Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Commentary: “Breakfast doesn't have much to do with weight loss."
• The Effects of Dietary Saturated Fat Source on Weight Gain and Adiposity are Influenced by Both Sex and Total Dietary Lipid Intake in Zebrafish.
• To Be Energy-Efficient, Brains Predict Their Perceptions.
• The Cost of Reproduction in a Cooperatively Breeding Mammal: Consequences of Seasonal Variation in Rainfall, Reproduction, and Reproductive Suppression.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Adding Juice to Baby's Diet May Increase Risk for Obesity, Study Finds.
• Study: Predictors of Age at Reported Juice Introduction and Associations with Subsequent Reported Beverage Intake in Early and Middle Childhood. Obesity Not Reported.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The current study was unable to detect a significant effect of the OBEST application as an adjunct tool to the standard treatment on reducing weight in [children and adolescents with obesity]."
• RCT: "Although metformin and lifestyle modification prevented diabetes, neither strategy reduced all-cause, cancer, or cardiovascular mortality rates."
• RCT: No Apparent Effects of a Viscous, Superabsorbent Hydrogel on Appetite, Energy Intake, or Fecal Excretion in Overweight Adults.
• Genosets for APOE and CYP7A1-Rs3808607 Variants Do Not Predict Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Lowering upon Intervention with Plant Sterols in an RCT.
• RCT: "ALA supplementation with camelina oil did not improve vascular function but adversely affected glucose metabolism in hypertensive patients with metabolic syndrome."
• "Contrary to expectations, a peer-created ego-climate contributed positively to three life skills and total life skills" in childhood sports programs.
• RCT: "...probiotics have no advantage over lifestyle modification for improving obesity-associated metabolic derangement in children."
• "No significant associations between PCB-153, PFOA, PFOS, or pentaPBDEs with childhood BMI were found in meta-analyses."

Basic

• Leptin Receptor Defect with Diabetes Causes Skeletal Muscle Atrophy in Female Obese Zucker Rats Where Peculiar Depots Networked with Mitochondrial Damages.
• Asparagine Reinforces MTORC1 Signaling to Boost Thermogenesis and Glycolysis in Adipose Tissues.
• BAd-CRISPR: Inducible Gene Knockout in Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue of Adult Mice.
• A Novel Partial PPARγ Agonist Has Weaker Lipogenic Effect in Adipocytes and Stimulates GLUT4 Translocation in Skeletal Muscle Cells Via AMPK-Dependent Signaling.
• Parental High-Fat High-Sugar Diet Programming and Hypothalamus Adipose Tissue Axis in Male Wistar Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Expression of Concern: Differential Effects of Growth Hormone and Alfa Calcidol on Trabecular and Cortical Bones in Hypophysectomized Rats.
• Article: Effect of Vitamin D3 on Severe Asthma Exacerbations in Children with Asthma and Low Vitamin D Levels: The VDKA RCT.
• Critique: "A study of [children with asthma], most of them Black, shows how a common clinical trial design can expose vulnerable participants to serious risks"
• Critique of critique: Misleading Portrayal of Children’s Asthma Study.
• Response from study author: Accurately Assessing Children’s Asthma Study.
• Editor’s note: Regarding the Two Letters.
• Blog Post: The Importance of Careful Use of Comparative Terms in Quantitative Arguments in Science Journalism.
• PubPeer Comment: Summarizing the Defense of the Study.

Clinical

• Novel Adiposity and Biochemical–Anthropometric Indices to Identify Cardiometabolic Risk and Metabolic Syndrome in Mexican Adults.
• Trends in Obesity Prevalence Among Adults Aged 18 Through 25 Years, 1976-2018.
• Effectiveness of Anti-Obesity Medications Approved for Long-Term Use in a Multidisciplinary Weight Management Program: A Multi-Center Clinical Experience.

Children and Adolescents

• Pediatric Weight Management Through MHealth Compared to Face-To-Face Care: Cost Analysis of an RCT.
• Birth Weight, Adult Weight, and Cardiovascular Biomarkers: Evidence from the Cardiovascular Young Finns Study.
• Adolescent BMI and Changes in Pre-Pregnancy BMI in Relation to Risk of Gestational Diabetes.
• The Relationship between BMI and Children’s Mathematics Performance.

Surgery

• One Year Follow-Up of Taste-Related Reward Associations with Weight Loss Suggests a Critical Time to Mitigate Weight Regain Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Colorectal Cancer After Bariatric Surgery (Cric-Abs 2020): Sicob (Italian Society of Obesity Surgery) Endorsed National Survey.
• Radiographic Measurement of Gastric Remnant Volume After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: Assessment of Reproducibility and Correlation with Weight Loss.
• Body Composition, Basal Metabolic Rate and Leptin in Long-Term Weight Regain After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass are Similar to Pre-Surgical Obesity.

Drugs

• Novel Noninvasive Approaches to the Treatment of Obesity: From Pharmacotherapy to Gene Therapy.
• Endocrine Disruptors, Obesity, and Prostate Cancer: Cell Fate Analysis.
• RCT: Once-Weekly Cagrilintide for Weight Management in People with Overweight and Obesity.
• Liraglutide for Weight Management in the Real World: Significant Weight Loss Even If the Maximal Daily Dose Is Not Achieved.

Food & Diet

• Life Habits of Postmenopausal Women: Association of Menopause Symptom Intensity and Food Consumption by Degree of Food Processing.
• The Effects of Blueberry Phytochemicals on Cell Models of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress.
• Diets for Weight Management in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: An Umbrella Review of Published Meta-Analyses and Systematic Review of Trials of Diets for Diabetes Remission.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Adults in Rural Appalachia.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Short-Term Pre-Operative Protein Caloric Restriction in Elective Vascular Surgery Patients.
• Short Term Caloric Restriction and Biofeedback Enhance Psychological Wellbeing and Reduce Overweight in Healthy Women.
• Fasting-Mimicking Diet Is Safe and Reshapes Metabolism and Antitumor Immunity in Cancer Patients.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Estrogen Modulates Metabolic Risk Profile After Resistance Training in Early Postmenopausal Women.
• Meta-Analysis: Overall Effect of MHealth Physical Activity Interventions for Weight Loss and the Moderating Effect of Behavioral Change Theories, Techniques, and Mobile Technologies.
• Meta-Analysis: Calorie Restriction with Exercise Intervention Improves Inflammatory Response in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• The Exercise-Induced Improvement in Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Uptake by Rat Skeletal Muscle Is Absent in Male AS160-Knockout Rats, Partially Restored by Muscle Expression of Phosphomutated AS160, and Fully Restored by Muscle Expression of Wildtype AS160.

