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Featured

• Loss of MAGEL2 in Prader-Willi Syndrome Leads to Decreased Secretory Granule and Neuropeptide Production.
• Can the Participant Speak Beyond Likert? Free Text Responses in COVID-19 Obesity Surveys.
• Late Lactation in Small Mammals Is a Critically Sensitive Window of Vulnerability to Elevated Ambient Temperature.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Blueberries Improve Cognitive Performance in Healthy Adults.
• Study: No Significant Time-by-treatment Interactions and Few Significant Post-hoc Tests of Blueberries vs Control on Cognitive Outcomes.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Cochrane review: "There is currently no evidence on the effect of a tax on total fat or saturated fat on total energy intake or energy intake through saturated fat or total fat, or preventing the incidence or reducing the prevalence of overweight or obesity."
• "We found no evidence that changes in feeding practices or changes in child food intake mediated child weight loss."
• "The addition of metformin to dietary and lifestyle advice in pregnancy for overweight and obese women has no clinically relevant effect on ultrasound measures of fetal biometry or adiposity."
• RCT: "The multi-component interventions focusing on either physical activity or sedentary behaviour were unsuccessful at increasing device-measured physical activity or reducing sedentary behaviour compared to a control group."
• RCT: Aerobic Exercise and Cognitively Engaging Exercise on Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Motor Skills in Primary School Children.
• RCT: "The systematic exercise program for 8-weeks did not change circulating irisin and no statistically significant difference was observed between the exercise methods."
• RCT: Primary Endpoint or Weight in Time-restricted Feeding in Low-income Women with Obesity Placed on Hypoenergetic Diets.
• RCT: Hypnosis-induced Hallucinated Meal on Primary Endpoints (appetite Variables). (pdf)

Basic

• CB2R Agonist JWH-133 Attenuates Chronic Inflammation by Restraining M1 Macrophage Polarization Via the Nrf2/HO-1 Pathway in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Fgr Kinase Is Required for Proinflammatory Macrophage Activation During Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Depletion of ASK1 Blunts Stress-Induced Senescence in Adipocytes.
• Intranasal Targeting of Hypothalamic PTP1B and TCPTP Reinstates Leptin and Insulin Sensitivity and Promotes Weight Loss in Obesity.
• Metformin Effectively Restores the HPA Axis Function in Diet-induced Obese Rats.
• Genetic Deletion of MiR-204 Improves Glycemic Control Despite Obesity in Db/db Mice.
• Influence of Obesity on Remodeling of Lung Tissue and Organization of Extracellular Matrix After Blunt Thorax Trauma.
• Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase as a Therapeutic Target for Obesity-induced Disorders: Roles of Gut Barrier Function Involved.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Erratum on Two Papers on Exercise in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Editorial: Low-energy Sweeteners and Cardiometabolic Health: Is There Method in the Madness?
• Retraction: The Parenteral Vitamin C Improves Sepsis and Sepsis-Induced Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome Via Preventing Cellular Immunosuppression.
• Statistical Analysis of Continuous Outcomes from Parallel-arm Randomized Controlled Trials in Nutrition—a Tutorial.
• The Long Road to Retraction in Childhood Obesity.

Clinical

• Severe Metabolic Acidosis: A Case of Triple Hit with Ketogenic Diet, Vinegar, and Metformin in a Patient with Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Intake of Nuts or Nut Products Does Not Lead to Weight Gain, Independent of Dietary Substitution Instructions.
• RCT: Intervention Enhancement Strategies Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in a Very Low–Carbohydrate Web-Based Program.
• Obesity Trends Amongst Hospitalized Patients with Spinal Cord Stimulator Implants.
• Lower Extremity Lymphatic Function Predicted by BMI.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project.
• Preventing Obesity in 2–5-Year Olds: A Pathway to Advancing Intervention Research.
• Female Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity Share Their Perspectives on the Clinical Setting and Weight Management.
• Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: Building Translational Capacity Through Meta-Analytic Methods.
• High-Calorie Formula Preferred for Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
• A 24-week Intervention Based on Nutrition Care Process Improves Diet Quality, BMI and Motivation in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Assessment of Active Video Games’ Energy Expenditure in Children with Overweight and Obesity and Differences by Gender.
• A National E-Health Program for the Prevention and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence in Greece.

Surgery

• Defining Postoperative Weight Change After Pancreatectomy: Factors Associated with Distinct and Dynamic Weight Trajectories.
• Association between Metabolic Surgery and Cardiovascular Outcome in Patients with Hypertension.
• RCT: Long Alimentary Limb Duodenal Switch.
• Prognostic Impact of Sarcopenic Obesity After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Followed by Surgery in Elderly Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
• Disparity between United States Adolescent Class II and III Obesity Trends and Bariatric Surgery Utilization, 2015-2018.

Drugs

• Prescriptions Slowly Recovering from Pandemic Hit.
• Meta-Analysis: Asthma Medication Use in Patients with Asthma with or without Obesity.
• Obesity and Hormonal Contraception: An Overview and a Clinician's Practical Guide.
• Efficacy and Safety of Once-weekly Semaglutide 1.0mg vs Once-daily Liraglutide 1.2mg as Add-on to 1-3 Oral Antidiabetic Drugs in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes (SUSTAIN 10).
• 48Biochemical Mechanisms of the Anti-obesity Effect of a Triterpenoid-enriched Extract of Cynomorium Songaricum in Mice with High-fat-diet-induced Obesity.
• GLP-1R Agonists for the Treatment of Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Conference abstract: Diets High in Fish and Sugar-sweetened Beverages Affect Energy Expenditure and Energy Balance.
• Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Prevent Obesity by Improving Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Homeostasis.
• A Scoping Review of the Operationalization of Fruit and Vegetable Variety.
• Meta-Analysis: Comparing Heterogeneity in Body Mass Responses between Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets.
• Review: Current Evidence to Propose Different Food Supplements for Weight Loss.
• Meta-Analysis: Intake of Nuts or Nut Products Does Not Lead to Weight Gain, Independent of Dietary Substitution Instructions.
• Mediterranean Diet Helps Offset the Health Impacts of Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction on Human Physiological, Psychological, and Behavioral Outcomes.
• Dietary Methionine Restriction Signals to the Brain Through Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 to Regulate Energy Balance and Remodeling of Adipose Tissue.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Review: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Effects of Carbohydrate Ingestion During Exercise.
• Temporal Trends in the Handgrip Strength of 2,592,714 Adults from 14 Countries between 1960 and 2017.
• Usability Inquiry of a Gamified Behavior Change App for Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behavior in Adults with and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Exercise During Weight Loss Maintenance on Appetite Regulation in Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Household Socioeconomic Status Modifies the Association between Neighborhood SES and Obesity in a Nationally Representative Sample of First Grade Children in the United States.
• Child Bodyweight and Human Capital: Test Scores, Teacher Assessments and Noncognitive Skills.

