Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: Nutrition and Exercise Interventions to Improve Body Composition for Persons with Overweight or Obesity Near Retirement Age.
• RCT: "Intermittent fasting plus early time-restricted eating versus calorie restriction and standard care in adults at risk of type 2 diabetes."
• An Early, Reversible Cholesterolgenic Etiology of Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance.
• Birth Weight Moderates the Association between Obesity and Mortality Rate.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Why Keto and Paleo Diets are the Worst Popular Weight Loss Fads: Study.
• Press Release: Keto vs Vegan: Study of Popular Diets Finds over Fourfold Difference in Carbon Footprints.
• Study: Estimates of Carbon Footprints and Diet Quality of 6 Ad Hoc Dietary Patterns Defined from 1 Day of Self-Reported Intake. Weight Loss Not Investigated.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "PA and BMI increased over time and were not impacted by an educational PA intervention."
• RCT: Mental Fatigue from Smartphone Use or Stroop Task Does Not Affect Bench Press Force-Velocity Profile, One-Repetition Maximum, or Vertical Jump Performance.
• Obesity in Adolescents Does Not Influence Early Immune Responses to Influenza Vaccination.
• Prolonged Moderate-Intensity Exercise Does Not Increase Muscle Injury Markers in Symptomatic or Asymptomatic Statin Users.
• A Combination of the Frequent Fungicides Boscalid and Dimoxystrobin with the Neonicotinoid Acetamiprid in Field-Realistic Concentrations Does Not Affect Sucrose Responsiveness and Learning Behavior of Honeybees.
• "Contrary to initial hypotheses, exposure to body positivity/neutrality content did not have protective effects... The impact of social media use on body image and disordered eating behaviors: Content matters more than duration of exposure."
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: "Exercise interventions have no positive impact on the quality of life of patients with multiple myeloma."
• RCT: "A postpartum health coaching intervention, designed for low-income Latina women at increased risk for diabetes, did not reduce postpartum weight gain."
• Docosahexaenoic Acid Supplementation at 500 mg/day in GDM Women Did Not Affect Neonatal Metabolic Biomarkers Including Leptin, Adiponectin and IGF-1.

Basic

• Targeted Delivery of Nutraceuticals Derived from Food for the Treatment of Obesity and Its Related Complications.
• Immunometabolism at the Crossroads of Obesity and Cancer-a Keystone Symposia Report.
• NAMPT-Dependent NAD+ Biosynthesis Controls Circadian Metabolism in a Tissue-Specific Manner.
• CDK4/6 are Necessary for UCP1-Mediated Thermogenesis of White Adipose Tissue.
• Changes in Cardiac Oxidative Stress, Nitric Oxide Bioavailability, Mitochondrial Function, and Blood Pressure in Postpartum Preeclamptic Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Burning Fat with Wild Blueberries in 11 Athletes.
• PubPeer Comments On: Whole-body Vibration Versus Supervised Aerobic Exercise on Hormonal Parameters and Inflammatory Status in Women with Premenstrual Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Missing Data in Sport Science: A Didactic Example Using Wearables in American Football.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Lifestyle Intervention on HbA1c Levels in Overweight and Obese Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Across Ethnicities.
• The Effect of Weight Loss Following 18 Months of Lifestyle Intervention on Brain Age Assessed with Resting-State Functional Connectivity.
• RCT: Efficacy of Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet with the Pronokal Method in Women with Obesity and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Impact of Diabetes on Weight Loss Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery: Experience from Five-Year Follow-Up of Michigan Bariatric Surgery Cohort.
• NAFLD, MAFLD and Obesity: Brothers in Arms?
• Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, and Cardiometabolic Risk: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) 2023.

Children and Adolescents

• Association of Weight Trajectory with Severe Obesity: A Case–Control Study.
• RCT: Effect of Longer Family Meals on Children’s Fruit and Vegetable Intake.
• The Role of Childhood Obesity in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Young Adolescents’ Mental Health: Differential Exposure or Differential Impact? (pdf)
• Meta-Analysis: Relationship between Obesity Related Indicators and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children.

Surgery

• Meta-Analysis: Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Future Cancer Risk.
• RCT: Changes in Dietary Intake, Food Tolerance, Hedonic Hunger, Binge Eating Problems, and Gastrointestinal Symptoms After Sleeve Gastrectomy Compared with After Gastric Bypass; 1-Year Results from the Oseberg Study.

Drugs

• Setmelanotide: A Promising Advancement for Pediatric Patients with Rare Forms of Genetic Obesity.
• Correction: "Orlistat (Xenical) is not approved for the treatment of obesity in children aged 12 years or older, and is associated with a small weight-reducing effect on average (< 3 %) and unpleasant side effects."

Food & Diet

• Sex-Specific Effects on Total Body Fat Gain with 4-Week Daily Dosing of Raspberry Ketone [4-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)-2-Butanone] and Ketogenic Diet in Mice.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effect of Curcumin Supplementation on Weight Loss and Anthropometric Indices.
• Total Urinary Polyphenol Excretion: A Biomarker of an Anti-Inflammatory Diet and Metabolic Syndrome Status.
• Saturated Fatty Acids and Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Improve Metabolic Parameters in Ovariectomized Female Mice.
• Dietary Ketone Ester Attenuates the Accretion of Adiposity and Liver Steatosis in Mice Fed a High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Remodelling of the Intestinal Ecosystem During Caloric Restriction and Fasting.
• The Importance of Reaction Norms in Dietary Restriction and Ageing Research.
• Phenotype Tailored Lifestyle Intervention on Weight Loss and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adults with Obesity: A Single-Centre, Non-Randomised, Proof-Of-Concept Study.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Is It Wiser to Train in the Afternoon or the Early Evening to Sleep Better? The Role of Chronotype in Young Adolescent Athletes.
• Meta-Analysis: Time-Of-Day Effects of Exercise on Cardiorespiratory Responses and Endurance Performance.

