Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Another Look at the Extinction of Conditioned Flavor Preferences: Amount of Training and Tests for Spontaneous Recovery.
• Effect of Disclosed Information on Product Liking, Emotional Profile, and Purchase Intent: A Case of Chocolate Brownies Containing Edible-Cricket Protein.
• "Determining the causality of the relationship between energy compensation and adiposity will be key to improving public health strategies regarding obesity."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Consuming Millets Can Reduce Risk of Developing Cardiovascular Disease.
• Study: Meta-Analysis That Predominantly Includes Pre-Post Studies on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors. Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "no significant effects were observed for the primary outcome of weight or average steps per day" in Mobile health assisted self-monitoring is acceptable for supporting weight loss in rural men.
• RCT: "This intervention [a family-based multidisciplinary program for children with obesity], with high engagement from those most affected by obesity, did not achieve long-term efficacy of the primary outcome."
• No Ego-Depletion Effect Without a Good Control Task.
• "Thus, in the type of subjects studied here, borage oil, a source of GLA, did not show promise as a weight control aid..."
• Overall Lack of Genotoxic Activity Among Five Common Low- and No-Calorie Sweeteners: A Contemporary Review of the Collective Evidence.
• RCT: Introducing Dietary Self-Monitoring to Undergraduate Women Via a Calorie Counting App Has No Effect on Mental Health or Health Behaviors.
• "We found no evidence suggesting that loss-framed incentives perform better than gain-framed incentives in children and isolated studies from healthy food choice experiments support the use of immediate, small incentives versus delayed, larger incentives."
• RCT: "Neither intervention yielded significant improvements in child BMI z-score or parent BMI, yet both were delivered with high fidelity."

Basic

• A Pyrexic Effect of FGF21 Independent of Energy Expenditure and UCP1.
• Systemic Versus Local Adipokine Expression Differs in a Combined Obesity and Osteoarthritis Mouse Model.
• JAZF1 Heterozygous Knockout Mice Show Altered Adipose Development and Metabolism.
• IL-20 Is Involved in Obesity by Modulation of Adipogenesis and Macrophage Dysregulation.
• Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Mutation Exacerbated High-Fat-Diet-Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with Gut Microbiota Remodeling in Male Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Toward a More Stable Understanding of Pregnancy Micronutrient Metabolism.
• Tortured Logic About Obesity Prevention.

Clinical

• RCT: Impact of Preconception Weight Loss on Fasting Glucose and Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Obesity.
• Brief Report: Neurological Considerations for the Care of Patients with Severe Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Parental Feeding Practices and Child-Related Factors are Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Longitudinal Outcomes in Adolescents After Referral for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

Surgery

• Improvement in Muscle Strength and Metabolic Parameters Despite Muscle Mass Loss in the Initial Six Months After Bariatric Surgery.
• Evaluation of Resting Energy Expenditure in Subjects with Severe Obesity and Its Evolution After Bariatric Surgery.
• A Longitudinal Study of the Antilipolytic Effect of Insulin in Women Following Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Baicalin Attenuates Diet-Induced Obesity Partially Through Promoting Thermogenesis in Adipose Tissue.
• Systematic Review: Clinical Outcomes Associated with Anti-Obesity Medications in Real-World Practice.

Food & Diet

• Thesis: Assessing Biomarkers of Magnesium in the Diet and for Nutritional Status.
• The Mediterranean Diet and Physical Activity: Better Together Than Apart for the Prevention of Premature Mortality.
• Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Effect of Weight-Loss Diets Prior to Elective Surgery on Postoperative Outcomes in Obesity.
• Salmon Peptides Limit Obesity-Associated Metabolic Disorders by Modulating a Gut-Liver Axis in Vitamin D-Deficient Mice.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Short- and Long-Term Effects of Body Weight Loss Following Calorie Restriction and Gastric Bypass on CYP3A-Activity – a Non-Randomized Three-Armed Controlled Trial.
• Systematic Review: Metabolomic Biomarkers for the Intake of Sugar-Sweetened and Low-Calorie Sweetened Beverages.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Scoping Review: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) as a Potential Countermeasure for Phenotypic Characteristics of Sarcopenia.
• Validation of Ambulatory Monitoring Devices to Measure Energy Expenditure and Heart Rate in a Military Setting.
• Physical Activity Intensity, Perceived Exertion, and Enjoyment During Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality Games.
• Eight-Week Exercise Training in Humans with Obesity: Marked Improvements in Insulin Sensitivity and Modest Changes in Gut Microbiome.

Economics & Sociology

• Regional and Sociodemographic Differences in Average BMI Among US Children in the ECHO Program.
• Uncorrected proof: Long-Term Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions for Obesity: A Mendelian Randomisation Study.
• Overweight/obesity Relationship with Travel Patterns, Socioeconomic Characteristics, and Built Environment.
• Thesis: Influencing Consumer Choice for Healthy Foods at the Point of Purchase: The Role of Marketing Communication and Food Pricing Strategies.

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis: Effect of Long-Term Weight Gain on the Risk of Breast Cancer Across Women’s Whole Adulthood as Well as Hormone-Changed Menopause Stages.
• COVID-19 Pandemic and Stay-At-Home Mandates Promote Weight Gain in US Adults.
• Reconciling the Obesity Paradox: Patients With Obesity Suffer the Highest Critical Illness Associated Mortality Rates.
• Association between Obesity and Hospital Mortality in Critical COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Comparison of Anthro-Metabolic Indicators for Predicting the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in the Elderly Population: Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) Program.
• BMI and Associated Factors Among Refugees Living in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Obesity and Breast Cancer Risk in Men: A National Case-Control Study in England and Wales.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Review: Addressing Psychosocial Health in the Treatment and Care of Adolescents with Obesity.
• Interleukin-6 Actions in the Hypothalamus Protects Against Obesity and Is Involved in the Regulation of Neurogenesis.
• Adult Attention-Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder Among Alcohol Use Disorder Inpatients Is Associated with Food Addiction and Binge Eating, but Not BMI.
• Thesis: Understanding the Biological Pathways between Depression and Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Differential Associations of the Built Environment on Weight Gain by Sex and Race/ethnicity but Not Age.
• Trends in Prepregnancy Obesity and Association with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in the United States, 2013 to 2018.
• Ethnic Group Differences in Obesity in Asian Americans in California, 2013–2014.

