Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Daily Energy Expenditure Through the Human Life Course.
• Ablation of Sam68 in Adult Mice Increases Thermogenesis and Energy Expenditure.
• The Effect of Endurance Training on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mice.
• Mito-Mendelian Interactions Alter in vivo Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Sensitivity in Healthy Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Drug Corrects Diet-Induced Obesity by Keeping Mitochondria from Fragmenting.
• Press-Release: Targeting Mitochondria Shows Promise in Treating Obesity: Molecule That Changes the Shape of Mitochondria Corrects Obesity.
• Study: Drug-Like Sphingolipid SH-BC-893 Opposes Ceramide-Induced Mitochondrial Fission and Corrects Diet-Induced Obesity... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Effect of Monosodium Glutamate on Subjective Appetite and Subsequent Energy Intake in Children of Different Ethnicities.
• RCT: Unsupervised Exercise Training Was Not Found to Improve the Metabolic Health or Phenotype over a 6-Month Dietary Intervention.
• "Contrary to expectations, SMM and SMI were also higher in patients with NASH. Therefore, higher body fat, rather than sarcopenia and SO, might be decisive for development of NASH in patients with obesity."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, DH mice were leaner, had increased energy dissipation, a pro-thermogenic profile in BAT and WAT, and improved carbohydrate metabolism compared to wild types."
• "In conclusion, prenatal exposure to preferred D-limonene and trans-anethole, or familiarity to eucalyptol did not help to overcome the innate aversion to eucalyptol and its negative effect on weanling piglets' BW."
• "The hypothesis that previously reported correlations between knee-extensor torque complexity and metabolic rate ([Formula: see text]) would be conserved at reduced joint angles (i.e., shorter muscle lengths)" was not confirmed.
• "In conclusion, frequency of consumption of boiled potatoes was not associated with all-cause or CVD mortality in the HUNT population in Norway."
• "No evidence was found that the 'prudent' pattern reduced cancer mortality."

Basic

• Distinct Changes in Gut Microbiota are Associated with Estradiol-Mediated Protection from Diet-Induced Obesity in Female Mice.
• Dynamic Interplay between Afadin S1795 Phosphorylation and Diet Regulates Glucose Homeostasis in Obese Mice.
• Hematopoietic Upstream Stimulating Factor 1 Deficiency Is Associated with Increased Atherosclerosis Susceptibility in LDL Receptor Knockout Mice.
• NOTUM Promotes Thermogenic Capacity and Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity in Male Mice.
• Pinch Loss Ameliorates Obesity, Glucose Intolerance and Fatty Liver by Modulating Adipocyte Apoptosis in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Expectancy Violation and COVID-19 Misinformation: A Comment on Bogomoletc and Lee's “Frozen Meat Against COVID-19 Misinformation: An Analysis of Steak-Umm and Positive Expectancy Violations”.
• Reply: A Response to Jon Agley’s “Expectancy Violation and COVID-19 Misinformation”.
• Article: Increasing Skeletal Muscle Carnitine Content in Older Individuals Increases Whole-body Fat Oxidation During Moderate-intensity Exercise.
• Letter: Does Carnitine Supplementation Truly Increase Whole-Body Fat Oxidation in Older Male Adults During Moderate-Intensity Exercise?
• Editorial: Strengthening Research Investigating Maternal Nutrition and Children's Neurodevelopment: How Can We Do It Better? Where Do We Go from Here?

Clinical

• Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Patients with Severe Obesity (BMI >40): A Survey of Practices in the United States.
• Systematic Review: Peer-Supported Lifestyle Interventions on Body Weight, Energy Intake, and Physical Activity in Adults.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Comparing Two Different Family-Based Childhood Obesity Treatment Programmes in a Medically Underserved Region: Effectiveness, Engagement and Implementation Outcomes.
• Case-Control Study: Comparison of Family Related Factors, Nutritional-Behavioral Habits, and Lifestyle of Children with and without Obesity.
• "...the reported prevalences of childhood obesity in Australia between 1985 and 1995 were likely to have been overestimated, a result of the BMI-height bias coupled with the increase in average height during that period."
• Waist Circumference and Waist-To-Height Ratio in 7-Year-Old Children from the WHO Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative.
• Systematic Review: School-Based High-Intensity Interval Training Programs for Promoting Physical Activity and Fitness in Adolescents.

Surgery

• "Regulation of thioredoxin‑interacting protein could be part of the mechanism of diabetes remission after bariatric surgery."
• Intestinal-Derived FGF15 Protects Against Deleterious Effects of Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy in Mice.
• Microstructural Changes in Human Ingestive Behavior After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass During Liquid Meals.
• "The presence of obstructive sleep apnoea does not influence either sleep duration or sleep quality in the bariatric surgical population. This suggests that clinically severe obesity itself may cause poor sleep."
• Systematic Review: Genetic Correlates of Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Weight Gain and Obesity Rates in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults Before and During Hormone Therapy.
• Obesity Potentiates the Risk of Drug-Induced Long QT Syndrome - Preliminary Evidence from WNIN/Ob Spontaneously Obese Rat.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Efficacy of Oral Cholecalciferol in Improving Renal and Vascular Functions in Vitamin D-Deficient Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Age and Sex Interact to Determine the Effects of Commonly Consumed Dairy Products on Postmeal Glycemia, Satiety, and Later Meal Food Intake in Adults.
• Alanine Alters the Carbohydrate Metabolism of Rainbow Trout: Glucose Flux and Cell Signaling.
• Effects of Miao Sour Soup on Hyperlipidemia in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Rats Via the AMPK Signaling Pathway.
• Spirulina Platensis Polysaccharides Attenuate Lipid and Carbohydrate Metabolism Disorder in High-Sucrose and High-Fat Diet-Fed Rats in Association with Intestinal Microbiota.
• Review: The Anti-Obesogenic Effects of Dietary Berry Fruits.
• Review: Protective and Ameliorating Effects of Probiotics Against Diet-Induced Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• The Effects of Graded Calorie Restriction XVII: Multitissue Metabolomics Reveals Synthesis of Carnitine and NAD, and TRNA Charging as Key Pathways.
• Bigu-Style Fasting Affects Metabolic Health by Modulating Taurine, Glucose, and Cholesterol Homeostasis in Healthy Young Adults.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Standing Is Associated with Insulin Sensitivity in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Effect Modification of Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Obesity, and Physical Activity in Adults.
• Lack of Increase in Muscle Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis During the Course of Aerobic Exercise and Its Recovery in the Fasting State Irrespective of Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic Review: The Effectiveness of Weight-Loss Lifestyle Interventions for Improving Fertility in Women and Men with Overweight or Obesity and Infertility.
• Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis: The Lived Experience of Patients with Obesity.

