Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Independent of Food Intake, "Hypoxia extends lifespan and neurological function in a mouse model of aging."
• RCT: Sex Differences in Early Weight Loss Success During a Diabetes Prevention Intervention.
• Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Atherogenic Lipoproteins.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Cooking Pasta Al Dente Could Help You Lose Weight, Study Finds.
• Study: Eating Rate of a Pasta Dish Can Be Predicted by the Eating Rate of Its Components. Study Does Not Mention Weight Loss.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Personalized diet did not result in a greater reduction in GV or HbA1c in patients with prediabetes and moderately-controlled T2D, compared to a Standardized diet."
• RCT: Chocolate Intake and Muscle Pain Sensation - All Three Types of Chocolate Equally Effective or Equally Ineffective.
• RCT: "when comparing the two groups after treatment, there is no significant difference in mean hs-CRP levels or in treatment effects...[in] Potential Modulation of Inflammation and Physical Function by Combined Probiotics, Omega-3 Supplementation and Vitamin D Supplementation in [Patients with Overweight/Obesity and] Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation..."
• RCT: "The intake of 20 g of WP in older male adults living with T2DM did not increase the effect of RT on muscle strength, functional tasks, and glycemic control...[in] The Influence of Whey Protein on Muscle Strength, Glycemic Control and Functional Tasks in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Resistance Exercise Program..."
• RCT: An Alternative Oat-Containing, Ready-To-Use, Therapeutic Food Does Not Alter Intestinal Permeability or the 16S Ribosomal RNA Fecal Microbiome Configuration Among Children with Severe Malnutrition in Sierra Leone.
• Reducing Mitochondrial Ribosomal Gene Expression Does Not Alter Metabolic Health or Lifespan in Mice.
• There Is No Evidence That Mental Fatigue Adversely Affects Neuromuscular Function or Physical Exercise, Even If Mental Fatigue Is Individualized, Computerized Tasks Seem Not to Affect Physical Performance.
• Dietary Nitrate Ingestion Does Not Improve Neuromuscular Performance in Male Sport Climbers.
• RCT: "The Muscle Protein Synthetic Response to the Ingestion of a Plant-Derived Protein Blend Does Not Differ from an Equivalent Amount of Milk Protein in Healthy Young Males."

Basic

• Association of a High-Fat Diet with I-FABP as a Biomarker of Intestinal Barrier Dysfunction Driven by Metabolic Changes in Wistar Rats.
• Pharmacological Antagonism of Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products Signaling Promotes Thermogenesis, Healthful Body Mass and Composition, and Metabolism in Mice.
• Adipocyte-Derived PXR Signaling Is Dispensable for Diet-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Mice.
• Long-Term Consumption of Resistant Starch Induced Changes in Gut Microbiota, Metabolites, and Energy Homeostasis in a High-Fat Diet.
• Bile Acids Altered by High Fat Feeding and Oligofructose Supplementation Impact Metabolic Homeostasis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Relation of Change or Substitution of Low- and No-Calorie Sweetened Beverages with Cardiometabolic Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.
• Letter: Comment on Lee et al.
• Response: To Comment on Lee et al.
• Ultra-Processing of Study Results in Nutrition.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of Weight Loss and Weight Loss Maintenance on Cardiac Autonomic Function in Obesity.
• RCT: Comparative Effectiveness of 2 Federally Recommended Strategies to Reduce Excess Body Fat in Overweight, Low-Income Patients: MyPlate.gov vs Calorie Counting.

Children and Adolescents

• Inflammatory Mediators and Type 2 Diabetes Risk Factors Before and in Response to Lifestyle Intervention Among Latino Youth with Obesity.
• Associations between Breastfeeding and Post-Perinatal Infant Deaths in the U.S.
• Systematic Review: Relationships between the Intakes of Human Milk Components and Body Composition of Breastfed Infants.
• Adolescent BMI Trajectory and Associations with Adult Metabolic Syndrome and Offspring Obesity.
• Utilization and Predictors of Adjuvant Metformin in Children and Adolescents on Second-Generation Antipsychotics (Mixed Receptor Antagonists).
• The Growth Trajectories During Infancy Have a Significant Impact on the Body Composition in Childhood.
• The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Adolescent BMI in South Korea: Evidence and Mechanisms.
• Barriers to Healthy Family Dinners and Preventing Child Obesity: Focus Group Discussions with Parents of 5-To-8-Year-Old Children.

Surgery

• Prospective Multicenter Study of the Primary Obesity Surgery Endoluminal (POSE 2.0) Procedure for Treatment of Obesity.
• The Impact of Prior Obesity Surgery on Glucose Metabolism After Body Contouring Surgery: A Pilot Study.

Drugs

• GLP-1 Agonists in Treatment of Obesity.
• Review: Obesity Among African American People in the United States.
• A Comparison Study between Orlistat and Moringa oleifera as an Appetite Suppressant in Case of Patients with Obesity. (pdf)
• RNA-Seq Reveals That Anti-Obesity Irisin and Triiodothyronine (T3) Hormones Differentially Affect the Purinergic Signaling Transcriptomics in Differentiated Human Adipocytes.