Stigma

• Discrimination Associated with Metabolic Syndrome Among African Americans from the Jackson Heart Study. (pdf)
• Experiences of Weight Stigma in Adolescents with Severe Obesity and Their Families.

Policy Related

• Literature Review: The Elusive Link between Income and Obesity.
• Policy Instruments for Health Promotion: A Comparison of WHO Policy Guidance for Tobacco, Alcohol, Nutrition and Physical Activity. (pdf)
• Obesity and Gut Microbiome: Review of Potential Role of Probiotics.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Total Fat, Saturated Fat, and Added Sugar Intakes During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Associated with Infant Body Fat.
• Diet Quality of Norwegian Children at 3 and 7 Years: Changes, Predictors and Longitudinal Association with Weight.
• Review: Metabolic Conditions Including Obesity, Diabetes, and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Implications for Breastfeeding and Breastmilk Composition.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Reproductive Phenology of Blackbuck: Influence of Seasonal Nutritional Resources and Flexible Lactation as an Adaptive Strategy.
• Gudgeon Fish with and Without Genetically Determined Countershading Coexist in Heterogeneous Littoral Environments of an Ancient Lake.

Methods

• Evaluation of a Suggested Novel Method to Adjust BMI Calculated from Self-Reported Weight and Height for Measurement Error.
• A Novel Model of Obesity Prediction: Neurobehaviors as Targets for Treatment.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Equitability of Individual and Population Interventions to Reduce Obesity: A Modeling Study in Mexico.
• Weight and Body Composition Changes Affect Resting Energy Expenditure Predictive Equations During a 12-Month Weight-Loss Intervention.

Commentary

• ""These data in the abstract are interesting," said Eckel, but are not definitive proof that drinking more water is protective of cardiovascular health."
• FDA Releases PFAS Testing Results from First Survey of Nationally Distributed Processed Foods.
• Seriously? 1 Hot Dog = 36 Minutes Less of Healthy Life?
• Science-Based Policy: Targeted Nutrition for All Ages and the Role of Bioactives.
• Obesity, Weight Gain, and Weight Management.
• Narrative Review: ‘Joining the Dots’: Individual, Sociocultural and Environmental Links between Alcohol Consumption, Dietary Intake and Body Weight.
• Global High Blood Pressure, Obesity, and Poverty.

General

• Community Service Learning in the Teen Outreach Program in Non-Metropolitan Florida High Schools.
• Expanding the Curriculum in a School of Public Health.
• Does Choice Change Preferences? An Incentivized Test of the Mere Choice Effect.
• Webinar: "Science is Self-Correcting- But the Record is Not": Marcia McNutt, David Allison, Brian Nosek, Patti Brennan, and Jeffrey Peters, -the experts discuss the challenges.
• Free Electronic Book: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency: Seventh Edition (2021).
• Aging: What We Can Learn from Elephants.
• RCT: Effect of Salt Substitution on Cardiovascular Events and Death.
• Exercise Load Monitoring: Integrated Approaches to Advance the Individualisation of Exercise Oncology.

Announcements

• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: September 10th to October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.

Featured

• The Cardio- Respiratory Effects of Passive Heating and the Human Thermoneutral Zone.
• Preprint: Trajectories of Objectively Measured Physical Function Among Older Breast Cancer Survivors in Comparison with Cancer-Free Controls.
• Dietary Fructose Improves Intestinal Cell Survival and Nutrient Absorption.
• Toward an Evidence-Based Definition and Classification of Carbohydrate Food Quality: An Expert Panel Report.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Joey Chestnut Has Eaten 19,200 Hot Dogs. A New Study Says He Has Lost 1.3 Years of His Life.
• Authors' Lay Article: Individual Dietary Choices Can Add – or Take Away – Minutes, Hours and Years of Life.
• Press-Release: Small Changes in Diet Could Help You Live Healthier, More Sustainably.
• Study: Extrapolation of Global Burden of Disease "Dietary Risk" Associations to Foods in What We Eat in America. Effects of Hot Dogs (or Anything Else) not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "This low-intensive multicomponent child-centered intervention for the primary prevention of child obesity did not show statistical significant effects on zBMI..."
• Muscle-Specific Sirtuin 3 Overexpression Does Not Attenuate the Pathological Effects of High-Fat/High-Sucrose Feeding but Does Enhance Cardiac SERCA2a Activity.
• Matcha Green Tea Powder Does Not Prevent Diet-Induced Arteriosclerosis in New Zealand White Rabbits Due to Impaired Reverse Cholesterol Transport.
• Severity Does Not Impact on Exercise Capacity in COVID-19 Survivors.
• Vitamin D Deficiency Did Not Augment the Progression of High-Fructose-Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Rats.
• Preprint: Telomere Length Variation Does Not Correspond with the Growth Disturbances in the Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).
• RCT: "In contrast to the hypothesis, those responsive to ILI who received PE Planners had significantly greater %BMIp95 improvement than those in Take CHARGE."
• RCT: No Statistically Significant Effect of Treatment Assignment in BestFIT Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial Results: A SMART Approach to Developing Individualized Weight Loss Treatment Sequences.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Progressive Resistance Strength Training on BMI [Primary Endpoint] in Knee Osteoarthritis.