Economics & Sociology

• The Associations of Socioeconomic Status and Financial Strain with Restrained and Emotional Eating Among 42-Year-Old Women and Men.
• The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and BMI Change.
• Longer-Term Impacts of the Oakland, California, Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax on Prices and Volume Sold at Two-Years Post-Tax.

Epidemiology

• LDL-Cholesterol Trajectories and Statin Treatment in Finnish Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Growth Mixture Model.
• Obesity and Cancer Death in White and Black Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes by Age, Sex and Geographical Area Among Two Million Public Assistance Recipients in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using a Nationally Representative Claims Database.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Interoception and Obesity.
• AgRP/NPY and POMC Neurons in the Arcuate Nucleus and Their Potential Role in Treatment of Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment in People with Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Self-Reported Eating Speed Is Associated with Indicators of Obesity in Adults.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Parent Activation: Implications for Developing Interventions Addressing Early Childhood Obesity.
• The Determinants of Racial Disparities in Obesity: Baseline Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
• Effects of Diabetes and Obesity on Cognitive Impairment and Mortality in Older Mexicans.
• Leading Our Way: Urban and Rural Indigenous Diabetes and Obesity Wellness Programs.

Stigma

• Systematic Review: Is Weight Stigma Associated with Physical Activity?
• Incorporating Obesity and Weight Bias Training Improved Attitudes of Hospital Staff Towards People with Obesity in Alberta.
• Intuitive Eating Buffers the Link between Internalized Weight Stigma and BMI in Stressed Adults.

Policy Related

• Policies to Restrict Unhealthy Food and Beverage Advertising in Outdoor Spaces and on Publicly Owned Assets: A Scoping Review of the Literature.
• Diet, Nutrition, Obesity, and Their Implications for COVID-19 Mortality: Development of a Marginalized Two-Part Model for Semicontinuous Data.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-Analysis: Prenatal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Childhood Obesity.
• Maternal BMI, Offspring BMI, and Blood Pressure at 18 Years: A Causal Mediation Analysis.
• Changes in Fathers’ BMI, Sleep, and Diet from Prebirth to 12 Months Postbirth: Exploring the Moderating Roles of Parenthood Experience and Coparenting Support.
• Perinatal Socio-Behavioral and Obstetric Predictors of Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Obesity in Adult Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Sex Differences in the Response to Circadian Disruption in Diurnal Sand Rats.
• The Structure and Function of Gut Microbiomes of Two Species of Sea Urchins, Mesocentrotus Nudus and Strongylocentrotus Intermedius, in Japan.

Methods

• Measurement of Physical Activity Self-Efficacy in Adults with Obesity: A Latent Variable Approach to Explore Dimensionality, Temporal Invariance, and External Validity.
• Comparison of Pancreatic Fat Content Measured by Different Methods Employing MR MDixon Sequence.
• Preparation of Methodological Systematic Reviews in Nutrition Science.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Simple Mathematical Model Simulating Individual Weight Based on Daily Diet Menu.
• Modeling Growth Curves for Epidemiology.

Commentary

• Obesity May Trigger Development of Cells That Break Down Bones Holding the Teeth, Study Shows.
• More Anti-Obesity Medicine Progress with Cagrilintide.
• How a Narrow Definition of Healthy Diverges from Health.
• New Polling: Medicare Lags Behind on Obesity Care.
• Conceptualizing Food Insecurity Among Older Adults: Development of a Summary Indicator in the National Health and Aging Trends Study.
• The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2020–2025): Pulses, Dietary Fiber, and Chronic Disease Risk—A Call for Clarity and Action.
• BMI Centiles for South Asian Children: Do They Need Reconsideration?

General

• Molecular Reconstruction of Recurrent Evolutionary Switching in Olfactory Receptor Specificity.
• Structural Racism and Its Pathways to Asthma and Atopic Dermatitis.
• Disturbed Retinoid Metabolism upon Loss of Rlbp1a Impairs Cone Function and Leads to Subretinal Lipid Deposits and Photoreceptor Degeneration in the Zebrafish Retina.
• Mediation Analysis of Social Isolation and Mortality by Health Behaviors.
• When No One Is Watching: Ecological Momentary Assessment to Understand Situated Social Robot Use in Healthcare.
• Within-Person Longitudinal Associations between Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Use and Smoking Cessation Efforts Among U.S. Continuing Adult Cigarette Smokers.
• Age Varying Polygenic Effects on Alcohol Use in African Americans and European Americans from Adolescence to Adulthood.
• Possible Gender Influence in the Mechanisms Underlying the Oxidative Stress, Inflammatory Response, and the Metabolic Alterations in Patients with Obesity and/or Type 2 Diabetes.
• A Billion-Dollar Donation: Estimating the Cost of Researchers' Time Spent on Peer Review.

Video & Audio

• Webinar: Metabolic Adaptations: The Physiology of Cold Acclimatization and Exercise in Rodent Models.

