Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Toward More Rigorous and Informative Nutritional Epidemiology: The Rational Space between Dismissal and Defense of the Status Quo.
• Short-Term High-Fat Feeding Exacerbates Degeneration in Retinitis Pigmentosa by Promoting Retinal Oxidative Stress and Inflammation.
• Systematic Review: Conduct and Reporting of Formula Milk Trials.
• Mifepristone Increases Life Span of Virgin Female Drosophila on Regular and High-Fat Diet Without Reducing Food Intake.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Ergothioneine-Rich Mushrooms May Fight Depression, Finds US Study.
• Press Release: Mushroom Consumption May Lower Risk of Depression.
• Study: Cross-Sectional Associations of Self-Reported Mushroom Intake and Depression. No Dose Response Relationship and No Information on Type of Mushrooms Consumed.
• General Headline Commentary: More Mice, Fewer Breakthroughs: How to Avoid Bad Headlines on Stories About Health and Medical Research.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: In primary analysis, "Parent mentors were not effective in changing the adiposity indices ..."
• Physical Activity Does Not Affect Birth Outcomes in Women with Obesity.
• Conceptual Replication Study and Meta-Analysis Suggest Simulated Nature Does Not Reliably Restore Pure Executive Attention Measured by the Attention Network Task.
• Elevated BMI Does Not Affect Adverse Events Associated with Oliceridine, an Intravenous Opioid Agonist.
• Acute Hyperglycemia Does Not Affect Central Respiratory Chemoreflex Responsiveness to CO2 in Healthy Humans.
• Preprint: Short-Term Aerobic Exercise Did Not Change Telomere Length While It Reduces Testosterone Levels and Obesity Indexes in PCOS.
• "This study did not observe an association between BMI and injury" among military cadets.
• "Our data clearly demonstrate that chronic fructose supplementation, as the sole dietary intervention, does not cause HCC [hepatocellular carcinoma] development in rats."

Basic

• Dpp4 + Interstitial Progenitor Cells Contribute to Basal and High Fat Diet-Induced Adipogenesis.
• Dietary Cocoa Flavanols Enhance Mitochondrial Function in Skeletal Muscle and Modify Whole-Body Metabolism in Healthy Mice.
• A Systems Approach Dissociates Fructose-Induced Liver Triglyceride from Hypertriglyceridemia and Hyperinsulinemia in Male Mice.
• Disrupted Circadian Oscillations in Type 2 Diabetes are Linked to Altered Rhythmic Mitochondrial Metabolism in Skeletal Muscle.
• REV-ERB Nuclear Receptors in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Control Circadian Period and Restrict Diet-Induced Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Does Skipping Breakfast Increase the Risk of an Early Death? Part I.
• Book: Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science.
• Book Review: Replication Crisis.
• Article: Effects of Low-Carbohydrate Versus Mediterranean Diets on Weight Loss, Glucose Metabolism, Insulin Kinetics and β-Cell Function in Individuals with Extreme Obesity.
• Letter: Findings from Diet Comparison Difficult to Interpret in the Absence of Adherence Assessment. Comment on Tricò et al. Effects of Low-Carbohydrate Versus Mediterranean Diets on Weight Loss, Glucose Metabolism, Insulin Kinetics and β-Cell Function in Individuals with Extreme Obesity. Nutrients 2021, 13, 1345.
• Reply: to Landry Et Al.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Protein Interventions Augment the Effect of Resistance Exercise on Appendicular Lean Mass and Handgrip Strength in Older Adults.
• RCT: Insights into the Role of Diet and Dietary Flavanols in Cognitive Aging.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Estimating Global Prevalence of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease in Children and Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Weight Gain Associated with COVID-19 Lockdown in Children and Adolescents.
• Systematic Review: Relation between Attachment and Obesity in Preschool Years.

Surgery

• A SIMPLE Performance Assessment of Bariatric Procedures and Post-Operative Weight Regain.
• Evaluation of Intensive Telephonic Nutritional and Lifestyle Counseling to Enhance Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery.
• Type 2 Diabetes Modifies Skeletal Muscle Gene Expression Response to Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Consistent Gut Bacterial and Short-Chain Fatty Acid Signatures in Hypoabsorptive Bariatric Surgeries Correlate with Metabolic Benefits in Rats.

Drugs

• Tirzepatide Shows Good Weight Outcomes in Diabetes.
• Effects of Estradiol Supplementation on the Brain Transcriptome of Old Rhesus Macaques Maintained on an Obesogenic Diet.
• Podcast: All Things Testosterone and Testosterone Replacement Therapy.
• Pharmacopeial Standards for the Quality Control of Botanical Dietary Supplements in the United States.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Portion Size and Ingestive Frequency on Energy Intake and Body Weight Among Adults.
• Review: Are Processed Tomato Products as Nutritious as Fresh Tomatoes?

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Low Glycaemic Diets Alter Lipid Metabolism to Influence Tumour Growth.
• Fasting Drives the Metabolic, Molecular and Geroprotective Effects of a Calorie-Restricted Diet in Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Benefits Outweigh the Risks: A Consensus Statement on the Risks of Physical Activity for People Living with Long-Term Conditions.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a School-Based Intervention on Physical Activity and Screen Time Among Adolescents.
• Recreational Physical Activity Improves Adherence and Dropout in a Non-Intensive Behavioral Intervention for Adolescents with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Quantifying the Overall Impact of an Early Childhood Multi-Behavioural Lifestyle Intervention.
• Different Risks and Benefits Leading to Similar Costs After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass.