Economics & Sociology

• Association of Area Deprivation Index and Hypertension, Diabetes, Dyslipidemia, and Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study of the HABS-HD Cohort.
• Consumer Demand for Food at Home and Food Away from Home: Understanding Economic Linkages During the Pandemic.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Pediatric Population of a Third-Level Care Hospital in Mexico City in 2013 and 2018.
• Associations of Life Course Obesity with Endometrial Cancer in the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium (E2C2).
• People with Obesity Due to Genetic Predisposition Have Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.
• Genetically and Environmentally Predicted Obesity in Relation to Cardiovascular Disease: A Nationwide Cohort Study.
• Differences in Adherence to American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8, Diet Quality, and Weight Loss Strategies between Those with and Without Recent Clinically Significant Weight Loss in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults.
• How Does Obesity Affect Mortality Through Blood Pressure and Blood Glucose in Chinese and US Citizens? Insights from a Causal Mediation Analysis of Two Large Cohorts.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy Reduces Psychological Distress in Younger Patients with Cardiac Disease.
• RCT: Safety, Efficacy, and Tolerability of Modified Atkins Diet in Persons with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy.

Equity and Disparities

• Obesity Burden and Impact of Weight Loss in Saudi Arabia: A Modelling Study.
• Race, Age, and Sex Differences on the Influence of Obesity on Colorectal Cancer Sidedness and Mortality: A National Cross-Sectional Study.

Stigma

• Status, Sexual Capital, and Intraminority Body Stigma in a Size-Diverse Sample of Gay Men.
• The Role of Women’s and Men’s Body Shapes in Explicit and Implicit Fat Stigma.
• Inequities in Routine Preventive Care Utilization Among Persons with Overweight/Obesity in the United States: An Analysis of Nativity, Racial and Ethnic Identity, and Socioeconomic Status.

Policy Related

• Examining Differences in Children and Adolescents' Exposure to Food and Beverage Marketing in Canada by Sociodemographic Characteristics: Findings from the International Food Policy Study Youth Survey, 2020.
• Changes in Food Security, Healthfulness, and Access During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Results from a National United States Survey.
• Patterns and Correlates of Nutrition Knowledge Across Five Countries in the 2018 International Food Policy Study.
• The Implementation of a Nutrition Intervention in Food Pantries: The Spirit of SWAP.
• Review: Structural Responses to the Obesity Epidemic in Latin America: What are the Next Steps for Food and Physical Activity Policies?
• Changes in Children's and Adolescents' Dietary Intake After the Implementation of Chile's Law of Food Labeling, Advertising and Sales in Schools: A Longitudinal Study.

Intergenerational Effects

• Novel Metabolic Subtypes in Pregnant Women and Risk of Early Childhood Obesity in Offspring.
• Optimizing Prepregnancy Cardiovascular Health to Improve Outcomes in Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals and Offspring: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.
• Variation in the Early Life and Adult Intestinal Microbiome of Intra-Uterine Growth Restricted Rat Offspring Exposed to a High Fat and Fructose Diet.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Patterns of Energy Allocation During Energetic Scarcity; Evolutionary Insights from Ultra-Endurance Events.
• Metabolic Inheritance and the Competition for Calories between Mother and Fetus.
• Developmental Environment Has Lasting Effects on Amphibian Post-Metamorphic Behavior and Thermal Physiology.

Methods

• Piloting an Automated Clinical Trial Eligibility Surveillance and Provider Alert System Based on Artificial Intelligence and Standard Data Models.
• Improved and Computationally Stable Estimation of Relative Risk Regression with One Binary Exposure.

Commentary

• "Eat like a Pig to Combat Obesity."
• Finding Telehealth Value in Diabetes and Obesity.
• How Do We Measure Up in Nutrition Education?
• A Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring Bracelet.
• Biomarkers of Food Intake in the Fecal Metabolome.
• Medicalizing Food and Eating Behaviors.
• Viking Joins Obesity Drug Development Race with Early Study Data.
• What are the Risks Associated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Patients with Obesity?

General

• Preprint: Dynamics of Mixed-Ploidy Populations Under Demographic and Environmental Stochasticities.
• The Effect of Performance Capacity and Decision-Making Speed on Skilful Fighting [in Crabs].
• Wesley Salmon and Causal-Mechanical Model of Scientific Explanation.
• A Comparison of Machine Learning and Statistical Species Distribution Models: Quantifying Overfitting Supports Model Interpretation.
• Does Pollinator Dependence Decrease Along Elevational Gradients?
• What are You Assessing When You Measure “Trust” in Scientists with a Direct Measure?
• Aggregating in Vitro-Grown Adipocytes to Produce Macroscale Cell-Cultured Fat Tissue with Tunable Lipid Compositions for Food Applications.
• The Statistically Flawed Evidence That Social Media Is Causing the Teen Mental Health Crisis.

