Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Drew Sayer Named Inaugural Ronald L. & David B. Allison Endowed Scholar.
• Systematic Review: Adenovirus 36 Prevalence and Association with Human Obesity.
• Systematic Review: "...consumption of whole grain foods, compared with refined grain foods, significantly impacts subjective appetite, and might partly explain the inverse associations between whole grain food intake and risk of overweight, obesity, and weight gain over time."
• Reciprocal Control of Obesity and Anxiety–depressive Disorder Via a GABA and Serotonin Neural Circuit.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: This One Eating Habit Raises Your Risk of Early Death by 50%, Says Study: New Research Says Eating Too Many Restaurant-prepared Meals Can Shorten Your Lifespan.
• Study: Self-Reported Frequency of Meals Away from Home (Restaurants, Fast Food Places, Food Stands, Grocery Stores, Vending Machines) Statistically Significantly Associated with (Not Necessarily Causally Related To) All-Cause Mortality.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "These findings suggest no effects of the provision of a variety of vegetables to meet Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommendations for 8 weeks on vegetable reinforcement".
• RCT: No Significant Differential Effects of High-intensity Interval Training Combined with Traditional Strength or Power Training on Body Composition in Healthy Older Men.
• RCT: "Overall, we found the priming group did not choose lower energy-dense foods significantly more than the control group, hence priming did not increase lower energy-dense food selection."
• Systematic Review: "No evidence was found to support the efficacy of dietary zinc supplements on serum levels of adipokine."
• "Compared to standardized advice, personalized advice based on cancer risk prediction had no effect on improving lifestyle."
• "Acute infusion of lipid and insulin, to mimic the metabolic syndrome of obesity, was not associated with an increase in inflammatory markers."
• "We found no significant association between dolutegravir pharmacokinetic parameters and weight gain amongst treatment-experienced people with HIV newly switched to a dolutegravir-based dual regimen."
• No Significant Improvements in Overall Activity Seen in Evaluation of a Voucher Scheme to Increase Child Physical Activity in Participants of a School Physical Activity Trial in the Hunter Region of Australia.

Basic

• Developmental Programming of Offspring Adipose Tissue Biology and Obesity Risk.
• Characterization of Differentially Expressed Circulating MiRNAs in Metabolically Healthy Versus Unhealthy Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effects of Diets Enriched in Monounsaturated Oleic Acid on the Management and Prevention of Obesity: A Systematic Review of Human Intervention Studies.
• Letter to the Editor: On “Systematic Review of Diets Enriched in Oleic Acid and Obesity”.
• Response: Reply to H. Raeisi-Dehkordi Et Al. Letter to the Editor.
• PubPeer Comment On: Difference in the Effect of Sedentary Behavior and Fast Food Consumption Habit on BMI Among [Children with Obesity].
• Retraction: Exercise-induced Mitochondrial P53 Repairs MtDNA Mutations in Mutator Mice.

Clinical

• RCT: "This pilot study represents an innovative model for behavioral weight loss by reversing the typical treatment intensity model with the aim of providing interventionist support during a critical period after initial weight loss."
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis: Causal Effects of the Human Gut Microbiota on Abdominal Obesity.
• "Altered glycosylation is associated with several diseases, particularly cancer and type 2 diabetes, and this study raises the possibility that diet may influence disease state by altering glycosylation."
• Probiotics Reduce Self-reported Symptoms of Upper Respiratory Tract Infection in Adults with Overweight and Obesity: Should We Be Considering Probiotics During Viral Pandemics?
• Comprehensive Lifestyle Improvement Program for Prostate Cancer (CLIPP) Is Associated with Improvement in Weight and Components of Metabolic Syndrome in Men Exposed to Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer.

Children and Adolescents

• "These findings support those of previous studies reporting greater fat-free mass in formula-fed infants during the first 6 months of life."
• Review: "...even though increased body mass index is the main determinant of blood pressure in the general population, not every adolescent [with hypertension has obesity]".
• Review: Family and Child Perspectives of Clinic-Based Obesity Treatment.
• Growth and Neurodevelopment in Low Birth Weight Versus Normal Birth Weight Infants from Birth to 24 months, Born in an Obstetric Emergency Hospital in Haiti.
• The Impact of Body Weight Trajectory from Childhood on Chronic Inflammation in Adulthood.
• Body Adiposity Index to Analyze the Percentage of Fat in Young Men Aged between 7 and 17 years.
• Impact of a Year-round School Calendar on Children's BMI and Fitness.
• "For all infectious disease measures an increase in BMI z-score for the highest childhood exposure to infectious disease was observed, although only statistically significant for parent-reported infections."
• Preprint: Differences in Total and Regional Body Fat and Their Association with BMI in UK-born White and South Asian Children.

Surgery

• Review: The Gut/Lung Microbiome Axis in Obesity, Asthma, and Bariatric Surgery.
• Effect of Preoperative Weight Loss and Baseline Comorbidity on Short-Term Complications and Reoperations After Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in 2,067 Patients.
• Bariatric Surgery Reduces Cancer Risk in Adults with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Severe Obesity.
• Long-term Incidence of Colorectal Cancer After Bariatric Surgery or Usual Care.

Drugs

• RCT: Reducing the Need for Carbohydrate Counting in Type 1 Diabetes Using Closed-loop Automated Insulin Delivery (artificial Pancreas) and Empagliflozin.
• Systematic Review: Long-term Effects of Weight-reducing Drugs in People with Hypertension.
• Review: Best Practices in the Management of Overweight and Obesity.
• The Effect of an Orally-dosed Caralluma Fimbriata Extract on Appetite Control and Body Composition in Overweight Adults.
• Selection of Antiobesity Medications Based on Phenotypes Enhances Weight Loss: A Pragmatic Trial in an Obesity Clinic.
• "In participants with overweight or obesity, 2.4 mg of semaglutide once weekly plus lifestyle intervention was associated with sustained, clinically relevant reduction in body weight."

Food & Diet

• Review: Soft Drinks and Sweeteners Intake: Possible Contribution to the Development of Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Diseases. Beneficial or Detrimental Action of Alternative Sweeteners?
• "A high-protein (~ 1.6 g kg/day), exclusively plant-based diet (plant-based whole foods + soy protein isolate supplementation) is not different than a protein-matched mixed diet (mixed whole foods + whey protein supplementation) in supporting muscle strength and mass accrual..."
• "These findings suggest that a vegan diet is an effective strategy for improving glucose tolerance and reducing plasma TMAO in individuals with dysglycemia or obesity."