Epidemiology

• "Watching TV at least once a week was found to be a significant correlate of overweight and obesity in rural Timorese women of reproductive age."
• Adverse Childhood Experiences and Obesity over Time.
• Biomarker-Calibrated Macronutrient Intake and Chronic Disease Risk Among Postmenopausal Women.
• Substituting Meat or Dairy Products with Plant-Based Substitutes Has Small and Heterogeneous Effects on Diet Quality and Nutrient Security.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• "Children with obesity having greater initial impulsivity had better weight outcomes in treatment even after adjusting for initial appetitive drive."
• Weight Change Predicts College Adjustment and Depressive Symptoms Among First-Year College Students.
• Homeostasis and Food Craving in Obesity (Functional MRI Data).
• "...grandmother underweight prior to pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of ADHD among grandchildren..."
• Dynamic Regional Alterations in Mouse Brain Neuronal Activity Following Short-Term Changes in Energy Balance.
• Meta-Analysis: Weight Loss Interventions on Health-Related Quality of Life in Those with Moderate to Severe Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Fixed Effects Analysis: Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Food Environment and Body Composition Among School-Aged Children.
• Food Insecurity Is Associated with Higher Food Responsiveness in Low-Income Children: The Moderating Role of Parent Stress and Family Functioning.
• Sex-Specific Signature in the Circulating NLRP3 Levels of Saudi Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.

Stigma

• Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis: What are Weight Bias Measures Measuring? An Evaluation of Core Measures of Weight Bias and Weight Bias Internalisation.
• "Better If They Laugh with Me than at Me": The Role of Humor in Coping with Obesity-Related Stigma in Women.

Policy Related

• Digital Health and Precision Prevention: Shifting from Disease-Centred Care to Consumer-Centred Health.
• Changes in Food Purchases After the Chilean Policies on Food Labelling, Marketing, and Sales in Schools: A Before and After Study.
• From Data to Action: Combatting Childhood Obesity in Europe and Beyond.
• Qualifications and Competence to Prescribe Dietary Supplements: Perception of Fitness Instructors.
• Systematic Review: Undergraduate Medical Education Interventions Aimed at Managing Patients with Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prospective Relations between Maternal Emotional Eating, Feeding to Soothe, and Infant Appetitive Behaviors.
• Influence of Maternal Excess Weight Before Pregnancy on Breastfeeding and Weaning.
• Review: Should COVID-19 Mother Breastfeed Her Newborn Child?
• Review: Maternal Diet During Pregnancy and Lactation and Child Food Preferences, Dietary Patterns, and Weight Outcomes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Environmental Gradients Predict the Ratio of Environmentally Acquired Carotenoids to Self-Synthesised Pteridine Pigments.
• Cannibalism and Necrophagy Promote a Resource Loop and Benefit Larval Development in Insects of Temporary Waters.

Methods

• Design, Simulation, and Fabrication of an Ingestible Capsule with Gastric Balloon for Obesity Treatment.
• A Simple Method of Sarcopenia Detection Can Predict Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Abdominal Obesity.
• CUN-BAE Index as a Screening Tool to Identify Increased Metabolic Risk in Apparently Healthy Normal-Weight Adults and Those with Obesity.
• Magnesium Depletion Score (MDS) Predicts Risk of Systemic Inflammation and Cardiovascular Mortality Among US Adults.
• A Dietary Supplement Frequency Questionnaire Correctly Ranks Nutrient Intakes in US Older Adults When Compared to a Comprehensive Dietary Supplement Inventory.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Anthropometric Indicators of Obesity. Are the New Indicators a Better Predictor of Body Fat Content Than BMI?
• Why Meals During Resting Time Cause Fat Accumulation in Mammals? Mathematical Modeling of Circadian Regulation on Glucose Metabolism.
• New Insights on the Interactions between Insulin Clearance and the Main Glucose Homeostasis Mechanisms.

Commentary

• Simple Energy Balance or Microbiome for Childhood Obesity Prevention?
• The Possible Mechanism of Physiological Adaptation to the Low-Se Diet and Its Health Risk in the Traditional Endemic Areas of Keshan Diseases.
• What We Think We Know About Metabolism May Be Wrong.
• Increases in Adiposity Among Children and Adolescents over Time: Moving Beyond BMI.
• Mobilizing Governments and Society to Combat Obesity: Reflections on How Data from the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative are Helping to Drive Policy Progress.
• Intake of Ultraprocessed Foods Among US Youths Health Concerns and Opportunities for Research and Policy.
• Is Makeup Making Us Fat?

General

• RCT: Quality Control Questions on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk).
• Envisioning Science for an Unknown Future.
• A Quantitative Decision Theory of Animal Conflict.
• The Light-To-Nutrient Ratio in Alpine Lakes: Different Scenarios of Bacterial Nutrient Limitation and Community Structure in Lakes Above and Below the Treeline.
• Cross-Continental Comparison of Parasite Communities in a Wide-Ranging Carnivore Suggests Associations with Prey Diversity and Host Density.
• Anaerobic Digestion of Sewage Sludge Has No Effect on Glucocorticoid and Anti-Progestagenic Activity but Increases Estrogenicity Three-Fold.
• "Overall, evidence supports our hypothesis that artificial lighting and noise pollution have been overlooked as long-term contributors to the spillover of zoonotic pathogens to humans in urban environments."
• Review: Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) and Its Receptor, RAGE, Modulate Age-Dependent COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality.

Announcements

• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: September 10th to October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.