Epidemiology

• Long-term Trajectories of BMI Predict Carotid Stiffness and Plaque Volume in Type 2 Diabetes Older Adults.
• Association of a Genetic Risk Score with BMI Along the Life-cycle: Evidence from Several US Cohorts.
• Prevalence of Hypothyroidism in a Large Sample of Patients with Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome.
• Meta-Analysis: Hypomagnesemia in Subjects with Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Relationship between Sleep and Hedonic Appetite in Shift Workers.
• A Reinforcer Pathology Model of Health Behaviors in Individuals with Obesity.
• Longitudinal Study Examining the Influence of Diet-related Compensatory Behavior on Healthy Weight Management.
• Prevalence of Social, Cognitive, and Emotional Impairment Among Individuals with Food Addiction.
• Social Support-based Weight Loss Intervention for Adults with Obesity.
• Neural Correlates of Verbal Recognition Memory in Adults with Obesity, with or without Major Depressive Disorder.

Equity and Disparities

• Grow Well/Crecer Bien: A Protocol for Research on Infant Feeding Practices in Low-income Families.
• Gender-specific Temporal Trends in Overweight Prevalence Among Chinese Adults.
• Provide Policy Options Based on the Results of a Survey on Food Security Status, the Willingness to Pay for Healthy Food and Food Choices and Their Association with Some of the Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Associated with Obesity.

Stigma

• Enacted Weight Stigma and Weight Self Stigma Prevalence Among 3821 Adults.
• Me Too: Weight Discrimination Is Stubborn.
• Enacted Weight Stigma and Weight Self Stigma Prevalence Among Adults.

Policy Related

• Federal Register: National Organic Program (NOP); Final Decision on Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices Rule and Summary of Comments on the Economic Analysis Report. (pdf)
• Role of Food Aid and Assistance in Addressing the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Ghana. (pdf)
• Childhood Obesity Prevention and Federal Food Policy Approaches.
• “There’s Always Something Else”: Patient Perspectives on Improving the Implementation of Obesity Guidelines in General Practice.

Intergenerational Effects

• Child’s BMI and Mother’s Obesity: The Moderating Role of Physical Fitness.
• Maternal Lipid Levels Across Pregnancy Impact the Umbilical Cord Blood Lipidome and Infant Birth Weight.
• Early Life Predictors of Development of Blood Pressure from Childhood to Adulthood.
• The Role of Lifestyle and Non-modifiable Risk Factors in the Development of Metabolic Disturbances from Childhood to Adolescence.
• Birth Weight, Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Effect Modification of Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents.
• Prenatal Maternal Vitamin D Deficiency Sex-Dependently Programs Adipose Tissue Metabolism and Energy Homeostasis in Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Social Hierarchy Reveals Thermoregulatory Trade-offs in Response to Repeated Stressors.
• Review: Nutrition, Bioenergetics, and Metabolic Syndrome (PDF). (pdf)

Methods

• An Ecological Study on the Spatially Varying Association between Adult Obesity Rates and Altitude in the United States.
• Health Differences between Religious and Secular Subgroups in the United States.
• A GUIDE TO METHODS FOR Assessing Childhood Obesity.
• 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction for Precise Anthropometry with Handheld Devices.

Commentary

• Pitfalls and Challenges of the Purinergic Signaling Cascade in Obesity.
• Chemical Components of Plastics as Endocrine Disruptors.
• A New FGF21 Analog for the Treatment of Fatty Liver Disease.
• Perspective: Towards Automated Tracking of Content and Evidence Appraisal of Nutrition Research.
• An Enduring Link: COVID-19 and Cardiometabolic Health.
• Unravelling the Role of Oestrogen in Feeding Control.
• Healthy Plant-based Diet Confers Longer-lasting Cardiometabolic Benefits in Obesity.
• Obesity Increasing in U.S. Adults.

General

• Fossil Evidence of 'hibernation-like' State in 250-million-year-old Antarctic Animal.
• Preprint: BigO: A Public Health Decision Support System for Measuring Obesogenic Behaviors of Children in Relation to Their Local Environment.
• Toxin-Antidote Elements Across the Tree of Life.
• The Opium Eaters.
• RCT: Minimal Effects of Cocoa-Rich Chocolate and Quality of Life in Postmenopausal Women.
• Frozen Meat Against COVID-19 Misinformation: An Analysis of Steak-Umm and Positive Expectancy Violations.
• Space Food for Thought: Challenges and Considerations for Food and Nutrition on Exploration Missions.
• Obesity Is a Potential Risk Factor Contributing to Clinical Manifestations of COVID-19.
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• Factors Associated with Increased Morbidity and Mortality of COVID-19 Patients with Overweight or Obesity.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Prof. Diana Thomas, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Announcements

• Addressing Food Insecurity and Poor Nutrition During COVID-19.
• Nutrition 2021 Call for Ideas.

