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Featured

• RCT: Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction Augments Weight Loss Induced Improvements in Glycaemic Control and Liver Fat in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Evaluation of the Type I Error Rate When Using Parametric Bootstrap Analysis of a Cluster RCTs with Binary Outcomes and a Small Number of Clusters.
• RCT: Reducing Eating Disorder Risk Among Male Athletes: ...the Male Athlete Body Project.
• Emergence of the Obesity Epidemic: Six Decade Visualization with Humanoid Avatars.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Brain Tissue Study Sheds Light on How Exercise Can Fight Dementia.
• Study: Associations between Late-Life Physical Activity and Brain Tissue Synaptic Integrity Markers in Older Adults. Fighting Dementia Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Only negligible effects on student physical activity were found" in trial of the impact of an implementation intervention that increased school's delivery of a mandatory physical activity policy on student outcomes.
• No Impact of Diabetes, Glycemic Control on COVID-19 Vaccine Response.
• "All findings of association indicated higher muscle strength and skeletal muscle mass with higher acid diet measures, contrary to the acid hypothesis."
• "However, contrary to expectations, we witnessed that HbA1c was 0.3% higher in summer than in winter in Istanbul, where the temperature change over a year is 22.5°C, the coldest month is January, and the hottest month is August."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, our results indicate that TL [telomere length] does not reflect accelerated biological ageing in patients with AN [anorexia nervosa]."
• "Our findings showed that adipose tissue rather than erythrocytes may serve as reservoir of PUFAs and LCPUFAs for human milk."
• "Contrary to predictions, we found no compensatory adult feeding. mass-adjusted flight metabolic rate was reduced, suggesting poor dispersal capacity. Larval DR did not affect adult lifespan, nor did the rate of metabolic senescence change. Larval DR did affect RMR" in Butterflies.
• RCT: No Effect of Cornus mas L. Fruit Extract on Lipid Accumulation Product and Cardiovascular Indices in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Basic

• FTO Knockout in Adipose Tissue Effectively Alleviates Hepatic Steatosis Partially Via Increasing the Secretion of Adipocyte-Derived IL-6.
• Adipocyte-Specific Modulation of KLF14 Expression in Mice Leads to Sex-Dependent Impacts on Adiposity and Lipid Metabolism.
• BCAA–BCKA Axis Regulates WAT Browning Through Acetylation of PRDM16.
• Clusterin Is Involved in Mediating the Metabolic Function of Adipose SIRT1.
• Therapeutic Ketosis Decreases Methacholine Hyperresponsiveness in Mouse Models of Inherent Obese Asthma.
• An Assessment of Thermoneutral Housing Conditions on Murine Cardiometabolic Function.
• Susceptibility to Diet-Induced Obesity at Thermoneutral Conditions Is Independent of UCP1.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Do Collagen Supplements Reduce Symptoms of Osteoarthritis? Meta-Analytic Results Do Not Support Strong Conclusions.
• Commentary: Researching Collagen to Help His Achy Knees, a Statistician Explores the Painfully Weak Evidence.
• Article: Projected U.S. State-Level Prevalence of Adult Obesity and Severe Obesity.
• Article: Evaluation of a Suggested Novel Method to Adjust BMI Calculated from Self-Reported Weight and Height for Measurement Error.
• Letter: A Rigorous Evaluation of a Method to Adjust BMI for Self-Report Bias.
• Reply: Response To: “A Rigorous Evaluation of a Method to Adjust BMI for Self-Report Bias”.
• Commentary: Seeking Gold in the Myths of Self-Reported Weight.

Clinical

• Visceral Fat Inflammation and Fat Embolism are Associated with Lung's Lipidic Hyaline Membranes in Subjects with COVID-19.
• Review: The Role of the Androgen Receptor in the Pathogenesis of Obesity and Its Utility as a Target for Obesity Treatments.
• Prepregnancy Weight Change Associated with High Gestational Weight Gain.
• Preconception Weight Loss Improves Fertility and Maternal Outcomes in Obese Mice.
• RCT: Effects of a Low Free Sugar Diet on the Management of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Children and Adolescents

• Managing Obesity in Young Children: A Multiple Methods Study Assessing Feasibility, Acceptability, and Implementation of a Multicomponent, Family-Based Intervention.
• cRCT: Impact of a School-Based Health Intervention Program on Body Composition Among South African Primary Schoolchildren.
• Acceleration in BMI Gain Following COVID-19 Restrictions. A Longitudinal Study with 7- to 10-Year-Old Primary School Children.

Surgery

• Pulmonary Complications are a Strong Independent Predictor of 30-Day Mortality Following Elective Bariatric Surgery.
• COVID-19 Vaccination and Timing of Bariatric Surgery: Considerations and Concerns for Patients with Severe Obesity.
• Body Composition, Basal Metabolic Rate and Leptin in Long-Term Weight Regain After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass are Similar to Pre-Surgical Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Gastroesophageal Cancer After Gastric Bypass Surgeries.

Drugs

• Aspirin Use for Preeclampsia Prevention Among Women with Prepregnancy Diabetes, Obesity, and Hypertension.
• Meta-Analysis: Impact of Intraoperative Ketamine on Postoperative Analgesic Requirement Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Use of Prescription Medications Associated with Weight Gain Among US Adults, 1999-2018: A Nationally Representative Survey.
• ‘Saba’ Banana (Musa acuminata x balbisiana BBB Group) Peel Pectin Supplementation Improves Biomarkers of Obesity and Associated Blood Lipid Disorders in Obese Hypercholesterolemic Mice.
• Hibiscus manihot L Improves Obesity in Mice Induced by a High-Fat Diet.
• The Beneficial Effects of Genetically Engineered Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 in Obese C57BL/6J Mice.