Featured

• "Garvey selected to earn highest honor from AACE."
• The Effects of Graded Calorie Restriction XVII: Multitissue Metabolomics Reveals Synthesis of Carnitine and NAD, and tRNA Charging as Key Pathways.
• Dietary Inflammatory Index and Cardiometabolic Risk in Ecuadorian Women.
• Eight Fold Increase in the Dietary Supplement Related Liver Failure Leading to Transplant Waitlisting over the Last Quarter Century in the US.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: AU Study: Some Fat Actually Beneficial in Fighting Dementia.
• Press-Release: Beige Fat 'Indispensable' in Protecting the Brain from Dementia.
• Study: Beige Adipocytes Mediate the Neuroprotective and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Subcutaneous Fat... In Mice.
• HvS Study: What’s Not in the News Headlines or Titles of Alzheimer Disease Articles? #InMice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "DeskCyclesTM were not an effective intervention for physical activity or behavioral outcomes in this classroom setting."
• "High coffee consumption is associated with low risk of mortality, cardiometabolic diseases, some cancers and gallstones in observational studies, with no evidence to support causality from Mendelian randomization studies for most diseases except gallstones."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of 12-Weeks Elastic Band Resistance Training on MyomiRs and Osteoporosis Markers in Elderly Women with Osteosarcopenic Obesity.
• RCT: "In contrast to findings from previous studies in younger adults and those with pre-existing hypertension, measures of vascular function in this cohort of healthy postmenopausal women were not impacted by supplemental watermelon juice."
• "Nut consumption has no effect, positive or negative, on weight or adiposity parameters in people with T2D."
• RCT: "Multi-modal exercise training improved body composition and some appetite outcomes, although changes were inconsistent and largely independent of exercise-timing. In the absence of dietary manipulation, the effect of diurnal exercise timing on appetite and body composition appear trivial compared to the overall benefits of exercise participation."
• "Contrary to bariatric surgery, only limited evidence indicated that site and type of surgery, the approach to the abdominal cavity (laparoscopic vs. open), institutional factors, and the type of perioperative care such as ERAS protocols may play a role in determining postsurgical complications in obese patients."

Basic

• Impact of Obesity on Day-Night Differences in Cardiac Metabolism.
• Depletion of Microglia Mitigates Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Diet-Induced Obesity Mice.
• Low-Molecular Alginate Improved Diet-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Through Modulating the Gut Microbiota in BALB/c Mice.
• Iron Overload Protects from Obesity by Ferroptosis.
• The Effects of Mirabegron on Obesity-Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance are Associated with Brown Adipose Tissue Activation but Not Beiging in the Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue.
• Adipocyte NR1D1 Dictates Adipose Tissue Expansion During Obesity.
• Brown Adipose Tissue Is the Key Depot for Glucose Clearance in Microbiota Depleted Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Concerns About Chocolate Consumption and Indicators of Adiposity.
• Article: Do Lower-Carbohydrate Diets Increase Total Energy Expenditure? An Updated and Reanalyzed Meta-Analysis of 29 Controlled-Feeding Studies.
• Letter: Overestimated Impact of Lower-Carbohydrate Diets on Total Energy Expenditure.
• Response: Letter to the Editor: Reply to Guyenet and Hall.
• Causes and Consequences of Interindividual Response Variability: A Call to Apply a More Rigorous Research Design in Acute Exercise-Cognition Studies.

Clinical

• MRI Based Validation of Abdominal Adipose Tissue Measurements from DXA in Postmenopausal Women.
• Modeling the Influence of Chronic Sleep Restriction on Cortisol Circadian Rhythms, with Implications for Metabolic Disorders.
• RCT: Advancing Therapy in Suboptimally Controlled Basal Insulin–Treated Type 2 Diabetes: Clinical Outcomes with IGlarLixi Versus Premix BIAsp 30.
• RCT: Effectiveness of Combining Antiobesity Medication with an Employer-Based Weight Management Program for Treatment of Obesity.
• RCT: Novel Lifestyle Intervention Compared with the Diabetes Prevention Program for Weight Loss in Adult Dependents of Military Service Members.

Children and Adolescents

• Monogenic Diabetes in Youth with Presumed Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the Progress in Diabetes Genetics in Youth (ProDiGY) Collaboration.
• Thinness, Overweight, and Obesity Among 6- to 17-Year-Old Malaysians: Secular Trends and Sociodemographic Determinants from 2006-2015.
• Dissertation: Examination of the Efficacy of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act to Reduce High School Childhood Obesity Rates System.
• Recent Trends in Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents Aged 12 to 15 years Across 21 Countries.
• Meta-Analysis: Interventions to Treat Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents.
• Exploring the Importance of Diversified Physical Activities in Early Childhood for Later Motor Competence and Physical Activity Level: A Seven-Year Longitudinal Study.

Surgery

• The Need and Safety of Mineral Supplementation in Adults with Obesity Post Bariatric Surgery-Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG).
• Obesity and Perioperative Outcomes in Older Surgical Patients Undergoing Elective Spine and Major Arthroplasty Surgery.
• Toll-Like Receptor-4 (TLR4) and MyD88 are Required for Gastric Bypass-Induced Metabolic Effects.
• Cost-Effectiveness of Procedure-Less Intragastric Balloon Therapy as Substitute or Complement to Bariatric Surgery.
• Sleeve Gastrectomy Suppresses Hepatic Glucose Production and Increases Hepatic Insulin Clearance Independent of Weight-Loss.
• Systematic Review: Impact of Bariatric Surgery-Induced Weight Loss on Ovarian Reserve in Women with Obesity.
• Examining the Rates of Obesity and Bariatric Surgery in the United States.
• Patient Reported Outcomes After Metabolic Surgery Versus Medical Therapy for Diabetes.

Drugs

• RCT: Effects of Liraglutide on Visceral and Ectopic Fat in Adults with Overweight and Obesity at High Cardiovascular Risk.
• Targeting Visceral Adiposity with Pharmacotherapy.
• Metformin for Pediatric Obesity and Insulin Resistance: A Retrospective Study Within an Integrated Health Care System.
• Obesity-Induced Changes in Human Islet G Protein-Coupled Receptor Expression: Implications for Metabolic Regulation.
• Managing Obesity and Related Comorbidities: A Potential Pharmacological Target in the Adenosine System?