Food & Diet

• Carbon Isotope Ratios of Plasma and RBC Fatty Acids Identify Meat Consumers in a 12-Week Inpatient Feeding Study of 32 Men.
• Rapid Screening of Sixty Potato Cultivars for Starch Profiles to Address a Consumer Glycemic Dilemma.
• RCT: The Effect of Dietary Carbohydrate and Calorie Restriction on Weight and Metabolic Health in Individuals with Overweight/Obesity.
• Toxicological and Pharmacokinetic Properties of Sucralose-6-Acetate and Its Parent Sucralose: In Vitro Screening Assays.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Pregnant Women Attending General and Teaching Hospitals in Ibadan, Nigeria.
• Healthy Low-Fat Diet Reduces [i.e., Is Associated with Lower] Risks for All-Cause, Cardiovascular Mortality.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Cystine Rather Than Cysteine Is the Preferred Substrate for β-Elimination by Cystathionine γ-Lyase: Implications for Dietary Methionine Restriction.
• Systematic Review: Feasibility of Time-Restricted Eating in Individuals with Overweight, Obesity, Prediabetes, or Type 2 Diabetes.
• Fasting Indices of Glucose-Insulin-Metabolism Across Life Span and Prediction of Glycemic Deterioration in Children with Obesity from New Diagnostic Cut-Offs.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Socioecological Approach for Building Stronger Youth for Life.
• A Scalable School-Based Intervention to Increase Early Adolescents' Motor Competence and Health-Related Fitness.
• Study on the Influence of Regular Physical Activity on Children’s Oral Health.
• The Effectiveness of a Physical Literacy-Based Intervention for Increasing Physical Activity Levels and Improving Health Indicators in Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity (CAPACITES 64).
• Quantification of the Number of Steps in a School Recess by Means of Smart Bands: Proposal of Referential Values for Children and Adolescents.

Economics & Sociology

• Family Economic Trajectories and BMI in Indonesia: Evidence from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys 2 to 5.
• Food Insecurity Is Associated with Glycemic Markers, and Socioeconomic Status and Low-Cost Diets are Associated with Lipid Metabolism in Mexican Mothers.
• The Role of Dieting, Happiness with Appearance, Self-Esteem, and Bullying in the Relationship between Mental Health and Body-Mass Index Among UK Adolescents: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study.

Epidemiology

• Association of Healthy Lifestyle Factors and Obesity-Related Diseases in Adults in the UK.
• The Impact of General and Central Obesity for All-Cause Hospitalization Among Iranian Adults: A 20 Year Follow-Up-Results from the TLGS Cohort.
• Burden of High-Risk Phenotype of Heavy Alcohol Consumption Among U.S. Population with Obesity: Results from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2020.
• Cross-Sectional and Prospective Associations between Household Socioeconomic Resources, Appetite Traits, and Body Size Among Samoan Infants.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Antidepressants That Increase Mitochondrial Energetics May Elevate Risk of Treatment-Emergent Mania.
• Spatiotemporal Profile of Altered Neural Reactivity to Food Images in Obesity: Reward System Is Altered Automatically and Predicts Efficacy of Weight Loss Intervention.
• Meta Analysis: Fostering Creativity During Physical Activity Interventions Increases Their Impact on Cognitive and Academic Outcomes During Childhood.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Physical Activity Interventions on Children's Academic Performance.
• BMI, Systemic Inflammation and Cognitive Performance in Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Book: Inequality and Nutritional Transition in Economic History Spain in the 19th-21st Centuries.
• Are Intermediate School Meals a Real Contribution to Improve a Healthy and Sustainable Diet?
• The Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) Positively Correlates with the Presence and Severity of Metabolic Syndrome in Adults with Obesity, but Not in Children/Adolescents with Obesity.
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Stillbirth Among Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• How Using BMI Cutoffs to Determine Eligibility for Total Shoulder Arthroplasty Affects Healthcare Disparities.
• Meta-Analysis: Regional and Sex Differences in the Mortality Risk of Primary Liver Cancer in Obesity.
• Trends and Persistent Disparities in Child Obesity During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Stigma

• Systematic Review: Exploring Enablers and Barriers of Healthy Dietary Behavior Based on the Socio-Ecological Model.
• Integration of Children with Obesity in Physical Education Sessions: An Exploratory Study.

Policy Related

• Negotiating Policy Ideas: Participatory Action Research Projects Across Five European Countries.
• Modelled Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Childhood Obesity Interventions: A Demonstration.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity and Offspring Health: Adapting Metabolic Changes Through Autophagy and Mitophagy.
• Meager Milk: Lasting Consequences for Adult Daughters of Primiparous Mothers Among Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta).

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Climate Change Is Altering the Physiology and Phenology of an Arctic Hibernator.
• Contrasting Torpor Use by Reproductive Male Common Noctule Bats in the Laboratory and in the Field.

Methods

• How Is Online Self-Reported Weight Compared with Image-Captured Weight? A Comparative Study Using Data from an Online Longitudinal Study of Young Adults.
• Frameworks for Estimating Causal Effects in Observational Settings: Comparing Confounder Adjustment and Instrumental Variables.

Commentary

• Editorial to the Special Issue "The Effect of Exercise Intensity and Psychological Intervention on Musculoskeletal Disorders".
• Fake Meat: From Fad to Flop.
• Research Reveals Role of Unknown Protein in Obesity and Diabetes.
• Game-Changing Obesity Drugs Go Mainstream: What Scientists are Learning.
• Obesity Drug Brings Heart Health Benefit Alongside Weight Loss, Study Says.
• Food Is Mental Health Medicine?
• A Student's Poor Eating Habits Can Lead to a Lifetime of Illness.
• Skin Morbidities May Be Preventable Through Insulin Resistance, Obesity Treatment.

General

• BBC Podcast: "Detecting bad science with data."
• Is the Biggest Challenge to Scientific Thinking Science Itself?
• Understanding the Outdoors and Conservation Through a Queer Lens.
• Enforcing Second Class Status for Obesity.
• Perception Biases for Problematic Behaviors in Dogs Due to Owners' Attributes.
• Traveling Together: A Roadmap for Researching Neighborhood Effects on Population Health and Health Inequities.
• Undervaluing the Positive Impact of Kindness Starts Early.
• Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) Neonates Use Broadband Calls to Communicate with Their Mothers.

Announcements

• Over $10M in Grants Will Address Need for More Mental Health Services in Indiana Schools.
• Prevention Insights Offers Free Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Training.
• IU Bloomington Ranks 12th Among Peace Corps’ Historically Top Volunteer-Producing Schools.
• Registration Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Registration Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.

