Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Obesity and Thinness: Insights from Genetics.
• Diet Composition and Energy Intake in Humans.
• Requiem for Rimonabant: Therapeutic Potential for Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor Antagonists After the Fall.
• Gβγ-SNAP25 Exocytotic Brake Removal Enhances Insulin Action, Promotes Adipocyte Browning, and Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: For Jet Lag, a Hearty Breakfast in the New Time Zone May Help.
• Study: A Minimal Model of Peripheral Clocks Reveals Differential Circadian Re-Entrainment in Aging. No in Vivo Testing of Breakfast on Jet Lag.
• Headline Critique: “Study Finds” Breakfast Could Reduce Jet Lag - or Maybe Not.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Thesis: "We also fail to confirm our choice substitution effect hypothesis between full-service and limited- service restaurants, finding counter-intuitive outcomes in one of the three cities studied as well as in our Placebo test city. These findings suggest that public infrastructure projects are not a panacea, as they don’t translate into immediate spillover effects to the food system."
• "A 300 kcal/kg difference in dietary energy [density] (2,750–3,050 kcal/kg) does not affect short-term (36–52 wk of age) egg production in Hy-Line W-36 laying hens."
• "Contrary to expectations, oral Lactobacillus communities were not enriched by the XOS-supplemented diet" [in mice].
• "Orthorexia nervosa and healthy orthorexia assessed by most measures, contrary to the expectations, had significant positive associations with psychological distress indicated by stress, anxiety, and depression."
• Thesis: Contrary to Our Hypotheses, BMI Was Not Significantly Associated with Overall Emotion Recognition Accuracy.
• No Evidence of Compensatory Changes in Energy Balance, Despite Reductions in Body Weight and Liver Fat, During Dapagliflozin Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• "...our analysis of a nationwide claims database found no evidence that SGLT2 inhibitors increase UTIs in Japanese patients with DM, regardless of sex or age."
• RCT: "The primary out-come was weight loss and weight loss maintenance in the respective phases....Overall, there was ...no significant differences between groups..." on weight loss.

Basic

• URAT1 Is Expressed in Cardiomyocytes and Dotinurad Attenuates the Development of Diet-Induced Metabolic Heart Disease.
• Wnt10b Knockdown Promotes UCP1 Expression in Brown Adipose Tissue in Mice.
• Starch-Entrapped Microspheres Enhance Gut Microbiome-Mediated Anti-Obesity Effects of Resistant Starch in High-Fat Diet Induced Obese C57BL/6J Mice.
• Tricaprylin, a Medium-Chain Triglyceride, Aggravates High-Fat Diet-Induced Fat Deposition but Improves Intestinal Health.
• Branched-Chain Amino Acids Prevent Obesity by Inhibiting the Cell Cycle in an NADPH-FTO-M6A Coordinated Manner.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effects of the Application of a Food Processing-Based Classification System in Obese Women: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study.
• Letter: Incorrect Analysis in “Effects of the Application of a Food Processing-Based Classification System in Obese Women: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study” Has Resulted in Incorrect Conclusions of Demonstrated Effects Where No Such Effects Have Been Demonstrated.
• "expert reaction to study looking at emulsifier E numbers and cardiovascular disease risk."
• Food Is Medicine! Regression to the Mean Proves It!
• Confounders, Biases, and the Sweetener Science.
• Good Vs. Bad Science: How to Read and Understand Scientific Studies.

Clinical

• Our Biology Working Against Us in Obesity: A Narrative Review on Implications for Management of Osteoarthritis.
• Giving Weight to Incretin-Based Pharmacotherapy for Obesity-Related Sleep Apnea: A Revolution or a Pipe Dream?

Children and Adolescents

• Perspective: Unintended Consequences of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Medications in Children and Adolescents: A Call to Action.
• The Association of Food Insecurity on BMI Change in a Pediatric Weight Management Intervention.
• Literature Review: Self-Esteem and Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• Overeating Among Adolescents: Prevalence and Associations with Weight-Related Characteristics and Psychological Health.
• Evidence Base Update on Behavioral Treatments for Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Milestones in the Journey Towards Addressing Obesity; Past Trials and Triumphs, Recent Breakthroughs, and an Exciting Future in the Era of Emerging Effective Medical Therapies and Integration of Effective Medical Therapies with Metabolic Surgery.
• Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: The Need for Tailored Educational Materials.
• Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery in Patients with Low BMI: An Online Survey of 543 Bariatric and Metabolic Surgeons.

Drugs

• Dietary Supplements for Erectile Dysfunction: Analysis of Marketed Products, Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Rational Use.
• Novel Anti-Obesity Therapies and Their Different Effects and Safety Profiles: A Critical Overview.
• Anti-Inflammatory Effect of Ethanolic Extract from Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) DC., Quercetin, and Anti-Obesity Drugs in Adipose Tissue in Wistar Rats with Diet-Induced Obesity.
• High-Throughput Screening of Lipase Inhibitors as Anti-Obesity Drugs on Liquid Crystal-Infused Porous Surfaces.

Food & Diet

• Adding Banana to Smoothie Reduces Bioavailability of Flavanols.
• RCT: Diet-Induced Weight Loss and Phenotypic Flexibility Among Healthy Overweight Adults.
• Diet-Derived and Diet-Related Endogenously Produced Palmitic Acid: Effects on Metabolic Regulation and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
• Systematic Review: The Long-Term Effect of Maternal Obesity on the Cardiovascular Health of the Offspring.
• Clinical Review: Obesity and Malnutrition in Children and Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• A Step Toward Precision Gerontology: Lifespan Effects of Calorie and Protein Restriction are Consistent with Predicted Impacts on Entropy Generation.
• Dietary Change Without Caloric Restriction Maintains a Youthful Profile in Ageing Yeast.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Combined Endurance and Strength or Only Endurance Training? Effects of Training Mode on Neuromuscular Characteristics and Functional Abilities in Adolescent Girls with Obesity Enrolled in a Weight-Reduction Program.
• RCT: The Effects of an Exercise Intervention on Neuroelectric Activity and Executive Function in Children with Overweight/Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Factors Associated with Eating Behaviors in Older Adults from a Socioecological Model Perspective.
• Theorising Fatness as an Ordering Issue: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing the Construction of Fatness as Disorder.
• Ethnicity/Race, Parent Educational Attainment, and Obesity Associated with Prediabetes in Children.

