Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• School Breakfast and Student Behavior.
• Heat Treatment Improves Hepatic Mitochondrial Respiratory Efficiency Via Mitochondrial Remodeling.
• "New perspective on snake evolution …suggests that modular lung ventilation evolved during or prior to constriction and large prey ingestion…"

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Refutes Stereotype That People with Obesity Lie About How Much They Eat.
• Study: Individuals with Obesity Misreported Their Intake to a Greater Extent (As Did Individuals 55 or Younger and Individuals with Higher Physical Activity), but Greater Misreporting Was Not Observed When Non-Linearly Scaled by Weight. Lying Not Studied.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effects on Weight Outcomes of NU-HOME in a Trial to Prevent Obesity Among Rural Children.
• RCT: "a 12-week exercise training intervention, independent of the modality applied, does not modify fasting plasma levels of omega-6 and omega-3 oxylipins, eCBs, and eCBs-like molecules in middle-aged sedentary adults."
• RCT: "A 6-month n-3 PUFA supplementation did not improve cognitive performance in cognitively healthy adults and APOE status or age were not effect modifiers."
• RCT: "Accelerating the introduction of lengthening exercises in the rehabilitation of hamstring injury in male athletes did not improve the time to return to sport nor the risk of reinjury."
• Systematic Review: "Results from the random-effects models indicated that β-carotene supplementation slightly increased [emphasis added] overall cardiovascular incidence …and was constantly associated with increased [emphasis added] cardiovascular mortality..."
• RCT: No Statistically Significant Effect of Paleolithic-Based Low-Carbohydrate Vs. Moderate-Carbohydrate Diets with Portion-Control and Calorie-Counting on CTRP6, Asprosin and Metabolic Markers in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: "High-intensity RT did not result in greater improvements in isokinetic muscle strength, pain and physical functioning compared to low-intensity RT in knee OA..."
• RCT: "No Effect on Child Anthropometrics ...at 2 and 3 Years of Age Following an Antenatal Lifestyle Intervention in Routine Care."

Basic

• AKR1D1 Knockout Mice Develop a Sex Dependent Metabolic Phenotype.
• Parental Obesity Alters Offspring Blood Pressure Regulation and Cardiovascular Responses to Stress: Role of P2X7R and Sex Differences.
• Rapid and Lasting Effects of Activating BDNF-Expressing PVH Neurons on Energy Balance.
• Differential Effects of the Soluble Fiber Inulin in Reducing Adiposity and Altering Gut Microbiome in Aging Mice.
• Characterization of Metabolites and Biomarkers for the Probiotic Effects of Clostridium cochlearium on High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Behavioral Characteristics and Self-Reported Health Status Among 2029 Adults Consuming a “Carnivore Diet”.
• Letter: Limitations of Self-Reported Health Status and Metabolic Markers Among Adults Consuming a “Carnivore Diet”.
• Reply: To R Kirwan, GS Mallett, L Ellis, and a Flanagan.
• Editorial: Does Vitamin D Supplementation Reduce Cardiovascular Events and Cancer?
• PubPeer Comments On: Night Vision and Carotenoids (NVC): A Randomized Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial on Effects of Carotenoid Supplementation on Night Vision in Older Adults.
• Assessing Uncontrolled Confounding in Associations of Being Overweight with All-Cause Mortality.

Clinical

• Maternal Obesity in Twin Pregnancy: The Role of Nutrition to Reduce Maternal and Fetal Complications.
• Gestational Weight Gain and Postpartum Weight Retention in Tasmanian Women: The Baby-Bod Study.
• Review: Benefits of Weight Loss of 10% or More in Patients with Overweight or Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Sedentary Time and Fast-Food Consumption Associated with Weight Gain During COVID-19 Lockdown in Children and Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity.
• The Impact of PM2.5 on the Growth Curves of Children's Obesity Indexes: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• For Good Measure: Near-Birth Anthropometry Predicts Neonatal and Infant Mortality.