Announcements

• Colloquium Nov 29: Geographical Indications and Sustainable Food Systems. (pdf)
• IU Bloomington Ranks High in U.S. News List of 'Best Global Universities'.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure-Track/Tenure: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University Bloomington Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Featured

• A Sad Loss for the Obesity Research Community: Dr. Randall "Randy" Lee Mynatt passed away in Baton Rouge, LA on November 10, 2021.
• As in Humans, Measuring Energy Intake in Free-Living Whales Proves Challenging: Biologists Vastly Underestimated How Much Whales Eat and Poop.
• RCT: Cognitive Response to Testosterone Replacement Added to Intensive Lifestyle Intervention in Older Men with Obesity and Hypogonadism.
• Women with Long COVID May Need Targeted Rehab to Counter Problems with Physical Activity Tolerance.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Scientists May Have Found the Perfect Bedtime to Keep Hearts Healthy.
• Study: Associations between Arbitrarily Discretized Accelerometer-Derived Sleep Onset Timing and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence.
• SciCom Commentary: Careful! Health News Headlines Can Be Deceiving.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Five years of supervised exercise training in older adults had little effect on cardiovascular risk profile and did not reduce cardiovascular events."
• "Although we expected rapid growth to induce developmental costs, neither instantaneous growth rates nor the duration of larval growth were related to developmental stability in the adult."
• "Contrary to what was expected, in the three marine populations, the SFA and MUFA levels showed opposite correlations (negative and positive, respectively) with habitat temperatures…in finless porpoises …"
• RCT: Post-Exercise Cold Water Immersion Does Not Improve Subsequent 4-Km Cycling Time-Trial Compared with Passive and Active Recovery in Normothermia.
• N-Acetylcysteine Supplementation Did Not Reverse Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress, Apoptosis, and Inflammation in the Salivary Glands of Hyperglycemic Rats.
• Obesity Does Not Protect from Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Pooled Analyses of 3 Large Prospective Nordic Cohorts.
• RCT: A Protein-Supplemented Very-Low-Calorie Diet Does Not Mitigate Reductions in Lean Mass and Resting Metabolic Rate in Subjects with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: "At the six-month intervention endpoint (n=862) there were no statistically significant differences between students in intervention or control schools for mean daily intake of SSBs …percentage daily energy from SSBs …or for secondary outcomes."

Basic

• Hepatocyte-Specific Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Overexpression Ameliorates High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Liver Steatosis in Mice.
• A Neural Circuit Integrates Pharyngeal Sensation to Control Feeding.
• The KRAB Domain-Containing Protein ZFP961 Represses Adipose Thermogenesis and Energy Expenditure Through Interaction with PPARα.
• Dietary Macronutrient Imbalances Lead to Compensatory Changes in Peripheral Taste Via Independent Signaling Pathways.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Systematic Review of Counseling and Behavioral Interventions for Healthy Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy from the US Preventive Services Task Force.
• Reply: to letter on "Systematic Review of Counseling and Behavioral Interventions for Healthy Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy from the US Preventive Services Task Force."
• Event: The STORK Summit 2022: Moving Toward Better Research Practices in Kinesiology.

Clinical

• Obesity Partially Mediates the Diabetogenic Effect of Lowering LDL Cholesterol.
• Abstract: Higher BMI Is Associated with a Higher Prevalence of Thin-Cap Fibroatheroma in Younger Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Metabolic and Genetic Determinants for Progression to Severe Liver Disease in Subjects with Obesity from the UK Biobank.
• Birth with Synthetic Oxytocin and the Risk of Having Overweight or Obesity During Childhood.

Children and Adolescents

• Associations of Dairy Intake with Anthropometric Failure in Children Ages 6 to 23 Mo Consuming Vegetarian Diets and Fulfilling Minimum Dietary Diversity in India.
• RCT: Effectiveness of Mobile Application on Changing Weight, Healthy Eating Habits, and Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Narrative Review: Early Nutrition and Later Excess Adiposity During Childhood.
• How Do Interpersonal Relationships Affect Children's Weight Management? A Qualitative Analysis of Parents' Long-Term Perceptions After Obesity Treatment.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a Multifaceted Intervention for Prevention of Obesity in Primary School Children in China.
• Meta-Analysis: Low Birth Weight and Small for Gestational Age are Associated with Complications of Childhood and Adolescence Obesity.
• Prospective Associations between Leukocyte Telomere Length and Adiposity in Childhood.
• Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Program and Participant Factors That Explain Success in a Micropolitan Pediatric Weight Management Intervention.

Surgery

• Review: Efficacy and Mechanisms of Gastric Volume-Restriction Bariatric Devices.
• Bariatric Surgery Induces a Differential Effect on Plasma Aldosterone in Comparison to Dietary Advice Alone.
• Patients with Low Socioeconomic Status are More Likely to Undergo Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Meeting Abstract of Meta-Analysis: Protective Role of Bariatric Surgery in Prevalence and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Obesity on Long-Term, with Gradually Waning Effect over a Decade.

Drugs

• Video: GLP-1 Agonists – the Future of Treating Obesity?
• Video: Pharmacotherapy for Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Increasing Vegetable Intake Decreases Urinary Acidity and Bone Resorption Marker in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Informal Vendors and Food Systems Planning in an Emerging African City.
• Review: Impacts of Essential Amino Acids on Energy Balance.
• The Relationship between Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Diet Adherence and Inflammatory Factors and Insulin Resistance in Women with Overweight and Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Review: MUFA in Metabolic Syndrome and Associated Risk Factors: Is MUFA the Opposite Side of the PUFA Coin?
• Reproducibility and Validity of Diet Quality Scores Derived from Food Frequency Questionnaires.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Induces Anabolic Resistance to Resistance Exercise.
• The Effect of Caloric Restriction on the Increase in Senescence-Associated T Cells and Metabolic Disorders in Aged Mice.
• Predictors of Clinically Meaningful Gait Speed Response to Caloric Restriction Among Older Adults Participating in Weight Loss Interventions.
• Review: Molecular Mechanisms of Dietary Restriction Promoting Health and Longevity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effect of Different Kinesio Tape Tensions on Experimentally-Induced Thermal and Muscle Pain in Healthy Adults.
• Systematic Review: The Metabolic Signature of Cardiorespiratory Fitness.
• Home-Based HIIT and Traditional MICT Prescriptions Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness to a Similar Extent Within an Exercise Referral Scheme for At-Risk Individuals.
• Is Wrist Accelerometry Suitable for Threshold Scoring? A Comparison of Hip-Worn and Wrist-Worn ActiGraph Data in Low-Active Older Adults with Obesity.
• Timing of Objectively-Collected Physical Activity in Relation to Body Weight and Metabolic Health in Sedentary Older People: A Cross-Sectional and Prospective Analysis.

