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Featured

• Fat Mass Loss Correlates with Faster Disease Progression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients: Exploring the Utility of Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry in a Prospective Study.
• Depletion of the Gut Microbiota Differentially Affects the Impact of Whey Protein on High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Intestinal Permeability in Mice.
• Loss-Of-Function Mutations in the Melanocortin 4 Receptor in a UK Birth Cohort.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Changing the Living Environment Cuts Obesity in Children.
• Preprint: Differences in (Not Necessarily Effects On) Obesity Trends for Areas That Did and Did Not Adopt JOGG Program. (Note: No Study Directly Cited in News Articles).

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Few If Any Significant Effects of School-Based Health Behavioral Intervention on Awareness, Practice Pattern of Healthy Lifestyle, and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Among School Children of Shimla.
• RCT: "...an automated behavioral intervention using workplace cafeteria data improved employees' food choices but did not prevent weight gain over 2 years."
• RCT: "The trial found no effect on swallowing safety in HNC undergoing radiotherapy..."
• RCT: No Compelling Evidence of Differential Effects of Endurance and Endurance-Strength Training on Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Markers in Women with Abdominal Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Spirulina Supplementation on Anthropometric Indices, Blood Pressure.
• RCT: A Single Bout of Hybrid Intradialytic Exercise Did Not Affect Left-Ventricular Function in Exercise-Naïve Dialysis Patients.
• RCT: Null Effects of Chokeberry Juice in Football Players.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Childhood Probiotics and Calcium Supplementation on Height and Weight at Adolescence in Total Sample.

Basic

• Mutation of the Novel Acetylation Site at K414R of BECN1 Is Involved in Adipocyte Differentiation and Lipolysis.
• Perilipin 5 Links Mitochondrial Uncoupled Respiration in Brown Fat to Healthy White Fat Remodeling and Systemic Glucose Tolerance.
• Four-And-A-Half LIM Domain Protein 2 (FHL2) Deficiency Protects Mice from Diet-Induced Obesity and High FHL2 Expression Marks Human Obesity.
• Probiotics Alleviate Adipose Inflammation in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity by Restoring Adipose Invariant Natural Killer T Cells.
• SCFJFK Is Functionally Linked to Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• Chronodisruption by Chronic Jetlag Impacts Metabolic and Gastrointestinal Homeostasis in Male Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Curcumin Ameliorates Atherosclerosis Through Upregulation of MiR-126.
• Does a Plant-Based Diet Really Help Beat COVID-19?
• Three Factors That Need to Be Addressed More Consistently in Nutrition Studies: “Instead of What?”, “In What Context?”, and “For What?”.
• Importance of Considering Sex and Gender in Exercise and Nutrition Research.

Clinical

• Integration of Patient-Centered Care in Nutrition Support Decision-Making: A Case Report.
• Are People with Metabolically Healthy Obesity Really Healthy? A Prospective Cohort Study of 381,363 UK Biobank Participants.
• Body Weight and Metabolic Risk Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes on a Self-Selected High-Protein Low-Carbohydrate Diet.

Children and Adolescents

• Association between Childhood Consumption of Ultraprocessed Food and Adiposity Trajectories in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Birth Cohort.
• Influence of the Request and Purchase of Television Advertised Foods on Dietary Intake and Obesity Among Children in China.
• The Effects of Single-Sex Versus Coeducational Physical Education on American Junior High PE Students’ Physical Activity Levels and Self-Competence.
• Systematic Review: Facilitators and Barriers of Children's Participation in Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Interventions.

Surgery

• Metabolic Shift Precedes the Resolution of Inflammation in a Cohort of Patients Undergoing Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery.
• High Plasma Renin Activity Associates with Obesity-Related Diabetes and Arterial Hypertension, and Predicts Persistent Hypertension After Bariatric Surgery.
• Review: Intraoperative Monitoring of Patients with Obesity Undergoing Surgery.
• Depletion of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in RBCs and Changes of Inflammation Markers in Patients with Morbid Obesity Undergoing Gastric Bypass.

Drugs

• Prescription Medications to Treat Overweight & Obesity.
• Alkermes Wins FDA Nod for Combo Med with Antipsychotic Olanzapine — This Time Without the Weight Gain Red Flags.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Keyto App and Device Versus WW App on Weight Loss and Metabolic Risk in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Impact of Dietary Carbohydrate Type and Protein–Carbohydrate Interaction on Metabolic Health.
• Olive Leaf Extract Prevents Obesity, Cognitive Decline, and Depression and Improves Exercise Capacity in Mice.
• Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation on Outcome of Low-Calorie Diet in Workers Presenting Obesity or Overweight: A Retrospective Observational Study.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction Conferred Improvement Effect on Long-Term Rehabilitation of Ischemic Stroke Via Gut Microbiota.
• Anti-Aging Effects of Intermittent Fasting: A Potential Alternative to Calorie Restriction?
• Hypothalamic Leptin Gene Therapy and Caloric Restriction Have Differential Effects on Energy Intake and Energy Partitioning in Adult Female Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Effects of Regular Exercise on Inflammasome Activation-Related Inflammatory Cytokine Levels in Older Adults.
• COVID-19 Lockdown Consequences on BMI and Perceived Fragility Related to Physical Activity: A Worldwide Cohort Study.
• Physical Activity and 4-Year Changes in Body Weight in 52,498 People without Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Book: Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight.
• The Distributional Effect of Education on Body Mass.
• Changes in Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance, Body Image, Eating Attitudes and Behaviours, Physical Activity, and Quality of Life in Students Before and During COVID-19 Lockdown.
• Changes in Health Behaviors Associated with Weight Gain by Weight Classification During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Epidemiology

• Assessing the Association between Relative BMI and Mortality.
• Relationship between Insulin Sensitivity and Menstrual Cycle Is Modified by BMI, Fitness and Physical Activity in NHANES.
• Obesity Prevalence and Risks Among Chinese Adults: Findings from the China PEACE Million Persons Project, 2014-2018.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Food Addiction Among Patients with Morbid Obesity: Prevalence and Links with Obesity Complications.
• High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior and Alters Ventral Striatal Neuronal Signaling.