Basic

• Krill Oil Treatment Increases Distinct PUFAs and Oxylipins in Adipose Tissue and Liver and Attenuates Obesity-Associated Inflammation Via Direct and Indirect Mechanisms.
• Neonatal Exposure to a Wild-Derived Microbiome Protects Mice Against Diet-Induced Obesity.
• A Wild Approach to Obesity Prevention.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Vexed Causal Inferences in Nutritional Epidemiology—Call for Genetic Help.
• Article: Efficacy of Vitamin C for the Prevention and Treatment of Upper Respiratory Tract Infection. A Meta-Analysis in Children.
• Letter: Meta-Analysis on Vitamin C and the Common Cold in Children May Be Misleading.
• Reply: Authors’ Response to Letter to the Editor: “Meta-Analysis on Vitamin C and the Common Cold in Children May Be Misleading”.
• Retraction: Efficacy of Vitamin C for the Prevention and Treatment of Upper Respiratory Tract Infection. A Meta-Analysis in Children.
• Summary: Vitamin C and the Common Cold in Children: Severe Flaws in the Meta-Analyses by Vorilhon et al. (2019).
• Correction: Serum Androgen Levels and Their Relation to Performance in Track and Field: Mass Spectrometry Results from 2127 Observations in Male and Female Elite Athletes.
• NYT: Scientists Correct Study That Limited Some Female Runners.
• Video: Science Is Self-Correcting – but the Record Is Not.

Clinical

• Protocol: ‘eatNplay’ – A Rurally-Tailored, Family-Based, Telehealth Intervention for Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Weight Loss Interventions for Hispanic Women in the United States.

Children and Adolescents

• Critical Examination of Relationships between Early Growth and Childhood Overweight in Extremely Preterm Infants.
• Black Community Conversations About Opposing Ethnically Targeted Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages.

Surgery

• Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Attitudes Toward Persons with Obesity (ATOP) Scale in a Preoperative and Postoperative Bariatric Surgery Sample.
• Review: Mechanisms of Weight Loss After Obesity Surgery.
• Meta-analysis: Improvement of Renal Function After Bariatric Surgery.
• Reduction in Long-Term Mortality After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass Compared to Non-Surgical Patients with Severe Obesity.

Drugs

• RCT: Advancing Therapy in Suboptimally Controlled Basal Insulin–Treated Type 2 Diabetes: Clinical Outcomes with IGlarLixi Versus Premix BIAsp 30.
• Review: Strategies for Browning Agent Delivery.

Food & Diet

• Kale Supplementation During High Fat Feeding Improves Metabolic Health in a Mouse Model of Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• The Relation between Dietary Phytochemical Index and Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components in a Large Sample of Iranian Adults.
• Kaempferol Reduces Obesity, Prevents Intestinal Inflammation, and Modulates Gut Microbiota in High-Fat Diet Mice: Kaempferol Reduce Inflammation and Dysbacteria.
• The Correlation between Serum Inflammatory, Antioxidant, Glucose Handling Biomarkers, and Dietary Antioxidant Index (DAI) and the Role of DAI in Obesity/Overweight Causation.
• Review: The Mediterranean Diet and Health: A Comprehensive Overview.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effects of High Versus Standard Essential Amino Acid Intakes on Whole-Body Protein Turnover and Mixed Muscle Protein Synthesis During Energy Deficit.
• Combining Metabolic Profiling of Plasma and Faeces as a Fingerprint of Insulin Resistance in Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Augmenting the Formation of Esports Gameplay Intention: Interaction Effects of Genre and Gender.
• Associations of Overweight, Obesity and Osteoporosis with Ankle Fractures.

Economics & Sociology

• Book chapter: Obesity and Socioeconomic Status: Case Study of Peruvian Women.
• Book chapter: Food Policies, Government Interventions, and Reducing Poverty.

Epidemiology

• Rising Rate of Obesity in Patients Admitted for Crohn’s Disease Increases Costs but Not Mortality.
• Obesity and Glycemic Control Among People with Type 2 Diabetes in the United States.
• Dissertation: Within-Subject Variability in Weight: Characterization and Clinical Correlates in Residential Patients with an Eating Disorder.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• A Human Voice, but Not Human Visual Image Makes People Perceive Food to Taste Better and to Eat More: “Social” Facilitation of Eating in a Digital Media.
• Using Psycho-Behavioral Phenotyping for Overweight and Obesity: Confirmation of the 6 Factor Questionnaire.
• Homeostasis and Food Craving in Obesity: A Functional MRI Study.
• Central Noradrenergic Neurotransmission and Weight Loss 6 Months After Gastric Bypass Surgery in Patients with Severe Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Dysregulated Resting State Functional Connectivity and Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• We Need to Address Health Disparities to Combat Alcohol-Related Harm.
• Book chapter: Income and Wealth Inequality and Obesity.

Stigma

• RCT: Effects of obesity framing on weight stigma: "Participants in the food addiction condition reported higher internalized weight stigma compared with those in the control condition".
• The Predictive Role of Body Image and Anti-Fat Attitudes on Attentional Bias Toward Body Area in Haptic Virtual Reality Environment.
• HIV Status, Obesity, and Risk for Weight Stigma: Comparing Weight Stigma Experiences and Internalization Among Adults with Obesity with and Without HIV.
• A Model of Weight-Based Stigma in Health Care and Utilization Outcomes: Evidence from the Learning Health Systems Network.

Policy Related

• Monitoring Changes in Community Support for Policies on Obesity Prevention.
• Review: Obesity and Gut Microbiome: Potential Role of Probiotics.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Thinness and Obesity and Customized Fetal Weight Charts.
• Added Sugars Mediate the Relation between Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Infant Rapid Weight Gain: A Preliminary Study.
• Paternal High Protein Diet Modulates Body Composition, Insulin Sensitivity, Epigenetics, and Gut Microbiota Intergenerationally in Rats.
• Effect of an Antenatal Lifestyle Intervention on Dietary Inflammatory Index and Its Associations with Maternal and Fetal Outcomes: A Secondary Analysis of the PEARS Trial.
• Prenatal Maternal Mental Health Symptoms Predict Infant Leptin at Birth.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Energy Expenditure Across Immune Challenge Severities in a Lizard: Consequences for Innate Immunity, Locomotor Performance, and Oxidative Status.
• The Evolution of 'Big': How Sociality Made Life Larger.

