Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Implicit and Explicit Evaluations of a Mass Media Physical Activity Campaign: Does Everything Get Better?
• Bone Marrow Adipose Cells – Cellular Interactions and Changes with Obesity.
• Dietitians of Canada: Advice for the General Public About COVID-19.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Starting Early Is the Key to Easing the Trajectory of Childhood Obesity, New Study Finds.
• Study: Meta-analysis: "Parent‐focused intervention programmes that commence by early infancy ... produced a modest but statistically significant reduction in BMI z score" compared to no intervention by 18 to 24 months. No comparison of timing; no long-term trajectory.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Contrary to our expectations, intentional weight loss increased SUA [serum uric acid] in the short-term. These results question weight loss as a strategy for SUA reduction."
• RCT: No Significant Effect in Overall Sample with Interrupting Sitting Time on Affect and State Anxiety in Children of Healthy Weight and Overweight.
• RCT: A Breakfast in the Classroom "initiative led to improvements in the types of foods and drinks students consumed in the morning. However, the program did not reduce breakfast skipping and increased the number of locations where students ate."
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Vicarious Experience to Affect Physical Activity in Women.
• "Contrary to previous reports CRF [cardiorespiratory fitness] did not moderate PPG responses for either sedentary or exercise conditions in healthy men and women."
• RCT: No Evidence of Flavour-nutrient Learning in a Two-week 'home Exposure' Study in Humans.
• No Association between Binge Eating Disorder and Severity of Non‐alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Severely Obese Patients.
• Peroxiredoxin 2 Deficiency Does Not Affect Insulin Resistance and Oxidative Stress in High-fat Diet-fed Obese Mice.

Basic

• Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Peptide (PACAP) Ameliorates Fertility in Obese Male Mice Via PKA/CREB Pathway‐Dependent Sirt1 Activation and P53 Deacetylation.
• Anti-Adipogenic Signals at the Onset of Obesity-Related Inflammation in White Adipose Tissue of C57B16/J Male Mice.
• CREBH Improves Diet-Induced Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Metabolic Disturbances By FGF21-Dependent and FGF21-Independent Mechanisms.
• Leptin Mediates Postprandial Increases in Body Temperature Through Hypothalamus–Adrenal Medulla–Adipose Tissue Crosstalk.
• Glucagon Stimulates Gluconeogenesis By INSP3R1-Mediated Hepatic Lipolysis.
• The Parasitic Worm Product ES-62 Promotes Health- and Life-span in a High Calorie Diet-accelerated Mouse Model of Ageing.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Perspective: Challenges of Human Nutrition Research.
• Comment: Dissenting Opinions in Nutrition Research.
• Response: Dissenting Opinions in Nutrition Research—Reply.
• Article: Consumption of Alcoholic and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Is Associated with Increased Liver Fat Content in Middle-Aged Men and Women.
• Letter: Sugar-Sweetened Beverages are Not Associated with Increased Liver Fat Content in Middle-Aged Men and Women.
• Response: Reply to a Wittekind.

Clinical

• RCT: Effectiveness of Photobiomodulation Therapy and Non‐Contact Selective‐Field Radiofrequency on Abdominal Adiposity in Adolescents with Obesity.
• RCT: Hypocaloric vs Full-Energy Enteral Feeding During the First Week of Hospitalization in Neurosurgical Patients at the Intensive Care Unit.

Children and Adolescents

• Physical Activity and Adiposity in a Racially Diverse Cohort of US Infants.
• Children but Not Adolescents with Disabilities Had Significantly Lower Odds of Being Sufficiently Active Compared with Peers Without Disabilities.
• “Food” and “non-food” Self-regulation in Childhood: A Review and Reciprocal Analysis.
• Sex Differences in the Association between Household Chaos and BMI Z-Score in Low-Income Toddlers.
• A Multidisciplinary Intervention in Childhood Obesity Acutely Improves Insulin Resistance and Inflammatory Markers Independent From Body Composition.
• Evidence-Based Updates on the First Week of Exclusive Breastfeeding Among Infants ≥35 Weeks.
• Systematic review: Evidence for Enhancing Childhood Obesity Treatment From a Dual-Process Perspective.
• Adolescent Obesity and Dietary Decision Making-a Brain-Health Perspective.
• Childhood Obesity and the Associated Rise in Cardiometabolic Complications.

Surgery

• Shifts in the Intestinal Microbiota After Gastric Bypass.
• Post-Transplant Obesity Impacts Long-Term Survival After Liver Transplantation.
• SERPINE-1 Gene Methylation and Protein as Molecular Predictors of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Outcome.

Drugs

• Meta-analysis: Effects of Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors on Risk of Dyslipidemia Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Study of a Fixed-dose Combination of Phentermine/topiramate in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Detection and Quantification of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients as Adulterants in Garcinia Cambogia Slimming Preparations Using NIR Spectroscopy Combined with Chemometrics.
• Liraglutide for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes and Safety in Diabetic Kidney Disease: Liraglutide and Diabetic Kidney Disease.
• Opipramol Inhibits Lipolysis in Human Adipocytes Without Altering Glucose Uptake and Differently From Antipsychotic and Antidepressant Drugs with Adverse Effects on Body Weight Control.
• Treatment of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - Current Perspectives.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Stevia Beverage Consumption Prior to Lunch Reduces Appetite and Total Energy Intake Without Affecting Glycemia or Attentional Bias to Food Cues.
• RCT: A Food‐based, Low‐energy, Low‐carbohydrate Diet for People with Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care.
• What Makes a Beverage Healthy? A Qualitative Study of Young Adults’ Conceptualisation of Sugar-containing Beverage Healthfulness.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Costs of Exploratory Behavior: The Energy Trade-off Hypothesis and the Allocation Model Tested Under Caloric Restriction.
• Strain-specificity in the Hydrogen Sulphide Signalling Network Following Dietary Restriction in Recombinant Inbred Mice.
• Reduced Caloric Intake and Periodic Fasting Independently Contribute to Metabolic Effects of Caloric Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Physical Activity Intervention for Non-diabetic Patients with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Sedentary Behavior and Health Outcomes in Older Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Couple BMI Trajectory Patterns During Mid-later Years: Socioeconomic Stratification and Later-life Physical Health Outcomes.
• BMI Trajectories Among the Canadian Workforce and Their Association with Work Environment Trajectories over 17 Years.
• Obesity and Obesogenic Behaviors in Asian American Children with Immigrant and US-Born Mothers.
• Examining the Role of Weight Status and Individual Attributes on Adolescent Social Relations.
• Association of Exposure to Communities with High Obesity with Body Type Norms and Obesity Risk Among Teenagers.