Economics & Sociology

• Cost-Effectiveness of Lipid-Lowering Treatments in Young Adults.
• Associations between Socioeconomic Status and Obesity, Sarcopenia, and Sarcopenic Obesity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Tasmanian Older Adult Cohort Study.
• Abstract: Financial Hardship from Medical Bills Among Non-Elderly Adults with Obesity in the US.
• Meta-Analysis: Health and Financial Costs of Adverse Childhood Experiences in 28 European Countries.

Epidemiology

• Chronic Disease and Where You Live: Built and Natural Environment Relationships with Physical Activity, Obesity, and Diabetes.
• The Impact of Undernutrition on Cognition in Children with Severe Malaria and Community Children: A Prospective 2-Year Cohort Study.
• Demographic and Sociocultural Risk Factors for Adulthood Weight Gain in Hispanic/Latinos: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).
• Abstract: Morbid Obesity Eliminates the Obesity Paradox in Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure.
• Trabecular Bone Score and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women with Morbid Obesity—A Clinical Paradox.
• Association of Bariatric Surgery with Major Adverse Liver and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Biopsy-Proven Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.
• Risk Associations of Long-Term HbA1c Variability and Obesity on Cancer Events and Cancer-Specific Death in 15,286 Patients with Diabetes - a Prospective Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• BMI and the Risk of Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempt Among Youth in 45 Low-And Middle-Income Countries.
• Diminished Insulin Sensitivity Is Associated with Altered Brain Activation to Food Cues and with Risk for Obesity – Implications for Individuals Born Small for Gestational Age.
• Perspective: Advances in Diet-Induced Rodent Models of Metabolically Acquired Peripheral Neuropathy.
• Glycemic Dysregulations are Associated with Worsening Cognitive Function in Older Participants at High Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Two-Year Follow-Up in the PREDIMED-Plus Study.
• Long Term Metabolic and Inflammatory Effects of Second-Generation Antipsychotics: A Study in Offenders with Mental Disorders.
• Mindful Eating, Body Weight, and Psychological Well-Being in Adolescence.

Equity and Disparities

• Classes of Lifetime Adversities Among Emerging Adult Women by Race/ethnicity and Their Associations with Weight Status in the United States.
• Abstract: Trends in Racial and Ethnic Differences in Adiposity and Association with All-Cause Mortality in Adults in the United States: A 20-Year National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Analysis, 1999-2018.
• Latino Children's Obesity Risk Varies by Place of Birth: Findings from New York City Public School Youth, 2006–2017.

Stigma

• Meta-Analysis: Weight Stigma and Mental Health in Youth.
• Perceptions of Weight Management: Interviews with Adolescents with Severe Obesity and Their Mothers.
• Qualitative Study: “Do You Find It Normal to Be So Fat?” Weight Stigma in Gym Users with Obesity.

Policy Related

• Evaluation of Changes in Grams of Sugar Sold After the Implementation of the Seattle Sweetened Beverage Tax.
• Restricting the Advertising of High Fat, Salt and Sugar Foods on the Transport for London Estate: Process and Implementation Study.
• Understanding Prevention Networks in a Local Government Area: Insights from a Social Network Analysis Among Western Australian Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention Programs.
• Editorial: Childhood Obesity Interventions—Going Beyond the Individual.
• Effects of Competing Food Desert Policies on Store Format Choice Among SNAP Participants.
• Scoping Review: Policies to Restrict Unhealthy Food and Beverage Advertising in Outdoor Spaces and on Publicly Owned Assets.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-Analysis: Impact of Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI on Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Adverse Outcomes in the Worldwide Populations.
• Meta-Analysis: Prenatal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Childhood Obesity.
• Prenatal and Early Childhood Exposure to Lead and Repeated Measures of Metabolic Syndrome Risk Indicators from Childhood to Preadolescence.
• Elevated Anthropometric and Metabolic Indicators Among Young Adult Offspring of Mothers with Pregestational Diabetes: Early Results from the Transgenerational Effect on Adult Morbidity Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• PM10 Exposure Interacts with Abdominal Obesity to Increase Blood Triglycerides: A Cross-Sectional Linkage Study.
• Predicting Novel Candidate Human Obesity Genes and Their Site of Action by Systematic Functional Screening in Drosophila.
• Evaluation of Antioxidant Response and Na+-K+-ATPase Activity in Zebrafish Exposed to Polyethylene Microplastics: Shedding Light on a Physiological Adaptation.
• An Hourglass Mechanism Controls Torpor Bout Length in Hibernating Garden Dormice (PDF).

Methods

• The GLIM Criteria for Nutrition Assessment and Survival Prediction in Older Adult Cancer Patients.
• Review: Artificial Intelligence in Nutrients Science Research.
• Meta-Analysis: Impact of Risk of Generalizability Biases in Adult Obesity Interventions.
• Systematic Review: Modulating Eating Behavior with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Uncorrected Proof: Comparison of Metabolic States Using Genome-Scale Metabolic Models.
• A Machine Learning Approach to Predict the Trend of Obesity Prevalence at a Global Level.

Commentary

• Guide and Advances on Childhood Obesity Determinants: Setting the Research Agenda.
• Lean Body Mass Level Predicts Cardiac Output in Women.
• Should You Take Aspirin?
• 'Scorn for Scoring Foods for Health'.
• Systematic Review: Breastfeeding: When Will Enough Evidence Be Enough?
• Obesity: Can We Blame It on Cheap Gas?
• Variation in AIN-93G/M Diets Across Different Commercial Manufacturers: Not All AIN-93 Diets are Created Equal.
• Cutting NASH Harms by 88% with Bariatric Surgery.
• Press Release: Bristol Childhood Obesity Clinic Forms Blueprint for National NHS Pilot.