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, Five-Year Weight Change, and Risk of Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Decreased Iron Intake Parallels Rising Iron Deficiency Anemia and Related Mortality Rates in the US Population.
• Comparative Study of the Anti-Obesity and Gut Microbiota Modulation Effects of Green Tea Phenolics and Their Oxidation Products in High-Fat-Induced Obese Mice.
• Improvement Effect of Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum l.) Powder Intake on Obese Mice Fed a High-Fat and High-Sucrose Diet.
• Trends in Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods Among US Youths Aged 2-19 Years, 1999-2018.
• RCT: Mediterranean Diet Reduces Atherosclerosis Progression in Coronary Heart Disease.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Changes in Cardiometabolic Risk Among Older Adults with Obesity: An Ancillary Analysis Investigating Exercise Plus Weight Maintenance and Exercise Plus Intentional Weight Loss by Caloric Restriction.
• Weight Loss from Caloric Restriction vs Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery Differentially Regulates Systemic and Portal Vein GDF15 Levels in Obese Zucker Fatty Rats.
• Abstract: Short-Term Carbohydrate and Lipid Restriction Impact on Obese Gerbil.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Exercise in the Maintenance of Weight Loss: Health Benefits Beyond Lost Weight on the Scale.
• Physical Activity and the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Severe Covid-19 Illness and Covid-19 Related Mortality in South Korea.
• RCT: Two Weekly Sessions of High-Intensity Interval Training Improve Metabolic Syndrome and Hypertriglyceridemic Waist Phenotype in Older Adults.
• Microcirculatory Responses to Muscle and Tendon Exercises in Individuals with and Without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the Association between Microcirculatory and Exercise Performance.
• Gender Differences in the Association between Physical Activity and Obesity in Adults with Vision and Hearing Losses.
• Systematic Review: The Impact of Yoga on Components of Energy Balance in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Area-Level and Family-Level Socioeconomic Position and Body Composition Trajectories: Longitudinal Analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
• Rational Addiction and Other Purchasing Dynamics Across Obesity Status Groups.
• Obesity Is Associated with Lack of Access to Dental Care and Physical Activity Among Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Diabetes Drug’s New Weight Loss Formula Fuels Cost-Benefit Debate.
• The Economic Burden of Obesity in Italy: A Cost-Of-Illness Study.

Epidemiology

• Early Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease, Varied Association with BMI and Its Changes in Insulin-Treated Diabetes: A Nationwide Study.
• Anthropometric Indices and Age at Natural Menopause: A 15-Year Follow-Up Population-Based Study.
• Comparative Analysis of Metabolic Syndrome Diagnostic Criteria and Its Effects on Prevalence in a Multiethnic Population.
• Validation of Obesity-Related Diagnosis Codes in Claims Data.
• Low Protein Intakes and Poor Diet Quality Associate with Functional Limitations in US Adults with Diabetes: A 2005–2016 NHANES Analysis.
• Diabetes, Disability, and Dementia Risk: Results from the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Confinement During the COVID-19 Pandemic After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery-Associations between Emotional Distress, Energy-Dense Foods, and BMI.
• Relationship between BMI and Alcohol Consumption Levels in Decision Making.
• Leptin Brain Entry Via a Tanycytic LepR–EGFR Shuttle Controls Lipid Metabolism and Pancreas Function.
• Gut Cytokines Modulate Olfaction Through Metabolic Reprogramming of Glia.
• Unlocking the Causal Link of Metabolically Different Adiposity Subtypes with Brain Volumes and the Risks of Dementia and Stroke: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Review: Top-Down Control of Appetite.
• Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Attitudes Toward Persons with Obesity (ATOP) Scale in a Preoperative and Postoperative Bariatric Surgery Sample.
• Association between BMI, Its Change and Cognitive Impairment Among Chinese Older Adults: A Community-Based, 9-Year Prospective Cohort Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Weight Discrimination Experienced Prior to Enrolling in a Behavioral Obesity Intervention Is Associated with Treatment Response Among Black and White Adults in the Southeastern U.S.
• Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Obesity and Body Fat Distribution: An All of Us Research Program Demonstration Project.
• Twelve-Month Efficacy of an Obesity Prevention Program Targeting Hispanic Families with Preschoolers from Low-Income Backgrounds.
• The State of Disparities in Pediatric Diabetes Care.
• Disparities in Hemoglobin A1c Testing During the Transition to Adulthood and Association with Diabetes Outcomes in Youth-Onset Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.

Stigma

• Factors Linking Perceived Discrimination and Weight Bias Internalization to Body Appreciation and Eating Pathology: A Moderated Mediation Analysis of Self-Compassion and Psychological Distress.
• Coping with Weight Discrimination: Findings from a Qualitative Study.
• Role of Weight Bias and Patient–physician Communication in the Underutilization of Bariatric Surgery.

Policy Related

• Competitive Food and Beverage Policies and Obesity Among Middle School Students: Variability by Urbanicity in California.
• Projecting the Impacts of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Labels and Restaurant Menu Labeling Regulations on Energy Intake, Weight Status, and Healthcare Expenditures in US Adults: A Microsimulation.
• Physical Activity May Mitigate COVID-19 Infections in People with Obesity: A Call to Action.
• Perspective: The Influence of Front-Of-Package Nutrition Labeling on Consumer Behavior and Product Reformulation.
• Exploring Attitudes Toward Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Rural Michigan.
• Stakeholder Views on Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Its Adoption in the Netherlands.

Intergenerational Effects

• Mapping a Prevention Strategy to Reduce Medically Indicated Preterm Births: A Trio of Low-Risk Modifiable Factors for the Triad of the Mother, Fetus, and Placenta.
• Differences in Biomarkers of Cardiac Dysfunction in Cord Blood between Normal Pregnancies and Pregnancies Complicated by Maternal Diabetes.
• Maternal Obesity: A Focus on Maternal Interventions to Improve Health of Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Obesity Genes Open New Avenues of Research.
• Glacier Ice Archives Nearly 15,000-Year-Old Microbes and Phages.
• Gut Microbiota: A Target for Intervention in Obesity.