Equity & Disparities

• The Impact of Educational Attainment on Black Women's Obesity Rate in the United States.
• Food environment near schools and body weight-A systematic review of associations by race/ethnicity, gender, grade, and socio-economic factors.

Epidemiology

• Shift Work: Weight Change and Lifestyle Factors.
• BMI and Weight Change are Associated with Adult Lung Function Trajectories: The Prospective ECRHS Study.
• Causal Relationships between NAFLD, T2D and Obesity Have Implications for Disease Subphenotyping.
• A Mathematical Model of Adiponectin Resistance.
• Obesity and Younger Versus Older Onset Colorectal Cancer in the United States, 1998–2017.
• Food Insecurity Was Associated with Lower Fruits and Vegetables Consumption but Not with Overweight and Obesity in Children From Mexican Fishing Communities.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• How Food Brings Us Together: The Ties between Attachment and Food Behaviors.
• Disentangling Ingestive Behavior-related Phenotypes in Prader-Willi Syndrome: Integrating Information From Nonclinical Studies and Clinical Trials to Better Understand the Pathophysiology of Hyperphagia and Obesity.
• Exploring the Influences on Men's Engagement with Weight Loss Services: A Qualitative Study.
• Obesity and the Brain: Another Brain-body Vs. Body-brain Conundrum.

Stigma

• Primary Care Patient and Practitioner Views of Weight and Weight-related Discussion: A Mixed-methods Study.
• Commentary: COVID-19, Stigma, Obesity, and Rationing Care.

Policy Related

• Fecal Microbiota for Transplantation: Safety Alert - Risk of Serious Adverse Events Likely Due to Transmission of Pathogenic Organisms.
• Projected Impact of the Portuguese Sugar-sweetened Beverage Tax on Obesity Incidence Across Different Age Groups: A Modelling Study.
• The Effect of California's Paid Family Leave Policy on Parent Health: A Quasi-experimental Study.
• A ‘Common Food Policy’ for Europe: How Governance Reforms Can Spark a Shift to Healthy Diets and Sustainable Food Systems.
• The Subsidiarity Principle in Innovation Policy for Societal Challenges.

Intergenerational Effects

• Glycaemic Status During Pregnancy and Longitudinal Measures of Fetal Growth in a Multi-racial US Population: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Self-reported Periconception Weight Loss Attempts Do Not Alter Infant Body Composition.
• Investigating the Momentary Association between Maternal Support and Children's Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Using Ecological Momentary Assessment.
• Non-responsive Feeding Practices Mediate the Relationship between Maternal and Child Obesogenic Eating Behaviours.
• Obesogenic Toxicants in Breast Milk of Lactating Women: Investigation of a Risk Factor for Childhood Obesity.
• Intrauterine Exposure to Perfluorinated Compounds and Overweight at Age 4.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Change in Diet Sent Snakes Looking for New Chemical Defense Against Predators.
• Contribution of Males to Brood Care Can Compensate for Their Food Consumption From a Shared Resource.

Methods

• Towards More Credible Shams for Physical Interventions: A Delphi Survey.
• Test-Retest Reliability of Vibration Perception Threshold Test in People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Commentary

• The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Dietary Interventions for Depression and Anxiety.
• Alternatives to Dealing with the Truth in Health.
• Telemedicine for Obesity: Get Used to It.
• Cardiac Metabolic Implications of Fat Depot Imaging.
• The Importance of Distinguishing Science From Ideology.
• Embracing Failure in Behavioral Obesity Care.
• Combining the Risks of Coronavirus with Obesity.
• Pseudoscience in the Midst of a Pandemic.

General

• The Sex with the Reduced Sex Chromosome Dies Earlier: A Comparison Across the Tree of Life.
• Multiple Problems with a Study Linking Proximity to Major Roads to Dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and MS.
• A 90 Day Oral Toxicity Study of Blueberry Polyphenols in Ovariectomized Sprague-Dawley Rats.
• "students in the traditional [statistics] classroom did better than students in the inverted classroom in projects average, overall classwork and midterm grade."
• Renowned AIDS Expert: Alabama Not Prepared for 'major Storm’ of COVID-19.
• Food Industry Donations to Academic Programs: A Cross-Sectional Examination of the Extent of Publicly Available Data.
• Estimating the Distribution of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects From Treatment Responses and From a Predictive Biomarker in a Parallel-group RCT: A Structural Model Approach.
• EPA Expands Controversial ‘Transparency’ Plan.

Announcements

• Webinar: WaSH (water) Inequalities Persist in Vulnerable Minority Groups in Wealthy Countries.
• UAB's NORC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.

Featured

• Depressive Symptoms, Perceived Stress, and Metabolic Health: The REGARDS Study.
• RCT: A Fatty Acid Mouth Rinse Decreases Self-Reported Hunger and Increases Self-Reported Fullness in Healthy Australian Adults.
• Whole Body Irradiation Induces Diabetes and Adipose Insulin Resistance in Nonhuman Primates.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Mixing Diet Soda and Fries Has a Dangerous Effect on the Brain - Study.
• Study: Study of sucralose, sucrose, or combined flavored water: "between groups for each basic taste did not show any difference surviving a cluster-wise familywise error" on brain responses. Also, no fries.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Web-based Intervention to Improve Dietary Guideline Implementation in Childcare Centers on BMI.
• RCT: Acute Whole Apple Consumption Did Not Influence Postprandial Lipaemia.
• RCT: Daily Intake of High-oleic Peanuts Within a Hypoenergetic Diet Did Not Modify the Inflammatory Markers and Oxidative Status in Overweight Men.
• RCT: The DALI Vitamin D RCT for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Prevention: No Major Benefit Shown Besides Vitamin D Sufficiency.
• "A policy of delivery at 39 weeks for class III obesity did not affect overall cesarean rate or rates of maternal or neonatal morbidity."
• Outdoor Time Is Not Associated with Metabolically Healthy Overweight and Obesity Phenotype in Canadian Children Aged 6-14 Years.
• "Results suggested that, one year after implementation, there was no major overall impact of the tax on general population-level consumption of sugar-sweetened or diet beverages, or bottled water."
• Inspiratory Conductance Does Not Vary with Height, Weight, BMI, Age, Sex or Spirometric Volumes in Healthy Adults.