Epidemiology

• In press: Social Support at Work Carries Weight: Relations between Social Support, Employees’ Diurnal Cortisol Patterns, and BMI. (pdf)
• Time-Varying Association between BMI and All-Cause Mortality in Patients with Hypertension.
• The Visceral Adiposity Index and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in China: A National Cohort Analysis.
• Longitudinal Plasma Lipidome and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in a Large Sample of American Indians with Normal Fasting Glucose.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Does Hedonic Hunger Predict Eating Behavior and Body Mass in Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity?
• Examining the Moderating Role of a Mediterranean Diet in the Relationship between Perceived Stress and Cognitive Function in Older Adults.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial and Ethnic Representation Among a Sample of Nutrition- and Obesity-Focused Professional Organizations in the United States.
• Systematic Review: Social Disparities in Obesity Treatment for Children Age 3–10 Years.
• Obesity and Cancer Death in White and Black Adults.

Stigma

• Editorial: Sexual Minority Status: An Overlooked Stigma That Affects Food Insecurity.
• Endoscopy in Individuals with Extreme Obesity: A Case Highlighting Healthcare Inequities.

Policy Related

• The Neurobiology of Binge-Eating Disorder Compared with Obesity: Implications for Differential Therapeutics.
• Current Considerations for Clinical Management and Care of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Insights from the 1st International Workshop of the Canadian NASH Network.

Intergenerational Effects

• Breastfeeding Associations with Childhood Obesity and Body Composition: Findings from a Racially Diverse Maternal–Child Cohort.
• The Associations between Maternal BMI and Gestational Weight Gain and Health Outcomes in Offspring at Age 1 and 7 Years.
• Pregnancy Is Enough to Provoke Deleterious Effects in Descendants of Fructose-Fed Rats and Their Fetuses.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• In press: A Mesocosm Experiment in Ecological Physiology: The Modulation of Energy Budget in a Hibernating Marsupial Under Chronic Caloric Restriction.
• Immune and Hormonal Modulation in the Postprandial Period of Bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus).

Methods

• Anthropometric Indices of Obesity as Predictors of High Blood Pressure Among School Children.
• Machine Learning-Based Prediction for 4-Year Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Adults: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Review: Methodological Aspects of Microsimulation Modelling in Food Policy.

Commentary

• 3 New Studies Show Weight Loss Isn't All About Diet and Exercise.
• Report on Childhood Obesity Proposes Policies Aimed at Systemic Change.
• COVID Worsens Obesity, Obesity Returns the "Favor"​.
• Perspective: Unpacking the Wicked Challenges for Alternative Proteins in the United States: Can Highly Processed Plant-Based and Cell-Cultured Food and Beverage Products Support Healthy and Sustainable Diets and Food Systems?
• Endurance Exercise More Beneficial to Your Health Than Resistance Exercise.
• For Teens with Obesity, COVID Vaccines Save Lives.
• "Workplace health promotion programs thus far show marginal gains, as the effectiveness and implementation of traditional universal preventative workplace health promotion interventions are still disappointing."
• Rurality, Gender, and Obesity: An Intersectionality Perspective on Rural Men’s Health.

General

• Pornography Vs. Sexual Science: The Role of Pornography Use and Dependency in U.S. Teenagers’ Sexual Illiteracy.
• The Impact of Active Learning Instructional Techniques on Recreational Therapy Undergraduate Students.
• RNA Viruses: What Leads to Parallel Evolution?
• What Makes a Replication Successful? An Investigation of Frequentist and Bayesian Criteria to Assess Replication Success. 
• "I don't care about the candy; I care about the game" exploring the impact of food rewards in youth recreation ice hockey.
• Transposable Elements as New Players in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
• Visible Blue Light Inhibits Infection and Replication of SARS-CoV-2 at Doses That are Well-Tolerated by Human Respiratory Tissue.
• Ivermectin Shows That Not All Science Is Worth Following.

Announcements

• Conference: Advanced Therapies for Pediatric Obesity.
• New Book: Edible Plants: A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America.
• Students from Afghanistan Get Support from Indiana Universities.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure-Track/Tenure: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University Bloomington Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Featured

• Expansion and Application of Dye Tracers for Measuring Solid Food Intake and Food Preference in Drosophila.
• "Collectively, these data suggest the energetic cost of walking may be an early marker of neurodegeneration that contributes to the gait brain connection."
• Food Compass Is a Nutrient Profiling System Using Expanded Characteristics for Assessing Healthfulness of Foods.
• Live Stream: Celebrating the Centenary of Insulin by Professor Sir Stephen O'Rahilly: The Alan Howard Memorial Lecture.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Scientists Discover New Gut Bacteria That ‘Makes You Thin’.
• Study Cited by Headline: Actually Another Lay Article: New Bacterium Nearly Absent in Obese, Diabetic People but Found in Healthy Individuals.
• Study: Dysosmobacter welbionis Is a Newly Isolated Human Commensal Bacterium Preventing Diet-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Disorders... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Evidence That Consumption and Reward Words on Labels Increase the Appeal of Bottled Water.
• "Contrary to our expectation, the body mass cost of reproduction (mean = –5.8 kg) varied little between years" in reindeer.
• RCT: "Cognitive training did not have additive effects over physical training alone on physical activity..."
• RCT: No Significant Cognitive Effect of 100% Watermelon Juice as a Food-First Intervention to Improve Cognitive Function.
• RCT: No Effectiveness of System-Based Intervention in Reducing Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes and to Improve the Postnatal Metabolic Profiles in Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: "Only one of three online weight loss programmes was superior to no intervention and the effect size modest among participants living with obesity."
• RCT: "There was no statistically significant difference in the following between trial arms: step count...;. weight ...; overall quality of life..."
• Weight Loss During Neoadjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer Does Not Predict Poor Outcomes.

Basic

• Anti-Inflammatory Role of Gpnmb in Adipose Tissue of Mice.
• Kv1.3 Channel Blockade Improves Inflammatory Profile, Reduces Cardiac Electrical Remodeling, and Prevents Arrhythmia in Type 2 Diabetic Rats.
• Loss of the Ciliary Gene Bbs4 Results in Defective Thermogenesis Due to Metabolic Inefficiency and Impaired Lipid Metabolism.
• Serum- and Glucocorticoid-Induced Kinase Drives Hepatic Insulin Resistance by Directly Inhibiting AMP-Activated Protein Kinase.
• Post-Oral Sensing of Fat Increases Food Intake and Attenuates Body Weight Defense.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Ten Errors in Randomized Experiments.
• Retraction Watch: Publisher Retracts Paper (“Serum Human Epididymis Protein 4 is a Potential Biomarker for Early Chronic Kidney Disease in an Obese Population,”) with Ethics Committee Discrepancy After Question from Retraction Watch.
• Commentary: "We believe that the conclusions based upon a linearity assumption in this paper are spurious."