General

• Tick “not”: understanding tick encounters on recreational trails through online reviews.
• RCT: The Effects of a Novel Personal Comfort System on Thermal Comfort, Physiology and Perceived Indoor Environmental Quality, and Its Health Implications - Stimulating Human Thermoregulation Without Compromising Thermal Comfort.
• The Great Organic-Food Fraud: There’s No Way to Confirm That a Crop Was Grown Organically. Randy Constant Exploited Our Trust in the Labels—and Made a Fortune.
• Physical Activity Behavior in the First Month After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Is Associated with Physiological and Psychological Risk Factors for Chronic Pain.
• Scientists: Don’t Feed the Doubt Machine.
• Campus Food Pantry Use Addresses a Gap Among California Public University Students.
• RCT: High-Intensity Leg Cycling Alters the Molecular Response to Resistance Exercise in the Arm Muscles.
• Event: Data, Rigor, and Reproducibility in Light of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: 11. Katherine Flegal, PhD: The Obesity Wars and the Politicization of Science.

Announcements

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

Featured

• Racial and Ethnic Representation Among a Sample of Nutrition- and Obesity-Focused Professional Organizations in the United States.
• Reevaluation of the Effect of Dietary Restriction on Different Recombinant Inbred Lines of Male and Female Mice.
• Why Meals During Resting Time Cause Fat Accumulation in Mammals? Mathematical Modeling of Circadian Regulation on Glucose Metabolism.
• Historical Body Temperature Records as a Population-Level 'Thermometer' of Physical Activity in the United States.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Obesity Breakthrough Safely Mimics Weight-Loss Effects of Plant Compound.
• Press-Release: UTSW Study Finds Potential Strategy for Fighting Obesity.
• Study: PERK in POMC Neurons Connects Celastrol with Metabolism... In Male Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "In conclusion, the telephone and online interventions did not improve child fruit and vegetable intake relative to written materials,..."
• Potato Consumption Not Associated with Elevated Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescent Girls.
• "No significant correlations of leptin within atopy parameters..."
• Intermittent Bolus Feeding Does Not Enhance Protein Synthesis, Myonuclear Accretion, or Lean Growth More Than Continuous Feeding in a Premature Piglet Model.
• Meta-Analysis: Low Vitamin D Levels Do Not Aggravate COVID-19 Risk or Death, and Vitamin D Supplementation Does Not Improve Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19.
• Concurrent Exercise Does Not Prevent Recognition Memory Deficits Induced by Beta-Amyloid in Rats.
• No Evidence of Long-Term Disruption of Glycometabolic Control After SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
• RCT: No Significant "Effects of vitamin D3 fortified low-fat dairy products on bone density measures in adults with abdominal obesity."
• RCT: "Our findings suggest that the consumption of one sugary drink induces an initial "relaxing" effect for boys, before making them more restless. Girls' behavior is not significantly affected. We find a negative effect on student achievement for boys and a positive effect for girls.”

Basic

• Brown Adipose Tissue Prevents Glucose Intolerance and Cardiac Remodeling in High-Fat-Fed Mice After a Mild Myocardial Infarction.
• LRG1 Is an Adipokine That Mediates Obesity-Induced Hepatosteatosis and Insulin Resistance.
• Hypoxia Induces Stress Fiber Formation in Adipocytes in the Early Stage of Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Fructose Mediated Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Is Attenuated by HO-1-SIRT1 Module in Murine Hepatocytes and Mice Fed a High Fructose Diet.
• PubPeer Comments On: Kale (Brassica oleracea var. sabellica) as Miracle Food with Special Reference to Therapeutic and Nutraceuticals Perspective.

Clinical

• Attitudes, Perceptions, and Practices in Managing Obesity Among Endocrinologists.
• Effects of Sustained Weight Loss on Outcomes Associated with Obesity Comorbidities and Healthcare Resource Utilization.
• Male Waist Circumference in Relation to Semen Quality and Partner Infertility Treatment Outcomes Among Couples Undergoing Infertility Treatment with Assisted Reproductive Technologies.

Children and Adolescents

• Longitudinal Associations between Early Child Weight Gain, Parent Feeding, Child Self-Regulation, and Later Child BMI.
• Attenuated Efficacy of Pediatric Obesity Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Longitudinal Associations between Facets of Sleep and Adiposity in Youth.
• Intergenerational Cardiovascular Disease Risks Among Hispanics Living in the United States.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effectiveness of E-Health Interventions for the Treatment of Overweight or Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a Multifaceted Intervention for Prevention of Obesity in Primary School Children in China.
• A Natural Experiment Comparing the Effectiveness of the “Healthy Eagles” Child Weight Management Intervention in School Versus Community Settings.

Surgery

• One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass Modulates the Serum Levels of Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Oxylipins, Which May Contribute to the Resolution of Inflammation.
• RCT: Ursodeoxycholic Acid for the Prevention of Symptomatic Gallstone Disease After Bariatric Surgery (UPGRADE).
• The Influence of Gestational Weight Gain After Bariatric Procedures on Selected Pregnancy Outcomes: A Single Center Study.

Drugs

• RCT: Rivaroxaban Compared with Low-Dose Aspirin in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes and High Cardiovascular Risk.
• Systematic Review: Efficacy of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists in the Weight Loss Among Obese Individuals.
• Lifetime Cost-Effectiveness of Oral Semaglutide Versus Dulaglutide and Liraglutide in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Inadequately Controlled With Oral Antidiabetics.