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Workshop Proceedings: Describing the Weight-Reduced State: Physiology, Behavior, and Interventions.
• Cardioprotective Effects of Severe Calorie Restriction from Birth in Adult Ovariectomized Rats.
• A Fifty Percent Leucine-restricted Diet Reduces Fat Mass and Improves Glucose Regulation.
• Preprint: Comparative Effects of Calorie Restriction on Health Span and Insulin Resistance: Classic Calorie Restriction Diet vs Ketosis-Inducing Diet.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Association of Cycling with Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality.
• Review: Exercise Is Muscle Mitochondrial Medicine.
• Effects of Two Workload-Matched High-Intensity Interval Training Protocols on Regional Body Composition and Fat Oxidation in Men with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic review: Economic Evaluations of Web-based or Telephone-delivered Interventions for Preventing Overweight and Obesity And/or Improving Obesity-related Behaviors.
• A Life Course Perspective on BMI in Rural America.
• Polygenic Risk for Obesity and Its Interaction with Lifestyle and Sociodemographic Factors in European Children and Adolescents.
• Maternal Stress Moderates the Relationship of Food Insufficiency with  BMI Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adulthood Among U.S. Rural Youth.
• Job Absenteeism Costs of Obesity in the United States: National and State-Level Estimates.

Epidemiology

• Environmental Mismatch and Obesity in Humans.
• Childhood Patterns of Overweight and Wheeze and Subsequent Risk of Current Asthma and Obesity in Adolescence.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Can a Short Screening Tool Discriminate between Overeating and Binge Eating in Treatment-Seeking Individuals with Obesity?
• The Combined Effects of Obesity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness are Associated with Response Inhibition.
• Predictors and Outcomes of Digital Weighing and Activity Tracking Lapses Among Young Adults During Weight Gain Prevention.
• See the Cake and Have It Too? Investigating the Effect of Watching a Cooking Show on Unhealthy Food Choices.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic Review: Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Obesity and Biological, Behavioral, and Sociocultural Influences in the United States.
• "Results are congruent with findings from other studies reporting associations between racial inequality and obesity incidence and also suggest racial discrimination may be one of the mechanisms leading to such inequalities."
• Traditional Societal Practices Can Avert Poor Dietary Habits and Reduce Obesity Risk in Preschool Children of Mothers with Low Socioeconomic Status and Unemployment.
• "Differences in patterns of coping strategies may help to explain disparities in obesity-related health behavior."
• Time Trends in Socio-economic, Urban-rural and Regional Disparities in Prevalence of Obesity Among Non-pregnant Women in Lesotho.

Stigma

• Qualitative: Eradicating Weight Stigma by Combating Pathologization.
• Review: Weight Bias During COVID-19.
• Self-Compassion, Internalized Weight Stigma, Psychological Well-Being, and Eating Behaviors in Women.
• Weight Stigma Experiences and Self-exclusion from Sport and Exercise Settings Among People with Obesity.
• An Exploratory Examination of Internalized Weight Stigma in a Sample Living with Food Insecurity.

Policy Related

• Federal Nutrition Programs After the Pandemic: Learning from P-EBT and SNAP to Create the Next Generation of Food Safety Net Programs.
• School Nutrition Director Perceptions of Flexible Regulations for School Nutrition Programs in One Southeastern State.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic Review: Maternal and Infant Factors Influencing Human Milk Oligosaccharide Composition: Beyond Maternal Genetics.
• Bayesian Regularized Mediation Analysis: Intergenerational Associations between Maternal Diet and Childhood Adiposity.
• "Maternal obesity is negatively associated with the content of select miRNAs in human milk."
• "Findings suggest that caffeine consumption during pregnancy, even at levels much lower than the recommended 200 mg per day of caffeine, are associated with decreased fetal growth."
• Antenatal Fetal Size and Obesity in Five-Year-Old Children in a Large Cohort Created by Data Linkage.
• Maternal Adipose Tissue to Early Preeclampsia Risk Detection: Is the Time to Maternal Ultrasound Beyond Fetal Evaluation?

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Brown and Beige Adipose Tissue Regulate Systemic Metabolism Through a Metabolite Interorgan Signaling Axis.
• Surviving Winter: Physiological Regulation of Energy Balance in a Temperate Ectotherm Entering and Exiting Brumation.

Methods

• Nanoproteomic Approach for Isolation and Identification of Potential Biomarkers in Human Urine from Adults with Normal Weight, Overweight and Obesity.
• Derivation and Validation of a Total Fruit and Vegetable Intake Prediction Model to Identify Targets for Biomarker Discovery Using the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• CODY Enables Quantitatively Spatiotemporal Predictions on in Vivo Gut Microbial Variability Induced by Diet Intervention.

Commentary

• Metformin and COVID-19 Mortality Risk; A Timeline of Kobe’s Last Day.
• Factoids and Links: Deceiving with the Truth.
• Obesity Screening in School: Can We Please Stop Now?
• Time to Shed Covid Fat.
• Better-for-You Bunk: False Advertising?
• Does Fenugreek Aid Weight Loss?
• Misconceptions About Obesity Have Led to a Spike in Weight Shaming During COVID-19, Experts Say.
• The Air That We (do Not) Breathe: Lower Adipose Tissue Oxygen Availability in Patients with Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome?

General

• Wild Insect Diversity Increases Inter-annual Stability in Global Crop Pollinator Communities.
• US Health Agency Will Invest $1 Billion to Investigate ‘long COVID’.
• Coronapod: COVID and Pregnancy - What Do We Know?
• Associations of Habitual Dietary Intake with Fecal Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Bowel Functions in Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
• An Open Plea for Dignity and Respect in Science.
• The Fight Against Fake-paper Factories That Churn Out Sham Science.
• A Quantitative Model Used to Compare Within-host SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV Dynamics Provides Insights into the Pathogenesis and Treatment of SARS-CoV-2.
• Associations between Everyday Discrimination and Sleep: Tests of Moderation by Ethnicity and Sense of Purpose.

Announcements

• OEO Contributor Garr Barry Wins UAB Barker Award for Excellence.
• The Obesity Society's Abstract Submission Site Now Open for Obesity Week (April 15 Deadline).
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Survey Development Webinar (April 12).
• New Book - Food History: A Feast of the Senses in Europe, 1750 to the Present.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.