Announcements

• TOS April Grand Rounds - Dr. David Allison, April 19.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Collaborative Skills to Join an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Focused on Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Analyses, Model Organism Studies, and Meta-Research, All in the Context of Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research, with an Emphasis on Promotion of Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Research Associate with Strong Collaborative Skills to Join an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Focused on Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Analyses, Model Organism Studies, and Meta-Research, All in the Context of Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research, with an Emphasis on Promotion of Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency.
• 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

• Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Fields of Nutrition and Obesity: A Road Map to Equity in Academia.
• When a Fish Beats Its Tail, It Produces Vortices in the Water That Other Fish Could Take Advantage of to Save Energy While Swimming.
• RCT: "Four nights of SR [sleep restriction] reduced insulin sensitivity and fat oxidation in postmenopausal women."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study: Plant-Based Diet Lowers Risk of Osteoporosis in Women over 60.
• Study: Cross-Sectional Associations between Self-Reported Diet and Osteoporosis from Heel Ultrasound. Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of “Own Doctor” Presence in a Web-Based Lifestyle Intervention for Adults with Obesity and Hypertension.
• RCT: "The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of Lactobacillus GG on glycemic control, lipid profile, inflammatory parameters, and some gene expression levels in individuals with T2DM...there was no finding that clearly reflected on the glycemic parameters of T2DM..."
• "Contrary to prior research, Black/African American and Hispanic persons were found to be less likely to bike to work than the rest of the population..."
• When Does the Female Bias Arise? Insights from the Sex Determination Cascade of a Flea Beetle with a Strongly Skewed Sex Ratio.
• RCT: "The HNC [hyperinsulinemic-normoglycemic clamp] restricted to the intraoperative period did not improve postoperative hepatic function but reduced SSIs."
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: “In conclusion, vitamin D3 did not reduce cancer mortality in the main meta-analysis of all RCTs because the observed risk reduction by 6% was not statistically significant.”
• RCT: “Green tea extract supplementation does not modify plasma concentration of F2-isoprostanes in women who are postmenopause.”
• Genetic Obesity in Pregnant A^y Mice Does Not Affect Susceptibility to Obesity and Food Choice in Offspring.

Basic

• A Mechanism by Which Gut Microbiota Elevates Permeability and Inflammation in Obese/Diabetic Mice and Human Gut.
• The Impact of Physical Inactivity on Glucose Homeostasis When Diet Is Adjusted to Maintain Energy Balance in Healthy, Young Males.
• Ascorbic Acid Reduces Insulin Resistance and Pancreatic Steatosis by Regulating Adipocyte Hypertrophy in Obese Ovariectomized Mice.
• Overexpressing High Levels of Human Vaspin Limits High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Enhances Energy Expenditure in a Transgenic Mouse.
• Weight Loss Increases Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Energy Efficiency in Obese Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effect of Protein-Rich Breakfast on Subsequent Energy Intake and Subjective Appetite in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta–Analysis of RCTs.
• Letter: Errors in Meta-Analysis Should Be Corrected in “Qiu Et Al: Effect of Protein-Rich Breakfast on Subsequent Energy Intake and Subjective Appetite in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta–Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Nutrients 2021, 13, 2840”.
• Response: Reply to Henschel Et al.

Clinical

• RCT: Premeal Almond Load Decreases Postprandial Glycaemia, Adiposity and Reversed Prediabetes to Normoglycemia.
• Meta-Analysis: Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Exercises in Improving Anthropometric and Biochemical Indicators in Subjects with Overweight and Obesity.
• Development and Initial Evaluation of a Behavioural Intervention to Support Weight Management for People with Serious Mental Illness: An Uncontrolled Feasibility and Acceptability Study.
• The Effects of 12 Weeks of Concurrent and Combined Training on Inflammatory Markers, Muscular Performance, and Body Composition in Middle-Aged Males with Overweight and Obesity.
• Scoping Review: Primary Prevention Interventions for Adults At-Risk of Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Preprint: Rapid Decline in Beta-Cell Function and Increasing Adiposity Is Associated with Conversion to Type 2 Diabetes in at Risk Latino Youth.
• Identifying Effects of Genetic Obesity Exposure on Leukocyte Telomere Length Using Mendelian Randomization.
• Scoping Review: Individual, Family, and Social Factors Associated with Gestational Weight Gain in Adolescents.
• The Combined Effects of Social Determinants of Health on Childhood Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Global Proportion of Disordered Eating in Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Preprint: Insulinotropic Effect of Endogenous Incretins Is Greater After Gastric Bypass Than Sleeve Gastrectomy Despite Diminished Beta-Cell Sensitivity to Plasma Incretins.
• Effectiveness of Semaglutide Versus Liraglutide for Treating Post-Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Weight Recurrence.
• Evaluation and Treatment of Obesity and Its Comorbidities: 2022 Update of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Obesity by the Korean Society for the Study of Obesity.

Drugs

• Review: Semaglutide for the Treatment of Overweight and Obesity.
• Pharmacotherapy of Obesity: An Update on the Available Medications and Drugs Under Investigation.
• RCT: Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease with a Diet or Orlistat.
• Preprint: Inhibition of the Beta-1 Adrenergic Receptor Does Not Potentiate Mirabegron-Stimulated Human Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis.

Food & Diet

• Meeting the Healthy People 2030 Added Sugars Target.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a Smartphone App (e-12HR) in Improving Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Spanish University Students by Age, Gender, Field of Study, and BMI.
• RCT: The Effects of a Low Carbohydrate Diet Combined with Partial Meal Replacement on Individuals with Obesity.
• Global Scientific Trends on Healthy Eating from 2002 to 2021: A Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Biometric, Clinical and Stress Effects of Alternate Day Fasting and Time-Restricted Feeding in Obese Middle-Aged Female Rats.
• Caloric Restriction as a Possible Pitfall for Persistent Acromegaly Follow-Up - Case Report.
• Measurement of Energy Intake Using the Principle of Energy Balance Overcomes a Critical Limitation in the Assessment of Energy Availability.
• Reciprocal Interactions between Circadian Clocks, Food Intake, and Energy Metabolism.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Acceptability of Intergenerational Physical Activity Programming: A Mixed Methods Study of Latino Aging Adults in Nebraska.
• What Is the Role of Adherence to 24-Hour Movement Guidelines in Relation to Physical Fitness Components Among Adolescents?
• Meta-Analysis: Comparative Effectiveness of Different Types of Exercise in Reducing Arterial Stiffness in Children and Adolescents.