Featured

• RCT: "Interestingly, weight, length, and ponderal index greatly increased in omega 3-treated neonates compared to the control group."
• RCT: The Impact of Altering Restaurant and Menu Option Position on Food Selected from an Experimental Food Delivery Platform.
• Hypoxia Promotes White Adipose Tissues Browning in Rats Under Simulated Environment at Altitude of 5000 M.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners. (Article heading: "Deadly long-term consequences").
• WHO Meta-Analysis: "While results of randomized controlled trials have generally suggested non-sugar sweeteners may have little impact on glucose metabolism and result in lower body weight when coupled with energy restriction in the short-term, there is no clear consensus on whether non-sugar sweeteners are effective for long-term weight loss or maintenance, or if they are linked to other long-term health effects at intakes within the ADI."
• Critique: “Deadly Long-Term Consequences” of Sweeteners?

Contrary or Null Findings

• Meta-Analysis: "...increasing the consumption of vegetable, including all vegetable (RR = 0.95, 95% CI = 0.87-1.03), starchy vegetable (RR = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.82-1.26), and fruit juice (RR = 0.97, 95% CI = 0.91-1.04) was not associated with a reduction in the risk of GDM."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on Growth of Late Preterm Infants Fed Nutrient-Enriched Formula to 120 Days Corrected Age.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Effect of Green-Lipped Mussel (Perna canaliculus) Supplementation on Faecal Microbiota, Body Composition and Iron Status Markers in Postmenopausal Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: A Single Dose of Aged Garlic Extract Did Not Change Cerebral Oxygenation and Blood Volume in Older Adults at Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
• RCT: High-Intensity Exercise Does Not Protect Against Orthostatic Intolerance Following Bedrest in 55- to 65-Yr-Old Men and Women.
• Preprint: RCT: No Significant Effect on Weight in Primary Care Delivery of Behavioral Weight Loss Services for Adults with Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
• Phenological Overlap of Terrestrial and Marine Food Resources Did Not Reduce Salmon Consumption by Kodiak Brown Bears.
• Constitutive Immune Function Is Not Associated with Fuel Stores in Spring Migrating Passerine Birds.

Basic

• Differential Remodeling of Subcutaneous White and Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue by Long-Term Exercise Training in Aged Obese Female Mice.
• Betaine–Homocysteine Methyltransferase Promotes Adipocyte Commitment and Insulin Resistance Via P38 MAPK/Smad Signaling.
• 5-Heptadecylresorcinol Alleviated High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance by Activating Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Circadian PER1 Controls Daily Fat Absorption with the Regulation of PER1-PKA on Phosphorylation of Bile Acid Synthetase.
• Effect of High-Refined Carbohydrate Diet on Intestinal Integrity.
• Dissertation: Investigating the Regulation of Aerobic Glycolysis in Drosophila melanogaster.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Video: "Nutrition science is entirely unreliable"
• PubPeer Comment On: Splenda Alters Gut Microflora and Increases Intestinal P-Glycoprotein and Cytochrome P-450 in Male Rats.
• Critique of a Study on the Cognitive Effects of Wine and Cheese.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Motivational Interviewing in Pediatric Obesity.
• RCT: Effect of High Intensity Interval Training on Arterial Stiffness in Women with Obesity and Hypertension.
• RCT: A Nurse-Led Intervention in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Investigating the Efficacy and Feasibility of Using a Whole-Of-Diet Approach to Lower Circulating Levels of C-Reactive Protein in Postmenopausal Women: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Behavior Change Techniques That Prevent or Decrease Obesity in Youth with a Low Socioeconomic Status.
• RCT: A High Protein Diet Is Associated with Improved Glycemic Control Following Exercise Among Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes.
• The Effect of Prepregnancy Obesity on Breast Milk Fatty Acids and the Relationship of Breast Milk Fatty Acids with Maternal Diet and Infant Growth.
• Maternal Predictors of Breast Milk Plasmalogens and Associations with Infant Body Composition and Neurodevelopment.
• Neonatal Birthweight, Infant Feeding, and Childhood Metabolic Markers.
• Exposure to Gestational Diabetes and BMI Trajectories Through Adolescence: Exploring Perinatal Outcomes in Children Study.
• Reducing BMI Below the Obesity Threshold in Adolescents Treated with Once-Weekly Subcutaneous Semaglutide 2.4 mg.
• Comparison of Nutrition Profiling Models for Food Marketing Regulation.
• Review: Child and Adolescent Obesity.

Surgery

• Neural Correlates of Decreased Impulsivity During Delay Discounting Task After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Preprint: Calorie Restriction Outperforms Bariatric Surgery in a Murine Model of Obesity and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

Drugs

• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Oral Small Molecule Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist Danuglipron for Glycemic Control Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association of High BMI with Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Young, First-Episode and Drug-Naïve Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: A Large-Scale Cross-Sectional Study.
• The Role of Chitosan-Based Nanoparticles to Reduce Obesity: A Glimpse.
• A Review of Antiobesity Drug Therapy.
• Liraglutide Versus Semaglutide for Weight Reduction—A Cost Needed to Treat Analysis.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Comparing Very Low-Carbohydrate vs DASH Diets for Adults with Hypertension, Overweight or Obesity, and Prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes.
• A South Asian Mediterranean-Style Diet Is Associated with Favorable Adiposity Measures and Lower Diabetes Risk: The MASALA Cohort.
• International Food Information Council's 2023 Food and Health Survey Results. (PDF)
• The Association of Obesity-Related Dietary Patterns and Main Food Groups Derived by Reduced-Rank Regression with Cardiovascular Diseases Incidence and All-Cause Mortality: Findings from 116,711 Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• The African Killifish: A Short-Lived Vertebrate Model to Study the Biology of Sarcopenia and Longevity.
• Sleeve Gastrectomy Causes Weight-Loss Independent Improvements in Hepatic Steatosis.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: High-Intensity Interval Training and Cardiometabolic Health in the General Population.
• Acute Effects of Intense Interval Versus Aerobic Exercise on Children's Behavioral and Neuroelectric Measures of Inhibitory Control.
• Dissertation: Supporting Dog Physical Activity by Social Comparison of Objective Dog Walking Behavior.
• Hyperoxia-Induced Stepwise Reduction in Blood Flow Through Intrapulmonary, but not Intracardiac, Shunt During Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Paternal Life Course Effects on Son’s Heights Outcomes in the Netherlands 1820-1960.
• The Impact of Retirement on BMI in China: An Empirical Study Based on Regression Discontinuity Design.