Food & Diet

• Weight Loss and High-Protein, High-Fiber Diet Consumption Impact Blood Metabolite Profiles, Body Composition, Voluntary Physical Activity, Fecal Microbiota, and Fecal Metabolites of Adult Dogs.
• Meta-Analysis: Low-Carbohydrate Versus Balanced-Carbohydrate Diets for Reducing Weight and Cardiovascular Risk.
• Chia Seed in Health and Disease Prevention: Present Usage and Future Perspectives.
• RCT: Prolonged Glycemic Adaptation Following Transition from a Low- to High-Carbohydrate Diet.
• Polymorphisms in the Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase Gene Modify Blood Glucose Response to Dietary Oils Varying in MUFA Content in Adults with Obesity.
• Dietary Tryptophan and the Risk of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Total Effect and Mediation Effect of Sleep Duration.
• Association between Dairy Protein and Body Composition in Middle-Aged and Older Women: A Community-Based, 12-Year, Prospective Cohort Study.
• Food Perceptions, Beliefs, and Behaviors Amid a Global Pandemic: Results of the International Food Information Council 2021 Food & Health Survey.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Streptococcus thermophilus Extends Lifespan Through Activation of DAF-16-Mediated Antioxidant Pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans.
• Role of Nutritional Ketosis in the Improvement of Metabolic Parameters Following Bariatric Surgery.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Moderate Treadmill Exercise Modulates Gut Microbiota and Improves Intestinal Barrier in High-Fat-Diet-Induced Obese Mice Via the AMPK/CDX2 Signaling Pathway.
• Predictors of Post-Exercise Energy Intake in Adolescents Ranging in Weight Status from Overweight to Severe Obesity.
• Effect of Aerobic or Resistance Exercise, or Both, on Intermuscular and Visceral Fat and Physical and Metabolic Function in Older Adults with Obesity While Dieting.
• Estimated Number of Deaths Prevented Through Increased Physical Activity Among US Adults.
• Metabolite Signature of Physical Activity and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in 7271 Men.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Short Sprint Interval Training on Aerobic and Anaerobic Indices.
• Moderate Physical Activity May Not Decrease the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults with Persistent Overweight and Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status, BMI, and Brain Development in Children.
• Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Childhood BMI Trajectories from Birth to 7 Years of Age.
• Bariatric Surgery and Risk of Unemployment and Sickness Absence.

Epidemiology

• Non-Linear Associations between Healthy Nordic Foods and All-Cause Mortality in the NOWAC Study: A Prospective Study.
• Insulin Sensitivity and Kinetics in African American and White People with Obesity: Insights from Different Study Protocols.
• Disease Consequences of Higher Adiposity Uncoupled from Its Adverse Metabolic Effects Using Mendelian Randomisation.
• Association of Anthropometric Parameters as a Risk Factor for Development of Diabetic Retinopathy in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus.
• Age-Appropriate BMI Cut-Points for Cardiometabolic Health Risk: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
• Social Determinants of Health and Obesity: Findings from a National Study of US Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Parents’ Perceptions of Their Child’s Weight Among Children in Their First Year of Primary School: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of an Australian Cross-Sectional (Complete Enumeration) Study.
• Adolescents’ Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms: A Psychosocial Mechanism.
• The Relationship between Autism Diagnostic Criteria and Problematic Eating Behaviors.
• The Role of Cognitive Flexibility in Weight Loss After Severe Obesity Surgery—A Retrospective Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Prevalence and Socio-Economic Determinants of Inadequate Dietary Diversity Among Adolescent Girls and Boys in Bangladesh: Findings from a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey.
• Racial Differences in Psychological Stress and Insulin Sensitivity in Non-Hispanic Black and White Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity.
• Regional Disparities in Obesity Among a Heterogeneous Population of Chinese Children and Adolescents.
• Food Insecurity Among American Indian and Alaska Native People: A Scoping Review to Inform Future Research and Policy Needs.

Stigma

• Association of Body Perception and Dietary Weight Management Behaviours Among Children and Adolescents Aged 6–17 Years in China: Cross-Sectional Study Using CHNS (2015).
• RCT: The Effect of an Education Module to Reduce Weight Bias Among Medical Centers Employees.
• Mapping Changes in the Obesity Stigma Discourse Through Obesity Canada: A Content Analysis.

Policy Related

• The Obesity Effect of Arizona’s State Immigration Law Among Hispanic Adolescents.
• Food Policies and Obesity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• COVID-19 and Childhood Obesity (CO-BESITY) in the Era of New Normal Life: A Need for a Policy Research.
• Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdown on Food Ordering Patterns Among Youths in China: The COVID-19 Impact on Lifestyle Change Survey.
• Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Cancer: Pathophysiological and Therapeutic Associations.
• RCT: The Impact of Pictorial Health Warnings on Purchases of Sugary Drinks for Children.
• Commentary: RCT: Gross Pics on Beverage Labels Deter Purchases.

Intergenerational Effects

• Delivery Indication Matters for Perinatal Outcomes in Late Preterm Newborns.
• RCT: Effects of Preconception Lifestyle Intervention in Infertile Women with Obesity.
• Exploring the Causal Effect of Maternal Pregnancy Adiposity on Offspring Adiposity: Mendelian Randomisation Using Polygenic Risk Scores.
• Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Obesity Combined with Abnormal Glucose Metabolism Further Increases Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Chinese Pregnant Women.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The First Three Records of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) Killing and Eating Blue Whales (Balaenoptera musculus).
• The Seasonal Variation of Basal Metabolic Rate Is Related to the Expression of Torpor Among Small Mammals.
• Can Temperature-Dependent Changes in Myocardial Contractility Explain Why Fish Only Increase Heart Rate When Exposed to Acute Warming?