Featured

• Effect (association) of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Food Craving and Eating When Using a Control Method That Minimizes Guessing of the Real Vs. Control Condition.
• Energetic Limits: Defining the Bounds and Trade-offs of Successful Energy Management in a Capital Breeder.
• Why COVID-19 Is More Deadly in People with Obesity—even If They’re Young.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Researchers Perplexed: COVID-19 Stress May Be Hard to Beat Even with Exercise.
• Study: Perceived Change in Physical Activity Levels and Mental Health During COVID-19: Findings Among Adult Twin Pairs.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "There was no evidence that physical activity, sedentary behaviours, and perennial mean temperature mediated the associations between neighbourhood greenness and markers of adiposity."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Obesity and Related Metabolic Abnormalities Among Sri Lankan Children with Obesity and VDD [vitamin D Deficiency].
• "Contrary to hypotheses, olfactory stimulation did not influence AATs towards food pictures in normal weight and obese participants. Further, no differences in AATs were found in different BMI groups."
• "A sweetened beverage tax was not associated with reduced taxed beverage purchases among SSB consumers 12 mo posttax in the full sample."
• "Results from this study do not support an inverse association of yogurt consumption or other dairy consumption with T2D risk in black women."
• Amyloidosis Increase Is Not Attenuated by Long-term Calorie Restriction or Related to Neuron Density in the Prefrontal Cortex of Extremely Aged Rhesus Macaques.
• "...contrary to expectations, exhaustive chase protocols underestimate MMR and AS [maximum metabolic rate (MMR) and aerobic scope (AS)] at 18°C, compared to the no-chase control."
• "We found insufficient evidence on the short- and long-term effects of carbohydrate supplementation of human milk in preterm infants."

Basic

• Genetic and Pharmacological Inhibition of PAPP-A Protects Against Visceral Obesity in Mice.
• Progesterone Receptor Membrane Associated Component 1 Enhances Obesity Progression in Mice by Facilitating Lipid Accumulation in Adipocytes.
• Eicosapentaenoic Acid Regulates Inflammatory Pathways Through Modulation of Transcripts and MiRNA in Adipose Tissue of Obese Mice.
• Sex Differences in Liver, Adipose Tissue, and Muscle Transcriptional Response to Fasting and Refeeding in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: A School-Based, Peer-Led, Social Marketing Intervention to Engage Spanish Adolescents in a Healthy Lifestyle (“We are Cool”—Som La Pera Study): A Parallel-Cluster Randomized Controlled Study.
• Retraction: Cinnamaldehyde Ameliorates High-Glucose–Induced Oxidative Stress and Cardiomyocyte Injury Through Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1.
• Withdrawal: Increased Expression of Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 (FGF21) During Chronic Undernutrition Causes Growth Hormone Insensitivity in Chondrocytes by Inducing Leptin Receptor Overlapping Transcript (LEPROT) and Leptin Receptor Overlapping Transcript-like 1 (LEPROTL1) Expression.
• Expression of Concern: Development of Plasma and Whole Blood Taurine Reference Ranges and Identification of Dietary Features Associated with Taurine Deficiency and Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Golden Retrievers: A Prospective, Observational Study.
• Blog Post On: "Dramatic clinical improvement in nine consecutive acutely ill elderly COVID-19 patients treated with a nicotinamide mononucleotide cocktail: A retrospective case series."
• Doing the Right Thing: Alcoholism Researchers Retract Six-week Old Paper After Finding Errors.
• And, Yet, the Soup Moves.

Clinical

• The Clinical Consequences of Heterogeneity Within and between Different Diabetes Types.
• The Collision of Meta-Inflammation and SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Infection.
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Individual Real-Time Video Counseling on Smoking, Nutrition, Alcohol, Physical Activity, and Obesity Health Risks.
• Mediterranean Diet and Endothelial Function in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: An Analysis of the CORDIOPREV RCT.
• RCT: Group Lifestyle Phone Maintenance for Weight, Health and Physical Function in Adults Ages 65-80 Years.
• Conference abstract: Small Weight Loss Produces Impressive Drop in Type 2 Diabetes Risk.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Effects of School-based Interventions on Motivation Towards Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents.
• Systematic Review: Family-based Nutrition Interventions for Obesity Prevention Among School-aged Children.
• Thinking Beyond the Norm: Using Alternate Theories in Early Childhood Education and Care Physical Activity Interventions.
• Index of Nutritional Quality (INQ) and the Risk of Obesity in Male Adolescents: A Case-Control Study.

Surgery

• Review: The Clinical Obesity Maintenance Model: A Theoretical Framework for Bariatric Psychology.
• Gut Microbiota Modifications and Weight Regain in Women with BMI>35 After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Patients >60 Years of Age: Morbidity and Short-Term Outcomes.

Drugs

• RCT: Efficacy of the Treatment with Dapagliflozin and Metformin Compared to Metformin Monotherapy for Weight Loss in Patients with Class III Obesity.
• Transnasal Delivery of the Peptide Agonist Specific to Neuromedin-U Receptor 2 to the Brain for the Treatment of Obesity.
• Dulaglutide: A Review in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Implications for IV Posaconazole Dosing in the Era of Obesity.

Food & Diet

• News report: Study Finds That Insect Shows Promise as a Sustainable Protein Source.
• Article: The Yellow Mealworm (Tenebrio Molitor) Genome: A Resource for the Emerging Insects as Food and Feed Industry.
• Review: Very Low Calorie Ketogenic Diets in Overweight and Obesity Treatment: Effects on Anthropometric Parameters, Body Composition, Satiety, Lipid Profile and Microbiota.
• Review: ω-3 and ω-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Obesity and Cancer.
• Carbohydrate and Fat Intake Associated with Risk of Metabolic Diseases Through Epigenetics of CPT1A.
• Lactobacillus Fermentum Promotes Adipose Tissue Oxidative Phosphorylation to Protect Against Diet-induced Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Dietary Restriction Regulates Brain Acetylcholinesterase in Female Mice as a Function of Age.
• Intermittent Caloric Restriction with a Modified Fasting-mimicking Diet Ameliorates Autoimmunity and Promotes Recovery in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis.
• Calorie Restriction Delays Cardiac Senescence and Improves Cardiac Function in Obese Diabetic Rats.
• Metabolic Adaptation to Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Acute Metabolic Responses After Continuous or Interval Exercise in Postmenopausal Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Wearable-device-measured Physical Activity and Future Health Risk.
• Network Meta-Analysis: What Exercise Prescription Is Optimal to Improve Body Composition and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Adults Living with Obesity?
• PuzzleWalk: A Theory-driven Iterative Design Inquiry of a Mobile Game for Promoting Physical Activity in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Design and Validity of a Choice-Modeling Questionnaire to Analyze the Feasibility of Implementing Physical Activity on Prescription at Primary Health-Care Settings. (pdf)

Economics & Sociology

• Can the Participant Speak Beyond Likert? Free Text Responses in COVID-19 Obesity Surveys.
• Interaction of Neighborhood and Genetic Risk on Waist Circumference in African-American Adults: A Longitudinal Study.