Basic

• Glucose Availability Regulates Nicotinamide N-Methyltransferase Expression in Adipocytes.
• Allograft Inflammatory Factor-1-Like Is Not Essential for Age Dependent Weight Gain or HFD-Induced Obesity and Glucose Insensitivity.
• An Integrated Multi-Omics Analysis Defines Key Pathway Alterations in a Diet-Induced Obesity Mouse Model.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Audio: "White Hat Bias | Stats + Stories Episode 129."
• Why — Even After Reforms for an Episode Involving Bad Statistics — Is It So Difficult to Correct the Sports Medicine Literature? Part 1.
• ‘A Flawed Decision:’ What Happened When Sports Scientists Tried to Correct the Scientific Record, Part 2.
• ‘Harming‌ ‌the‌ ‌scientific‌ ‌process‌:’ an Attempt to Correct the Sports Science Literature, Part 3.
• Preprint: Systematic Review of the Use of “Magnitude-Based Inference” in Sports Science and Medicine.

Clinical

• Behavioral Economic Insights for Pediatric Obesity: Suggestions for Translating the Guidelines for Our Patients.
• Clinical Obesity Services in Public Hospitals in Australia: A Position Statement Based on Expert Consensus.
• Proposal for a Scientifically Correct and Medically Actionable Disease Classification System (ICD) for Obesity.
• Biobehavioural Approaches to Prevention and Treatment: A Call for Implementation Science in Obesity Research.

Children and Adolescents

• Externalizing Behaviors are Prospectively Related to Childhood Obesity.
• Preprint: Traffic Light Diets Have Limited Evidence for Effects on Childhood Obesity: Review and Future Recommendations.
• Social Determinants of Overweight and Obesity Among Children in the United States.
• The "Stages Towards Completion Model": What Helps and Hinders Children with Overweight or Obesity and Their Parents to be Guided Towards, Adhere to and Complete a Group Lifestyle Intervention.
• Childhood Obesity: Right Diagnosis and Treatment, a Current Challenge.
• Do Youth Consume More Calories Than They Expended in Youth Sports Leagues? An Observational Study of Physical Activity, Snacks, and Beverages.
• Adolescent Obesity and Dietary Decision Making—a Brain-health Perspective.

Surgery

• Risk of Delayed Discharge and Reoperation of Gastric Bypass Patients with Psychiatric Comorbidity.
• Weight Loss Trajectories After Bariatric Surgery for Obesity: Mathematical Model and Proof-of-Concept Study.
• Renal and Cardiovascular Outcomes After Weight Loss From Gastric Bypass Surgery in Type 2 Diabetes: Cardiorenal Risk Reductions Exceed Atherosclerotic Benefits.

Drugs

• RCT: Risk of Hypoglycaemia with Insulin Degludec Versus Insulin Glargine U300 in Insulin-treated Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Efficacy of the Treatment with Dapagliflozin and Metformin Compared to Metformin Monotherapy for Weight Loss in Patients with Class III Obesity.
• Metformin Reduces Aging-related Leaky Gut and Improves Cognitive Function By Beneficially Modulating Gut Microbiome/goblet Cell/mucin Axis.
• A Spectrum of Topics for 2019: Advances in Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress, Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular Disease, Autism, Exosomes, and Central Nervous System Diseases.
• Hypothalamic NAD+-Sirtuin Axis: Function and Regulation.

Food & Diet

• Systematic Review: The Effect of Chocolate-based Products on Some Appetite-related Hormones.
• Systematic Review: Whole-Fat or Reduced-Fat Dairy Product Intake, Adiposity, and Cardiometabolic Health in Children.
• RCT: Effects of a Carbohydrate-restricted Diet on Hepatic Lipid Content in Adolescents with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• RCT: Effect of Plain Versus Sugar‐Sweetened Breakfast on Energy Balance and Metabolic Health.
• Lay Article: To Eat, or Not to Eat Breakfast -- That Is the Question.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Methionine Abrogates the Renoprotective Effect of a Low-protein Diet Against Diabetic Kidney Disease in Obese Rats with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Genetic Influences of the Microbiota on Drosophila Melanogaster Lifespan.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Acute Cardiovascular Responses to Interval Exercise.
• The Effect of Web-Based Educational Intervention on Physical Activity-Related Energy Expenditure Among Middle-Aged Women with Overweight and Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic Review: What Words Should We Use to Talk About Weight? (pdf)
• Neighborhood Walkability and Overweight/Obese Weight Status Among Latino Adults.

Epidemiology

• Body Composition and Changes in Health-related Quality of Life in Older Age.
• Genome-wide Association Study of Breakfast Skipping Links Clock Regulation with Food Timing.
• The Association between Pre-conception Intuitive Eating and Gestational Weight Gain.
• β-amyloid Burden Predicts Prospective Decline in BMI in Clinically Normal Adults.
• Differential Effect of Polymorphisms on BMI Across the Life Course of Japanese: The Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Energy Restriction Enhances Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis-Associated Memory After Four Weeks in an Adult Human Population with Central Obesity. (pdf)
• Relationship between Trait Suggestibility and Eating-related Behaviors in Overweight and Obesity.
• Negative Affect and Loss of Control Eating Among Bariatric Surgery Patients: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Pilot Investigation.
• Recruitment and Reach in a Pragmatic Behavioral Weight Loss RCT: Implications for Real-world Primary Care Practice.
• Emotion-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Comorbid Obesity with Binge Eating Disorder.

Equity and Disparities

• Adolescent Physical Activity Disparities By Parent Nativity Status: The Role of Social Support, Family Structure, and Economic Hardship.
• The Association of Maternal Obesity and Race with Serum Adipokines in Pregnancy and Postpartum: Implications for Gestational Weight Gain and Infant Birth Weight.