Methods

• Reliability of Measurements of Energy Expenditure and Substrate Oxidation Using Whole-Room Indirect Calorimetry.
• Establishing Growth Charts for Proposed Body Shape and Size Index of the Pakistani Population, Using Quantile Regression Approach.
• Pragmatic Evaluation of Older Adults’ Physical Activity in Scale-Up Studies: Is the Single-Item Measure a Reasonable Option?

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Can “VAI” Better Indicate Metabolic Syndrome Compared with Other Metabolic Syndrome-Related Parameters in Patients with Thyroid Nodules? A Study from Turkey.
• A Body Shape Index (ABSI) and Hip Index (HI) Adjust Waist and Hip Circumferences for BMI, but Only ABSI Predicts High Cardiovascular Risk in the Spanish Caucasian Population.
• Pathways to “5-A-Day”: Modeling the Health Impacts and Environmental Footprints of Meeting the Target for Fruit and Vegetable Intake in the United Kingdom.

Commentary

• Eat More Plants, Suffer Less Heart Disease? Not Exactly.
• Changing Diets Mean More Americans are Anemic Now.
• Better Pregnancy Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery?
• An Anti-Obesity Immunotherapy?
• Transpulmonary Pressure-Guided Invasive Ventilation in Patients with Morbid Obesity: Another Brick in the Wall of Personalized Medicine.
• Public Policy Based on Anger and Fear.
• Childhood Obesity Beyond COVID-19.
• Obesity and Hypertension in Asia: Current Status and Challenges.
• Innovation and Competition in Obesity Gains Momentum.
• Shifting from More to Better in Food Systems.

General

• Parkinson’s Disease Reversed by Farnesol in Mice.
• Amazing Insights into the Farthest Moving Species in the World.
• Male Age Alone Predicts Paternity Success Under Sperm Competition When Effects of Age and Past Mating Effort are Experimentally Separated.
• Senescent Cells in Cancer Therapy: Why and How to Remove Them.
• Senotherapeutics: Targeting Senescent Cells for the Main Age-Related Diseases.
• A Mathematical Estimation of the Physical Forces Driving Podocyte Detachment.
• Chocolate Consumption and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in a US Population: A Post Hoc Analysis of the PLCO Cancer Screening Trial.
• What Does It Mean to Be Dead Last in Healthcare?

Video & Audio

• Podcast: #171 - Steve Austad, Ph.D.: The Landscape of Longevity Science: Making Sense of Caloric Restriction, Biomarkers of Aging, and Possible Geroprotective Molecules.

Announcements

• Metabesity 2021 Conference: Meet Steve Austad PhD.
• Food Insecurity, Neighborhood Food Environment, and Nutrition Health Disparities: State of the Science, September 21‒23.
• Survey: AIN-93G/M: Tell Us What’s New in Rodent Nutrition!
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: September 10th to October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/ Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.

Featured

• A Novel Larval Diet Interacts with Nutritional Stress to Modify Juvenile Behaviors and Glucocorticoid Responses.
• Systematic Review: Eating Versus Skipping Breakfast Has No Discernible Effect on Obesity Related Anthropometric Outcomes.
• University of Alabama at Birmingham Nathan Shock Center: Comparative Energetics of Aging.
• What Is Normal Body Weight? Perceptions Around “Average” and “Healthy” Body Weight Among Adolescents in Indiana.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Suggests Hemp Extract Is an Effective Weight-Loss Aid.
• No Published Study: Company Press-Release on Randomized Trial.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "This study aimed to evaluate whether dynamic tailoring in a narrative-driven mobile exergame for adolescents played in leisure settings,...but the non-tailored condition showed longer play-time."
• RCT: "The main preregistered effect of the visual cue [on food consumption] was not statistically significant."
• RCT: “...a Diet Rich in Full-Fat Dairy Had No Effects on Fasting Lipid Profile or Blood Pressure Compared with Diets Limited in Dairy or Rich in Low-Fat Dairy.”.
• Class 3 Obesity Is Not Associated with Same-Day Admission in Patients with Obesity Undergoing Parathyroidectomy.
• “Our MR analysis provided precise evidence that genetically lowered serum 25(OH)D concentrations were not causally associated with COVID-19 susceptibility, severity or hospitalized traits."
• RCT: “Among People with Known Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes, There Were No Significant Differences in Glycaemic or Insulinaemic Response to Breads Made with Coarse Stoneground Flour, Fine Stoneground Flour, and Fine Roller-Milled Flour...Our Unexpected Findings for Postprandial Insulinaemia Did Not Align with Findings from Prior Studies.”
• RCT: "There was also no difference between women randomized to placebo or ω-3-FA in change in total mass (- 10% and -9%), fat mass (-20%), or android fat mass (-11% and -8%) (Table 2)." (pdf)
• RCT: "In conclusion, our findings do not provide any evidence that short-term regular intake of added sugars is linked to higher cardiometabolic risks, with exception of uric acid in overweight men."

Basic

• Uncoupling Protein 1-Independent Effects of Eicosapentaenoic Acid in Brown Adipose Tissue of Diet-Induced Obese Female Mice.
• PCSK9 Deficiency Rewires Heart Metabolism and Drives Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Adjustment for Energy Intake in Nutritional Research: A Causal Inference Perspective.
• Ten Ways Bias Creeps into Randomized Studies.

Clinical

• Non-Communicable Diseases Deaths Attributable to High BMI in Chile.
• Systematic Review: Rare Sugars and Their Health Effects in Humans.
• Systematic Review: Neuromodulation Therapies for Reducing Body Weight in Patients with Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of a Very Low-Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet vs Recommended Diets in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Metabolomic Profiling of Stool of Two-Year Old Children from the INSIGHT Study Reveals Links between Butyrate and Child Weight Outcomes.
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness and Safety of Herbal Medicine on Children with Simple Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Stress Management as an Effective Complementary Therapeutic Strategy for Weight Loss in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Improving Implementation of School-Based Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Policies, Practices, and Programs.