Methods

• Perspective: Novel Approaches to Evaluate Dietary Quality: Combining Methods to Enhance Measurement for Dietary Surveillance and Interventions.
• Noise-Augmented Directional Clustering of Genetic Association Data Identifies Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Obesity.
• Estimating the Potential Public Health Impact of Fibre Enrichment: A UK Modelling Study.

Commentary

• How Dentists Should Consider Obesity in Patients.
• An Overview of Epigenetics in Obesity: The Role of Lifestyle and Therapeutic Interventions.
• Kuwait & Obesity: What Can You See from the City Streets?
• Nutrition Policy Should Leave Out Politics.
• An Elusive Reality: Slower Metabolism with Weight Loss.
• Drug Mimics Beneficial Effects of Fasting in Mice.
• WHO/Europe to Launch New Sugar and Calorie Reduction Initiative Led by the United Kingdom.
• Study Identifies Estrogen-Regulated Brain Circuit That Helps Women Control Obesity.

General

• The Transcriptomic Signature of Obligate Parthenogenesis.
• A PARTHENOGENESIS Allele from Apomictic Dandelion Can Induce Egg Cell Division Without Fertilization in Lettuce.
• Massive Open Index of Scholarly Papers Launches.
• Dissertation: Hormonal and Behavioral Responses to Competition: How Evolution Has Shaped Social and Seasonal Mechanisms of Aggression in a Female Songbird.
• “May I Present You: My Disgust!” – Declared Disgust Sensitivity in the Presence of Attractive Models.
• Out on a Limb: Female Chameleons (Bradypodion pumilum) Position Themselves to Minimise Detection, Whereas Males Maximise Mating Opportunity.
• Consequences of Nescient Mating: Artificial Insemination Increases Cub Rejection in the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca).
• Sex-Specific Aging in Animals: Perspective and Future Directions.

Announcements

• SNEB Annual Conference Call for Abstracts: The Deadline for Submissions Is Feb 14, 2022.
• Online seminar: Metabolic Regulation of Insulin Secretion in Health and Disease, Feb 9, 2022.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.

Featured

• Overflowing Tables: Changes in the Energy Intake and the Social Context of Thanksgiving in the United States.
• Preprint: Functional Status, Mood State, and Physical Activity Among Women with Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome. (pdf)
• Robust, Wireless Gastric Optogenetic Implants for the Study of Peripheral Pathways and Applications in Obesity.
• Traffic Light Diets for Childhood Obesity: Disambiguation of Terms and Critical Review of Application, Food Categorization, and Strength of Evidence.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Red Wine Wards Off Coronavirus... But Beer Does Not, According to New Research.
• Study: Association of Self-Reported Alcohol Consumption Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic with COVID-19 Risk and Mortality, Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Marijuana Use Does Not Affect Weight Loss or Complication Rate After Bariatric Surgery.
• "Intriguingly, contrary to previous reports on a positive effect on neurons, we found that rapamycin, an autophagy activator, and chloroquine, an autophagy and lysosome inhibitor, both exacerbated autophagic damage."
• RCT: A 12-Week Cardiac Telerehabilitation Programme Does Not Prevent Relapse of Physical Activity Levels: Long Term Results of the FIT@Home Trial.
• A Specific High-Protein Weight Loss Program Does Not Impair Renal Function in Patients Who have Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Daily Intake of Up to Two Eggs for 11 Weeks Does Not Affect the Cholesterol Balance of Chinese Young Adults.
• RCT: Fasting-Mimicking-Diet Does Not Reduce Skeletal Muscle Function in Healthy Young Adults.
• Less Impact Than Suspected: Dietary Exposure of Three-Spined Sticklebacks to Microplastic Fibers Does Not Affect Their Body Condition and Immune Parameters.
• RCT: "A preconception intensive lifestyle intervention for weight loss did not improve fertility or birth outcomes compared to an exercise intervention without targeted weight loss."

Basic

• Adipocyte-Specific Nos2 Deletion Improves Insulin Resistance and Dyslipidemia Through Brown Fat Activation in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Meta-Analysis: Dietary Branched-Chain Amino Acids Linked to Metabolic Health in Rodents.
• Olfactomedin 2 Deficiency Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity.
• The Transcription Factor Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4A Acts in the Intestine to Promote White Adipose Tissue Energy Storage.
• In Situ Spatial Glycomic Imaging of Mouse and Human Alzheimer's Disease Brains.
• Meta-Analysis: The Association of Weight Loss with Changes in the Gut Microbiota Diversity, Composition, and Intestinal Permeability.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Courage and Correction: How Editors Handle – and Mishandle – Errors in Their Journals.
• Randomisation Can Do Many Things – but It Cannot “Fail”.

Clinical

• USPSTF Draft Recommendation Statement: Behavioral Counseling to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.
• USPSTF Draft Evidence Review: Behavioral Counseling to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.

Children and Adolescents

• Tryptophan Metabolism Is Associated with BMI and Adipose Tissue Mass and Linked to Metabolic Disease in Pediatric Obesity.
• Association of Night-Time Screen-Viewing with Adolescents’ Diet, Sleep, Weight Status, and Adiposity.
• Trends of Overweight and Obesity in Male Adolescents: Prevalence, Socioeconomic Status, and Impact on Cardiovascular Risk in a Central European Country.
• Position Statement: Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity: Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Based on an Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews.