Stigma

• Knowledge Gaps and Weight Stigma Shape Attitudes Toward Obesity.
• Concept of Overweight Bias Among Healthcare Professionals: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis.
• Relationships Among Weight Stigma, Eating Behaviors and Stress in Adolescents in Wuhan, China.
• Associations between Self-Perceived Actual and Ideal Body Sizes and Physical Activity Among Early Adolescents.
• Systematic Review: Anti-obesity Public Health Messages and Risk Factors for Disordered Eating.
• Commentary: Fixing a Doubly Toxic Environment for People with Obesity.

Policy Related

• Systematic Review: Anti-obesity Public Health Messages and Risk Factors for Disordered Eating.
• Improving the Food Environment in Kindergartens and Schools: An Overview of Policies and Policy Opportunities in Europe.
• RDI Public Health Policy Dialogue Series No.1: Control of Sugar Sweetened Beverage (SSB): Regulation or Taxation?
• Baseline Results From the Eat, Play, Live Trial: RCT Within a Natural Experiment Examining the Role of Nutrition Policy and Capacity Building in Improving Food Environments in Recreation and Sport Facilities.
• “On a Positive Path”: School Superintendents’ Perceptions of and Experiences with Local School Wellness Policy Implementation and Evaluation.
• How Can Policy Processes Remove Barriers to Sustainable Food Systems in Europe? Contributing to a Policy Framework for Agri-food Transitions.
• Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020. (pdf)

Intergenerational Effects

• Which Way Is Better to Deliver the Very Heavy Baby: Mode of Delivery, Maternal and Neonatal Outcome.
• The Role of Maternal Diet on Offspring Gut Microbiota Development: A Review.
• Maternal Anxiety and Diet Quality Among Mothers and Toddlers From Low-income Households.
• Temporal Relationships between Maternal Metabolic Parameters with Neonatal Adiposity in Women with Obesity Differ By Neonatal Sex.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Cat Food Mystery Foils Diet Study.
• Linking Energy Budget to Physiological Adaptation: How a Calcifying Gastropod Adjusts or Succumbs to Ocean Acidification and Warming.

Methods

• FatSegNet: A Fully Automated Deep Learning Pipeline for Adipose Tissue Segmentation on Abdominal Dixon MRI.
• Voxel-wise Study of Cohort Associations in Whole-Body MRI: Application in Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components.
• Accuracy of BMI and Waist Circumference Cut-off Points to Predict Obesity in Older Adults.
• Can Dietary Self-reports Usefully Complement Blood Concentrations for Estimation of Micronutrient Intake and Chronic Disease Associations?

Commentary

• Legacy of Nutritionist Ancel Keys.
• AHA News: How Millennials' Notions on Food are Changing the Entire System.
• Metabolism and Glucose Sensitivity Disrupted When Low-Cal Sweetener Consumed with Added Carbs.
• Are Your Food Choices Good or Evil?
• The Benefits of Exercise for Children’s Mental Health.
• Inclusion of Visceral Abdominal Fat Area Fails to Improve Diabetes Risk Assessment.
• Unscrambling the Egg Data: One a Day Looks OK.
• A Bright Red Line between Research and Proving a Point.
• Improving Prevention Strategies for Cardiometabolic Disease.

General

• Video: David Sinclair on Horvath Epigenetic Clock.
• Silver Uses a Surprising Trick to Stop the Spread of Bacteria.
• Activating Specific Serotonin Neurons Reduced Anxiety and Promoted Sleep in Mice.
• Validation and Utility Testing of Clinical Prediction Models - Time to Change the Approach.
• Quantification of Pain From Facial Expression Characteristics Assessed From Photos of Horses and Donkeys.
• New Application of Strontium Isotopes Reveals Evidence of Limited Migratory Behaviour in Late Cretaceous Hadrosaurs.
• “I’m Not an Expert, But…”: Perspectives on Aquatic Management for LGBTQ Participants.
• Research Trends and Recommendations for Physical Activity Interventions Among Children and Youth with Disabilities: A Review of Reviews.
• Calibrating the Scientific Ecosystem Through Meta-Research.
• Randomized Experiments in Education, with Implications for Multilevel Causal Inference.
• What You Don’t Know About Well Water Could Hurt You.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Diet Without Dogma.
• Sound Bites Podcast: Obesity Care & Body Positivity.

Announcements

• Bariatrics & Metabolic Surgery: Surgical Updates and Implications for Primary Care.
• April 6: Integrating Systems and Sectors Toward Obesity Solutions: A Workshop.
• Tallest Hoosier Helps Smallest Hoosiers as Elementary School Volunteer.
• Meeting 5 of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee.
• USDA to Provide Lunches to Children in States with School Closures Due to COVID-19.
• UAB's NORC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.

Featured

• The Drive to Eat in Homo sapiens: Energy Expenditure Drives Energy Intake.
• The Effects of Graded Levels of Calorie Restriction XV: Phase Space Attractors Reveal Distinct Behavioral Phenotypes.
• Caloric Restriction Reprograms the Single-Cell Transcriptional Landscape of Rattus Norvegicus Aging.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Popular Diets May Result in Lower Serum Testosterone Levels in Men.
• Study: Cross-sectional Association between Self-Reported Food Intake and Serum Testosterone Among Men in the United States.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Menthol Mouth Rinsing Does Not Improve Strength or Power Performance.
• RCT: "No evidence to support a positive Effect of Carbohydrate Mouth Rinsing on Multiple Choice Reaction Time During Amateur Boxing."
• "It seams [sic] that eight weeks of [combined] Tribulus terrestris Consumption and performing Resistance training ...causes more sexual and erectile dysfunction in obese men with type 2 diabetes"
• Systematic Review: A Career in Sport Does Not Eliminate Risk of Cardiovascular Disease of Field-based Athletes.
• RCT: Reducing Training Frequency From 3 or 4 Sessions/week to 2 Sessions/week Does Not Attenuate Improvements in Maximal Aerobic Capacity with Reduced-exertion High-intensity Interval Training.
• RCT: High Fat Relative to Low Fat Ground Beef Consumption Lowers Blood Pressure and Does Not Negatively Alter Arterial Stiffness.
• RCT: In study of advertising conditions in children, "Condition did not influence overall energy intake measured in grams (P=0.78) or kilocalories (P=0.46)."
• RCT: "Keys to Healthy Family Child Care Homes evaluated a FCCH-based intervention's impact on children's diet and physical activity..." and found no significant effect on physical activity.
• RCT: "A 5-wk dietary supplementation with leafy green vegetables or pills containing the same amount of inorganic nitrate does not decrease ambulatory [systolic blood pressure] in subjects with elevated BP."