Epidemiology

• Racial Disparities in Obesity-Related Cardiovascular Mortality in the United States: Temporal Trends from 1999 to 2020.
• Salivary Epigenetic Measures of BMI and Social Determinants of Health Across Childhood and Adolescence.
• Prepregnancy Overweight and Obesity and Long-Term Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Women.
• Abstract: Insulin Resistance and Central Obesity Determine Hepatic Steatosis and Explain Cardiovascular Risk in Steatotic Liver Disease.
• BMI-Based Obesity Classification Misses Children and Adolescents with Raised Cardiometabolic Risk Due to Increased Adiposity.
• Association between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Offspring’s Outcomes at 9 to 15 Years of Age.
• Investigating the Effects of Rurality on Stress, Subjective Well-Being, and Weight-Related Outcomes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Associations of Age and Gender with Dietary Patterns, Mindful Eating, Body Image and Confidence.
• Psychopathological Factors and Personality Dimensions on Dysfunctional Eating Behaviors in a Sample of Individuals with Obesity.
• Obesity Reduces Hippocampal Structure and Function in Older African Americans with the APOE-ε4 Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Allele.
• Energy Expenditure Homeostasis Requires ErbB4, an Obesity Risk Gene, in the Paraventricular Nucleus.

Equity and Disparities

• The Influence of Contested Racial Identity and Perceived Everyday Discrimination Exposure on BMI in US Adults.
• Explaining Gender Inequalities in Overweight People: A Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Analysis in Northern Sweden.

Stigma

• Distribution of Perceived Weight Stigma and Its Psychological Impact on Obese People in Saudi Arabia.
• Assessment of Obesity Stigma and Discrimination Among Spanish Subjects with a Wide Weight Range: The OBESTIGMA Study.
• Constant Vigilance: The Impact of Weight Stigma, Vigilance, and Internalization on Maladaptive Eating Behaviors.

Policy Related

• Effectiveness of a School Drinking Water Promotion and Access Program for Overweight Prevention.
• Social Media Food Ads Hype and Adolescent Obesity Upsurge in Nigeria.
• Government Policies to Improve Food Environments: A Population and Equity Lens.
• School Nutrition Environment and Services: Policies and Practices That Promote Healthy Eating Among K-12 Students.
• Neighborhood Sociodemographic Characteristics and Healthfulness of Store Checkouts in Northern California.

Intergenerational Effects

• Preprint: The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease and Intergenerational Inheritance: A Scoping Review of Multigenerational Cohort Studies.
• Are Child and Parent Health Behaviors Associated with Childhood Obesity? A Descriptive and Methodological Study.

Methods

• Assessing Daily Energy Intake in Adult Women: Validity of a Food-Recognition Mobile Application Compared to Doubly Labelled Water.
• Establishing a Machine Learning Model for Predicting Nutritional Risk Through Facial Feature Recognition.
• Mixed Methods Feasibility and Usability Testing of a Childhood Obesity Risk Estimation Tool.

Commentary

• Targeting Obesity: Louisiana Partners Harness the Latest Science for Weight Loss.
• "Her work paved the way for blockbuster obesity drugs. Now, she’s fighting for recognition Svetlana Mojsov helped discover the hormone GLP-1. Why has she been excluded from its history?"
• ‘Willpower’ Is Not Enough: Time for a New Approach to Public Health Policy to Prevent Obesity.
• What Obesity Drugs and Antidepressants Have in Common.
• Diabetics, Rejoice: For Some, an Extra Cup of Coffee Might Be Just What the Doctor Ordered.
• How Fasting Can Lengthen Your Life.
• More Than Glycemic Control: SGLT2 Inhibitors May Extend Lung Cancer Survival.
• Elegant Explanations for Obesity Causes? Fuhgeddaboudit.
• The Science, Strengths, and Limitations of BMI.

General

• Hot Weight Loss Drugs Tested as Addiction Treatments.
• The Super-Recognizers: Some People Never Forget a Face.
• Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2023 Update: A Report from the American Heart Association.
• Balancing Risks and Benefits of Cannabis Use: Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses of RCTs and Observational Studies.
• Sustainability of Knowledge Translation Interventions: The Evidence Lacks Evidence.
• The Opportunities and Pitfalls of ChatGPT in Clinical and Translational Medicine.
• Not What It Said on the Menu.
• Psychedelic Therapy for Depressive Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• A Systematic Review of Child Health, Developmental and Educational Outcomes Associated with High Mobility in Indigenous Children from Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

Announcements

• EUFIC Launches Food and Health Science Literacy Campaign to Combat Disinformation in the EU.
• National Institute of Health Awarded Assistant IU Biology Professor and Evolutionary Biologist Ryan Bracewell Nearly $2 Million to Study Chromosome Evolution and Rapid Y Chromosome Degeneration.