Equity and Disparities

• Obesity Transition and Inequalities by Sociodemographic Factors in Korean Adults, 1998–2018.
• Association between Patients' BMI and Emergency Department Wait Times.

Stigma

• Weight-Stigma and Body Satisfaction Among Preschool Children.
• Measuring Social Processes Regarding Eating, Physical Activity, and Weight in Higher-Weight People: The Weight-Related Interactions Scale (WRIS).
• A Twitter Discourse Analysis of Negative Feelings and Stigma Related to NAFLD, NASH and Obesity.

Policy Related

• Calorie Labeling and Product Reformulation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Supermarket-Prepared Foods.
• Caring for US Children: Barriers to Effective Treatment in Children with the Disease of Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Factors Associated with Longitudinal Changes in B-Vitamin and Choline Concentrations of Human Milk.
• Epigenome-Wide Association Study Reveals Methylation Loci Associated with Offspring Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Exposure and Maternal Methylome.
• Sex-Dependent Associations between Maternal Prenatal Stressful Life Events, BMI Trajectories and Obesity Risk in Offspring.
• Obesity in Pregnancy: A New Chapter in Obstetrics.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Sustainable and Personalized Nutrition: From Earth Health to Public Health.
• What Fuels the Fly: Energy Metabolism in Drosophila and Its Application to the Study of Obesity and Diabetes.

Methods

• A Web-Based Time-Use Application to Assess Diet and Movement Behavior in Asian Schoolchildren: Development and Usability Study of My E-Diary for Activities and Lifestyle (MEDAL).
• Estimating and Reporting Treatment Effects in Clinical Trials for Weight Management: Using Estimands to Interpret Effects of Intercurrent Events and Missing Data.
• Nutritional Markers of Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes in Adults: Findings of a Machine Learning Analysis with External Validation and Benchmarking.

Commentary

• Chile: A Model for Anti-Obesity Policies?
• Key Protein That Helps Explain How Obesity Leads to Type-2 Diabetes.
• Words with Weight to Test Emotions.
• Consider the Whole Picture When Discussing Infant Formula and Breast Milk.
• Losing Ground on Diabetes Control.
• Pandemic Shows Risk of Obesity, and Challenge of Weight Loss.
• “Life Is a Game of Turning Energy into Kids”.
• The Role of the Bisphenol a in Diabetes and Obesity.

General

• “If They Don’t Like You, They are Not Going to Eat for You”: Individual and Interpersonal Factors Affecting Certified Nursing Assistants’ Ability to Provide Mealtime Assistance to Residents with Dementia.
• What Is Your Estimand? Defining the Target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory.
• A Scoping Review on the Use of Machine Learning in Research on Social Determinants of Health: Trends and Research Prospects.
• Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Information on Instagram: A Content Analytic Study.
• A Microscopic Animal Has Been Revived After Slumbering in the Arctic Permafrost for 24,000 Years.
• A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Demographic and Behavioral Risk Factors of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Seropositivity Among a Sample of U.S. College Students.
• Podcast: Amanda Smith, M.D.: Diagnosing, Preventing, and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease, and What We Can All Learn from Patients with Dementia.
• NIH Should Boost Rigor of Animal Studies with Stronger Statistics, Pilot Studies, Experts Say.

Announcements

• Webinar: Best Practices for Using Animals in Aging Research.
• IU Among Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Patents.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Short Course: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research: Friday, July 23rd to Friday, August 13th, 2021.
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.

Featured

• RCT: Point-of-Consumption Interventions to Promote Virtuous Food Choices of Tourists with Self-Benefit or Other-Benefit Appeals.
• Restoration of Energy Homeostasis by SIRT6 Extends Healthy Lifespan [in Mice].
• Diet-Induced Obesity Impairs Outcomes and Induces Multi-Factorial Deficiencies in Effector T Cell Responses Following Anti-CTLA-4 Combinatorial Immunotherapy in Renal Tumor-Bearing Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Teens May See Increased Torso Fat but Better Cholesterol with Tivicay.
• Pre-Post Study: 12 Month Body Fat Distribution and Metabolic Changes (Not Necessarily Effects) in 13 Adolescents Living with HIV Switched to an Antiretroviral Regimen Containing Dolutegravir.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Differential Effects of Synbiotic Supplementation vs Placebo on Serum Anti-Inflammatory Factors in the Survivors of Breast Cancer with Lymphedema Following a Low Calorie Diet.
• RCT: No Apparent Moderating Effects of Four Genetic Variations on Changes in Physical Activity Level and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Response to a Life-Style Intervention.
• RCT: "Contrary to hypotheses, there were no significant differences in body satisfaction, shame, or future negative body talk likelihood across the four groups."
• "In overweight and obese pregnant women, we found no evidence that maternal dietary and/or lifestyle intervention during pregnancy modifies the risk of early childhood obesity."
• "In this 2-sample MR study, we did not observe evidence to support an association between 25OHD levels and COVID-19 susceptibility, severity, or hospitalization. Hence, vitamin D supplementation as a means of protecting against worsened COVID-19 outcomes is not supported by genetic evidence."
• "This MR study does not support a causal protective role to circulate vitamin C levels on various types of CVD events. In combination with previous RCT results, our findings suggest that vitamin C supplementation to increase circulating vitamin C levels may not help in CVD prevention."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, and contrary to generally accepted findings on isolated muscle preparations, residual torque enhancement in voluntary and electrically evoked contractions does not seem to depend on the angular amplitude of the preceding eccentric contraction."
• "Contrary to control cells, adipocytes of obese hyperglycemic and hypertensive mice, growing on glucose, did not accumulate lipids and demonstrated hormonal resistance being non responsive to any hormone applied."

Basic

• Depletion of Prmt1 in Adipocytes Impairs Glucose Homeostasis in Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Stk24 Protects Against Obesity-Associated Metabolic Disorders by Disrupting the NLRP3 Inflammasome.
• The Gut Microbiota Regulates Hypothalamic Inflammation and Leptin Sensitivity in Western Diet-Fed Mice Via a GLP-1R-Dependent Mechanism.
• An Intronic Risk SNP Rs12454712 for Central Obesity Acts as an Allele-Specific Enhancer to Regulate BCL2 Expression.
• Differentially Expressed Genes and Enriched Signaling Pathways in the Adipose Tissue of People with Obesity.
• A Dietary Ketone Ester Mitigates Histological Outcomes of NAFLD and Fibrosis Markers in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Change to a Higher Carbohydrate Diet and Energy Expenditure Among Postmenopausal Women.
• Response: Reply to Prentice and Colleagues.
• Grading Nutrition Evidence: Where to Go from Here?

