Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Determining Energy Expenditure in a Large Seabird Using Accelerometry.
• Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Regulates Body Weight and Food Intake Via GABAergic Neurons in Mice.
• RCT: Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Obesity Without Diabetes.

Headline vs Study

• Headline (From the Research Authors): Insecure Renting Ages You Faster Than Owning a Home, Unemployment or Obesity. Better Housing Policy Can Change This.
• Study: Associations between Various Housing, Social, and Health Variables and So-Called 'Epigenetic Aging' from DNA Methylation. Causation Not Established; Policy Not Tested.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Early Initiation of Metformin Did Not Significantly Reduce Insulin Initiation or Improve Fasting Hyperglycemia at Gestation Weeks 32 or 38.
• "Mitochondrial genes in every study species exhibited evidence of purifying selection, but the strength of selection was greater in short-distance migrants, contrary to our predictions."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, low BMI had no impact on patient survival" in patients with familial dysautonomia.
• "Although temperatures increased at Mývatn over this period, there was only a slight (non-significant) decrease in midge adult body size, contrary to theoretical expectations."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, when consumed in combination, evening alcohol consumption interacted with ongoing caffeine consumption such that alcohol partially mitigated the impairments in sleep quantity associated with caffeine (p = 0.032)."
• "Sub-effective doses of glucose plus Ad administered simultaneously to Ad-deficient mice increased contextual fear memory, contrary to independent sub-effective doses" in mice.
• "Contrary to some published trials, our meta-analysis concludes that the use of probiotics in patients with SAP is not effective in reducing the mortality rate, septic complications, and need for operation."
• "Contrary to expectations, higher VAI [visceral adiposity index] levels were associated with higher overall cognitive scores and improved episodic memory scores, while no significant effect was observed on mental status."

Basic

• Antioxidants Green Tea Extract and Nordihydroguaiaretic Acid Confer Species and Strain-Specific Lifespan and Health Effects in Caenorhabditis Nematodes.
• A PPARγ/Long Noncoding RNA Axis Regulates Adipose Thermoneutral Remodeling in Mice.
• Puberty as a DOHaD Programming Window: High-Fat Diet Induces Long-Term Hepatic Dysfunction in Male Rats.
• Hepatic Runx1t1 Improves Body Fat Index After Endurance Exercise in Obese Mice.
• Thromboxane A2/Thromboxane A2 Receptor Axis Facilitates Hepatic Insulin Resistance and Steatosis Through Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Leukocyte Telomere Length and Obesity in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Correction: Randomized Nutrient Bar Supplementation Improves Exercise-Associated Changes in Plasma Metabolome in Adolescents and Adult Family Members at Cardiometabolic Risk.
• Evaluation of Changes in Dietary Methodology in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey Rolling Programme from Year 12 (2019 to 2020): Stage 2.

Clinical

• RCT: Precision Nutrition Counseling for Service Members at Risk for Metabolic Syndrome.
• Retatrutide Showing Promise in Obesity (and Type 2 Diabetes).
• Pathophysiology of Obesity-Related Infertility and Its Prevention and Treatment by Potential Phytotherapeutics.
• Pentadecanoic Acid (C15:0) Shares Clinically Relevant Cell-Based Activities with Leading Longevity-Enhancing Compounds.

Children and Adolescents

• Association of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Diet Quality with Adiposity: A Longitudinal Analysis in Children Categorized by Baseline Weight Status.
• Economic Growth and Childhood Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Review: Pediatric Obesity Care Via Telemedicine: Expanding the Path Forward.
• Trends in Prevalence of Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration Among US Children, 1999 to 2018.
• How the Marketing Practices of Commercial Milk Formula Companies Impact Infant Breastfeeding Practices.

Surgery

• Follow-Up Care After Metabolic Surgery – in the North-Eastern Region of Romania.
• Surgical Importance of Belseys Fat in Sleeve Gastrectomy—a Less Visited Topic.
• Weight-Loss Independent Clinical and Metabolic Biomarkers Associated with Type 2 Diabetes Remission Post-Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery.
• Meta-Analysis: Bariatric Surgery for Patients with Overweight/Obesity. A Comprehensive Grading Methodology and Network Metanalysis of RCTs on Weight Loss Outcomes and Adverse Events.

Drugs

• Effect of Obesity on the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Anticancer Agents.
• Cost-Effectiveness of Antiobesity Drugs for Adolescents with Severe Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Effect of Conjugated Linoleic Acid Supplementation on Densitometric Parameters in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Modification of Breakfast Fat Composition Can Modulate Cytokine and Other Inflammatory Mediators in Women.
• Overflowing Tables: Changes in the Energy Intake and the Social Context of Thanksgiving in the United States.
• Opposite Effects of Low-Carbohydrate High-Fat Diet on Metabolism in Humans and Mice.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Glucose Restriction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Modulates the Phosphorylation Pattern of the 20S Proteasome and Increases Its Activity.
• Single Anastomosis Duodeno-Ileal Bypass with Sleeve Gastrectomy Generates Sustained Improvement of Glycemic Control Compared with Sleeve Gastrectomy in the Diet-Induced Obese Rat Model.
• Recombinant-Methioninase-Producing Escherichia coli Instilled in the Microbiome Inhibits Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in an Orthotopic Cell-Line Mouse Model.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Exercise Interventions on Cognitive Functions in Healthy Populations.
• Systematic Review: Perspectives on Concurrent Strength and Endurance Training in Healthy Adult Females.
• Joint Associations of Device-Measured Physical Activity and Abdominal Obesity with Incident Cardiovascular Disease.
• RCT: Effect of High-Intensity Interval Training and Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training in People with Poststroke Gait Dysfunction.

