Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• A Cold-Induced GDF15-Secreting Adipocyte Subpopulation Regulates Energy Homeostasis Through Endocrine Signaling.
• RCT: "Incorporating 1 avocado per day into habitual diets for 26 weeks reduced the concentration of atherogenic LDL particles without affecting other lipoprotein particles and subclasses in adults with abdominal obesity."
• Podcast: Is Your Protein Aging You? What the Longevity Science Gets Wrong.
• Video: Gary Taubes - NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series: Energy Balance or Fuel Partitioning? A History Lesson in the Science of Obesity Pathogenesis, and Its Implications.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Fish over Meat: Why a Pescatarian Diet May Help People with Obesity Live Longer.
• Study: Associations between mortality and being categorized as a meat eater, fish eater, or vegetarian/vegan based on self-reported dietary intake. Causation not established. "[P]escatarian diet was associated with better survival outcomes [compared to meat eaters], whereas vegetarian and vegan diets did not," which would be "Fish over Non-Fish."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The ME [mindfulness-based eating] group showed no clear improvement in inhibitory control on the food Go/No-Go task," the primary endpoint.
• Systematic Review: "Nutrition education may be effective for intermediate outcomes such as nutrition knowledge and dietary behaviors, but evidence for effectiveness in physiological and biochemical outcomes remains inconclusive."
• RCT: "No significant group-by-time interactions were identified in the intention-to-treat analyses" in "Effects and moderators of a 16-week intervention on contextual physical activity in adults with moderate to severe depressive symptoms."
• Meta-Analysis: "There was no evidence of increased respiratory harm associated with weight-loss drugs compared with placebo, suggesting a reassuring respiratory safety profile in the general population."
• RCT: "Prolonged self-paced cycling in the heat produced a reproducible neuromuscular response dominated by slowed twitch relaxation. However, 6% CHO ingestion did not clearly attenuate these changes compared with PLA, suggesting that the principal impairment reflected exercise and heat load rather than CHO availability or delivery mode."
• RCT: "In elderly patients with chronic HF and malnutrition or at risk of malnutrition, a pragmatic nutritional intervention did not reduce major clinical outcomes."
• RCT: "In this randomized clinical trial of adults undergoing radical cystectomy, perioperative specialized immunonutrition did not reduce 30-day complications compared with standard oral nutrition. Differences in 2-year survival favored immunonutrition but were not statistically significant."
• RCT: In adults with RA and obesity, diet-induced weight loss reduced adiposity without evidence of disproportionate muscle loss.

Basic

• Combined Time-Restricted Feeding and Physical Exercise Attenuate ER Stress and Improve Liver Inflammation and Collagen Deposition in Aged Mice.
• Sleeve Gastrectomy Induces Adipose Browning Via Suppression of Asprosin and Activation of the ATF3-Nrf2/HO-1 Axis.
• ASK1-Induced FGF21 Synthesis in the Liver Prevents Obesity in Mice.
• Reduced Platelet Count in Mice Protects Against Glucose Intolerance and Beta Cell Loss During a Long-Term High-Fat Diet.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• PubPeer Comments On: Social Stress Shortens Lifespan in Mice.
• Editorial: WHO's Misguided Push for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Clinical

• Review: From Obesity to Healthy Longevity: A Consensus-Based Clinical Framework for Obesity Diagnosis, Staging, and Treatment.
• Systematic Review: Dietary Strategies and Nutritional Management in Patients Receiving GLP-1 and Dual GIP/GLP-1 Receptor Agonists as Adjuncts to Lifestyle Interventions.
• Perspective: Rethinking Cardiometabolic Therapy Thresholds in Individuals with Obesity.
• Central Obesity and Recurrent Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
• RCT: Longitudinal Association of Dietary Spermidine with Hepatic Function Indexes and Cardiometabolic Traits in Older Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.

Children and Adolescents

• Research Letter: GLP-1 Receptor Agonist and Bariatric Surgery Utilization Among Adolescents and Young Adults.
• Branched Chain Amino Acid Metabolism and Microbiome in Adolescents with Obesity During Weight Loss Therapy.
• Nutritional and Behavioral Determinants of Overweight and Obesity Among School-Aged Children in Shandong Province, China.

Surgery

• Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Obesity and Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for Weight Loss in Children and Adolescents: A Survey Among a Subset of Chinese Residents.
• Optimal Timing of GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Initiation in Patients with Obesity Eligible for Metabolic Bariatric Surgery.
• Pilot Study: Bariatric Surgery and Patient Reported Outcomes of Heart Failure in Women.
• A Modified POSE 2.0 Double Helix Megaplication Endoscopic Gastroplasty Pattern for Obesity: Initial One-Year Outcomes in Japan.
• Evolving Utilization of Bariatric Surgery Since the Rise of Semaglutide and Tirzepatide.
• Intraoperative Liver Biopsy During Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Diagnostic Yield, Safety, and National Trends.
• Postoperative Changes in Eating Behavior After Sleeve Gastrectomy are Associated with IL-10 Independent of Anthropometric Changes.

Drugs

• RCT: Short- and Long-Term Effects of Semaglutide 2.4 mg on Energy Intake, Appetite, and Food Reward.
• RCT: Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Alcohol Use Disorder.
• Post-Shortage Compounded GLP-1 RA Market in 2 States with Potentially High Demand.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Lipoprotein(a) Lipidome and Diet: Responses to Reducing Saturated Fat Intake in African Americans.
• RCT: Replacing Red Meat with Non-Soy Legumes Alters Choline Metabolites but Not Systemic Inflammation or Proxies of Gut Barrier Function in Healthy Males.
• RCT: Comparison of Two Nutritional Protocols in Body Re-Composition of Resistance-Trained Participants.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Defining a Ketone Threshold for Weight Loss: Evidence from 14 Day Daily β-Hydroxybutyrate Monitoring in 217 Subjects on a Ketogenic Diet.
• RCT: Time-Restricted Eating During a Bulking Phase Is Associated with Reduced Fat Accumulation, While Muscle and Strength Gains are Maintained.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Changes in Self-Esteem, Body Dissatisfaction, and Body Appreciation During Face-To-Face and Digital Supervised Physical Activity Interventions in Women with Obesity.
• Associations of Demographic, Socioeconomic, Lifestyle Factors and Comorbidity with Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity in Adults with Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Meta-Analysis: Muscle-Strengthening Activities are Associated with Lower Risk and Mortality in Major Non-Communicable Diseases.
• Long-Term Resistance Training with All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: Assessing Dose-Response and Joint Associations with Aerobic Physical Activity.
• Dose-Dependent Association between Muscle-Strengthening Activities and All-Cause Mortality.