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Metformin on Lipid Profiles in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Weight Loss and Usage of an Online Commercial Weight Loss Program Delivered in an Everyday Context: Five-Year Evaluation in a Community Cohort.
• Lipids Activate Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Fission and Quality Control Networks to Induce Insulin Resistance in Humans.
• Protocol: Behavioral Weight Loss in Emerging Adults: The Richmond Emerging Adults Choosing Health (REACH) Randomized Clinical Trial.
• Protocol: The Daily Self-Weighing for Obesity Management in Primary Care Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Association of Very Preterm Birth or Very Low Birth Weight with Intelligence in Adulthood.
• Changes in Total Physical Activity, Leisure and Commuting in the Largest City in Latin America, 2003-2015.
• Restrained Eating in Lebanese Adolescents: Scale Validation and Correlates.
• Sex Differences in Changes in BMI and Blood Pressure in Chinese School-Aged Children During the COVID-19 Quarantine.
• Oxytocin Receptor Gene Polymorphism and Low Serum Oxytocin Level are Associated with Hyperphagia and Obesity in Adolescents.
• "Greater total screen-viewing time at age 2–3 years is associated with higher abdominal adiposity at age 4.5 years in boys."
• "Differences between [self-reported and device-based measured physical activity] were significantly smaller in younger children than in the older age groups."

Surgery

• Meta-Analysis: How Does Fat Mass Change in the First Year After Bariatric Surgery?
• Time Course of Metabolic, Neuroendocrine and Adipose Effects During 2 Years of Follow-Up After RYGB in Patients with T2D.
• Long-Term Results of One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass: A Single Center Experience with a Minimum Follow-Up of 10 Years.

Drugs

• RCT: Semaglutide 2·4 Mg Once a Week in Adults with Overweight or Obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Review: Pharmacogenomics of Medication-Induced Weight Gain and Antiobesity Medications.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Meal-Induced Inflammation: Postprandial Insights from the Personalised REsponses to DIetary Composition Trial (PREDICT) Study.
• RCT: Acute Consumption of a Shake Containing Cashew and Brazil Nuts Did Not Affect Appetite in Overweight Subjects.
• RCT: Acute Effects of Extruded Pulse Snacks on Glycemic Response, Insulin, Appetite, and Food Intake in Healthy Young Adults.
• Habitual Use of Fish Oil Supplements, Genetic Predisposition, and Risk of Fractures: A Large Population-Based Study.
• Trans-Palmitoleic Acid Reduces Adiposity Via Increased Lipolysis in a Rodent Model of Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Association of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Serum Level and Gene Rs10247158 Polymorphism with Anthropometric, Biochemical Parameters and Food Consumption in Patients with Overweight/Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effect of Probiotic Supplementation Along with Calorie Restriction on Metabolic Endotoxemia, and Inflammation Markers in Coronary Artery Disease Patients.
• The Good and the BAT of Metabolic Sex Differences in Thermogenic Human Adipose Tissue.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Social Determinants of Health are Associated with Physical Therapy Use.
• RCT: Multi-Strategy Intervention Increases School Implementation and Maintenance of a Mandatory Physical Activity Policy.

Economics & Sociology

• RCT: Effect of a Smartphone App on Weight Change and Metabolic Outcomes in Asian Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Behavioral Economic Approaches to Childhood Obesity Prevention Nutrition Policies: A Social Ecological Perspective.
• BMI Is Just a Number: Conflating Riskiness and Unhealthiness in Discourse on Body Size.
• Cost-Effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery and Non-Surgical Weight Management Programmes for Adults with Severe Obesity: A Decision Analysis Model.

Epidemiology

• COVID-19 and Obesity: An Epidemiologic Analysis of the Brazilian Data: "Our analysis supports obesity as a significant risk factor for the development of more severe forms of COVID-19".
• Sex-Specific Relationship between Abdominal Obesity and New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in the General Japanese Population.
• Estimating the Effect of Nutritional Interventions Using Observational Data: The American Heart Association's 2020 Dietary Goals and Mortality.
• Dose-Dependent Associations of Dietary Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, and Fiber with 3-Year Weight Loss Maintenance and Glycemic Status in a High-Risk Population.
• Associations of the Neighborhood Built Environment with Gestational Weight Gain.
• Reproducibility and Associations with Obesity and Insulin Resistance of Circadian-Rhythm Parameters in Free-Living Vs. Controlled Conditions.
• Obesity as a Risk Factor for Accelerated Brain Ageing in First-Episode Psychosis-A Longitudinal Study.
• Tobacco Use Prevalence and Transitions from 2013 to 2018 Among Adults with a History of Cardiovascular Disease.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Food Addiction Comorbid to Mental Disorders in Adolescents: A Nationwide Survey and Register-Based Study.
• Association of Psychobehavioral Variables with HOMA-IR and BMI Differs for Men and Women with Prediabetes.
• Obesity, Putative Biological Mediators, and Cognitive Function in a National Sample of Children and Adolescents.

Equity and Disparities

• Association of BMI, Central Obesity, and Body Composition with Mortality Among Black Breast Cancer Survivors.
• Anthropometric Characteristics of Children Living in Food-Insecure Households in the USA.
• Research Brief: Identifying and Countering White Supremacy Culture in Food Systems.

Stigma

• Systematic Review: Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of Self-Reported Weight Stigma Measures.
• Adverse Childhood Experiences Associated with Greater Internalization of Weight Stigma in Women with Excess Weight.
• Do Weight Perception and Bullying Victimization Account for Links between Weight Status and Mental Health Among Adolescents?