Epidemiology

• Association of Sleep Duration and Variability with BMI.
• Association of BMI with Endothelial Function in Asian Men.
• Relation between Pregestational Obesity and Characteristics of the Placenta.
• Meta-Analysis: Association between Soup Consumption and Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Acceptability and Feasibility of Two Interventions in the MooDFOOD Trial: A Food-related Depression Prevention RCT in Overweight Adults with Subsyndromal Symptoms of Depression.
• Trying Again (and Again): Weight Cycling and Depressive Symptoms in U.S. Adults.

Equity and Disparities

• Differences in Health Behaviors Related to Overweight/obesity by Race/ethnicity in a Diverse Urban Commuter College.
• Changes in the Recreational Built Environment and Youth BMI.
• Continuity of Care for Patients with Obesity-Associated Chronic Conditions: Protocol for a Multisite Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Variation in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Obesity by Ethnicity – England’s National Child Measurement Programme.
• Using a New Socioepidemiological Questionnaire to Analyse Associations between Intergenerational Upward Social Mobility and Body Fat Distribution: A Pilot Study with the Oxford BioBank Cohort.
• Quantifying Gender Inequalities in Obesity: Findings from the Turkish Population-based Balcova Heart Study.

Stigma

• Assessing the Relationship between Weight Stigma, Stress, Depression, and Sleep in Chinese Adolescents.
• Weight Stigma as a Predictor of Distress and Maladaptive Eating Behaviors During COVID-19: Longitudinal Findings from the EAT Study.

Policy Related

• Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Children Living in the U.S..
• UK Policy Targeting Obesity During a Pandemic — the Right Approach?

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity in Prolonged Pregnancy: Labor, Mode of Delivery, Maternal and Fetal Outcomes.
• Recalled Maternal Lifestyle Behaviors Associated with Anti-müllerian Hormone of Adult Female Offspring.
• Associations of Gestational Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes During Pregnancy with Breastfeeding at Hospital Discharge and Up to 6 Months: The PANDORA Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Thesis: The Phenotypic Flexibility of Thermogenic Capacity: from Physiological Mechanism to Evolutionary Implication.
• Review: Cellular, Molecular, and Physiological Adaptations of Hibernation: The Solution to Environmental Challenges (PDF). (pdf)

Methods

• Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: Methods for Taxonomy Development for Application in Taxonomic Meta-Analysis.
• Accuracy of a Semi-Quantitative Ultrasound Method to Determine Liver Fat Infiltration in Early Adulthood.

Commentary

• When Fat Is Favorable: The Unexpected Relationship between Obesity and Response to Immunotherapy.
• Obesity, COVID-19 and Innate Immunometabolism.
• Health Benefits of Calorie Restriction Linked with Reduced Body Temperature.
• When Dietary Dogma Meets Inconvenient Facts.
• A Doctor's Apology to Patients with Obesity.
• A Revealing FDA Op-Ed About Lorcaserin and Obesity.
• What Exactly Is Well-Controlled Obesity? Does It Matter?
• Obesity Policy: Improving Health or Promoting Stigma?

General

• College Students’ Underlying Beliefs About Using E-cigarettes: An Application of the Reasoned Action Approach.
• I’ve Got Corona Questions: An Honest-to-god Epidemiologist Tells Us What to Expect.
• Romantic Relationship Conflict Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Intimate and Sexual Behaviors in a Nationally Representative Sample of American Adults.
• How to Design a Pre-specified Statistical Analysis Approach to Limit P-hacking in Clinical Trials: The Pre-SPEC Framework.
• What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers.
• Scientists Found Phosphine on Venus—A Possible Hint of Life.
• Using Qualitative Research to Explore Intervention Mechanisms: Findings from the Trial of the Learning Together Whole-school Health Intervention.
• Food Need Very High Compared to Pre-Pandemic Levels, Making Relief Imperative.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Total Red Meat Intake on Glycemic Control and Inflammatory Biomarkers.

Video & Audio

• Webinar: Why Did I Eat That? Obesity and the Neuroscience of Food Craving.
• Webinar: Treating Obesity in Patients with Down Syndrome and Development Delay.

Announcements

• $3.7 Million Grant Awarded to UAB to Study Antiviral Therapies and Accelerated Aging.
• IU Pandemic Health Disparities Committee Unveils Recommendations to Support Underserved Students.
• Obesity Week Registration Is Now Open.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair for a Newly Conceived Department, Health and Wellness Design.

Featured

• RCT: Weight Loss in Underserved Patients — a Cluster-Randomized Trial.
• RCT: In Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Two Days of Iso-energetic Replacement of Dietary Carbohydrates by Protein and Fat Reduced All Indices of Glycemic Variability.
• Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue Function — Is Space a Constraint?

Headline vs Study

• Headline: REM Sleep Affects Our Eating Habits.
• Study: REM Sleep Stabilizes Hypothalamic Representation of Feeding Behavior... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Correction from our (OEO’s) erroneous listing last week: Quasi-Experiment: In Jump-Rope study, between-groups: body weight, BMI, abdominal circumference, body fat content and percentage, weight, and BMI were statistically different; lipocalin-2, waist-to-hip ratio, and lean body mass were not.
• Systematic review: "The majority of null results across studies suggest that a high-fat, ketogenic diet does not have a positive or negative impact on physical performance."
• RCT: Supplementation-Induced Increase in Circulating Omega-3 Serum Levels Is Not Associated with a Reduction in Depressive Symptoms.
• RCT: Hyperglycemia Does Not Inhibit Insulin's Effects on Microvascular Perfusion in Healthy Humans.
• Meta-analysis: "Overall, results suggest that interventions with walnut intake does not alter BW, BMI, FM, and WC. To date, there is no discernible evidence to support walnut intake for improving anthropometric indicators of weight loss."
• Meta-analysis: "These results do not support the use of vitamin D supplementation for improving cardiometabolic health in childhood."
• Dietary Intake of Nε-carboxymethyl-lysine, a Major Advanced Glycation End Product, Is Not Associated with Increased Risk of Mortality in Japanese Adults in the Takayama Study.
• The Addition of Partial or Circumferential Liposuction to Abdominoplasty Is Not Associated with a Higher Risk of Skin Necrosis.
• Access to Fueling Stations Is Not Associated with Diet Quality in Division I Athletes.