Methods

• The Site of Waist Measurement Impacts the Estimation of Visceral Fat: Results from Three-Dimensional Photonic Body Scanning.
• Applied Comparison of Large-scale Propensity Score Matching and Cardinality Matching for Causal Inference in Observational Research.
• Offseason Body Composition Changes Detected by Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry Versus Multifrequency Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Collegiate American Football Athletes.

Commentary

• Black Community Conversations About Opposing Ethnically Targeted Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages.
• Framing of Nutrition Policy Issues in the Australian News Media, 2008-2018.
• Approach to Obesity in the Older Population.
• Micronutrient Malnutrition Across the Life Course, Sarcopenia and Frailty.
• Looking at Evidence for Yoga in the Midst of a Pandemic.
• Fat Cells Send Mitochondrial Distress Signals to the Heart.
• Gestational Diabetes Rose by a Third in Eight Years.
• Adipose Tissue and the Pathogenesis of Insulin Resistance in Patients with Obesity and NAFLD.
• Fructose in the Diet Expands the Surface of the Gut and Promotes Nutrient Absorption.

General

• Pleasure During Adolescents’ Most Recent Partnered Sexual Experience: Findings from a U.S. Probability Survey.
• Empirical Versus Theoretical Power and Type I Error (false-Positive) Rates Estimated from Real Murine Aging Research Data.
• Review: The Effects of Cocoa Flavanols on Indices of Muscle Recovery and Exercise Performance.
• Population Structure, Genomic Diversity and Demographic History of Komodo Dragons Inferred from Whole-Genome Sequencing.
• Invasive Snails, Parasite Spillback, and Potential Parasite Spillover Drive Parasitic Diseases of Hippopotamus Amphibius in Artificial Lakes of Zimbabwe.
• Medical Phenome of Musicians: An Investigation of Health Records Collected on 9803 Musically Active Individuals.
• Increasing Reproducibility in Oral Microbiome Research.
• A (Baker's) Dozen Tips for Enhancing Early-Stage Academic Career Development in Biomedical Research.
• Seeing Class in Ladders: An Integrated Approach to Subjective Status and Health Inequality.

Announcements

• Obituary for Joseph R. Vasselli - a Good Scholar, a Good Man, and a Good Friend.
• Precision Nutrition Infographic Competition Due September 17.
• ASN Webinar Sept 29: Child Nutrition Reauthorization: Nutrition Opportunities and Considerations.
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: September 10th to October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.

Featured

• Daily Energy Expenditure Through the Human Life Course.
• Ablation of Sam68 in Adult Mice Increases Thermogenesis and Energy Expenditure.
• The Effect of Endurance Training on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mice.
• Mito-Mendelian Interactions Alter in vivo Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Sensitivity in Healthy Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Drug Corrects Diet-Induced Obesity by Keeping Mitochondria from Fragmenting.
• Press-Release: Targeting Mitochondria Shows Promise in Treating Obesity: Molecule That Changes the Shape of Mitochondria Corrects Obesity.
• Study: Drug-Like Sphingolipid SH-BC-893 Opposes Ceramide-Induced Mitochondrial Fission and Corrects Diet-Induced Obesity... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Effect of Monosodium Glutamate on Subjective Appetite and Subsequent Energy Intake in Children of Different Ethnicities.
• RCT: Unsupervised Exercise Training Was Not Found to Improve the Metabolic Health or Phenotype over a 6-Month Dietary Intervention.
• "Contrary to expectations, SMM and SMI were also higher in patients with NASH. Therefore, higher body fat, rather than sarcopenia and SO, might be decisive for development of NASH in patients with obesity."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, DH mice were leaner, had increased energy dissipation, a pro-thermogenic profile in BAT and WAT, and improved carbohydrate metabolism compared to wild types."
• "In conclusion, prenatal exposure to preferred D-limonene and trans-anethole, or familiarity to eucalyptol did not help to overcome the innate aversion to eucalyptol and its negative effect on weanling piglets' BW."
• "The hypothesis that previously reported correlations between knee-extensor torque complexity and metabolic rate ([Formula: see text]) would be conserved at reduced joint angles (i.e., shorter muscle lengths)" was not confirmed.
• "In conclusion, frequency of consumption of boiled potatoes was not associated with all-cause or CVD mortality in the HUNT population in Norway."
• "No evidence was found that the 'prudent' pattern reduced cancer mortality."

Basic

• Distinct Changes in Gut Microbiota are Associated with Estradiol-Mediated Protection from Diet-Induced Obesity in Female Mice.
• Dynamic Interplay between Afadin S1795 Phosphorylation and Diet Regulates Glucose Homeostasis in Obese Mice.
• Hematopoietic Upstream Stimulating Factor 1 Deficiency Is Associated with Increased Atherosclerosis Susceptibility in LDL Receptor Knockout Mice.
• NOTUM Promotes Thermogenic Capacity and Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity in Male Mice.
• Pinch Loss Ameliorates Obesity, Glucose Intolerance and Fatty Liver by Modulating Adipocyte Apoptosis in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Expectancy Violation and COVID-19 Misinformation: A Comment on Bogomoletc and Lee's “Frozen Meat Against COVID-19 Misinformation: An Analysis of Steak-Umm and Positive Expectancy Violations”.
• Reply: A Response to Jon Agley’s “Expectancy Violation and COVID-19 Misinformation”.
• Article: Increasing Skeletal Muscle Carnitine Content in Older Individuals Increases Whole-body Fat Oxidation During Moderate-intensity Exercise.
• Letter: Does Carnitine Supplementation Truly Increase Whole-Body Fat Oxidation in Older Male Adults During Moderate-Intensity Exercise?
• Editorial: Strengthening Research Investigating Maternal Nutrition and Children's Neurodevelopment: How Can We Do It Better? Where Do We Go from Here?