Clinical

• Anthropometrics and Fat Mass, but Not Fat-Free Mass, are Compromised in Infants Requiring Parenteral Nutrition After Neonatal Intestinal Surgery.
• RCT: Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Disposition Index in Indians with Obesity and without Diabetes.
• Adipose Tissue Induces Trained Innate Immunity in Patients with Obesity.
• Review: The Impact of Obesity on Plasma Cell Disorders.
• Is There Association between Epicardial Obesity and the Severity of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis?
• Features of Changes in Left Ventricular Mechanics in Patients with Epicardial Obesity.
• Impact of Malnutrition on the Relationship between Obesity and Mortality in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation.

Children and Adolescents

• Utilization Trends and Disparities in Adolescent Bariatric Surgery in the United States 2009–2017.
• The Moderating Effect of Gender on the Relationships between Obesity, Well-Being, and Stress Perception in Korean Adolescents.
• RCT: Whole-Fat Dairy Products Do Not Adversely Affect Adiposity or Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children in the Milky Way Study.
• Intergenerational Polygenic Obesity Risk Throughout Adolescence in a Cross-Sectional Study Design: The HUNT Study, Norway.
• Association between Age of Achieving Gross Motor Development Milestones During Infancy and Body Fat Percentage at 6 to 7 Years of Age.

Surgery

• Meta-Analysis: Impact of Intraoperative Ketamine on Postoperative Analgesic Requirement Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Brain Responses to Anticipatory Cues and Milkshake Taste in Obesity, and Their Relationship to Bariatric Surgery Outcome.
• Meta-Analysis: The Magnitude and Progress of Lean Body Mass, Fat-Free Mass, and Skeletal Muscle Mass Loss Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Is There a Role for Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Severe Obesity in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus?

Drugs

• RCT: Co-Commencement of Metformin Versus Placebo as an Adjunctive Treatment to Attenuate Weight Gain in Patients with Schizophrenia Newly Commenced on Clozapine.
• Meta-Analysis: The Impact of Ursodeoxycholic Acid on Gallstone Disease After Bariatric Surgery.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Two Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals Yogurt-Associated Metabolic Alterations in Women with Multiple Metabolic Disorders.
• Key Findings of the French BioNutriNet Project on Organic Food–Based Diets: Description, Determinants, and Relationships to Health and the Environment.
• Black Rice Anthocyanins Alleviate Hyperlipidemia, Liver Steatosis and Insulin Resistance by Regulating Lipid Metabolism and Gut Microbiota in Obese Mice.
• Systematic Review: Diet Quality Index and Obesity Among Chinese Adults.
• Eucaloric Balanced Diet Improved Objective Sleep in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Ultra-Processed Food Consumption Among US Adults from 2001 to 2018.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Fasting-Mimicking Diet Prevents High-Fat Diet Effect on Cardiometabolic Risk and Lifespan.
• Modulation of Telomere Length by Mediterranean Diet, Caloric Restriction, and Exercise: Results from PREDIMED-Plus Study.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Cardiorespiratory Fitness Associates with Blood Pressure and Metabolic Health of Children—The Arkansas Active Kids Study.
• ‘Fat but Powerful’ Paradox: Association of Muscle Power and Adiposity Markers with All-Cause Mortality in Older Adults from the EXERNET Multicentre Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Is Cheap Gasoline Killing Us? Fuel Subsidies and Under-Taxation as a Driver of Obesity and Public Health Problems Worldwide.
• Sociodemographic and Clinical Factors Associated with Severe Obesity in Mexican Adults.
• Association between Insurance-Mandated Precertification Criteria and Inpatient Healthcare Utilization During One Year After Bariatric Surgery.
• Association of a Sweetened Beverage Tax with Soda Consumption in High School Students.
• Impact of Metabolic Surgery on Cost and Long-Term Health Outcome: A Cost-Effectiveness Approach.

Epidemiology

• Impact of Obesity on Intensive Care Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19 in Sweden—A Cohort Study.
• Abstract: Association between Obesity and Chronic Laryngitis in Women and Their Effects on Phonation.
• Review: Obesity: A Growing Concern in Gynaecological Surgery.
• Analyzing the Influence of Wine and Beer Drinking, Smoking, and Leisure Time Screen Viewing Activity on Body Weight: A Cross-Sectional Study in Germany.
• Meta-Analysis: Association of Diabetes and Obesity with Sperm Parameters and Testosterone Levels.
• Relationships between Adiposity Distribution and Metabolic Health in Preconception Women in South Africa.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Situating Desire: Situational Cues Affect Desire for Food Through Eating Simulations.
• Healthiness Matters: Approach Motivation for Healthy Food in Individuals with Overweight and Obesity.
• Fluctuations in Attentional Bias for Food and the Role of Executive Control.
• Parental High-Fat High-Sugar Diet Programming and Hypothalamus Adipose Tissue Axis in Male Wistar Rats.
• Systematic Review: Effect of Sleep Duration on Dietary Intake, Desire to Eat, Measures of Food Intake and Metabolic Hormones.
• Thesis: Food Addiction and Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Identifying Effective Characteristics of Behavioral Weight Management Interventions for People with Serious Mental Illness.

Equity and Disparities

• Engaging Rural Communities in Cancer Prevention and Control Research: Development and Preliminary Insights from a Community-Based Research Registry.
• A Mixed Methods Analysis of Environmental and Household Chaos: Considerations for Early-Childhood Obesity Research.
• Social Inequality in Obesity in an Eastern Mediterranean Population: Evidence from a National Health Survey in Cyprus.
• Review: COVID-19 Outcomes in Minority Ethnic Groups: Do Obesity and Metabolic Risk Play a Role?
• Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Prevalence and Trends of Obesity, Grade 3 Obesity, and Abdominal Obesity Among US Adults, 2003-18.