Surgery

• Meta-Analysis: Hypoglycemia in Pregnancies Following Gastric Bypass.
• Meta-Analysis: Does Exercise Improve the Cardiometabolic Risk Profile of Patients with Obesity After Bariatric Surgery?
• Review: Neurohormonal Changes in the Gut-Brain Axis and Underlying Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Following Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• The Multifunctional Role of Herbal Products in the Management of Diabetes and Obesity: A Comprehensive Review.
• Identification of Promising Multi-Targeting Inhibitors of Obesity from Vernonia amygdalina Through Computational Analysis.
• Pharmacological Treatment of Obesity.
• Sodium Salicylate Rewires Hepatic Metabolic Pathways in Obesity and Attenuates IL-1β Secretion from Adipose Tissue: The Implications for Obesity-Impaired Reverse Cholesterol Transport.
• Systematic Review: Once-Weekly  Semaglutide  for Obesity  or Overweight.

Food & Diet

• Systematic Review: Impact of Walnut Consumption on Cardio Metabolic and Anthropometric Parameters in Metabolic Syndrome Patients.
• Meta-Analysis: "Effect of Camel Milk on Glucose Homeostasis in Patients with Diabetes".
• RCT: Effects of Carbohydrate Versus Fat Restriction on Lipid Profiles in Highly Trained, Recreational Distance Runners.
• Review: The Roles of Catechins in Regulation of Systemic Inflammation.
• RCT: Improvement of Glycemic Indices by a Hypocaloric Legume-Based DASH Diet in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• A Comparative Analysis of Dietary Intake and Body Composition Among Two Ethnically Distinct Tribal Populations from India.
• Distinct Diet-Microbiota-Metabolism Interactions in Pregnant Women with Overweight and Obesity: A Metagenomics Approach.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Susceptibility of Female Rats to Cardiac Arrhythmias Following Refeeding After Severe Food Restriction.
• RCT: Differential Glycemic Effects of Low- Versus High-Glycemic Index Mediterranean-Style Eating Patterns in Adults at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes.
• Preprint: Effects of Intermittent Fasting in Humans Compared to a Normal Diet and Caloric Restriction: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effect of Different Recovery Modes During Resistance Training with Blood Flow Restriction on Hormonal Levels and Performance in Young Men.
• Atlas of Exercise Metabolism Reveals Time-Dependent Signatures of Metabolic Homeostasis.
• Physical Activity and Health-Related Quality of Life Among High-Risk Women for Type 2 Diabetes in the Early Years After Pregnancy.
• Podcast: Deep Dive Back into Zone 2 Training.

Economics & Sociology

• Association between Socioeconomic Status and Prevalence of Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study on Residents in North China.
• “Now I Just Need Something Sweet”: Racism, Emotional Eating, and Health Among African Americans.
• Dissertation: The Nutrition Labeling Act and the Weight Loss Experiences of African American Women.

Epidemiology

• Diet, Fecal Microbiome, and Trimethylamine N-Oxide in a Cohort of Metabolically Healthy United States Adults.
• Preprint: Weight Gain Trajectories Patterns from Pregnancy to Early Postpartum: Identifying Women at Risk and Timing to Prevent Weight Regain.
• Meta-Analysis: Traffic Noise and Adiposity.
• Systematic Review: The Incidence of Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes: A Systematic Review from 32 Countries and Regions.
• Systematic Review: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Interventions for Obesity in Saudi Arabia.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Changes in Food Reward and Intuitive Eating After Weight Loss and Maintenance in Former Athletes with Overweight or Obesity.
• Dynapenic Abdominal Obesity Is Associated with Mild Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Cardiometabolic Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Weight-Based Discrimination in Financial Reward and Punishment Decision Making: Causal Evidence Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm.
• Longitudinal Relationship of Baseline Functional Brain Networks with Intentional Weight Loss in Older Adults.

Equity and Disparities

• Socio Demography of Obesity in Argentina at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century.
• Aging Into Medicare Among a Senior Food Pantry Population: An Assessment of Food Pantry Visit Patterns and Food Security over Time.

Stigma

• RCT: Accept Yourself! Self-Acceptance-Based Treatment for Large-Bodied Women with Depression.
• Weight Bias Among Nutrition and Dietetics Students in a Ghanaian Public University.
• A Qualitative Examination of the Nature of Experiences of Weight Stigma by Family Members.