Economics & Sociology

• Review: Obesity from a Sign of Being Rich to a Disease of the New Age.
• Do Differences in Sport Participation Contribute to Socioeconomic Health Inequalities? Evidence from the Lifelines Cohort Study on All-Cause Mortality, Diabetes and Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Association of Obesity with Cardiovascular Disease in the Absence of Traditional Risk Factors.
• Ideal Body Weight-Based Determination of Minimum Oral Calories Beneficial to Function and Survival in ALS.
• Estimating the Effects of Preventive and Weight-Management Interventions on the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in England.
• COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Weight Gain in the Pediatric Population Declined After Restrictions Ended, Except Among Patients with Obesity.
• Obesity and Cardiac Conduction Block Disease in China.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Diet-Induced Glial Insulin Resistance Impairs the Clearance of Neuronal Debris in Drosophila Brain.
• Meta-Analysis: Brain Dopamine Receptor System Is Not Altered in Obesity.
• Modulation of GABA Release by 5-HT1B Receptors: An Interplay with AMPA-Receptors and Voltage-Gated Ca2+ Channels.

Equity and Disparities

• Abstract: Community-Based Interventions to Address Obesity in the Context of Health Equity.
• Abstract: Evidence-Based Interventions for Cancer Equity, Clinic-Based Interventions to Promote Patient-Centered Care, and Weight Loss and Management.
• Spatiotemporal Change in Wealth-Based Inequalities in Overweight/Obesity Among Women of Reproductive Age in India, 2015–2021.

Ethics

• Editorial: The Genetics of Obesity: A New Narrative or the Same Old Story?

Stigma

• Female Advertising Models and Their BMI: How Does BMI Similarity Affect Perceived Product Quality?
• Weight Stigma Associated with Mental Health Concerns Among College Students.
• Moderation of Associations between Weight Discrimination and Diabetes Status by Psychosocial Factors.
• How are People with Obesity Managed in Primary Care? – Results of a Qualitative, Exploratory Study in Germany 2022.
• The Challenge of Weight Stigma for Women in the Preconception Period: Workshop Recommendations for Action from the 5th European Conference on Preconception Health and Care.

Policy Related

• Putting the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Into Action Through the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
• Food Retail Environments, Extreme Weather, and Their Overlap: Exploratory Analysis and Recommendations for U.S. Food Policy.
• Using Online Photovoice to Explore Food Decisions of Families on Low Income: Lessons Learnt During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Analysis of Public Perception of National Obesity Management Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Evaluating the Association between Caesarean Delivery and Weight Status in Early Childhood in a Japanese Birth Cohort Study.
• The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Obesity Among Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Metabolic Rates in Female Guinea Pigs During Different Reproductive Stages.
• Very-Low-Calorie Diets with High and Low Protein Content: Impact on Triiodothyronine, Energy Expenditure, and Nitrogen Balance.
• The Regulatory Role of MicroRNAs in Obesity and Obesity-Derived Ailments.

Methods

• Discretizing Continuous Variables in Nutrition and Obesity Research: A Practice That Needs to Be Cut Short.
• Effects of Different Obesity Evaluation Indexes on Long-Term Blood Pressure Variability in Adults.
• Editorial: Is There a Need for a Dedicated Pharmacokinetic Trial for a Drug in Populations with Obesity? A Drug Prioritization Decision Tree Framework.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Abstract: Modeling of Lipolysis in the Human Body and the Methodology for Developing Technology of Supplements for Obesity Prevention Considering the Utilization of Food Industry By-Products.

Commentary

• Antiobesity Pharmacotherapy in Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Three Details Worth Knowing About the SELECT Study.
• Defining and Diagnosing Obesity in India: A Call for Advocacy and Action.
• Caught between Confronting Reality and Claiming Autonomy.
• How Does APOE Status Impact the Relationship between Obesity and Dementia Risk?
• A Call for Obesity Prevention Interventions for Young Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
• Understanding the Relationship between Body Composition and Mortality Using Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Obesity as a Neuroendocrine Disorder.

General

• An Interdisciplinary and Immersive Real-Time Learning Experience in Adolescent Nutrition Education Through Augmented Reality Integrated with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
• Sex Differences in Mouse Longevity and Responses to Geroprotective Drugs: Implications for Human Intervention.
• Vertically Inherited Microbiota and Environment-Modifying Behaviors Indirectly Shape the Exaggeration of Secondary Sexual Traits in the Gazelle Dung Beetle.
• Occupational Heat Stress Recommendation Compliance Attenuates Acute Kidney Injury Risk Compared to a Work-Rest Matched, Positive Control Scenario.
• The Significance of Hair: We Endow Hair with Psychological and Symbolic Meaning.
• Intra-Uterine Programming of Future Fertility.
• Disentangling the Dynamics of Energy Allocation to Develop a Proxy for Robustness of Fattening Pigs.
• Evaluating Tests for Cluster-Randomized Trials with Few Clusters Under Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Covariate Adjustment.

Video & Audio

• PCAST Advancing Nutrition Workshop Presentations.
• The Sugar Mind Trap: Obesity's Path to Neurodegeneration.
• SELECT Trial and Implications for Population Health.

Announcements

• A Great Model at Indiana University School of Public Health for Stimulating Grant Writing and Submissions.
• Registration Is Now OPEN for Our Advanced Therapies in Pediatric Obesity (ATPO) 2024 Conference. This Is a LIVE Virtual Conference Which Will Be Recorded.* Wednesday, February 21st-Friday, February 23rd 8 AM - 12 N CT Each Day.