Basic

• Hepatic DNAJB9 Drives Anabolic Biasing to Reduce Steatosis and Obesity.
• Sex-Specific Brain Erythropoietin Regulation of Mouse Metabolism and Hypothalamic Inflammation.
• Inducible Degrader of the LDL Receptor (IDOL) Regulates Systemic Energy Balance Through Control of Neuronal VLDLR Expression.
• Capsaicin Has an Anti-obesity Effect Through Alterations in Gut Microbiota Populations and Short-chain Fatty Acid Concentrations.
• A Metabolic Pathway for Activation of Dietary Glucosinolates By a Human Gut Symbiont.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Being Honest with Causal Language in Writing for Publication.
• Red Meat Wars: "If we want this to be more like science and less like religion, we cannot rely on observational epidemiology."
• Authors’ Response to Reply: Ketogenic Diet Activates Protective γδ T Cell Responses Against Influenza Virus Infection.
• Vitamin C for Cardiac Surgery Patients: Several Errors in a Published Meta-Analysis. Comment on “Effects of Vitamin C on Organ Function in Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients 2019, 11, 2103”.
• Metascience on Peer Review: Testing the Effects of a Study’s Originality and Statistical Significance in a Field Experiment.

Clinical

• Long-Term Evaluation of a UK Community Pharmacy-Based Weight Management Service.
• RCT: Game of Stones: Feasibility Trial of How to Engage Men with Obesity in Text Message and Incentive Interventions for Weight Loss.
• RCT: Effects of Intervention Characteristics on Willingness to Initiate a Weight Gain Prevention Program.
• National [Australian] Framework for Clinical Obesity Services. (pdf)
• A Predictive Model for Non-completion of an Intensive Specialist Obesity Service in a Public Hospital: A Case-control Study.
• Physical Capacity Outcomes in Patients with Severe Obesity After 12 Months of Physician‐led Multidisciplinary Team Care: A Case Series From a Public Hospital Clinical Obesity Service.
• [Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adolescents and Young Adults in Primary Care.].
• Standard Baseline Data Collections in Obesity Management Clinics: A Delphi Study with Recommendations From an Expert Panel.
• Systematic Review: Successful Weight Loss Maintenance.

Children and Adolescents

• Systematic Review: Sleep During Infancy and Associations with Childhood Body Composition.
• Systematic Review: Dietary Patterns and Childhood Obesity Risk.
• Early Child Care and Weight Status in a Cohort of Predominantly Black Infants in the Southeastern United States.
• Relative Accuracy of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis for Assessing Body Composition in Children with Severe Obesity.
• One Size Does Not Fit All: Sociodemographic Factors Affecting Weight Loss in Adolescents.
• Early Individual and Family Predictors of Weight Trajectories From Early Childhood to Adolescence.
• Association between Food Preferences, Eating Behaviors and Socio-Demographic Factors, Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents.
• Nutritional Quality of Fast Food Kids Meals and Their Contribution to the Diets of School-Aged Children.
• RCT: Effects of a Carbohydrate‐restricted Diet on Hepatic Lipid Content in Adolescents with Non‐alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Surgery

• Negative Affect and Loss of Control Eating Among Bariatric Surgery Patients: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Pilot Investigation.
• Feasibility of Postoperative Home Monitoring Using Video Consultation and Vital Sign Monitoring of Bariatric Patients.
• Weight Loss and Health Status 5 Years After Adjustable Gastric Banding in Adolescents.

Drugs

• Effects of GLP-1 and Its Analogs on Gastric Physiology in Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Metformin Therapy Reduces Obesity Indices in Children and Adolescents.
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Herbal Medicines for Weight Loss.

Food & Diet

• The Low-FODMAP Diet Helps IBS Symptoms, but Questions Remain.
• Intake of Watermelon or Its Byproducts Alters Glucose Metabolism, the Microbiome, and Hepatic Proinflammatory Metabolites in High-Fat-Fed Male C57BL/6 J Mice.
• Dietary Plant Flavonoids in Prevention of Obesity and Diabetes.
• Anti-Obesity Effects of Red Seaweed, Plocamium Telfairiae, in C57BL/6 Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Association of Dietary Patterns with Testicular Function in Young Danish Men.
• Systematic Review: Eating Versus Skipping Breakfast Has No Discernible Effect on Obesity-related Anthropometric Outcomes.
• Textural Effects on Perceived Satiation and Ad Libitum Intake of Potato Chips in Males and Females.
• RCT: Effects of Whole-grain Wheat, Rye, and Lignan Supplementation on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Men with Metabolic Syndrome.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction for Enhanced Longevity: The Role of Novel Dietary Strategies in the Present Obesogenic Environment.
• Oral Recombinant Methioninase Prevents Obesity in Mice on a High-fat Diet.
• The Effects of Graded Levels of Calorie Restriction XV: Phase Space Attractors Reveal Distinct Behavioral Phenotypes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Acute Kidney Injury Biomarker Responses to Short-Term Heat Acclimation.
• Physical Activity Rather Than Sedentary Behaviour Is Socially Determined in French Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• Bidirectional 10-year Associations of Accelerometer-measured Sedentary Behavior and Activity Categories with Weight Among Middle-aged Adults.
• Endurance Exercise Training Volume Is Not Associated with Progression of Coronary Artery Calcification.
• Recent Advances in Understanding Resistance Exercise Training-induced Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy in Humans.

Economics & Sociology

• Life-course Social Class Is Associated with Later-life Diabetes Prevalence in Women.
• Restrained By Resources: The Effect of Scarcity Cues and Childhood Socioeconomic Status (SES) on Consumer Preference for Feasibility.
• Living in High-SES Neighborhoods Is Protective Against Obesity Among Higher-Income Children but Not Low-Income Children.
• The Economic Gradient of Obesity in Mexico: Independent Predictive Roles of Absolute and Relative Wealth By Gender.