Epidemiology

• The Prevalence and Determinant of Overweight and Obesity Among Residents Aged 40–69 Years in High-Risk Regions for Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer in Southeast China.
• Adiposity Is Associated with Widespread Transcriptional Changes and Downregulation of Longevity Pathways in Aged Skeletal Muscle.
• Review: The Epidemiology of Obesity: A Big Picture.
• Difference of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism Abnormalities and Body Fat between the Chinese and USA Teenagers.
• AI-Based CT Body Composition Identifies Myosteatosis as Key Mortality Predictor in Asymptomatic Adults.
• Genetic Associations between Modifiable Risk Factors and Alzheimer Disease.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity Is a Misnomer: Components of the Metabolic Syndrome Linearly Increase with BMI as a Function of Age and Gender.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Psychological Support Strategies for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in a Very Low–Carbohydrate Web-Based Program.
• Hypothalamic and Brainstem Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor Neurons Employ Distinct Mechanisms to Affect Feeding.
• Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods Is Associated with Depression, Mesocorticolimbic Volume, and Inflammation.

Equity and Disparities

• Growing Up Unequal: Disparities of Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Indonesia’s 514 Districts.
• Inequality, Stress, and Obesity: Socioeconomic Disparities in the Short- and Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Thesis: Nuevamexicanas and Food Insecurity: A Case Study of Northeastern New Mexico.
• Novel Differentially Methylated Regions Identified by Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Analyses Contribute to Racial Disparities in Childhood Obesity.

Stigma

• RCT: Long-Term Effects of an Internalized Weight Stigma Intervention.
• The Research on the Construction of Obesity Stigmatization Issues in the British Paper Media in the Context of Frame Theory. (PDF)
• Perspective: Fatima Cody Stanford: Changing the Narrative on Obesity.

Policy Related

• Effects of Race-Specific Prevalence and Racial Disparity Information About Obesity and Diabetes.
• Awareness, Use and Understanding of Nutrition Labels Among Children and Youth from Six Countries: Findings from the 2019 – 2020 International Food Policy Study.
• Towards Healthy Food Retail: An Assessment of Public Health Nutrition Workforce Capacity to Work with Stores.
• Multisectoral Strategies Needed to Establish Healthy Portion Size Norms That Disincentivize Hyperpalatable, Energy-Dense Foods and Sugary Beverages in Food Environments Linked to Obesity and Diet-Related Chronic Diseases in the United States.

Intergenerational Effects

• Infant Obesity Prevention Programs for Underrepresented Mothers in a Home Visiting Program: A Qualitative and Community-Engaged Needs Assessment.
• Metabolic Effects of Early Life Stress and Pre-Pregnancy Obesity are Long-Lasting and Sex-Specific in Mice.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Social Determinants of Health and Survival in Humans and Other Animals.
• Obesity: An Evolutionary View. (PDF)
• Does the Temperature–Size Rule Apply to Marine Protozoans?

Methods

• Key Considerations for Designing, Conducting and Analysing a Cluster Randomized Trial.
• Tutorial: Estimating Intra-Cluster Correlation Coefficients for Planning Longitudinal Cluster Randomized Trials.

Commentary

• How Much of a Role Does Genetics Play in Obesity?.
• Hibernating Bears Could Hold a Clue to Treating Diabetes.
• The Weird Truth About Calories and Why Food Labels Get Them So Wrong.
• Obesity and Gastrointestinal Cancer: A Life Course Perspective.
• ECO2023: Ready for a Rethink of Prevention?
• Preprint: Guidelines for Prevention and the Contrast of Overweight and Obesity: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.
• Obesity and Prostate Cancer — Microenvironmental Roles of Adipose Tissue.

General

• Is Spending Nights Away from Home Associated with Participation and Life Satisfaction After Spinal Cord Injury? A Longitudinal Perspective.
• Meowing Dogs: Can Dogs Recognize Cats in a Cross-Modal Violation of Expectancy Task (Canis familiaris)?
• Labour's Pain: Strenuous Subsistence Work, Mechanical Wear-And-Tear and Musculoskeletal Pain in a Non-Industrialized Population.
• Sibling Competition, Dispersal and Fitness Outcomes in Humans.
• Enhancing Trust in Science and Democracy in an Age of Misinformation.
• Dissertation: Brand Mark Comprehension: The Influence of Athlete Logo Understanding on Consumer Evaluations of Athlete Brands.
• Association of Pork (All Pork, Fresh Pork and Processed Pork) Consumption with Nutrient Intakes and Adequacy in US Children (Age 2–18 Years) and Adults (Age 19+ Years): NHANES 2011–2018 Analysis.
• The Health Care Dangers of a Debt Default.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Latest Therapeutics in CVD, APOE’s Role in Alzheimer’s Disease and CVD, Familial Hypercholesterolemia, and More.

Announcements

• Webinar: Data Management and Sharing: New NIH Policies and How They Can Benefit Your Aging-Related Research Wednesday, June 21 from 11am-12pm ET.
• Registration Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Registration Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.