Policy Related

• South Africa's Health Promotion Levy: Excise Tax Findings and Equity Potential.
• Health Policy and Public Health Implications of Obesity in China.
• Evidence of a Health Risk ‘Signalling Effect’ Following the Introduction of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax.
• Polyphenols and Obesity Prevention: Critical Insights on Molecular Regulation, Bioavailability and Dose in Preclinical and Clinical Settings.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prenatal Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants and Early Infant Growth and Adiposity in the Southern California Mother’s Milk Study.
• The Association of a Low Glycaemic Index Diet in Pregnancy with Child Body Composition at 5 years of Age.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Diets Benefiting Health and Climate Relate to Longevity in Northern Sweden.
• Nutrition and Origin of US Chain Restaurant Seafood.

Methods

• RCT: Two Methods for Assessment of Choline Status in a Randomized Crossover Study with Varying Dietary Choline Intake in People: Isotope Dilution MS of Plasma and in Vivo Single-Voxel Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Liver.
• Perspective: Application of N-Of-1 Methods in Personalized Nutrition Research.
• Reliability of GENEActiv Accelerometers to Estimate Sleep, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Time in Children.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Review: Multicomponent Density Models for Body Composition: The Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry Volume Approach.
• Preprint: Analyze the Impact of Healthy Behavior on Weight Change with a Mathematical Model Using the Harris-Benedict Equations.

Commentary

• Calories? The House Always Wins.
• Does Obesity Raise the Risk for Long COVID?
• The Origin and Evolution of the Paleo Diet.
• Perspective: The Saturated Fat–Unsaturated Oil Dilemma: Relations of Dietary Fatty Acids and Serum Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis, Inflammation, Cancer, and All-Cause Mortality.
• Wegovy Approved: Radical or Incremental Progress?
• Is There a Link between Sugar Intake and Cancer?

General

• Senolytics Reduce Coronavirus-Related Mortality in Old Mice.
• How to Make Sense of Contradictory Science Papers.
• Virtual Reality Platform Takes Travel Back in Time.
• The World Saw a Shark-Pocalypse 19 Million Years Ago, and We Don’t Know Why.
• COVID-19 & the Urgent Case for a Greater Focus on One Health.
• Rampant Tooth Loss Across 200 Million Years of Frog Evolution.
• Can Joy and Rigor Co-Exist in Science?
• Venom and Social Behavior: The Potential of Using Spiders to Evaluate the Evolution of Sociality Under High Risk.
• Scientific Publishing Needs to Embrace the Rapid Correction.

Announcements

• Applications Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research Short Course: Friday, July 23rd to Friday, August 13th, 2021.
• Applications Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research Short Course: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.
• Webinar Registration: Better Mental and Metabolic Health for Vulnerable Populations.
• Position: Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Position: Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Dr. Javier Rojo Joins the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics as a Dean's Eminent Scholar.

Featured

• Digital Anthropometric Evaluation of Young Children: Comparison to Results Acquired with Conventional Anthropometry.
• Protein Quality and Quantity Influence the Effect of Dietary Fat on Weight Gain and Tissue Partitioning Via Host-Microbiota Changes [in Mice].
• RCT: Evaluating a Board Game Designed to Promote Young Children's Delay of Gratification.
• RCT: Butter vs. Margarine? "Using Infographics to Improve Trust in Science."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Forget Diets! Brain Training App's Junk Food Game Can Help You to Eat Less and Lose Weight by Teaching You to Tap on Images of Healthy Foods.
• Press-Release: Junk Food Game Helps People Eat Less and Lose Weight.
• Study: User Engagement and Self-Reported Dietary Intake in an Opportunistic Observational Study of an App-Based Food Go/No-Go Training. "Examining these associations will not establish any causal relationships."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Acute Consumption of a Shake Containing Cashew and Brazil Nuts Did Not Affect Appetite in Overweight Subjects.
• RCT: Prolonged Glucagon Infusion Does Not Affect Energy Expenditure in Individuals with Overweight/Obesity.
• Intermittent Ambient Cold Exposure Is Not an Effective Obesity Treatment in Mice Housed at Thermoneutrality.
• Arterial Stiffness Is Not Acutely Modified by Consumption of a Caffeinated Soft Drink Sweetened with High Fructose Corn Syrup in Young Healthy Adults.
• Dissertation: N-Acetyl-Cysteine Supplementation Does Not Alter the Erythropoietin Response in Trained Endurance Athletes in Acute Hypoxia.
• Modest Sleep Restriction Does Not Influence Steps, Physical Activity Intensity or Glucose Tolerance in Adults with Obesity.
• RCT: Obesity Does Not Interfere with the Cholesterol-Lowering Effect of Plant Stanol Ester Consumption (as Part of a Heart-Healthy Diet).
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, participants with obesity exhibited a higher clustering coefficient compared to senior participants..."

Basic

• LMO3 Reprograms Visceral Adipocyte Metabolism During Obesity.
• Proto-Oncoprotein Zbtb7c and SIRT1 Repression: Implications in High-Fat Diet-Induced and Age-Dependent Obesity.
• 18F-FDG Uptake in Adipose Tissue Parallels Molecular Markers of the Brown Adipose Tissue Phenotype.
• Melanin-Concentrating Hormone-Producing Neurons in the Hypothalamus Regulate Brown Adipose Tissue and Thus Contribute to Energy Expenditure.
• Obesity Enhances the Recruitment of Mesenchymal Stem Cell to Visceral Adipose Tissue.
• Placental MTOR-Complex1 Regulates Fetal Programming of Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Mice.
• Stk24 Protects Against Obesity-Associated Metabolic Disorders by Disrupting the NLRP3 Inflammasome.
• Iron Supplementation Regulates the Progression of High Fat Diet Induced Obesity and Hepatic Steatosis Via Mitochondrial Signaling Pathways.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Correction: The Effects of Low-Calorie Sweeteners on Energy Intake and Body Weight: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Sustained Intervention Studies.
• PubPeer Comment On: Comparative Effects of Vitamin K and Vitamin D Supplementation on Prevention of Osteopenia in Calcium-Deficient Young Rats.