Clinical

• Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Patients with Severe Obesity (BMI >40): A Survey of Practices in the United States.
• Systematic Review: Peer-Supported Lifestyle Interventions on Body Weight, Energy Intake, and Physical Activity in Adults.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Comparing Two Different Family-Based Childhood Obesity Treatment Programmes in a Medically Underserved Region: Effectiveness, Engagement and Implementation Outcomes.
• Case-Control Study: Comparison of Family Related Factors, Nutritional-Behavioral Habits, and Lifestyle of Children with and without Obesity.
• "...the reported prevalences of childhood obesity in Australia between 1985 and 1995 were likely to have been overestimated, a result of the BMI-height bias coupled with the increase in average height during that period."
• Waist Circumference and Waist-To-Height Ratio in 7-Year-Old Children from the WHO Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative.
• Systematic Review: School-Based High-Intensity Interval Training Programs for Promoting Physical Activity and Fitness in Adolescents.

Surgery

• "Regulation of thioredoxin‑interacting protein could be part of the mechanism of diabetes remission after bariatric surgery."
• Intestinal-Derived FGF15 Protects Against Deleterious Effects of Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy in Mice.
• Microstructural Changes in Human Ingestive Behavior After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass During Liquid Meals.
• "The presence of obstructive sleep apnoea does not influence either sleep duration or sleep quality in the bariatric surgical population. This suggests that clinically severe obesity itself may cause poor sleep."
• Systematic Review: Genetic Correlates of Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Weight Gain and Obesity Rates in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults Before and During Hormone Therapy.
• Obesity Potentiates the Risk of Drug-Induced Long QT Syndrome - Preliminary Evidence from WNIN/Ob Spontaneously Obese Rat.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Efficacy of Oral Cholecalciferol in Improving Renal and Vascular Functions in Vitamin D-Deficient Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Age and Sex Interact to Determine the Effects of Commonly Consumed Dairy Products on Postmeal Glycemia, Satiety, and Later Meal Food Intake in Adults.
• Alanine Alters the Carbohydrate Metabolism of Rainbow Trout: Glucose Flux and Cell Signaling.
• Effects of Miao Sour Soup on Hyperlipidemia in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Rats Via the AMPK Signaling Pathway.
• Spirulina Platensis Polysaccharides Attenuate Lipid and Carbohydrate Metabolism Disorder in High-Sucrose and High-Fat Diet-Fed Rats in Association with Intestinal Microbiota.
• Review: The Anti-Obesogenic Effects of Dietary Berry Fruits.
• Review: Protective and Ameliorating Effects of Probiotics Against Diet-Induced Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• The Effects of Graded Calorie Restriction XVII: Multitissue Metabolomics Reveals Synthesis of Carnitine and NAD, and TRNA Charging as Key Pathways.
• Bigu-Style Fasting Affects Metabolic Health by Modulating Taurine, Glucose, and Cholesterol Homeostasis in Healthy Young Adults.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Standing Is Associated with Insulin Sensitivity in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Effect Modification of Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Obesity, and Physical Activity in Adults.
• Lack of Increase in Muscle Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis During the Course of Aerobic Exercise and Its Recovery in the Fasting State Irrespective of Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic Review: The Effectiveness of Weight-Loss Lifestyle Interventions for Improving Fertility in Women and Men with Overweight or Obesity and Infertility.
• Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis: The Lived Experience of Patients with Obesity.

Epidemiology

• "Watching TV at least once a week was found to be a significant correlate of overweight and obesity in rural Timorese women of reproductive age."
• Adverse Childhood Experiences and Obesity over Time.
• Biomarker-Calibrated Macronutrient Intake and Chronic Disease Risk Among Postmenopausal Women.
• Substituting Meat or Dairy Products with Plant-Based Substitutes Has Small and Heterogeneous Effects on Diet Quality and Nutrient Security.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• "Children with obesity having greater initial impulsivity had better weight outcomes in treatment even after adjusting for initial appetitive drive."
• Weight Change Predicts College Adjustment and Depressive Symptoms Among First-Year College Students.
• Homeostasis and Food Craving in Obesity (Functional MRI Data).
• "...grandmother underweight prior to pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of ADHD among grandchildren..."
• Dynamic Regional Alterations in Mouse Brain Neuronal Activity Following Short-Term Changes in Energy Balance.
• Meta-Analysis: Weight Loss Interventions on Health-Related Quality of Life in Those with Moderate to Severe Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Fixed Effects Analysis: Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Food Environment and Body Composition Among School-Aged Children.
• Food Insecurity Is Associated with Higher Food Responsiveness in Low-Income Children: The Moderating Role of Parent Stress and Family Functioning.
• Sex-Specific Signature in the Circulating NLRP3 Levels of Saudi Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.

Stigma

• Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis: What are Weight Bias Measures Measuring? An Evaluation of Core Measures of Weight Bias and Weight Bias Internalisation.
• "Better If They Laugh with Me than at Me": The Role of Humor in Coping with Obesity-Related Stigma in Women.

Policy Related

• Digital Health and Precision Prevention: Shifting from Disease-Centred Care to Consumer-Centred Health.
• Changes in Food Purchases After the Chilean Policies on Food Labelling, Marketing, and Sales in Schools: A Before and After Study.
• From Data to Action: Combatting Childhood Obesity in Europe and Beyond.
• Qualifications and Competence to Prescribe Dietary Supplements: Perception of Fitness Instructors.
• Systematic Review: Undergraduate Medical Education Interventions Aimed at Managing Patients with Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prospective Relations between Maternal Emotional Eating, Feeding to Soothe, and Infant Appetitive Behaviors.
• Influence of Maternal Excess Weight Before Pregnancy on Breastfeeding and Weaning.
• Review: Should COVID-19 Mother Breastfeed Her Newborn Child?
• Review: Maternal Diet During Pregnancy and Lactation and Child Food Preferences, Dietary Patterns, and Weight Outcomes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Environmental Gradients Predict the Ratio of Environmentally Acquired Carotenoids to Self-Synthesised Pteridine Pigments.
• Cannibalism and Necrophagy Promote a Resource Loop and Benefit Larval Development in Insects of Temporary Waters.