Economics & Sociology

• Associations of Educational Attainment with Cardiometabolic Markers and Health Behaviors.
• Changing Dynamics of the Education-Overweight Relationship in Indonesia: An Instrumental Variables Analysis.
• Obesity Related Out-Of-Pocket Expenditure and Productivity Loss: Evidence from Cross-Sectional Study in Bangladesh.

Epidemiology

• Preprint: Effectiveness of Telehealth Low-Carbohydrate Intervention in Preventing Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Meta-Analysis: Impact of BMI on All-Cause Mortality in Adults.
• Association between Metabolic Obesity Phenotypes and Alcohol-Associated Fatty Liver Disease Among US Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Screening, Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Staging of Obesity in Adults: Standards of Care in Overweight and Obesity-2026.
• Pooled Analysis: Prolonged Short Sleep and Its Effect on Body Weight and Composition.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• The Impact of Physical Activity on Health Inequality Among Older Adults: Evidence from China.
• Systematic Review: Cost-Effective Somewhere, Decision-Relevant Everywhere? A Global Systematic Review of Economic Evidence for Newer Type 2 Diabetes Therapies.
• The Burden of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome in High Versus Upper-Middle-Income Countries: Integrated Analysis of Trends, Inequality, and Risk Factors.
• When Skin Color/Race and Education Matter: Disparities in Obesity Among Brazilians (2013-2019).

Stigma

• Binge-Spectrum Eating Disorders and Higher BMI are Associated with Greater Negative Attitudes Towards Obesity.
• Maternal Weight Discrimination Experiences and Restrictive Feeding Practices are Associated with Child Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Thinness.

Policy Related

• Perspective: Relevance and Implications of Precision Nutrition to Nutrition Education and Behavior Research, Practice, and Policy.
• Ten High-Priority Areas for Health Policy Research in 2026-2027.

Intergenerational Effects

• Metabolites Co-Correlating with Maternal Obesity and Gestational Weight Gain and Offspring Childhood Obesity.
• Review: Maternal Obesity During Lactation as a Hypertensive Cardiovascular Risk Factor in the Offspring.
• Association of Maternal Overweight/Obesity Metabolic Phenotypes with Longitudinal Foetal Anthropometric Measurements.
• Evaluation of Family History Burden in Obesity Among 6-7-Year-Old Children at Pre-School Screening in Southern Russian Cities.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Coping with Lactation by an Ephemeral Forager as Pups Get Bigger: Energy Expenditure, Water Flux, Diet and Foraging Activity of Lactating Fish-Eating Myotis (Myotis vivesi).
• Acceptability and Impact on Health-Related Markers of a Sustainable Dietary Pattern.

Methods

• Exposure to Processing from Ultraprocessed Diets and in Feeding Studies.
• Transforming Obesity Medicine with Artificial Intelligence: Personalization, Precision and the Path Ahead.
• Classification and Severity Assessment of Obesity in Clinical Risk Prediction of Multimorbidity Trajectories.

Commentary

• Bad Idea #40 "The food system is fundamentally broken" with Jan Dutkiewicz.
• Podcast: How Does the Gut-Brain Connection Work?
• US Obesity Crisis: Not Losing Weight Despite Exercising? American Heart Association Study Reveals the Surprising Truth About Your Health Beyond the Scale, Blood Pressure and Cholesterol.
• Non-Pharmacological Interventional Strategies for the Management of Obesity in Aging.
• Role of Calorie Restriction Mimetics in the Management of Obesity in Aging.
• Lost Sleep Affects Weight, and Obesity Is Multifactorial.
• Metabolic Memory in the Gut: The Microbiota-Epigenetic Crosstalk Orchestrating Obesity Onset and Novel Therapeutic Landscapes.
• Building Health from Childhood: One Health Strategies for Obesity Prevention and Nutritional Education in Italy.

General

• Podcast: The Surprising Lack of Breakthroughs in Life Extension Science over 40 Years | Siim Land.
• Targeting Cellular Senescence in Dermatology: Senolytic and Senomorphic Strategies.
• Characterization and Potential Functions of Milk Fat Globule Membrane and Exosome Proteins in Donkey and Bovine Milk: A Comparative Data-Independent Acquisition Proteomic Analysis.
• Podcast: SSRI-Ously? Separating Fact from Fiction on SSRIs.
• Historic Drought in Northern Kenya Shifts Diet and Mobility Away from Traditional Pastoralism as Resource Security and Nutrition Falter.
• Multiomic Profiling of Responses to Clinical and Novel Bisphosphonates Reveals Extraskeletal Effects on Ageing Related Signatures.
• Podcast: Why Do Some People Eat Dirt?
• Researchers Uncovered a Novel Pathway That Causes Epilepsy.

Announcements

• Webinar: August 6th, 2026, 7:00-8:00pm Via Zoom Title: "I Think You Might Have Lipedema": Recognizing & Acting on Lipedema in Everyday Obesity Medicine Practice.