Featured

• RCT: Cost-Effectiveness of Goal-Directed and Outcome-Based Financial Incentives for Weight Loss in Low-Income Populations.
• Regulatory T Cells Shield Muscle Mitochondria from Interferon-γ-Mediated Damage to Promote the Beneficial Effects of Exercise in Mice.
• Fructose: a modulator of intestinal barrier function and hepatic health?
• Assessing the Evolutionary Lability of Insulin Signalling in the Regulation of Nutritional Plasticity Across Traits and Species of Horned Dung Beetles.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Obesity: Study Suggests Fructose Is the Key Cause of Weight Gain.
• Press Release: What Drives Obesity - Diets High in Fat? Carbohydrates? Actually, It’s Everything – and Fructose Is at the Center.
• Study: A Review Article Arguing a Fructose Survival Hypothesis.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Pooled results from the random-effects model indicated that the GFD [Gluten Free Diet] has no significant effect on any of the factors of anthropometry, including weight …BMI …waist circumference …and body fat..."
• "Contrary to our predictions, higher BMI predicted less attentional priority for images of food and food logos."
• Meta-Analysis: Evidence of Post-Activation Performance Enhancement on Endurance Exercises.
• RCT: "No effect on vegetable intake was identified. According to sensitivity analyses, effects on fruit intake among the complete sample did not remain significant at 36 months..." in Evolution of fruit and vegetable intake among health promotion service participants in a Brazilian metropolis: 48-month follow-up.
• RCT: "In our study, HM macronutrients were overall not influenced by the NiPPeR intervention supplement taken preconceptionally and during pregnancy" in "A nutritional supplement taken during preconception and pregnancy influences human milk macronutrients in women with overweight/obesity and gestational diabetes mellitus." (pdf)
• RCT: Oral Magnesium Supplementation Does Not Affect Insulin Sensitivity in People with Insulin-Treated Type 2 Diabetes and a Low Serum Magnesium.
• RCT: "Pre-specified analysis per randomization found no effect of the intervention on the 2-year overall mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP) and any other outcomes" in Experience with 2 years’ intervention to progressively reduce salt supply to kitchens in elderly care facilities.
• RCT: Four Sessions of Repeated-Sprint Cycling Training with or Without Severe Hypoxia Do Not Modify Overground Running Sprint Force-Velocity Profile.

Basic

• Deficiency of Histone Variant MacroH2A1.1 Is Associated with Sexually Dimorphic Obesity in Mice.
• TRPV4 in Adipose Tissue Ameliorates Diet-Induced Obesity by Promoting White Adipocyte Browning.
• Transcriptional Repression of Beige Fat Innervation Via a YAP/TAZ-S100B Axis.
• Loss of Phospholipase PLAAT3 Causes a Mixed Lipodystrophic and Neurological Syndrome Due to Impaired PPARγ Signaling.
• Metabolic Consequences of Skeletal Muscle- and Liver-Specific BBSome Deficiency.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Kweichow Moutai Ameliorates Alcohol-Induced Liver Fibrosis in Mice by Targeting the NFκB Pathway.
• Letter to the Editor from Richmond et al: “Sleep Duration and Visceral Adipose Tissue: Linear and Nonlinear Mendelian Randomization Analyses”.
• Visual Cues and Food Intake: A Preregistered Replication of Wansink et al. (2005).
• Retraction: The Relationship between the Mechanism of Sarcopenia and Exercise Based on Data Mining.

Clinical

• Lower Quality of Life in ICU Survivors with Obesity: A Multicenter Cohort Study.
• RCT: Effects of Energy Loads on Energy and Nutrient Absorption Rates and Gut Microbiome in Humans.
• Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle, Genetic Susceptibility to Abdominal Obesity, Cardiometabolic Risk Markers, and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Bifidobacterium Probiotic Supplementation on Blood Glucose: Preclinical Animal Models and Clinical Evidence.

Children and Adolescents

• Pediatric Obesity Prevalence in the U.S. Military Health System, Fiscal Years 2012-2018.
•  Narrative Review: Evidence for Primary Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Healthy Weight Children and Adolescents.
• Chapter: Dietary Interventions for Pediatric Obesity.
• Physical Fitness Among Children with Diverse Weight Status During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Editorial: Maternal Dietary and Lifestyle Patterns with Pregnancy, Birth, and Child Health Outcomes.

Surgery

• Obesity and Its Comorbidities, Current Treatment Options and Future Perspectives: Challenging Bariatric Surgery?
• Meta-Analysis: Bariatric Surgery Reduces Colorectal Cancer Incidence in Individuals with Obesity.
• Narrative Review: Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Patients' Satisfaction and Quality of Life.
• A Novel Pathogenic Variant in MRAP2 in a Patient with Obesity with Successful Outcome of Bariatric Surgery.
• The Impact of BMI on Adverse Outcomes Associated with Panniculectomy: A Multimodal Analysis.
• What Matters to Adolescents with Obesity, and Their Caregivers, When Considering Bariatric Surgery or Weight Loss Devices? A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis.

Drugs

• “FDA Approves New Medication [Tirzepatide] for Chronic Weight Management.”
• RCT: Acute Effect of Different Doses of Caffeinated Chewing Gum on Exercise Performance in Caffeine-Habituated Male Soccer Players.
• Weight Change in a National Cohort of U.S. Military Veterans Engaged in Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.
• Use and Continuity of Weight-Modifying Medications Among Adults with Diabetes and Overweight/Obesity: US Population Study.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: The Relationship between Alcohol Consumption, BMI, and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Meta-Analysis: Substitution of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages with Non-Caloric Alternatives and Weight Change.
• Systematic Review: Who Consumes Ultra-Processed Food? A Systematic Review of Sociodemographic Determinants of Ultra-Processed Food Consumption from Nationally Representative Samples.
• Meta-Analysis: Reference Range for Circulating Ionized Magnesium Concentrations in Adult Populations.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Perspective: Does Dietary Nitrate Boost the Effects of Caloric Restriction on Brain Health? Potential Physiological Mechanisms and Implications for Future Research.
• Prenatal Caloric Restriction Adjusts the Energy Homeostasis and Behavior in Response to Acute and Chronic Variations in Food Availability in Adulthood.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Reported Barriers to Physical Activity and the Role of Built Environment Among Youth with Overweight and Obesity Attending a Canadian Pediatric Weight Management Clinic.
• Parental Perceptions of Physical Activity and Risk of Disease Associated with Sedentary Behaviours in Infants and Toddlers.