Featured

• Association of Later-Life Weight Changes with Survival to Ages 90, 95, and 100: The Women’s Health Initiative.
• Unanswered Questions About the Causes of Obesity.
• Review: Sexual Function and Satisfaction in the Context of Obesity.
• Causal Models and Causal Modelling in Obesity: Foundations, Methods and Evidence.
• Application of a Stoichiometric Bioenergetic Approach and Whole-Body Protein Synthesis to the Nutritional Assessment of Juvenile Thenus australiensis.
• Design, Analysis, and Interpretation of Treatment Response Heterogeneity in Personalized Nutrition and Obesity Treatment Research.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Breakthrough Obesity Research Lets You Eat and Lose Fat.
• Press Release: Study Demonstrates Weight Loss in Mice Without Resorting to Dietary Restrictions.
• Study: Hypothalamic GABRA5-Positive Neurons Control Obesity Via Astrocytic GABA... In Mice. Obesity Research Itself Can Neither Let nor Stop You from Eating.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Contrary to expectations, children in the control group demonstrated higher perceptions of intention (F(2, 84) = 4.838, p = 0.010) and effort (F(2, 80) = 3.473, p = 0.036) towards leisure-time physical activity at follow-up."
• "Contrary to prevailing hypotheses, weight changes in childhood is probably not a major explanatory mechanism linking early childhood adversity with later-life morbidity."
• "...contrary to our hypothesis, the study suggests that weight loss among overweight individuals did not result in higher life satisfaction."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, higher greenness exposure was associated non-linearly with lower mean steps per minute after adjusting for confounders. We found higher levels of greenness were inversely associated with steps per minute."
• "With a limited number of studies, our data indicate that LCn-3 PUFA supplementation has no effect on muscle strength or functional abilities in older adults but may increase muscle mass..."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, we find that the myoglobin gene from the minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, shows a low level of expression, only about 8% that of humans", that has implications for "Hypotheses regarding the mechanisms leading to these high myoglobin levels often invoke the induction of gene expression by exercise, hypoxia...".
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, we found almost no pattern in pore placement between clades, dietary groups or venom toxicity."
• "Contrary to our expectations, a 4-hr fast during the light photoperiod promotes a paradoxical increase in inter-animal variation in metabolic rate, physical activity, body temperature, glycemia, and glucose tolerance."

Basic

• Deletion of Complement Factor 5 Amplifies Glucose Intolerance in Male but Not Female Mice with Obesity.
• Dissertation: Environmental Pollutants Alter Estrogen and Thyroid Hormone Response and Appetite Control in Zebrafish.
• Identification of an Alternative Triglyceride Biosynthesis Pathway.
• At Any Level of Adiposity, Relatively Elevated Leptin Concentrations are Associated with Decreased Insulin Sensitivity.
• Myogenically Differentiated Mesenchymal Stem Cell Insulin Sensitivity Is Associated with Infant Adiposity at 1 and 6 months of Age.
• The Dual Hypothesis of Homeostatic Body Weight Regulation, Including Gravity-Dependent and Leptin-Dependent Actions.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Can Inadequate Corrections [For Papers on Vitamin D] Turn Misinformation Into Disinformation?
• Article: The Effect of Different Physical Exercise Programs on Physical Fitness Among Preschool Children: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Letter: One Cluster Per Condition Is Not a Valid Design in Cluster-Randomized Trials. Comment on Wang et al.

Clinical

• RCT: Diet-Induced Weight Loss and Phenotypic Flexibility Among Healthy Adults with Overweight.
• RCT: Effect of Semaglutide 2.4 Mg Once Weekly on 10-Year Type 2 Diabetes Risk in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Circadian Misalignment Increases 24-Hour Acylated Ghrelin in Chronic Shift Workers.
• RCT: Effects of 12-Week Intermittent Calorie Restriction on Liver Steatosis in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• RCT: The Effect of High-Dose Vitamin D Supplementation and an Exercise Program to Lose Weight on Some Biochemical Variables of Women with Overweight.
• RCT: Adding Executive Function Training to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Binge Eating Disorder.

Children and Adolescents

• Childhood Obesity in India: A Two-Decade Meta-Analysis of Prevalence and Socioeconomic Correlates.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Serum Adiponectin Concentrations in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Reevaluating First-Line Therapies in Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes.
• The Effects of COVID-19 Virtual Learning on Body Fat and Insulin Resistance in Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity.
• Relationship between the Multidimensional 8-5-2-1-0 Health Guideline and Adolescent Obesity. (pdf)
• RCT: Investigating the Use of Donor Milk in Late Preterm and Term Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Surgery

• Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Glucose and Lipid Metabolism and Liver and Kidney Function in Food-Induced Obesity and Diabetes in Rats.
• Short-Term Cardiovascular Events After Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Development and Validation of an Interpretable Machine Learning-Based Calculator for Predicting 5-Year Weight Trajectories After Bariatric Surgery.
• Evaluation of the White Matter Integrity Before and After Bariatric Surgery in Morbidly Obese Patients.

Drugs

• Meta-Analysis: The Weight-Loss Effect of GLP-1RAs Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists in Individuals with Overweight or Obesity and Without Diabetes.
• Interpreting Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Anti-Obesity Medications for the Treatment of Adolescent Obesity-Reading the Tea Leaves.

Food & Diet

• RCT: High- and Normal-Protein Diets Improve Body Composition and Glucose Control in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Adherence to the 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Compared with the Mediterranean Diet in Relation to Risk of Prediabetes Using National Data from 2007-2016.
• Diet Composition and Energy Intake in Humans.
• Protein Appetite as an Integrator in the Obesity System: The Protein Leverage Hypothesis.
• Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: Does the Conventional View of Obesity Reverse Cause and Effect?
• Brown Adipose Tissue: Can It Keep Us Slim? A Discussion of the Evidence for and Against the Existence of Diet-Induced Thermogenesis in Mice and Men.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Proteomic Changes Induced by Longevity-Promoting Interventions in Mice.
• Calorie Restriction Impairs Anti-Tumor Immune Responses in an Immunogenic Preclinical Cancer Model.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Weekday and Weekend Physical Activity Patterns and Their Correlates Among Young Adults.
• Exercise Prevents Fatal Stress-Induced Myocardial Injury in Mice with Obesity.
• Prevalence and Trends of Weakness Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in the United States.

Economics & Sociology

• Cost-Effectiveness of Pharmacotherapy for the Treatment of Obesity in Adolescents.
• Cardiometabolic Risk Profile Among Children with Migrant Parents and Role of Parental Education.