Economics & Sociology

• Cumulative Socioeconomic Status and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Among African American Adults from the Jackson Heart Study.
• BMI and the Distribution of Housework Among British Couples.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Association with Incident Cardiovascular Events.
• Associations between an Inflammatory Diet Index and Severe Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Prospective Study of 171,544 UK Biobank Participants.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Diet-Induced Overweight Conditions: Effect on Brain Structure, Cognitive Function, and Neurogenesis.
• Eating Compulsivity in In Patients with Severe Obesity and the General Population: The Italian Version of the Measure of Eating Compulsivity (MEC10-IT).

Equity and Disparities

• Driving Transformative Change to End Hunger and Reduce Diet-Related Diseases and Disparities: The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
• Could Interventions on Physical Activity Mitigate Genomic Liability for Obesity? Applying the Health Disparity Framework in Genetically Informed Studies.

Stigma

• Scoping Review: Weight Bias and Stigma in Health and Fitness Professionals.
• Explicit Attitudes Toward Obesity and Life Satisfaction in Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Weight Dissatisfaction and Moderating Role of Weight Status.
• Exercising Caution: A Case for Ethics Analysis in Physical Activity Promotion.
• Self-Compassion May Have Benefits for Body Image Among Women with a Higher BMI and Internalized Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• Human Factors in Leveraging Systems Science to Shape Public Policy for Obesity: A Usability Study.
• Weight Management Practices of Health Center Providers in the United States.
• Editorial: Population-Level Nutritional Well-Being: Nutrition Security and Equitability.
• Scoping Review: How are Adolescents Engaged in Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention Policy and Guideline Development?
• Scoping Review: Policy Approaches to Nutrition-Focused Food Banking in Industrialized Countries.

Intergenerational Effects

• ABCB1 Expression Is Increased in Human First Trimester Placenta from Pregnant Women With Overweight or Obesity.
• Effects of Weight Gain During Pregnancy in Normal-Weight Women on Changes in the Gut Microbiota of Pregnant Women in the Third Trimester.
• Selecting a Dietary Supplement with Appropriate Dosing for 6 Key Nutrients in Pregnancy.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Accelerated Abdominal Lipid Depletion from Pesticide Treatment Alter. Honey Bee Pollen Foraging Strategy, but Not Onset, in Worker Honey Bees.
• The Roles of Brain Lipids and Polar Metabolites in the Hypoxia Tolerance of Deep-Diving Pinnipeds.

Methods

• RCT: Economic and Health Impacts of the Change4Life Food Scanner App: A Randomized Pilot and Feasibility Study.
• Research Strategies in Nutrition in Health and Disease: The Failure of Mechanistic Research.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Bias in Nutrition-Health Associations Is Not Eliminated by Excluding Extreme Reporters in Empirical or Simulation Studies.

Commentary

• How Skepticism (not Cynicism) Can Raise Scientific Standards and Reform the Health and Wellness Industry.
• Magnesium in Diet May Decelerate Brain Aging.
• But Do They Work? Researchers Investigate Effectiveness of Lactation Cookies on Human Milk Production.
• The Role of Human Milk Fats in Shaping Neonatal Development and the Early Life Gut Microbiota.
• In Nutrition and Obesity Everyone Has an Agenda.
• Prospects of Potential Adipokines as Therapeutic Agents in Obesity-Linked Atherogenic Dyslipidemia and Insulin Resistance.
• Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods by Michelene E. Pensatubbee and Michael J. Zogry (review).
• Obesity: Learning from Public Health Mistakes.

General

• Northern Flickers Allocate Female Offspring to Last-Laid Eggs Consistent with the Intrabrood Sharing-Out Hypothesis.
• Gut Dysbiosis: A Target for Protective Interventions Against Parkinson’s Disease.
• Much Ado About Artificial Intelligence Or: The Automation of Contract Formation.
• Effect of Experimental Increase of Temperature on Apoptosis, Lipofuscins, and Hsp70 Changes on Different Tissues of Males between a Temperate Introduced Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) and a Native Tropical Oyster (Crassostrea corteziensis).
• Study: “Safer” PFAS in Food Packaging Still Hazardous.
• These Cockroaches Tweaked Their Mating Rituals After Adapting to Pest Control.
• Evaluation of Dietary Habits and Cooking Confidence Using Virtual Teaching Kitchens for Perimenopausal Women.
• RCT: Using Normative Language When Describing Scientific Findings: Effects on Trust and Credibility.
• The Turmoil of Uncertainty.

Video & Audio

• Changes in BMI in School-Aged Youths After Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 Implementation; Effect of an Intranasal Corticosteroid in Young Children with Chronic Rhinosinusitis.
• Dr. Peter Attia: Improve Vitality, Emotional & Physical Health & Lifespan | Huberman Lab Podcast.

Announcements

• TOS April Grand Rounds - Dr. David Allison.
• McRobbie Family Gifts $500,000 to Expand Mental Health Services at IU Health.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Collaborative Skills to Join an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Focused on Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Analyses, Model Organism Studies, and Meta-Research, All in the Context of Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research, with an Emphasis on Promotion of Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Research Associate with Strong Collaborative Skills to Join an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Focused on Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Analyses, Model Organism Studies, and Meta-Research, All in the Context of Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research, with an Emphasis on Promotion of Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency.
• IU Bloomington’s School of Public Health is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty at every rank in every department. Come Join Us!
• 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