Clinical

• The Impact of Frailty on the Effectiveness and Safety of Intensive Glucose Control and Blood Pressure-Lowering Therapy for People with Type 2 Diabetes.
• European Commission Classifies Obesity as a Chronic Disease.
• Correlation between Thyroid Homeostasis and Obesity in Subclinical Hypothyroidism: Community-Based Cross-Sectional Research.
• Immune Spleen Cells Attenuate the Inflammatory Profile of the Mesenteric Perivascular Adipose Tissue in Obese Mice.
• Metabolomic Profiling Identifies Complex Lipid Species and Amino Acid Analogues Associated with Response to Weight Loss Interventions.
• RCT: Intranasal Oxytocin Improves Lean Muscle Mass and Lowers LDL Cholesterol in Older Adults with Sarcopenic Obesity.
• Comparison of the Frequency of Periodontal Pathogenic Species in People with and without Diabetes and Its Relation to Periodontitis Severity, Glycemic Control and BMI.

Children and Adolescents

• Underdiagnosis of Obesity in Pediatric Clinical Care Settings Among Children Born Preterm: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Microbiome Dysbiosis in Adolescents with Obesity: A Potential Contributor to Inflammation.
• Associations of Adverse Childhood Experiences with Stress Physiology and Insulin Resistance in Adolescents at Risk for Adult Obesity.
• Annual Incidence and Prevalence of Obesity in Childhood and Young Adulthood Based on a 30-Year Longitudinal Population-Based Cohort Study in Korea.
• Sex Differences in Postnatal Weight Gain Trajectories of Extremely Preterm Newborns.
• Endothelial Microparticles in Pediatric Obesity.
• RCT: Guided Imagery Lifestyle Intervention to Improve Obesity-Related Lifestyle Behaviors in Predominantly Latinx Adolescents.
• Sleep Duration and Overweight: Is There a Relationship in Adolescence?

Surgery

• Review: Individualized Treatment Options for Patients with Non-Cirrhotic and Cirrhotic Liver Disease.
• Review: Analgesic and Antidepressant Effects of the Clinical Glutamate Modulators Acetyl-L-Carnitine and Ketamine.
• Laryngopharyngeal Reflux Among Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Genetic Markers of Abdominal Obesity and Weight Loss After Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Bariatric Surgery Is Expensive but Improves Co‐morbidity: 5‐year Assessment of Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Gut Microbiota Changes After Metabolic Surgery in Adult Patients with Diabetes and Mild Obesity.
• The Impact of Obesity and Severe Obesity on Postoperative Outcomes After Pancreatoduodenectomy.

Drugs

• Emodin Improves Glucose and Lipid Metabolism Disorders in Obese Mice Via Activating Brown Adipose Tissue and Inducing Browning of White Adipose Tissue.
• Meta-Analysis: Cardiovascular Safety of Long-Term Anti-Obesity Drugs in Subjects with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Cotadutide on Metabolic and Hepatic Parameters in Adults with Overweight or Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Meta-Analysis.: Efficacy and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Venous Thromboembolism Compared to Traditional Anticoagulants in Patients with Morbid Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Effects of the Form of Sugar (Solid Vs. Beverage) on Body Weight and FMRI Activation.
• Intestinal Phosphorus Absorption: Recent Findings in Translational and Clinical Research.
• Depletion of the Gut Microbiota Differentially Affects the Impact of Whey Protein on High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Intestinal Permeability.
• Preprint RCT: Exploring the Dose-Response Effect of Carbohydrate Restriction on Glycaemia in People with Type 2 Diabetes (D-ROC2).
• Effects of a 3-Week In-Hospital Multidisciplinary Body Weight Reduction Program in Females with Obesity: Is Measured Resting Energy Expenditure Essential for Tailoring Adequately the Amount of Energy Intake?
• Meal Intervals and Weight Trajectories in Adults Using the Daily24 Mobile Application: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Meal Timing of Subtypes of Macronutrients Consumption with Cardiovascular Diseases: NHANES, 2003 to 2016.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting Ameliorates Di-(2-Ethylhexyl) Phthalate-Induced Precocious Puberty in Female Rats: A Study of the Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Gonadal Axis.
• Systematic Review: Comparisons of Calorie Restriction and Structured Exercise on Reductions in Visceral and Abdominal Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue.
• Antihypertensive Medication Needs and Blood Pressure Control with Weight Loss in the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT).

Exercise & Physical Activity

• cRCT: Healthy Eating and Lifestyle in Pregnancy (HELP): Effectiveness of a Weight Management Intervention for Pregnant Women with Obesity on Weight at 12 Months Postpartum.
• The Positive Impact of Resistance Training on Muscle Mass and Serum Leptin Levels in Patients 2–7 Years Post-Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: A Controlled Clinical Trial.
• Time-Restricted Eating and Concurrent Exercise Training Reduces Fat Mass and Increases Lean Mass in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• The Impact of Weight Loss on Physical Function and Symptoms in Breast Cancer Survivors with Overweight or Obesity: Results from POWER-Remote.
• Review: Efficacious Lifestyle Interventions for Appropriate Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Overweight or Obesity Set in the Health Care System.
• RCT: Effect of Exercise Training on Skeletal Muscle Protein Expression in Relation to Insulin Sensitivity.
• Physical Activity as a Critical Component of First-Line Treatment for Elevated Blood Pressure or Cholesterol: Who, What, and How?: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.

Economics & Sociology

• Race, Subjective Social Status and Metabolic Syndrome in Women with Breast Cancer.
• Systematic Review: Counseling and Behavioral Interventions for Healthy Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force.
• Comparing Competing Geospatial Measures to Capture the Relationship between the Neighborhood Food Environment and Diet.
• Dissertation: How Race Is Made in Everyday Life: Food, Eating, and Dietary Acculturation Among Black and White Migrants in Florida, U.S.
• An Exploratory Study on the Sociocultural Consequences of Food Consumption Patterns Among African American Girls.
• A Qualitative Analysis of the Perceived Socio-Cultural Contexts and Health Concerns of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Among Adults Studying or Working at a Post-Secondary Institution in Dharwad, India.