Epidemiology

• Review: Obesity and Recurrent Miscarriage: The Interconnections between Adipose Tissue and the Immune System.
• Controlled Attenuation Parameters to Assess Liver Steatosis in Obese Patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Abstract: Epidemiology of Severe Obesity in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Replacement in the Kingdom of Fife over the Last 20 Years.
• A Possible Genetic Association between Obesity and Colon Cancer in Females.
• The Influence of Immigrant Background and Parental Education on Overweight and Obesity in 8-Year-Old Children in Norway.
• Birth Weight, Childhood Obesity, Adulthood Obesity and Body Composition, and Gastrointestinal Diseases.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Latent Profile Analysis of Physical Activity Motivation During Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment.
• Microtemporal Dynamics of Dietary Intake, Physical Activity, and Impulsivity in Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Ecological Momentary Assessment Study Within Nutritional Psychiatry.
• Delayed Mid-Sleep Time Associated with Weight Gain While Controlling for Eating Behaviors and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Equity and Disparities

• Experiencing Food Insecurity in Childhood: Influences on Eating Habits and Body Weight in Young Adulthood.
• Overweight and Obesity in Finnish Children by Parents’ Socioeconomic Position.
• An Examination of the Relationships between the Neighborhood Social Environment, Adiposity, and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk in Adolescence.

Stigma

• RCT: Compassion-Focused Therapy to Reduce Body Weight Shame for Individuals with Obesity.
• Obesity and Psychological Distress.
• An Examination of Parental Weight Stigma and Weight Talk Among Socioeconomically and Racially/Ethnically Diverse Parents.

Policy Related

• The Estimated Dietary and Health Impact of Implementing the Recently Approved ‘High In’ Front-Of-Package Nutrition Symbol in Canada: A Food Substitution Scenario Modeling Study.
• Healthy Food Policies Documented in University Food Service Contracts.
• Promoting Health in the Digital Environment: Health Policy Experts’ Responses to On-Demand Delivery in Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing the Effectiveness of Food Reformulation and Fortification to Improve Dietary and Nutrition Outcomes.
• RCT: Trips4health: Incentivizing Adult Public Transport Use for Physical Activity Gain.
• Understanding the Pathway between Work and Health Outcomes for Women During the Preconception, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Periods Through the Framing of Maternal Obesity.
• Commentary: Interpreting Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Anti-Obesity Medications for the Treatment of Adolescent Obesity—Reading the Tea Leaves.

Intergenerational Effects

• Paternal and Maternal Birthweight and Offspring Risk of Macrosomia at Term Gestations.
• Gestational Diabetes and Long-Term Cardiometabolic Health.
• Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Genetic Factors, Epigenetic Alterations, and Microbial Composition.
• Leptin Receptor Expression in Blood Mononuclear Cells of Lactating Women Is Associated with Infant Body Weight: Potential Role as a Molecular Biomarker.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Associations of Residential Greenness and Ambient Air Pollution with Overweight and Obesity in Older Adults.
• Models of Body Weight and Fatness Regulation.
• Food Insecurity as a Cause of Adiposity: Evolutionary and Mechanistic Hypotheses.
• The Provisioned Primate: Patterns of Obesity Across Lemurs, Monkeys, Apes and Humans.

Methods

• Quality Measurement Gaps and Future Directions in the Assessment of Obesity.
• Comparison of Imputation Methods for Missing Production Data of Dairy Cattle.
• Ectopic Lipid Deposition in Muscle and Liver, Quantified by Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Implication of Lipid Turnover for the Control of Energy Balance.

Commentary

• Carmella Evans-Molina: Being of Service.
• The Gory History of Europe’s Mummy-Eating Fad.
• Does It Matter Why the Population Has So Much Obesity?
• Sugar Substitutes: Deep Dive Into the Pros, Cons, Available Options, and Impact on Metabolic Health.
• What Is on the Horizon for Metabolic Surgery?
• Fight Against Food Waste: Combating Contamination and Spoilage.
• Obesity and Cancer: Update on Etiology, Molecular Biomarkers and Biotargets, Clinical Strategies, and Epidemiology.
• The Second Edition of Motivations Associated with Food Choices and Eating Practices.

General

• Editorial: Reproducibility in Neuroscience.
• Commentary: “Enhancing Trust in Science and Democracy in an Age of Misinformation”.
• Genomic Inference of a Severe Human Bottleneck During the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition.
• Estimating the False Discovery Risk of (Randomized) Clinical Trials in Medical Journals Based on Published P-Values.
• Influence of the Physical Effort of Reminder-Setting on Strategic Offloading of Delayed Intentions.
• Are the Effects of Catch-And-Release Angling Evident in Changes to mRNA Abundances Related to Metabolism, Acid–Base Regulation and Stress in Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) Gills?
• Novel Insights Into Symbiont Population Structure: Globe-Trotting Avian Feather Mites Contradict the Specialist–Generalist Variation Hypothesis.
• Effects of Acute Maternal Stress Induced by Predator Cues on Spatial Learning and Memory of Offspring in the Subterranean Rodent Ctenomys talarum.
• Conversations in Health Equity: Practicing Cultural Humility in Latino Populations.
• Early Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk Factors Preserves Brain Metabolism.
• Do Consumers Support Beginning and Female Farmers?
• Climate Change May Force More Farmers and Ranchers to Consider Irrigation.

Video & Audio

• Case Challenge in Obesity Medical Management.

Announcements

• UAB-HudsonAlpha Genomic Medicine Postdoctoral Training Program.
• New Book Forthcoming: Misbelief by Dan Ariely.
• Economics, Simulation Modelling & Diabetes: Mt Hood Diabetes Challenge Network.