Policy Related

• Competitive Food and Beverage Policies and Obesity Among Middle School Students: Variability by Urbanicity in California.
• Public Support for the Imposition of a Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and the Determinants of Such Support in Spain.
• Impact of Transition from Face-To-Face to Telehealth on Behavioral Obesity Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Conflicts of Interest for Members of the U.S. 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

Intergenerational Effects

• Relationship between Gestational Weight Gain Rate Trajectory and Overweight in Offspring at Three Years of Age.
• Explorations on Risk Profiles for Overweight and Obesity in 9501 Preschool-Aged Children.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Challenges to Voluntary Ag Carbon Markets.
• The Evolution and Competitive Strategies of Akkermansia muciniphila in Gut.

Methods

• Dietary Assessment and Nutritional Analysis Using Deep Learning.
• Registration and Primary Outcomes Reporting in Behavioral Health Trials.

Commentary

• Potatoes for Breakfast, Dark Vegetables for Supper?
• Defining the Slippery Ultra-Processed Boogeyman.
• Does Reducing Screen Time Reduce Obesity?
• Review of Dietary Recommendations for Twin Pregnancy: Does Nutrition Science Keep Up with the Growing Incidence of Multiple Gestations?.
• Science and Superstition: Sweet Beverages.
• Heating Up to Heal—Acute Heat Exposure Increases Hepatic Mitophagy Resulting in Hormetic Improvements in Mitochondrial Bioenergetic Efficiency.
• Rebalancing the Marketing of Healthier Versus Less Healthy Food Products.
• Most US Physicians Say Social Drivers of Health Such as Food Access, Financial Stability and Transportation are Important to Improving Community Health and Reducing Costs.

General

• Painkillers That Don’t Kill.
• Assessing the Magnitude of Reporting Bias in Trials of Homeopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study and Meta-Analysis.
• Big Little Lies: A Compendium and Simulation of P-Hacking Strategies.
• Scientists Say They Can Read Nearly the Whole Genome of an IVF-Created Embryo.
• Resilience: The Power of Alchemizing Misfortunes. (pdf)
• Undisclosed Industry Payments Rampant in Drug-Trial Papers.
• Testing the Missingness Mechanism in Longitudinal Surveys: A Case Study Using the Health and Retirement Study.
• Accounting for Detection Probability with Overestimation by Integrating Double Monitoring Programs over 40 Years.

Announcements

• Call for Abstracts for ObesityWeek 2022 in San Diego, CA - the Obesity Society (TOS).
• Participants Needed for the Obesity Society (TOS) Standing Committees.
• Online Event: Shifting the Paradigm to Advance Obesity Solutions (Tue, April 19, 2022).
• Department Chair and Tenured/Tenure-Track Professor of Kinesiology Sought at IU.
• IU 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.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical or Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full-Associate-Assistant Professor.

Featured

• Food Biodiversity: Quantifying the Unquantifiable in Human Diets.
• Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Adolescents with Obesity: Monitoring of Glucose Profiles, Glycemic Excursions, and Adherence to Time Restricted Eating Programs.
• RCT: Tesomet for Weight Loss in Hypothalamic Obesity.
• Body Temperature Is a More Important Modulator of Lifespan Than Metabolic Rate in Two Small Mammals.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Living in Walkable Neighborhoods Helps Lower Risk of Obesity and Diabetes, Study Finds.
• Press-Release: Walkable Neighborhoods Can Reduce Prevalence of Obesity, Diabetes.
• Study: Narrative Review (Not a Study) Summarizing Varied Associations Among Environmental Factors and Cardiometabolic Risks or Outcomes.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "... consumption of brown seaweed extract had no effect on body weight or blood glucose..."
• Meta-Analysis: "In conclusion, there is no evidence that screen time interventions alone can decrease obesity risk in children and adolescents, though they can effectively reduce screen time."
• "Results of difference-in-differences models indicate that the tax in Mauritius had no detectable impact on the consumption of SSBs or the BMI of the pooled sample of boys and girls. However, models estimated separately by sex indicate that the probability that boys consumed SSBs fell by 9.4 percentage points (11%)."
• Meta-Analysis: "A meta-regression exploring the potential mediating association of the magnitude of statin-induced LDL-C reduction with outcomes was inconclusive."
• "Contrary to our predictions, our results show that acute physiological hunger as indexed by blood glucose levels does not increase (or decrease) the propensity to engage in unethical economic Behaviour and that neither childhood socioeconomic status nor trait self-control or moral identity moderate this relationship."
• Meta-Analysis: "No significant changes in body weight, body mass index, % body fat, and neither in visceral adipose tissue in response to intervention was seen in the avocado group compared to the control group."
• RCT: No Significant "Effects of the healthy start randomized intervention on psychological stress and sleep habits among obesity-susceptible healthy weight children and their parents."
• Dissertation: RCT: Inconsistent or Equivocal Effects of Mild Sleep Loss on Dietary Intake and Movement Behaviour in Children.