Featured

• Rod Bain and Agriculture Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics Scott Hutchins Discuss USDA Research Priorities.
• Cognitive Demands of Bipedal Locomotion During Human Foraging.
• "…limiting a single nutrient, the amino acid methionine, in the diet destabilized DNA organization and led to cancer cell death and increased animal survival."
• Treating Acquired Hypothalamic Obesity.
• The Impact of BMI on All-Cause Mortality Worldwide: A Mathematical Demonstration of Clinical Bias Regarding Causal Risk from Body Composition Measures.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Yeast Food Supplement Helps Immune Cells Fight Cancer More Effectively.
• Study: Yeast β-Glucan Supplementation Supports Immunometabolic Anti-Tumor Responses and Reverses Obesity-Induced Dysfunction Via Trained Hematopoiesis... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Meta-Analysis: "Current evidence indicates that fasting and CR exert minimal to no statistically significant impact on reproductive hormones in adults."
• RCT: "Maternal high-protein/low-glycemic-index diet during pregnancy impairs offspring lipid profile."
• RCT: "This kindergarten-family intervention showed directionally favorable but statistically uncertain effects on BMIz gain after small-sample correction..."
• RCT: No Compelling Evidence of Deleterious Effect of Three Daily Servings of Full-Fat Dairy for 12 Weeks on Body Weight, Body Composition, Energy Metabolism, Blood Lipids, and Dietary Intake of Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Recess Did Not Affect Physical Activity.
• RCT: "...no evidence to support that the administration of fluralaner to domestic dogs diverts the feeding profile of T. infestans to humans at 10 months post-intervention."
• RCT: "No significant group by time interaction was found for depressive symptoms" in “Resistance exercise training compared to a low-intensity sham for depressive symptoms in young women with analogue generalized anxiety disorder.”
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: "Magnesium supplementation does not appear to improve insulin resistance in individuals with diabetes or prediabetes significantly."

Basic

• Skin Acetone as a Clinical Diagnostic Biomarker of Ketosis.
• Stress-Coping Phenotypes Shape Adipose Tissue Function and Plasticity and Modulate Metabolic Resilience.
• Myeloid MMP14 Couples Extracellular Proteolysis to Inflammatory and Metabolic Remodeling During Obesity.
• Adipose Tissue Overexpression of Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase Prevents Metabolic Dysfunction in Obese Mice Via Extracellular Vesicles.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Preprint: A Systematic Review to Critically Appraise Methodological Rigour in Research on Ultra-Processed Food and Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension.
• Judge Dismisses Splenda Lawsuit, Says Courts Wrong Place for Research Debate.
• Clark Atlanta University Walks Back Study on Waffle House Workers.

Clinical

• Ecnoglutide: First Approvals.
• Impact of Surgery-To-Conception Interval on Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Following Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• The Role of Endocrine Factors in Childhood Obesity.
• New Open Access Book: Body Mass Index in Clinical Practice Edited by Samy I. McFarlane.

Children and Adolescents

• A Longitudinal Cohort Study of the Costs of Adolescent Obesity Into Young Adulthood.
• Effects of Positive Childhood Experiences in Adolescence on Obesity in Women.
• Longitudinal Examination of the Family Food Environment and Weight Status Among Children.
• Systematic Review: Risk Factors in the First 1000 Days of Life Associated with Childhood Obesity.

Surgery

• Meta-Analysis: Improvement of Obesity-Related Comorbidities After Bariatric Procedures.
• Review: Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Mechanistic Insights and Multimodal Management Strategies.
• What Bariatric Surgery Can Teach Us About Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Agonist Weight Loss Therapy: Improving Long-Term Outcomes and Patient Care.
• Review: Advanced Robotic Liver Surgery.
• Analysis of the Outcomes and Postoperative Complications of Patients Undergoing Body Contouring Plastic Surgery After Weight Loss.

Drugs

• Kailera’s Oral GLP-1 Asset Sees 11% Weight Loss, Hits Goals in Chinese Phase 3 Obesity and Diabetes Trials.
• Setmelanotide for the Treatment of Acquired Hypothalamic Obesity.
• A New GLP-1 Pill for Diabetes, Semaglutide with Amylin, Data from China, and More from ADA 2026.
• Single Dose Creatine Improves Cognitive Performance and Induces Changes in Cerebral High Energy Phosphates During Sleep Deprivation.
• Review: The Impact of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists on Objective Physical Activity in Adults.

Food & Diet

• Five-Year Patient-Reported Outcomes of Individualized Nutrition Therapy Supporting Nutritional Ketosis in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Validation of a New Self-Administered Dietary Salt Intake Questionnaire in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Ultraprocessed Food Versus Diet Quality in Relation to Cardiometabolic Health and All-Cause Mortality: NHANES 1999-2018.
• Heyehui Attenuates Diet-Induced Obesity Via Regulating LEP/AMPK/ACC Axis and Restoring Intestinal Function in Mice.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Caloric Restriction Improves Glycemic Control Via the Adiponectin-Ceramide Axis in Men and Women without Obesity.
• Methionine Restriction Plus Vitamin B12 Antagonism Overcomes Methionine Independence for Cancer Therapy.
• RCT: Marked Changes in One-Carbon Metabolism on a Low-Carbohydrate High-Fat Diet.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effects of Fasting and Caloric Restriction on Reproductive Hormones.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Sedentary Behavior, Light-Intensity Physical Activity, and Daily Steps.
• In Obesity Treatment, Physical Activity’s Benefits Go Beyond Weight Loss, Says AHA.
• Physical Activity and Quality of Life in Children: Findings from the Health Oriented Pedagogical Project (HOPP).
• Meta-Analysis: Impact of High-Intensity Interval Training on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Youth with Overweight/Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• The Association of Socioeconomic Status and Response to Pediatric Health Behavior and Lifestyle Obesity Treatment in Germany and Sweden.
• Obesity as a Potential Explanatory Factor in the Association between Socioeconomic Position and Multidimensional Cardiometabolic Risk.
• Inhibitory Control Mediates the Association between Perinatal PM2.5 Exposure and Childhood Obesity in Children in the PROGRESS Cohort, Mexico City.
• Exploring the Development and Prevention of the Childhood Obesity Epidemic in Barbados Using the Socio-Ecological Framework: A Qualitative Study.