Epidemiology

• Exploring Relationships of Grocery Shopping Patterns and Healthy Food Accessibility in Residential Neighborhoods and Activity Space.
• Impact of Changes in Fat Mass and Lean Soft Tissue on Bone Mineral Density Accrual in Adolescents Engaged in Different Sports: ABCD Growth Study.
• Forecasting the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in India to 2040.
• Systematic Review: The Effect of BMI on Sperm DNA Fragmentation.
• Trends in Height, Weight, BMI, Skinfolds, and Measures of Overweight and Obesity From 1979 Through 1999 Among American Indian Youth: The Akwesasne Moha.
• Intensive Weight Loss and Cognition: The Dynamics of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Adipose Tissue Can Explain the Unexpected Results From the Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD) Study.
• Systematic Review: BMI and Risk of Frailty in Older Adults.
• Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity Among Adults: United States, 2017–2018. (pdf)

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Relationship between Psychological Distress and Cognitive Function Differs as a Function of Obesity Status in Inpatient Heart Failure.
• Brain FFA Uptake Is Elevated in Morbid Obesity, and Is Irreversible Six Months After Bariatric Surgery: A Positron Emission Tomography Study.
• Cognitive Dysfunction Is a Risk Factor for Overeating and Obesity.
• Integrating Complex Systems Methods to Advance Obesity Prevention Intervention Research.
• Striatal Dopamine Responses to Feeding are Altered in People with Obesity.
• Cognitive Regulation of Food Intake Associated with Weight Management and Obesity Prevention. (pdf)

Equity and Disparities

• Perceived Motivators, Barriers and Intervention Strategies Related to Weight Loss After Childbirth Among WIC Participants in Southern California.
• Has the Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity and Central Obesity Levelled Off in the United States? Trends, Patterns, Disparities, and Future Projections for the Obesity Epidemic.
• An Index of Geospatial Disadvantage Predicts Both Obesity and Unmeasured Body Weight.
• Community-Driven Health Equity Action Plans.

Stigma

• What Words Should We Use to Talk About Weight? A Systematic Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Studies Examining Preferences for Weight-related Terminology.
• Distressed or Not Distressed? A Mixed Methods Examination of Reactions to Weight Stigma and Implications for Emotional Wellbeing and Internalized Weight Bias.
• Joint International Consensus Statement for Ending Stigma of Obesity.

Policy Related

• Supporting Healthy Eating: Synergistic Effects of Nutrition Education Paired with Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes.
• An Evaluation of Secondary School Nutrition Policy Compliance Using Vending Machine Data.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity Influences the Endocrine Cord Blood Profile of Their Offspring.
• Piloting a Food Photo Sorting Activity in Samoa to Assess Maternal Beliefs and Their Role in Child Diet.
• Prenatal Ambient Particulate Matter Exposure and Longitudinal Weight Growth Trajectories in Early Childhood.
• Maternal Gut Microbiota in Pregnancy Influences Offspring Metabolic Phenotype in Mice.
• Maternal Exposure to a High-fat Diet Showed Unfavorable Effects on the Body Weight, Apoptosis and Morphology of Cardiac Myocytes in Offspring.
• Parental Weight Status and Offspring Behavioral Problems and Psychiatric Symptoms.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• A Cnidarian Parasite of Salmon (Myxozoa: Henneguya) Lacks a Mitochondrial Genome.
• The Intensity of Sexual Selection, Body Size and Reproductive Success in a Mating System with Male–male Combat: Is Bigger Better?

Methods

• Reading From the Crystal Ball: The Laws of Moore and Kurzweil Applied to Mass Spectrometry in Food Analysis.
• Development and Validation Testing of a Weight Management Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire for Adults.
• Dietary Assessment Can Be Based on Pattern Recognition Rather Than Recall.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Expansion of the Dietary Reference Intake Model: Learning From Sodium and Potassium.
• How Dieting Might Make Some Fatter: Modeling Weight Cycling Toward Obesity From a Perspective of Body Composition Autoregulation.
• Technical Background for “A Precision Medicine Approach to Develop Optimal Exercise and Weight Loss Treatments for Overweight and Obese Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis”. (pdf)

Commentary

• Recent Studies Looked at “Nudging” Interventions and Mostly Found Disappointing Results.
• Exercise and Weight: It’s Complicated.
• Caloric Restriction Study Suggests Aging Could Be “Reversible” in the Future.
• America Runs on Dietary Dogma.
• A Wearable Sensor Powered By Artificial Intelligence Can Help Detect Critical Changes in Heart Failure Patients.
• Scientists are Exploring Food Crunchiness as a Tool to Fight Obesity.
• NIH-funded Study Links Natural Sugars in Breastmilk to Early Childhood Height and Weight.
• The Genes to Stay Lean in a Fat World.
• A Later Bedtime Linked with Obesity for Children Under 6, Study Says.

General

• Limited Engagement with Transparent and Open Science Standards in the Policies of Pain Journals: A Cross-sectional Evaluation.
• The Limitations of Retraction Notices and the Heroic Acts of Authors Who Correct the Scholarly Record: An Analysis of Retractions of Papers Published From 1975 to 2019.
• The Science of Sex | Stats + Stories Episode 126 with Dr. Herbenick, Professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health.
• The Elephantologist Speaks!
• Stagnation and Scientific Incentives.
• In Order to Prevent Another Voting Debacle, Turn to Paper Balloting.
• Multiplicity in Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis: Dealing with Multiple Source Multiple Outcomes.
• Hyperthermia and Dehydration During Physical Work in the Heat Both Contribute to the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury.
• Systematic Review: The Impact of Health Promotion Interventions on Telomere Length.
• Ten Years of Clinical Trial Data Cannot Legally Be Hidden From the Public, US Court Rules.
• Dr. Stanley Dudrick, Who Saved Post-Surgical Patients, Dies at 84.

Video & Audio

• Video: Weight Gain, Low-Calorie Sweeteners, and Responsible Translation of Research.