Basic

• Adipose Tissue Macrophage-Derived Exosomes Induce Ferroptosis Via Glutathione Synthesis Inhibition by Targeting SLC7A11 in Obesity-Induced Cardiac Injury.
• Ginsenoside Compound K Inhibits Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance by Regulation of Macrophage Recruitment and Polarization Via Activating PPARγ.
• A PPAR-Alpha Agonist and DPP-4 Inhibitor Mitigate Adipocyte Dysfunction in Obese Mice.
• The Regulation of Adipokines Related to Obesity and Diabetes Is Sensitive to BDNF Levels and Adipose Tissue Location.
• IL-4 Polarized Human Macrophage Exosomes Control Cardiometabolic Inflammation & Diabetes in Obesity.
• Igniting Adipocyte Thermogenesis.
• Fueling the Fire of Adipose Thermogenesis.
• Effectiveness of High-Intensity Interval Training and High-Protein Diet on TNF-α Protein Level in Colon Tissue of Obese Male Rats: The Importance of Diet Modifying.
• Skeletal Muscle Uncoupling Proteins in Mice Models of Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effectiveness of Dietetic Intervention for People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Meta-Analysis.
• Letter: Comment on “Effectiveness of Dietetic Intervention for People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Meta-Analysis”.
• Reply: To Comment on “Effectiveness of Dietetic Intervention for People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Meta-Analysis”.
• Article: Global Burden of 87 Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990–2019: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.
• Letter: 36-Fold Higher Estimate of Deaths Attributable to Red Meat Intake in GBD 2019: Is This Reliable?
• Response: Author’s Reply.

Clinical

• Review: Mapping Ongoing Nutrition Intervention Trials in Muscle, Sarcopenia, and Cachexia: A Scoping Review of Future Research.
• Suppressive Effects of the Obese Tumor Microenvironment on CD8 T Cell Infiltration and Effector Function.
• The Effects of Grazing on Daily Caloric Intake and Dietary Quality.

Children and Adolescents

• Physical Activity Surveillance in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: A Pilot Mixed-Methods Investigation.
• Global Trends in Scientific Research on Pediatric Obesity.
• Obesity Is Negatively Associated with Dental Caries Among Children and Adolescents in Huizhou: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Growth and Body Composition Trajectories in Infants Meeting the WHO Growth Standards Study Requirements.
• The Prevalence and Related Factors of Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes Among Overweight and Obese Children in Urban Schools.
• RCT: Weight Outcomes of NU-HOME to Prevent Obesity Among Rural Children.
• RCT: Investigating the Moderators and Mediators of an Effective Sleep Intervention in the Prevention of Overweight in Infancy.
• Weight Categories Among Male Adolescents Linked to Risky Behaviors: High or Low BMI, Which Is Worse?
• Multiple Non-Invasive Peripheral Vascular Function Parameters with Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk Indicators in School-Aged Children.