Surgery

• Higher Socioeconomic Status Is Associated with Improved Outcomes After Obesity Surgery Among Women in Germany.
• Psychological Functioning and Health Behaviors Associated with Weight Loss Patterns Up to 13.7 Years After Weight Loss Surgery.
• Sleeve Gastrectomy Suppresses Hepatic Glucose Production and Increases Hepatic Insulin Clearance Independent of Weight-Loss.
• Machine Learning to Identify Metabolic Subtypes of Obesity: A Multi-Center Study.

Drugs

• Prospects for New Drugs to Treat Binge-Eating Disorder: Insights from Psychopathology and Neuropharmacology.
• Trends in Prescribing Anti-Obesity Pharmacotherapy for Paediatric Weight Management: Data from the POWER Work Group.
• Pharmacology of Gut Hormone Mimetics for Obesity and Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Low Glycaemic Index or Load Dietary Patterns on Glycaemic Control and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Diabetes.
• The Negative Relationship of Dietary Inflammatory Index and Sleeping Quality in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Protein Supplementation During an Energy-Restricted Diet Induces Visceral Fat Loss and Gut Microbiota Amino Acid Metabolism Activation.
• Individual Saturated Fatty Acid Intake and Risk of Overweight/Obesity: Findings from a Population-Based Nationwide Cohort Study.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• The Potential of Calorie Restriction and Calorie Restriction Mimetics in Delaying Aging: Focus on Experimental Models.
• Caloric Restriction Disrupts the Microbiota and Colonization Resistance.
• High 5-Methyletetrahydrofolate and Folic Acid Gestational Diets Differ on Leptin-Dependent Hypothalamic Genes Regulating Food Intake in Female Offspring.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• High-Protein Plant-Based Diet Versus a Protein-Matched Omnivorous Diet to Support Resistance Training Adaptations: A Comparison between Habitual Vegans and Omnivores.
• Systematic Review: Associations between Meeting 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and Health in the Early Years.
• No Association between Maternal Exercise During Pregnancy and the Child’s Weight Status at Age 7 Years.
• Exercise Capacity in Young Adults Born Small for Gestational Age.
• Implementation of a Workplace Physical Activity Intervention in Child Care: Process Evaluation Results from the Care2BWell Trial.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic Review: Life Course Socioeconomic Position and Body Composition in Adulthood.
• Systematic Review: Socioeconomic Position and Body Composition in Childhood in High- and Middle-Income Countries.
• How Early Socioeconomic Adversity Combines with BMI-Linked Genetics to Launch Adverse Developmental Processes Leading to Economic Hardship.
• Is Store Density Associated with Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Consumption and Overweight or Obesity in Mexican Adolescents?
• Systematic Review: Insufficient Physical Activity and High Sedentary Behaviour are Associated with Loneliness in Adolescents with Overweight/obesity: Evidence from 23 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Systematic Review: Do Associations between Education and Obesity Vary Depending on the Measure of Obesity Used.
• Food-Spending Patterns of U.S. Consumers During COVID-19 Pandemic.

Epidemiology

• Using of Licensed and Unlicensed Anti-Obesity Medications Among the University Students.
• Weight Change and the Onset of Cardiovascular Diseases: Emulating Trials Using Electronic Health Records.
• The Association of the Parent–Child Language Acculturation Gap with Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Hispanic/Latino Youth.
• Exploring the Association between Measures of Obesity and Measures of Trip-Induced Fall Risk Among Older Adults.
• Association between Food Intake and Obesity in Pregnant Women Living with and Without HIV in Cape Town, South Africa: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Targeting Executive Function for Weight Loss in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• The Impact of Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Dietary Weight Loss Interventions on Neurobehavioral Factors Related to Body Weight Control: The Gaps and Challenges.
• The Response to Prolonged Fasting in Hypothalamic Serotonin Transporter Availability Is Blunted in Obesity.
• RCT: Who Loses Weight in a Weight Gain Prevention Program? A Comparison of Weight Losers and Weight Maintainers at 3 Years.
• The Social Facilitation of Eating: Why Does the Mere Presence of Others Cause an Increase in Energy Intake?
• Neural Network Modelling Reveals Changes in Directional Connectivity between Cortical and Hypothalamic Regions with Increased BMI.
• Alpha Oscillations and Event-Related Potentials Reflect Distinct Dynamics of Attribute Construction and Evidence Accumulation in Dietary Decision Making.

Equity and Disparities

• Exposure to Anti-Black Lives Matter Movement and Obesity of the Black Population.
• Implicit Ethnic–Racial Self-Stereotyping’s Relation to Children’s BMI and Diet: The Moderating Role of Self-Esteem.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Abdominal Obesity Among Peruvian Adults.
• Universal School Meals in the US: What Can We Learn from the Community Eligibility Provision?
• Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Sales of Unhealthy Products: Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Snack Food.

Stigma

• Motivational Processes of the Relationship between Weight Stigma and Physical Activity: A Comparison between France and Mexico.
• Adolescents’ Exposure to and Experiences of Weight Stigma During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Policy Related

• Systematic Review: Access to Fruit and Vegetable Markets and Childhood Obesity.
• Equitable Approaches to Reducing the Prevalence of Pediatric Obesity: School Nutrition Policies and Beyond.
• Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health (WHO Guidance).

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Nutrition and Developmental Programming of Male Progeny.
• Ex-Vivo Placental Lipid Metabolism of Women with Normal Weight, Overweight, and Diabetes: A Preliminary Study.
• Twelve-Month Outcomes of the First 1000 Days Program on Infant Weight Status.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Mystery of Energy Compensation.
• How Ancient People Fell in Love with Bread, Beer and Other Carbs.

Methods

• Evaluating Concordance of Bodies of Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials, Dietary Intake and Biomarkers of Intake in Cohort Studies: A Meta-Epidemiological Study.
• A New Method for Testing Reproducibility in Systematic Reviews Was Developed, but Needs More Testing.
• Methodological Challenges in Estimating the Lifetime Medical Care Cost Externality of Obesity.