Methods

• Design, Simulation, and Fabrication of an Ingestible Capsule with Gastric Balloon for Obesity Treatment.
• A Simple Method of Sarcopenia Detection Can Predict Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Abdominal Obesity.
• CUN-BAE Index as a Screening Tool to Identify Increased Metabolic Risk in Apparently Healthy Normal-Weight Adults and Those with Obesity.
• Magnesium Depletion Score (MDS) Predicts Risk of Systemic Inflammation and Cardiovascular Mortality Among US Adults.
• A Dietary Supplement Frequency Questionnaire Correctly Ranks Nutrient Intakes in US Older Adults When Compared to a Comprehensive Dietary Supplement Inventory.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Anthropometric Indicators of Obesity. Are the New Indicators a Better Predictor of Body Fat Content Than BMI?
• Why Meals During Resting Time Cause Fat Accumulation in Mammals? Mathematical Modeling of Circadian Regulation on Glucose Metabolism.
• New Insights on the Interactions between Insulin Clearance and the Main Glucose Homeostasis Mechanisms.

Commentary

• Simple Energy Balance or Microbiome for Childhood Obesity Prevention?
• The Possible Mechanism of Physiological Adaptation to the Low-Se Diet and Its Health Risk in the Traditional Endemic Areas of Keshan Diseases.
• What We Think We Know About Metabolism May Be Wrong.
• Increases in Adiposity Among Children and Adolescents over Time: Moving Beyond BMI.
• Mobilizing Governments and Society to Combat Obesity: Reflections on How Data from the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative are Helping to Drive Policy Progress.
• Intake of Ultraprocessed Foods Among US Youths Health Concerns and Opportunities for Research and Policy.
• Is Makeup Making Us Fat?

General

• RCT: Quality Control Questions on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk).
• Envisioning Science for an Unknown Future.
• A Quantitative Decision Theory of Animal Conflict.
• The Light-To-Nutrient Ratio in Alpine Lakes: Different Scenarios of Bacterial Nutrient Limitation and Community Structure in Lakes Above and Below the Treeline.
• Cross-Continental Comparison of Parasite Communities in a Wide-Ranging Carnivore Suggests Associations with Prey Diversity and Host Density.
• Anaerobic Digestion of Sewage Sludge Has No Effect on Glucocorticoid and Anti-Progestagenic Activity but Increases Estrogenicity Three-Fold.
• "Overall, evidence supports our hypothesis that artificial lighting and noise pollution have been overlooked as long-term contributors to the spillover of zoonotic pathogens to humans in urban environments."
• Review: Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) and Its Receptor, RAGE, Modulate Age-Dependent COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality.

Announcements

• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: September 10th to October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.

Featured

• "Garvey selected to earn highest honor from AACE."
• The Effects of Graded Calorie Restriction XVII: Multitissue Metabolomics Reveals Synthesis of Carnitine and NAD, and tRNA Charging as Key Pathways.
• Dietary Inflammatory Index and Cardiometabolic Risk in Ecuadorian Women.
• Eight Fold Increase in the Dietary Supplement Related Liver Failure Leading to Transplant Waitlisting over the Last Quarter Century in the US.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: AU Study: Some Fat Actually Beneficial in Fighting Dementia.
• Press-Release: Beige Fat 'Indispensable' in Protecting the Brain from Dementia.
• Study: Beige Adipocytes Mediate the Neuroprotective and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Subcutaneous Fat... In Mice.
• HvS Study: What’s Not in the News Headlines or Titles of Alzheimer Disease Articles? #InMice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "DeskCyclesTM were not an effective intervention for physical activity or behavioral outcomes in this classroom setting."
• "High coffee consumption is associated with low risk of mortality, cardiometabolic diseases, some cancers and gallstones in observational studies, with no evidence to support causality from Mendelian randomization studies for most diseases except gallstones."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of 12-Weeks Elastic Band Resistance Training on MyomiRs and Osteoporosis Markers in Elderly Women with Osteosarcopenic Obesity.
• RCT: "In contrast to findings from previous studies in younger adults and those with pre-existing hypertension, measures of vascular function in this cohort of healthy postmenopausal women were not impacted by supplemental watermelon juice."
• "Nut consumption has no effect, positive or negative, on weight or adiposity parameters in people with T2D."
• RCT: "Multi-modal exercise training improved body composition and some appetite outcomes, although changes were inconsistent and largely independent of exercise-timing. In the absence of dietary manipulation, the effect of diurnal exercise timing on appetite and body composition appear trivial compared to the overall benefits of exercise participation."
• "Contrary to bariatric surgery, only limited evidence indicated that site and type of surgery, the approach to the abdominal cavity (laparoscopic vs. open), institutional factors, and the type of perioperative care such as ERAS protocols may play a role in determining postsurgical complications in obese patients."

Basic

• Impact of Obesity on Day-Night Differences in Cardiac Metabolism.
• Depletion of Microglia Mitigates Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Diet-Induced Obesity Mice.
• Low-Molecular Alginate Improved Diet-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Through Modulating the Gut Microbiota in BALB/c Mice.
• Iron Overload Protects from Obesity by Ferroptosis.
• The Effects of Mirabegron on Obesity-Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance are Associated with Brown Adipose Tissue Activation but Not Beiging in the Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue.
• Adipocyte NR1D1 Dictates Adipose Tissue Expansion During Obesity.
• Brown Adipose Tissue Is the Key Depot for Glucose Clearance in Microbiota Depleted Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Concerns About Chocolate Consumption and Indicators of Adiposity.
• Article: Do Lower-Carbohydrate Diets Increase Total Energy Expenditure? An Updated and Reanalyzed Meta-Analysis of 29 Controlled-Feeding Studies.
• Letter: Overestimated Impact of Lower-Carbohydrate Diets on Total Energy Expenditure.
• Response: Letter to the Editor: Reply to Guyenet and Hall.
• Causes and Consequences of Interindividual Response Variability: A Call to Apply a More Rigorous Research Design in Acute Exercise-Cognition Studies.