Food & Diet

• Biomimetic Cellulose-Based Superabsorbent Hydrogels for Treating Obesity.
• RCT: Effect of Walnut Predinner Snack on Mealtime Hunger and Nutrient Intake Among University Students.
• Patterns of Eating Behavior in People with Severe Obesity Seeking Weight Loss Treatment: An Exploratory Study.
• Factors Associated with Feeding Practices of Black Immigrant Mothers of African and Caribbean Origin Living in Ottawa, Canada.
• Reported Organic Food Consumption and Metabolic Syndrome in Older Adults: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses.
• The Effects of Dietary Saturated Fat Source on Weight Gain and Adiposity are Influenced by Both Sex and Total Dietary Lipid Intake in Zebrafish.
• Inflammation Parameters Associated with Metabolic Disorders: Relationship between Diet and Microbiota.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Mass Recovery Following Caloric Restriction Reverses Lipolysis and Proteolysis, but Not Gluconeogenesis, in Insulin Resistant OLETF Rats.
• A Toolkit for Quantification of Biological Age from Blood Chemistry and Organ Function Test Data: BioAge.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Identification of Non-Invasive Exercise Thresholds: Methods, Strategies, and an Online App.
• Advanced Analytical Methods to Assess Physical Activity Behavior Using Accelerometer Time Series.
• Relationships of Changes in Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior with Changes in Physical Fitness and Cardiometabolic Risk Profile in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.

Economics & Sociology

• Subjective Social Status Is Associated with Dysregulated Eating Behaviors and Greater BMI in an Urban Predominantly Black and Low-Income Sample.
• Illness Perceptions and Health-Related Quality of Life in Individuals with Overweight and Obesity.
• An Investigation of Socioeconomic Status and Body Image Among Hook-Up App Users.

Epidemiology

• Obesity During Childhood Is Associated with Higher Cancer Mortality Rate During Adulthood: The I3C Consortium.
• Longitudinal Associations between Objective and Perceived Healthy Food Environment and Diet: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
• Prevalences of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Sex-Specific Association with Socioeconomic Status in Rural China.
• Secular and Longitudinal Trends in Body Composition: The Tromsø Study, 2001 to 2016.
• Sex and Race Contribute to Variation in Mitochondrial Function and Insulin Sensitivity.
• Trends and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Overweight/Obesity Among Three Reproductive Age Groups of Women in Nepal.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity (MHO) Vs. Metabolically Unhealthy Obesity (MUO) Phenotypes in PCOS: Association with Endocrine-Metabolic Profile, Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, and Body Composition.
• Systematic Review: More Frequent Food Shopping May Promote Fruit and Vegetable Intake.
• Mixtures Modeling Identifies Heavy Metals and Pyrethroid Insecticide Metabolites Associated with Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Chronodisruption and Diet Associated with Increased Cardiometabolic Risk in Coronary Heart Disease Patients.
• Meta-Analysis: Cognitive Function in Binge Eating Disorder and Food Addiction.

Equity and Disparities

• Systemic and Environmental Contributors to Obesity Inequities in Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Groups.
• Building Health Equity: Action Steps from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Health Disparities Solutions Summit (HDSS) 2020.
• Changes in OGTT-Derived Biomarkers in Response to Lifestyle Intervention Among Latino Adolescents with Obesity.
• Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in the Use of Newer Diabetes Medications in the Look AHEAD Study.

Stigma

• Weight Bias and Stigma: Impact on Health.
• Systematic Review: Is Weight Stigma Associated with Physical Activity?
• Policies to Address Weight Discrimination and Bullying: Perspectives of Adults Engaged in Weight Management from Six Nation.
• Meta-Analysis: Weight Bias Among Health Care Professionals.

Policy Related

• Enabling Better Nutrition for Adolescents from Middle Eastern Backgrounds: Semi-Structured Interviews with Parents.
• An Innovative Approach to Designing Digital Health Solutions Addressing the Unmet Needs of Obese Patients in Europe.
• Meta-Analysis: The Nudge Strategies for Weight Loss in Adults with Obesity and Overweight.

Intergenerational Effects

• A Role for the Early Pregnancy Maternal Milieu in the Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• The Influence of Maternal Nutritional Behavior on the Nutritional Behavior of Children with Excess Body Weight.
• Patterns and Determinants of the Double Burden of Malnutrition Among Adolescents: A 14-Year Follow-Up of a Birth Cohort in Rural China.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Dietary Protein Deficiency Affects Food Consumption and Torpor in the African Woodland Dormouse (Graphiurus murinus).
• Subsurface Swimming and Stationary Diving are Metabolically Cheap in Adult Pacific Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens).
• Rubidium Chloride Increases Lifespan Through an AMPK/FOXO-Dependent Pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans.
• Light Intensity Alters the Effects of Light-Induced Circadian Disruption on Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Mice.
• ATP-Consuming Futile Cycles as Energy Dissipating Mechanisms to Counteract Obesity.

Methods

• A New Method to Estimate Dietary Sodium Intake from a Spot Urine Sample: Context and Caution.
• A Standardized Assessment of Processed Red Meat and Processed Poultry Intake in the US Population Aged ≥2 Years Using NHANES.

Commentary

• Food Pantries Essential for Reducing Hunger Among Middle-Class in 2020.
• Egg and Math: Introducing a Universal Formula for Egg Shape.
• Can Policy Stop Weight Discrimination and Bullying?
• Update on “A Partnership for Public Health: USDA Global Branded Food Products Database”.
• Maternal Diet and Epigenetic Modifications at the Start of Life: Repercussions on the Development of Obesity.
• Pcpe2: A New Partner for the Scavenger Receptor Class B Type I in High-Density Lipoprotein Selective Lipid Uptake.
• Childhood Overweight and Obesity Abatement Policies in Europe.
• OW2021: Five Insights to Take Home.

General

• Brain Inflammation Triggers Macrophage Invasion Across the Blood-Brain Barrier in Drosophila During Pupal Stages.
• CMAX3: A Robust Statistical Test for Genetic Association Accounting for Covariates.
• How Did a Novel X-Linked Gene Become Essential for Male Determination?
• SLC1A5 Provides Glutamine and Asparagine Necessary for Bone Development in Mice.
• Getting More Precise in Public Messaging on Scientific and Data Uncertainties for Precision Medicine Research.
• Extension Request Avoidance Predicts Greater Time Stress Among Women.
• In the Company of Scientists Transforming the World, One Experiment at a Time.
• Consumers Trade Rib-Eye for Ground Beef as Grocery Prices Rise.