Featured

• Scoping Review: The Association between Exercise and Prescription Opioid Misuse.
• An Adapted Liver Perfusion in a Shark Species, Squalus suckleyi: Investigation of Energy Mobilization.
• Ether Lipid Biosynthesis Promotes Lifespan Extension and Enables Diverse Pro-Longevity Paradigms in Caenorhabditis elegans.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics of Upper Airway Aerodynamics for Exercise-Induced Laryngeal Obstruction.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Fruit and Vegetable ‘Prescriptions’ May Lead to Better Heart Health.
• Press Release: Prescription for Fruits, Vegetables Linked to Better Heart Health, Food Security.
• Study: Pre-post study of produce prescriptions. "The primary limitation is the absence of a control group; therefore, the observed improvements in health outcomes could be attributable to regression to the mean" among other factors.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Despite strong statistical power, this study reveals no positive effect of the locally produced label on consumer WTP [willingness to pay]. These null results are contrary to most of the existing literature on this topic."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of an Online Self-Compassion Intervention for Weight Management Above and Beyond Weight Watchers.
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, increased hindgut starch fermentation did not induce an inflammatory response in this study" of cows.
• "Contrary to the body size and the dominance hypotheses, [flamingo] juveniles in better body condition were more likely to migrate than those in worse conditions, which opted for a residence strategy."
• "In conclusion, our study findings indicate some benefits of selenium on fasting insulin, and QUICKI [quantitative insulin sensitivity check index] compared with placebo, but elicits no effect on HbA1c, HOMA-IR, and FBS."
• "Healthy eating interventions could have favourable effects on child weight and risk of overweight and obesity, although there was little to no difference in BMI and BMI z-scores."
• Preprint: "Contrary to its role in Hbt. salinarum and Saccharolytic hyperthermophiles, TrmB does not act as a global regulator: it does not directly repress the expression of glycolytic enzymes, peripheral pathways such as cofactor biosynthesis, or catabolism of other carbon sources in Har. hispanica."
• Dissertation: "Contrary to my predictions, lizards showed no difference in macronutrient consumption between sexes."

Basic

• Conjugated Linoleic Acid and L-Carnitine Combination Effects on Obesity-Related miRNAs in Diet-Induced [Rats with Obesity].
• Mutational Landscape of Intestinal Crypt Cells After Long-Term In Vivo Exposure to High Fat Diet.
• Deciphering the Decline of Metabolic Elasticity in Aging and Obesity.
• The Impact of Subchronic Hypercaloric and Restriction Diets on Sexual Behavior, Serum Testosterone, and Prostate Histology in Rats.
• Visceral Adipose Microbial and Inflammatory Signatures in Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Nonhuman Primates.
• Short-Term Caloric Restriction and Subsequent Re-Feeding Compromise Liver Health and Associated Lipid Mediator Signaling in Aged Mice.
• Diet Enriched in Saturated Fatty Acids Induces Liver Oxidative Stress and Elicits Inflammatory Pathways Prior to Metabolic Disruption in Perinatal Protein Undernutrition.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Precision Nutrition: The Hype Is Exceeding the Science and Evidentiary Standards Needed to Inform Public Health Recommendations for Prevention of Chronic Disease.
• Principles of Engagement on Research and Other Collaborations between the Brewing Sector and Research Entities: The FACT [Freedom of Research, Accessibility, Contextualisation and Transparency] Principles.

Clinical

• Masked Hypertension in Healthy Children and Adolescents: Who Should Be Screened?
• Toward Precision Weight-Loss Dietary Interventions.

Children and Adolescents

• Systematic Review: "Exercise training, particularly aerobic and combined exercise has beneficial effects on fasting insulin and glucose levels, HOMA-IR and BW [body weight] in children and adolescents with overweight or obesity..."
• Systematic Review: "...onset of puberty at an early age in girls is associated with an increased risk of obesity, however precocious puberty in boy was not associated with an increased risk of obesity."
• Formative Development of a Weight Management Intervention for Adolescents with T1D and Obesity.
• Rapid Infant Weight Gain or Point-In-Time Weight Status: Which Is the Best Predictor of Later Obesity and Body Composition?
• Integration of E-Health Strategies for Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Pediatric Weight Management Programs.

Surgery

• Systematic Review: Impact of Obesity on Postoperative Complications After Lateral Skull Base Surgery.
• Effects of Preoperative Sarcopenia-Related Parameters on the Musculoskeletal and Metabolic Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery [in Females].
• "In conclusion, two years after obesity treatment, a significant increase in dental caries was registered in the surgically treated but not in the medically treated women."
• "Bariatric surgery was associated with lower all-cancer and obesity-related cancer incidence among female patients."

Drugs

• RCT: Semaglutide in HFpEF Across Obesity Class and by Body Weight Reduction.
• The Neuromedin U System: Pharmacological Implications for the Treatment of Obesity and Binge Eating Behavior.
• Lorcaserin and Phentermine Exert Anti-Obesity Effects with Modulation of the Gut Microbiota.
• Approved Anti-Obesity Medications in 2022 KSSO [Korean Society for the Study of Obesity] Guidelines and the Promise of Phase 3 Clinical Trials: Anti-Obesity Drugs in the Sky and on the Horizon.
• Awareness and Perception of Anti-Obesity Medications Among Al-Ahsaa, Riyadh, and Hail in Saudi Arabia Populations.
• Pharmacotherapy for Obesity: Recent Evolution and Implications for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Chronic Consumption of Probiotics, Oats, and Apples Has Differential Effects on Postprandial Bile Acid Profile and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk Markers Compared with an Isocaloric Control (Cornflakes).
• RCT: "Our results show participant-specific effects of a probiotic supplement on improving parameters of metabolic syndrome and suggest that dietary factors may enhance stability and efficacy of the supplement."
• RCT: The Effect of Mediterranean Diet on Body Composition, Inflammatory Factors, and Nutritional Status in Patients with Cachexia Induced by Colorectal Cancer.
• The Anti-Obesity Effects of Wild Edible Plants in the Mediterranean Diet and Their Active Compounds: From Traditional Uses to Action Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• The Alteration of the Gut Microbiome During Ramadan Offers a Novel Perspective on Ramadan Fasting.
• Physiological and Psychological Effects of Medically Supervised Fasting in Young Female Adults.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Accuracy of Resting Metabolic Rate Prediction Equations in Athletes.
• Sex Differences in Resting Metabolic Rate Among Athletes and Association with Body Composition Parameters.
• Effect of Acute High-Intensity Interval Training on Immune Function and Oxidative Stress in Canoe/Kayak Athletes.
• Effects of Exercise Amount and Intensity Versus a Combined Exercise and Lifestyle Intervention on Metabolic Syndrome in Adults with Prediabetes.