Surgery

• Transcriptomics Reveals Discordant Lipid Metabolism Effects between in Vitro Models Exposed to Elafibranor and Liver Samples of NAFLD Patients After Bariatric Surgery.
• Systematic Review: Preoperative Assessment and Prehabilitation in Patients with Obesity Undergoing Non-Bariatric Surgery.
• Bariatric Surgery and Breast Cancer Incidence: A Population-Based, Matched Cohort Study.
• Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Bariatric Surgery in North America – a Retrospective Analysis of 834,647 Patients.
• BMI Thresholds and the Use of Bariatric Surgery in the Field of Kidney Transplantation in Germany.
• Meta-Analysis: Bariatric Surgery and Cardiovascular Disease.

Drugs

• RCT: Oral Administration of Processed Cassia obtusifolia L. Seed Powder May Reduce Body Weight and Cholesterol in Overweight Patients with Schizophrenia.
• Arylalkynyl Amide-Type Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ (PPARγ)-Selective Antagonists Covalently Bind to the PPARγ Ligand Binding Domain with a Unique Binding Mode.
• Glycyrrhizin (Glycyrrhizic Acid) HMGB1 (High Mobility Group Box 1) Inhibitor Upregulate Mitochondrial Function in Adipocyte, Cell Viability and In-Silico Study.
• Antidiabetic, Antioxidant, and Anti-Obesity Effects of Phenylthio-Ethyl Benzoate Derivatives, and Molecular Docking Study Regarding α-Amylase Enzyme.

Food & Diet

• Decreased Myostatin in Response to a Controlled DASH Diet Is Associated with Improved Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Biomarkers in Older Adults: Results from a Controlled-Feeding Diet Intervention Study.
• Effects of Dietary Fat to Carbohydrate Ratio on Obesity Risk Depending on Genotypes of Circadian Genes.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effects of Sesamin Supplementation on Obesity, Blood Pressure, and Lipid Profile.
• Review: The Role of Dietary Sugars, Overweight, and Obesity in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: Vitamin D Supplementation and Genetic Polymorphisms Impact on Weight Loss Diet Outcomes in Caucasians.
• The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Young Australian Adults’ Food Practices.
• Perspective: Soy-Based Meat and Dairy Alternatives, Despite Classification as Ultra-Processed Foods, Deliver High-Quality Nutrition on Par with Unprocessed or Minimally Processed Animal-Based Counterparts.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effects of Foods on LDL Cholesterol Levels.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Calorie Restriction Improves Metabolic State Independently of Gut Microbiome Composition.
• D-Allulose Improves Endurance and Recovery from Exhaustion in Male C57BL/6J Mice.
• Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Brain Metabolism.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Exercise Attenuates Obesity Development in Western-Diet Fed Obese Rats, Independently of Vitamin D Supplementation.
• Recommendations from LGBTQ+ Adults for Increased Inclusion Within Physical Activity: A Qualitative Content Analysis.
• Association of Physical Activity on Blood Glucose in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Effects of High Intensity Interval Training on Sustained Reduction in Cardiometabolic Risk Associated with Overweight/obesity.
• RCT: Differential Effects of Endurance, Interval, and Resistance Training on Telomerase Activity and Telomere Length.

Economics & Sociology

• Social Acceptability of Standard and Behavioral Economic Inspired Policies Designed to Reduce and Prevent Obesity.
• Does Quitting Smoking Increase Obesity? Evidence from Accounting for Misreporting.
• Patients' Acceptance of Obesity as a Chronic Disease: A Qualitative Study in Lebanon.
• Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Interventions in Australia.
• Meta-Analysis: Fair Play? Participation Equity in Organised Sport and Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents in High Income Countries.

Epidemiology

• Impact of African Ancestry on the Relationship between BMI and Survival in an Early-Stage Breast Cancer Trial.
• Association of BMI in Midlife with Morbidity Burden in Older Adulthood and Longevity.
• Stratified Analysis of the Age-Related Waist Circumference Cut-Off Model for the Screening of Dysglycemia at Zero-Cost.
• Mortality Among Danish Patients with a Hospital Diagnosis of Overweight or Obesity over a 40-Year Period.
• Higher Meat Intake Is Associated with Higher Inflammatory Markers, Mostly Due to Adiposity: Results from UK Biobank.
• Serum Phosphate, BMI, and Body Composition of Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Association Analysis and Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Trends in Diet Quality Among Older US Adults from 2001 to 2018.
• Change in Waist Circumference and Lifestyle Habit Factors as a Predictor of Metabolic Risk Among Middle-Aged and Elderly Japanese People: Population-Based Retrospective 10-Year Follow-Up Study from 2008 to 2017.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Obesity Is Associated with a Distinct Brain-Gut Microbiome Signature That Connects Prevotella and Bacteroides to the Brain’s Reward Center.
• Hepatic Glycogen Participates in the Regulation of Hypothalamic pAkt/Akt Ratio in High-Sugar/high-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Neurohormonal Changes in the Gut–Brain Axis and Underlying Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Following Bariatric Surgery.
• The Paradox of Prader-Willi Syndrome Revisited: Making Sense of the Phenotype.