Basic

• Circulating Cell Adhesion Molecules in Metabolically Healthy Obesity.
• Feasibility of Quantifying Change in Immune White Cells in Abdominal Adipose Tissue in Response to an Immune Modulator in Clinical Obesity.
• LncRNA TUG1 Reduces Inflammation and Enhances Insulin Sensitivity in White Adipose Tissue by Regulating MiR-204/SIRT1 Axis in Obesity Mice.
• Corneal Dysfunction Precedes the Onset of Hyperglycemia in a Mouse Model of Diet-induced Obesity.
• Lipocalin-2 Deficiency May Predispose to the Progression of Spontaneous Age-related Adiposity in Mice.
• Gut Microbial Changes in Diabetic Db/db Mice and Recovery of Microbial Diversity upon Pirfenidone Treatment.
• Distinct Effects of Milk-Derived and Fermented Dairy Protein on Gut Microbiota and Cardiometabolic Markers in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Identification of a TMEM182 Rs141764639 Polymorphism Associated with Central Obesity by Regulating Tumor Necrosis Factor-α.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections.
• Letter: Overstated Claims of Efficacy and Safety. Comment On: “Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections”. Nutrients 2020, 12, 1181.
• Response: Reply to “Overstated Claims of Efficacy and Safety. Comment On: Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections. Nutrients 2020, 12, 1181”.
• High Impact Nutrition and Dietetics Journals’ Use of Publication Procedures to Increase Research Transparency.
• Commentary: Randomized Controlled Trials: When the Gold Standard Leaves You with Fool’s Gold.

Clinical

• RCT: Efficacy of a Multi-component M-Health Weight-loss Intervention in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Prospective cohort: The Obesity Paradox for Mid- and Long-term Mortality in Older Cancer Patients.
• Development and Verification of a Body Weight–Directed Disease Trial Model for Glucose Homeostasis.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Prenatal and Pediatric Primary Care–Based Child Obesity Prevention Program.
• Developmental Trajectories of BMI, WC, and Aerobic Fitness in Youth: Implications for Physical Activity Guideline Recommendations.
• Breastfeeding History, Preschool Children’s Sleep, and Obesity.
• Childhood BMI and Fasting Glucose and Insulin Predict Adult Type 2 Diabetes.
• Childhood Obesity Is Associated with Poor Academic Skills and Coping Mechanisms.

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: Safety of Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
• Conversion of Adjustable Gastric Banding to Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in One or Two Steps: What Is the Best Approach? Analysis of a Multicenter Database Concerning 832 Patients.
• Association of Bariatric Surgery with Rates of Kidney Function Decline Using Multiple Filtration Markers.

Drugs

• Hypercoagulopathy and Adipose Tissue Exacerbated Inflammation May Explain Higher Mortality in COVID-19 Patients with Obesity.
• Increased Fractalkine and Vascular Dysfunction in Obesity and in Type 2 Diabetes. Effects of Oral Antidiabetic Treatment.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: Egg Consumption and Cardiovascular Risk.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Macronutrient Intake in Obesity: Low-carbohydrate and Low-fat Diets on Markers of the Metabolic Syndrome.
• Three Weeks Daily Intake of Matcha Green Tea Powder Affects Substrate Oxidation During Moderate-Intensity Exercise in Females.
• No-meat Eaters are Less Likely to Have Overweight or Obesity, but Take Dietary Supplements More Often.
• Effects of Sweet-Liking on Body Composition Depend on Age and Lifestyle: A Challenge to the Simple Sweet-Liking—Obesity Hypothesis.
• The Yellow Mealworm (Tenebrio Molitor) Genome: A Resource for the Emerging Insects as Food and Feed Industry.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting as a Nutrition Approach Against Obesity and Metabolic Disease.
• An Exploratory Investigation of the Impact of "Fast" and "Feed" Days During Intermittent Energy Restriction on Free-Living Energy Balance Behaviours and Subjective States in Women with Overweight/Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Review: Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Positive Effects of Physical Activity on Coping with COVID-19.
• Acute Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in University Students and Employees.
• Ventilatory Response to Exercise Is Preserved in Patients with Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome.
• Dissertation: Baseline Predictors of Early Weight Loss During a Standard Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention.
• Dissertation: “Do Not Play” Outdoor Advisories: Examining the Impact of Soil Lead Contamination in Urban Communities.
• Dissertation: Preliminary Efficacy of a Gamified, Behavior Change Techniques-Based Mobile Application Puzzlewalk on Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Anxiety in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Economics & Sociology

• "The Botswana traditional food pattern, characterized by a high carbohydrate intake, was found to be associated with a high risk of obesity."
• Using Citizen Science to Understand the Prerequisites for Physical Activity Among Adolescents in Low Socioeconomic Status Neighborhoods.
• Variation in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Obesity by Ethnicity.
• Dissertation: Association between Obesity, Socioeconomics, Mental Illness, and Education in Native American Communities.
• Dissertation: Real Men Don’t Get Lipos: Gender, Political Economy, and Biomedicine in Colombia’s Male Beauty Industry.
• Thesis: Food Gentrification: An Examination of Food and Culture as It Relates to Food Security.