Epidemiology

• C-Reactive Protein as a Moderator and Insulin Resistance as a Mediator for the Association between Endothelin-1 and Type 2 Diabetes Progression Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study.
• Are Adipokines the Missing Link between Obesity, Immune Response, and Outcomes in Severe COVID-19?
• Insomnia and Short Sleep Uniquely Predict Obesity, Hypertension, and Diabetes.
• Does the Increasing Prevalence of Obesity Explain the Decrease in Blood Pressure Control Among Us Adults with Hypertension?
• Association of Obesity and Cigarette Smoking with Markers of Inflammation and Thrombosis.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity in a Young Adult Population Provided by a Primary Healthcare Center in Brazil (LAPARC Study).
• Central Obesity Is a Contributor to Systemic Inflammation and Monocyte Activation in Virally Suppressed Adults with Chronic HIV in Kenya.
• BMI, Blood Pressure, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Mortality in Cuba: Prospective Study of 146,556 Participants.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Hippocampal Glycerol-3-Phosphate Acyltransferases 4 and BDNF in the Progress of Obesity-Induced Depression.
• RCT: Effects of Very Low-Carbohydrate Vs. High-Carbohydrate Weight Loss Diets on Psychological Health in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• A Hindbrain Dopaminergic Neural Circuit Prevents Weight Gain by Reinforcing Food Satiation.

Equity and Disparities

• Explaining Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviours: A Review of Biopsychological Pathways Involving Stress and Inflammation.
• Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: Racial Disparities in 30-Day Outcomes Using the MBSAQIP from 2015 to 2018.
• Access to Potable Water, Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, and Central Obesity in Puerto Rico.

Stigma

• International Comparisons of Weight Stigma: Addressing a Void in the Field.
• Commentary: Distressing Levels of Weight Stigma in Six Countries.
• The Roles of Experienced and Internalized Weight Stigma in Healthcare Experiences: Perspectives of Adults Engaged in Weight Management Across Six Countries.
• Ending Weight-Related Stigma as the Lynchpin for Tackling Obesity: A Comment on the Contribution of the UK’s Policy Response to Obesity in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Policy Related

• Taxed and Untaxed Beverage Intake by South African Young Adults After a National Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: A Before-And-After Study.
• Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies in Iran: A Policy Analysis of Agenda-Setting Using Kingdon’s Multiple Streams.
• Childhood Obesity Prevention Across Borders: A National Institutes of Health Commentary.
• Media Representations of Opposition to the ‘Junk Food Advertising Ban’ on the Transport for London (TfL) Network: A Thematic Content Analysis of UK News and Trade Press.
• How Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Revenues are Being Used in the United States.

Intergenerational Effects

• Do Genetic Risk Scores for Childhood Adiposity Operate Independent of BMI of Their Mothers?
• Prenatal Exposures to Mixtures of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Children’s Weight Trajectory Up to Age 5.5 in the SELMA Study.
• Disruption of Paternal Circadian Rhythm Affects Metabolic Health in Male Offspring Via Nongerm Cell Factors.
• Effect of Maternal Prepregnancy/Early‐Pregnancy BMI and Pregnancy Smoking and Alcohol on Congenital Heart Diseases: A Parental Negative Control Study.
• Association between Mode of Delivery and BMI at 4-5 Years in White British and Pakistani Children.
• The Consumption of Low-Calorie Sweetener Containing Foods During Pregnancy.
• Systematic Review: Maternal Obesity and Metabolic Disorders Associate with Congenital Heart Defects in the Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Food Insecurity Increases Energetic Efficiency, Not Food Consumption: An Exploratory Study in European Starlings.

Methods

• Prospective Association of Novel Metabolic Indices with Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged and Elderly Chinese.
• Prediction Model for the Risk of Osteoporosis Incorporating Factors of Disease History and Living Habits in Physical Examination of Population in Chongqing, Southwest China: Based on Artificial Neural Network.
• The Impact of Hypothetical Interventions on Adiposity in Adolescence.
• Causality Inference of Obesity and Cancer Risk by Mendelian Randomization Analysis: Are We There Yet?
• The Role of Mendelian Randomization Studies in Deciphering the Effect of Obesity on Cancer.
• Systematic Review: Context-Aware Digital Behavior Change Interventions to Improve Health.

Commentary

• Episode 4: Consumers Don’t Want to Change, So Why are They.
• Challenges in Tackling Energy Expenditure as Obesity Therapy: From Preclinical Models to Clinical Application.
• Social & Health Research Center and Quest Diagnostics Team Up to Address Childhood Hunger and Obesity Exacerbated by COVID-19 in Underserved Communities.
• Could a Distaste for Broccoli Indicate Greater Resistance to COVID-19?
• Insects on the Menu: Characterization of Protein Quality to Evaluate Potential as an Alternative Protein Source for Human Consumption.
• Fellows’ Forum: Benefits of Living Without Growth Hormone.
• Let’s Take Weight Bias Out of Healthcare.
• Green Tea for Weight Loss: Does It Really Work?
• Rejecting Delayed Care for Teens with Severe Obesity.
• Evidence of Cherry Picking Data on Sweeteners.
• Documenting a Dramatic Stillness in the Pandemic.

General

• Psilocybin for Depression?
• Virgin-Births May Compromise Species Lifespan in the Long Term: A Tale from Lizards and Snakes.
• The Relationships between Misinformation and Outrage Trolling Tactics on Two Yahoo! Answers Categories.
• Opioid Use, Motivation to Quit, and Treatment Status Related to COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Peripheral Plasmodium Falciparum Infection in Early Pregnancy Is Associated with Increased Maternal Microchimerism in the Offspring.
• Consistency of Causal Claims in Observational Studies: A Review of Papers Published in a General Medical Journal.
• Decoding Science! How Does Science Know What It Knows?
• Evolution of Large Males Is Associated with Female-Skewed Adult Sex Ratios in Amniotes.
• Scientific Image Sleuth Faces Legal Action for Criticizing Research Papers.
• Factors Associated with Reported Likelihood to Get Vaccinated for COVID-19 in a Nationally Representative US Survey.

Announcements

• Short Course: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research: Friday, July 23rd to Friday, August 13th, 2021. Priority Application for Scholarships: June 6th.
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021. Priority Application for Scholarships: July 2nd.
• Virtual Meeting: NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE, June 7-10.
• Kathleen Keller Studying the Effects of Food Ads on Childhood Obesity.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.