Economics & Sociology

• Association of Sustained Low or High Income and Income Changes with Risk of Incident T2D Among Individuals Aged 30 to 64 Years.
• The Role of BMI, Advanced Age, and Low Educational Attainment in Mild Cognitive Impairment Among the Older Adult Population.
• BMI Mediates the Direct Association of Subjective Social Status and Hypertension in a Fulani West African Immigrant Sample.

Epidemiology

• "...we did not find evidence of an association between duration of T2D and risk of cancer, with the higher risk observed for longer durations related to ageing."
• Geographic Variation and Trends in Prevalence of Obesity Among US Adolescents, 2016–2021.
• Association of Body Indices and Risk of Mortality in Patients with T2D.
• Impact of the Association between Education and Obesity on Diabetes-Free Life Expectancy.
• Early Prediction of Body Composition Parameters on Metabolically Unhealthy in the Chinese Population Via Advanced Machine Learning.
• Causal Effects from Tobacco Smoking Initiation on Obesity-Related Traits.
• Prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver in the General Dutch Population and in Groups at Increased Risk.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Playing with Food – the Effects of Augmented Reality on Meal Perceptions.
• Contrasting Frontal Cortical Responses to Food Versus Money Rewards Across BMI Groups.
• Consequences of Daily Self-Weighing: A Pilot Study in Higher-Weight Women with a History of Breast Cancer.
• Beyond BMI: Cardiometabolic Measures as Predictors of Impulsivity and White Matter Changes in Adolescents.
• Habitual Intake of Fat and Sugar Is Associated with Poorer Memory and Greater Impulsivity in Humans.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic Review: Inequalities in the Uptake of, Adherence to, and Effectiveness of Behavioral Weight Management Interventions in Adults.
• "These findings emphasize the importance of targeted retention strategies when aiming to address race and sex differences that exist in determinants and timing of dropout among individuals enrolled in an exercise and/or caloric restriction intervention."

Stigma

• “Trust Yourself and Your Body”: Advice from Fat Individuals on How to Navigate Fat Fertility, Pregnancy, and Birth.
• Medical Students' Perceived Comfort and Competence Performing Physical Examinations on Patients with Obesity.

Policy Related

• Implications of Sleep Health Policy: Daylight Saving and School Start Times.
• Putting a Price on Healthy Eating: Public Perceptions of the Need for Further Food Pricing Policies in the UK.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI, Offspring Epigenome-Wide DNA Methylation, and Childhood Obesity.
• The Relationship between Adherence to the Mediterranean Dietary Pattern During Early Pregnancy and Behavioral, Mood and Cognitive Development in Children Under 1 Year of Age.
• Impact of Gestational Diabetes Detection Thresholds on Infant Growth and Body Composition.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Hierarchies in the Energy Budget: Thyroid Hormones and the Evolution of Human Life History Patterns.
• Selective Breeding for High Voluntary Exercise in Mice Increases Maximal (V̇O2,max) but Not Basal Metabolic Rate.

Methods

• Oral Glucose Tolerance Testing Using Candy: A Sweet Solution to Improve Screening in Children with Cystic Fibrosis?
• Combining Incomplete Cyclic Design with Experimental Design to Assess Pet Food Preferences.
• Hoosier Sport: A Research Protocol for a Multilevel Physical Activity-Based Intervention in Rural Indiana.
• Comparison of Habitual and Meal-Specific Dietary Patterns Identified by Latent Class Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Adults.
• An Evaluation of a Personalized Multicomponent Commercial Digital Weight Management Program.

Commentary

• ‘Girl Dinner’ Broke the Internet. Here’s What Nutritionists Think About It.
• The Use of Ketogenic Diets in the Era of Individualized Therapy.
• Places with Wealth-Based Access to Diabetes and Obesity Care.
• Precision Nutrition to Improve Risk Factors of Obesity and T2D.
• The Overwhelming Appeal of Simplistic Obesity Thinking.
• The 3Is: Let's Involve, Inform and Inspire the Next Generation on Disposing Food Packaging Sustainably.
• Pregnancy-Induced Vomiting: Exploring Women's Experiences of Food Perception and Eating Behaviour.
• Nourishing Resistance: An Analysis of the Biopolitics of Food Systems in Brooklyn, New York.

General

• Dissertation: Bayesian Adaptive Designs for Early Phase Clinical Trials.
• Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in People Living with Dementia Receiving Home Health Services.
• Panelists Discuss Ongoing Progress Toward Precision Medicine in Diabetes.
• Study Links COVID-19 Pandemic to Weight Gain Among Children in US.
• Three-Dimensional Mitochondria Reconstructions of Murine Cardiac Muscle Changes in Size Across Aging.
• Biological Time Travel: Tracking the Journey of Alloreactive T Cells Through Longitudinal Biobanking.
• Acoustic Predation in a Sailfish-Flying Fish Cloak.
• Tuning of Cellular Insulin Release by Music for Real-Time Diabetes Control.

Announcements

• Arkansas Children's (#1 in AR), Indiana University (#8 in IN), University of Alabama at Birmingham (#3 in AL), and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (#9 in AR) among "America’s Best Employers By State".
• The Latest Sound Bites Podcast Episode Hosted by Melissa Joy Dobbins MS, RDN, CDCES Features David Allison Discussing Nutrition and Obesity-Related Research. The Podcast Has Been Approved by CEU.