Surgery

• Does Long-Term Post-Bariatric Weight Change Differ Across Antidepressants?
• The US Prevalence of Metabolic Surgery in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Has Not Increased Despite Recommendations from the American Diabetes Association.
• Patients’ Experiences of Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Preprint: Efficacy of Liraglutide 3.0 Mg Treatment on Weight-Loss in Patients with Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery.
• Clinical Failure of Dalbavancin for MRSA Bacteremia in Patient with Severe Obesity and History of IVDU.
• Effectiveness and Safety of Liraglutide in Managing Inadequate Weight Loss and Weight Regain After Primary and Revisional Bariatric Surgery: Anthropometric and Cardiometabolic Outcomes.
• The Endocannabinoid System, an Underexploited and Promising Niche for the Pharmacological Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic Diseases.
• Evaluation of Antioxidant and Pancreatic Lipase Inhibitory Potential of Polygala Glaucoides L. And Polygala Erioptera DC. (pdf)
• Medical Management of Obesity as It Affects Reflux.
• A Mechanistic Review of Anti-Obesity Drugs.
• RCT: Semaglutide’s Weight-Loss Benefits Were Sustained in a 2-Year Study.

Food & Diet

• Dietary Mediators of the Genetic Susceptibility to Obesity—Results from the Quebec Family Study.
• RCT: Snack Package Size and Variety Differentially Influence Energy Intake and Food Choices in Healthy Adults.
• RCT: The Impact of a High-Carbohydrate/Low Fat Vs. Low-Carbohydrate Diet on Performance and Body Composition in Physically Active Adults.
• Rhubarb Hydroxyanthraquinones Act as Antiobesity Agents to Inhibit Adipogenesis and Enhance Lipolysis.
• Personalized Gene-Diet Study of Rs2239670 Gene Variants and Dietary Patterns Among Adults with Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Dietary Tryptophan, Tyrosine, and Phenylalanine Depletion Induce Reduced Food Intake and Behavioral Alterations in Mice.
• Weight Loss and Cystic Disease Progression in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.
• RCT: Intermittent Fasting in Weight Loss and Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• BMI and Cognitive Decline Among Community-Living Older Adults: The Modifying Effect of Physical Activity.
• The Effect of a Low Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet with or Without Exercise on Postpartum Weight Retention, Metabolic Profile and Physical Activity Performance in Postpartum Mice.

Economics & Sociology

• Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in the Elderly in Central Spain: Association with Socioeconomic Status, Educational Level, and Other Risk Factors.
• Low Socioeconomic Status Is Associated with a Greater Neural Response to Both Rewards and Losses.
• Fat Is All My Fault: Globalized Metathemes of Body Self-Blame.

Epidemiology

• Association of Waist-Calf Circumference Ratio with Incident Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults.
• Muscular Strength Measured Across the Life-Course and the Metabolic Syndrome.
• Comparison of Grip Strength, Gait Speed, and Quality of Life Among Older Adults with and without Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Eating Behavior Modulates the Sensitivity to the Central Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Treatment: A Secondary Analysis.
• Nutrition, Anxiety and Hormones. Why Sex Differences Matter in the Link between Obesity and Behavior.
• Gender Differences in the Relation between Interpersonal Stress and Momentary Shape and Weight Concerns in Youth with Overweight/Obesity.
• (Mouse Cursor)-Tracking Food Decisions in Binge Eating Disorder Reveals Preference for High-Energy Foods and a Role of BMI.
• The Effects of Frequency-Specific, Non-Invasive, Median Nerve Stimulation on Food-Related Attention and Appetite.
• Associations of Sleep with Food Cravings and Loss-Of-Control Eating in Youth: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Equity and Disparities

• The Role of Material and Psychosocial Resources in Explaining Socioeconomic Inequalities in Diet: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach.
• The Role of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in the Global Epidemics of Obesity and Chronic Diseases.

Stigma

• Links between Obesity, Weight Stigma and Learning in Adolescence: A Qualitative Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Associations between Weight Bias Internalization and Conceptually-Related Correlates: A Step Towards Improving Construct Validity.
• Effect of Weight Self-Stigma and Self-Esteem on Aerobic Exercise Capacity in Adult Women with Different Body Compositions.

Policy Related

• The Lancet Commission on Diabetes: Using Data to Transform Diabetes Care and Patient Lives.
• RCT: An Experimental Study Evaluating the Influence of Front-Of-Package Warning Labels on Adolescent’s Purchase Intention of Processed Food Products.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic Review: Maternal Overnutrition Elevates Offspring's Blood Pressure.
• Maternal Fructose Intake Causes Developmental Reprogramming of Hepatic Mitochondrial Catalytic Activity and Lipid Metabolism in Weanling and Young Adult Offspring.
• Intergenerational Determinants of Weight Status Concordance and Discordance in Parent/Adolescent Dyads from the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating Study.
• Bioactive Compounds in Mothers Milk Affecting Offspring Outcomes: A Narrative Review.
• Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV Inhibition Delays Developmental Programming of Obesity and Metabolic Disease in Male Offspring of Mothers with Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Zebrafish Model System for Dyslipidemia and Atherosclerosis Research: Focus on Environmental/exposome Factors and Genetic Mechanisms.
• Behavioural and Physiological Plasticity in Social Hierarchies.
• Anatomical Mechanism for Protecting the Airway in the Largest Animals on Earth.
• Activity, Heart Rate, and Energy Expenditure of a Cold-Climate Mesocarnivore, the Canada Lynx.

Methods

• Optimization of Measurement of Mitochondrial Electron Transport Activity in Postmortem Human Brain Samples and Measurement of Susceptibility to Rotenone and 4-Hydroxynonenal Inhibition.
• Metabolomics Meets Nutritional Epidemiology: Harnessing the Potential in Metabolomics Data.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• An Enhanced Machine Learning Classification System to Investigate the Status of Micronutrients in Rural Women.
• Mathematical Modeling to Inform the Development of National Guidelines on Infant Feeding in Thailand.
• A Bayesian Approach to Combining Multiple Information Sources: Estimating and Forecasting Childhood Obesity in Thailand.