Epidemiology

• NLRP3 Inflammasome Partially Mediates Genotoxic E. Coli Infection in Lean but Not in Genetically Obese Mice.
• Compositional Analyses of Accelerometer-Measured 24-H Movement Behaviors Among Adults with Normoglycemia, Pre-Diabetes Phenotypes, and Diabetes: A Population-Based Study.
• The Joint Association of Health-Enhancing Walking and Healthful Diet with Central Obesity: A Longitudinal Repeated-Measures Study.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity Is Independently Associated with 20-Year Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease: Findings from the ATTICA Cohort Study (2002-2022).

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Food Neophobia Is Associated with Lower Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health.
• Diet Quality, Nutrient Adequacy, and Symptom Associations in ADHD: A Case-Control Study of Australian Adolescents.
• Association between Physical Activity and Mental Health in Primary School Children.
• What are the Experiences, Perceptions and Expressed Needs of Adolescents Living with Obesity and Their Mothers in Indonesia? A Qualitative Multi-Method Study.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• RCT: Integrating Executive Function Training with Health Behavior Intervention for Preschool Obesity Prevention in China.
• GLP-1 Drug Announcements and Food Sector Equity Returns: Evidence from a Structural Demand Shock.
• Sustainable Diets and Functional Foods for the Prevention of Cardio-Metabolic Diseases and Sustainable Development Goals of the UNO.
• Where You Live Shapes Diabetes Risk: Multilevel Determinants of Type 2 Diabetes in the East South Central United States.
• Global, Regional and National Intake of Plant-Based Foods Among Youth in 185 Countries (1990-2018): Findings from the Global Dietary Database.

Ethics

• Shocking ‘Leblouh’ Tradition: Fattening Farms in Mauritania, Girls Were Force-Fed Up to 10,000 Calories Per Day to Become ‘Ideal Brides’.
• Prevention of childhood obesity from a bioethical perspective.

Stigma

• Is Agreement with the Statement “Obesity Is a Disease” Helpful or Harmful? Insights from a National Cross-Sectional Survey.
• The Mediating Role of Physical Activity Avoidance in the Association between Weight Stigma and Physical Activity.
• Longitudinal Associations between Weight Self-Stigma, Physical Exercise, and Social Anxiety Among Adolescents: Between-And Within-Person Effects.

Policy Related

• Review: Integrating Policies That Enable Minimally Processed Foods with Policies That Restrict Ultra-Processed Foods for Obesity and Noncommunicable Disease Prevention.
• RCT: Eco-Focused Menu Labels on Full Meal Orders from Fast-Food Restaurants.
• Alternative Breakfast Service Models are Associated with Greater Student School Breakfast Participation. Evidence from Middle and High School Students Across 8 States.
• Out-Of-Pocket Insulin Spending Before and After the Inflation Reduction Act Across Demographic Subgroups.
• Review: Cross-Sector Policies for Achieving Equitable Obesity Prevention and Food Security.

Intergenerational Effects

• Joint Associations of Maternal Smoking and Pre-Pregnancy BMI with Term Low Birthweight and Small-For-Gestational-Age Births: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of 2024 United States Birth Data.
• Association between High Maternal Haemoglobin Levels in the First Trimester and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study.
• How Maternal Diet Shapes Offspring Mitochondrial Physiology.
• Association of Iron Status with Gestational Diabetes and Preeclampsia in an Obesogenic Context: Results from a Cohort of Pregnant Chilean Women.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Endogenous Ghrelin Antagonist, LEAP2, Accelerates Puberty Onset in Conditions of Early Obesity.
• Capsinoids Treatment Reduces Steatosis with Consequent Attenuation in the Progression of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in Obese Rats.
• Dietary Glucoraphenin Ameliorates Obesity and Steatotic Liver Disease Associated with Gut Dysbiosis Induced by a Western Diet in Mice.
• Burgers, Brains, and Evolution: Biological and Philosophical Roots of Fat Craving.

Methods

• Systematic Review: Applications of Traditional Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms in Obesity Prediction or Classification.
• An Optimized Ensemble Learning Model for Interpretable and Efficient Obesity Classification.
• Reliability and the Hidden Translational Gaps in Multidisciplinary Clinical Psychological Science.
• Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis of DNA Methylome and Transcriptome in a Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor LPM4870108-Induced Rat Model of Obesity.

Commentary

• Podcast: No More Raw Cookie Dough with food scientist Roxi Smith.
• Podcast: GLP-1 Muscle Loss and Creatine, Bulking vs Cutting, One-Hour Training, & Detraining.
• Podcast: First RCT of Keto for Schizophrenia & Bipolar Disorder: Results & Future Directions.
• Podcast: Dietary Guidelines and the Gap in Cardio-Protective Flavanol Intake.
• Does Metabolically Healthy Obesity Really Exist: Going Toward New Definitions.
• Creatine a Supplement with a Rare Commodity: Evidence.
• Moral Panic About GLP-1s at Wimbledon.
• GLP-1s Meet Culture and Things Get Complicated.

General

• Intermittent Hypoxia Induces Reversible Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Old Mice.
• Immune Aging Biomarkers for Clinical Trials.
• Meta-Analysis: Risk Factors for the Development of Food Allergy in Infants and Children.
• JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Associate Managing Editor Kate Schweitzer discuss "Testosterone Therapy: Does New Evidence Warrant Broader Prescribing?"
• Genome Editing in Rats Enables More Accurate ER+ Breast Cancer Models.
• How Healthy Is Your Brain? We Now Know How to Find Out.
• Food Without Fire: Environmental and Nutritional Impacts from a Solar Stove Field Experiment.