Announcements

• Tiffany M. Powell-Wiley, M.D., M.P.H., FAHA, of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to Receive the American Heart Association’s 2021 Population Research Prize.
• Webinar: Strengthening Research Integrity: Which Areas Should the Research Community Focus On?
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure-Track/Tenure: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University Bloomington Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Featured

• Daily Caloric Restriction Limits Tumor Growth More Effectively Than Caloric Cycling Regardless of Dietary Composition [in Mice].
• The Glucose-Sensing Transcription Factor MLX Balances Metabolism and Stress to Suppress Apoptosis and Maintain Spermatogenesis.
• High Quality Diet, Physical Activity and College Education are Associated with Low Risk of NAFLD Among the U.S. Population.
• Animal Behaviour: The Elusive Perspective of a Food Thief.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Alarming New Study Finds This Type of Food Can Cause Forgetfulness and Lead to Alzheimer's Disease.
• Headline: Processed Foods Impair Memory — Can Omega-3 Help?
• University Press: How Highly Processed Foods Harm Memory in the Aging Brain.
• Study: Dietary DHA (One Specific Omega-3) Prevents Cognitive Impairment and Inflammatory Gene Expression on a Diet Enriched with Refined Carbohydrates... In Aged Male Rats.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "...contrary to what is found in the international research literature, maternal employment is not correlated with a deterioration in their children’s diet quality."
• RCT: No Significant Effect in an Online Family-Based Self-Monitoring and Goal-Setting Intervention to Improve Children’s Physical Activity.
• RCT: "The cutaneous microvascular vasodilator response to local heating with or without prior ischemia-reperfusion injury is not affected by acute consumption of a caffeinated soft drink sweetened with HFCS."
• "These findings are contrary to most of literatures reporting the benefits of collective sale" - Factors Influencing Farmers’ Participation in Groups and the Impact of Collective Marketing on Household Food Security and Income.
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, it was the healthy controls rather than the ex-smokers with and without COPD that were negatively impacted by TRAP [traffic-related air pollution] during exercise."
• Little Evidence That Eurasian Jays Protect Their Caches by Responding to Cues About a Conspecific’s Desire and Visual Perspective.
• Foraging and Scavenging Behaviour of the Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis): No Evidence That Envenomation Cues Facilitate Kleptoparasitism of Struck Prey.
• RCT: "Overall, between the first and sixth months of the low-GI diet, there were no significant differences in the adipokines: leptin, visfatin, resistin, and adiponectin. While there was no major difference in adipokines, insulin and HOMA-IR did have a significant decrease. Leptin was associated with BMI, FMI, and waist circumference."

Basic

• Review: Adaptive Immune Cells Shape Obesity-Associated Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Less Prominent Comorbidities.
• Prdm16-Mediated Browning Is Involved in Resistance to Diet-Induced and Monosodium Glutamate-Induced Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Limited Data Exist to Inform Our Basic Understanding of Micronutrient Requirements in Pregnancy.
• Use of GRADE in Evidence Syntheses Published in High-Impact-Factor Nutrition Journals: A Methodological Survey.
• Nutritional Epidemiology: No Longer Good Enough?
• Article: COVID-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status, and a Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 Ng/mL 25(OH)D3: Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Blog Post: Vitamin D, Covid-19, and the Promise of Immortality.
• Does Skipping Breakfast Increase the Risk of an Early Death? Part II.
• PubPeer Comments On: Timing of Chocolate Intake Affects Hunger, Substrate Oxidation, and Microbiota: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Statistics: Sex Difference Analyses Under Scrutiny.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects on Growth of Smell and Taste of Milk During Tube Feeding of Preterm Infants.
• Longitudinal Analysis of Neighborhood Food Environment and Diabetes Risk in the Veterans Administration Diabetes Risk Cohort.
• Impact of Sustained Weight Loss on Cardiometabolic Outcomes.

Children and Adolescents

• Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents with Normal Weight Obesity.
• A Telehealth Intervention for Ensuring Continuity of Care of Pediatric Obesity During the CoVid-19 Lockdown in Italy.
• Lipoprotein-Subclass Particle Numbers in Children with Abdominal Obesity.

Surgery

• A Comparison of Total Food Intake at a Personalised Buffet in People with Obesity, Before and 24 Months After Roux-En-Y-Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Differential Expression of MMP2 and TIMP2 in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Non-Invasive Characterization of the Pancreas During Bariatric Surgery Via Circulating Pancreatic Specific Cell-Free Messenger RNA.
• Adequate Magnesium Level as an Associated Factor of Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes Mellitus Remission in Patients with Obesity Submitted to Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Obesity, Senescence, and Senolytics.
• Review: The Centenary of the Discovery of Insulin: An Update on the Quest for Oral Delivery.

Food & Diet

• Commentary: Eliminate or Reformulate Ultra-Processed Foods? Biological Mechanisms Matter.
• Dietary Networks Identified by Gaussian Graphical Model and General and Abdominal Obesity in Adults.
• High-Fat and Combined High-Fat and Sucrose Diets Promote Cardiac Oxidative Stress Independent of Nox2 Redox Regulation and Obesity in Rats.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Lifestyle Intervention on Inflammatory Markers and Waist Circumference in Adults with Overweight/Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Diet and Food Type Affect Urinary Pesticide Residue Excretion Profiles in Healthy Individuals.
• Survey: IFIC Survey: Consumption Trends, Preferred Names and Perceptions of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives.
• Review: The Effects of Intermittent Fasting Regimens in Middle-Age and Older Adults: Current State of Evidence.
• Association between Dietary Related Factors and Central Obesity Among Married Women: China Health and Nutrition Survey.
• RCT: The Effect of L-Carnitine Supplementation on Insulin Resistance, Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin and Lipid Profile in Women with Overweight/Obesity and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Review: Oxidative Stress and Energy Metabolism in the Brain: Midlife as a Turning Point.
• Daily Caloric Restriction Limits Tumor Growth More Effectively Than Caloric Cycling Regardless of Dietary Composition.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Associations between Spanish Children’s Physical Activity and Physical Fitness with Lean Body Mass: The CALINA Study.
• Review: The Effects of Exercise on White and Brown Adipose Tissue Cellularity, Metabolic Activity and Remodeling.
• Relationships of Changes in Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior with Changes in Physical Fitness and Cardiometabolic Risk Profile in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes: The Italian Diabetes and Exercise Study 2.