Featured

• Body Composition from Birth to 2 years.
• RCT: Impact of Chronic Physical Activity on Individuals’ Creativity.
• GIPR/GLP-1R Dual Agonist Therapies for Diabetes and Weight Loss—chemistry, Physiology, and Clinical Applications. (pdf)

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Tropical Plant Extract Native to China May Have Anti-Obesity Effects.
• Study: The Suppression of the Differentiation of Adipocytes with Mallotus Furetianus Is Regulated Through the Posttranslational Modifications of C/EBPβ... In Cell Culture and Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Overall, the tested school-based health promotion strategies in this randomized clinical trial had a neutral [i.e., null] effect on the CVH of the adolescents."
• RCT: No Effect of a Low Dose of Omega-3 on the Lipid Profile of Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• RCT: No Effect of Multi-Strain Probiotic Supplementation on Metabolic and Inflammatory Markers and Newborn Body Composition in Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• Meta-analysis of RCTs: Medicinal cannabis for management of pain, sleep, and fatigue in cancer survivors "...had no effect ... appetite loss, weight loss..."
• "...contrary to our expectations, we observed weight loss during the lockdown."
• "These results suggest that, in mice, exercise has differential effects on aortic calcification, cardiac function, and skeletal bone mineral density."
• "Contrary to research on nondisabled children, we found that greater parental use of controlling dietary strategies was associated with lower BMI percentile in Latino children with IDD."
• "There was no difference in MVPA in overweight or obese (53.8%) vs. healthy weight (44.2%) adolescents (45.0 minutes [SD 16.6] vs. 43.1 minutes [SD 18.8])" in Type 1 diabetes.
• RCT: Changes in Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids During Treatment of Malnourished Children May Be Insufficient to Reach Required Essential Fatty Acid Levels.
• "In this sample of Victorian canteen menus, there was no evidence of associations of healthiness and pricing by school characteristics except for regional centres having the highest proportion of ‘black’ (banned) items compared with all other remoteness categories examined."

Basic

• TNIK Is a Conserved Regulator of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Obesity.
• Identification of Extracellular WNT Inhibitors for Novel Synergistic Anabolic Action on the Skeleton.
• Keeping It in the Family: Consanguinity Reveals P4HTM as a Novel Syndromic Obesity Gene.
• WKYMVm Ameliorates Obesity by Improving Lipid Metabolism and Leptin Signalling.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Poultry Science Manuscript Revision.
• Correcting Calculation and Data Errors Reveals That the Original Conclusions Were Incorrect in “The Best Drug Supplement for Obesity Treatment: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis”.
• Primary Occurrence of Cardiovascular Events After Adding Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors or Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Compared with Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitors: A Cohort Study in Veterans with Diabetes.
• Editorial: Comparative Effectiveness of Diabetes Drugs: The Use and Misuse of Observational Research.

Clinical

• Approach to the Patient with Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes.
• Physiologic Hormone Administration Improves HbA1C in Native Americans with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Modelling Population-Level and Targeted Interventions of Weight Loss on Chronic Disease Prevention in the Canadian Population.
• NASH Drug Treatment Development: Challenges and Lessons.
• Systematic Review: The Prospect of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adult Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.

Children and Adolescents

• Diets of Under 5s in the UK: Any New National Food Strategy Must Consider Socioeconomic Factors.
• RCT: Gene-Exercise Interaction on Brain Health in Children with Overweight/obesity.
• Pilot: Effect of Metformin Therapy on Prevention of Double Diabetes in Indian Adolescents with Type-1 Diabetes. (pdf)
• A Focus on Emerging Non-Pharmacologic Treatment Strategies in Pediatric Obesity and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Altered Insulin Secretion Dynamics Relate to Oxidative Stress and Inflammasome Activation in Children with Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Reference Ranges for Body Composition Indices by Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry from Bone Mineral Density.
• RCT: Influences of Parenting Education on Development of Obesity Among Young Children.
• Extended Brief Interventions for Weight Management and Obesity Prevention in Children.

Surgery

• RCT: Long-Term Follow-Up 15 Years After Duodenal Switch or Gastric Bypass for Super Obesity.
• Anaesthesia for Obesity Surgery.
• Prevention of Surgical Site Infection and Sepsis in Pregnant Women with Obesity.

Drugs

• Gut Hormone Co-Agonists for the Treatment of Obesity: From Bench to Bedside.
• Diagnosis and Non-Invasive Treatment of Obesity in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Review of Guidelines.
• Network Meta-Analysis: Efficacy of Anti-Obesity Drugs and Metabolic Surgeries as Add-On to Lifestyle Intervention in Obesity with Metabolic Complications.
• RCT: Liraglutide Restores Impaired Associative Learning in Individuals with Obesity.
• Treatment with Gut-Specific Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Attenuates Metabolic Inflammation but Not Body Mass in Fattening Ground Squirrels.
• Editorial: Triple G Agonists - a Home Run for Obesity?
• We Know Where New Weight Loss Drugs Came From, but Not Why They Work.
• Recent Advancements in Pharmacological Strategies to Modulate Energy Balance for Combating Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Can Chocolate Be Classified as an Ultra-Processed Food? A Short Review on Processing and Health Aspects to Help Answer This Question.
• The Relationship between Whole-Milk Dairy Foods and Metabolic Health Highlights an Opportunity for Dietary Fat Recommendations to Evolve with the State of the Science.
• RCT: Protein Supplementation Changes Gut Microbial Diversity and Derived Metabolites in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes.
• cRCT: Effect of a Nutrition Intervention on Mediterranean Diet Adherence Among Firefighters.
• Changes in Structural, Rheological, and Gel Properties of Egg White Protein Induced by Preheating in the Dry State.
• Differences in the Food Consumption Between Kidney Stone Formers and Nonformers in the Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effect of 12-Week Intermittent Calorie Restriction Compared to Standard of Care in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Dietary Regulation of Hepatic Triacylglycerol Content – the Role of Eucaloric Carbohydrate Restriction with Fat or Protein Replacement.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Roundtable Statement from the American College of Sports Medicine.
• Systematic Review and Meta-Regression: Exercise Guidelines for Optimizing Fat Oxidation During Exercise in Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Analysing the Impact of Idiosyncratic and Covariate Shocks on Households’ Food and Non-Food Consumption: Empirical Evidence from Benazir Income Support Program.
• Development of Body Dissatisfaction in Women and Men at Different Educational Levels During the Life Course.
• Upstream Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in Europe.
• Association of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes with Labor Market Outcomes.
• Cost Effectiveness Review of Text Messaging, Smartphone Application, and Website Interventions Targeting T2DM or Hypertension.
• Why New Zealand's Golden Kiwis are So Expensive.