Commentary

• Eating Breakfast Is Associated with Weight Loss During an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention for Overweight/Obesity.
• Enteral Feeding, Even When the Gut Does Not Feel Very Good?
• The Adolescent with Obesity: What Perspectives for Treatment?
• The Rise and Fall of the Mediterranean Diet and Related Nutrients in Preventing Diabetes.
• Video Commentary On: The Impact of Obesity on Plastic Surgery Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Ideal Body Weight: A Commentary.
• What to Feed or What Not to Feed-That Is Still the Question.
• Obesity: Gut Signals, Fat Tissue, and Bariatric Surgery.

General

• The Statistical Riddle of Induction.
• For Neither Heat nor Water Conservation: Body Size Variation in Atlantic Forest Frogs Does Not Follow a General Mechanism.
• Does Diversity of Social Ties Really Matter More for Health and Leisure Activity Than Number of Social Ties? Evidence from Later Adulthood.
• On the Evolution of Distinctive Natal Coat Coloration in Primates.
• The Effect of the Crowd on Home Bias: Evidence from NBA Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Profile-Likelihood Bayesian Model Averaging for Two-Sample Summary Data Mendelian Randomization in the Presence of Horizontal Pleiotropy.
• RCT: Effects of Chocolate on Older Patients with Cancer in Palliative Care.
• Cooking at Home, Fast Food, Meat Consumption, and Dietary Carbon Footprint Among US Adults.

Announcements

• ExpertScape Announces List of Experts in Weight Loss.
• Dr. David Allison, 2022 Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor Lectures at McMaster University - March 8 and 9, 2022.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency and/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• Seeking Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research at UAB.
• Call for Papers (Obesity): Time-Restricted Eating.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department. A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer, or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure and Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.

Featured

• "What might have allowed ichthyosaurs to repeatedly and rapidly evolve enormous sizes is still an open question."
• RCT: "Impact of mothers' distress and emotional eating on calories served to themselves and their young children: An experimental study."
• RCT: The Effect of Personal Relative Deprivation on Food Choice.
• Genomic Loci Mispositioning in Tmem120a Knockout Mice Yields Latent Lipodystrophy.
• Histone Deacetylase 6 Inhibition Restores Leptin Sensitivity and Reduces Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Dried Goji Berries May Provide Protection Against Age-Related Vision Loss.
• Study: Pilot RCT of Goji Berry and Macular Pigment Optical Density in Healthy Adults. Vision Loss Not Tested. Differences Against Control Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Overall, supplementing women with micronutrient-rich foods from before pregnancy until delivery did not alter the body composition or cardiometabolic risk markers in the children."
• RCT: "No significant differences were found between treatment arms in BMI … triglycerides … HDL and glycemic control" in "lifestyle intervention on cardiometabolic risk factors in mental health rehabilitation hostel residents at-risk".
• Preprint: Time from Diagnosis Does Not Improve Diabetes Care Knowledge for Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Unlike Glycerophosphocholine or Choline Chloride, Dietary Phosphatidylcholine Does Not Increase Plasma Trimethylamine-N-Oxide Levels in Sprague-Dawley Rats.
• Vitamin B12 Does Not Protect Against the Damage Induced by Hydrogen Peroxide in Mouse Kidney Proximal Tubular Cells and Brain Endothelial Cells.
• Restricting Feeding to Dark Phase Fails to Entrain Circadian Activity and Energy Expenditure Oscillations in Pitx3-Mutant Aphakia Mice.
• Muscle Volume Vs. Anatomical Cross-Sectional Area: Different Muscle Assessment Does Not Affect the Muscle Size-Strength Relationship.
• "However, contrary to what was expected the greater efficiency for CR than PU cows was associated to an increased hepatic oxidative damage, which would probably reflect a greater metabolic activity of this organ in CR cows."
• In Bighorn Sheep, "no evidence that variance in multiple resource acquisition behaviours originates from a single axis of variation among individuals."

Basic

• Intestinal HIF-2α Regulates GLP-1 Secretion Via Lipid Sensing in L-Cells.
• Tangeretin Prevents Obesity by Modulating Systemic Inflammation, Fat Browning, and Gut Microbiota in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice.
• CREG1 Improves Diet-Induced Obesity Via Uncoupling Protein 1-Dependent Manner in Mice.
• Compromised Hepatic Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation and Reduced Markers of Mitochondrial Turnover in Human NAFLD.
• Leptin Resistance Before and After Obesity: Evidence That Tissue Glucose Uptake Underlies Adipocyte Enlargement and Liver Steatosis/steatohepatitis in Zucker Rats from Early-Life Stages.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Designing, Conducting, and Documenting Human Nutrition Plant-Derived Intervention Trials.
• A Systematic Review and Recommendations around Frameworks for Evaluating Scientific Validity in Nutritional Genomics.
• Strengthening Nutrition Education and Behavior Research for Academicians and Practitioners.
• Traffic Light Diets for Childhood Obesity: Disambiguation of Terms and Critical Review of Application, Food Categorization, and Strength of Evidence.

Clinical

• RCT: An Implicit Priming Intervention Alters Brain and Behavioral Responses to High-Calorie Foods.
• Review: Associations between Body Composition, Fat Distribution and Metabolic Consequences of Excess Adiposity with Severe COVID-19 Outcomes: Observational Study and Mendelian Randomisation Analysis.
• Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Health Across the Menopause Transition.