Announcements

• Registration Open: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 8-12, 2020 in Chicago, IL.
• New Book: How to Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered.
• UAB's NORC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.

Featured

• The Hidden Costs of Dietary Restriction: Implications for Its Evolutionary and Mechanistic Origins.
• Evidence That Novel Flavors Unconditionally Suppress Weight Gain in the Absence of Flavor-calorie Associations in Rats.
• Murine Genetic Models of Obesity: Type I Error Rates and the Power of Commonly Used Analyses as Assessed By Plasmode-based Simulation.
• Impact of Ketosis on Appetite Regulation – a Review.
• The Unidentified Hormonal Defense Against Weight Gain.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Late Bedtime in Preschool Could Bring Weight Gain.
• Study: Author: "there is a relationship... The big question is whether the relationship is a causal one."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "A step recommendation beyond 10,000 does not prevent weight or fat gain over the first year of college."
• RCT: "Probiotics did not improve mental health outcomes in this multi-ethnic cohort of pregnant women with obesity."
• RCT: "Fatty fish consumption for 6 months did not increase the serum concentrations of POPs in individuals with overweight or obesity and metabolic risk."
• RCT: "GP referral to a weight loss programme that requires patients to pay rather than offering an NHS-funded programme is acceptable; however, it results in almost no attendance."
• Correction of QRS Voltage for BMI Does Not Improve the Prediction of Fatal and Nonfatal Cardiovascular Events.
• Obesity Does Not Increase Blood Loss or Incidence of Immediate Postoperative Complications During Simultaneous Total Knee Arthroplasty.
• Magnesium Supplementation Did Not Affect the Antiseizure Property of Ketogenic Diet but Reduced Lipid Dysmetabolism in Rats.
• No Effect of Increasing Protein Intake During Military Exercise with Severe Energy Deficit on Body Composition and Performance.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Corrections requested for: "Effects of auriculotherapy on weight and body mass index reduction in patients with overweight or obesity: Systematic review and meta-analysis."
• Incorrect Design and Analysis Render Conclusion Unsubstantiated: Comment on “A Digital Movement in the World of Inactive Children: Favourable Outcomes of Playing Active Video Games in a Pilot Randomized Trial”.
• Article: A School-Based, Peer-Led, Social Marketing Intervention to Engage Spanish Adolescents in a Healthy Lifestyle (“We are Cool”—Som La Pera Study): A Parallel-Cluster Randomized Controlled Study.
• Letter: Incorrect Analyses of Cluster-Randomized Trials That Do Not Take Clustering and Nesting Into Account Likely Lead to P-Values That are Too Small.
• Reply: Response To: Comment About Statistical Analysis of a Cluster-Randomized Trial About Clustering and Nesting.

Basic

• HILPDA Uncouples Lipid Droplet Accumulation in Adipose Tissue Macrophages From Inflammation and Metabolic Dysregulation.
• PDK4‐Deficiency Reprograms Intrahepatic Glucose and Lipid Metabolism to Facilitate Liver Regeneration in Mice.
• Role of Mineralocorticoid Receptor in Adipogenesis and Obesity in Male Mice.
• Proteomic and Metabolite Profiling Reveals Profound Structural and Metabolic Reorganization of Adipocyte Mitochondria in Obesity in Mice.
• Supplementation with Nanobubble Water Alleviates Obesity-associated Markers Through Modulation of Gut Microbiota in High-fat Diet Fed Mice.
• Dissociation of Adaptive Thermogenesis From Glucose Homeostasis in Microbiome-Deficient Mice.
• Adipose Tissue-derived Stem Cell Sheet Improves Glucose Metabolism in Obese Mice.

Policy Related

• The medical care costs of obesity and severe obesity in youth: An instrumental variables approach.
• Facilitators and Barriers to Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating Healthy Vending Policies in Four Cities.

Clinical

• Interventions Commenced By Early Infancy to Prevent Childhood Obesity—The EPOCH Collaboration: An Individual Participant Data Prospective Meta‐analysis of Four RCTs.
• Characterizing Fear of Weight Gain and Sensitivity to Weight Gain in Individuals Seeking Weight Loss Treatment.
• Announcement of an Updated Belgian Consensus on the Assessment and Management of Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Excess BMI Accelerates Islet Autoimmunity in Older Children and Adolescents.
• The Relevance of Nutrition to Pediatric Oncology: A Cancer Control Perspective.
• The Medical Care Costs of Obesity and Severe Obesity in Youth: An Instrumental Variables Approach.
• Patient Characteristics and Treatment Efficacy in Pediatric Obesity over 14 Years in Sweden.
• RCT: Examining an Exam Room Poster to Prompt Communication About Weight.

Surgery

• Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Adolescents Who Underwent Bariatric Surgery.
• Brain Free Fatty Acid Uptake Is Elevated in Morbid Obesity, and Is Irreversible 6 months After Bariatric Surgery.
• Mental Health, Loss of Control Eating, and Cognitive Functioning in Adolescents Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• How Can I Manage Anesthesia in Obese Patients?
• Dulaglutide: A Review in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association between the Use of Antidepressants and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Large, Population-Based Cohort Study in Japan.
• No Acute Effects of Exogenous Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide on Energy Intake, Appetite, or Energy Expenditure When Added to Treatment with a Long-Acting Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist in Men with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Preprint: Eating Versus Skipping Breakfast Has No Discernible Effect on Obesity-related Anthropometric Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• In Mice, Three-Month Daily Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Affects the Liver, Adipose Tissue, and Glucose Metabolism.
• The Effects of Feeding Obese Rats with Bee Bread on Leptin and Ghrelin Expression.
• New Views About the Mediterranean Diet.
• Hippocampal-dependent Appetitive Control Is Impaired By Experimental Exposure to a Western-style Diet.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• A Novel Micronutrient Blend Mimics Calorie Restriction Transcriptomics in Multiple Tissues of Mice and Increases Lifespan and Mobility in C. Elegans.
• Design and Synthesis of New Energy Restriction Mimetic Agents: Potent Anti-tumor Activities of Hybrid Motifs of Aminothiazoles and Coumarins.
• Short-Term Caloric Restriction Attenuates Obesity-Induced Pro-Inflammatory Response in Male Rhesus Macaques.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Commercially Available Capsaicin Supplement Fails to Enhance Time-to Exhaustion During Cycling. (pdf)
• Meta-analysis: Effect of Resistance Training on Whole-Body Muscle Growth in Healthy Adult Males.
• RCT: Effects of Playful Exercise of Older Adults on Balance and Physical Activity.
• Self-reported Physical Activity Status Among Adolescents in Debre Birhan Town, Ethiopia: Cross-sectional Study.
• Playing Sport Injured Is Associated with Osteoarthritis, Joint Pain and Worse Health-related Quality of Life: A Cross-sectional Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Commentary: Meat Trimmings are a Health Food Now.
• Does It Matter Who’s at Risk?: Testing Message Framing and Narrative as Moderators of the Effects of Self-referencing in Obesity Prevention Messages Targeting Hispanic Adults Living in the U.S.
• Trends in Social Inequality in Overweight and Obesity Among Adolescents in Denmark 1998–2018.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Examining Heterogeneity of Outcomes in a Weight Gain Prevention Program for Young Adults.
• Psychological Diagnoses and Weight Loss Among Appalachian Bariatric Surgery Patients.
• The Role of Memory Ability, Depth and Mode of Recall in the Impact of Memory on Later Consumption.
• Hippocampal-Dependent Inhibitory Learning and Memory Processes in the Control of Eating and Drug Taking.
• Reductions to Main Meal Portion Sizes Reduce Daily Energy Intake Regardless of Perceived Normality of Portion Size: A 5 day Cross-over Laboratory Experiment.