• Creativity in Energy Balance, Obesity and Feeding Behavior Research, Some Thoughts.
• The Long-Lasting Shadow of Litter Size in Rodents (Reporting Litter Size in Rodents: A Biological Variable That Strongly Determines Adult Physiology).
• "Consuming high-fat energy-dense foods may be a viable nutritional intervention that mitigates the negative physiological effects of energy deficit and sustains physical performance during cold-weather military operations."
• Fruit Flies are First Known Animals That Can Taste Alkaline Foods.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Older Men Can Help Reduce Childhood Obesity by Serving as Role Models.
• Study: Serial Cross-Sectional Study of Cardiovascular Risk Factor Prevalence, Treatment, and Control in US Adults Aged 20 to 44 Years, 2009 to March 2020. Childhood Obesity and Role Modeling Not Mentioned.
• Essay: Link to Institutional Page Linking to Essay About an Unpublished Survey Showing an Association between Closeness with Fathers and Reporting Fewer Weight Concerns. Childhood Obesity and Role Modeling Not Tested.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effect in Primary Analysis of an Educational Intervention on Diet and Physical Activity Among School-Aged Adolescents in Delhi.
• "Contrary to our predictions, weather conditions did not affect baseline glucose" [in birds].
• "Contrary to literature, mitochondrial biogenesis was unaffected by KDs [ketogenic diets]" [in mice].
• Differential Impact of BMI in Hip Arthroscopy: Obesity Does Not Impact Outcomes.
• Dietary β-Alanine Intake Assessed by Food Records Does Not Associate with Muscle Carnosine Content in Healthy, Active, Omnivorous Men and Women.
• Improvement of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Does Not Rescue Left Atrial Enlargement in Participants with Obesity of a Multimodal Weight Reduction Program.
• No Evidence for Associations between Brood Size, Gut Microbiome Diversity and Survival in Great Tit (Parus major) Nestlings.
• RCT: No Statistically Significant Evidence for Efficacy of the Ghrelin-O-Acyltransferase Inhibitor BI 1356225 in Overweight/Obesity: Data from Two Phase I Studies.

Basic

• Adipocyte YTH N(6)-Methyladenosine RNA-Binding Protein 1 Protects Against Obesity by Promoting White Adipose Tissue Beiging in Male Mice.
• RNA Virus-Mediated Changes in Organismal Oxygen Consumption Rate in Young and Old Drosophila Melanogaster Males.
• Preventing High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders by Hydrodynamic Transfer of Il-27 Gene.
• Estradiol-Mediated Protection Against High-Fat Diet Induced Anxiety and Obesity Is Associated with Changes in the Gut Microbiota in Female Mice.
• Maternal Overnutrition Is Associated with Altered Synaptic Input to Lateral Hypothalamic Area.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Protocol: Completeness of Reporting in Diet- and Nutrition-Related RCTs and Systematic Reviews with Meta-Analysis.
• Notice of Retraction and Replacement. Trends in Obesity Prevalence Among Adults Aged 18 Through 25 Years, 1976-2018.

Clinical

• RCT Chronotype Polygenic Score and the Timing and Quality of Workplace Cafeteria Purchases: Secondary Analysis of the ChooseWell 365 RCT.
• Interventions for Weight Reduction in Obesity to Improve Survival in Women with Endometrial Cancer.
• RCT: Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Children of Women Who Took Part in a RCT of a Preconceptional Nutritional Intervention in Mumbai, India.
• Meta Analysis: The Effects of Vegetarian Diets on Glycemia and Lipid Parameters in Adult Patients with Overweight and Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Clustering of Adverse Health and Educational Outcomes in Adolescence Following Early Childhood Disadvantage.
• Household Food Insecurity and Changes in BMI Z-Score in a Pediatric Obesity Management Clinic.
• The Cortisol Stress Response in Youth with Overweight and Obesity: Influence of Psychosocial Variables.
• Quality of Life and Psychosocial Outcomes Among Children with Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Obesity.

Surgery

• Long-Term Outcomes Following Adolescent Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
• Effects of Whey Protein, Omega-3 Fatty Acid and Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass on Body Weight, Biochemical Parameters and Organ Functions in an Obese Rat Model: Experimental Research.

Drugs

• Association between Antidiabetic Drugs and the Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Nationwide Cohort Study in South Korea.
• Degree of Obesity and Gastrointestinal Adverse Reactions Influence the Weight Loss Effect of Liraglutide in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Overweight or Obesity.
• Weight Loss Maintenance with Exercise and Liraglutide Improves Glucose Tolerance, Glucagon Response, and Beta Cell Function.

Food & Diet

• Hepatoprotective Effects of Moderate-Intensity Interval Training Along with Ginger Juice in an Old Male Rat Model.
• RCT: Restricting Sugar or Carbohydrate Intake Does Not Impact Physical Activity Level or Energy Intake over 24 H Despite Changes in Substrate Use.
• A Single Night of Moderate At-Home Sleep Restriction Increases Hunger and Food Intake in Overweight Young Adults.
• RCT: Sustained Improvements in the Cardiometabolic Profile of Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea After a Weight-Loss Mediterranean Diet/Lifestyle Intervention: 12-Month Follow-Up (6 Months Post-Intervention).

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Macronutrient Composition and Its Effect on Body Composition Changes During Weight Loss Therapy in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• RCT: Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Preprint: Calorie Restriction Activates a Gastric Notch-FOXO1 Pathway to Expand Ghrelin Cells.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Effects of a School-Based Physical Activity Intervention on Cardiometabolic Health Five Years After Cessation.
• The Combined Effect of Motivational Interviewing and Wearable Fitness Trackers on Motivation and Physical Activity in Inactive Adults.
• Acute and Long-Term Exercise Adaptation of Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle in Humans: A Matched Transcriptomics Approach After 8-Week Training-Intervention.