Stigma

• Associations of Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences with Behavioral Problems in Preschool Children.
• Assessing the Impact of Weight Status on Pediatric Decision-Making and Medical Student Awareness of Its Influence.
• Systematic Review: Internalised Weight Stigma as a Mediator of the Relationship between Experienced/perceived Weight Stigma and Biopsychosocial Outcomes.

Policy Related

• Driving Commitment to Sustainable Food Policies Within the Framework of American and European Dietary Guidelines.
• Policies to Address Weight Discrimination and Bullying: Perspectives of Adults Engaged in Weight Management from Six Nations.
• A Partnership Among Local Public Health Agencies, Elementary Schools, and a University to Address Childhood Obesity: A Scalable Model of the Assess, Identify, Make It Happen Process.
• Validation and Refinement of the Stakeholder-Driven Community Diffusion Survey for Childhood Obesity Prevention.

Intergenerational Effects

• Identifying Prenatal and Postnatal Determinants of Infant Growth: A Structural Equation Modelling Based Cohort Analysis.
• Interpregnancy Weight Gain and Childhood Obesity: Analysis of a UK Population-Based Cohort.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Adipose Gene Expression Profiles Reveal Insights Into the Adaptation of Northern Eurasian Semi-Domestic Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus).
• Diet Mediates Thermal Performance Traits: Implications for Marine Ectotherms.

Methods

• Dissolving Microneedle-Assisted Long-Acting Liraglutide Delivery to Control Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Commercial Devices Provide Estimates of Energy Balance with Varying Degrees of Validity in Free-Living Adults.
• Reference Curves of Selected Circumferential Parameters for Czech Children Aged 6 to 11 Years.
• Results of 3 Workshops: Advancing Measurement to Address Childhood Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Development and Validation of a Discrete Event Simulation Model to Evaluate the Cardiovascular Impact of Population Policies for Obesity.
• Machine Learning to Predict In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients with Severe Obesity: Proof of Concept Study.

Commentary

• Anyone Can Make Errors, Wise People Correct Them.
• To Improve Nutrition and Reduce the Burden of Disease, FDA Issues Food Industry Guidance for Voluntarily Reducing Sodium in Processed and Packaged Foods.
• Can Ketone Supplements Improve Brain Function in Obesity?
• Toward a Better Understanding of Diet–Taste Relations.
• Labels Change Behavior – Is That Good Enough?
• Review: Understanding the Link between Obesity and Headache- with Focus on Migraine and Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension.
• Developing the Logic Framework Underpinning a Whole-Systems Approach to Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention: Amsterdam Healthy Weight Approach.
• Emerging Roles of Epigenetic Regulation in Obesity and Metabolic Disease.

General

• Panel Discussion: Public Health in the Time of COVID-19.
• Analysis of Body Condition Indices Reveals Different Ecotypes of the Antillean Manatee.
• Physiological Role of Circadian Clock Gene on the Energetic Metabolism in Horses.
• Colony Composition and Nutrient Analysis of Polyrhachis Dives Ants, a Natural Prey of the Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla).
• Perspective: Scientific Rigor or Ritual? Statistical Significance in Pest Management Science.
• Rigor and Reproducibility of Cancer Medicine Evidence.
• Improving Rigor and Reproducibility in Nonhuman Primate Research.
• Data Integration in Causal Inference.

Announcements

• NASEM Workshop: Systems and Obesity: Advances and Innovations for Equitable Health.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure-Track/Tenure: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health- Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University Bloomington Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Featured

• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Dietary Nitrate on Human Muscle Power.
• Stimulated Insulin Secretion Predicts Changes in Body Composition Following Weight Loss in Adults with High BMI.
• Review: The Potential Role of Appetite in Mediating the Relationship of Whole Grains and Body Weight.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Habitual Whole Grain Consumption Benefits Health.
• Study: Longitudinal Associations between Self-Reported Whole- and Refined-Grain Consumption and Longitudinal Changes in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors. Causal Benefits Not Demonstrated.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Differences in Outcomes Among Randomized Groups in Study of Effects of Caloric Restriction and Rope-Skipping Exercise on Cardiometabolic Health in Young Adults.
• RCT: "There were no significant effects of the nutrition or physical activity intervention on child BMI scores or child quality of life, and no significant synergistic effects of the two interventions combined."
• RCT: "Parent mentors were not effective in changing the adiposity indices in this study overall..."
• RCT: Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Supplementation Did Not Diminish the Adverse Effect of Weight Loss on Bone Health.
• "Contrary to our expectation, tolerance did not prevent rats from shifting their preference to cocaine when choosing under the influence...[in contrast to our hypothesis] that this preference shift is mainly due to a direct suppression of responding for sweet reward by cocaine pharmacological effects."
• "Contrary to the initial hypothesis, our findings suggest an inverse association between dAGEs and colorectal cancer risk."
• "Contrary to the findings of others, we found an increased number of newly generated tdTomato+ adipocytes in the iWAT of male mice, which was smaller than that observed in the gWAT."
• "Contrary to the assumed progressive elevation in strain, but in agreement with recent literature, a gradual reduction in heat storage in subsequent exercise bouts prevented a cumulative increase in heat strain in the conditions tested."