Equity and Disparities

• Race-Specific Associations between Psychological Distress and Obesity: The Role of Social Cohesion.
• Early-Life Determinants of Excessive Weight Gain Among Low-Income Children: Examining the Adherence of Theoretical Frameworks to Empirical Data Using Structural Equation Modelling.
• Preprint: Temporal Trends, Socio-Economic Inequalities in Obesity and Responses by Federal Government, Nepal: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies, Policies, Strategies and Plans, 2005-2019.
• The Need to Incorporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Reflections from a National Initiative Measuring Fruit and Vegetable Intake.

Stigma

• Commentary: Ending the Stigma: Improving Care for Patients with Overweight or Obesity.
• Weight Stigma in Patients with Overweight and Obesity: Validation of the Italian Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ).
• Weight-Based Disparities in Youth Mental Health: Scope, Social Underpinnings, and Policy Implications.

Policy Related

• Nutrition in Adolescent Growth and Development.
• The Healthiness of New Zealand School Food Environments: A National Survey.
• Longer Participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children Is Not Associated with Reduced Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Among Black Participants.
• Systematic Review: The Influence of Unhealthy Food and Beverage Marketing Through Social Media and Advergaming on Diet-Related Outcomes in Children.
• Does Samoa Have Adequate Policies to Reduce Obesity and Obesity-Related Disease?

Intergenerational Effects

• Preconception Lifestyle Intervention in Women with Obesity and Echocardiographic Indices of Cardiovascular Health in Their Children.
• The Maternal–Fetal Gut Microbiota Axis: Physiological Changes, Dietary Influence, and Modulation Possibilities.
• Meta-Analysis: Maternal Long Working Hours and Offspring's Weight-Related Outcomes.
• The Association between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI, Gestational Weight Gain and Child Adiposity: A Racial-Ethnically Diverse Cohort of Children.
• Intergenerational Transmission of Appetite: Associations between Mother-Child Dyads in a Mexican Population.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Near-Roadway Air Pollution, Immune Cells and Adipokines Among Young Adults with Obesity.
• Impaired Cold Stimulated Supraclavicular Brown Adipose Tissue Activity in Young Boys with Obesity.

Methods

• Body Composition Assessment by Air-Displacement Plethysmography Compared to Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry in Full-Term and Preterm Aged Three to Five Years.
• Accuracy of a Hand-Held 3D Imaging System for Child Anthropometric Measurements in Population-Based Household Surveys and Surveillance Platforms: An Effectiveness Validation Study.
• Accuracy and Practical Considerations for Doubly Labeled Water Analysis in Nutrition Studies Using a Laser-Based Isotope Instrument (Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy).
• Does the Amount of Stable Isotope Dose Influence Retinol Kinetic Responses and Predictions of Vitamin a Total Body Stores by the Retinol Isotope Dilution Method in Theoretical Children and Adults?

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Machine Learning Approach to Predict the Added-Sugar Content of Packaged Foods.
• Modeling Physical Activity in Children by Combining Raw Hip-Worn Accelerometry, 2D Pose Estimation, and Direct Observation.
• Modelling the Potential Health and Economic Benefits of Reducing Population Sitting Time in Australia.