Announcements

• Secretary Rollins Announces Growing Momentum Behind USDA’s Product of USA Label with 10 New Companies Joining Initiative.
• USDA, HHS, EPA Join Forces to Bolster Consumer Protections from Heavy Metals and Other Contaminants in Food.
• The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine Has Released a New Solicitation Seeking Proposals to Address Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), a Critical Risk to Human Health During Spaceflight.

Featured

• Review: Effects of Dietary Protein Quantity, Source, and Type on Plasma Lipids and Lipoproteins and Their Roles in Dyslipidemia Management in Humans.
• "Bad Air" or the Tobacco Industry Playbook? Which is the better metaphor for the controversy over ultra-processed foods?
• Paternal Dietary Macronutrients Affect the Seminal Vesicle Fluid Proteome and Fetal Development: A Geometric Framework for Nutrition Study in Mice.
• Review: Macronutrient Mixtures - Interactions in Health and Disease.
• Appetite Suppression by GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Role of Delayed Gastric Emptying.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Protein Source Key for Weight Loss After Menopause.
• Study: Secondary Analysis of RCT Designed to Compare Two Completely Different Diets (Vegan Diet with 86g Cooked Soybeans to a Usual Diet) for Hot Flashes in Postmenopausal Women. Study Does Not Test Specific Effects of Protein Source.
• Headline Critique: Solid Soy + Hot Flash Data. Weak Protein Claim.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "[N]o significant group or group × time interaction effects were observed, indicating that probiotic supplementation did not provide measurable additional benefits beyond CER for the outcomes assessed."
• RCT: "No statistically significant difference was observed between the two groups in terms of body weight, BMI, waist circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, serum fasting glucose, and lipid profile at the end of week 12" in “Effects of synbiotic supplementation on cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight or obese calcium oxalate stone formers.”
• "However, contrary to the original brain lag hypothesis, the brain/body ratio does not converge back on the allometric regression line, but continues to evolve beyond it."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, fiber-fed horses appeared to elicit a more robust acute inflammatory response to exercise than starch-fed horses despite an altered gastrointestinal microbiome."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, disordered eating behaviors were more strongly associated with emotion regulation difficulties at lower levels of urgency."
• "[D]uring insecticide exposure food consumption by larvae was reduced, but it increased after exposure at least in females, suggesting sex-specific compensatory feeding. Contrary to our predictions, we mostly found additive effects of the combined exposure, but an interactive effect on female relative consumption rate."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, obesity was associated with significantly lower postoperative opioid use over the total inpatient stay following PSF with LB."
• "Contrary to conventional assumptions favoring standardized conditions, high-quality consumer smartphone photography significantly outperformed controlled laboratory imaging..." for diet nutrition measurement.

Basic

• Fish Oil and Evening Primrose Oil Have Ameliorative Effects on Obesity-Associated Complications in Olanzapine-Administered Rats.
• Impact of Simulated Obesity in Animals on RANK/RANKL/OPG Pathway During Orthodontic Tooth Movement.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Correspondence: Concerns with the Statistical Analysis in “Effect of Combined GLP-1 Analogue and Bupropion/naltrexone on Weight Loss: A Retrospective Cohort Study”.
• Podcast: So You Want to Stop Falling for Nutrition and Fitness Misinformation.
• Video: Statistical Critique of Keto-CTA Preprint.

Clinical

• Very-Low-Energy Ketogenic Therapy Modulates the Metabolic–Antioxidant Axis in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: A Non-Randomized Clinical Trial.
• RCT: Survodutide in Adults with Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease.

Children and Adolescents

• Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Preliminary Validation of the Adolescent Obesity Environmental Questionnaire (AOEQ) in LMICs: Family, School, and Peer Contexts.
• Ecological Predictors of Daily Dietary Intake in Black Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity in the Families Improving Together (FIT) for Weight Loss Trial.
• The Use of BMI Polygenic Risk Score (BMI-PRS) in a Paediatric Population with Obesity.
• Adolescent BMI as a Strong Predictor of Pre-Pregnancy Obesity in Arkansas Mothers.
• Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Prevention: From Evidence to Implementation in Complex Systems.
• Review: Family-Based Dietary Counselling in Pediatric Obesity: A Proposed System-Oriented Framework Integrating Home, School, and Social Environments.
• Longitudinal Associations of Neighborhood Food Access with Child BMI and Obesity.

Surgery

• Obesity Attenuates the Association between the Modified Five-Item Frailty Score and Mortality in Septic Surgical Patients.
• High and Low BMI and 90-Day Postoperative Outcomes in Patients with Crohn’s Disease Undergoing Abdominal Surgery.
• Observational Study: The Influence of Emotional Dysregulation on Bariatric Surgery Outcome.
• Robotic-Assisted Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty Is Not Associated with Superior Clinically Meaningful Patient-Reported Outcomes or Complication Rates in Patients with Obesity.
• Transcriptomic Signatures for Personalised Obesity Treatment: Insights from Adipose and Blood Tissues.
• Bilateral Manual Subcutaneous Fat Retraction to Facilitate Landmark Guided Spinal Anaesthesia in Patients with Morbid Obesity - A Case Series.
• Outcomes of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Southern Louisiana.
• Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery in Pregnancy: A Cohort Study Comparing Women with and Without Prior Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• RCT: Orforglipron and Markers of Insulin Sensitivity and Beta-Cell Function by Prediabetes Status in Adults with Obesity: A Post Hoc Analysis of the ATTAIN-1 Trial.
• Systematic Review: The Efficacy of Antidepressant Therapy on Obesity.
• Shifting the Goalposts in Obesity Drug Development.
• Correspondence: Are GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Gerotherapeutics or Just Treatments for Obesity?