Featured

• Researchers Define New Equation for Doubly Labeled Water Studies.
• Nutrition Care Practice Patterns for Patients with COVID-19 - A Preliminary Report.
• Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number and Mitochondrial DNA Deletion Mutation Frequency as Predictors of Physical Performance in Older Men and Women.
• "Just not knowing" can make life sweeter (and saltier): Reward uncertainty alters the sensory experience and consumption of palatable food and drinks.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Want to Burn Fat – Take Coffee Half an Hour Before Afternoon Exercise.
• Study: Caffeine Increases Maximal Fat Oxidation During a Graded Exercise Test: Is There a Diurnal Variation?
• Headline: Can Fitbits, Apple Watch Be a Dieter's Best Friend?
• Study: Health Wearable Devices for Weight and BMI Reduction in Individuals with Overweight/obesity and Chronic Comorbidities: Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "There was no overall effect of treatment group on 6, 12, or 18 month weight loss (ps = NS)" ..."randomly assigned to receive through Facebook and text messaging either personalized (TAILORED; n = 150) or generic (TARGETED; n = 152) weight loss information, messages, and feedback or general healthy body content (e.g., body image, sleep; CONTROL; n = 157)."
• RCT: "...vitamin E supplementation had no remarkable effect on the lipid profile in menopausal women."
• RCT: No significant "efficacy of a smartphone app in restoring optimal weight following delivery in women with GDM..."
• "...contrary to our hypothesis increasing forage concentration did not increase NDF [neutral detergent fiber] digestibility" in cows.
• "...contrary to our hypothesis, we found no evidence that the built cover gradient affected the richness, composition, or proportion of exotic ant species foraging on food resources…."
• "...contrary to expectation, we found strongly reduced levels of methylmalonic acid and propionylcarnitine in fasted conditions. …in our mouse model at least, induction of a catabolic state on its own may not be sufficient to trigger elevated metabolite levels."
• "We conclude that, contrary to observations in subjects with obesity, insulin resistance is not accompanied by unfavorable changes in the plasma lipid profile and lipoprotein particle concentrations and sizes in lean Asians with normal glucose tolerance."
• "Contrary to our predictions, lactating females did not differ in social interaction time, and lactating chimpanzees spent proportionately more time interacting with individuals other than their immature offspring."

Basic

• The Therapeutic Effects of Adipose-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Obesity and Its Associated Diseases in Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Mice with Fabp4-Cre Ablation of Arid5b are Resistant to Diet-Induced Obesity and Hepatic Steatosis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Characteristics and Quality of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses of Observational Nutritional Epidemiology: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Article: The Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Hemoglobin Concentration: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Letter: Meta-analysis of Vitamin D Supplementation and Hemoglobin Concentration: Methodological Faults Obscure the Interpretation of the Data.
• Correction: The Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Hemoglobin Concentration: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Clinical

• RCT: Oral Nutritional Supplement with β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB) Improves Nutrition, Physical Performance and Ameliorates Intramuscular Adiposity in Pre-Frail Older Adults.
• The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Draft Recommendations on Diabetes Screening for Adults with Excess Weight.
• Diet, Eating Behaviour and Weight Gain in Men and Women with Overweight/obesity Receiving Varenicline for Smoking Cessation.

Children and Adolescents

• A Prediction Model for Childhood Obesity in New Zealand.
• How Important Is Motor Competence for Healthy Weight Status Across Adolescence?
• The Role of Maternal BMI on Brain Food Cue Reactivity in Children: A Preliminary Study.
• A Comprehensive, Multisystemic Early Childhood Program and Obesity at Age 37 Years.
• Characteristics of Achieving Clinically Important Weight Loss in Two Paediatric Weight Management Interventions.
• Physical and Sedentary Activities and Childhood Overweight/Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study Among First-Year Children of Primary Schools in Modena, Italy.
• Serotonin System Genes Contribute to the Susceptibility to Obesity in Black Adolescents.

Surgery

• Are Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and a BMI of 27.5-32.5 Kg/m 2 Suitable for Metabolic Surgery? A One-Year Post-Surgery Study.
• Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Short-term Weight Loss in a Single Italian Institution.
• Evaluation of Myocardial Function Following SADI-S.
• Food Preferences and Their Perceived Changes Before and After Bariatric Surgery: A Cross-sectional Study.

Drugs

• Two-year Treatment with Metformin During Puberty Does Not Preserve β-cell Function in Youth with Obesity.
• RCT: Effect of Continued Weekly Subcutaneous Semaglutide vs Placebo on Weight Loss Maintenance in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Supplementation of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs) and Aerobic Exercise Improve Functioning, Morphology, and Redox Balance in Prostate Obese Rats.
• Meta-Analysis: The Beneficial Effects of Cinnamon Among Patients with Metabolic Diseases in RCTs.
• Dairy Consumption, Plasma Metabolites, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Adiponectin and 8-epi-PGF2α as Intermediate Influencing Factors in Weight Reduction After 12 Weeks of Legume Consumption.
• Mulberry Leaf Phenolics and Fiber Exert Anti-obesity Through the Gut Microbiota-host Metabolism Pathway.
• RCT: Consumption of a Variety of Vegetables to Meet Dietary Guidelines for Americans' Recommendations Does Not Induce Sensitization of Vegetable Reinforcement Among Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Whole Grain Intake Favorably Affects Blood Glucose and Serum Triacylglycerols in Children with Overweight and Obesity.
• ω-3PUFA Supplementation Ameliorates Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Insulin-stimulated Glucose Disposal in Subjects with Obesity: A Potential Role for Apolipoprotein E.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting with a High Protein Diet Mitigated Osteoarthritis Symptoms by Increasing Lean Body Mass and Reducing Inflammation in Osteoarthritic Rats with Alzheimer's Disease-Like Dementia.
• Time-restricted Feeding Restored Insulin-growth Hormone Balance and Improved Substrate and Energy Metabolism in MC4RKO Obese Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Dose-response Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Adiposity Markers in Postmenopausal Women: Pooled Analyses from Two RCTs.
• Effects of Exercise on Resting Metabolic Rate in Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Development of Maximal Dynamic Strength During Concurrent Resistance and Endurance Training in Untrained, Moderately Trained, and Trained Individuals.