Featured

• Chow Diet in Mouse Aging Studies: Nothing Regular About It.
• Ambient and Substrate Energy Influence Decomposer Diversity Differentially Across Trophic Levels.
• Obesity Wars: May the Smell Be with You.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Ear Acupuncture Using Tiny Beads May Help Overweight People Easily Lose Weight.
• Meeting Abstract: Metal beads were placed on six points of the outer ear... plus "Participants were also asked to halve their total food intake during the three-month treatment period and keep a record of their meals in food diaries." No control group mentioned.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to expectations, higher nudge acceptance resulted in more calories purchased."
• RCT: "At 66 months, no significant treatment effects were observed on BMI..." in NET-Works paediatric obesity prevention trial: 66 month outcomes.
• "Unexpectedly, 8 weeks after colonisation, we observed opposing liver phenotypes dependent on the housing environment of mice. ...These phenotypic differences were associated with housing-specific profiles of colonising bacterial in the gut and of faecal metabolites."
• "Surprisingly, in spite of the general endothelial dysfunction in T2DM, the endothelial NOS-mediated vasorelaxant effect of SMase was markedly enhanced" in mice.
• "…upon activation of ß-adrenergic receptors in vivo, ATGLAdpKO mice unexpectedly exhibited significantly higher levels of circulating FABP4 as compared to ATGLfl/fl controls, despite no corresponding induction of lipolysis.”
• "The lack of difference in RMRmin and MMR between long- and short-distance migrants during this stage of migration suggests that the attributes favouring the greater aerobic endurance of long-distance migrants did not come at the expense of increased maintenance costs or require greater aerobic capacity" in birds.
• "Contrary to most previous findings, we observed that overweight status (including obesity) has more detrimental effects on reading achievement in boys than in girls..." (pdf)
• RCT: "Comparing the obesity prevalence rate among White Americans to that of Black Americans increased support for policies to reduce racial health disparities, but also made Black respondents less likely to cut calories."
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Consuming Almonds or Biscuits on Body Weight in Habitual Snackers After One Year.

Basic

• How Do Engineered Yarrowia lipolytica Strains Secrete Free Fatty Acids: Hints from Comparative Transcriptomics.
• Differential Alternative Polyadenylation Response to High-Fat Diet between Polygenic Obese and Healthy Lean Mice.
• Genetically Prolonged Beige Fat in Male Mice Confers Long-Lasting Metabolic Health.
• N-Carbamoyl Aspartate Reduced Body Weight by Stimulating the Thermogenesis of IBAT.
• Effects of Thermoneutrality on Food Intake, Body Weight, and Body Composition in a Prader-Willi Syndrome Mouse Model.
• The Effect of 8 Weak HIIT Training on Adiponectin Gene Expression in Obese Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "...more rigorous multicenter prospective studies with large samples are needed to explore the optimal ratios for specific dietary programs, especially macronutrients, to achieve satisfactory nutritional support and improve patient prognosis" for treating burn patients.
• Assumptions of Quasi-Experimental and Simulation Modelling Methods in Policy Evaluations Should Be Credible, Rigorously Tested and Transparently Communicated.

Clinical

• Changes in Prediabetes Status Among Adults During a Six-Month RCT with Nutrition and Lifestyle Counselling and Six-Month Follow-Up. (pdf)
• Association between ß-Hydroxybutyrate Plasma Concentrations After Hypocaloric Ketogenic Diets and Changes in Body Composition.
• RCT: Macadamia Nut Effects on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Calorie Restriction in Comparison to Usual Diet or Usual Care on Remission of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Therapy in People with Obesity Restores Natural Killer Cell Metabolism and Effector Function.

Children and Adolescents

• Child Bodyweight, Cognitive Abilities, and Well-Being: Evidence from West Bank Schools.
• RCT: Effects of a Theory-Based, Multicomponent EHealth Intervention for Obesity Prevention in Young Children from Low-Income Families.

Surgery

• Meta-Analysis: Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Risk.
• Global Trends in BMS Research Using Publication as a Surrogate Marker: A 30 Year Review.
• RCT: Long Biliopancreatic Limb Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Versus One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass.
• Safety and Effect of Bariatric Metabolic Surgeries for Psychiatric Patients with Obesity: A Retrospective Matched Case–Control Trial.
• Mid-Term Outcomes After Single Anastomosis Sleeve Ileal (SASI) Bypass in Treatment of Morbid Obesity.

Drugs

• Lacticaseibacillus paracasei AO356 Ameliorates Obesity by Regulating Adipogenesis and Thermogenesis in C57BL/6J Male Mice.
• Liraglutide in Combination with Insulin Has a Superior Therapeutic Effect to Either Alone on Fracture Healing in Diabetic Rats.
• Video: Obesity Treatment Could Offer Dramatic Weight Loss Without Surgery or Nausea.
• After Weight Loss, Alzheimer's May Be Next Frontier for Drugs Like Ozempic.
• RCT: Feasibility of High-Dose Tadalafil and Effects on Insulin Resistance in Well-Controlled Patients with Type 2 Diabetes (MAKROTAD).

Food & Diet

• RCT: Beetroot Juice Ingestion Does Not Improve Neuromuscular Performance and Match-Play Demands in Elite Female Hockey Players.
• Review: Effect of Fermentation on the Nutritional Quality of the Selected Vegetables and Legumes and Their Health Effects.
• Healthiness and Environmental Impact of Dinner Recipes Vary Widely Across Developed Countries.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Dairy Intake on Markers of Cardiometabolic Health in Adults.
• Meta-Analysis: Soluble Fiber Supplementation and Serum Lipid Profile.
• Perilla, Sunflower, and Tea Seed Oils as Potential Dietary Supplements with Anti-Obesity Effects by Modulating the Gut Microbiota Composition in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Dietary Protein Requirements and Recommendations for Healthy Older Adults: A Critical Narrative Review of the Scientific Evidence.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction Mitigates Metabolic, Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Cafeteria Diet in Aged Male Rats.
• Western Diet Unmasks Transient Low-Level Vinyl Chloride-Induced Tumorigenesis; Potential Role of the (epi-)transcriptome.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training Versus Moderate-Intensity Interval Training: Effects on Cardiometabolic Factors in Spanish Adults with Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Reducing Sedentary Behavior on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.