Basic

• Low Production of 12α-Hydroxylated Bile Acids Prevents Hepatic Steatosis in Cyp2c70-/- Mice by Reducing Fat Absorption.
• Effects of IL-33 on 3T3-L1 Cells and Obese Mice Models Induced by a High-Fat Diet.
• Increased Energy Expenditure and Protection from Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice Lacking the CGMP-Specific Phosphodiesterase PDE9.
• Fetuin-B, a Potential Link of Liver-Adipose Tissue Cross Talk During Diet-Induced Weight Loss–Weight Maintenance.
• Maternal Transmission of Human OGG1 Protects Mice Against Genetically- and Diet-Induced Obesity Through Increased Tissue Mitochondrial Content.
• Impact of Dietary Sodium Reduction on the Development of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in db/db Mice.
• Cytokine Induced Natural Killer Cell Training Is Dependent on Cellular Metabolism and Is Defective in Obesity.
• Wheel Running Leads to Sex-Specific Effects on Western Diet-Associated Glucose Homeostasis and Brain Insulin Signaling Without Altering Food-Related Impulsive Choice.
• Review: A Tale of Three Systems: Toward a Neuroimmunoendocrine Model of Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• RetractionWatch: Retraction of Review of Broccoli’s Health Benefits.
• Study Says Sweeteners Prompt Food Cravings? Nope.
• "The Paper Database": A collection of scientific papers on weight and weight-related outcomes organized by topic.

Clinical

• RCT: Growing Healthy Together...Using Parent Mentors for Early Childhood Obesity in Low-Income, Latino Families.
• The Management of Type 1 Diabetes in Adults. A Consensus Report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).
• Systematic Review: Interventions for Preventing Weight Gain After Smoking Cessation.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Weight Loss on Erectile Function in Men with Overweight or Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Childhood Obesity Issue: Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration 3.0: Study Designs for Scaling Effective Pediatric Weight Management Interventions for High-Risk Children Through Packaging and Implementation.
• RCT: Term Infant Formula Supplemented with Milk-Derived Oligosaccharides Shifts the Gut Microbiota Closer to That of Human Milk-Fed Infants and Improves Intestinal Immune Defense.
• "The association between obesity and autism spectrum disorder in this study highlights the need for greater attention to nutrition, physical activity, and co-occurring conditions among adolescents with autism spectrum disorder."
• "Children with metabolically healthy obesity were younger, weighed less, and had lower BMI z-scores than their peers with metabolically unhealthy obesity."

Surgery

• Short-Term Effect of Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery on Intraocular Pressure, Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness, and the Optic Nerve Head Blood Flow Measured by Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography.
• Iron Deficiency and Anemia 10 Years After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass for Severe Obesity.
• "The significant weight loss after bariatric surgery (Roux-en-Y gastric bypass) improves the heart rate variability and hence cardiac autonomic modulation."
• Review: Obesity and Bariatric Surgery in Kidney Transplantation.

Drugs

• RCT: Acute Effects of High Doses of Caffeine on Bar Velocity During the Bench Press Throw in Athletes Habituated to Caffeine.
• RCT: Effects of Exenatide on Urinary Albumin in Patients with Overweight or Obesity and T2DM.
• Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Population of Children with Obesity for Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling.

Food & Diet

• Association between Soft-Drink Intake and Obesity, Depression, and Subjective Health Status of Male and Female Adults.
• Diet-Induced Fasting Ghrelin Elevation Reflects the Recovery of Insulin Sensitivity and Visceral Adiposity Regression.
• Interplay between Adipose Tissue Secreted Proteins, Eating Behavior and Obesity.
• Dietary Energy Levels Affect Carbohydrate Metabolism-Related Bacteria and Improve Meat Quality in the Longissimus Thoracis Muscle of Yak (Bos grunniens).
• A Posteriori Dietary Patterns Better Explain Variations of the Gut Microbiome Than Individual Markers in the American Gut Project.
• Prepregnancy Adherence to Plant-Based Diet Indices and Exploratory Dietary Patterns in Relation to Fecundability.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• A Genetic Model of Methionine Restriction Extends Drosophila Health- and Lifespan.
• Qualitative Exploration of Dimensions of Restrictive Feeding with Australian Mothers of 6-Year-Olds.
• Review: Ketones – Potential to Achieve Brain Energy Rescue and Sustain Cognitive Health During Aging.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• "Parental and child preferences and priorities, as well as parental rules for activity at home, were associated with children’s home-based sitting and physical activity, especially on weekdays."
• Beneficial Effects of High Intensity Interval Training And/or Linseed Oil Supplementation to Limit Obesity-Induced Oxidative Stress in High Fat Diet-Fed Rats.
• Rapid Escalation of High-Volume Exercise During Caloric Restriction; Change in Visceral Adipose Tissue and Adipocytokines in Sedentary Breast Cancer Survivors with Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Energy Deficiency Impairs Resistance Training Gains in Lean Mass but Not Strength.

Economics & Sociology

• The Role of Sociodemographic Factors on Goal Achievement in a Community-Based Diabetes Prevention Program Behavioral Lifestyle Intervention.
• Relationship between Obesity and School Absenteeism in Australian Children: Implications for Carer Productivity.
• "Participation in a pediatric weight management interventions was associated with decrease in parental stress."
• Examination of Elective Bariatric Surgery Rates Before and After US Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion.
• Overweight and Obesity by School Socioeconomic Composition and Adolescent Socioeconomic Status.

Epidemiology

• Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factors in US Adults by Race and Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status, 1999-2018.
• Lead, Mercury, and Cadmium Exposures are Associated with Obesity but Not with Diabetes Mellitus.
• Comparison of the Incidence of Cardiovascular Diseases in Weight Groups with Healthy and Unhealthy Metabolism.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Association of Body Image Dissatisfaction, Behavioral Responses for Healthy Eating, and Cardiovascular Health in African-American Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Sexual Victimization and Disordered Eating Among Community Individuals: The Influence of Negative and Positive Emotion Dysregulation.
• Sleep Health Mediates the Relationship between Physical Activity and Depression Symptoms.
• Review: Oxytocin and Food Intake Control: Neural, Behavioral, and Signaling Mechanisms.

Equity and Disparities

• Ethnic Differences in Family Childcare Providers’ Nutrition- and Activity-Related Attitudes and Barriers.
• Marked and Widening Socioeconomic Inequalities in Type 2 Diabetes Prevalence in Scotland.
• Diabetes and Obesity Bias: Are We Intensifying the Pharmacological Treatment in Patients with and Without Obesity with Equity?
• Review: The Elusive Link between Income and Obesity.

