but who has not yet successfully competed for an R01 or R01-equivalent National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant.
The award winner will be invited, with all travel expenses covered, to give a lecture at the NIH on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. The awardee will also have the opportunity for professional networking with NIH program directors and scientists. Learn more about the eligibility criteria and how to submit a nomination.
Please email prevention@mail.nih.gov with any questions.
| Obesity Action Coalition's New Initiative — Weight of the World — Connects Individuals with Obesity through Storytelling
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OAC
 Every person living with obesity has a story, and each one is important. Sharing the story of your weight and health journey can help others, just as theirs can help you.
Obesity affects millions of people around the world, but too often it is misunderstood, misjudged and stigmatized. The Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) created WeightOfTheWorld.com to bring about change powered by the ones who live with the challenges of obesity every day. Your stories give a face, a voice, and a name to a disease that is often expressed in statistics and surrounded by stigma. You should never be alone on your journey with weight. Now, with Weight of the World, you do not have to be.
Weight of the World offers individuals a valuable opportunity to share their stories with others in a real and honest environment where individuals can feel safe, accepted and supported.
OAC’s Weight of the World library is designed for OAC Community members. Membership is not needed to share your story, but is required for viewing the stories others have shared. To join the OAC Community at no cost and have full access to Weight of the World, please visit ObesityAction.org/Join.
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