Economics & Sociology

• Multilevel Prenatal Socioeconomic Predictors of Mexican American Children’s Cardiometabolic Health in Preschool and School Age.
• Relationship of Living and Eating Arrangements to Mental Distress Among Older Korean Immigrants: Gender Difference in the Mediating Role of Loneliness.
• Systematic Review: Economic Costs of Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Mendelian Randomization: "Age-related hearing impairment may reduce body mass index."
• Age and Sex Differences in the Association between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Environment and Incident Diabetes: Results from the Diabetes Location, Environmental Attributes and Disparities (LEAD) Network.
• Increased Body Weight and Central Adiposity Markers are Positively Associated with the 20-Year Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease: The ATTICA Epidemiological Study (2002-2022).
• Review: Epidemiology of Obesity Among People with HIV.
• Abstract:  Sociodemographic Measures and Disparities in Obesity in US Rural vs Nonrural Counties, 2004-2019.
• Trends in Weight Change Patterns Across Life Course Among US Adults, 1988–2018: Population-Based Study.
• Comparative Analysis of Lifestyle Behaviors and Dietary Intake Among Individuals With and Without Obesity Following Bariatric Surgery: A Secondary Data Analysis from 2020 to 2022.
• Impact of the Immune Profiles of Hypertensive Patients With and Without Obesity on COVID-19 Severity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Neural Adaption in Midbrain GABAergic Cells Contributes to High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Behavioral Treatment and Psychological Complications of Pediatric Obesity.
• Predicting High-Risk Periods for Weight Regain Following Initial Weight Loss.

Equity and Disparities

• Meta-Analysis: Sex-Specific Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease Risks in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• The Impact of COVID-19 on BMI Among Hispanic Children Accessing a Primary Care Clinic in Central Texas: An Epidemic Amidst a Pandemic.

Stigma

• Systematic Review: Psychosocial Consequences of Weight Screening of School-Age Children.
• From Labels to Humiliation: Generation of Discrimination and Resilience in the Obese Population.
• The Role of Body Image and Refusal to Be Weighed: Implications for Primary Healthcare.
• Weight Stigma Is Associated with BMI Among College Students in Taiwan: The Mediated Role of Internalized Weight Stigma.

Policy Related

• The Need to Promote Sleep Health in Public Health Agendas Across the Globe.
• How Indigenous Knowledge May Shape the Future of U.S. Policy.
• Living with Obesity in Ireland – Determinants, Policy, and Future Perspectives.
• Lessons for Strengthening Policymaking for Obesity and Diet-Related Noncommunicable Disease Prevention: A Narrative Synthesis of Policy Literature from the Western Pacific Region.
• State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Policies and Substance Use Rates.

Intergenerational Effects

• Placental Pathologic Features in Obesity.
• Maternal BMI and Smoking as Mediators in the Maternal Education – Offspring Asthma Association in a Register-Based Cohort.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Metabolic Syndrome Accelerates Epigenetic Ageing in Older Adults: Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA).
• Lifestyle Interventions to Delay Senescence.

Methods

• Accuracy of Heart-Rate-Recovery Parameters Assessed from a Wrist-Worn Photoplethysmography Monitor.
• Improving Transportability of RCT Inference Using Robust Prediction Methods.

Commentary

• A Call to the European Congress on Obesity: It’s Time to Remove Corporate Sponsorship.
• Lifestyle-Based Obesity Care.
• The Long Goodbye to Brominated Vegetable Oil.
• Paying a Heavy Price: Costs of Care for People with Severe Obesity in Nursing Homes.
• Outlook for the Future of Food in America.
• Prize Winner's Research Reveals Neural Cells in the Gut That Aid Digestion.
• How Pharmaceutical Companies Misappropriate Fat Acceptance.
• How to Measure the Calories in a Candy Bar—With Physics!

General

• Are Probiotics Actually Beneficial?
• A Vaping Inquisition.
• Two Questions, Hundreds of Scientists, No Easy Answers: How Small Differences in Data Analysis Make Huge Differences in Results.
• Testing the Effects of Kinship, Reciprocity and Dominance on Prosocial Food Provisioning in Azure-Winged Magpies (Cyanopica cyana), Carrion Crows (Corvus corone) and Common Ravens (C. corax).
• Genetic Conflict and the Origin of Multigene Families: Implications for Sex Chromosome Evolution.
• Understanding Organisms Using Ecological Observatory Networks.
• Dysfunction of Mitochondria Drives the Exhaustion of T Cells, Study Shows.
• Unintended Effects of Preferential Tax Assessment on Farmland Protection: Evidence from Utah's Farmland Assessment Act.
• The Impact of Subjective Social Class on Subjective Well-Being: Examining the Mediating Roles of Perceived Scarcity and Sense of Control.
• The “Free Lunches” Index for Assessing Academics: A Not Entirely Serious Proposal.

Announcements

• WEBINAR: Nov 28 - More Than What You Eat: The Regulation of Metabolic Health and Aging by Diet Composition and Activity.
• Indiana University to Invest $250 Million in Bioscience and Technology Initiatives.
• Book Review: Rethinking Diabetes - What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments by Gary Taubes.

Featured

• "Highly processed foods, from pizza to bread, are said to be seriously bad for your health. Here is a digestible guide to what the evidence says, to help you make sense of the conflicting claims."
• BMI Trajectories and Mortality Risk in Japan Using a Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study.
• Untargeted Metabolomic Analysis Investigating Links between Unprocessed Red Meat Intake and Markers of Inflammation.
• Evaluation of Food Security Status, Psychological Well-Being, and Stress on BMI and Diet-Related Behaviors Among a Sample of College Students.