Stigma

• The Ruling of Weight: An Institutional Ethnography Investigating Young People's Body Weight Surveillance Work.
• Qualitative Analysis: Public Understanding of Childhood Obesity...News Articles and Comments on Facebook.
• Systematic Review: Internalised Weight Stigma as a Mediator of the Relationship between Experienced / Perceived Weight Stigma and Biopsychosocial Outcomes.

Policy Related

• Community Perceptions in New York City: Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Policies and Programs in the First 1000 Days.
• Systematic Review: Implementing Food Environment Policies at Scale: What Helps? What Hinders?
• Review: The Nutrition Transition to a Stage of High Obesity and Noncommunicable Disease Prevalence Dominated by Ultra-Processed Foods Is Not Inevitable.

Intergenerational Effects

• "...prepregnancy BMI may partly explain the association between birth by cesarean delivery and adiposity in adolescence."
• Maternal Adaptations to Food Intake Across Pregnancy: Central and Peripheral Mechanisms.
• Prospective Study: Maternal Iodine Deficiency: A Newborns’ Overweight Risk Factor?
• Meta-Analysis: Transgenerational Effects of Obesogenic Diets in Rodents.
• Review: Maternal Obesity, Gestational Diabetes, and Fetal Macrosomia an Incidental or a Mechanistic Relationship?
• Thesis: Investigating the Impact of Maternal Diet on Offspring Immune Function.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Feeding Effects on Liver Mitochondrial Bioenergetics of Boa constrictor (Serpentes: Boidae).
• Functional Loss of Ketogenesis in Odontocete Cetaceans.

Methods

• Concerns and Recommendations for Using Amazon MTurk for Eating Disorder Research.
• A Toolkit for Evaluating Childhood Healthy Weight Programs.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Modular Mathematical Model of Exercise-Induced Changes in Metabolism, Signaling, and Gene Expression in Human Skeletal Muscle.
• Review: Dynamic Changes in Energy Expenditure in Response to Underfeeding.

Commentary

• Morning vs Evening Exercise.
• Saturated Fats and Cardiovascular Health: Current Evidence and Controversies.
• Is Alternate-Day Fasting Superior to Calorie Restriction for Fat Loss in Lean Adults?
• Essential Advice to Prevent Food Allergies.
• Diabetes Expert Recommends Paradigm Shift in Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes to Focus on Weight Loss.
• Statin Use Associated with Type 2 Diabetes Progression.
• Taking the Mic to Destigmatize Obesity.
• Do Color-Coded Food Labels Improve Dietary Choices?

General

• Meta-Analysis: Meat and Mental Health...Meat Consumption, Depression, and Anxiety.
• Non-Fatal Strangulation/Choking During Sex and Its Associations with Mental Health: Findings from an Undergraduate Probability Survey.
• Indigenous Knowledge and the Persistence of the ‘Wilderness’ Myth.
• Ivermectin: How False Science Created a Covid 'miracle' Drug.
• Genome-Wide Analysis of Cadmium-Induced, Germline Mutations in a Long-Term Daphnia pulex Mutation-Accumulation Experiment.
• Effects of Typical and Binge Drinking on Sexual Consent Perceptions and Communication.
• New Insights Into the 'Second Brain' in the Gut Could Inspire Treatments for Intestinal Diseases.
• Thesis: The Evolution of Sex-Ratio Reaction Norms in Turtles According to 50 Years of Research.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Energy Adjustment Strategies in Nutritional Epidemiology.

Announcements

• Creation of the Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust.
• Honors Accumulate for Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington's Professor Arthur Owora.
• NAS Creates Council to Address Research Integrity and Trust.
• Webinar: Physical and Mental Causes and Consequences of Restricted Diets: The Good, the Bad and the Struggling.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure-Track/Tenure: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health- Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University Bloomington Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Featured

• Intermittent Time-Restricted Feeding "enhanced circadian-regulated transcription and that iTRF-mediated lifespan extension required both circadian regulation and autophagy, a conserved longevity pathway" in flies.
• Microbial Composition and Genes for Key Metabolic Attributes in the Gut Digesta of Sea Urchins Lytechinus variegatus and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Using Shotgun Metagenomics.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a Lifestyle Weight-Loss Intervention Targeting Inactive Former Elite Athletes: The Champ4Life.
• RCTs: "Stimulated Insulin Secretion Predicts Changes in Body Composition Following Weight Loss in Adults with High BMI."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study: Fitness, Physical Activity Appear Superior to Weight Loss for Reducing Risks of Obesity.
• Review: "We propose a weight-neutral strategy for obesity treatment." No study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "We hypothesized that participants consuming a daily meal with an avocado would exhibit greater declines in VAT, VS Ratio..." - The opposite was found.
• RCT: "...healthy postmenopausal women were not impacted by supplemental watermelon juice."
• RCT: "No mean differences were detected between the groups...[in] Maintenance of physical activity level, functioning and health after non-pharmacological treatment of pelvic girdle pain with either transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation or acupuncture."
• RCT: No Effect of High-Intensity Interval Training Versus Progressive High-Intensity Circuit Resistance Training on Endothelial Function, the RCT's Primary Outcome.
• RCT: "In-person group exercise and education are not superior to written education and neurologist-initiated interventions for preventing falls in PwMS [People with multiple sclerosis]."
• RCT: "Once-daily omeprazole does not markedly increase appetite in cats with CKD and should not be used as a first-line treatment in the absence of evidence of gastrointestinal ulceration."
• RCT: "We observed no effect of inulin-type fructans on appetite hormones, subjective feeling of appetite or energy intake in patients with type 2 diabetes."
• RCT: "Curcumin supplementation did not elicit significant changes in anthropometric indices in this study."