Children and Adolescents

• The Impact of Neonatal Morbidities on Child Growth and Developmental Outcomes in Very Low Birth Weight Infants: A Nationwide Cohort Study.
• Park and Neighbourhood Environmental Characteristics Associated with Park-Based Physical Activity Among Children in a High-Density City.
• Relationship of Sleep Quality with Screen-Based Sedentary Time and Physical Activity in Adolescents — the Moderating Effect of BMI.
• "[Nutrition-related claims on fruit drinks] made parents more likely to incorrectly believe that the fruit drinks contained no added sugar and were 100% juice compared to the control"

Surgery

• Weight Loss Is Associated with Reduced Risk of Knee and Hip Replacement, Regardless of BMI.
• Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Increases Duodenal Lactobacillus Spp. Richness Associated with Activation of Intestinal HIF2α Signaling and Metabolic Benefits.
• Gut HIF2α Signaling Is Increased After VSG, and Gut Activation of HIF2α Decreases Weight, Improves Glucose, and Increases GLP-1 Secretion.
• Systematic Review: Seventy Years of Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Lipogenesis Inhibitors: Therapeutic Opportunities and Challenges.
• Difference in Gastrointestinal Risk Associated with Use of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: A Real-World Pharmacovigilance Study.
• Iron Chelation Increases Beige Fat Differentiation and Metabolic Activity, Preventing and Treating Obesity.
• Dosing Therapeutic Radiopharmaceuticals in Patients with Obesity.
• In Silico Analysis of Glucosinolates as Pancreatic Lipase Inhibitor to Develop Anti-Obesity Drug.

Food & Diet

• Large-Scale Diet Tracking Data Reveal Disparate Associations between Food Environment and Diet.
• Healthy Dietary Patterns and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease in Less-Developed Ethnic Minority Regions: A Large Cross-Sectional Study.
• Dietary Patterns, Skeletal Muscle Mass Loss, and Cardiovascular Risk Among Elderly Men: A Preliminary Cross-Sectional Study in Sichuan Province.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Evaluation of a Blood-Based Geroscience Biomarker Index in a Randomized Trial of Caloric Restriction and Exercise in Older Adults with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
• Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass and Caloric Restriction but Not Gut Hormone-Based Treatments Profoundly Impact the Hypothalamic Transcriptome in Obese Rats.
• Real World Adherence to a Severely Energy Restricted Meal Replacement Diet in Participants with Class II and III Obesity.
• Reduced Calorie Diet Combined with NNMT Inhibition Establishes a Distinct Microbiome in DIO Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Atlas of Exercise Metabolism Reveals Time-Dependent Signatures of Metabolic Homeostasis.
• RCT: Effects of a Home-Based Physical Training and Activity Promotion Program in Community-Dwelling Older Persons with Cognitive Impairment After Discharge from Rehabilitation.
• Systematic Review: Muscular Fitness and Cardiometabolic Variables in Children and Adolescents.
• Meta-Analysis: Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Mortality from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer.

Economics & Sociology

• Subjective Social Status and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Young Adults.
• Socioeconomic Status Predicts Children's Moral Judgments of Novel Resource [Skittles] Distributions.

Epidemiology

• Association between Life-Course Cigarette Smoking and Metabolic Syndrome: A Discovery-Replication Strategy.
• Thesis: The Relationship between Food Environments and Obesity Rates in the United States; Measured by the Modified Retail Food Environment Index.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Effect of Personal Relative Deprivation on Food Choice: An Experimental Approach.
• Which Emotion-Regulation Strategies Explain the Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Eating to Cope?
• Patient-Centered Care for Obesity: How Healthcare Providers Can Treat Obesity While Actively Addressing Weight Stigma and Eating Disorder Risk.
• Meta-Analysis: Disentangling Binge Eating Disorder and Food Addiction.

Equity and Disparities

• Scoping Review: Nutrition Interventions Addressing Structural Racism.
• Systematic Review: Attrition and Retention in Multidisciplinary Weight Management Interventions for Adults with Obesity.
• Obesity Pillars Roundtable: Obesity and Diversity.

Stigma

• Demystifying ‘Diet Culture’: Exploring the Meaning of Diet Culture in Online ‘Anti-Diet’ Feminist, Fat Activist, and Health Professional Communities.
• Reporting Obesity Responsibly–a Review of English-Language Media Guidelines. (pdf)

Policy Related

• The Association between Patient Activation, Self-Management Behaviours and Clinical Outcomes in Adults with Diabetes or Related Metabolic.
• Scoping Review: Sedentarism and Chronic Disease Risk in COVID 19 Lockdown.
• Linking a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax with Fruit and Vegetable Subsidies: A Simulation Analysis of the Impact on the Poor.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal High-Fat Diet Programs White and Brown Adipose Tissue Lipidome and Transcriptome in Offspring in a Sex- and Tissue-Dependent Manner in Mice.
• Maternal Diet Quality During Pregnancy and Child Cognition and Behavior in a US Cohort.
• Trends of Central Obesity and Associations with Nutrients Intake and Daily Behaviors Among Women of Childbearing Age in China.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Do Honey Bees Modulate Dance Following According to Foraging Distance?
• Tissue Expression of Leptin Genes in Trachinotus blochii and Responses to Fasting and Refeeding.
• Emergence of Size-Structured Dominance Hierarchies Through Size-Dependent Feedback.

Methods

• Comparison of Growth Curves in Very Low Birth Weight Preterm Infants After Hospital Discharge.
• Total Energy Expenditure Is Repeatable in Adults but Not Associated with Short-Term Changes in Body Composition.
• Well-Defined Interventions for Nutritional Studies: From Target Trials to Nutritional Modeling.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Emergence of the Obesity Epidemic: Six Decade Visualization with Humanoid Avatars.