Clinical

• MRI Based Validation of Abdominal Adipose Tissue Measurements from DXA in Postmenopausal Women.
• Modeling the Influence of Chronic Sleep Restriction on Cortisol Circadian Rhythms, with Implications for Metabolic Disorders.
• RCT: Advancing Therapy in Suboptimally Controlled Basal Insulin–Treated Type 2 Diabetes: Clinical Outcomes with IGlarLixi Versus Premix BIAsp 30.
• RCT: Effectiveness of Combining Antiobesity Medication with an Employer-Based Weight Management Program for Treatment of Obesity.
• RCT: Novel Lifestyle Intervention Compared with the Diabetes Prevention Program for Weight Loss in Adult Dependents of Military Service Members.

Children and Adolescents

• Monogenic Diabetes in Youth with Presumed Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the Progress in Diabetes Genetics in Youth (ProDiGY) Collaboration.
• Thinness, Overweight, and Obesity Among 6- to 17-Year-Old Malaysians: Secular Trends and Sociodemographic Determinants from 2006-2015.
• Dissertation: Examination of the Efficacy of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act to Reduce High School Childhood Obesity Rates System.
• Recent Trends in Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents Aged 12 to 15 years Across 21 Countries.
• Meta-Analysis: Interventions to Treat Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents.
• Exploring the Importance of Diversified Physical Activities in Early Childhood for Later Motor Competence and Physical Activity Level: A Seven-Year Longitudinal Study.

Surgery

• The Need and Safety of Mineral Supplementation in Adults with Obesity Post Bariatric Surgery-Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG).
• Obesity and Perioperative Outcomes in Older Surgical Patients Undergoing Elective Spine and Major Arthroplasty Surgery.
• Toll-Like Receptor-4 (TLR4) and MyD88 are Required for Gastric Bypass-Induced Metabolic Effects.
• Cost-Effectiveness of Procedure-Less Intragastric Balloon Therapy as Substitute or Complement to Bariatric Surgery.
• Sleeve Gastrectomy Suppresses Hepatic Glucose Production and Increases Hepatic Insulin Clearance Independent of Weight-Loss.
• Systematic Review: Impact of Bariatric Surgery-Induced Weight Loss on Ovarian Reserve in Women with Obesity.
• Examining the Rates of Obesity and Bariatric Surgery in the United States.
• Patient Reported Outcomes After Metabolic Surgery Versus Medical Therapy for Diabetes.

Drugs

• RCT: Effects of Liraglutide on Visceral and Ectopic Fat in Adults with Overweight and Obesity at High Cardiovascular Risk.
• Targeting Visceral Adiposity with Pharmacotherapy.
• Metformin for Pediatric Obesity and Insulin Resistance: A Retrospective Study Within an Integrated Health Care System.
• Obesity-Induced Changes in Human Islet G Protein-Coupled Receptor Expression: Implications for Metabolic Regulation.
• Managing Obesity and Related Comorbidities: A Potential Pharmacological Target in the Adenosine System?

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, Five-Year Weight Change, and Risk of Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Decreased Iron Intake Parallels Rising Iron Deficiency Anemia and Related Mortality Rates in the US Population.
• Comparative Study of the Anti-Obesity and Gut Microbiota Modulation Effects of Green Tea Phenolics and Their Oxidation Products in High-Fat-Induced Obese Mice.
• Improvement Effect of Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum l.) Powder Intake on Obese Mice Fed a High-Fat and High-Sucrose Diet.
• Trends in Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods Among US Youths Aged 2-19 Years, 1999-2018.
• RCT: Mediterranean Diet Reduces Atherosclerosis Progression in Coronary Heart Disease.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Changes in Cardiometabolic Risk Among Older Adults with Obesity: An Ancillary Analysis Investigating Exercise Plus Weight Maintenance and Exercise Plus Intentional Weight Loss by Caloric Restriction.
• Weight Loss from Caloric Restriction vs Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery Differentially Regulates Systemic and Portal Vein GDF15 Levels in Obese Zucker Fatty Rats.
• Abstract: Short-Term Carbohydrate and Lipid Restriction Impact on Obese Gerbil.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Exercise in the Maintenance of Weight Loss: Health Benefits Beyond Lost Weight on the Scale.
• Physical Activity and the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Severe Covid-19 Illness and Covid-19 Related Mortality in South Korea.
• RCT: Two Weekly Sessions of High-Intensity Interval Training Improve Metabolic Syndrome and Hypertriglyceridemic Waist Phenotype in Older Adults.
• Microcirculatory Responses to Muscle and Tendon Exercises in Individuals with and Without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the Association between Microcirculatory and Exercise Performance.
• Gender Differences in the Association between Physical Activity and Obesity in Adults with Vision and Hearing Losses.
• Systematic Review: The Impact of Yoga on Components of Energy Balance in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Area-Level and Family-Level Socioeconomic Position and Body Composition Trajectories: Longitudinal Analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
• Rational Addiction and Other Purchasing Dynamics Across Obesity Status Groups.
• Obesity Is Associated with Lack of Access to Dental Care and Physical Activity Among Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Diabetes Drug’s New Weight Loss Formula Fuels Cost-Benefit Debate.
• The Economic Burden of Obesity in Italy: A Cost-Of-Illness Study.