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis: Weight Change From Childhood to Adulthood and Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Outcomes in Adulthood.
• Systematic review: Prevalence and Social Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents in Saudi Arabia.
• Prospective cohort: Handgrip Strength Improves Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes.
• "Central obesity is a useful predictor for high disease severity in ankylosing spondylitis."
• Competing Interplay between Systemic and Periodontal Inflammation: Obesity Overrides the Impact of Oral Periphery.
• Identifying Factors Associated with Obesity Traits in Undergraduate Students: A Scoping Review.
• Individuals with Obesity and COVID-19: A Global Perspective on the Epidemiology and Biological Relationships.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Does Episodic Future Thinking Repair Immediacy Bias at Home and in the Laboratory in Patients with Prediabetes?
• Relationship of Estrogen Synthesis Capacity in the Brain with Obesity and Self-control in Men and Women.
• Effects of Coparenting Quality, Stress, and Sleep Parenting on Sleep and Obesity Among Latinx Children.
• "In Chilean young adults, cognitive restraint and emotional eating scores were associated with higher BMI, elevated BF, and greater central obesity."
• Circulating Exosomal MiRNAs Signal Circadian Misalignment to Peripheral Metabolic Tissues.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic review: Neighborhood Food Environment and Health Outcomes in U.S. Low-Socioeconomic Status, Racial/Ethnic Minority, and Rural Populations.
• Household Food Security and Infant Adiposity.
• Dissertation: Relationships Among Race, Hispanic Acculturation, and Weight-related Characteristics of the Home Environment of Mothers of Young Children.
• Poster presentation: P55 Racial Discrimination Predicts Body Weight Gain in Black Individuals in Four Years Follow-up.

Stigma

• Reductions in Weight Bias Internalization Did Not Differ between a Cognitive Behavioral Intervention Combined with Behavioral Weight Loss and Behavioral Weight Loss Alone at 6-month Follow-up.
• Comparing and Predicting Public Attitudes Toward Stuttering, Obesity, and Mental Illness.

Policy Related

• "Unhealthier diets defined using the Food Standards Agency-Nutrient Profiling System and related systems were associated with weight gain and overweight risk"
• Benchmarking Food and Beverage Companies on Obesity Prevention and Nutrition Policies.
• "Amongst households that regularly purchase beverages, those that mainly purchased high volumes of sugar-sweetened or diet beverages were at greater risk of obesity and tended to purchase less healthy foods."
• Obesity Metaphors: How Beliefs About the Causes of Obesity Affect Support for Public Policy.
• Commentary: Addressing the Consequences of School Closure Due to COVID-19 on Children's Physical and Mental Well-Being.
• Commentary: Nearly a Decade on — Trends, Risk Factors and Policy Implications in Global Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational cohort study: Grand-maternal Lifestyle During Pregnancy and BMI in Adolescence and Young Adulthood.
• Prospective cohort: Pre-Pregnancy BMI, Gestational Diabetes and Different Indicators of Childhood Obesity at the Age of Four.
• Developmental Programming of Peripheral Diseases in Offspring Exposed to Maternal Obesity During Pregnancy.
• "Excessive gestational weight gain may be a risk factor for childhood allergic diseases."
• Off the Charts: Identifying and Visualizing BMI Trajectories of Rural, Poor Youth.
• Longitudinal Associations of Maternal Stress and Child Stress with Child BMI Trajectory.
• Maternal Pre-pregnancy and Current Nutritional Status and Infant Sex Interact to Affect Human Milk Composition.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Systematic review: Natural Environment and Childhood Obesity.
• Large Lemurs: Ecological, Demographic and Environmental Risk Factors for Weight Gain in Captivity.
• Continuous Growth Through Winter Correlates with Increased Resting Metabolic Rate but Does Not Affect Daily Energy Budgets Due to Torpor Use.
• Energy Gap between Doubly Labeled Water-Based Energy Expenditure and Calculated Energy Intake From Recipes and Plate Waste, and Subsequent Weight Changes in Elderly Residents in Japanese Long-Term Care Facilities.

Methods

• Systematic review: Existing Observational Tools to Measure the Food and Physical Activity Environment in Schools.
• A Tutorial on Methodological Studies: The What, When, How and Why.
• A Body Shape Index Achieves Better Mortality Risk Stratification Than Alternative Indices of Abdominal Obesity.
• Perspective: Protein Intake and Human Health: Implications of Units of Protein Intake.

Commentary

• Alexa, Am I Too Fat? Amazon Wants to Help.
• What’s the Effect of Cutting Sugar-Sweetened Drinks?
• Rethinking Fatness, Rethinking Diabetes.
• Antibiotic Therapy and Its Effect on Gut Microbiome in Obesity and Weight Loss.
• Controlled Obesity Status: A Rarely Used Concept, but with Particular Importance in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond.
• The Dawn of the Food Packaging Value Chain.
• A Bogus Obesity Strategy: Personal Responsibility.
• Obesity and Weight Management: What Can We Do as Gastroenterologists?

General

• Towards a General Theory of the Major Cooperative Evolutionary Transitions.
• What’s the Risk: Differentiating Risk Ratios, Odds Ratios, and Hazard Ratios?
• Why a Simple Act of Kindness Is Not as Simple as It Seems: Underestimating the Positive Impact of Our Compliments on Others.
• Body Size Impacts Critical Thermal Maximum Measurements in Lizards.
• Preprint: Geometric and Statistical Techniques for Projective Mapping of Chocolate Chip Cookies with a Large Number of Consumers.
• Preprint: A Framework for Clinical and Translational Research in the Era of Rigor and Reproducibility.
• Commentary: When It Comes to Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward.
• Thesis: Exploring Inverse Probability Weighted Per-protocol Estimates to Adjust for Non-adherence Using Post-randomization Co-variates.

Video & Audio

• Working Out as a Way to Accelerate the Benefits of a Fast [Peter Attia].

Announcements

• Webinar: Food Policy at a Time of Crisis: What Should the Future Look Like? [when: October 16].
• Webinar: ASA24 Dietary Assessment Tool: Recent Updates and Future Enhancements [when: September 14].
• Virtual Meeting: USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service Host Public Meeting on the Future of Consumer Food Safety Education [when: October 6].
• Webinar: Roundtable on Obesity Solutions - Using Systems Applications to Inform Obesity [when: September 16].
• Virtual Workshop: NORC Initiative to Advance the Careers of Researchers From Groups Underrepresented in Academia (URiA) [when: September 11 - October 30].
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair for a Newly Conceived Department, Health and Wellness Design.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency and/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.