Economics & Sociology

• Life Course Effects of Genetic Susceptibility to Higher Body Size on Body Fat and Lean Mass: Prospective Cohort Study.
• By What Molecular Mechanisms Do Social Determinants Impact Cardiometabolic Risk?
• Cost-Effectiveness and Long-Term Savings of the Bright Bodies Intervention for Childhood Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Impact of Built, Social, and Economic Environments on Adolescent Obesity and Related Health Behaviors.
• Is Adiposity Associated with White Matter Microstructural Health and Intelligence Differently in Males and Females?
• Depressive Symptoms and Mortality – Effect Variation by BMI: A Prospective Study in a Primary Care Population.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Associations between Early Life Nutrient Intakes and Brain Maturation Show Developmental Dynamics from Infancy to Toddlerhood: A Neuroimaging Observation Study.
• Situational, Emotional, and Individual Dispositions to Weight Gain in People with Hoarding Problems.
• RCT: Impact of a Mindfulness Mobile Application on Weight Loss and Eating Behavior in People with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Overlapping and Distinct Relationships between Hedonic Hunger, Uncontrolled Eating, Food Craving, and the Obesogenic Home Food Environment During and After a 12-Month Behavioral Weight Loss Program.

Equity and Disparities

• Negative Affect and Loss-Of-Control Eating in Relation to Adiposity Among Non-Hispanic Youth Identifying as Black or White.
• Sex Difference and Socioeconomic Inequality of Underweight, Overweight and Obesity Among Adult Population in Bangladesh.

Stigma

• Structural Racism as an Upstream Social Determinant of Diabetes Outcomes: A Scoping Review.
• Newspaper Media Framing of Maternal Obesity in the UK: A Review and Framework Synthesis.

Policy Related

• Systematic Review: The Child and Adult Care Food Program and Young Children’s Health.
• Barriers and Facilitators to the Adoption of Physical Activity Policies in Elementary Schools from the Perspective of Principals: An Application of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research–A Cross-Sectional Study.
• A Qualitative Study to Compare Barriers to Improving Food Security Among Households with Young Children in the U.S. As Perceived by Different Types of Stakeholders Before and During COVID-19.

Intergenerational Effects

• Parent-Offspring Associations in Body Composition: Findings from the Southampton Women's Survey Prospective Cohort Study.
• Maternal Obesity and Gestational Diabetes Reprogram the Methylome of Offspring Beyond Birth by Inducing Epigenetic Signatures in Metabolic and Developmental Pathways.
• Towards Precision Medicine in Gestational Diabetes: Pathophysiology and Glycemic Patterns in Pregnant Women with Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Intergenerational Impact of Dietary Protein Restriction in Dairy Ewes on Epigenetic Marks in the Perirenal Fat of Their Suckling Lambs.
• Bitter Taste Cells in the Ventricular Walls of the Murine Brain Regulate Glucose Homeostasis.
• Systematic Review: Biological Characteristics and Energy Metabolism of Migrating Insects.
• Seasonal Changes in Ultrastructure and Gene Expression in the Fat Body of Worker Honey Bees.

Commentary

• Behind the Headlines: Can a 10-Minute Daily Stroll Prevent an Early Death?
• Diet and Exercise Programs Alone Won't Tackle Childhood Obesity, Says Study.
• Opinion: Integrating Nutrition Into Health Care Is Essential.
• Colon Cancer and Obesity in Young Persons.
• The Potential Role of GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Targeting in Fertility-Sparing Treatment in Patients with Obesity and Endometrial Malignant Pathology: A Call for Research.
• Thirty-One Years Maybe Desirable for Antique Cars but Not for Patient Care.
• Advances in Our Understanding of the Molecular Heterogeneity of Fatty Liver Disease: Toward Informed Treatment Decision Making.
• Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on the Definition and Diagnosis of Clinical Obesity.
• People Living with Obesity Face Stigma and Discrimination Which Can Exacerbate the Negative Health Effects of the Disease.

General

• Scientists Disprove 100-Year-Old Understanding of Color Perception.
• How Ice Hockey Helped Me to Explain How Unborn Babies’ Brains are Built.
• Evolutionarily Conserved Role of Oxytocin in Social Fear Contagion in Zebrafish.
• Urban Gardens are Good for Ecosystems and Humans.
• Development of the Thymus and Kidney and Effects of Resveratrol on Their Aging in a Short-Lived Fish.
• Vanillic Acid Improves Stress Resistance and Substantially Extends Lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans.
• First Wearable Health Sensor for Monitoring Muscle Atrophy.
• Book Review: Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns.

Announcements

• Registration Now Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Registration Now Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Workshop Series: Exploring the Science on Measures of Body Composition, Body Fat Distribution, and Obesity.
• Multilevel Modeling for Design and Analysis - Online Course.
• Cell Symposia: Molecular Mechanisms and Integrative Physiology of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Collaborative Skills to Join an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Focused on Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Analyses, Model Organism Studies, and Meta-Research, All in the Context of Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research, with an Emphasis on Promotion of Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Research Associate with Strong Collaborative Skills to Join an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Focused on Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Analyses, Model Organism Studies, and Meta-Research, All in the Context of Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research, with an Emphasis on Promotion of Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency.
• IU Bloomington’s School of Public Health is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty at every rank in every department. Come Join Us!