Economics & Sociology

• Abnormal BMI May Be Related to Poor Social Function of Female Children by a Propensity Score Matching Analysis.
• The COMET Study: Examining the Effects of COVID-19-Related Perceived Stress on Los Angeles Mothers' Dysregulated Eating Behaviors, Child Feeding Practices, and BMI.
• Factors Associated with Being Overweight and Obesity in People Living with HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy: Socio-clinical, Inflammation, and Metabolic Markers.
• Parental Unemployment During the Great Recession and Childhood Adiposity.

Epidemiology

• The Independent Risk of Obesity and Diabetes and Their Interaction in COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Prevalence of Obesity and Associated Factors in Benue State, Nigeria: A Population-based Study.
• Trends in Obesity and Adiposity Measures by Race or Ethnicity Among Adults in the United States 2011-18: Population Based Study.
• BMI Trajectories During Mid to Late Life and Risks of Mortality and Cardiovascular Outcomes: Results from Four Prospective Cohorts.
• Growth, Body Composition, and Cardiovascular and Nutritional Risk of 5- to 10-y-old Children Consuming Vegetarian, Vegan, or Omnivore Diets.
• Thirty-Year Trends in Complications in U.S. Adults with Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effects of Parenting and Perceived Stress on BMI in African American Adolescents.
• Cyberbullying and Obesity in Adolescents: Prevalence and Associations in Seven European Countries of the EU NET ADB Survey.
• Systematic Review: The Impact of Overweight/Obesity on Monetary Reward Processing.
• Commentary on: “What Is Restrained Eating and How Do We Identify It?”: Unveiling the Elephant in the Room.
• Chronotype and Cardio Metabolic Health in Obesity: Does Nutrition Matter?

Equity and Disparities

• Does Sex-Obesity Intersectionality Play a Role in Labor Inactivity? Results from the Brazilian National Health Survey.
• Assessing Health Disparities in Foods and Beverages Served in Early Care and Education Programs Across Georgia.

Stigma

• Non-stigmatising Alternatives to Anti-obesity Public Health Messages: Consequences for Health Behaviour and Well-being.
• Review: We Must Do Better: Ableism and Fatphobia in Sociology.
• The Role of Snack Choices, Body Weight Stereotypes and Smoking Behavior in Assessing Risk Factors for Adolescent Overweight and Obesity.
• Weight Stigma Across the Preconception, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Periods: A Narrative Review and Conceptual Model.
• The Influence of Weight Bias on Processes and Outcomes in Negotiation.

Policy Related

• Adolescents Report Low Opposition Towards Policy Options to Reduce Consumption of Sugary Drinks.
• A Healthy Start: National Trends in Child Care Regulations and Uptake of Obesity Prevention Standards (2010–2018).

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Diet in Pregnancy Is Associated with Differences in Child Body Mass Index Trajectories from Birth to Adolescence.
• Child Physical Activity as a Modifier of the Relationship between Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Overweight/obesity and Neurocognitive Outcomes in Offspring.
• Pregnancies in Diabetes and Obesity: The Capacity-Load Model of Placental Adaptation.
• Maternal Glucose in Pregnancy Is Associated with Child's Adiposity and Leptin at 5 years of Age.
• Supplementation of Milk Polar Lipids to Obese Dams Improves Neurodevelopment and Cognitive Function in Male Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Overwintering Conditions Impact Insulin Pathway Gene Expression in Diapausing Megachile Rotundata.
• Daily Temperature Cycles Prolong Lifespan and Have Sex-specific Effects on Peripheral Clock Gene Expression in Drosophila melanogaster.

Methods

• Body Composition Methods in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes or at Risk for T2D: A Clinical Review.
• Thermal Imaging Method to Evaluate Childhood Obesity Based on Machine Learning Techniques.
• Recruitment Planning for Clinical Trials with a Vulnerable Perinatal Adolescent Population Using the Clinical Trials Transformative Initiative Framework and Principles of Partner and Community Engagement.
• Underreporting of Energy Intake in Weight Loss Maintainers.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Hybrid Intelligent Classifier to Estimate Obesity Levels Based on ERG Signals.

Commentary

• Defining the Disease of Obesity in Europe.
• Working to Remake Food Systems – into What?
• How Food Insecurity Factors into Obesity Care.
• Perspective: How to Develop Nutrient Profiling Models Intended for Global Use: A Manual.
• Study of Amazonian Children Provides Clues in How to Tackle Obesity.
• Does Drinking Apple Cider Vinegar in the Morning Aid Weight Loss and Health?
• Are Higher Obesity Rates in Minority Groups a Product of Systemic Racism?
• Precision Medicine in 2030-seven Ways to Transform Healthcare.

General

• Report: First Results of VA Study on PTSD and Service Dogs.
• Review of Report: New Report Reviews Veterans Affairs Monograph on Potential Therapeutic Effects of Programs with Service and Emotional Support Dogs on Veterans with PTSD.
• Conspiracy: Doubt Mongering When Doubt Evolves into Conviction.
• Effects of Diet, BMP-2 Treatment, and Femoral Skeletal Injury on Endothelial Cells Derived from the Ipsilateral and Contralateral Limbs.
• Are Human Natal Sex Ratio Differences Across the World Adaptive? A Test of Fisher's Principle.
• Regenstrief Teaching Electronic Medical Record (tEMR) Platform: A Novel Tool for Teaching and Evaluating Applied Health Information Technology.
• Likelihood of COVID-19 Reinfection Low, but Elderly at Increased Risk, Study Finds.
• Systematic Review: Status Consciousness in Energy Consumption Decisions.

Announcements

• IU Department of Kinesiology Professor Emeritus Slated to Be Fulbright Specialist.
• ASN Webinar: Intersections between Nutrition Research and Nutrition Science Policy.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.

Featured

• RCT: Effects of Carbohydrate Restriction on Postprandial Glucose Metabolism, B-cell Function, Gut Hormone Secretion, and Satiety in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Combined Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase Inhibition and Reduced-Calorie Diet Normalizes Body Composition and Enhances Metabolic Benefits in Obese Mice.
• Different Levels of Physical Activity, Physical Health, Happiness, and Depression Among Older Adults with Diabetes.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Men Have to Work Harder to Keep Off Their Beer Bellies as Women Burn More Fat During Exercise, Study Reveals.
• Study: Determinants of Peak Fat Oxidation Rates During Cycling in Healthy Men and Women. Changes in Beer Bellies (or Any Bellies) Not Measured.