Headline vs Study

• Headline A: One Extra Cup of Coffee a Day May Help Avoid Weight Gain. Here's Why.
• Study A: An Increase in Self-Reported Coffee Intake Was Inversely Associated with Weight Gain, Depending on Whether Participants Self-Reported Adding Sugar or Creamer. Causation Not Established.
• Headline B: Adding Sugar to Coffee, Tea May Not Significantly Impact Health.
• Study B: Self-Reported Use of Sugar in Self-Reported Tea and/or Coffee Consumption Was Not Significantly Associated with Increased Risk of Mortality or Incident Diabetes. Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Systematic Review: "We need to acknowledge that we do not have sufficient knowledge about how to prevent children with a healthy weight from developing overweight."
• Meta-Analysis: Exercise Training Improves Brachial Artery Endothelial Function, but Does Not Alter Inflammatory Biomarkers in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease.
• Functional Knockout of the TRPV1 Channel Has No Effect on the Exercise Pressor Reflex in Rats.
• No Evidence for Direct Thermal Carryover Effects on Starvation Tolerance in the Obligate Blood-Feeder, Glossina morsitans.
• RCT: "After 3 months (n = 81), no difference in weight, BMI, waist circumference, blood pressure, or biomarkers were observed between the groups" in evaluating probiotic efficacy on weight loss in adults with overweight.
• RCT: No Differential "Effects of 12 Weeks of Family and Individual Multi-Disciplinary Intervention in Overweight and Obese Adolescents under Cardiometabolic Risk Parameters."
• RCT: "Contrary to our postulated hypothesis, we did not observe significant differences between the study groups in glucose tolerance and HbA1c" in Pilot Study of the Food Order Behavioral Intervention in Prediabetes.

Basic

• Changes in Brown Adipose Tissue Induced by Resveratrol and Its Analogue Pterostilbene in Rats Fed with a High-Fat High-Fructose Diet.
• CTRP13 Ablation Improves Systemic Glucose and Lipid Metabolism.
• Deletion of Adipocyte NOS3 Potentiates High-Fat Diet-Induced Hypertension and Vascular Remodeling Via Chemerin.
• Dual Roles of Myocardial Mitochondrial AKT on Diabetic Cardiomyopathy and Whole Body Metabolism.
• High-Fat Diet Impairs Glucose Homeostasis by Increased P16 Beta-Cell Expression and Alters Glucose Homeostasis of the Progeny in a Parental-Sex Dependent Manner.
• Adipose Tissue as a Cause of Endocrine Dysfunction.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Specks and Logs, Bias and Conflicts.
• Retraction Watch: “History Repeats Itself: Diabetes Researcher Gets Four Expressions of Concern in Journal He Once Sued."

Clinical

• Obesity Dysregulates the Pulmonary Antiviral Immune Response.
• Bone Marrow Adiposity Alterations in Type 2 Diabetes are Sex-Specific and Associated with Serum Lipid Levels.
• Impact of Metformin and Dysosmobacter Welbionis on Diet-Induced Obesity and Diabetes: From Clinical Observation to Preclinical Intervention.
• Meta-Analysis: Is Binge Eating Associated with Poor Weight Loss Outcomes in People with a High Body Weight?
• Protocol: Effects of Pharmacist-Led Interventions on Glycaemic Control, Adherence, Disease Management and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Effect of the Smartphone Application on Caesarean Section in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Diabetes Complications Worsen Prognosis for Colorectal Cancer Patients.
• Adiponectin as a Key Player in Obesity-Driven Cancers.

Children and Adolescents

• Next Generation, Modifiable Cardiometabolic Biomarkers: Mitochondrial Adaptation and Metabolic Resilience.
• Estimating the Effects of Preventive and Weight-Management Interventions on the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity.
• Atherosclerosis from Newborn to Adult—Epidemiology, Pathological Aspects, and Risk Factors.
• MASLD vs. NAFLD: A Better Definition for Children with Obesity at Higher Risk of Kidney Damage.
• Circulating Extracellular Vesicles are Associated with Pathophysiological Condition Including Metabolic Syndrome-Related Dysmetabolism in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Changes in Leukocyte Telomere Length Among Children with Obesity Participating in a Behavioural Weight Control Program.
• Systematic Review: Human Milk Bioactive Components and Child Growth and Body Composition in the First 2 Years.
• Ultra-Processed Foods and the Nutritional Transition Among Infants and Young Children.

Surgery

• Safety and Efficacy of Bariatric Surgery Versus Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Analogue.
• Advanced Lipoproteins and Lipidomic Profile in Plasma Determined by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Before and After Bariatric Surgery.
• Bariatric Evaluation Through AI.
• Positive Predictive Value for Multitarget Stool DNA After Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery.

Drugs

• Viking Therapeutics Announces Completion of Enrollment in Phase 2 Trial of Dual GLP-1/GIP Receptor Agonist VK2735 in Patients with Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Tirzepatide-Induced Gastrointestinal Manifestations.

Food & Diet

• Healthy Food and Determinants of Food Choice on Online Food Delivery Applications.
• The Underlying Role of Food Guilt in Adolescent Food Choice: A Potential Conceptual Model for Adolescent Food Choice Negotiations Under Circumstances of Conscious Internal Conflict.
• Termites as Human Foods.
• Moving Towards Healthier Eating Habits | Why Low- and No-Calorie Sweeteners Play a Critical Role. (pdf)
• RCT: Anti-Obesity Effect of Neoagaro-Oligosaccharides for Subjects with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Effect of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Perspective: Carbohydrate Confusion and Dietary Patterns: Unintended Public Health Consequences of “Food Swapping”.
• The Association between Alcohol Intake and Obesity in a Sample of the Irish Adult Population.
• Scoping Review: Benefits and Side Effects of Protein Supplementation and Exercise in Sarcopenic Obesity.
• 10 Best High-Protein Snacks, According to Dietitians.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• A Cluster of X-Linked MiRNAs are De-Repressed with Age in Mouse Liver and Target Growth Hormone Signaling.
• Changes in the Prevalence of U.S. Adults Using Diet, Exercise, Pharmaceuticals and Diet Products for Weight Loss from 1999–2018.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Device-Measured Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Risk of All-Cause Mortality: An Individual Participant Data Analysis of Four Prospective Cohort Studies.
• Associations Among Metabolic Health, Weight Status, and Various Physical Fitness Components in Japanese Adolescents.
• Impact of Physical Fitness and Exercise Training on Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Beiging Markers in Humans with and Without Diabetes and a High-Fat Diet-Fed Mouse Model.
• The Role of Cardiopulmonary Fitness in Weight Loss.