Food & Diet

• Changes in Food Patterns over a 10-Year Period in the UK Adult Population; Findings from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey.
• RCT: Effect of Incorporating 1 Avocado Per Day on Lipoprotein Particle Concentrations Compared to Habitual Intake in Adults with Abdominal Obesity.
• Listening to Children with Obesity: Lived Experiences of Hunger, Cravings, and Satiety.
• Natural Approaches to Appetite Suppression in Obesity: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Clinical Integration.
• Systematic Review: Linking Diet and Obesity Among Young People Living in Sub Saharan Africa.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: D-Allulose as a Low-Calorie Sweetener: A 30-Day Study on Gastrointestinal Tolerance and Systemic Safety to Support Its Application in Healthy Diets.
• Maternal Undernourishment Impairs Murine Placental Development During Pregnancy.
• Loss of the Calorie Restriction Response Protein DEPP1 Worsens Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Response of FTO Gene Polymorphisms to Continuous Caloric Restriction Diets on Lipid and Glycemic Biomarkers in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity in Women with Obesity: Fatigue, Knee Symptoms, and Functional Capacity.
• Physical Activity Among Active-Duty US Military Servicemembers with Overweight and Obesity.
• Review: Physical Exercise and MiR-146a in Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Association of Anthropometric Measures, Physical Activity, and C-Reactive Protein Level with Musculoskeletal Symptoms in Children with Excess Weight.
• Meta-Analysis: Aerobic and Resistance Exercise Improves Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Resistance in Children and Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity.
• Commentary: Strengthening the Metabolic Alliance: Exercise as an Essential Partner of Obesity Pharmacotherapy.

Economics & Sociology

• Preprint: Trends in Obesity and Socioeconomic Status in the Peruvian Population between the Years 2015-2024: An Analysis of a National Survey.
• The Burden of Obesity in Argentina (2005–2022): The Role of Socioeconomic Status and Gender in Shaping BMI Trends.

Epidemiology

• Sociodemographic Determinants and Prevalence of the Metabolic Risk Factors and the Metabolic Syndrome Among Women 20-49 in Kirinyaga County, Kenya.
• A Body Shape Index Is a Better Predictor of Overall and Cardiovascular Mortality Than BMI.
• Report: Obesity, Severe Obesity, and Abdominal Obesity in US Youth and Adults from 1999 to 2023.
• Metabolic Traits in Obesity and Normal BMI in Industrialised Countries: A Multi-Country Analysis of National Population-Based Studies.
• Understanding the Impact of the Follow-Up Period on the Association between Excess Body Weight, and Cardiovascular Events and Mortality.
• Review: Diagnosis and Evaluation of Sarcopenic Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Obesity-Related Circulating Endothelial Extracellular Vesicles Negatively Affect Cerebral Microvascular Cell Function.
• The Joint Association of Obesity and Low Handgrip Strength with Cognitive Impairment and Probable Dementia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• Circulating mRNA and miRNA Signatures Used as Predictive Markers of Lifestyle Modification Outcomes in Pediatric Obesity Management.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities and Trends in the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity Phenotypes in Iran from 2000 to 2030.

Stigma

• Review: Wounds of the Body, Wounds of the Self: Addressing Shame in the Care of Patients Living with Obesity and Chronic Wounds.
• Weight Discrimination and Cardiometabolic Health in Underrepresented US Adults.

Policy Related

• Changes in Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake from Before to After Nutrition Labeling Policy Implementation: A Comparison of Mexico and the United States.
• Child-Directed Marketing on Product Packages of Sweet Snacks, Cereals, and Yogurts: Content Analysis and Association with Nutrition Quality.
• Review: Using Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) to Improve Access to Obesity Pharmacotherapy: A Practical Guide for Clinicians Caring for Youth with Obesity Across United States Medicaid Programs.
• State Insulin Out-Of-Pocket Cap Policies and Estimated Eligible Populations in the United States, 2019-2026.
• Predictors of Voucher Redemption in Produce Prescription Programs in a Primarily Low-Income Population with Type 2 Diabetes.
• What Unhealthy Food and Beverage Advertisements Appeal To- and Promote Obesity Amongst- Adolescent Children in Urban South Africa?
• Online Food Delivery and Body Weight: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from China.

Intergenerational Effects

• "...lactation was the period of greatest vulnerability to dehydration...Heat stress and droughts exacerbate maternal and infant health risks..."
• Umbilical Vein Blood Flow in Macrosomic Fetuses with and without Pre-Gestational Diabetes.
• Obstetrical and Medical Outcomes Following GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Exposure in Pregnancy.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Parent-Offspring Conflict Drives Selection for Integrated Egg Traits in the Male-Incubated Emu Egg.
• Metabolic pathways fueling human spermatozoa capacitation and hyperactivation: a roadmap for spermatozoa bioenergetics.

Methods

• Adherence of Artificial Intelligence Models to Brazilian Guidelines for Obesity in Primary Health Care.
• Decision Tree-Based Prediction of 5-Year Weight Trajectories After Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Retrospective Cohort Study from France and Sweden.
• Trends and Themes in Artificial Intelligence Applications for Obesity: A Bibliometric Mapping Study.
• An Interactive Web-Based Tool for Computing BMI Standard Deviation Scores in Italian Children and Adolescents Using National Growth References.

Commentary

• Podcast: Special Edition: Medications in the Pipeline for Cardiometabolic Disease.
• Excuses to Continue Neglecting Obesity Care.
• #398 ‒ AMA #86: GLP-1 RAs and Muscle Loss: New Data, Better Questions, and How to Preserve Muscle During Weight Loss.
• Why Prenatal Vitamins Matter.
• Webinar: Skeletal Muscle Circadian Clocks: Keeping Time for Systemic Health.
• One ‘Bad’ Fat Is Making Longevity Researchers Think Twice.
• Podcast: Is the Protein RDA Too Low for You? What 40 Years of Studies Show - Dr. Don Layman & Dr. Heather Leidy | GLS #214.
• Podcast: GLP-1s & Novel Peptides in Obesity, Diabetes & Metabolic Health | Katrin Svensson | Episode 298.