Commentary

• Ready, Fire, Aim: Fat and Happy.
• Perspective: Defining Carbohydrate Quality for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability.
• Is Obesity a Lack of Will, a Poor Lifestyle Choice, or a Disease?
• Intermittent Fasting: An RCT Says ‘Meh’.
• "...how blood and lymphatic vessels in fat tissue can support or hinder adipose tissue function."
• Profile of John R. Speakman.
• Bariatric Interventions in Craniopharyngioma Patients – Best Choice or Last Option for Treatment of Hypothalamic Obesity?
• Changing Our Minds About Nutrition and Obesity.

General

• Rethinking Trust in Tourism Apps: The Moderating Effect of Age.
• Why Science Needs a New Reward and Recognition System.
• Revisiting the Guidelines for Ending Isolation for COVID-19 Patients. (pdf)
• Reuniting the Body “Neck Up and Neck Down” to Understand Cognitive Aging: The Nexus of Geroscience and Neuroscience.
• The Incredible Fig.
• Audio: Why Sweat Is a Human Superpower.
• CRISPR-Cas9 Breaches Barrier, Reveals Route to Marsupial Models.
• How Ethane-Consuming Archaea Pick Up Their Favorite Dish.

Announcements

• Elect Officer & Member Positions: American Diabetes Association - National Board of Directors.
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: September 10th to October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/ Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Abstract Submissions: Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (April 6–9, 2022).
• Obesity Forum® 2021 - Multi-Accredited Webinar Series (August 7 & 14, 2021).
• MyPlate Launches USDA’s First Alexa Skill.
• Back-To-School Support Kit (USDA).

Featured

• Review: Errors in the Implementation, Analysis, and Reporting of Randomization Within Obesity and Nutrition Research: A Guide to Their Avoidance.
• Reconciling Contrasting Guideline Recommendations on Red and Processed Meat for Health Outcomes.
• Transcriptional Regulation of N6-Methyladenosine Orchestrates Sex-Dimorphic Metabolic Traits.
• Meta-Analysis: Examining the Association between Adiposity and DNA Methylation.
• Obesity doesn’t always mean ill health. Here’s what scientists are learning.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: A Daily Dose of Coffee May Protect You from COVID-19.
• Study: Self-Reported Dietary Behaviors and Incident COVID-19 in the UK Biobank.
• Headline: Too Much Coffee Can Cause Your Brain to Shrink, Raise Risk of Dementia by 53 Percent, Study Finds.
• Study: Associations Among High Coffee Consumption, Brain Volume and Risk of Dementia and Stroke in UK Biobank.
• Headline: Your Morning Cup of Coffee May Lower Your Risk of Liver Disease.
• Study: All Coffee Types are Associated with Lower Risk of Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Chronic Liver Disease: A UK Biobank Study.
• Headline: Coffee Drinking Won't Harm Your Health, New Study Reveals Caffeine Lowers Arrhythmia Risk.
• Study: Coffee Consumption and Incident Tachyarrhythmias with Mendelian Randomization for Caffeine Metabolism in the UK Biobank.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "No significant effect of gamification was found for body mass index z-score."
• "Evidence was insufficient to determine the relation between the duration of any human milk consumption, among infants fed human milk, and overweight and/or obesity at age 2 y and older."
• "We found no significant benefit of INT (intensive glycemic control) during the original trial period in eye-related procedures, such as various procedures for DR, or during the 17 years of follow-up in cataract surgery."
• "This Mendelian randomization study showed limited evidence that coffee consumption affects the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, suggesting that previous observational studies may have been confounded."
• Dietary Quercetin Supplementation Is Not Ergogenic in Untrained Men.
• "Supplements such as caffeine and nitrates do not enhance endurance performance in the heat, with caffeine also increasing core temperature responses."
• "Adenotonsillectomy may not be an independent risk factor for undesirable weight gain in children."
• Oral Anserine Supplementation Does Not Attenuate Type-2 Diabetes or Diabetic Nephropathy in BTBR Ob/ob Mice.
• "The results do not support the hypotheses that low [salivary-amylase activity], cooling, and common genetic variations in starch-digesting enzymes affect the glycemic index or in vivo carbohydrate digestibility of cooked polished rice."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Association of Fecundity with Changes in Adult Female Weight.
• Accurate Measurement of Nutrients and Nonnutritive Dietary Ingredients from Dietary Supplements Is Critical in the Precision Nutrition Era.
• Review: Evaluation of Spin in the Abstracts of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Focused on the Treatment of Obesity.
• Commentary: Spin in the Abstracts of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: How Big Is the Problem in Obesity?

Basic

• Di(2-Ethylhexyl)phthalate Exposure Exacerbates Metabolic Disorders in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Non-Hematopoietic IL-4Rα Expression Contributes to Fructose-Driven Obesity and Metabolic Sequelae.
• Intramuscular Injection of MiR-1 Reduces Insulin Resistance in Obese Mice.
• Linking the FTO Obesity Rs1421085 Variant Circuitry to Cellular, Metabolic, and Organismal Phenotypes in Vivo.

Clinical

• Developing a Culturally Responsive Lifestyle Intervention for U.S. Mexicans with Overweight/Obesity.
• Review: Health Effects of Weight Loss Focused Lifestyle Interventions in Adults with Overweight/Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Review: Personalized Approach to Childhood Obesity: Lessons from Gut Microbiota and Omics Studies. Insights from the 29th European Childhood Obesity Congress.
• Age Patterns in Overweight and Wasting Prevalence of Under 5-Year-Old Children from Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Adherence to Index-Based Dietary Patterns in Childhood and BMI Trajectory During the Transition to Adolescence.

Surgery

• The Effect of Social Determinants and Socioeconomic Status on Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass for Weight Loss: An Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample.
• Review: The Role of Positron Emission Tomography in Bariatric Surgery Research.
• Effects of Severe Obesity and Sleeve Gastrectomy on Cortical Thickness in Adolescents.