Economics & Sociology

• Processed Foods, Socio-Economic Status, and Peri-Urban Obesity in India.
• Systematic Review: Impact of Front-Of-Pack Nutrition Labelling in Consumer Understanding and Use Across Socio-Economic Status.
• Thesis: Do Longitudinal Trends in Caloric Intake Vary by Income, Education, or Race?

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in South Asia: A Narrative Review.
• Body Weight and Fat Trajectories of Black and White Women in the First Postpartum Year.
• Association between Different Metabolic Phenotypes of Obesity and Thyroid Disorders Among Chinese Adults: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study.
• Associations of Multiple Sleep Dimensions with Overall and Abdominal Obesity Among Children and Adolescents: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.
• Total Energy Expenditure as Assessed by Doubly Labeled Water and All-Cause Mortality in a Cohort of Postmenopausal Women.
• Life Course BMI Trajectories from Childhood to Mid-Adulthood are Differentially Associated with Anxiety and Depression Outcomes in Middle Age.
• Epidemiology of Diabetes and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Among Asian American Adults: Implications, Management, and Future Directions: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.
• Heterogeneity in the Effect of Marked Weight Loss on Metabolic Function in Women with Obesity.
• The Association of Impulsivity with Effects of the ChooseWell 365 Workplace Nudge Intervention on Diet and Weight.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Preprint Meta-Analysis: Effects of Episodic Future Thinking in Health Behaviour for Weight Loss.
• Scoping Review: The Relationship of Ketogenic Diet with Neurodegenerative and Psychiatric Diseases.
• Preprint: The Role of Child Abuse on the Risk for Major Depression Conferred by BMI in Adulthood.

Equity and Disparities

• Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, and Adiposity.
• Geographic Differences in the Magnitude of Black-White Disparities in Having Obesity.

Ethics

• Abstract: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Paediatric Bariatric Surgery.
• Exploring the Potential of Chat GPT in Personalized Obesity Treatment.

Stigma

• Family-Based Weight Stigma and Psychosocial Health: A Multinational Comparison.
• Prejudice Associated with Weight Images in Health Communication in the Social Networks.

Policy Related

• Improvements in School Food Offerings over Time: Variation by School Characteristics.
• Population-Level Policy Recommendations for the Prevention of Disordered Weight Control Behaviors: A Scoping Review.
• RCT: Effects of Sugary Beverage Text and Pictorial Warnings.
• “A Growing Relationship”: Cultivating Organizational Readiness to Influence Implementation of Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) Change Programming in SNAP-Ed Funded School-Community Partnerships.
• Toward a New Definition of “Healthy” Food: Issues and Challenges.
• Influence of the Food Industry: The Food Environment and Nutrition Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Cardiovascular Disorders Before and During Pregnancy and Offspring Cardiovascular Risk Across the Life Course.
• Systematic Review: The Relationship between Parent Anxiety Symptomatology and Feeding Behaviors.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Warmer and More Acidic Conditions Enhance Performance of an Endemic Low Shore Gastropod.
• What Made These Prehistoric ‘Thunder Beasts’ So Big?

Methods

• Novel Approaches to Examining Weight Changes in Pregnancies Affected by Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Brown Fat Detection by Infrared Thermography—An Invaluable Research Methodology with Noteworthy Uncertainties Confirmed by a Mathematical Proof.
• A Mathematical Analysis on the Obesity and Diabetes Model.

Commentary

• Cheers for Banning Weight Discrimination in NYC.
• The Metabolic Syndrome in Subjects with and without Obesity: A Reappraisal of the Syndrome X of Reaven.
• Preoccupation with Food Overshadows Sleep.
• Design of Novel Therapeutics Targeting the Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor (GIPR) to Aid Weight Loss.
• Hammerhead Sharks Hold Their Breath When Diving to Regulate Body Temperature.
• Editorial: Natural Polyphenols and Metabolic Syndrome.
• "Insurance plans that impose mandated supervised weight management programs on patients for a specific time before the performance of metabolic surgery do not provide any additional benefit for patients....[and]...disproportionately affect Black patients..."
• The Complex Interplay between Imbalanced Mitochondrial Dynamics and Metabolic Disorders in Type 2 Diabetes.

General

• SpaceX Explosion Damages Environment around Launch Site.
• Are Phages a New Page in Medicine?
• Hospitalization for Infection Linked to Higher Dementia Risk.
• Exercise Science and the Singing Voice.
• Preprint: Data Is [are] Not Available upon Request.
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is the Idea That Incompetent People are the Last to Realize It. Now We’re Realizing That Could Be Wrong.
• Taking the Long View: The Role of Replication in Research.
• Development and Validation of a Model for Measuring Alcohol Consumption from Transdermal Alcohol Content Data Among College Students.

Announcements

• First Graduate of Food Studies Master’s Program Reveals Scale of Food Waste.
• Professor Heather Eicher-Miller Won the 2023 Danone International Prize for Alimentation.
• Registration Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Registration Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.

Featured

• "Living High-Training Low" for Olympic Medal Performance: What Have We Learned 25 Years After Implementation?
• Development and Psychometric Assessment of the Weight and Eating Quality of Life (WE-QOL) Scale in US Military Veterans.
• What can machine learning teach us about habit formation? Evidence from exercise and hygiene.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Low-Fat or Low-Carb? Study Reveals Which Diet Leads to a Longer Life.
• Study: Associations between single, self-reported dietary assessment and mortality: "we cannot make any causality inferences..."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The Aim2Be intervention did not improve zBMI and lifestyle behaviors in adolescents with overweight and obesity compared with the waitlist control group over 3 months."
• Gill Surface Area Allometry Does Not Constrain the Body Mass Scaling of Maximum Oxygen Uptake Rate in the Tidepool Sculpin, Oligocottus maculosus.
• Wheel Running Exacerbates Joint Damage After Meniscal Injury in Mice, but Does Not Alter Gait or Physical Activity Levels.
• Lower Mitochondrial Respiration Does Not Lead to Decreased Fat Oxidation in Young African American Women Without Obesity.
• RCT: "Exercising painful muscles did not reduce the local or remote hypoalgesic responses, suggesting that the pain-relieving effects of isometric exercises are not reduced by exercising painful body regions."
• Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acid Does Not Improve Male Infertility Caused by Lysophospholipid Acyltransferase 3 (LPLAT3/AGPAT3) Deficiency [in Mice].
• RCT: "Participating in a music enrichment program from an early age may promote positive parent-child interactions during feeding, although this improvement in the quality of parent-child interactions during feeding was not associated with weight gain trajectories."
• Non-Significant Links for SNS and Dating App Use with Body Dissatisfaction, and Inverse Associations with LOC Eating, are Contrary to Research Conducted with Girls and Women.