General

• Brain Activity Under Anesthesia Challenges What We Know About Consciousness.
• Evaluating the Accuracy of Large Language Models in Selecting Appropriate Statistical Tests for Healthcare Research.
• Podcast: Dr. Amy Boddy Explains Microchimerism: How Much of You Is Actually You?
• Letter: Longitudinal Changes in Epigenetic Clocks Predict Survival in the InCHIANTI Cohort.
• More Flowers, More Pollinators, Less Fruit: Drought Increases Insect Visitation but Reduces Yield in Cucumber.
• Podcast: How Does Ketchup Work?
• Podcast: That's Pediatrics: Breast Milk Antibodies and the Prevention of Necrotizing Enteritis in Premature Infants with Timothy Hand, MD.
• Podcast: #612: Does Sweet Taste Exposure Actually Develop Preference? - Prof. Katherine Appleton.

Announcements

• New Investigator Takes Off Running: Dr. Olivia Ginnard.
• The Wonder We Share; The Responsibility We Carry.

Featured

• Critical Review of the Science on “Highly” Processed Food Intake and Body Weight.
• A Fancy Name for Junk Food: Does the war on “ultra-processed foods” make any sense? - By Gary Taubes."
• Inappropriate Analyses Make Continuous Glucose Monitoring Appear Imprecise.
• Ketogenic Diet Prevents Obesity-Associated Pancreatic Cancer Independent of Weight Loss and Induces Pancreatic Metabolic Reprogramming [in Mice].
• Food Noise: A Real Phenomenon Deserving of Being Treated.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Scientists Discover What Triggers Belly Fat as We Age.
• Study: Adipogenesis Contributes to Age-Related Visceral Adipose Tissue Accumulation... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Contrary to common expectations that cold exposure suppresses anabolic signaling, the combination of traditional resistance training and cold-water immersion elicited a synergistic molecular response, optimally stimulating both hypertrophic and angiogenic pathways, and even surpassing the high-intensity rest-pause protocol."
• RCT: "An 8-week TRE [time restricted eating] intervention in young women with hidden obesity reduced body mass and BMI but also decreased total lean mass, potentially compromising metabolic health, with no statistically significant changes in total body fat or regional fat distribution."
• "Contrary to the hypothesis of this thesis and existing evidence, the prevalence of MetS and Hypertension was equally high in both rural and urban populations signifying shared risk factors between the two sites."
• "Contrary to conventional assumptions of uniformly negative impacts, a path undulation within the range of 1.6 - 1.8 m promotes walking among older adults."
• Thesis: “Healthier Lifestyle Behaviors Did Not Modify (Attenuate) the High Mortality Risks Observed with Greater Biologic Aging, Which Is Contrary to Our Study Hypothesis.”
• "Contrary to expectations of reduced feeding efficiency under osmotic stress, crabs in the lowest experimental salinity (2 ppt) exhibited the shortest handling times and highest feeding rates, more than doubling the prey consumption rates observed in the moderate salinity of 6 ppt. Female crabs also demonstrated higher attack rates, shorter handling times, and greater overall prey consumption than males, likely reflecting increased energetic demands during reproduction."
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: "Probiotics did not significantly affect weight loss, metabolic parameters, or inflammatory markers."
• RCT: "Based on these results a single session of high-velocity low-amplitude manipulations targeting ankle DF-ROM does not significantly improve 1RM back squat strength compared to sham, and does not influence short-term ankle DF-ROM."

Basic

• Resveratrol Alleviates High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Is Associated with Activation of β3-AR/AMPKα-Related Thermogenic Signaling.
• Circadian and Metabolic Effects of Light-Phase Time-Restricted Feeding with a Western-Style Diet in Young Female Rats.
• Maternal Butyrate Administration Ameliorates Fetal Fatty Liver and Maternal Metabolic Alterations Related to Maternal Obesity.
• Twf1 Regulates Adipocyte Proliferation and Differentiation Through Yap Nucleus Accumulation.
• Resistant Starch Supplementation Modulates Gut Microbiota, Short-Chain Fatty Acids, and Markers of Gut Barrier Integrity in Estrogen-Deficient Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Review: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions in Precision Nutrition by Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Glycemic Responses to Foods.
• Evaluating the Reproducibility and Verifiability of Nutrition Research: A Case Study of Studies Assessing the Relationship between Potatoes and Colorectal Cancer.

Clinical

• Risk of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Hepatic Fibrosis: A Large-Scale Study from the Middle East.
• Long-Term Effect of Sweeteners and Sweetness Enhancers on Gene Expression Markers of Adipose Tissue Function, Adipocyte Morphology, and Metabolic Health: A SWEET Substudy.
• Effect of Methylphenidate on BMI in Children and Adolescents in Relation to Baseline Weight Status.

Children and Adolescents

• Review: Longitudinal Evaluation from Birth to Adolescence of Soy Protein–Based Infant Formula Compared with Cow Milk-Based Formula and Breastfeeding: A Comprehensive Summary of Findings.
• Capturing Infant and Child Growth Dynamics with P-Splines Mixed Effects Models.

Surgery

• A Technology-Based Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
• Systematic Review: Comparable Survivorship and Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty in Patients with and without Obesity.
• Barbed Continuous Suture Reduces the Risk of Specimen Extraction Site Hernia in High-Risk Patients with Obesity.
• Differential Impact of Pre-Operative Tirzepatide Compared to Glucagon-Like-Peptide-1 Single Receptor Agonists on Outcomes of Spinal Fusion Surgery in Patients with Obesity.
• National Trends and Outcomes of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents: Insights from the Israeli National Bariatric Surgery Registry.
• Incidence and Patterns of Anesthetic Complications During Bariatric Surgery.
• 30-Day Outcomes of Simultaneous Sleeve Gastrectomy and Kidney Transplantation.
• Surgery on Patients Taking Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists.