Contrary or Null Findings

• A Low-Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet and Treadmill Training Enhanced Fatty Acid Oxidation Capacity but Did Not Enhance Maximal Exercise Capacity in Mice.
• RCT: Coconut Oil Supplementation Does Not Affect Blood Pressure Variability and Oxidative Stress: A Placebo-Controlled Clinical Study in Stage-1 Hypertensive Patients.
• Body Composition in Term Offspring After Maternal Gestational Diabetes Does Not Predict Postnatal Hypoglycemia.
• “Contrary to Expectations, the Use of BMS309403 [a Specific Inhibitor of Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4] Negatively Affected Male Reproductive Parameters [in Mice].”
• RCT: Higher Protein Intake During Resistance Training Does Not Potentiate Strength, but Modulates Gut Microbiota, in Middle-aged Adults.
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Is Not Associated with Offspring Birth Weight: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• No Evidence for a Decrease in Physical Activity Among Swiss Office Workers During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study.
• "Results from the meta-analysis of three studies showed no significant difference between L-Carnosine and placebo groups in the Gilliam autism rating scale..."
• RCT: No Overall Effectiveness of a Smartphone App to Promote Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy (HealthyMoms).

Basic

• GIP Receptor Deletion in Mice Confers Resistance to HFD-Induced Obesity Via Alterations in Energy Expenditure and Adipose Tissue Lipid Metabolism.
• Insulin Signaling in AgRP Neurons Regulates Meal Size to Limit Glucose Excursions and Insulin Resistance.
• Novel Adipokine Asprosin Modulates Browning and Adipogenesis in White Adipose Tissue.
• Hepatoprotective Effects of Indole, a Gut Microbial Metabolite, in Leptin-Deficient Obese Mice.
• Short-Term Intermittent Hypoxia Induces Simultaneous Systemic Insulin Resistance and Higher Cardiac Contractility in Lean Mice.
• Diet-Induced Obesity Leads to Alterations in Behavior and Gut Microbiota Composition in Mice.
• Elevated HB-EGF Expression in Neural Stem Cells Causes Middle Age Obesity by Suppressing Hypocretin/Orexin Expression.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Shortcomings in the Vitamin C and Common Cold Meta-Analysis by Ran et al. (2018).
• Preprint: Outcome Reporting Bias in Exercise Oncology Trials (OREO): A Cross-Sectional Study.
• PubPeer Comment On: Effect of Excessive Water Intake on Body Weight, BMI, Body Fat, and Appetite of Overweight Female Participants.

Clinical

• BMI and Risk for COVID-19-Related Hospitalization, Intensive Care Unit Admission, Invasive Mechanical Ventilation, and Death - United States, March-December 2020.
• Weight Loss Effects in Usual Primary Care: Findings from 5 Behavioral Weight Loss RCTs.
• Metabolomic Analysis Uncovers Energy Supply Disturbance as an Underlying Mechanism of the Development of Alcohol-Associated Liver Cirrhosis.
• The Aussie-FIT Process Evaluation: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Weight Loss Intervention for Men, Delivered in Australian Football League Settings.

Children and Adolescents

• A Healthy Start: National Trends in Child Care Regulations and Uptake of Obesity Prevention Standards (2010-2018).
• Adolescent Exposure to Weight Loss Imagery on Instagram: A Content Analysis of "Top" Images.
• Momentary Associations between Stress and Physical Activity Among Children Using Ecological Momentary Assessment.
• Meta-Analysis: Associations between Weather Conditions and Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in Children and Adolescents.
• Associations of Lifestyle Risk Factors with Overweight or Obesity Among Adolescents: A Multicountry Analysis.
• RCT: Neurodevelopment and Growth Until 6.5 Years of Infants Who Consumed a Low-Energy, Low-Protein Formula Supplemented with Bovine Milk Fat Globule Membranes.
• Effect of Obesity on Mortality Among Hospitalized Paediatric Patients with Severe Sepsis.

Surgery

• Effects of a High BMI on the Short-Term Outcomes and Prognosis After Radical Gastrectomy.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Heart Rhythm Disorders.
• Patterns of Change in Device-Based Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Following Bariatric Surgery: A Longitudinal Observational Study.

Drugs

• Meta-Analysis: Randomized Outcome Trials Comparing Cardiovascular Effects of SGLT2is and GLP-1RAs in Asian Versus White Patients with and Without Type 2 Diabetes.
• Pharmacotherapy for Obesity—Trends Using a Population Level National Database.
• FGF19 Protects Skeletal Muscle Against Obesity-Induced Muscle Atrophy, Metabolic Derangement and Abnormal Irisin Levels Via the AMPK/SIRT-1/PGC-α Pathway.

Food & Diet

• Tea Consumption and Long-Term Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Complications: A Cohort Study of 0.5 Million Chinese Adults.
• Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Mortality: Results from 2 Prospective Cohort Studies of US Men and Women and a Meta-Analysis of 26 Cohort Studies.
• RCT: Effect of Schisandra Chinensis Baillon Extracts and Regular Low-Intensity Exercise on Muscle Strength and Mass in Older Adults.
• Minor Changes in the Composition and Function of the Gut Microbiota During a 12-Week Whole Grain Wheat or Refined Wheat Intervention Correlate with Liver Fat in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Ingesting Yogurt Containing Lactobacillus plantarum OLL2712 Reduces Abdominal Fat Accumulation and Chronic Inflammation in Overweight Adults.
• Review: Anti-Diabetic Effects of the Soluble Dietary Fiber from Tartary Buckwheat Bran in Diabetic Mice and Their Potential Mechanisms.
• Identifying Patterns of Alcohol Use and Obesity-Related Factors Among Emerging Adults: A Behavioral Economic Analysis.
• Magnesium Intake, Insulin Resistance, and Markers of Endothelial Function Among Women.
• Amelioration Effect of Black Seed Oil Against High-fat Diet-induced Obesity in Rats Through Nrf2/HO-1 Pathway.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting: from Calories to Time Restriction.
• Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Diet and Caloric Restriction in Metabolic Syndrome.
• Calorie Restriction and SIRT1 Overexpression Induce Different Gene Expression Profiles in White Adipose Tissue in Association with Metabolic Improvement.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Resumption of Sport at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Training Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• RCT: The Effects of Core Stabilization Exercise Program in People with Obesity Awaiting Bariatric Surgery.
• Restoring Perivascular Adipose Tissue Function in Obesity Using Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• Influence of Prenatal Perceived Stress on Postpartum Weight Retention Is Mediated by High Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Overweight.
• Longitudinal Weight Gain and Related Risk Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Adults in the US.
• A Revalidation of the Weight Related Behaviours Questionnaire Within an Australian Pregnancy Cohort.
• Hedonic Hunger Is Associated with Intake of Certain High-Fat Food Types and BMI in 20- to 40-Year-Old Adults.
• RCT: Evaluation of PIQNIQ, a Novel Mobile Application for Capturing Dietary Intake.

Epidemiology

• Meta-Analysis: Temporal Associations Among BMI, Fasting Insulin, and Systemic Inflammation.
• Meta-Analysis: Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Risk of Stroke.
• Relation of Body Fat Mass and Fat-free Mass to Total Mortality: Results from 7 Prospective Cohort Studies.
• Impact of Body Mass and Alcohol Consumption on All-cause and Liver Mortality in 240 000 Adults in the United States.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Prevalence of Muscle Dysmorphia in Adolescents: Findings from the EveryBODY Study.
• Weight Loss Is Correlated with Disease Severity in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2: A Cross-Sectional Cohort Study.
• A Structural Equation Modeling Associating Obesity and Body Dissatisfaction with Health-Related Biopsychosocial Parameters in Adolescents.
• Compare the Effectiveness of Barlow`s Unified Transdiagnostic Treatment, Emotion- Focused Therapy and Mindfulness on Moderating the Eating Behavior of Adults with Obesity.
• The Independent Role of BMI and Severity of Depressive Symptoms on Biological Changes of Women Affected by Overweight/Obesity.
• The Role of Mediobasal Hypothalamic PACAP in the Control of Body Weight and Metabolism.

Equity and Disparities

• Is Obesity a Manifestation of Systemic Racism? A Ten-point Strategy for Study and Intervention.
• Self-Reported Disability and Its Association with Obesity and Physical Activity in Australian Adults: Results from a Longitudinal Study.
• Changes in Family Poverty Status and Child Health.

Stigma

• The Role of Social Exposure in Predicting Weight Bias and Weight Bias Internalisation: An International Study.
• Non-Stigmatising Alternatives to Anti-Obesity Public Health Messages: Consequences for Health Behaviour and Well-being.
• How Weight Bias Infects Diabetes Care.

Policy Related

• A Healthy Start: National Trends in Child Care Regulations and Uptake of Obesity Prevention Standards (2010–2018).
• The How and Why of Producing Policy Relevant Research: Perspectives of Australian Childhood Obesity Prevention Researchers and Policy Makers.
• Expanding Our Understanding and Use of the Ecological Systems Theory Model for the Prevention of Maternal Obesity: A New Socioecological Framework.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prenatal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Markers of Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Spanish Adolescents.
• Association of Breastfeeding and Child IQ Score at Age 5 Years.
• Associations of Parenting Factors and Weight Related Outcomes in African American Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• Maternal Seafood Intake During Pregnancy, Prenatal Mercury Exposure and Child BMI Trajectories Up to 8 Years.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Brood Sex Ratio Modulates the Effects of Extra Food on Parental Effort and Sibling Competition in a Sexually Dimorphic Raptor.
• Preprint: Hibernation Slows Epigenetic Aging in Yellow-Bellied Marmots.
• Genome Size Influences Adaptive Plasticity of Water Loss, but Not Metabolic Rates in Lungless Salamanders.

Methods

• Concept Development and Use of an Automated Food Intake and Eating Behavior Assessment Method.
• Is It Possible to Predict Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery?—External Validation of Predictive Models.
• Novel Equation for Estimating Resting Energy Expenditure in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.
• I-PATHWAY: Development and Validation of a Prediction Model for Childhood Obesity in an Australian Prospective Birth Cohort.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Compartmental Model Describing the Kinetics of β-Carotene and β-Carotene-Derived Retinol in Healthy Older Adults.

Commentary

• Is This Progress in Use of Anti-Obesity Medicines?
• DeMystifying COVID Mortality: The Weight of Evidence.
• “Let Them Choose Not to Eat Cake…”
• Widespread Misconceptions About Pregnancy for Women Living with Obesity.
• Normal Is Doomed and This Might Be Good.
• Do Organic and Biodynamic Wines Get Higher Scores? That Isn’t What the Evidence Says.
• Perspective: The Saturated Fat–Unsaturated Oil Dilemma: Relations of Dietary Fatty Acids and Serum Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis, Inflammation, Cancer, and All-Cause Mortality.
• Senolytic Drugs: from Discovery to Translation.

General

• Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem.
• Applying the Transtheoretical Model of Behavioral Change to Establish Physical Activity Habit.
• Yes, You Can Travel Safely This Spring, Experts Say.
• Could Rotavirus Genome Be Key to COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids? IU Researchers Say Yes.
• Scientists Set Up Mantis 'Gladiator Matches' to See Why Some Males Keep Their Heads After Sex.
• Irradiating Small Animals Used as Fish Food Makes Them Bigger.
• Expanding the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score for Predicting Diabetes Incidence in People Living with HIV.
• Reciprocal Microbiome Transplants Differentially Rescue Fitness in Two Syntopic Dung Beetle Sister Species (Scarabaeidae: Onthophagus).

Announcements

• Kimberly Reed Is the Newest Member of Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington's Dean's Alliance.
• Webinar: Myths and Facts About Caffeine Safety- March 30 @ 1pm ET.
• Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2021).
• Call for Late Breaking/Rapid Science Submissions for NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE.
• IU Earns National Award for Campus Internationalization.
• Food Psychology Expert Debunks ‘Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices’ in New Book.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.

Featured

• Psychological Resilience, Experimentally Manipulated Social Status, and Dietary Intake Among Adolescents.
• It "appeared that being presented with the choice itself led to increased sugar consumption and reduced longevity" in flies.
• RCT: Effect of Subcutaneous Semaglutide vs Placebo as an Adjunct to Intensive Behavioral Therapy on Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Greater Loss of Central Adiposity from Low-Carbohydrate Versus Low-Fat Diet in Middle-Aged Adults with Overweight and Obesity [in Non-randomized Trial].

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Feinstein Institutes and GE Research Demonstrate Ultrasound Stimulation Reduces Obesity.
• Study: Targeted Peripheral Focused Ultrasound Stimulation Attenuates Obesity-Induced Metabolic and Inflammatory Dysfunctions... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "A structured counselling-based physical activity intervention did not significantly impact the level of vigorous physical activity behaviour in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors."
• "non-nutritive sweeteners when consumed together with a balanced diet did not cause a greater body mass gain" in rats.
• RCT: Little to No Effect on Primary Outcomes in Trial of Scaling Up Patient-Centered Interdisciplinary Care for Multimorbidity. (pdf)
• Meta-Analysis: No Significant Association of BMI with Survival and Serious Adverse Events in Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Bevacizumab.
• RCT: "higher protein intake above moderate amounts does not potentiate resistance training adaptations in previously untrained middle-aged adults."
• RCT: A High-protein Diet Does Not Mitigate Suppression of Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1) and Leptin Secondary to Low Energy Availability (LEA) May Contribute to Adverse Effects on Bone Health.
• RCT: Efforts on Changing Lifestyle Behaviors May Not Be Enough to Improve Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adolescents.
• RCT: "Interesterification did not modify fat digestion, postprandial lipemia, or lipid metabolism measured by stable isotope and DGM analysis."

Basic

• MicroRNA-33 Maintains Adaptive Thermogenesis Via Enhanced Sympathetic Nerve Activity.
• High-fat Feeding Disrupts Daily Eating Behavior Rhythms in Obesity-prone but Not in Obesity-resistant Male Inbred Mouse Strains.
• Chronic Caffeine Ingestion Down-Regulates Liver and Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammatory Gene Expression in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Very-low-protein Diets Lead to Reduced Food Intake and Weight Loss, Linked to Inhibition of Hypothalamic MTOR Signaling, in Mice.
• Testosterone Reduces Body Fat in Male Mice by Stimulation of Physical Activity Via Extrahypothalamic ERα Signaling.
• Hypothalamic Hormone-Sensitive Lipase Regulates Appetite and Energy Homeostasis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Commentary: Do Retractions Shake the Cult of Vitamin D?
• Letter: Methodological Flaws in Meta-Analysis of Phytosterol Supplementation and Plasma Lipoprotein(a) and Free Fatty Acid (FFA) Concentrations.

Clinical

• Obesity Among Postmenopausal Women: What Is the Best Anthropometric Index to Assess Adiposity and Success of Weight-loss Intervention?
• Very-Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet as a Safe and Valuable Tool for Long-Term Glycemic Management in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Mood, Sleepiness, and Weight Gain After Three Years on CPAP Therapy for Sleep Apnoea.
• The H2020 “NoHoW Project”: A Position Statement on Behavioural Approaches to Longer-Term Weight Management.
• Validity of Body-Composition Methods Across Racial and Ethnic Populations.
• RCT: A Novel Approach to Increasing Community Capacity for Weight Management a Volunteer-delivered Programme (ActWELL) Initiated Within Breast Screening Clinics.

Children and Adolescents

• Associations between Fruit Juice and Milk Consumption and Change in BMI in a Large Prospective Cohort of U.S. Adolescents and Preadolescents.
• Family Resilience and Childhood Obesity Among Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences in a National Survey.
• The Impact of Reducing the Frequency of Night Feeding on Infant BMI.
• Identifying Key Determinants of Childhood Obesity: A Narrative Review of Machine Learning Studies.
• Factors Affecting Obesity in Urban and Rural Adolescents: Demographic, Socioeconomic Characteristics, Health Behavior and Health Education.
• The Risk of Metabolic Derangements Is Higher in Children and Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity Born Small for Gestational Age.
• Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention Preferences of Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity.
• Intersections of Adolescent Well-Being: School, Work, and Weight Status in Brazil.

Surgery

• Long-Term Improvement of Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation After Bariatric Surgery.
• A Prospective 5-year Study on the Use of Transient Elastography to Monitor the Improvement of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Following Bariatric Surgery.
• RCT: Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in the Elderly.

Drugs

• An International Multicenter Observational Non-interventional Prospective Study of the Efficacy of Azilsartan Medoxomil in Patients with Overweight or Obesity and Arterial Hypertension.
• Pharmacotherapy for Obesity-Trends Using a Population Level National Database.
• Behavioural and Neurochemical Mechanisms Underpinning the Feeding-suppressive Effect of GLP-1/CCK Combinatorial Therapy.

Food & Diet

• Navy Bean Supplementation in Established High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Attenuates the Severity of the Obese Inflammatory Phenotype.
• Optimizing Adult Protein Intake During Catabolic Health Conditions.
• RCT: Sixteen Weeks of Supplementation with a Nutritional Quantity of a Diversity of Polyphenols from Foodstuff Extracts Improves the Health-Related Quality of Life of Volunteers with Overweight and Obesity.
• Circulating Inflammatory Markers May Mediate the Relationship between Low Carbohydrate Diet and Circadian Rhythm in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Carob Pod Polyphenols Suppress the Differentiation of Adipocytes Through Posttranscriptional Regulation of C/EBPβ.
• Role of Dietary Fat on Obesity-related Postmenopausal Breast Cancer: Insights from Mouse Models and Methodological Considerations.
• RCT: Fructose- and Sucrose- but Not Glucose-Sweetened Beverages Promote Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Proteomics Analysis of Adipose Depots After Intermittent Fasting Reveals Visceral Fat Preservation Mechanisms.
• Vitamin D Status, Vitamin D Intake, and Sunlight Exposure in Adults Adhering or Not to Periodic Religious Fasting for Decades.
• Long-Term Shaping of Corticostriatal Synaptic Activity by Acute Fasting.
• Changes in Subjective Measures of Appetite During 6 Months of Alternate Day Fasting with a Low Carbohydrate Diet.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• A Study of Leisure Walking Intensity Levels on Mental Health and Health Perception of Older Adults.
• Halo Effect of a Mediterranean-Lifestyle Weight-loss Intervention on Untreated Family Members' Weight and Physical Activity: A Prospective Study.
• RCT: Exercise Training and Burdock Root (Arctium Lappa L.) Extract Independently Improve Abdominal Obesity and Sex Hormones in Elderly Women with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Associations between Indicators of Energy Intake and Expenditure with Excess Weight and Obesity Among Women in Sedentary and Less-sedentary Jobs.

Economics & Sociology

• Potential Impact of the Nonessential Energy-Dense Foods Tax on the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children: A Modeling Study.
• Preprint: Analyzing the Reversal Hypothesis of Obesity with Education: A Cross-Sectional Study of Adult Females in 34 Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries.
• Association between Interpersonal Violence with Inadequate Nutritional Status Among Brazilian Adolescents.

Epidemiology

• Combined Analysis of Gestational Diabetes and Maternal Weight Status from Pre-pregnancy Through Post-delivery in Future Development of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Urban–rural Differences in Overweight and Obesity Among 25–64 Years Old Myanmar Residents.
• Association between Mid-Life Obesity, Its Metabolic Consequences, Cerebrovascular Disease and Cognitive Decline.
• Interaction of Obesity and Hypertension on Cardiac Metabolic Remodeling and Survival Following Myocardial Infarction.
• Independent and Combined Associations between Fast-Food Outlet Exposure and Genetic Risk for Obesity: A Population-based, Cross-sectional Study in the UK.
• Dissertation: The Combined Impact of Race and Education on Obesity Among U.S. Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Psychological Resilience, Experimentally Manipulated Social Status, and Dietary Intake Among Adolescents.
• Correlates of Neural Adaptation to Food Cues and Taste: The Role of Obesity Risk Factors.
• Relationship between BMI and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: Evidence and Inflammatory Correlates.
• Dissertation: Financial Scarcity, Eating Self-Regulation, and Obesity: A Proposed Model.

Equity and Disparities

• On the Joint Role of Non-Hispanic Black Race/ethnicity and Weight Status in Predicting Postmenopausal Weight Gain.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Children’s Weight, Height and BMI Trajectories in Norway.
• Temporal Trend of Overweight and Obesity Prevalence Among Brazilian Adults, According to Sociodemographic Characteristics, 2006-2019.
• Socioeconomic Inequality in Food Intake and Adult Obesity in Portugal.
• From Clinic to Community: Adapting Evidence-Based Weight Management for Overweight Latinx Children to Better Address Social Determinants.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in BMI in Barcelona 1986-2016: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach.

Ethics

• ‘Let Them Choose Not to Eat Cake...’: Public Health Ethics, Effectiveness, and Equity in Government Obesity Strategy.
• An Ethical Investigation into the Microbiome: The Intersection of Agriculture, Genetics, and the Obesity Epidemic.

Stigma

• Commentary: In Obesity Research, Fatphobia Is Always the X Factor.
• Meta-Analysis: Bidirectional Relationships between Weight Stigma and Pediatric Obesity.
• Preprint: Psychosocial and Diet-Related Lifestyle Clusters in Overweight and Obesity.

Policy Related

• Healthcare Professional Training Regarding Gestational Weight Gain: Recommendations and Future Directions.
• When Pandemics Collide: The Impact of COVID-19 on Childhood Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Pregnancy Weight Gain in Twin Gestations and Maternal and Child Health Outcomes at 5 Years.
• The Fetal Origins of Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study on the Association of Preeclampsia and Childhood Obesity.
• BMI Trajectories in the First 5 Years and Associated Antenatal Factors.
• Systematic Review: Maternal BMI Is Positively Associated with Human Milk Fat.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Scarcity Signaling in Sales Promotion: An Evolutionary Perspective of Food Choice and Weight Status.
• Major Oscillations in Spontaneous Home-Cage Activity in C57BL/6 Mice Housed Under Constant Conditions.
• Preprint: A Long Post-reproductive Lifespan Is a Shared Trait Among Genetically Distinct Killer Whale Populations. (pdf)
• Book Chapter: Epigenetic and Developmental Basis of Risk of Obesity and Metabolic Disease.

Methods

• Food Substitution Models for Nutritional Epidemiology.
• Meta-Analysis: Investigating Sex Differences in the Accuracy of Dietary Assessment Methods to Measure Energy Intake in Adults.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Potential Impact of Gradual Reduction of Fat Content in Manufactured and Out-of-Home Food on Obesity in the United Kingdom: A Modeling Study.
• A Quasi-equilibrium Reduced Model of Pancreatic Insulin Secretion.
• Preprint: The Mass Balance Model Perfectly Fits Both Hall et al. Underfeeding Data and Horton et al. Overfeeding Data.

Commentary

• Intermittent Fasting and Why When You Eat Makes a Difference.
• A New Way to Treat Severe Obesity.
• OCW2021: Turning Up the Volume on Solutions.
• For National Nutrition Month, Please Don’t Eat the Malarkey (i.e., Renounce Death by Dietary Boondoggle).
• Then and Now: Body Mass.
• ‘Prudent’ Diet May Counteract Detrimental Effect of Sitting on Glucose Levels.
• Pancreas Transplantation Would Be Easy If the Recipients Were Not Diabetic: A Practical Guide to Post-Operative Management of Diabetic Complications in Pancreas Transplant Recipients.
• Parents and Caregivers are Focused on Their Kids’ Nutrition, but Obstacles to Healthy Eating are Common.

General

• Macrophages of the Human Eye Come into Focus.
• Neanderthal Ears Were Tuned to Hear Speech Just Like Modern Humans.
• Lipid Analysis of Pottery from the Early Bronze Age II Burials at Ayia Triada Cave, Southern Euboea, Greece: Evidence for Ritualized Consumption?
• Social and Physical Context Moderates Older Adults’ Affective Responses to Sedentary Behavior: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.
• Preprint: The Socioeconomic Gradient in Epigenetic Aging Clocks: Evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and the Health and Retirement Study.
• Biological Age Measured Precisely by Gene Expression.
• High-Resolution Ocean Model Provides Insight into Sea Turtles’ Lost Years.
• Resilience as a Mediator between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Prescription Opioid Misuse Among U.S. Adults.

Announcements

• Upcoming Webinars: Conversations in Nutrition & Obesity Research: A Webinar Series of ASN’s Obesity Research Interest Section.
• ASN’s annual video competition "Understanding Nutritional Science" submissions due April 9.
• New Department Chair Named for Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington's Dr. Keisuke Kawata Receives 2020–2021 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
• Steven Austad, Nir Barzilai, and James Kirkland Discuss How the TAME Trial, Senolytics, and Gerotherapeutics Can Increase Healthspan in the Washington Post.