Epidemiology

• Endothelial Dysfunction and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Mexican American Adults.
• Temporal Trends in Obesity Defined by the Relative Fat Mass (RFM) Index Among Adults in the United States from 1999 to 2020.
• Differences in Spinal Posture and Mobility between Adults with Obesity and Normal Weight Individuals.
• Antiretroviral Drug Exposure and Response in Obese and Morbidly Obese People with HIV: A Study Combining Modelling and Swiss HIV Cohort Data.
• Review: Connecting the Dots in the Associations between Diet, Obesity, Cancer, and MicroRNAs.
• Prevalence of Different Stages of Periodontal Diseases Among a Sample of Young Adult Egyptian Patients with Obesity: A Hospital Based Cross-Sectional Study over 1 Year.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• How Images of Food Become Cravingly Salient in Obesity.
• The Neural Model of Front-Of-Package Label Processing.

Equity and Disparities

• Within-Store Fast Food Marketing: The Association between Food Swamps and Unhealthy Advertisement.
• Vital Signs: Maternity Care Experiences — United States, April 2023.

Ethics

• Fat Norms and the AMA.
• Overreliance on BMI and Delayed Care for Patients with Higher BMI and Disordered Eating.

Stigma

• Scoping Review: The Experience of Living with Obesity for Adults in Asian Countries.
• Longitudinal Associations of Binge Eating with Internalized Weight Stigma and Eating Self-Efficacy.

Policy Related

• Examining the Connection between Health Outcomes, State Political Ideology, and Food Access in the United States.
• Editorial: One Size Does Not Fit All: On the Need for Categorical Stratification in Nutrition Science, Practice and Policy.
• Commentary: Implementing Evidence-Based Obesity Management Guidelines Requires Development of Medical Competencies: A Commentary Outlining Future Directions in Obesity Education in Canada.
• Changes in Policy Supports for Healthy Food Retailers, Farmers Markets, and Breastfeeding Among US Municipalities, 2014–2021.

Intergenerational Effects

• District-Level Heterogeneity in Overweight or Obesity Among Women of Reproductive Age.
• Gestational Weight Gain Among Pregnant Women in Ibadan, Nigeria: Pattern, Predictors and Pregnancy Outcomes.
• Diabetes in Pregnancy for Mothers and Offspring: Reflection on 30 Years of Clinical and Translational Research: The 2022 Norbert Freinkel Award Lecture.
• Paternal High-Fat Diet Altered SETD2 Gene Methylation in Sperm of F0 and F1 Mice.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Effects of Diel-Cycling Hypoxia and Salinity on Lipid Metabolism and Fatty Acid Composition of the Oyster Crassostrea hongkongensis.
• New Frontiers in the Measurement of Energy Metabolism.
• Mitochondrial Metabolism and Oxidative Stress in Tropical Cockroach Under Fluctuating Thermal Regimes.

Methods

• Methods of Isolation and Purification of Extracellular Vesicles from Different Biological Matrixes: Special Issue at a Glance.
• A Collection of Novel Techniques to Study Diabetes and Obesity.

Commentary

• "Carcinogenicity: Oh No! Obesogenicity: Meh."
• Comment on "A Model-Based Approach to Predict Individual Weight Loss With Semaglutide in People With Overweight or Obesity."
• High U.S. Drug Prices, High Obesity Rates, Twisted Economics.
• How Does Aging Increase Risk of Dehydration?
• Implementing Evidence-Based Obesity Management Guidelines Requires Development of Medical Competencies: A Commentary Outlining Future Directions in Obesity Education in Canada.
• "Anti-obesity medications" or "medications to treat obesity" instead of "weight loss drugs" - why language matters - an official statement of the Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome (ABESO) and the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (SBEM).
• The Growing Implications of Obesity for Prostate Cancer Risk and Mortality: Where Do We Go from Here?
• Gastronomic Landscapes and Biosphere Stewardship: Can Landscapes Be Revitalized Through the Daily Art of Choosing, Cooking, and Eating Food?

General

• Gene Therapy Dramatically Reduces Alcohol Use in Heavy Drinking Nonhuman Primates.
• Regional, Circuit and Network Heterogeneity of Brain Abnormalities in Psychiatric Disorders.
• Triboelectric-Electromagnetic Hybrid Generator Based Self-Powered Flexible Wireless Sensing for Food Monitoring.
• Long-Term Spatial Memory Across Large Spatial Scales in Heliconius Butterflies.
• RCT: Random App of Kindness: Evaluating the Potential of a Smartphone Intervention to Impact Adolescents’ Empathy, Prosocial Behavior, and Aggression.
• For Your Own Good? History, Concept, and Ethics of Paternalism.
• How Important Is Temperature for Strike Success of Ectotherms? Thermal Effects on Predator–prey Interactions of Free-Ranging Pit Vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii).
• Personalized Kitchen Air Supply for Reducing Individual Thermal Discomfort and Cooking Pollution Intake.
• The Top Causes of Death Among Doctors in 2023.

Announcements

• Sixth Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition - Sept 10-12.
• Prof Sage & IU Program Makes History in Athletic Training.
• Webinar: Using Ossabaw Miniature Swine Models to Mimic Human Disease.
• Registration Is Open for the NIDDK Central Repository 20th Anniversary Workshop: Promoting Secondary Research to Accelerate Medical Breakthroughs and Innovation.
• Endocrine Society Honors Endocrinology Field’s Leaders with 2024 Laureate Awards.
• NIH Obesity Research Task Force Symposium: Medications to Treat Obesity: Past, Present, and Future - Sept 8, 2023.
• TOS Grand Rounds: Weight Stigma with Dr. Rebecca Puhl, Sept. 20 and Obesity Genes with Dr. Sadaf Farooqi Nov. 15.
• Course: Consumer Brands Food & Beverage Labeling.
• Registration for YWM2023 (Your Weight Matters)-Engage is Now Open.