Basic

• Identifying MiRNA-MRNA Regulatory Networks on Extreme N-6/n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Ratio Expression Profiles in Porcine Skeletal Muscle.
• Adipose Tissue Macrophage-Mediated Inflammation in Obesity: A Link to Posttranslational Modification.
• Casein Hydrolysate Alleviates Adipose Chronic Inflammation in High Fat-Diet Induced Obese C57BL/6J Mice Through MAPK Pathway.
• Triterpenoids from the Leaves of Cyclocarya paliurus and Their Glucose Uptake Activity in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes.
• Treatment of Diet-Induced Obese Rats with CB2 Agonist AM1241 or CB2 Antagonist AM630 Reduces Leptin and Alters Thermogenic MRNA in Adipose Tissue.
• Osteopontin Promotes Age-Related Adipose Tissue Remodeling Through Senescence-Associated Macrophage Dysfunction.
• Hypolipidemic and Insulin Sensitizing Effects of Salsalate Beyond Suppressing Inflammation in a Prediabetic Rat Model.
• Distinct MicroRNA and Protein Profiles of Extracellular Vesicles Secreted from Myotubes from Donors with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Response to Electrical Pulse Stimulation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effectiveness of a Minimally Processed Food-Based Nutritional Counselling Intervention on Weight Gain in Overweight Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Letter: Undisclosed Outcome Switching, Undisclosed Analysis Switching, Inappropriate Rounding, and Selective Reporting Render Paper “Effectiveness of a Minimally Processed Food‑based Nutritional Counselling Intervention on Weight Gain in Overweight Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial” Unreliable.
• Response: Reply to “Undisclosed Outcome Switching, Undisclosed Analysis Switching, Inappropriate Rounding, and Selective Reporting Render Paper ‘Effectiveness of a Minimally Processed Food Based Nutritional Counselling Intervention on Weight Gain in Overweight Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial’ Unreliable”.
• Article: Efficacy of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Therapy for Simple Obesity in Adults: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
• Letter: "Although the overall conclusions on statistical significance and direction of these differences did not change, the data and results of Yin et al., 2022 should be corrected."

Clinical

• RCT: A Minor Metabolite from Curcuma longa Effective Against Metabolic Syndrome.
• Breast Cancer Survivors' Exercise Preferences Change During an Exercise Intervention are Associated with Post-Intervention Physical Activity.
• RCT: Evaluation of the App-Based Multimodal Weight Loss Program Zanadio for Patients with Obesity.
• Gout, Hyperuricemia Tied to Greater Diabetes Risk.

Children and Adolescents

• Preterm Birth, Small for Gestational Age, and Large for Gestational Age and the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Up to Middle Age.
• Effect Measure Modification by Birth Weight on the Association between Overweight or Obesity and Hypertension in Children and Adolescents.
• Associations between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Evaluation of a Possibility of the Application of “Electronic Nose” to Monitoring Deviations in the Functional Obesity of Children in Hospital Conditions: Observations of Changes During Treatment.
• Boys with Overweight Status Lagged Behind Girls with Overweight Status in Reading: Evidence from Mendelian Randomization.
• Scoping Review: Feasibility and Acceptability of Chatbots for Nutrition and Physical Activity Health Promotion Among Adolescents.
• Impact of Early Life Factors on Metabolic Phenotypes of Obesity in Preschool Children.

Surgery

• RCT: Two-Year Results of the Banded Versus Non-Banded Re-Sleeve Gastrectomy as a Secondary Weight Loss Procedure After the Failure of Primary Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Comment: Supervised Weight Loss Requirements Disproportionately Affect Black Patients Seeking Weight Loss Surgery.
• Identifying Workflow Disruptions in Robotic-Assisted Bariatric Surgery: Elucidating Challenges Experienced by Surgical Teams.
• Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass, Gastric Banding, or Sleeve Gastrectomy for Severe Obesity: Baseline Data.
• Surgery Is the Most Effective Treatment for Metabolic Liver Disease, Says New Study.

Drugs

• A Novel Peptide Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity by Suppressing Appetite and Modulating the Gut Microbiota.
• Role of Medicinal Plants and Their Bioactive Compounds in Obesity, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Protective Effect and Mechanism of Lactoferrin Combined with Hypoxia Against High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mice.
• RCT: Orlistat Mouth Rinse: Using the Tongue to Deliver Antiobesity Medication.
• Scratching the Surface with New Obesity Meds.
• Metformin: Update on Mechanisms of Action and Repurposing Potential.
• Decoding the Emoji Drug Code and the #OnePillCanKill Initiative.
• Chemistry Professor Presents New Research on Anti-Obesity Drug.

Food & Diet

• Effect of Intermittent Fasting on Circulating Inflammatory Markers in Obesity: A Review of Human Trials.
• Effects of Very Low Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diets on Skeletal Health.
• Systematic Review: Modelling Health and Economic Impact of Nutrition Interventions.
• MIND and Mediterranean Diets Linked to Fewer Signs of Alzheimer’s Brain Pathology.
• Influence of Protein Source (Cricket, Pea, Whey) on Amino Acid Bioavailability and Activation of the MTORC1 Signaling Pathway After Resistance Exercise in Healthy Young Males.
• Reducing Food Waste: Benefits and Key Areas of Focus.
• Commentary: Michelle Obama Starts a Healthy Food Company.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effect of Long-Term Caloric Restriction on DNA Methylation Measures of Biological Aging in Healthy Adults.
• Methionine Restriction Constrains Lipoylation and Activates Mitochondria for Nitrogenic Synthesis of Amino Acids.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Sedentary Behaviour Profiles and Longitudinal Associations with Academic Performance in Youth.
• Obesity Risk Among West Point Graduates Later in Life.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Obesity in the United States.
• Genetic Risk, Childhood Obesity, and Educational Achievements.