Economics & Sociology

• "Differences in Body Weight According to Skin Color and Sex in Mexican Adults."
• ‘If You’re Serious About Losing Weight, Why are You Drinking All Those Cokes?’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Interviews on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Amongst Residents of a Middle to Upper Class Neighborhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
• Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Poor Medication Adherence in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Epidemiology

• Gestational Weight Change in a Diverse Pregnancy Cohort and Mortality over 50 Years.
• Effects of Prepregnancy Dietary Patterns on Infant Birth Weight.
• Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D, Type 2 Diabetes, and Liver-Related Outcomes.
• The Triglyceride-Glucose Index Is a Predictor for Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality in CVD Patients with Diabetes or Pre-Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Effects of Zinc Supplementation on Inflammatory and Cognitive Parameters in Middle-Aged Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Maternal DHA Intake in Mice Increased DHA Metabolites in the Pup Brain and Ameliorated MeHg-Induced Behavioral Disorder.

Equity and Disparities

• Narrative Review: Clinic-Community Food Provision Interventions Aimed at Improving Diabetes Outcomes Among Food-Insecure Adults: Examining the Role of Nutrition Education.
• Examining Neighbourhood-Level Disparities in Black, Latina/o, Asian, and White Physical Health, Mental Health, Chronic Conditions, and Social Disadvantage in California.
• Clinical Performance and Health Equity Implications of the American Diabetes Association's 2023 Screening Recommendation for Prediabetes and Diabetes.
• Building Bridges with School Boards-An Understudied Seat of Health Equity.

Ethics

• "How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia."

Stigma

• RCT: The Effects of an Acute Weight Stigma Exposure on Cardiovascular Reactivity Among Women with Obesity and Hypertension.
• Weight Stigma Is a Predictor of Disordered Eating in Brazilian College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 16-Month Cohort Follow-Up.

Policy Related

• Food and Power in Protracted Crisis: How Systems and Institutions Influence Livelihoods, Food Security, and Nutrition.
• Can Government Investment in Food Pantries Decrease Food Insecurity?
• Food Justice: Turning Private Choices Into Public Issues.
• Comparing Product Healthiness According to the Health Star Rating and the NOVA Classification System and Implications for Food Labelling Systems: An Analysis of 25 486 Products in Australia.
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Bi-Weekly Policy Update.
• Commentary: The Pitfalls of Ascribing Moral Agency to Corporations: Public Obligation and Political and Social Contexts in the Commercial Determinants of Health.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational Hyperglycemia Impairs Mitochondrial Function and Follicular Development and Causes Oxidative Stress in Rat Ovaries Independent of the Consumption of a High-Fat Diet.
• Paternal Obesity Induced by High-Fat Diet Impairs the Metabolic and Reproductive Health of Progeny in Rats.
• Supporting the Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus with Comprehensive Self-Tracking: Mixed Methods Study of Wearable Sensors.
• Continuous Glucose Monitoring Metrics in High-Risk Pregnant Women with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Hypoglycemia and Associated Comorbidities Among Newborns of Mothers with Diabetes in an Academic Tertiary Care Center.
• AI-Enhanced Analysis Reveals Impact of Maternal Diabetes on Subcutaneous Fat Mass in Fetuses Without Growth Alterations.
• Role of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species, Insulin Resistance, and Nrf2-Mediated Oxidative Stress Response-Toward an Actionable Strategy for Anti-Aging.
• Liver-Selective Imidazolopyrazine Mitochondrial Uncoupler SHD865 Reverses Adiposity and Glucose Intolerance in Mice.

Methods

• Exploring Estrogen’s Role in Metabolism and the Use of 13C-Labeled Nutrients for Advanced Animal Physiology and Nutrition Research.
• Epicardial Adipose Tissue, Metabolic Disorders, and Cardiovascular Diseases: Recent Advances Classified by Research Methodologies.
• Comment: The Value of Ethnographic Studies for Making Inferences About the Nature of the Human Paleolithic Diet.

Commentary

• UAB Researchers Link College Student Health with Food Security.
• Red Meat May Not Cause Harmful Inflammation After All.
• How the Brain Protects Itself from Blood-Borne Threats.
• Is a Spoonful of Sugar in Coffee or Tea No Problem?
• Webinar: Solving Sodium – Insights, Science & Strategies to Help You Navigate the Salt Space.
• Speculation About Ripples from Effective Obesity Treatment.
• Special Episode: Peter Answers Questions on Longevity, Supplements, Protein, Fasting, ApoB, Statins, and More.
• Commentary: Renaming Obesity Won’t Fix Weight Stigma Overnight.

General

• "Bacteria use population heterogeneity, the presence of more than one phenotypic variant in a clonal population, to endure diverse environmental challenges - a 'bet-hedging' strategy."
• Editorial: The Role of Medicinal Plants and Natural Products in Modulating Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Related Disorders, Volume II.
• Editorial: Antioxidant and Neuroprotective Potential of Alternative and Complementary Therapeutic Approaches Against Alzheimer’s Disease.
• A Luminous Fast Radio Burst That Probes the Universe at Redshift 1.
• Xanax’s Efficacy Questioned.
• Patterns of Enrichment and Acceleration in Evolutionary Rates of Promoters Suggest a Role of Regulatory Regions in Cetacean Gigantism,
• Survey on the Inclusion of Tobacco Prevention/ Cessation, Nutrition/Diet, and Exercise Physiology/ Fitness Education in Medical School Curricula. (pdf)
• Topoisomerase 1 Activity Is Reduced in Response to Thermal Stress in Fruit Flies and in Human HeLa Cells.
• Longevity May Be Associated with Olfactory Perception of Harmful Substances.
• Is Testosterone Replacement Therapy Both Safe and Effective in Men with Higher Cardiovascular Risk Factors?

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Fat Liberation and Weight Discrimination.

Announcements

• USDA Appoints New Members to Food Safety Advisory Committee.
• Webinar: Control of Muscle Glucose Uptake in Vivo: Thinking Outside the Myocyte Thursday, November 9, 2023 11:00 Am ET.
• Webinar: Processed Foods: Can They Be Right for Your Health or Are They Better Left on the Store Shelf?