Drugs

• Smell and Taste Disturbances Among Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Users.
• Review: Overview of Novel Mechanisms in Obesity Pharmacotherapy and Implications for Cardiovascular Disease.
• Effect of Icosapent Ethyl Treatment on Colorectal Tissue Marine Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Levels Among Patients with a History of Adenoma: A Prospective, Single-Arm Clinical Trial.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Does Consuming Ascorbate-Rich Fruits and Fruit Juices with Meals Improve Iron Bioavailability?
• RCT: Oat-Rich Low-Gluten Diet Modulates Plasma Short-Chain Fatty Acids Without Significant Changes in Fecal Microbiome or Inflammatory Markers.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Prospective Association between Weight Variability and Subsequent Long-Term Weight Loss in the CALERIE Study.
• RCT: The Effects of Continuous vs. Intermittent Caloric Restriction on Fat Loss.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Exercise Training Is Associated with Changes in Adipocyte Size and Lipid Metabolism in Older Women: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study.
• Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Evidence That Daily Resting and Activity Energy Expenditures are Independent in Humans.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Differences in the Prevalence, Treatment and Control of Major Cardiometabolic Risk Factors by Sex: A Cross-Sectional Study of the UK Biobank.
• Impact of High BMI on Health State Utilities: A Time Trade-Off Study in the General Population of Japan.
• Sex Differences in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Latent Cardiometabolic Phenotypes in a Working-Age Population from the Balearic Islands (Spain): A Population-Based Analysis.
• Overweight/Obesity Clustering and Wealth Differentials Among Indigenous Households in Eastern India.
• Factors Associated with Obesity Among Female Workers in Small and Cottage Industries in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Epidemiology

• Changes in Obesity and Waist Circumference in Children and Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Dementia Risk by Metabolic Health and Obesity in Two Prospective Cohorts.
• Prevalence and Biopsychosocial Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Mindfulness and Mindful Eating on Food Intake and Appetite.
• Cortical Thickness and Appetite Hormones in Adolescent Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder: A Comparative Study.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• Whole-Population Trends in Obesity Across Dimensions of Inequality in England, 2019-25: A Retrospective, Longitudinal Cohort Study of 54 Million Adults.

Stigma

• The Case to Augment Healthcare Professional Training for the Treatment of Obesity by Integrating Cognitive Dissonance Interventions to Reduce Weight Stigma.
• Independent and Opposing Effects of Self-Complexity and Weight-Based Social Identity Threat on Well-Being Among Larger-Bodied People.
• Weight Stigma Exposure, Self-Perceived Weight and Weight Bias Internalisation Across Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum.

Policy Related

• The Validity and Utility of Nova and the Concept of Ultra-Processed Foods for Science and Policy.
• A Comprehensive and Standardized Dataset on School Feeding Activities Worldwide: The Global Survey of School Meal Programs.
• From Children to the Entire Population: Policy Lessons from a Decade of Successful Sodium Intake Reduction in South Korea.
• Grant Funding Program Supports Increasing School Meals.
• The New Orleans Healthy Default Beverage Policy and Beverage Ordering Among Children.
• State and Federal Policies and School Meal Participation: A Descriptive Analysis from Arizona.

Intergenerational Effects

• Parental BMI and Offspring Childhood Body Size and Eating Behaviour: A Structural Equation Modelling Analysis in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study.
• Dietary Interventions Targeting Maternal Obesity: Intergenerational Effects, Mechanisms, and Translational Insights.
• Intergenerational Obesity Prevention Through Nanogenomic Targeting of Gestational Diabetes-Induced Epigenetic Programming.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Mitochondrial Remodeling in Obesity: Mechanistic Links to Impaired Energy Metabolism and Therapeutic Perspectives.
• Cyclic Fasting Drives Metabolic and Physiological Changes in Drosophila melanogaster.

Methods

• Reassessing BMI Thresholds for Obesity: A Population-Based Study in Turkish Adults.
• Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Comprehensive Lipid Response to Dietary Interventions in Women with Overweight or Obesity.

Commentary

• Podcast: New Research on Muscle, Pregnancy, Menopause & Aging Strong: Dr. Christina Prevett.
• Unlocking the Food Matrix.
• Podcast: Muscle Mass Loss and Weight Loss Drugs: Overblown Fears or Justified Concerns?
• The Race to Build the Next Generation of Weight Loss Pills Is Heating Up.
• Is It Time to Stop Measuring Exercise by the Pound?
• Podcast: Dr. Andrew Koutnik | Ketogenic Diets and Athletic Performance | June 21, 2026 | Ep. 71.
• Ketone Esters May Help Preserve Muscle Mass and Strength for Semaglutide Users Without Affecting the Fat Loss Benefits of the Drug, Suggests Data from a Recent Study with Lab Mice.
• An Important New Data Source for Obesity Trends in England.

General

• The Senescence-Stiffening Loop: Extracellular Matrix Remodeling, Hypoperfusion, and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Drive Tissue Aging.
• Book: Bias! How Systemic Error Threatens Biomedical Research.
• After Menopause, Ovaries May Transform Into Organs with Immune Powers.
• Podcast: Nobody Tells You What GLP-1s Do to Your Sex Drive | GLS #213.
• Oo Oo, Ha Ha: Why Humans and Great Apes Giggle Alike When Tickled.
• Drivers of Academic Misconduct by Professors and Research Students Revealed.
• Foraging Success Influences Foraging Motivation in Ants.
• RNA Variants as Biological Indicators.

Announcements

• Webinar: Automating Cumulative Assessment of Food Chemicals: A Software Tool for Tiered, Weight-Of-Evidence Grouping - July 9.
• NIH Webinar: Ignoring Sources of Correlation in NCI-Funded Cluster Trials Increases the Chance of Decision Errors.