Featured

• Metabolic Adaptation Is an Illusion, Only Present When Participants are in Negative Energy Balance.
• Metabolic Rate Through the Life-course: From the Organism to the Organelle.
• Preprint: Unpalatable Food for Thought: Let Marketing Research Guide Effective Public Obesity Interventions.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: BMI Is a More Powerful Risk Factor for Diabetes Than Genetics – Losing Weight Could Prevent or Even Reverse Diabetes.
• Meeting presentation: Associations between Polygenic Risk Score or BMI on Diabetes Incidence.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to our hypothesis, consuming 3.3 servings per day of low-fat dairy or an equivalent amount of full-fat dairy, did not improve glucose tolerance in men and women with the metabolic syndrome."
• Quasi-Experiment: In Jump-Rope study, "Concerning anthropometric variables, within-group assessments revealed no significant change in weight (P = 0.261), BMI (P = 0.257), WHR (P = 0.226), abdominal circumference (P = 0.917), body fat content (P = 0.430) and percentage (P = 0.375), and LBM (P = 0.867) in control group." (pdf)
• "...contrary to what was hypothesized; male participants who endorsed more visually-oriented social network site use reported more positive body image."
• Obesity Does Not Significantly Impact Gamete Production in Infertile Men and Women.
• Abstract: Hyperinsulinemia Does Not Reduce Plasma Sex Hormone-binding Globulin Levels in Obesity.
• Achieving Energy Balance with a High-fat Meal Does Not Enhance Skeletal Muscle Adaptation and Impairs Glycemic Response in a Sleep-low Training Model.
• Dietary Nitrate Supplementation Does Not Influence Thermoregulatory or Cardiovascular Strain in Older Individuals During Severe Ambient Heat Stress.
• Individual, Family, and Contextual Level Variables Do Not Explain the Protective Effect of Parental Nativity Status on Changes in 3-15-year-old Children’s BMI.
• Preprint: "No intervention effect for the primary outcome BMIz or overweight or obesity was observed for intervention communities compared to control communities over the four years of the trial."

Basic

• Difference in Housing Temperature-Induced Energy Expenditure Elicits Sex-Specific Diet-Induced Metabolic Adaptations in Mice.
• Secreted Factors From Adipose Tissue Reprogram Tumor Lipid Metabolism and Induce Motility By Modulating PPARα/ANGPTL4 and FAK.
• TET1 Is a Beige Adipocyte-Selective Epigenetic Suppressor of Thermogenesis.
• Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase Deficiency Protects Mice From Diet-Induced Obesity By Increasing Energy Expenditure Through Neuroendocrine Axis.
• Peripancreatic Adipose Tissue Protects Against High-Fat-Diet-Induced Hepatic Steatosis and Insulin Resistance in Mice.
• CRISPR-engineered Human Brown-like Adipocytes Prevent Diet-induced Obesity and Ameliorate Metabolic Syndrome in Mice. (pdf)
• Impact of Weight Loss and Partial Weight Regain on Immune Cell and Inflammatory Markers in Adipose Tissue in Male Mice.
• Effect of a Weight Loss Program on Biochemical and Immunological Profile, Serum Leptin Levels, and Cardiovascular Parameters in Dogs with Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• PubPeer Comments On: The Impact of a Ketogenic Dietary Intervention on the Quality of Life of Stage II and III Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial in the Caribbean.
• The Obligation to Retract an Unethical Paper.
• Room Indirect Calorimetry Operating and Reporting Standards (RICORS 1.0): A Guide to Conducting and Reporting Human Whole-Room Calorimeter Studies.

Clinical

• Obesity Doubles Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 in Paris Hospitals, France: A Cohort Study on 5795 Patients.
• Intensive Weight Loss Intervention and Cancer Risk in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Analysis of the Look AHEAD Trial.
• Review: Obesity: A Critical Risk Factor in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Children and Adolescents

• Review: Communication Tools Used in Childhood Obesity Discussions.
• Bone Mass and Density in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, and Healthy Weight.
• Systematic Review: Parent Involvement in Adolescent Obesity Treatment.
• Childhood BMI and Fasting Glucose and Insulin Predict Adult Type 2 Diabetes: The International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium.
• Relationship between Retail Food Outlets Near Public Schools and Adolescent Obesity in New York City.
• What's a Normal Weight? – Origin and Receiving Country Influences on Weight-status Assessment Among 1.5 and 2nd Generation Immigrant Adolescents in Europe.
• The Diets of Children: Overview of Available Data for Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Ventilatory Response at Rest and During Maximal Exercise Testing in Patients with Severe Obesity Before and After Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Obesity and Ventricular Assist Devices.
• Cardiovascular Risk Factors Following Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy in Black Americans Compared with White Americans.
• Early Post-operative Weight Change After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Predicts Weight Loss at 12-Month Follow-up.
• Three-Year Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Obesity and Hypertension.

Drugs

• Review: The Other Obesity Epidemic-Of Drugs and Bugs.
• Risk of Anemia with Metformin Use in Type 2 Diabetes: A MASTERMIND Study.

Food & Diet

• Preprint : Effects of Diet-Modulated Autologous Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on Weight Regain.
• Daily Eating Frequency in US Adults in NHANES: Associations with Low-Calorie Sweeteners, BMI, and Nutrient Intake.
• Ultra-processed Food Intake in Association with BMI Change and Risk of Overweight and Obesity: A Prospective Analysis of the French NutriNet-Santé Cohort.
• Effect [association] of Removing Chocolate Milk on Milk and Nutrient Intake Among Urban Secondary School Students. (pdf)
• Modeling the Replacement of Red and Processed Meat with Other Food Sources of Protein and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in European Populations: The EPIC-InterAct Study.
• RCT: Changes in Dietary Inflammatory Index Patterns with Weight Loss in Women.
• Calcium Intake Is Inversely Associated with Body Fat in Postmenopausal Women.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Review: The Effect of Fasting or Calorie Restriction on Mitophagy Induction.
• The Effect of Royal Jelly and Tocotrienol-rich Fraction Along with Calorie Restriction on Hypothalamic Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Diet-induced Obese Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Why are Physical Activity Breaks More Effective Than a Single Session of Isoenergetic Exercise in Reducing Postprandial Glucose?
• Meta-Analysis: The Association of the ACTN3 R577X and ACE I/D Polymorphisms with Athlete Status in Football.