Featured

• RCT: Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drink Consumption Acutely Modifies Cardiovascular Control in Healthy Adults.
• Low-Energy Sweeteners and Body Weight: A Citation Network Analysis. (pdf)
• Characteristics and Quality of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Observational Nutritional Epidemiology: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• RCT: Lesser Mealworm- Appears Equally Effective as Milk-Derived Protein … During Recovery from Exercise in Vivo in Humans.

Headline vs Study

• Press Release: Study Helps Latino Children Manage Obesity over Two Years.
• Study: The Community-Based, Multi-Level, Multi-Setting, Multi-Component Systems Intervention Did Not Reduce BMI Trajectory over Three Years Versus Health Education, the Primary Outcome.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Fast food, supermarkets, other aspects of built environments don’t play expected role in weight gain."
• RCT: No Effect of Resveratrol in Patients with Mitochondrial Myopathy.
• RCT: Short-Term Protein Supplementation Does Not Alter Energy Intake, Macronutrient Intake and Appetite in 50–75 Year Old Adults.
• Pre-Pregnancy BMI Does Not Impact Live Birth Rate After Frozen-Thawed Euploid Embryo Transfer: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Short Term Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Therapy Does Not Influence Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Loss of Female Sex Hormones Does Not Induce a Mechanistic Switch for Development of Hypertension in Obese Female Mice.
• RCT: Exercise Intervention Iatrogenically Increased Symptom Burden in Adult Patients with Acute Leukemia.
• RCT: No Significant Effect on BMI of Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Intervention in Pregnancy for Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Very Low-Carbohydrate Vs. High-Carbohydrate Weight Loss Diets on Psychological Health in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Basic

• Mice Lacking Endogenous TRPV1 Express Reduced Levels of Thermogenic Proteins and are Susceptible to Diet-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Peripheral-Specific Y1 Receptor Antagonism Increases Thermogenesis and Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity.
• On the Potential Role of Globins in Brown Adipose Tissue: A Novel Conceptual Model and Studies in Myoglobin Knockout Mice.
• Myosin 1c; A Novel Regulator of Glucose Uptake in Brown Adipocytes.
• Preconceptional Smoking Alters Spermatozoal MiRNAs of Murine Fathers and Affects Offspring’s Body Weight.
• Aging Reduces Insulin Clearance in Mice.
• Gut Microbiome Contributions to Altered Metabolism in a Pig Model of Undernutrition.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Preprint: Evidence of Misuse of Nonparametric Tests in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity Within Obesity Research.
• Article: Individuals with Obesity and COVID-19: A Global Perspective on the Epidemiology and Biological Relationships.
• Letter: Impact of Obesity on COVID-19-related Mortality: A Comment on Estimates in Popkin et al. 2020.
• Response: To Critique of “Impact of Obesity on COVID-19 Related Mortality: A Comment on Estimates in Popkin et al. (2020)”.
• Letter: COVID-19 and Misinformation: How an Infodemic Fuelled the Prominence of Vitamin D.

Clinical

• RCT: Pharmacokinetics of Orally Administered 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 and Vitamin D3 in Healthy Adults with Differing BMI and in Adults with Intestinal Malabsorption.
• Adipose Tissue Insulin Resistance Is Longitudinally Associated with Adipose Tissue Dysfunction, Circulating Lipids, and Dysglycemia.
• RCT: Effects of Diet and Sodium Reduction on Cardiac Injury, Strain, and Inflammation.
• RCT: Effects of Very Low-Carbohydrate Vs. High-Carbohydrate Weight Loss Diets on Psychological Health in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Associations between BMI and Height During Childhood and Adolescence and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Adulthood.
• European Childhood Obesity Risk Evaluation (CORE) Index Based on Perinatal Factors and Maternal Sociodemographic Characteristics.
• Eating Habits and Lifestyle in Children with Obesity During the COVID19 Lockdown: A Survey in an Italian Center.
• Intention to Lose Weight and Use of Electronic Cigarettes Among Adolescents.
• The “Fat but Fit” Paradigm from a Children's Health-Related Quality of Life Perspective.
• Examination of Weight-Loss Motivators and Family Factors in Relation to Weight Management Strategies and Dietary Behaviors Among Adolescents with Obesity.
• Agent-Oriented Goal Models in Developing Information Systems Supporting Physical Activity Among Adolescents: Literature Review and Expert Interviews.

Surgery

• The Effect of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass on Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal, Nondiabetic Women.
• Review: Place Work on a Scale: What Do We Know About the Association between Employment Status and Weight Loss Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery?
• A BAFF/APRIL Axis Regulates Obesogenic Diet-Driven Weight Gain.

Drugs

• RCT: Metformin Affects Gut Microbiome Composition and Function and Circulating Short-Chain Fatty Acids.
• Future Directions in Obesity Pharmacotherapy.
• An Update on Pharmacotherapeutic Strategies for Obesity.
• N-Acetylcysteine Reduces Addiction-Like Behaviour Towards High-Fat High-Sugar Food in Diet-Induced Obese Rats.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Does Rearranging Meal Times at Night Improve Cardiovascular Risk Factors? A Trial in Australian Night Shift Workers.
• Diet Supplementation with Fish-Derived Extracts Suppresses Diabetes and Modulates Intestinal Microbiome in a Murine Model of Diet-Induced Obesity.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Mulberry Twig Alkaloids Tablet for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Curcumin Alleviates High-Fat Diet-Induced Hepatic Steatosis and Obesity in Association with Modulation of Gut Microbiota in Mice.
• Population Protein Intakes and Food Sustainability Indices: The Metrics Matter.
• Review: Obesity-Induced Taste Dysfunction, and Its Implications for Dietary Intake.
• Effects of Consumption of Acerola, Cashew and Guava By-Products on Adiposity and Redox Homeostasis of Adipose Tissue in Obese Rats.
• Reduction of Cardio-Metabolic Risk and Body Weight Through a Multiphasic Very-Low Calorie Ketogenic Diet Program in Women with Overweight/Obesity: A Study in a Real-World Setting.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effects of Caloric Restriction on Human Physiological, Psychological, and Behavioral Outcomes.
• Taurine Improves Lipid Metabolism and Increases Resistance to Oxidative Stress.
• Caloric Restriction Creates a Metabolic Pattern of Chronological Aging Delay That in Budding Yeast Differs from the Metabolic Design Established by Two Other Geroprotectors.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Resistance Training with and Without Caloric Restriction on Visceral Fat.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Scoping Review: Sedentary Behaviour Research in Adults.
• RCT: Effect of Elastic Band Resistance Training with Green Coffee Extract Supplementation on Adiposity Indices and TyG-Related Indicators in Women with Obesity.
• Joint Association between Accelerometry-Measured Daily Combination of Time Spent in Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep and All-Cause Mortality.