Epidemiology

• Early Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease, Varied Association with BMI and Its Changes in Insulin-Treated Diabetes: A Nationwide Study.
• Anthropometric Indices and Age at Natural Menopause: A 15-Year Follow-Up Population-Based Study.
• Comparative Analysis of Metabolic Syndrome Diagnostic Criteria and Its Effects on Prevalence in a Multiethnic Population.
• Validation of Obesity-Related Diagnosis Codes in Claims Data.
• Low Protein Intakes and Poor Diet Quality Associate with Functional Limitations in US Adults with Diabetes: A 2005–2016 NHANES Analysis.
• Diabetes, Disability, and Dementia Risk: Results from the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Confinement During the COVID-19 Pandemic After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery-Associations between Emotional Distress, Energy-Dense Foods, and BMI.
• Relationship between BMI and Alcohol Consumption Levels in Decision Making.
• Leptin Brain Entry Via a Tanycytic LepR–EGFR Shuttle Controls Lipid Metabolism and Pancreas Function.
• Gut Cytokines Modulate Olfaction Through Metabolic Reprogramming of Glia.
• Unlocking the Causal Link of Metabolically Different Adiposity Subtypes with Brain Volumes and the Risks of Dementia and Stroke: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Review: Top-Down Control of Appetite.
• Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Attitudes Toward Persons with Obesity (ATOP) Scale in a Preoperative and Postoperative Bariatric Surgery Sample.
• Association between BMI, Its Change and Cognitive Impairment Among Chinese Older Adults: A Community-Based, 9-Year Prospective Cohort Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Weight Discrimination Experienced Prior to Enrolling in a Behavioral Obesity Intervention Is Associated with Treatment Response Among Black and White Adults in the Southeastern U.S.
• Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Obesity and Body Fat Distribution: An All of Us Research Program Demonstration Project.
• Twelve-Month Efficacy of an Obesity Prevention Program Targeting Hispanic Families with Preschoolers from Low-Income Backgrounds.
• The State of Disparities in Pediatric Diabetes Care.
• Disparities in Hemoglobin A1c Testing During the Transition to Adulthood and Association with Diabetes Outcomes in Youth-Onset Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.

Stigma

• Factors Linking Perceived Discrimination and Weight Bias Internalization to Body Appreciation and Eating Pathology: A Moderated Mediation Analysis of Self-Compassion and Psychological Distress.
• Coping with Weight Discrimination: Findings from a Qualitative Study.
• Role of Weight Bias and Patient–physician Communication in the Underutilization of Bariatric Surgery.

Policy Related

• Competitive Food and Beverage Policies and Obesity Among Middle School Students: Variability by Urbanicity in California.
• Projecting the Impacts of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Labels and Restaurant Menu Labeling Regulations on Energy Intake, Weight Status, and Healthcare Expenditures in US Adults: A Microsimulation.
• Physical Activity May Mitigate COVID-19 Infections in People with Obesity: A Call to Action.
• Perspective: The Influence of Front-Of-Package Nutrition Labeling on Consumer Behavior and Product Reformulation.
• Exploring Attitudes Toward Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Rural Michigan.
• Stakeholder Views on Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Its Adoption in the Netherlands.

Intergenerational Effects

• Mapping a Prevention Strategy to Reduce Medically Indicated Preterm Births: A Trio of Low-Risk Modifiable Factors for the Triad of the Mother, Fetus, and Placenta.
• Differences in Biomarkers of Cardiac Dysfunction in Cord Blood between Normal Pregnancies and Pregnancies Complicated by Maternal Diabetes.
• Maternal Obesity: A Focus on Maternal Interventions to Improve Health of Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Obesity Genes Open New Avenues of Research.
• Glacier Ice Archives Nearly 15,000-Year-Old Microbes and Phages.
• Gut Microbiota: A Target for Intervention in Obesity.

Methods

• Reliability of Measurements of Energy Expenditure and Substrate Oxidation Using Whole-Room Indirect Calorimetry.
• Establishing Growth Charts for Proposed Body Shape and Size Index of the Pakistani Population, Using Quantile Regression Approach.
• Pragmatic Evaluation of Older Adults’ Physical Activity in Scale-Up Studies: Is the Single-Item Measure a Reasonable Option?

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Can “VAI” Better Indicate Metabolic Syndrome Compared with Other Metabolic Syndrome-Related Parameters in Patients with Thyroid Nodules? A Study from Turkey.
• A Body Shape Index (ABSI) and Hip Index (HI) Adjust Waist and Hip Circumferences for BMI, but Only ABSI Predicts High Cardiovascular Risk in the Spanish Caucasian Population.
• Pathways to “5-A-Day”: Modeling the Health Impacts and Environmental Footprints of Meeting the Target for Fruit and Vegetable Intake in the United Kingdom.

Commentary

• Eat More Plants, Suffer Less Heart Disease? Not Exactly.
• Changing Diets Mean More Americans are Anemic Now.
• Better Pregnancy Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery?
• An Anti-Obesity Immunotherapy?
• Transpulmonary Pressure-Guided Invasive Ventilation in Patients with Morbid Obesity: Another Brick in the Wall of Personalized Medicine.
• Public Policy Based on Anger and Fear.
• Childhood Obesity Beyond COVID-19.
• Obesity and Hypertension in Asia: Current Status and Challenges.
• Innovation and Competition in Obesity Gains Momentum.
• Shifting from More to Better in Food Systems.

General

• Parkinson’s Disease Reversed by Farnesol in Mice.
• Amazing Insights into the Farthest Moving Species in the World.
• Male Age Alone Predicts Paternity Success Under Sperm Competition When Effects of Age and Past Mating Effort are Experimentally Separated.
• Senescent Cells in Cancer Therapy: Why and How to Remove Them.
• Senotherapeutics: Targeting Senescent Cells for the Main Age-Related Diseases.
• A Mathematical Estimation of the Physical Forces Driving Podocyte Detachment.
• Chocolate Consumption and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in a US Population: A Post Hoc Analysis of the PLCO Cancer Screening Trial.
• What Does It Mean to Be Dead Last in Healthcare?

Video & Audio

• Podcast: #171 - Steve Austad, Ph.D.: The Landscape of Longevity Science: Making Sense of Caloric Restriction, Biomarkers of Aging, and Possible Geroprotective Molecules.

Announcements

• Metabesity 2021 Conference: Meet Steve Austad PhD.
• Food Insecurity, Neighborhood Food Environment, and Nutrition Health Disparities: State of the Science, September 21‒23.
• Survey: AIN-93G/M: Tell Us What’s New in Rodent Nutrition!
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: September 10th to October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/ Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.