Basic

• Tribbles Homolog 3 Mediates the Development and Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy.
• Long-Term Diet-Induced Obesity Does Not Lead to Learning and Memory Impairment in Adult Mice.
• Hepatocyte-Specific Phgdh-Deficient Mice Culminate in Mild Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Enhanced Vulnerability to Protein Starvation.
• Long-Term Chronic Exposure to Di-(2-Ethylhexyl)-Phthalate Induces Obesity Via Disruption of Host Lipid Metabolism and Gut Microbiota in Mice.
• Prenatal Stress Promotes Insulin Resistance Without Inflammation or Obesity in C57BL/6J Male Mice.
• Adipose Expression of CREB3L3 Modulates Body Weight During Obesity.
• Sex Hormones Regulate Meta-Inflammation in Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice.
• Combined Supplementation with Vitamin B-6 and Curcumin Is Superior to Either Agent Alone in Suppressing Obesity-Promoted Colorectal Tumorigenesis in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Healthy Eating: Statistical Significance That’s Insignificant.
• Our Unnatural Fascination with All Things Natural.
• A Reproduction of the Results of Onyike et al. (2003) [of a Reported Association between Obesity and Major Depression].
• NUQUEST—NUtrition QUality Evaluation Strengthening Tools: Development of Tools for the Evaluation of Risk of Bias in Nutrition Studies.

Clinical

• RCT: Changes in Ghrelin and Glucagon Following a Low Glycemic Load Diet in Women with PCOS.
• Kidney Outcomes Associated with SGLT2 Inhibitors Versus Other Glucose-Lowering Drugs in Real-World Clinical Practice: The Japan Chronic Kidney Disease Database.
• Association of Statin Therapy Initiation with Diabetes Progression.

Children and Adolescents

• Editorial: The Urgency of Expanding Access to Effective Treatment for Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic Review: The Effect of Growth Rate During Infancy on the Risk of Developing Obesity in Childhood.
• Unfavorable Progression of Obesity in Children and Adolescents Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A School-Based Survey in China.
• Use of a Mobile Lifestyle Intervention App as an Early Intervention for Adolescents with Obesity: Single-Cohort Study.
• Comparison of the Key Modifiable Factors in the First 1000 Days Predicting Subsequent Overweight and Obesity in Pre-School Children in Tehran: A Case Control Study.
• cRCT: Impact of an Obesity Prevention Intervention on Child Care Center Nutrition and Physical Activity Environment over Two Years.

Surgery

• Evaluation of the Effect of Donor Weight on Adipose Stromal/stem Cell Characteristics by Using Weight-Discordant Monozygotic Twin Pairs.
• Evaluation of the Impact of Gastric Bypass Surgery on Eating Behaviour Using Objective Methodologies Under Residential Conditions: Rationale and Study Protocol.
• Eating Disorder Symptomatology Among Adolescents Presenting for Bariatric Surgery Candidacy: Examining Differences by Sex and Racial Minority Status.
• RCT: Putting ATM to BED: How Adipose Tissue Macrophages are Affected by Bariatric Surgery, Exercise, and Dietary Fatty Acids.

Drugs

• Liraglutide Changes Body Composition and Lowers Added Sugar Intake in Overweight Persons with Insulin Pump-Treated Type 1 Diabetes.
• Combination of TRP Channel Dietary Agonists Induces Energy Expending and Glucose Utilizing Phenotype in HFD-Fed Mice.
• Reply: Semaglutide vs Placebo as an Adjunct to Intensive Behavioral Therapy and Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: The Effects of Soy Products on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Effect of Different Patterns of Consumption of Coffee and a Cocoa-Based Product Containing Coffee on the Nutrikinetics and Urinary Excretion of Phenolic Compounds.
• RCT: Efficacy of Krill Oil Versus Fish Oil on Obesity-Related Parameters and Lipid Gene Expression in Rats.
• Personalized Diet Study of Dietary Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) and Fatty Acid Desaturase 2 (FADS2) Genotypes in Obesity.
• Dietary Mediators of the Genetic Susceptibility to Obesity.
• The Relationship between Modified Nordic Diet and Resting Metabolic Rate Among Women with Overweight and Obesity in Tehran, Iran: A Cross Sectional Study.
• Carrot Consumption Frequency Associated with Reduced BMI and Obesity Through the SNP Intermediary Rs4445711.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Meta-Analysis: Improving the Dietary Intake of Healthcare Workers Through Workplace Dietary Interventions.
• RCT: A Lifestyle Intervention with an Energy-Restricted Mediterranean Diet and Physical Activity Enhances HDL Function.
• The Informal Governance of Public-Private Partnerships in UK Obesity Policy: Collaborating on Calorie Reduction or Reducing Effectiveness?

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Vigorous Physical Activity Is Important in Maintaining a Favourable Health Trajectory in Active Children.
• The Implementation Facilitation of the “11 for Health in Denmark” – a Case Study in a Danish 5th-Grade Class.
• Opinion: Is Running an Appropriate Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity for Children with Overweight or Obesity?
• Impact of Exercise and Detraining During Childhood on Brown Adipose Tissue Whitening in Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Cardiometabolic Health: A Test of the John Henryism Hypothesis in African American Elders.
• Do Intersecting Identities Structure Social Contexts to Influence Life Course Health? The Case of School Peer Economic Disadvantage and Obesity.
• Packaging and Scaling the Stanford Pediatric Weight Control Program: A Family-Based, Group, Behavioral Weight Management Program for Children with Obesity and Their Families: Background, Rationale, and Design of the Stanford CORD 3.0 Project.
• Setting the Stage for Reimbursable Pediatric Healthy Weight Programs.
• Moving Pediatric Healthy Weight Interventions into Real-World Settings, Using Implementation Science to Address Access, Flexibility, and Sustainability.