Equity and Disparities

• Evaluating a Pragmatic Estimate of Insulin Sensitivity in Latino Youth with Obesity.
• Dietary and Policy Priorities to Reduce the Global Crises of Obesity and Diabetes.
• Racial/Ethnic Variations in Clustered Risk Behaviors in the U.S.
• Systematic Review: Understanding and Effectively Addressing Disparities in Obesity.

Stigma

• Weight Stigmatization Among Physical Therapy Students and Registered Physical Therapists.
• Weight Changes and Body Image in Pregnant Women: A Challenge for Health Care Professionals.
• Investigating the Relationship between Parental Weight Stigma and Feeding Practices.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Paraben Exposure Triggers Childhood Overweight Development.
• Maternal Dietary Patterns and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Twin Pregnancies: A Longitudinal Twin Pregnancies Birth Cohort Study.
• Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes During Pregnancy Is Associated with Increased Perinatal Mortality: A Large Population‐based Cohort Study in Ontario, Canada.

Energetics, Evolution, and Ecology

• Nutritional Management, Caloric Food Intake, and Body Mass of Grey Seals (Halichoerus grypus) Under Human Care.
• Seasonal variation in energy balance of wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fucata yakui) in a warm-temperate forest: a preliminary assessment in the coastal forest of Yakushima.

Methods

• "...energy adjustment alone does not eliminate all self-reported protein reporting bias."
• Body Fat Mass Is Better Indicator Than Indirect Measurement Methods in Obese Children for Fatty Liver and Metabolic Syndrome.
• National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research Report: Advancing Measurement of Individual Behaviors Related to Childhood Obesity. (pdf)

Career and Professional Growth

• Mechanisms and Pathways to Impact in Public Health Research: A Preliminary Analysis of Research Funded By the National Institute for Health Research.
• Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines.
• Ten Simple Rules to Becoming a Principal Investigator.
• A Tribute to Robert Roy Henry—The Classic “Academic Triple Threat”: Accomplished Researcher, Inspiring Teacher, and Compassionate Clinician.
• Combating Impostor Syndrome: Tell the Negative Committee to Shut Up.

Commentary

• How Food Science Can Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change.
• Lab-grown Meat Will Be on Your Plate Soon. It Won't Be What You Expect.
• Lactose Intolerance.
• Milk: Love It, Hate It, or Whatever?
• New Research Challenges Theory of Dietary Restriction as Survival Strategy.
• Meat Sticks Rise From Junk Food to Foodie Food Health Food.
• Study Versus Headlines at Breakfast.
• An Invited Commentary on "Comparative risk of fracture for bariatric procedures in patients with obesity: A Systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis" (Int J Surg 2020; 75:13-23) Risk of fractures following bariatric procedures: less surgery is more.
• Women Empowerment Is Central to Addressing the Double Burden of Malnutrition.
• Milk and Juice are Not as Needed as You Might Think.
• When It Comes to Nutrition, We’re All Too Eager to Ignore the Evidence. Here’s Why.
• Leading Scientists Agree: Current Limits on Saturated Fats No Longer Justified.
• What Shall We Do About Diagnosing Obesity?

General

• The Magic of Randomization Versus the Myth of Real-World Evidence.
• Convergent Evolution of Tail Spines in Squamate Reptiles Driven By Microhabitat Use.
• Statistical Thinking for 21st Century Scientists.
• Preprint: Natural Experiments.
• Relationships of Inflamm-aging with Circulating Nutrient Levels, Body Composition, Age, and Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction in a Senior Horse Population.
• Socially Tolerant Lions (Panthera Leo) Solve a Novel Cooperative Problem.
• Mint Companion Plants Enhance the Attraction of the Generalist Predator Nesidiocoris Tenuis According to Its Experiences of Conspecific Mint Volatiles.
• "Greater rigor is required in reporting the methods in dental research articles, given the current pervasiveness of failure to describe the basic techniques used."
• Digital Magic, or the Dark Arts of the 21st Century—how Can Journals and Peer Reviewers Detect Manuscripts and Publications From Paper Mills?
• Obesity and Ageing: Two Sides of the Same Coin.
• Meta-analysis: Effect of Dose and Duration of Reduction in Dietary Sodium on Blood Pressure Levels.

Video & Audio

• Video: Bariatric Surgery for Kids?

Announcements

• Bariatrics and Metabolic Surgery: Surgical Updates and Implications for Primary Care.
• Journal Club Webinar: Environmental, Social, and Structural Constraints for Health Behavior: Perceptions of Young Urban Black Women During the Preconception Period—A Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative.
• TOS Annual Meeting at ObesityWeek® 2020 November 3-6.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.
• AHA's Strategically-Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB's Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.