Featured

• Critical Data at the Crossroads: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Faces Growing Challenges.
• Spatial Mapping of Mitochondrial Networks and Bioenergetics in Lung Cancer.
• The Combined Effect of Metformin and Mirabegron on Diet-Induced Obesity [In Mice]. (PDF)
• Fitness Correlates of Blubber Oxidative Stress and Cellular Defenses in Grey Seals (Halichoerus Grypus): Support for the Life-History-Oxidative Stress Theory from an Animal Model of Simultaneous Lactation and Fasting.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Coffee Could Slash Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Risks: Study.
• Study: Mendelian Randomization Study - Higher Genetically Predicted (not Measured) Plasma Caffeine Concentrations Were Associated with Lower Body Mass Index, Whole Body Fat Mass (but Not Fat-Free Mass), and Type 2 Diabetes. Coffee Consumption Not Measured.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "No significant effects of the intervention were observed" in "Effect of an educational intervention on diet and physical activity among school-aged adolescents in Delhi..." (PDF)
• Binge Drinking Does Not Appear to Have an Adverse Effect on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Findings from a Study of Four First Nations Communities.
• A High-Fat Diet Changes Placental Morphology but Does Not Change Biochemical Parameters, Placental Oxidative Stress or Cytokine Levels.
• Obesity Does Not Modify the Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Insulin Resistance in Adults with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.
• Lowered Muscle Glycogen Reduces Body Mass with No Effect on Short-Term Exercise Performance in Men.
• Contrary to Our Hypothesis, Maternal HF Diet Reduced AEA and 2-AG in Breast Milk.
• RCT: "Contrary to expectations, post-exercise meals were less likely to be unhealthy (relative to mixed) than were random meals from non-exercise days (OR = 0.63, p = .011), and that participants ate proportionally fewer unhealthy meals on exercise days compared to non-exercise days (b = -4.27, p = .004)."
• "Among adults with obesity and NAFLD, TRE did not produce additional benefits for reducing IHTG content, body fat, and metabolic risk factors compared with DCR."

Basic

• Estradiol Regulates Leptin Sensitivity to Control Feeding Via Hypothalamic Cited1.
• Promotion of Healthy Adipose Tissue Remodeling Ameliorates Muscle Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Sarcopenic Obesity.
• Monocarboxylate Transporter 1 in the Liver Modulates High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Hepatic Steatosis in Mice.
• Estrogen Contributes to the Sex Difference in the Occurrence of Senescence-Related T Cells During the Development of Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammation.
• Gut Microbiota Mediates the Anti-Obesity Effect of Intermittent Fasting by Inhibiting Intestinal Lipid Absorption.
• Protein-Metabolite Interactomics of Carbohydrate Metabolism Reveal Regulation of Lactate Dehydrogenase.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effectiveness of Wearable Technology to Optimize Youth Soccer Players’ Off-Training Behaviour and Training Responses: A Cluster-Randomized Trial.
• Letter: Individually Randomized Trial Mislabeled as a Cluster Randomized Trial. Comment On: “Effectiveness of Wearable Technology to Optimize Youth Soccer Players’ Off-Training Behaviour and Training Responses: A Cluster-Randomized Trial”.
• Article: Approximately Half of Total Protein Intake by Adults Must Be Animal-Based to Meet Nonprotein, Nutrient-Based Recommendations, with Variations Due to Age and Sex.
• Letter: No Nutritional Lessons Can Be Learned from a Misspecified and Overrestricted Model with No Sensitivity Analysis.
• Response: Reply to F Mariotti et al.
• Retraction: Examination of Two New Technologies to Assess the Diet of Woodland Caribou: Video Recorders Attached to Collars and DNA Barcoding.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Very Low-Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diets on Lipid Profiles in Normal Weight Adults.
• Differences between HbA1c and Glucose-Related Variables in Predicting Weight Loss and Glycaemic Changes in Individuals with Overweight and Hyperglycaemia – the PREVIEW Trial.
• Association of Changes in Neural Targets and Dietary Outcomes Among Patients with Comorbid Obesity and Depression: Post Hoc Analysis of ENGAGE-2 Mechanistic Clinical Trial.
• Mobile Health Lifestyle Intervention Program Leads to Clinically Significant Loss of Body Weight in Patients with NASH.
• Overlapping and Distinct Relationships between Hedonic Hunger, Uncontrolled Eating, Food Craving, and the Obesogenic Home Food Environment During and After a 12-Month Behavioral Weight Loss Program.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: The Effect of a Preconception and Antenatal Nutritional Supplement on Children's BMI and Weight Gain over the First 2 Years of Life.
• RCT: The Effects of Prebiotics on Gastrointestinal Side Effects of Metformin in Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes.
• City Features Related to Obesity in Preschool Children in 159 Cities in Six Latin American Countries.
• Thirty-Year Follow-Up of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD): The Challenges and Triumphs of Conducting In-Person Research at a Distance.
• Association of a Primary Care-Based Mobile Food Pantry with Child Body Mass Index: A Propensity Score Matched Cohort Study.
• Meteorin-Like Levels are Associated with Active Brown Adipose Tissue in Early Infancy.

Surgery

• How Soon Do Depression and Anxiety Symptoms Improve After Bariatric Surgery?
• Review: Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents.

Drugs

• Chemo-Structural Diversity of Anti-Obesity Compound Database.
• Increasing Inosine/decreasing ENT1: Promising Strategies for Anti-Obesity Therapy.
• A Comparative Evaluation of Propranolol Pharmacokinetics in Individuals with Obesity Versus Ideal Weight: A Blueprint Towards a Personalised Medicine.
• Anti-Obesity Effects of Metformin: A Scoping Review Evaluating the Feasibility of Brown Adipose Tissue as a Therapeutic Target.
• Commentary: Will the Ozempic Era Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin?

Food & Diet

• Beneficial Effect of Vitamin D on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Progression in the Zebrafish Model.
• Associations between Household Frequency of Cooking Dinner and Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Dietary Quality Among US Children and Adolescents.
• Optimal Dietary Patterns for Prevention of Chronic Disease.
• Combined Intake of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Sugar-Containing Ultra-Processed Foods Is Associated with an Increase in Body Mass Index During Early Childhood.
• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women with a Mediterranean Diet.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Four Anti-Aging Drugs and Calorie-Restricted Diet Produce Parallel Effects in Fat, Brain, Muscle, Macrophages, and Plasma of Young Mice.
• Effects of Parental Dietary Restriction on Offspring Fitness in Drosophila Melanogaster.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Criterion-Related Validity and Reliability of the 2-Km Walk Test and the 20-M Shuttle Run Test in Adults: The Role of Sex, Age and Physical Activity Level.
• Associations between Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity and Fecal Microbiota in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• The Effect of Retirement on Obesity in Women: Evidence from China.
• A Spatial Analysis of Food Insecurity and Body Mass Index with Income and Grocery Store Density in a Diverse Sample of Adolescents and Young Adults.
• Socioeconomic and Clinical Factors Associated with Excessive Gestational Weight Gain.