Epidemiology

• Association between Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease in Elderly Patients with Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• In Utero and Childhood Exposure to the Great Chinese Famine and Risk of Cancer in Adulthood.
• Body Composition of Adults with a History of Severe Acute Malnutrition During Childhood Using the Deuterium Dilution Method in Eastern DR Congo.
• Genetic Risk for Obesity and the Effectiveness of the ChooseWell 365 Workplace Intervention to Prevent Weight Gain and Improve Dietary Choices.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Review: Obesity as a Condition Determined by Food Addiction: Should Brain Endocannabinoid System Alterations Be the Cause and Its Modulation the Solution?
• Metformin in the Management of Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain in Adults with Psychosis: Development of the First Evidence-Based Guideline Using GRADE Methodology.
• Altered Theta Rhythm and Hippocampal-Cortical Interactions Underlie Working Memory Deficits in a Hyperglycemia Risk Factor Model of Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Neural Underpinnings of Food Choice and Consumption in Obesity.
• Decoding Explicit and Implicit Representations of Health and Taste Attributes of Foods in the Human Brain.
• DHA/EPA Supplementation Decreases Anxiety-Like Behavior, but It Does Not Ameliorate Metabolic Profile in Obese Male Rats.

Equity and Disparities

• Disparate Healthcare Experiences of People Living with Overweight or Obesity in England.
• Biological and Psychological Stress Correlates are Linked to Glucose Metabolism, Obesity, and Gender Roles in Women.
• Multimorbidity and Obesity in Older Adults from Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Stigma

• The Cyberball Task in People After Obesity Surgery: Preliminary Evaluation of Cognitive Effects of Social Inclusion and Exclusion with a Laboratory Task.
• Sexual Orientation and Obesity: What Do We Know?
• Perceived Social Stigma, Food Insecurity, and Food Assistance Use Among College Students.
• RCT: Weight Stigma by Association Among Parents of Children with Obesity.

Policy Related

• RCT: Gaps in Nutrition Policy Implementation in Childcare Centres in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region: A Cross-Sectional Survey.
• Systematic Review: Setting-Based Interventions for Preventing Childhood Obesity.
• International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE): Contributions to Understanding the Global Obesity Epidemic.
• Changes in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Policies and Diabetes Prevalence: Analysis of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data from 2004 to 2014.
• Who Influences Nutrition Policy Space Using International Trade and Investment Agreements? A Global Stakeholder Analysis.

Intergenerational Effects

• Associations between Adverse Home Environments and Appetite Hormones, Adipokines, and Adiposity Among Chilean Adolescents.
• Influence of Parental Physical Activity on Offspring’s Nutritional Status: An Intergenerational Study.
• Maturation of the Visceral (Gut-Adipose-Liver) Network in Response to the Weaning Reaction Versus Adult Age and Impact of Maternal High-Fat Diet.
• Maternal Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy and Offspring Early-Onset Cardiovascular Disease in Childhood, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood: A National Population-Based Cohort Study.
• Maternal Vitamin D Intake and BMI During Pregnancy in Relation to Child’s Growth and Weight Status from Birth to 8 Years: A Large National Cohort Study.
• Maternal Dietary Fatty Acid Composition and Newborn Epigenetic Aging—A Geometric Framework Approach.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Preprint: A Population Dynamics Tipping Point for Aging as a Cause of Adult Death.
• Guidelines for Reporting Methods to Estimate Metabolic Rates by Aquatic Intermittent-Flow Respirometry.
• Cross-Sectional Association of Toxoplasma Gondii Exposure with BMI and Diet in US Adults.

Methods

• Introducing an Integrated Model of Adults’ Wearable Activity Tracker Use and Obesity Information–Seeking Behaviors from a National Quota Sample Survey.
• Preprint: Analysis of Error-Prone Electronic Health Records with Multi-Wave Validation Sampling: Association of Maternal Weight Gain During Pregnancy with Childhood Outcomes.
• Translating Family-Based Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Obesity into a User-Friendly Digital Package for Delivery to Low-Income Families Through Primary Care Partnerships.
• Preference, Expected Burden, and Willingness to Use Digital and Traditional Methods to Assess Food and Alcohol Intake.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Comparison Among Three Maximal Mathematical Models of the Glucose-Insulin System.
• Guidelines on Design, Measurement and Statistics for Appetite.

Commentary

• Hungry or Full: It Comes Down to the Atomic Details.
• Nope, Nutrition Can’t Replace a COVID Vaccine.
• Intermittent Fasting Extends Healthspan Through Circadian Autophagy.
• Obesity and Stigma: The War Inside Your Head.
• Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Presents New Data from Phase 2 and 3 Trials Evaluating Setmelanotide in Multiple Rare Genetic Diseases of Obesity at the 59th Annual ESPE Meeting.
• The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act Is Essential for Compassionate, Evidence-Based Obesity Treatment.
• A Spark of New Life for Bimagrumab in Obesity.
• Higher Mortality for Men After Bariatric Surgery?
• Tying Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Closer Together.
• How Does Obesity Affect Mental Health?

General

• Exploration of the Hereditary Cause of Sex Ratio Distortion in Horses.
• Attitudes Toward Fetal Development-Based Abortion Bans in the United States.
• SARS-CoV-2 Causes Senescence in Human Cells and Exacerbates the Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype Through TLR-3.
• A New Approach to a Legacy Concern: Evaluating Machine-Learned Bayesian Networks to Predict Childhood Lead Exposure Risk from Community Water Systems.
• Circulating Levels of the Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan Syndecan-4 Positively Associate with Blood Pressure in Healthy Premenopausal Women.
• Preprint: RCT: Intervening on Trust in Science to Reduce Belief in COVID-19 Misinformation and Increase COVID-19 Preventive Behavioral Intentions.
• A Peripheral CB2 Cannabinoid Receptor Mechanism Suppresses Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Evidence from a CB2 Reporter Mouse.
• Remembrances of a Honey Bee Biologist.
• How White Scholars are Colonizing Research on Health Disparities.
• Letter: Cross-Talk between Skeletal Muscle and Placenta During Pregnancy: Possible Effects of Exercise Training.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure-Track/Tenure: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health- Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University Bloomington Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.
• Webinar: Science from the Obesity Society.