Commentary

• Sugar Detox? Cutting Carbs? A Doctor Explains Why You Should Keep Fruit on the Menu.
• Exercising After COVID-19: What Doctors Need to Know.
• Well-Defined Interventions for Nutritional Studies: From Target Trials to Nutritional Modeling.
• 4 Metabolism Myths, Busted.
• Obesity Harms Brain Health Throughout Life, Yet Scientists Don't Know Why.
• Breakthrough Using CRISPR to Target Fat Cells in Genetic Study of Obesity.
• Recognizing Obesity as a Disease, Not a Choice, Is a Step Toward Health Equity.
• Stress Hormone Levels May Predict Risk of Binge Eating Following Weight Restoration in Anorexia Nervosa.
• Why are We Failing on Diabetes Health Risks?
• Stamp Out Fake Clinical Data by Working Together.

General

• Dynamic Genetic Differentiation Drives the Widespread Structural and Functional Convergent Evolution of Snake Venom Proteinaceous Toxins.
• Meeting Assumptions in the Estimation of Reliability.
• Deceived, but Not Betrayed: Static Allometry Suggests Female Ornaments in the Long-Tailed Dance Fly (Rhamphomyia longicauda) Exaggerate Condition to Males.
• Medieval Warhorses Were Actually Quite Small, Study Finds.
• Crossover Effects of Education on Health Within Married Couples.
• Prevalence and Comparisons of Alcohol, Candy, Energy Drink, Snack, Soda, and Restaurant Brand and Product Marketing on Twitch, Facebook Gaming and YouTube Gaming.
• Leveraging Historical Data to Optimize the Number of Covariates and Their Explained Variance in the Analysis of RCTs.
• The Impact of Methodology on the Reproducibility and Rigor of DNA Methylation Data.

Video & Audio

• What Is Nutrition Science | Stats + Stories Episode 214 /January 13, 2022.

Announcements

• Seeking Applications: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research at UAB.
• NASEM: Roundtable on Mentorship, Well-Being, and Creativity in Scientific Research.
• Call for Papers: Time-Restricted Eating.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.

Featured

• The Energetics of Uniquely Human Subsistence Strategies.
• Sex- and Age-Specific Centile Curves and Downloadable Calculator for Clinical Muscle Strength Tests to Identify Probable Sarcopenia.
• Sexually Dimorphic Association of Circulating Leptin Levels with Early Amyloid-Beta Pathology Assessed by Amyloid PET.
• Review: A Scoping Review of Intermittent Fasting, Chronobiology, and Metabolism.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Genetics Could Be Key to Curbing Obesity.
• Study: Pannexin 3 Deletion Reduces Fat Accumulation and Inflammation in a Sex-Specific Manner... in Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Weight-loss drugs are generally ineffective in BED."
• "Treatment based solely on these natural products is not currently recommended as more studies are needed."
• RCT: "...among pregnant women and mothers of infants, graphic health warning labels and beverage sugar content information did not reduce maternal SSB consumption."
• "Contrary to predictions from simple dynamical models, increased belt speed difference resulted in increased energy cost..."
• RCT: No Effect of Moringa Oleifera Leaf Powder Supplementation on Anthropometric Parameters of Adult HIV Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in a Resource-Limited Setting.
• RCT: "In contrast to the strong results of small-scale trials, we do not observe systematic improvements in HNWASH knowledge, attitudes, behaviour or health outcomes but document irregularities in the implementation of the intervention. These findings call for caution when promising public health interventions are transformed into large policy programmes."
• RCT: No Additional Benefit of Prescribing a Very Low-Protein Diet in Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease Under Regular Nephrology Care.
• "APE [aerobic physical exercise] at a later age with a more severe degree of obesity did not attenuate the excessive body weight gain [in mice]."

Basic

• Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice Impairs Host Defense Against Klebsiella pneumonia in Vivo and Glucose Transport and Bactericidal Functions in Neutrophils in Vitro.
• Maternal High-Fat Diet Programs White and Brown Adipose Tissue Lipidome and Transcriptome in Offspring in a Sex- and Tissue-Dependent Manner in Mice.
• Conventional Type 1 Dendritic Cells Protect Against Age-Related Adipose Tissue Dysfunction and Obesity.
• Adrenomedullin Ameliorates Palmitic Acid-Induced Insulin Resistance Through PI3K/Akt Pathway in Adipocytes.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Concerns and Recommendations for Using Amazon MTurk for Eating Disorder Research.
• Commentary: "In this commentary, we outline key screening procedures that allow researchers to obtain quality MTurk data."
• Commentary: "We argue that it is also important to acknowledge and review the specific ethical issues that might arise when recruiting MTurk workers as participants."
• Authors to Correct PNAS ‘Nudge’ Paper That Cites Now-Retracted Article in the Same Journal.

Clinical

• Physical and Mental Health Differences Reported by Three Age Groups of Older Adults with Diabetes.
• RCT: Effect of Fat Reformulated Dairy Food Consumption on Postprandial Flow-Mediated Dilatation and Cardiometabolic Risk Biomarkers Compared with Conventional Dairy.
• Comprehensive Management of Cardiovascular Risk Factors for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.

Children and Adolescents

• Low Length/Weight Growth Trajectories of Early-Term Infants During the First Year.
• School Intervention with Recreational Motor Activity for Overweight Children.
• Infant Feeding Practices Associated with Adiposity Peak and Rebound in the EDEN Mother–Child Cohort.
• Cesarean Delivery and Risk of Excess Weight Among Brazilian Preschool Children.
• The Relationship between Body Composition and Physical Fitness and the Effect of Exercise According to the Level of Childhood Obesity Using the MGPA Model.