Economics & Sociology

• Measuring Structural Racism and Its Association with BMI.
• How Do Early-life Adverse Childhood Experiences Mediate the Relationship between Childhood Socioeconomic Conditions and Adolescent Health Outcomes in the UK?

Epidemiology

• Nutritional Status and Survival of 8247 Cancer Patients with or Without Diabetes Mellitus—results From a Prospective Cohort Study.
• Association of Sex or Race with the Effect of Weight Loss on Physical Function: A Secondary Analysis of 8 RCTs.
• BMI and Height in Relation to Brain Tumor Risk in a Japanese Population.
• Metabolic Syndrome and COVID-19 Mortality Among Adult Black Patients in New Orleans.
• Meta-Analysis: Association between Shift Work and Obesity Among Nurses.
• The Effect of Boarding on Obesity Among Middle School Students: Evidence From China.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Psychological Adaptive Difficulties and Their Management During COVID-19 Pandemic in People with Diabetes Mellitus.
• Abstract: College Students’ Interpretation of Terminology Commonly Used in Describing Food.
• Longitudinal Analysis of Psychosocial Stressors and BMI in Middle-aged and Older Adults in the United States.
• Review: Brain–gut–microbiome Interactions in Obesity and Food Addiction.
• Loss of Control Eating in a Sample of Young Racially/ethnically Diverse Men.
• Meta-Analysis: Perceived Stress and Diet Quality in Women of Reproductive Age.
• Higher BMI Is Associated with Smaller Regional Brain Volume in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.

Equity and Disparities

• Black and White Females' Perceptions of Ideal Body Size and Social Norms.
• Is BMI Sensitively Related to Socio-economic Status and to Economic Adjustment? A Case Study From the Congo.
• Systematic Review: Stress-Induced Eating Among Racial/Ethnic Groups in the United States.
• Future Trends in Social Inequalities in Obesity in England, Wales and Scotland.
• Creating Healthy Food, Building Healthy Families: An Evaluation of a Healthy Cooking Healthy Lifestyle Programme in New Zealand.
• USDA Research Combats Childhood Obesity: A Collection of Projects That Integrate Research, Education, and Extension Targeting Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Children and Families.

Stigma

• Adolescents Exposed to Discrimination: Are They More Prone to Excessive Internet Use?
• Abstract: Minimizing Weight Bias in Health Professional Students Through Reflective Journaling.
• Abstract: The Association of Weight Bias with Health at Every Size® Alignment and Weight Bias Training in a Nationally Representative Sample of Registered Dietitians.
• Book Chapter: Bias and Stigma Related to Patients with Obesity. In: Treating Obesity in Primary Care.
• Pregnant and Postpartum Women’s Experiences of Weight Stigma in Healthcare.
• Intrapersonal Predictors of Weight Bias Internalization Among Elementary School Children.
• New Research at ECOICO: Progress in Reducing Weight Bias?

Policy Related

• Dietary and Physical Activity Behaviors Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019.
• COVID-19 and Morbid Obesity: Associations and Consequences for Policy and Practice.
• Evaluating Sustainability in the Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Project: The Model and Process.
• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education Improves Food Security Independent of Food Assistance and Program Characteristics.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association between Breastfeeding and Obesity in Preschool Children.
• Gestational Weight Gain, Birthweight and Early-childhood Obesity: Between- and Within-family Comparisons.
• Maternal Adiposity Alters the Human Milk Metabolome: Associations between Nonglucose Monosaccharides and Infant Adiposity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Animal Body Size Distribution Influences the Ratios of Nutrients Supplied to Plants.
• Longevity, Body Dimension and Reproductive Mode Drive Differences in Aquatic Versus Terrestrial Life-history Strategies.

Methods

• Methodological Considerations for Assessing Immune Defense in Reproductive Females.
• RCT: Glucose as the Fifth Vital Sign: Continuous Glucose Monitoring in a Non-ICU Hospital Setting.

Commentary

• An Ancient, Dolphinlike Reptile Called an Ichthyosaur May Have Died From Overeating.
• BPA: Would You Like a Receipt for Mortality Risk?
• Comparing Apples & Scalpels in the NEJM.
• Anorexia Often Stunts Girls' Growth, Study Finds.
• Individuals with Obesity and COVID-19: A Global Perspective on the Epidemiology and Biological Relationships.
• COVID-19-Era Isolation Is Making Dangerous Eating Disorders Worse.
• Imagined COVID Vaccine Study, Real Obesity Clickbait.
• When Two Pandemics Meet: Why Is Obesity Associated with Increased COVID-19 Mortality?

General

• Systematic Review: Mindfulness and Meditation Can Worsen Depression and Anxiety - Adverse Events in Meditation Practices and Meditation-based Therapies.
• FactCheck.org’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson on the Golden Age of Misinformation.
• Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Success of Male Polar Bears.
• A New Semi-Quantitative Method for Coding Carnivore Chewing Damage with an Application to Modern African Lion-Damaged Bones.
• A Measurement of Positronium’s Energy Levels Confounds Scientists.
• Meta-Analysis: Validity of Image-based Dietary Assessment Methods.
• An Online Paper Authoring Tool (PAT) to Improve Reporting Of, and Synthesis of Evidence From, Trials in Behavioral Sciences.
• Infection Fatality Ratios for COVID-19 Among Noninstitutionalized Persons 12 and Older: Results of a Random-Sample Prevalence Study.

Announcements

• IUB SPH Professor Antonio Williams Discusses "NBA and WNBA postpone games as players protest Jacob Blake shooting."
• EPA Awards $1.6M for IU Research on Synthetic Chemical Exposure in Rural Drinking Water.
• Using the same pool that is in the lobby of the IU-Bloomington School of Public Health today, "50 years ago, IU swimming assembled the greatest team ever — in any sport."
• Healthy People 2030 Objectives Released.
• National Science Foundation and National Institute of Food and Agriculture Establish and Fund a Nationwide Network of Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes.
• European and International Congress on Obesity 2020 Focuses on Two Pandemics – Obesity and COVID-19.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair for a Newly Conceived Department, Health and Wellness Design.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency and/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.