Featured

• Remembering Steven N. Blair: A Good Scholar, a Good Man, and a Good Friend Passes.
• Challenges in Undertaking Nonlinear Mendelian Randomization in BMI and Mortality Research.
• "In more thermally demanding conditions female guinea pigs - even under ad libitum food abundance - transfer the higher costs of maintenance and reproduction largely to offspring."
• Energetic Costs of Feeding in 12 Species of Small-Bodied Primates.
• How Narcissism Biases Food Healthiness Perceptions and Consumption.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Morning Workouts May Be Better for Weight Loss, Study Finds.
• Study: Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Diurnal Pattern of Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity and Obesity. Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• MTORC1 Signaling in AgRP Neurons Is Not Required to Induce Major Neuroendocrine Adaptations to Food Restriction.
• Gut Transplants from Bees Fed an Antipathogenic Pollen Diet Do Not Confer Pathogen Resistance to Recipients.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: "There was no evidence to suggest that commercial exergames are more beneficial for improving cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, or working memory than conventional exercises."
• In mongooses, "Furthermore, the accuracy of their carer predicted future survival, but not weight gain of the pups and the effect was contrary to expected, with pups that were cared for by less accurate individuals being more likely to survive to adulthood."
• "...no evidence that overall CDS (cognitive disengagement syndrome) symptoms or ADHD symptoms (overall and subdomain) predicted child BMI."
• "Among non-diabetic adults, environmental exposures were not consistently associated with HbA1c."
• RCT: "The intervention did not result in improved diet quality or cardiovascular health as measured by HEI-2015 or LS7" in Evaluation of the SuperShelf Intervention in Choice-Based Food Pantries.
• RCT: "Our results did not show significant differences in body weight, blood sugar, fasting insulin, or lipid profiles between TRE (time restricted eating) plus BE (behavioral economic) interventions, TRE alone, and usual care groups" in Patients with Impaired Fasting Glucose.

Basic

• Glycolytic Reprogramming Fuels Myeloid Cell-Driven Hypercoagulability.
• Knockout of STE20-Type Kinase TAOK3 Does Not Attenuate Diet-Induced NAFLD Development in Mice.
• Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor-Associated Protein in Immune Cells: A Possible Key Factor in the Pathogenesis of Visceral Obesity.
• Protective Roles of Adiponectin and Molecular Signatures of HNF4α and PPARα as Downstream Targets of Adiponectin in Pancreatic β Cells.
• The Effect of Serum from Calorie-Restricted Mouse on MTOR Signaling in C2C12 Myotubes.
• An Investigation of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Obesity Exposure in the Prenatal Period.
• Metformin Inhibits Digestive Proteases and Impairs Protein Digestion in Mice.
• Effect of Calorie Restriction on Redox Status During Chemically Induced Estropause in Female Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction Watch: ‘Prompt and Decisive’: Editor Says Obesity Study Will Be Retracted After Critique.
• Retraction Watch: Alcohol Researcher Faked Data in Animal Studies, US Watchdog Says.
• An Ultra-Processed Retraction – Still Processing.
• Error in Weighted Analyses and Reported Prevalence Rates.
• Correction: "Per the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, inclusion of the mobile examination clinic (MEC) weights is necessary to make the prevalence data nationally representative."

Clinical

• Umbrella Review: Health Outcomes Associated with Phytosterols.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effects of Time-Restricted Eating vs Habitual Diet on Inflammatory Cytokines and Adipokines in the General Adult Population.

Children and Adolescents

• "Findings of this multi-site study inform the feasibility of partnering with home visiting programs to reach and measure a diverse sample of children and families in need of childhood obesity prevention."
• "Initial visit laboratory values and weight trajectory may allow for risk stratification, whereas fasting plasma glucose is less helpful" for predicting pediatric T2D progression.
• Systematic Review: Nutrient Intake and Status in Children and Adolescents Consuming Plant-Based Diets Compared to Meat-Eaters.

Surgery

• "... bariatric surgery may be associated with a higher risk of gastric and pancreatic cancer and a lower risk of colorectal and liver cancer hospital admission."
• Association of Program-Specific Variation in Bariatric Surgery Volume for Medicaid Patients and Access to Care: A Tale of Inequality?
• Meta-Analysis: Change in Mineral Status After Bariatric Surgery.
• "Food insecure patients had a statistically longer length of stay after primary bariatric surgery but were not associated with an increased risk of 30-d complications."

Drugs

• RCT: Cardiac and Metabolic Effects of Dapagliflozin in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Oral Orforglipron in Patients with T2D.
• RCT: " Tirzepatide provided substantial additional reduction in body weight in participants who had achieved ≥5.0% weight reduction with intensive lifestyle intervention."
• RCT: Short-Term Effects of Canagliflozin on Glucose and Insulin Responses in Insulin Dysregulated Horses.

Food & Diet

• Nutrition Education in Medical Schools: What Do Medical Students Think?
• Mid-Life Adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet and Late-Life Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Women.
• Greater Adherence to the Healthy Nordic Food Index Is Associated with Lower All-Cause Mortality in a Population-Based Sample from Northern Germany.
• Red Meat Intake and Risk of T2D in a Prospective Cohort Study of US Females and Males.
• An Unhealthy Plant-Based Diet is Associated with Higher Risk of Hypertension but Not Framingham Risk Score in Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Diet Composition, Adherence to Calorie Restriction, and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk Modification.
• Calorie Restriction Modulates the Transcription of Genes Related to Stress Response and Longevity in Human Muscle.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Effect of Heat Stress on Heat Shock Protein Expression and Hypertrophy Related Signaling in the Skeletal Muscle of Trained Individuals.
• Diet Diversity and Food Quality Score in Male Football Players and Healthy Non-Athlete Controls in Relation to Oxidative Stress Biomarkers.
• Editorial: Exercise Intervention for Prevention and Management of T2D.
• Weekly Minutes of MVPA Is Associated with Movement Quality in [Older Adults with Overweight and Obesity], Independent of Age.
• Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of a Novel Web-Based Physical Activity Intervention in Adults with Overweight/Obesity.
• Thesis: Effects of Genetic Background and Early-Life Exercise on Adult Traits Related to Exercise Behavior, Morphology, and Physiology. (pdf)

Economics & Sociology

• Parent BMI, Income, and Education Associated with BMI Z-Score of Adolescents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
• Preprint: A Study of Obesity and Financial Stress in Workers in the US.
• "Tirzepatide...may offer the potential to achieve stringent glycemic goals, weight loss targets, and composite treatment goals at a lower cost per responder compared to semaglutide 1 mg among people with T2D."

