David S. Ludwig

TL;DR: Investigation of overweight treatment-seeking youth suggested increased negative affect, teasing experience, and thin-ideal internalization, and decreased perfectionism were associated with increased eating disorder pathology, bolstering the need for mental health assessment of such individuals.

TL;DR: The 2015 DGAC report tacitly acknowledges the lack of convincing evidence to recommend low-fat–high-carbohydrate diets for the general public in the prevention or treatment of any major health outcome, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, or obesity.

TL;DR: Allospecific Tc cells can recognize HLA-derived peptides in the context of the MHC and can inhibit lysis by binding to the T cell or sensitize to lysisBy binding an Hla-A2-related class-I molecule (HLA-Aw69) on the target cell.

TL;DR: In this paper, the association between maternal weight gain and birthweight was examined using state-based birth registry data that allowed them to compare several pregnancies in the same mother and examined how differences in weight gain that occurred during two or more pregnancies for each woman predicted the birthweight of her offspring, using a withinsubject design to reduce confounding to a minimum.

TL;DR: Replacing habitual consumption of SSBs with milk may have beneficial effects on lean body mass and growth in children, despite no changes in percentage body fat.