Drugs

• Regeneron, AstraZeneca Team Up on Targeted Drugs for Obesity.
• Targeting Energy Expenditure-Drugs for Obesity Treatment.
• Diets and Drugs for Weight Loss and Health in Obesity - an Update.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Impact of Low-Fat and Full-Fat Dairy Foods on Fasting Lipid Profile and Blood Pressure.
• The Role of Western Diets and Obesity in Peripheral Immune Cell Recruitment and Inflammation in the Central Nervous System.
• Gut-Microbiota-Targeted Diets Modulate Human Immune Status.
• Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During Pregnancy Is Associated with Lower Odds of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Postpartum Weight Retention: Results of the MISC Cohort.
• Higher Habitual Flavonoid Intakes are Associated with a Lower Incidence of Diabetes.
• RCT: Temporal and Mediation Relations of Weight Loss, and Changes in Insulin Resistance and Blood Pressure in Response to 2-Year Weight-Loss Diet Interventions: The POUNDS Lost Trial.
• "There was a significant negative correlation between dairy consumption and BMI, waist circumference, and waist/height ratio in [adolescent] girls."
• RCT: Oils Rich in α-Linolenic Acid or Docosahexaenoic Acid Have Distinct Effects on Plasma Oxylipin and Adiponectin Concentrations and on Monocyte Bioenergetics in Women with Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Inhibits Renal Artery Ageing by Reducing Endothelin-1 Expression.
• Leptin Treatment Prevents Impaired Hypoglycemic Counterregulation Induced by Exposure to Severe Caloric Restriction or Exposure to Recurrent Hypoglycemia.
• Single-Oocyte Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Aging-Associated Effects Influenced by Life Stage and Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Dissertation: Modulation of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Exercise.
• Review: Smartphone-Based Interventions for Physical Activity Promotion: Evidence over the Last 10 Years.
• Independent Associations of Sleep Timing, Duration and Quality with Adiposity and Weight Status in a National Sample of Adolescents: The UK Millennium Cohort Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Association between Socioeconomic Status and Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Adults.
• Body Weight and Premature Retirement: Population-Based Evidence from Finland.

Epidemiology

• Is Obesity Associated with Lower Mini Mental Test Scores Among Elderly? A Cross Sectional Study.
• Neighborhood Profiles and BMI Trajectory in Female Adolescents and Young Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Rethinking Emotional Eating: Retrospective and Momentary Indices of Emotional Eating Represent Distinct Constructs.
• Making Large Changes or Small Changes to Prevent Weight Gain in Young Adulthood: Which Is Preferred and by Whom?
• Social Isolation and Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Weight.
• Food-Related Inhibitory Control Training Reduces Food Liking but Not Snacking Frequency or Weight in a Large Healthy Adult Sample.
• Meta-Analysis: White Matter Integrity Differences in Obesity.
• Lower Synaptic Density Is Associated with Psychiatric and Cognitive Alterations in Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Disparities in Elevated BMI in Youth Receiving Care at Community Health Centers.
• Adherence to Index-Based Dietary Patterns in Childhood and BMI Trajectory During the Transition to Adolescence: The EPOCH Study.

Ethics

• Considerations for Cardiovascular Genetic and Genomic Research with Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Groups and Indigenous Peoples: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.
• Methods, Ethics, and Cross-Language Considerations in Research with Ethnic Minority Children.

Stigma

• Simply Too Much: The Extent to Which Weight Bias Internalization Results in a Higher Risk of Eating Disorders and Psychosocial Problems.
• The Relationship between Internalized Weight Stigma During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: A Prospective Longitudinal Study.
• Weight-Related Teasing Is Associated with Body Concerns, Disordered Eating, and Health Diagnoses in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Young Men.
• Leading When Overweight: The Influence of Supervisor Body Weight on Subordinates’ Perceptions and Citizenship Behaviors.

Policy Related

• An Ensemble-Based Feature Selection Framework to Select Risk Factors of Childhood Obesity for Policy Decision Making.
• Health System Barriers to Accessing Care for Children with Weight Issues in New Zealand: An Interview-Based Study.
• Identifying Subgroups of Age and Cohort Effects in Obesity Prevalence.

Intergenerational Effects

• Sex Differences in the Impact of Parental Obesity on Offspring Cardiac SIRT3 Expression, Mitochondrial Efficiency and Diastolic Function Early in Life.
• Review: The WOMBS Framework: A New Theoretical Model for Investigating Pregnancy-Related Weight Stigma and Its Intergenerational Implications.
• Systematic Review: Breastfeeding and Risk of Overweight in Childhood and Beyond with Emphasis on Sibling-Pair and Intervention Studies.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Call Rate in Common Cuckoos Does Not Predict Body Size and Responses to Conspecific Playbacks.
• Sex-Specific Costs of Rearing a Nestling and Its Implications in the Brood Sex Ratio of Magellanic Penguins.

Methods

• Review: Existing Models to Predict Reductions in Neural Tube Defects Due to Folic Acid Fortification and Model Results Using Data from Cameroon.
• "Due to its accuracy and greater operational simplicity, [waist circumference] was the most adequate predictor for identifying Afro-descendant women at greatest risk for CVD."

Commentary

• The Ugly Politics of (Im)passivity, or Why Conrad's Anarchists are Fat.
• Does Business Travel Bring More Obesity Risk?
• Why a Meat-Free Diet Boosts Health: Protein Levels Might Hit the Spot.
• Study Highlights the Importance of Eating Breakfast.
• Meat: Less Is More.
• Unintended Consequences: Nutritional Impact and Potential Pitfalls of Switching from Animal- to Plant-Based Foods.
• Making Blue Foods Central to Global Food Systems.
• Legislation Would Make Obesity Medications More Widely Available and Help Reduce Inequities in Care.
• Shame Gets a Failing Grade for Health Promotion.

General

• Some Problems in the Dataset of a Large Study of Ivermectin for the Treatment of Covid-19.
• Confronting Health Misinformation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Healthy Information Environment. (pdf)
• Studies on the Dietary Intake of Fluoride and the Concentration of Fluoride in Urine over the Course of Pregnancy.
• If You Build It, Will They Come? Social, Economic, and Psychological Determinants of COVID-19 Testing Decisions.
• Large Survey Finds Questionable Research Practices are Common.
• "In field trials, transgenic expression of FTO in rice and potato caused ~50% increases in yield and biomass."
• New Biomarkers May Detect Early Eye Changes That Can Lead to Diabetes-Related Blindness.
• Citrus Consumption and Risk of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer in the UK Biobank.

Announcements

• New Book: Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science - by Alan Levinovitz.
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.