Surgery

• The Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Serum Tryptophan-Kynurenine Pathway Metabolites.
• Long-Term Weight Outcome After Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Melanocortin-4 Receptor Gene Variants.
• Meta-Analysis: Vitamin B Complex Deficiency After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• RCT: Effect of Weekly Subcutaneous Semaglutide vs Daily Liraglutide on Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity Without Diabetes.
• Semaglutide 2.4 Mg: The Latest GLP-1RA Approved for Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Role of Poultry Transfers in Diet Diversity.
• RCT: Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction Augments Weight Loss-Induced Improvements in Glycaemic Control and Liver Fat in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Effect of Chocolate on Older Patients with Cancer in Palliative Care.
• Influence of 8-Week Daily Consumption of a New Product Combining Green Coffee Hydroxycinnamates and Beta-Glucans on Polyphenol Bioavailability in Subjects with Overweight and Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Potential Therapeutic Effects of Green Tea on Obese Lipid Profile.
• Dietary Curcumin Restores Insulin Homeostasis in Diet-Induced Obese Aged Mice.
• Higher Iron Intake Is Independently Associated with Obesity in Younger Japanese Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effects of a Six-Month Low-Carbohydrate Diet on Glycemic Control, Body Composition and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• A Low-Carbohydrate Diet Realizes Medication Withdrawal: A Possible Opportunity for Effective Glycemic Control.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Collaborative, Dyadic, and Individual Planning and Physical Activity.
• Reproducibility, Validity, and Relative Validity of Self-Report Methods for Assessing Physical Activity in Epidemiologic Studies.

Economics & Sociology

• Decreased Global Online Interest in Obesity from 2004 to 2021: An Infodemiology Study.
• Association between Community Average BMI and Perception of Overweight.
• Stereotyping at the Intersection of Race and Weight: Diluted Threat Stereotyping of Black Men with Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Higher Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Score Is Associated with Slower Epigenetic Age Acceleration.
• Novel Application of Nutritional Biomarkers from a Controlled Feeding Study and an Observational Study to Characterization of Dietary Patterns.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Weaker Connectivity in Resting State Networks Is Associated with Disinhibited Eating in Older Adults.
• Disrupted Stepwise Functional Brain Organization in Overweight Individuals.

Equity and Disparities

• Tackling Persistent and Large Disparities in Birth Outcomes in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
• Geography and Equity: Expanding Access to Obesity Medicine Diplomate Care.
• Using Black Feminist Theory and Methods to Uncover Best Practices in Health Promotion Programming.
• The Effect of High BMI on Self-Esteem and Sexual Functions in Females with Obesity Admitted to the Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Department.

Stigma

• Review: Obesity Stigma: The Role of Healthcare Practitioners in Improving Patient Outcomes.
• Weight Stigma in the British Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Thematic Analysis.
• A Brief Pilot Self-Compassion Intervention for Women with Overweight/Obesity and Internalized Weight Bias: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Future Directions.
• An Examination of the Link between Empathy and Weight-Based Victimization.

Policy Related

• Obesity and Overweight in Children Below 5 Years of Age: Environmental, Behavioural and Social Factors and Their Active Use in Prevention and Management.
• Association between Tobacco Retailer Density and Smoking Among Adults with Diabetes and Serious Mental Illness in New York State.
• Obesity and the Increased Risk for COVID-19: Mechanisms and Nutritional Management.
• Market and Welfare Effects of Quality Misperception in Food Labels.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational Effects of a Paternal Western Diet During Adolescence on Offspring Gut Microbiota, Stress Reactivity, and Social Behavior.
• Associations between Infant and Maternal Characteristics Measured at Child Age 5 Months and Maternal Feeding Styles and Practices Up to Child Age Two Years.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Distinguishing Different Modes of Growth Using Single-Cell Data.
• Phenotypic Plasticity to Chronic Cold Exposure in Two Species of Peromyscus from Different Environments.
• Environmental Correlates of Activity and Energetics in a Wide-Ranging Social Carnivore.

Methods

• The Energy Balance Hypothesis of Obesity: Do the Laws of Thermodynamics Explain Excessive Adiposity?
• Integrative System Biology and Mathematical Modeling of Genetic Networks Identifies Shared Biomarkers for Obesity and Diabetes.
• Approaches to Assessing Intake of Food and Dietary Supplements in Pregnant Women and Children 2 to 11 Years of Age: A Workshop Series.

Commentary

• In Swedish Adolescents, the Celiac Dietary Adherence Test Simplifies Determining Adherence to a Gluten-Free Diet.
• Have We Got the Science of Obesity Back to Front?
• Where Can People Get Access to Real Obesity Care?
• It’s 2022: DIEt or LIVEit?
• Wellness, Nostalgia, Innovation and New Views of Sustainability are Among the Food Trends for 2022.
• Omicron, Obesity, and Children in the Hospital.
• S2G Ventures Reveals 10 Trends Shaping the Future of Food & AgTech in 2022.
• Kentucky Fake Chicken and Chipotle Vegan Sausage.

General

• Why Objective Science Does Not Resolve Environmental Policy Issues.
• Thesis: Effects of Plant Origin on Insect Community Composition and Bird Predation.
• Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Inhibit a Pentameric Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Through One of Two Binding Sites.
• Mitochondria as a Target and Central Hub of Energy Division During Cold Stress in Insects.
• Flying Fish and Aquarium Pets Yield Secrets of Evolution.
• Benefits, Toxicity and Current Market of Cannabidiol in Edibles.
• Mirror Self-Recognition in Gorillas (Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla): A Review and Evaluation of Mark Test Replications and Variants.
• In a First, Man Receives a Heart from a Genetically Altered Pig.

Announcements

• Indiana IFT: Virtual Event, January 18, 2022 at 3pm ET/2pm CT - Sean Leighton to Discuss the Future of Food Science.
• Dean David Allison Is Named a 2022-2023 Distinguished Lecturer by Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.