Economics & Sociology

• Application of Social Cognitive Theory in Weight Management: Time for a Biological Component?
• Weight Loss in Primary Care: A Pooled Analysis of Two Pragmatic Cluster-RCTs.
• Underweight Among Adolescents in Denmark: Prevalence, Trends (1998–2018), and Association of Underweight with Socioeconomic Status.
• Unemployment and Obesity During the Great Recession: Evidence from US County Panel Data.

Epidemiology

• Pragmatic Weight Management Program for Patients with Obesity and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
• Obesity-Related Indices and Its Association with Kidney Stone Disease: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Cohort Study.
• Combined Association of Central Obesity and Depressive Symptoms with Risk of Heart Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Refeeding Activates Neurons in the Dorsomedial Hypothalamus to Inhibit Food Intake and Promote Positive Valence.
• Longitudinal Associations between Executive Control and BMI Across Childhood.
• Meta-Analysis: The Nudge Strategies for Weight Loss in Adults with Obesity and Overweight.
• External Food Cue Responsiveness and Emotional Eating in Adolescents: A Multimethod Study.

Equity and Disparities

• How Income Inequality and Race/Ethnicity Drive Obesity in U.S. Adults: 1999–2016.
• Racial and Ethnic Representation Among a Sample of Nutrition- and Obesity-Focused Professional Organizations in the United States.
• The Pandemic Disrupted Americans’ Access to Food. Not Everybody Suffered Equally.
• Obesity, Age, and African American Males: The Impact of Food Security on Cardiovascular Health Outcomes.
• Socio-Economic Inequalities in Diabetes and Prediabetes Among Bangladeshi Adults.
• Social Inequality in Obesity in an Eastern Mediterranean Population: Evidence from a National Health Survey in Cyprus.
• Forecasting Mortality Inequalities in the U.S. Based on Trends in Midlife Health.
• Analysis of Reported Health Care Use by Sexual Orientation Among Youth.

Stigma

• Internalized Weight Bias in the Relationship between Mental Health and Obesity in UK Adolescents.
• Weight Stigma and Diabetes Stigma: Implications for Weight-Related Health Behaviors in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• OW2021: Living with Obesity, Self-Stigma & Hot Topics.

Policy Related

• How Food Marketing on Instagram Shapes Adolescents’ Food Preferences.
• Obesity in Children and Adolescents Is a Chronic Disease.

Intergenerational Effects

• Effects of the First 1000 Days Program, a Systems-Change Intervention, on Obesity Risk Factors During Pregnancy.
• Systematic Review of RCTs: The Role of Maternal Diet on Offspring Hyperinsulinaemia and Adiposity After Birth.
• Maternal C3 Complement and C-Reactive Protein and Pregnancy and Fetal Outcomes: A Secondary Analysis of the PEARS RCT-An MHealth-Supported, Lifestyle Intervention Among Pregnant Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: The Effect of Maternal Vitamin D Supplementation on Vitamin D Status of Exclusively Breast Feeding Mothers and Their Nursing Infants.
• Human Milk Lactose, Insulin, and Glucose Relative to Infant Body Composition During Exclusive Breastfeeding.
• Third Trimester Cortisol Is Positively Associated with Gestational Weight Gain in Pregnant Women with Class One Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Molecular Evolution of PCSK Family: Analysis of Natural Selection Rate and Gene Loss.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Portion Size and Ingestive Frequency on Energy Intake and Body Weight Among Adults in Feeding RCTs.

Methods

• Review: Design Factors for Food Supplementation and Nutrition Education Interventions That Limit Conclusions About Effectiveness for Wasting Prevention.
• Data Analysis and Computational Methods for Assessing Knowledge of Obesity Risk Factors Among Saudi Citizens.
• Cord Blood Metabolome and BMI Trajectory from Birth to Adolescence: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study on Early Life Biomarkers of Persistent Obesity.
• Evaluation of a Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor: A Novel and Non-Invasive Wearable Using Bioimpedance Technology.

Commentary

• Carbohydrates: Are They Really Essential?
• Coordinating Diet-Related Efforts to Reduce Obesity.
• Advancing the Global Public Health Agenda for NAFLD: A Consensus Statement.
• Obesity in Adults: Etiologies and Risk Factors.
• You Can Help Save the Amazon.
• Are Vegan Meat Alternatives Putting Our Health on the Line?
• Can Europe Bridge the Gap in Obesity Research?
• The Brain – Gut – Microbiome Network in Metabolic Regulation and Dysregulation.
• Should the Next NIH Director Have an M.D.?

General

• Autophagy and the Hallmarks of Aging.
• Evolutionary and Plastic Variation in Larval Growth and Digestion Reveal the Complex Underpinnings of Size and Age at Maturation in Dung Beetles.
• Do Fetal Microchimeric Cells Influence Experimental Autoimmune Myocarditis?
• ‘We Can’t Wait Any Longer’ — as COP26 Approaches, NAS President Marcia McNutt Discusses Science and Solutions to Climate Change.
• Breast Milk Composition.
• Preprint: Short Term Treatment with a Cocktail of Rapamycin, Acarbose and Phenylbutyrate Slows Aging in Mice.
• Dissertation: Evolution and Biomechanics of Specialized Locomotion in Snakes.
• A Geroscience Motivated Approach to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease: Senolytics Move to Clinical Trials.
• Reporting and Misreporting of Sex Differences in the Biological Sciences.

Announcements

• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Dean David Allison Selected for 2021 Friends of Albert (Mickey) Stunkard Lifetime Achievement Award.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington to Offer Ph.D. In Nutrition. Kudos to Prof. Nana Gletsu-Miller, Chair Eric Walsh-Buhi, Executive Associate Dean Docherty, and All the Nutrition Faculty Who Carried This Forward to a Resounding Successful Approval!
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure-Track/Tenure: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University Bloomington Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.