Epidemiology

• Mendelian Randomization: Life-Course Adiposity and Severe Liver Disease.
• Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality.
• Editorial: Coordinating Efforts to Reduce the Global Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease.
• Associations of 10 Trace Element Levels in the Whole Blood with Risk of Three Types of Obesity in the Elderly.
• Correlation Analysis of Obesity Phenotypes with Leptin and Adiponectin.
• Cross-Sectional: Clinical Impacts of Sarcopenic Obesity on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Variety and Portion Size Combine to Increase Food Intake at Single-Course and Multi-Course Meals.
• The Cerebellum Plays More Than One Role in the Dysregulation of Appetite.
• Response Inhibition Training as an Intervention to Modify Liking and Wanting for Foods Based on Energy Density.
• Sex-Specific Impulsivity, but Not Other Facets of Executive Functioning, Predicts Fat and Sugar Intake Two-Years Later Amongst Adolescents with a Healthy Weight.
• Two Human Brain Systems Micro-Structurally Associated with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Rural–Urban Differences in Overweight and Obesity, Physical Activity, and Food Security Among Children and Adolescents.
• Amplifying Older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Perspectives to Promote Digital Health Equity.
• Effect of a Telephone-Based Lifestyle Intervention on Weight, Body Composition, and Metabolic Biomarkers in Rural Ohio.
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Co-Designed, Culturally Tailored Childhood Obesity Community Prevention Program for Māori and Pacific Islander Children and Families.

Stigma

• Comment: Why We Urgently Need to End the Stigma around Body Weight.
• Systematic Review: Compassion-Based Interventions for Individuals Struggling with Body Weight Shame.
• Perspective: Are Current Guidelines Perpetuating Weight Stigma? A Weight-Skeptical Approach to the Care of Patients with Obesity.
• Exposure to Written Content Eliciting Weight Stigmatization: Neural Responses in Appetitive and Food Reward Regions.
• Exploring the Effect of Adding an Interactive Lecture to a Standardized Patient Curriculum on the Attitudes of Third-Year Medical Students About Patients with Obesity.
• Changing the Global Obesity Narrative to Recognize and Reduce Weight Stigma: A Position Statement from the World Obesity Federation.

Policy Related

• Expert Views on High Fat, Salt and Sugar Food Marketing Policies to Tackle Obesity and Improve Dietary Behaviors in the UK.
• Narrative Review: Ultra-Processed Foods and Cardiometabolic Health: Public Health Policies to Reduce Consumption Cannot Wait.
• Changing the Default Order of Food Items in an Online Grocery Store May Nudge Healthier Food Choices.
• RCT: Impact of Taxes and Warning Labels on Red Meat Purchases Among US Consumers.
• Sentiment Analysis of Tweets on Menu Labeling Regulations in the US.
• The Right Advice, from the Right Person, in the Right Way: Non-Engaged Consumer Families’ Preferences for Lifestyle Intervention Design Relating to Severe Obesity in Childhood.

Intergenerational Effects

• Leptin Resistance in Children with In Utero Exposure to Maternal Obesity and Gestational Diabetes.
• Cord Blood DNA Methylation of Immune and Lipid Metabolism Genes Is Associated with Maternal Triglycerides and Child Adiposity.
• "These results suggest that it is important to manage not only blood glucose levels but also pre-pregnancy body weight and gestational weight gain for appropriate fetal growth."

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Impact of Housing Temperature on Adipose Tissue HDAC9 Expression and Adipogenic Differentiation in High Fat-Fed Mice.
• The Influence of Whole-Body Cryotherapy or Winter Swimming on the Lipid Profile and Selected Adipokines.
• Deciphering Evolutionary Trajectories of Lactate Dehydrogenases Provides New Insights Into Allostery.

Commentary

• New Insights in the Mechanisms of Weight-Loss Maintenance: Summary from a Pennington Symposium.
• The ‘Gas Masks for All’ Approach to Air Pollution: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
• Have We Tortured BMI Enough?
• A Global View of Weight Stigma.
• Nearly 70% of American Soldiers are Obese or Overweight — Compromising National Security.
• Governing Through Labels: A Comparison of Obesity Prevention and Sustainable Consumption Policies.
• How Your Weight Became Part of the Culture War.
• The Fructose Survival Hypothesis as a Mechanism for Unifying the Various Obesity Hypotheses.

General

• Supplemental Material Precision Medicine for the Population—The Hope and Hype of Public Health Genomics.
• Plants: Re-Evaluating the Driving Force Behind Mutations.
• Take Nutrition Studies with a Grain of Salt.
• Meta-Analysis: The Nocebo Effect Across Health Outcomes.
• "In conclusion, combining almonds with other foods such as chocolate and lettuce influences oral processing behaviour and bolus properties and consequently predicted lipid bioaccessibility of almonds, highlighting the impact of food matrix and consumption context on these aspects."
• Longitudinal Plasmode Algorithms to Evaluate Statistical Methods in Realistic Scenarios: An Illustration Applied to Occupational Epidemiology.
• Prosociality Should Be a Public Health Priority.
• Gender and Retention Patterns Among US Faculty.

Video & Audio

• Peter Attia: Conversation About His Hit Book OUTLIVE, Medicine 3.0, Promoting Healthspan, GLP-1 Drugs and More.

Announcements

• NHLBI Obesity, Nutrition and Physical Activity Seminar: The Relationship between Body Weight, Adiposity, and Cardiovascular Risk among South Asian Americans. November 06, 2023. Virtual (webinar). 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET.