Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Chow Diet in Mouse Aging Studies: Nothing Regular About It.
• Ambient and Substrate Energy Influence Decomposer Diversity Differentially Across Trophic Levels.
• Obesity Wars: May the Smell Be with You.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Ear Acupuncture Using Tiny Beads May Help Overweight People Easily Lose Weight.
• Meeting Abstract: Metal beads were placed on six points of the outer ear... plus "Participants were also asked to halve their total food intake during the three-month treatment period and keep a record of their meals in food diaries." No control group mentioned.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to expectations, higher nudge acceptance resulted in more calories purchased."
• RCT: "At 66 months, no significant treatment effects were observed on BMI..." in NET-Works paediatric obesity prevention trial: 66 month outcomes.
• "Unexpectedly, 8 weeks after colonisation, we observed opposing liver phenotypes dependent on the housing environment of mice. ...These phenotypic differences were associated with housing-specific profiles of colonising bacterial in the gut and of faecal metabolites."
• "Surprisingly, in spite of the general endothelial dysfunction in T2DM, the endothelial NOS-mediated vasorelaxant effect of SMase was markedly enhanced" in mice.
• "…upon activation of ß-adrenergic receptors in vivo, ATGLAdpKO mice unexpectedly exhibited significantly higher levels of circulating FABP4 as compared to ATGLfl/fl controls, despite no corresponding induction of lipolysis.”
• "The lack of difference in RMRmin and MMR between long- and short-distance migrants during this stage of migration suggests that the attributes favouring the greater aerobic endurance of long-distance migrants did not come at the expense of increased maintenance costs or require greater aerobic capacity" in birds.
• "Contrary to most previous findings, we observed that overweight status (including obesity) has more detrimental effects on reading achievement in boys than in girls..." (pdf)
• RCT: "Comparing the obesity prevalence rate among White Americans to that of Black Americans increased support for policies to reduce racial health disparities, but also made Black respondents less likely to cut calories."
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Consuming Almonds or Biscuits on Body Weight in Habitual Snackers After One Year.

Basic

• How Do Engineered Yarrowia lipolytica Strains Secrete Free Fatty Acids: Hints from Comparative Transcriptomics.
• Differential Alternative Polyadenylation Response to High-Fat Diet between Polygenic Obese and Healthy Lean Mice.
• Genetically Prolonged Beige Fat in Male Mice Confers Long-Lasting Metabolic Health.
• N-Carbamoyl Aspartate Reduced Body Weight by Stimulating the Thermogenesis of IBAT.
• Effects of Thermoneutrality on Food Intake, Body Weight, and Body Composition in a Prader-Willi Syndrome Mouse Model.
• The Effect of 8 Weak HIIT Training on Adiponectin Gene Expression in Obese Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "...more rigorous multicenter prospective studies with large samples are needed to explore the optimal ratios for specific dietary programs, especially macronutrients, to achieve satisfactory nutritional support and improve patient prognosis" for treating burn patients.
• Assumptions of Quasi-Experimental and Simulation Modelling Methods in Policy Evaluations Should Be Credible, Rigorously Tested and Transparently Communicated.

Clinical

• Changes in Prediabetes Status Among Adults During a Six-Month RCT with Nutrition and Lifestyle Counselling and Six-Month Follow-Up. (pdf)
• Association between ß-Hydroxybutyrate Plasma Concentrations After Hypocaloric Ketogenic Diets and Changes in Body Composition.
• RCT: Macadamia Nut Effects on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Calorie Restriction in Comparison to Usual Diet or Usual Care on Remission of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Therapy in People with Obesity Restores Natural Killer Cell Metabolism and Effector Function.

Children and Adolescents

• Child Bodyweight, Cognitive Abilities, and Well-Being: Evidence from West Bank Schools.
• RCT: Effects of a Theory-Based, Multicomponent EHealth Intervention for Obesity Prevention in Young Children from Low-Income Families.

Surgery

• Meta-Analysis: Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Risk.
• Global Trends in BMS Research Using Publication as a Surrogate Marker: A 30 Year Review.
• RCT: Long Biliopancreatic Limb Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Versus One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass.
• Safety and Effect of Bariatric Metabolic Surgeries for Psychiatric Patients with Obesity: A Retrospective Matched Case–Control Trial.
• Mid-Term Outcomes After Single Anastomosis Sleeve Ileal (SASI) Bypass in Treatment of Morbid Obesity.

Drugs

• Lacticaseibacillus paracasei AO356 Ameliorates Obesity by Regulating Adipogenesis and Thermogenesis in C57BL/6J Male Mice.
• Liraglutide in Combination with Insulin Has a Superior Therapeutic Effect to Either Alone on Fracture Healing in Diabetic Rats.
• Video: Obesity Treatment Could Offer Dramatic Weight Loss Without Surgery or Nausea.
• After Weight Loss, Alzheimer's May Be Next Frontier for Drugs Like Ozempic.
• RCT: Feasibility of High-Dose Tadalafil and Effects on Insulin Resistance in Well-Controlled Patients with Type 2 Diabetes (MAKROTAD).

Food & Diet

• RCT: Beetroot Juice Ingestion Does Not Improve Neuromuscular Performance and Match-Play Demands in Elite Female Hockey Players.
• Review: Effect of Fermentation on the Nutritional Quality of the Selected Vegetables and Legumes and Their Health Effects.
• Healthiness and Environmental Impact of Dinner Recipes Vary Widely Across Developed Countries.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Dairy Intake on Markers of Cardiometabolic Health in Adults.
• Meta-Analysis: Soluble Fiber Supplementation and Serum Lipid Profile.
• Perilla, Sunflower, and Tea Seed Oils as Potential Dietary Supplements with Anti-Obesity Effects by Modulating the Gut Microbiota Composition in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Dietary Protein Requirements and Recommendations for Healthy Older Adults: A Critical Narrative Review of the Scientific Evidence.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction Mitigates Metabolic, Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Cafeteria Diet in Aged Male Rats.
• Western Diet Unmasks Transient Low-Level Vinyl Chloride-Induced Tumorigenesis; Potential Role of the (epi-)transcriptome.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training Versus Moderate-Intensity Interval Training: Effects on Cardiometabolic Factors in Spanish Adults with Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Reducing Sedentary Behavior on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.

Economics & Sociology

• Processed Foods, Socio-Economic Status, and Peri-Urban Obesity in India.
• Systematic Review: Impact of Front-Of-Pack Nutrition Labelling in Consumer Understanding and Use Across Socio-Economic Status.
• Thesis: Do Longitudinal Trends in Caloric Intake Vary by Income, Education, or Race?

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in South Asia: A Narrative Review.
• Body Weight and Fat Trajectories of Black and White Women in the First Postpartum Year.
• Association between Different Metabolic Phenotypes of Obesity and Thyroid Disorders Among Chinese Adults: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study.
• Associations of Multiple Sleep Dimensions with Overall and Abdominal Obesity Among Children and Adolescents: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.
• Total Energy Expenditure as Assessed by Doubly Labeled Water and All-Cause Mortality in a Cohort of Postmenopausal Women.
• Life Course BMI Trajectories from Childhood to Mid-Adulthood are Differentially Associated with Anxiety and Depression Outcomes in Middle Age.
• Epidemiology of Diabetes and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Among Asian American Adults: Implications, Management, and Future Directions: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.
• Heterogeneity in the Effect of Marked Weight Loss on Metabolic Function in Women with Obesity.
• The Association of Impulsivity with Effects of the ChooseWell 365 Workplace Nudge Intervention on Diet and Weight.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Preprint Meta-Analysis: Effects of Episodic Future Thinking in Health Behaviour for Weight Loss.
• Scoping Review: The Relationship of Ketogenic Diet with Neurodegenerative and Psychiatric Diseases.
• Preprint: The Role of Child Abuse on the Risk for Major Depression Conferred by BMI in Adulthood.

Equity and Disparities

• Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, and Adiposity.
• Geographic Differences in the Magnitude of Black-White Disparities in Having Obesity.

Ethics

• Abstract: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Paediatric Bariatric Surgery.
• Exploring the Potential of Chat GPT in Personalized Obesity Treatment.

Stigma

• Family-Based Weight Stigma and Psychosocial Health: A Multinational Comparison.
• Prejudice Associated with Weight Images in Health Communication in the Social Networks.

Policy Related

• Improvements in School Food Offerings over Time: Variation by School Characteristics.
• Population-Level Policy Recommendations for the Prevention of Disordered Weight Control Behaviors: A Scoping Review.
• RCT: Effects of Sugary Beverage Text and Pictorial Warnings.
• “A Growing Relationship”: Cultivating Organizational Readiness to Influence Implementation of Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) Change Programming in SNAP-Ed Funded School-Community Partnerships.
• Toward a New Definition of “Healthy” Food: Issues and Challenges.
• Influence of the Food Industry: The Food Environment and Nutrition Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Cardiovascular Disorders Before and During Pregnancy and Offspring Cardiovascular Risk Across the Life Course.
• Systematic Review: The Relationship between Parent Anxiety Symptomatology and Feeding Behaviors.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Warmer and More Acidic Conditions Enhance Performance of an Endemic Low Shore Gastropod.
• What Made These Prehistoric ‘Thunder Beasts’ So Big?

Methods

• Novel Approaches to Examining Weight Changes in Pregnancies Affected by Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Brown Fat Detection by Infrared Thermography—An Invaluable Research Methodology with Noteworthy Uncertainties Confirmed by a Mathematical Proof.
• A Mathematical Analysis on the Obesity and Diabetes Model.

Commentary

• Cheers for Banning Weight Discrimination in NYC.
• The Metabolic Syndrome in Subjects with and without Obesity: A Reappraisal of the Syndrome X of Reaven.
• Preoccupation with Food Overshadows Sleep.
• Design of Novel Therapeutics Targeting the Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor (GIPR) to Aid Weight Loss.
• Hammerhead Sharks Hold Their Breath When Diving to Regulate Body Temperature.
• Editorial: Natural Polyphenols and Metabolic Syndrome.
• "Insurance plans that impose mandated supervised weight management programs on patients for a specific time before the performance of metabolic surgery do not provide any additional benefit for patients....[and]...disproportionately affect Black patients..."
• The Complex Interplay between Imbalanced Mitochondrial Dynamics and Metabolic Disorders in Type 2 Diabetes.

General

• SpaceX Explosion Damages Environment around Launch Site.
• Are Phages a New Page in Medicine?
• Hospitalization for Infection Linked to Higher Dementia Risk.
• Exercise Science and the Singing Voice.
• Preprint: Data Is [are] Not Available upon Request.
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is the Idea That Incompetent People are the Last to Realize It. Now We’re Realizing That Could Be Wrong.
• Taking the Long View: The Role of Replication in Research.
• Development and Validation of a Model for Measuring Alcohol Consumption from Transdermal Alcohol Content Data Among College Students.

Announcements

• First Graduate of Food Studies Master’s Program Reveals Scale of Food Waste.
• Professor Heather Eicher-Miller Won the 2023 Danone International Prize for Alimentation.
• Registration Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Registration Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.

Featured

• "Living High-Training Low" for Olympic Medal Performance: What Have We Learned 25 Years After Implementation?
• Development and Psychometric Assessment of the Weight and Eating Quality of Life (WE-QOL) Scale in US Military Veterans.
• What can machine learning teach us about habit formation? Evidence from exercise and hygiene.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Low-Fat or Low-Carb? Study Reveals Which Diet Leads to a Longer Life.
• Study: Associations between single, self-reported dietary assessment and mortality: "we cannot make any causality inferences..."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The Aim2Be intervention did not improve zBMI and lifestyle behaviors in adolescents with overweight and obesity compared with the waitlist control group over 3 months."
• Gill Surface Area Allometry Does Not Constrain the Body Mass Scaling of Maximum Oxygen Uptake Rate in the Tidepool Sculpin, Oligocottus maculosus.
• Wheel Running Exacerbates Joint Damage After Meniscal Injury in Mice, but Does Not Alter Gait or Physical Activity Levels.
• Lower Mitochondrial Respiration Does Not Lead to Decreased Fat Oxidation in Young African American Women Without Obesity.
• RCT: "Exercising painful muscles did not reduce the local or remote hypoalgesic responses, suggesting that the pain-relieving effects of isometric exercises are not reduced by exercising painful body regions."
• Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acid Does Not Improve Male Infertility Caused by Lysophospholipid Acyltransferase 3 (LPLAT3/AGPAT3) Deficiency [in Mice].
• RCT: "Participating in a music enrichment program from an early age may promote positive parent-child interactions during feeding, although this improvement in the quality of parent-child interactions during feeding was not associated with weight gain trajectories."
• Non-Significant Links for SNS and Dating App Use with Body Dissatisfaction, and Inverse Associations with LOC Eating, are Contrary to Research Conducted with Girls and Women.

Basic

• Identifying MiRNA-MRNA Regulatory Networks on Extreme N-6/n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Ratio Expression Profiles in Porcine Skeletal Muscle.
• Adipose Tissue Macrophage-Mediated Inflammation in Obesity: A Link to Posttranslational Modification.
• Casein Hydrolysate Alleviates Adipose Chronic Inflammation in High Fat-Diet Induced Obese C57BL/6J Mice Through MAPK Pathway.
• Triterpenoids from the Leaves of Cyclocarya paliurus and Their Glucose Uptake Activity in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes.
• Treatment of Diet-Induced Obese Rats with CB2 Agonist AM1241 or CB2 Antagonist AM630 Reduces Leptin and Alters Thermogenic MRNA in Adipose Tissue.
• Osteopontin Promotes Age-Related Adipose Tissue Remodeling Through Senescence-Associated Macrophage Dysfunction.
• Hypolipidemic and Insulin Sensitizing Effects of Salsalate Beyond Suppressing Inflammation in a Prediabetic Rat Model.
• Distinct MicroRNA and Protein Profiles of Extracellular Vesicles Secreted from Myotubes from Donors with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Response to Electrical Pulse Stimulation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effectiveness of a Minimally Processed Food-Based Nutritional Counselling Intervention on Weight Gain in Overweight Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Letter: Undisclosed Outcome Switching, Undisclosed Analysis Switching, Inappropriate Rounding, and Selective Reporting Render Paper “Effectiveness of a Minimally Processed Food‑based Nutritional Counselling Intervention on Weight Gain in Overweight Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial” Unreliable.
• Response: Reply to “Undisclosed Outcome Switching, Undisclosed Analysis Switching, Inappropriate Rounding, and Selective Reporting Render Paper ‘Effectiveness of a Minimally Processed Food Based Nutritional Counselling Intervention on Weight Gain in Overweight Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial’ Unreliable”.
• Article: Efficacy of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Therapy for Simple Obesity in Adults: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
• Letter: "Although the overall conclusions on statistical significance and direction of these differences did not change, the data and results of Yin et al., 2022 should be corrected."

Clinical

• RCT: A Minor Metabolite from Curcuma longa Effective Against Metabolic Syndrome.
• Breast Cancer Survivors' Exercise Preferences Change During an Exercise Intervention are Associated with Post-Intervention Physical Activity.
• RCT: Evaluation of the App-Based Multimodal Weight Loss Program Zanadio for Patients with Obesity.
• Gout, Hyperuricemia Tied to Greater Diabetes Risk.

Children and Adolescents

• Preterm Birth, Small for Gestational Age, and Large for Gestational Age and the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Up to Middle Age.
• Effect Measure Modification by Birth Weight on the Association between Overweight or Obesity and Hypertension in Children and Adolescents.
• Associations between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Evaluation of a Possibility of the Application of “Electronic Nose” to Monitoring Deviations in the Functional Obesity of Children in Hospital Conditions: Observations of Changes During Treatment.
• Boys with Overweight Status Lagged Behind Girls with Overweight Status in Reading: Evidence from Mendelian Randomization.
• Scoping Review: Feasibility and Acceptability of Chatbots for Nutrition and Physical Activity Health Promotion Among Adolescents.
• Impact of Early Life Factors on Metabolic Phenotypes of Obesity in Preschool Children.

Surgery

• RCT: Two-Year Results of the Banded Versus Non-Banded Re-Sleeve Gastrectomy as a Secondary Weight Loss Procedure After the Failure of Primary Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Comment: Supervised Weight Loss Requirements Disproportionately Affect Black Patients Seeking Weight Loss Surgery.
• Identifying Workflow Disruptions in Robotic-Assisted Bariatric Surgery: Elucidating Challenges Experienced by Surgical Teams.
• Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass, Gastric Banding, or Sleeve Gastrectomy for Severe Obesity: Baseline Data.
• Surgery Is the Most Effective Treatment for Metabolic Liver Disease, Says New Study.

Drugs

• A Novel Peptide Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity by Suppressing Appetite and Modulating the Gut Microbiota.
• Role of Medicinal Plants and Their Bioactive Compounds in Obesity, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Protective Effect and Mechanism of Lactoferrin Combined with Hypoxia Against High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mice.
• RCT: Orlistat Mouth Rinse: Using the Tongue to Deliver Antiobesity Medication.
• Scratching the Surface with New Obesity Meds.
• Metformin: Update on Mechanisms of Action and Repurposing Potential.
• Decoding the Emoji Drug Code and the #OnePillCanKill Initiative.
• Chemistry Professor Presents New Research on Anti-Obesity Drug.

Food & Diet

• Effect of Intermittent Fasting on Circulating Inflammatory Markers in Obesity: A Review of Human Trials.
• Effects of Very Low Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diets on Skeletal Health.
• Systematic Review: Modelling Health and Economic Impact of Nutrition Interventions.
• MIND and Mediterranean Diets Linked to Fewer Signs of Alzheimer’s Brain Pathology.
• Influence of Protein Source (Cricket, Pea, Whey) on Amino Acid Bioavailability and Activation of the MTORC1 Signaling Pathway After Resistance Exercise in Healthy Young Males.
• Reducing Food Waste: Benefits and Key Areas of Focus.
• Commentary: Michelle Obama Starts a Healthy Food Company.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effect of Long-Term Caloric Restriction on DNA Methylation Measures of Biological Aging in Healthy Adults.
• Methionine Restriction Constrains Lipoylation and Activates Mitochondria for Nitrogenic Synthesis of Amino Acids.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Sedentary Behaviour Profiles and Longitudinal Associations with Academic Performance in Youth.
• Obesity Risk Among West Point Graduates Later in Life.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Obesity in the United States.
• Genetic Risk, Childhood Obesity, and Educational Achievements.

Epidemiology

• A Longitudinal Study Evaluating Adverse Childhood Experiences and Obesity in Adulthood.
• Association of Food Deserts and Food Swamps with Obesity-Related Cancer Mortality in the US.
• Physical Activity and Exercise for Weight Loss and Maintenance in People Living with Obesity.
• Different Carbohydrate Exposures and Weight Gain—Results from a Pooled Analysis of Three Population-Based Studies.
• Comparison of Metabolic Response to Colonic Fermentation in Lean Youth vs Youth with Obesity.
• The Coexistence of Stunting and Overweight or Obesity in Ethiopian Children: Prevalence, Trends and Associated Factors.
• Epidemiology of Diabetes and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Among Asian American Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Systematic Review: Brain Structural and Functional Alterations in Individuals with Combined Overweight/obesity and Mood Disorders.
• Obesity, Stigma, and Person-Centered Language: A Serial Cross-Sectional Analysis of Scientific Literature.
• Heightened Sensitivity to High-Calorie Foods in Children at Risk for Obesity: Insights from Behavior, Neuroimaging, and Genetics.
• Hedonic Overeating–Questionnaire: Exploring Interactive Effects between Wanting, Liking, and Dyscontrol on BMI.

Equity and Disparities

• Transport Poverty and Obesity: The Mediating Roles of Social Capital and Physical Activity.
• Adverse Clinical Outcomes Attributable to Socioeconomic and Ethnic Disparities Among People with Type 2 Diabetes in New Zealand between 1994–2018.

Stigma

• Fat Shame—Inside and Out.
• Obesity, Stigma, and Person-Centered Language.

Policy Related

• Commentary: Perspectives on the Application of CONSORT Guidelines to Randomised Controlled Trials in Nutrition.
• Feasibility and Response to the San Diego County, California, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Agency Sending Food and Nutrition Text Messages to All Participants.
• A Whole System Approach to Childhood Obesity: How a Supportive Environment Was Created in the City of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom.
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cost, and Diet Quality of Specific Diet Patterns in the United States.
• cRCT: Play Active Physical Activity Policy Intervention and Implementation Support in Early Childhood Education and Care.
• Obesity as a Main Threat to Future Improvements in Population Health: Policy Opportunities and Challenges.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic Review: Interpregnancy Weight Change as a Potential Risk Factor for Large-For-Gestational-Age Infants.
• RCT: Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosed Early in Pregnancy.
• The Effect of Maternal Pregestational Diabetes on Fetal Autonomic Nervous System.
• Preprint: Predictors and Risk Factors of Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes Among Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and Their Offspring: Moving Toward Precision Prognosis?
• Breastfeeding Support Provided by Lactation Consultants in High-Income Countries for Improved Breastfeeding Rates, Self-Efficacy, and Infant Growth.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Hypoabsorptive Surgeries Cause Limb-Dependent Changes in the Gut Endocannabinoidome and Microbiome in Association with Beneficial Metabolic Effects.
• The Crosstalk between BAT Thermogenesis and Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction.
• The Impact of Sprint Interval Training with or Without Weight Loss on Substrate Oxidation in Adults.
• Why Hibernate? Tests of Four Hypotheses to Explain Intraspecific Variation in Hibernation Phenology.

Methods

• Editorial: Causal Inference in Diet, Nutrition and Health Outcomes.
• Identifying Spin Bias of Nonsignificant Findings in Biomedical Studies.

Commentary

• Beyond Binge Eating: The Impact of Implicit Biases in Healthcare on Youth with Disordered Eating and Obesity.
• Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet (VLCKD) as Pre-Operative First-Line Dietary Therapy in Patients with Obesity Who are Candidates for Bariatric Surgery.
• Biomarkers in Polycystic Kidney Disease: Are We There?
• What Is the Concept of 'Pound-Years'?
• Preoperative Fasting: New Guidelines for Elective Procedures.
• New Perspectives on Lipids: What Should Doctors Advise Now?
• Study Links Drinking Coffee and Tea to Increased Macular Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness.
• Altered Food Supply: Cause or Effect of Obesity?
• On Protein.

General

• Psilocybin Improves Rigid Body Dysmorphic Disorder Beliefs but Not Rigid Social Anxiety Beliefs.
• RCT: Heterogeneity in Blood Pressure Response to 4 Antihypertensive Drugs.
• Three Novel Anti-Aging Senolytics Discovered Using AI and Synbio.
• From the Alda Center: A Six-Part Podcast Series About Scandals and Controversies That Have Impacted Our Trust in Science—Exploring the Complex Nature of Trust in Conversations with Journalists, Scientists, Philosophers, Lawyers, and Activists.
• Metabolic Activity Organizes Olfactory Representations.
• Slowest First Passage Times, Redundancy, and Menopause Timing.
• Stalking the Link between Reproduction and Aging After Decades of Research, It Still Remains a Mystery Whether and How Reproduction Drives the Process of Aging.
• Multi-Site Trial of Belonging Exercise Improves College Students’ Academic Persistence.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: The Truth Police.
• Diabetes Care "On Air" Podcast.

Announcements

• A Webinar on Aging: Separating the Science from the Snake Oil.
• Annual Obesity Symposium Hosted by the IU Bariatric and Medical Weight Loss Clinic; Friday May 19, Indianapolis.
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior - Empowering Food Citizens Conference.
• Registration Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Registration Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.

Featured

• Pharmacotherapy for Obesity: Recent Evolution and Implications for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction.
• Biological Normalcy and Body Fat: Obesity Prevalence, Fat Stigma, and Allostatic Load Among Late Adolescents and Young Adults.
• Total Daily Energy Expenditure Has Declined over the Past Three Decades Due to Declining Basal Expenditure, Not Reduced Activity Expenditure.
• Wearable and Digital Devices to Monitor and Treat Metabolic Diseases.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Keto Diet Doubles the Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke: Study.
• Press Release for Meeting Presentation: Single Lower-Carbohydrate, Higher-Fat, Self-Reported Diet Assessment Associated with Cardiovascular Events. Ketogenesis Not Measured. Causal Increase in Risk Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: An Acute Bout of Endurance Exercise Does Not Prevent the Inhibitory Effect of Caffeine on Glucose Tolerance the Following Morning.
• Review: Current Evidence Shows No Influence of Women's Menstrual Cycle Phase on Acute Strength Performance or Adaptations to Resistance Exercise Training.
• A Chronic High-Fat Diet Does Not Exacerbate Muscle Atrophy in Fast-Twitch Skeletal Muscle of Aged Mice.
• Cisplatin Decreases Voluntary Wheel-Running Activity but Does Not Impair Food-Motivated Behavior in Mice.
• Naupliar Exposure to Acute Warming Does Not Affect Ontogenetic Patterns in Respiration, Body Size, or Development Time in the Cosmopolitan Copepod Acartia Tonsa.
• RCT: Daily Intranasal Insulin at 40IU Does Not Affect Food Intake and Body Composition: A Placebo-Controlled Trial in Older Adults over a 24-Week Period with 24-Weeks of Follow-Up.
• How Negative Affect Does and Does Not Lead to Binge Eating-The Importance of Craving and Negative Urgency in Bulimia Nervosa.
• RCT: High-Dose Spermidine Supplementation Does Not Increase Spermidine Levels in Blood Plasma and Saliva of Healthy Adults.

Basic

• Systematic Metabolomic Studies Identified Adult Adiposity Biomarkers with Acetylglycine Associated with Fat Loss in Vivo.
• Semaphorin 4B Is an ADAM17-Cleaved Adipokine That Inhibits Adipocyte Differentiation and Thermogenesis.
• Islr Regulates Insulin Sensitivity by Interacting with Psma4 to Control Insulin Receptor Alpha Levels in Obese Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Chowing Down: Diet Considerations in Rodent Models of Metabolic Disease.
• Article: Risk-Benefit Balance Associated with Obstetric, Neonatal, and Child Outcomes After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
• Letter: Is Maternal Metabolic Bariatric Surgery the Best Solution to Tackle the Childhood Obesity Pandemic?
• Response: Is Maternal Metabolic Bariatric Surgery the Best Solution to Tackle the Childhood Obesity Pandemic?—Reply.

Clinical

• Association between Primary Graft Function and 5-Year Outcomes of Islet Allogeneic Transplantation in Type 1 Diabetes: A Retrospective, Multicentre, Observational Cohort Study in 1210 Patients from the Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry.
• Differences between HbA1c and Glucose-Related Variables in Predicting Weight Loss and Glycaemic Changes in Individuals with Overweight and Hyperglycaemia - the PREVIEW Trial.
• Digital Health Solutions for Weight Loss and Obesity: A Narrative Review.
• Gestational Diabetes Is Characterized by Decreased Medium-Chain Acylcarnitines and Elevated Purine Degradation Metabolites Across Pregnancy: A Case–Control Time-Course Analysis.
• RCT: Effects of Smartphone-Based Remote Interventions on Dietary Intake, Physical Activity, Weight Control, and Related Health Benefits Among the Older Population with Overweight and Obesity in China.
• Historical Review of the Use of Relative Risk Statistics in the Portrayal of the Purported Hazards of High LDL Cholesterol and the Benefits of Lipid-Lowering Therapy.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Mediterranean Diet-Based Interventions to Improve Anthropometric and Obesity Indicators in Children and Adolescents.
• Childhood Obesity at the Crossroads of Science and Social Justice.
• Long-Term Outcomes of Sleeve Gastrectomy from Adolescence to Adulthood.
• Meta-Analysis: Independent and Joined Association between Socioeconomic Indicators and Pediatric Obesity in Spain.
• Longitudinal Trajectories of Dietary Fibre Intake and Its Determinants in Early Childhood.
• Systematic Review: Attachment, Feeding Practices, Family Routines and Childhood Obesity.

Surgery

• Assessing the Accuracy of Responses by the Language Model ChatGPT to Questions Regarding Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-Analysis: Long-Term Results of Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents with at Least 5 Years of Follow-Up.
• Prior Metabolic Surgery Is Associated with Reduced COVID-19 Severity: Systematic Analysis from Year One of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Drugs

• Medications for the Treatment of Obesity.
• RCT: Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of the Leukotriene Receptor Antagonist Montelukast as Adjuvant Therapy in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Important Food Sources of Fructose-Containing Sugars and Adiposity.
• Popular Diets as Selected by Adults in the United States Show Wide Variation in Carbon Footprints and Diet Quality.
• Popular Dietary Patterns: Alignment with American Heart Association 2021 Dietary Guidance: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric State Modulates Locomotion, Heart Rate and Motor Neuron Responses to Acute Administration of D-Amphetamine in Zebrafish Larvae.
• Intestinal Epithelial Autophagy Is Required for the Regenerative Benefit of Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Interaction of Exercise and Meal Timing on Blood Glucose Concentrations.
• The 3Es: Keys to Empowering Women in the Weight Room.
• Systematic Review: Correlates of Physical Activity Habits in Adolescents.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Position and the Influence of Food Portion Size on Daily Energy Intake in Adult Females.
• Extreme Violence and Weight-Related Outcomes in Mexican Adults.

Epidemiology

• Mastication Inefficiency Due to Diminished or Lack of Occlusal Support Is Associated with Increased Blood Glucose Levels in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Back Onside Protocol: A Physical Activity Intervention to Improve Health Outcomes in People Who are Unemployed or at Risk of Unemployment.
• Dietary Phytochemical Index Is Favorably Associated with Oxidative Stress Status and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adults with Obesity.
• Lifestyle Mediators of Associations Among Siestas, Obesity, and Metabolic Health.
• Eating Speed and Height Loss in Relation to Overweight: A Retrospective Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Astrocyte-Mediated Transduction of Muscle Fiber Contractions Synchronizes Hippocampal Neuronal Network Development.
• Acute Effect of Moderate and High-Intensity Interval Exercises on Asprosin and BDNF Levels in Inactive Individuals of Normal Weight and with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Dimensions of Sleep Quality are Related to Objectively Measured Eating Behaviors Among Children at High Familial Risk for Obesity.
• Association of Snacking Frequency, Size, and Energy Density with Weight Status Among Preschool-Aged Children in the United States.

Stigma

• Systematic Review: Assessment and Impact of Paediatric Internalized Weight Bias.
• Support for Weight-Related Anti-Discrimination Laws and Policies: Modelling the Role of Attitudes Toward Poverty Alongside Weight Stigma, Causal Attributions About Weight, and Prejudice.

Policy Related

• The Development of the Dutch “National Model Integrated Care for Childhood Overweight and Obesity”.
• Municipal Officials’ Perspectives on Policymaking for Addressing Obesity and Health Equity.
• Systematic Review: Influences of the Community and Consumer Nutrition Environment on the Food Purchases and Dietary Behaviors of Adolescents.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Western Diet Mediates Susceptibility of Offspring to Crohn's-Like Colitis by Deoxycholate Generation.
• Influence of Parental and Offspring Dietary Behaviors on the Association of Overweight and Obesity between Two Generations: Results from a Cross-Sectional Analysis of Parent-Offspring Trios in China.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Baseline Corticosterone Levels in Spadefoot Toads Reflect Alternate Larval Diets One Year Later.
• A Genomic Timescale for Placental Mammal Evolution.
• Saving Energy Via Short and Shallow Torpor Bouts.
• Long-Term Survival, Temperature, and Torpor Patterns.

Methods

• Design and Implementation of a Time-Restricted Eating Intervention in RCT Eating Study.
• Mathematical Approaches in the Study of Diabetes Mellitus.
• Association between Intra-Muscular Adipose Tissue Imaging Volume and Serum Adipokines Level with Obesity.
• Building Machine Learning Models to Correct Self-Reported Anthropometric Measures.

Commentary

• Challenges in Measuring Energy Balance and Body Composition.
• Will Weight-Loss Drugs Put Diet Charlatans Out of Business? I Hope So.
• "‘Real-world evidence does not mean non-randomized, sloppy observational studies for which you can’t really draw an adequate conclusion,’ said [FDA Commissioner Robert] Califf."
• The Oddness of Weight Bias in Eating Disorders.
• Obesity as a Main Threat to Future Improvements in Population Health: Policy Opportunities and Challenges.
• Personal Convictions, Money, and Conflicts.
• Sunshine, Lollipops, Rainbows, and GLP-1 Meds.
• Is Mounjaro Gliding Toward an Obesity Approval?
• ”The Fat Child and the Concept of 'Pound-Years'.” (pdf)

General

• Cooking Methods and Kitchen Ventilation Availability, Usage, Perceived Performance and Potential in Canadian Homes.
• Human Pluripotent Stem Cells from Patients with and without Diabetes Improve Retinal Pathology in Diabetic Mice.
• Human Capital Development Factors and Black Adolescent Tobacco and Cannabis Use.
• Contextual Modifiers of Healthspan, Lifespan, and Epigenome in Mice Under Chronic Social Stress.
• Fecal Transplant from Myostatin Deletion Pigs Positively Impacts the Gut-Muscle Axis.
• Earliest Animal Likely Used Chemical Signaling to Evolve Into Multicellular Organism.
• Genetic Map of Tasmanian Devil Cancers Hints at Their Future Evolution.
• 'Biological Aging' Speeds Up in Times of Great Stress, but It Can Be Reversed During Recovery.

Announcements

• Registration Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Registration Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Obesity Symposium 2023. May 19^th. Indiana University.
• Course: The Boston Course in Obesity Medicine June 13-16.

Featured

• Solving the Conundrum of Intra-Specific Variation in Metabolic Rate.
• RCT: "Findings of this trial indicate that increasing family mealtime duration is a simple, inexpensive, and low-threshold intervention that can significantly improve children’s diets", but also increased sugar sweetened beverage consumption.
• Obesity Induced Inflammation Exacerbates Clonal Hematopoiesis.
• Impact of an Augmented Intervention on Self-Regulatory, Dietary and Physical Activity Outcomes in a Diabetes Prevention Trial Among Adults with Prediabetes.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Intermittent Fasting Could Cause Fertility Problems, Study Suggests.
• Study: Fasting Increases Investment in Soma upon Refeeding at the Cost of Gamete Quality ... In Zebrafish.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "This study suggests that the GL [glycemic load] of a meal is not a major determinant of postprandial response..."
• RCT: No Significant Main Effect for Message Type in Motivational Message Framing Trial on Effects on Physical Activity Dynamics in a Digital Messaging Intervention.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Mixed Nut Consumption on Blood Glucose, Insulin, Satiety, and the Microbiome in a Healthy Population.
• RCT: "There were no significant group, time, or group-by-time effects for meeting physical activity policy recommendations or for daily time provided for total physical activity or energetic play..."
• Controlling Hypothalamic DNA Methylation at the POMC Promoter Does Not Regulate Weight Gain During the Development of Obesity [in Rats].
• "These findings suggest caution in claims and recommendations linking regular physical exercise to cognitive benefits in the healthy human population until more reliable causal evidence accumulates."
• "Unexpectedly, both partners’ reports of partner disconfirmation were positively associated with their partners’ reports of joint PA [physical activity]."
• "Unexpectedly, our structural and genetic analyses revealed that nonimported citrate synthase appears to form an enzymatically active conformation in the cytosol. Its excess accumulation caused ectopic citrate synthesis, which, in turn, led to an imbalance in carbon flux of sugar, a reduction of the pool of amino acids and nucleotides, and a growth defect."

Basic

• Higher Untrained Fitness Exerts a Neuroprotection in Independence to Caloric Restriction or Exercise in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Implantation of CPT1AM-Expressing Adipocytes Reduces Obesity and Glucose Intolerance in Mice.
• Resveratrol Inhibits the Formation and Accumulation of Lipid Droplets Through AdipoQ Signal Pathway and Lipid Metabolism LncRNAs.
• Gut Microbiota-Bile Acids-Glucagon Like Peptide-1 Axis Contributes the Resistance to High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice.
• Obesogenic Diet Cycling Produces Graded Effects on Cognition and Microbiota Composition in Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: The Best Drug Supplement for Obesity Treatment: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.
• Perspective: Moderating “The Great Debate”: The Carbohydrate-Insulin Vs. The Energy Balance Models of Obesity.

Clinical

• RCT: Twelve-Month Effectiveness of Telephone and SMS Support to Mothers with Children Aged 2 Years in Reducing Children’s BMI.
• RCT: Role of δ-Tocotrienol and Resveratrol Supplementation in the Regulation of Micro RNAs in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Identifying Sex-Specific Differences in Young-Onset Metabolic Syndrome Using Primary Care Electronic Medical Record.
• Medication Prescribing for T2D in the US Long-Term Care Setting.
• Preprint: Associations between Blood Pressure Control and Documented Nutrition Care Using Structured Data from Electronic Health Records of Patients with Hypertension.

Children and Adolescents

• Umbilical Cord DNA Methylation Is Associated with BMI Trajectories from Birth to Adolescence.
• Longitudinal Weight Status and Academic Achievement in Elementary Schoolchildren in the United States.
• Understanding Accelerated Summer BMI Gain by Tracking Changes in Children's Height, Weight, and BMI Throughout the Year.
• Likelihood of Obesity in Early and Late Childhood Based on Growth Trajectory During Infancy.
• Afternoon School Shift Is Associated with Increased Risk of Overweight/Obesity in 11–14-Year-Old Females with Early and Intermediate Chronotype.

Surgery

• RCT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Bariatric Surgery Patients at 15–18 Months Post-Surgery.
• The Mediating Effect of Operative Approach on Racial Disparities in Bariatric Surgery Complications.
• Remote Follow-Up with a Mobile Application Is Equal to Traditional Outpatient Follow-Up After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Obesity Pharmacotherapy: Current Practices and Future Directions.
• Effectiveness of Liraglutide on Metabolic Risk Factors in Patients with Obesity.
• Liraglutide and Exercise Synergistically Attenuate Vascular Inflammation and Enhance Metabolic Insulin Action in Early Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Development of Osteoarthritis in Adults with T2D Treated with Metformin vs a Sulfonylurea.
• Editorial: Pharmacotherapy for Obesity in Persons with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Consuming Carbohydrate with and Without Protein on Postexercise Plasma Insulin and Glucagon Responses in Healthy, Trained Males.
• Meta-Analysis: Important Food Sources of Fructose-Containing Sugars and Adiposity.
• Relationship between Short-Term Self-Reported Dietary Magnesium Intake and Whole Blood Ionized Magnesium or Serum Magnesium Concentrations.
• The Essential Mineral Is Important for the Body—but It Doesn’t Work Miracles. Here’s What the Experts Say About Magnesium’s Powers.
• "Because avoidance of UPF [ultra-processed foods] holds potential adverse effects...it is imprudent to make recommendations about their role in diets before causality and plausible mechanisms have been verified."

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Adiponectin Reverses β-Cell Damage and Impaired Insulin Secretion Induced by Obesity.
• The Effects of Caloric Restriction on Adipose Tissue and Metabolic Health are Sex- and Age-Dependent.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Influence of Reliability and Variability of Objectively Measured Physical Activity on Associations with Lower Body Muscle Strength in Young Children.
• Differences in Specific Abdominal Fat Depots between Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Children with Overweight/Obesity: The Role of Cardiorespiratory Fitness.
• Adolescents Who Practice Physical Activity Have Adequate Food Choices, Regardless of the Level of Somatic Maturation and Adiposity.
• Insights Into Non-Exercise Physical Activity on Control of Body Mass.

Economics & Sociology

• International Differences in Gradients in Early Childhood Overweight and Obesity: The Role of Maternal Employment and Formal Childcare Attendance.
• Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Cardiometabolic Risk: Mediating Roles of Domain-Specific Physical Activities and Sedentary Behaviors.
• Dissertation: Inequalities in Infant Birthweight by Social Position and Residential Neighborhood Characteristics.

Epidemiology

• "...accounting for substantial prediagnostic weight loss further highlighted the association of overweight and obesity with CRC [colorectal cancer] risk."
• "Diagnoses of T2D and obesity were associated with a reduced rate of ALS [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] compared with general population comparators.
• Different Associations of Occupational and Leisure-Time Physical Activity with the Prevalence of Hypertension Among Middle-Aged Community Dwellers.
• "... FTPA [free time physical activity] may contribute to better sleep quality among university students."
• "Although the protective effect of obesity on all-cause and cause-specific mortality is largely consistent among men and women, this effect cannot be extended to [individuals with severe obesity]."

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Gambling on an Empty Stomach: Hunger Modulates Preferences for Learned but Not Described Risks.
• Resistance Training Increases White Matter Density in Frail Elderly Women.

Equity and Disparities

• A Qualitative Study of Ecological and Motivational Factors to Inform Weight Management Interventions for Black Men in the Rural South of the United States.
• Factors Associated with Sex Disparities in Leisure-Time Physical Activity.

Stigma

• Weight Inclusive Thinking for Fitness Spaces: Effects of an Online Intervention on Exercise Professionals’ Anti-Fat Attitudes.
• Your Patient Is a Person: A Narrative Medical Approach to Weight Discrimination in Medicine.
• Biological Normalcy and Body Fat: Obesity Prevalence, Fat Stigma, and Allostatic Load Among Late Adolescents and Young Adults.
• The Implications of Defining Obesity as a Disease: A Report from the Association for the Study of Obesity 2021 Annual Conference.

Policy Related

• Scoping Review: Public Policy Interventions for Preventing and Treating Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Interventions in Small Island Developing States to Improve Diet, with a Focus on the Consumption of Local, Nutritious Foods.
• "Provincial mandatory school nutrition policy was associated with better diet quality among children and youth in Canada."
• "Strengthening policy language (eg, specifying duration and frequency) may contribute to better physical activity practices in schools, improving children’s health at the population level."
• Clinical Practice Statement: Artificial Intelligence and Obesity Management.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prepregnancy BMI and Glycated Albumin in the Third Trimester May Predict Infant Complications in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• Association of Maternal Physical and Mental Health Characteristics with the Hazard of Having Any Medical Condition or Disability in Australian Children.
• Maternal Androgen Excess Increases the Risk of Pre-Diabetes Mellitus in Male Offspring in Later Life.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Ecological Influences and Visual Attention to Infant Phenotypes.
• The Tortoise and the Hare.
• Energy Expenditure Affects the Larval Food Preference in Propylea dissecta (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).

Methods

• Study Protocol: The Cross-Sectional Uppsala Weight Gain in Pregnancy Study.
• Study Protocol: Sharing Digital Self-Monitoring Data with Others to Enhance Long-Term Weight Loss.

Commentary

• A Myth No More: Cranberry Products Can Prevent Urinary Tract Infections for Women.
• Eating More Yogurt May Lead to Better Health.
• Restaurant Menus for Fewer Cancer Deaths?
• Low Energy Availability in Athletes Understanding Undereating and Its Concerns.
• Ultra-Processed Food: Correlation Without Cause.
• Communicating Nutrition, Food, and Health Information New Paradigms Revisited.
• Exercise Boosts Brain Health with Chemical Signals, Study Shows.
• Causality, Attribution, and Diet Culture.

General

• Beyond Dimorphism: Body Size Variation Among Adult Orangutans Is Not Dichotomous by Sex.
• Statistical Modelling Based on Structured Surveys of Australian Native Possum Excreta Harbouring Mycobacterium ulcerans Predicts Buruli Ulcer Occurrence in Humans.
• Telomere Twist: Unraveling the Hidden Protein Secrets of Cancer and Aging.
• Influence of Economic Scarcity on Race Perception.
• Socio-Economic Status and Trajectories of a Novel Multidimensional Metric of Active and Healthy Aging.
• Meta-Regression of RCTs: Is Personalized Treatment Selection a Promising Avenue in Borderline Personality Disorder Research?
• Preprint: Methods for Integrating Trials and Non-Experimental Data to Examine Treatment Effect Heterogeneity.
• What Rosalind Franklin Truly Contributed to the Discovery of DNA’s Structure.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Medicine 3.0: Extending Human Lifespan with Neil DeGrasse Tyson & Dr. Peter Attia.

Announcements

• Obesity Symposium 2023. May 19^th. Indiana University.
• IU Reveals New Vice President for Research, Russell Mumper.
• Two IU Bloomington Professors Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• UAMS Invites Applications for a Biostatistician to Collaborate with the Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Other Pediatric Research.
• Course: The Boston Course in Obesity Medicine June 13-16.
• Webinar: Improving Evidence Synthesis in Observational Health Research; The Example of Nutritional Epidemiology (Free Registration).
• Registration Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Registration Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.