Economics & Sociology

• Daily Associations between Positive Emotion and Obesity-Related Behaviors and Their Interconnections Within Adolescent–Caregiver Dyads.
• Meta-Analysis: Preventing Weight Gain in Adults.
• In Press: A Retrospective Cohort Study Investigating the Impact of Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI on Paediatric Health Service Utilization.

Epidemiology

• Does Weight Loss Reduce the Incidence of Total Knee and Hip Replacement for Osteoarthritis?—A Prospective Cohort Study Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Association of Weight Fluctuation with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Adults Initially with Obesity.
• Systematic Review: The Role of the FTO Gene in the Relationship between Depression and Obesity.
• Leveraging a Founder Population to Identify Novel Rare-Population Genetic Determinants of Lipidome.
• Review: The Triple Health Threat of Diabetes, Obesity, and Cancer—Epidemiology, Disparities, Mechanisms, and Interventions.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Exercise Training on Psychological Outcomes in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• The Relative Reinforcing Value of Cookies Is Higher Among Head Start Preschoolers with Obesity.
• The Relationship between Dietary Fat Intake, Impulsive Choice, and Metabolic Health.
• Do Sleep Quality and Caffeine Consumption Mediate the Relationship between Late Chronotype and BMI?
• Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Initial Weight Loss in a Digital Weight Management Program: A Natural Experiment.
• Extending Expectancy Theory to Food Intake: Effect of a Simulated Fast-Food Restaurant on Highly and Minimally Processed Food Expectancies.

Equity and Disparities

• Dissertation: Cell Phone Use and Adolescent Weight Problems.
• Wealth Index and Other Behavioral and Sociodemographic Characteristics Associated with BMI in Ethiopia.
• Factors Associated with Obesity and Abdominal Obesity Among Malaysian Older Adults.

Ethics

• Equity-Specific Effects of Interventions to Promote Physical Activity Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Results from Applying a Novel Equity-Specific Re-Analysis Strategy.
• The Ups and Downs of Lifestyle Modification: An Existential Journey Among Persons with Severe Obesity.

Stigma

• Dissertation: The Influence of Maternal Body-Shaming Comments and Bodily Shame on Portion Size.
• Comparison of Obstetrician-Gynecologists and Family Physicians Regarding Weight-Related Attitudes, Communication, and Bias.
• Eating and Exercise-Related Correlates of Weight Stigma: A Multinational Investigation.

Policy Related

• Developing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Labels for Young Adults.
• LiveWell in Early Childhood: Results from a Two-Year Pilot Intervention to Improve Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies, Systems and Environments Among Early Childhood Education Programs in South Carolina.
• The Push for Earlier Bariatric Surgery for Adolescents with Severe Obesity.
• California and Federal School Nutrition Policies and Obesity Among Children of Pacific Islander, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Filipino Origins: Interrupted Time Series Analysis.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Does Diet Map with Mortality? Ecological Association of Dietary Patterns with Chronic Disease Mortality.
• The Energetic Function of the Human Foot and Its Muscles During Accelerations and Decelerations.
• Short-Term Responses to a Human-Altered Landscape Do Not Affect Fat Dynamics of a Migratory Ungulate.
• Ancient Human Faeces Reveal Gut Microbes of the Past.

Methods

• The Carbon Isotope Ratios of Nonessential Amino Acids Identify Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Consumers in a 12-Wk Inpatient Feeding Study of 32 Men with Varying SSB and Meat Exposures.
• Are Foods ‘Healthy’ or ‘Healthier’? Front-of-Pack Labelling and the Concept of Healthiness Applied to Foods.
• Image-Based Nutrient Estimation for Chinese Dishes Using Deep Learning.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Measuring and Modeling Energy and Power Consumption in Living Microbial Cells with a Synthetic ATP Reporter.
• New Recommendations for Statistical Reporting in Cardiovascular Medicine (AHA Scientific Publishing Committee Statistics Task Force).

Commentary

• After the Pandemic: New Approaches to Obesity Management?
• "In an effort to encourage more sustainable cooking, we won’t be publishing new beef recipes on Epicurious."
• Reversing Policy Neglect in U.S. Physical Education: A Policy-Focused Primer.
• Public Health Decisions are Made at the Tails of the Distribution: A Novel Tool to Estimate Usual Intake Distributions from Short-Term Dietary Assessment Methods.
• "No, obesity did not reduce the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in clinical trials."
• Five Myths About Obesity.
• Prospects for Pairing Endoscopy with Semaglutide.
• Normal Weight Obesity and Unaddressed Cardiometabolic Health Risk—a Narrative Review.

General

• Breast Milk MSCs Upregulated β-Cells PDX1, Ngn3, and PCNA Expression Via Remodeling ER Stress /Inflammatory /Apoptotic Signaling Pathways in Type 1 Diabetic Rats.
• An Independent Experiment Does Not Support Stress-Mediated Kin Discrimination Through Red Squirrel Vocalizations.
• Perceived Fatigue Does Not Alter Effort-Based Decision Making, but Does Undermine Confidence in the Ability to Perform Physical Actions.
• Natural Reproductive Performance Is Associated with Captive Management in Adult Male Giant Pandas.
• Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras are Living Proof.
• "Watch Dr. Jane Goodall's Beautiful Reflection on the 'Spiritual Power' of the Rainforest."
• Robotic Hand Augmentation Drives Changes in Neural Body Representation.
• Shining a Light on the Impacts of Our Innovations.

Video & Audio

• Methodology Matters — a Podcast on Evidence-Based Nutrition.

Announcements

• Short Course: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research Dates: Friday, July 23rd to Friday, August 13th, 2021. Priority Application for Scholarships: June 6th.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior: 2021 Annual Conference - Raising Reliance and Resilience.