Epidemiology

• A Longitudinal Study Evaluating Adverse Childhood Experiences and Obesity in Adulthood.
• Association of Food Deserts and Food Swamps with Obesity-Related Cancer Mortality in the US.
• Physical Activity and Exercise for Weight Loss and Maintenance in People Living with Obesity.
• Different Carbohydrate Exposures and Weight Gain—Results from a Pooled Analysis of Three Population-Based Studies.
• Comparison of Metabolic Response to Colonic Fermentation in Lean Youth vs Youth with Obesity.
• The Coexistence of Stunting and Overweight or Obesity in Ethiopian Children: Prevalence, Trends and Associated Factors.
• Epidemiology of Diabetes and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Among Asian American Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Systematic Review: Brain Structural and Functional Alterations in Individuals with Combined Overweight/obesity and Mood Disorders.
• Obesity, Stigma, and Person-Centered Language: A Serial Cross-Sectional Analysis of Scientific Literature.
• Heightened Sensitivity to High-Calorie Foods in Children at Risk for Obesity: Insights from Behavior, Neuroimaging, and Genetics.
• Hedonic Overeating–Questionnaire: Exploring Interactive Effects between Wanting, Liking, and Dyscontrol on BMI.

Equity and Disparities

• Transport Poverty and Obesity: The Mediating Roles of Social Capital and Physical Activity.
• Adverse Clinical Outcomes Attributable to Socioeconomic and Ethnic Disparities Among People with Type 2 Diabetes in New Zealand between 1994–2018.

Stigma

• Fat Shame—Inside and Out.
• Obesity, Stigma, and Person-Centered Language.

Policy Related

• Commentary: Perspectives on the Application of CONSORT Guidelines to Randomised Controlled Trials in Nutrition.
• Feasibility and Response to the San Diego County, California, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Agency Sending Food and Nutrition Text Messages to All Participants.
• A Whole System Approach to Childhood Obesity: How a Supportive Environment Was Created in the City of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom.
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cost, and Diet Quality of Specific Diet Patterns in the United States.
• cRCT: Play Active Physical Activity Policy Intervention and Implementation Support in Early Childhood Education and Care.
• Obesity as a Main Threat to Future Improvements in Population Health: Policy Opportunities and Challenges.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic Review: Interpregnancy Weight Change as a Potential Risk Factor for Large-For-Gestational-Age Infants.
• RCT: Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosed Early in Pregnancy.
• The Effect of Maternal Pregestational Diabetes on Fetal Autonomic Nervous System.
• Preprint: Predictors and Risk Factors of Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes Among Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and Their Offspring: Moving Toward Precision Prognosis?
• Breastfeeding Support Provided by Lactation Consultants in High-Income Countries for Improved Breastfeeding Rates, Self-Efficacy, and Infant Growth.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Hypoabsorptive Surgeries Cause Limb-Dependent Changes in the Gut Endocannabinoidome and Microbiome in Association with Beneficial Metabolic Effects.
• The Crosstalk between BAT Thermogenesis and Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction.
• The Impact of Sprint Interval Training with or Without Weight Loss on Substrate Oxidation in Adults.
• Why Hibernate? Tests of Four Hypotheses to Explain Intraspecific Variation in Hibernation Phenology.

Methods

• Editorial: Causal Inference in Diet, Nutrition and Health Outcomes.
• Identifying Spin Bias of Nonsignificant Findings in Biomedical Studies.

Commentary

• Beyond Binge Eating: The Impact of Implicit Biases in Healthcare on Youth with Disordered Eating and Obesity.
• Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet (VLCKD) as Pre-Operative First-Line Dietary Therapy in Patients with Obesity Who are Candidates for Bariatric Surgery.
• Biomarkers in Polycystic Kidney Disease: Are We There?
• What Is the Concept of 'Pound-Years'?
• Preoperative Fasting: New Guidelines for Elective Procedures.
• New Perspectives on Lipids: What Should Doctors Advise Now?
• Study Links Drinking Coffee and Tea to Increased Macular Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness.
• Altered Food Supply: Cause or Effect of Obesity?
• On Protein.

General

• Psilocybin Improves Rigid Body Dysmorphic Disorder Beliefs but Not Rigid Social Anxiety Beliefs.
• RCT: Heterogeneity in Blood Pressure Response to 4 Antihypertensive Drugs.
• Three Novel Anti-Aging Senolytics Discovered Using AI and Synbio.
• From the Alda Center: A Six-Part Podcast Series About Scandals and Controversies That Have Impacted Our Trust in Science—Exploring the Complex Nature of Trust in Conversations with Journalists, Scientists, Philosophers, Lawyers, and Activists.
• Metabolic Activity Organizes Olfactory Representations.
• Slowest First Passage Times, Redundancy, and Menopause Timing.
• Stalking the Link between Reproduction and Aging After Decades of Research, It Still Remains a Mystery Whether and How Reproduction Drives the Process of Aging.
• Multi-Site Trial of Belonging Exercise Improves College Students’ Academic Persistence.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: The Truth Police.
• Diabetes Care "On Air" Podcast.

Announcements

• A Webinar on Aging: Separating the Science from the Snake Oil.
• Annual Obesity Symposium Hosted by the IU Bariatric and Medical Weight Loss Clinic; Friday May 19, Indianapolis.
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior - Empowering Food Citizens Conference.
• Registration Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Registration Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.