Epidemiology

• Polygenic Risk Scores Enhance Prediction of Body Mass Index Increase in Individuals with a First Episode of Psychosis.
• Impact of Overweight and Obesity on U.S. Renal Cell Carcinoma Incidence Trends (1995–2018).
• Premature Cardiovascular Disease Mortality with Overweight and Obesity as a Risk Factor: Estimating Excess Mortality in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Obesity and Adverse Childhood Experiences in Relation to Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
• The Role of Obesity in Sarcopenia and the Optimal Body Composition to Prevent Against Sarcopenia and Obesity.
• Body Fat Distribution in Lean Individuals with Metabolic Abnormalities.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effect of Financial Incentives and Default Options on Food Choices of Adults with Low-income in Online Retail Settings.
• RCT: Association of Changes in Neural Targets and Dietary Outcomes Among Patients with Comorbid Obesity and Depression: Post Hoc Analysis of ENGAGE-2 Mechanistic Clinical Trial.
• Review: Brain Functional and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Obesity and Weight Loss Interventions.

Equity and Disparities

• American Indian/Alaska Native Birth and Maternal Health Outcomes in Louisiana: Investigating Regional Disparities.
• Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Outcomes in the United States in the Late 2010s: Results from Four National Population-Based Studies.

Stigma

• Commentary: Anecdotes and Studies of Lived Experiences with Obesity.
• Adolescents' Self-Perceived Weight and Metabolic Syndrome.

Policy Related

• Time-Varying Food Retail and Incident Disease in the Cardiovascular Health Study.
• Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in the Association between Higher State Minimum Wages and Health and Mental Well-Being in US Adults with Low Educational Attainment.
• Review: Barriers and Facilitators Related to the Adoption of Policies to Reduce Ultra-Processed Foods Consumption.
• From Multiple Streams to a Torrent: A Case Study of Food Policymaking and Innovations in New York During the COVID-19 Emergency.
• Understanding School Food Systems to Support the Development and Implementation of Food Based Policies and Interventions.

Intergenerational Effects

• Utility of in Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging Is Predictive of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus During Early Pregnancy.
• Associations of Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index and Gestational Weight Gain with Risk of Offspring Neurodevelopment at 2 Years: A Chinese Birth Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Forest Fragmentation and Developmental Stability of Wood Mice Apodemus Sylvaticus: A Food-Mediated Effect?
• Review: The Fire of Evolution: Energy Expenditure and Ecology in Primates and Other Endotherms.

Methods

• Development of the Italian Clinical Practice Guidelines on Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: Design and Methodological Aspects.
• Estimation of Salt Intake in Normotensive and Hypertensive Children: The Role of Body Weight.

Commentary

• Metamorphosis: The Making of a Maggot Brain.
• A Cluster of Unreliable Prevention Studies.
• Feeding Ourselves Without Eating the Planet.
• Obesity & Eating Disorders, Speculation & Data.
• Low Sex Hormones May Increase Likelihood for Transition to Diabetes Among Hispanic Adults.
• Limitations of the Food Compass Nutrient Profiling System.
• Population-Specific Diet Quality Scores in Nutritional Epidemiology.
• Obesity Won’t Be Solved by Health Policy Alone.

General

• Where Did Spiders Get Their Venom?
• Telecaregiving for Dementia: A Mapping Review of Technological and Non-Technological Interventions.
• Mathematical Modeling of Eicosanoid Metabolism in Macrophage Cells: Cybernetic Framework Combined with Novel Information-Theoretic Approaches.
• Y Chromosome-Linked Variation Affects Locomotor Activity in Male Drosophila Melanogaster and Is Robust to Differences in Thermal Environment.
• Does More Money Make Us Happier?
• Social Media Use May Not Be as Bad as Some Suggest: Implication for Older Adults.
• Lipids Called Ceramides May Be Better Predictors of Cardiovascular Problems Than Cholesterol.
• A Time-Series Analysis of Blood-Based Biomarkers Within a 25-Year Longitudinal Dolphin Cohort.
• "This means drawing a clear line between the generation of science and the promotion of our values."
• Dogs and Cats Could Be Passing on Drug-Resistant Bugs to Owners.

Video & Audio

• Dr. Satchin Panda: Intermittent Fasting to Improve Health, Cognition & Longevity.
• Podcast: Top Ten Obesity Myths.

Announcements

• April 19 - TOS Grand Rounds: Pediatric Obesity Interventions - Caveat Emptor.
• Registration Is Open for NUTRITION 2023! Join the Nutrition Community in Boston, MA This July.
• "The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) has secured nearly $38 million in renewed funding from the National Institutes of Health for the next seven years—the fourth consecutive successful grant submission for the statewide research enterprise."
• Registration Now Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Save the Date: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Collaborative Skills to Join an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Focused on Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Analyses, Model Organism Studies, and Meta-Research, All in the Context of Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research, with an Emphasis on Promotion of Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Research Associate with Strong Collaborative Skills to Join an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Focused on Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Analyses, Model Organism Studies, and Meta-Research, All in the Context of Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research, with an Emphasis on Promotion of Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency.
• IU Bloomington’s School of Public Health is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty at every rank in every department. Come Join Us!