Commentary

• Nutrition Standards for the Charitable Food System: Challenges and Opportunities.
• When, Exactly, Does Food Become Junk?
• Federal Health Plans Opening Up to Obesity Care.
• Facing the Food Waste Crisis.
• The Virus–diabetes Link: Implications for Clinicians and Patients.
• Food Resilience in a Dark Catastrophe: A New Way of Looking at Tropical Wild Edible Plants.
• The Farm to Fork Strategy and the Digital Transformation of the Agrifood Sector—An Assessment from the Perspective of Innovation Systems.
• ARPA-H: Aiming for Breakthroughs in Obesity Science.

General

• From Anti-Government to Anti-Science: Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Science Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway.
• Ir56b Is an Atypical Ionotropic Receptor That Underlies Appetitive Salt Response in Drosophila.
• This Animal’s Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed.
• A Bacterial Extracellular Vesicle-Based Intranasal Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2 Protects Against Disease and Elicits Neutralizing Antibodies to Wild-Type and Delta Variants.
• Reproducible Brain-Wide Association Studies Require Thousands of Individuals.
• Physicochemical and Sensory Characteristics of Sausages Made with Grasshopper (Sphenarium purpurascens) Flour.
• Estimation of the Proportional Mean Residual Life Model with Internal and Longitudinal Covariates.
• Fostering Resiliency After Trauma: Resilience Is About Understanding the Difference between Fate and Freedom.

Video & Audio

• Video: Vegetables, Fruits and Dietary Guidelines: An Interview with Dr. Angela DeLeon.

Announcements

• Online event: Shifting the Paradigm to Advance Obesity Solutions: April 19, 2022.
• Department Chair and Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Kinesiology Sought at IU.
• 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.
• 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

• Improving Urban Food Systems Requires Emphasizing Nutrition Equity in Interventions and Policy Action.
• Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin Induces Adipose Loss Through Sebum Hypersecretion.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Obesity Treatment Discovered That Specifically Targets Fat in Women.
• Press-Release: An Obesity Treatment for Women Only?
• Study: Adipocyte-Specific Modulation of KLF14 Expression Leads to Sex-Dependent Impacts on Adiposity and Lipid Metabolism... in Mice. "Treatment" is Gene Editing.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Regular Consumption of Green Coffee Phenol, Oat β-Glucan and Green Coffee Phenol/Oat β-Glucan Supplements Does Not Change Body Composition in Subjects with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: "Results of both studies showed that labelling did not significantly affect the total calorie content of items selected."
• Lack of Evidence for a Causal Role of Hyperinsulinemia in the Progression of Obesity in Children and Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study.
• In This Cohort Study, Postdiagnosis Intake of Unprocessed Red Meat or Processed Meat Was Not Associated with Risk of Recurrence or Death Among Patients with Stage III Colon Cancer.
• Dissertation: “I Hypothesized That Students Who … Practiced Both Physical Activity and Healthy Diet Recommendations Together Would Have a Lower Incidence of Overweight Status and Obesity …My Hypothesis Was Not Supported …”.
• Preprint: "Type 2 Deiodinase p.Thr92Ala polymorphism does not affect the severity of obesity and weight loss after bariatric surgery."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "This article is a republication of the original (retracted) article addressing concerns raised by Golzarri-Arroyo et al."
• Wish List for Improving the Quality of Statistics in Sport Science.
• "Many companies are willing to test your microbiome and offer A.I.-driven dietary recommendations — as well as sell you supplements — but few are based on scientifically rigorous trials."

Basic

• Review: Extracellular MiRNAs as Mediators of Obesity-Associated Disease.
• Innate PD-L1 Limits T Cell–Mediated Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Ameliorates Diet-Induced Obesity.
• It Is Not Just Fat: Dissecting the Heterogeneity of Adipose Tissue Function.
• PET/MRI-Evaluated Brown Adipose Tissue Activity May Be Related to Dietary MUFA and Omega-6 Fatty Acids Intake.
• PhD Thesis: Impacts of the Thermic Effect of Food on Feeding Behaviour in Mice: A Test of the Heat Dissipation Limits Theory.
• Crosstalk between CYP2E1 and PPARα Substrates and Agonists Modulate Adipose Browning and Obesity.

Clinical

• Analysis of Severe Hypoglycemia Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Clinical Care Among Individuals with Prediabetes in Primary Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Metabolic Flexibility and Its Impact on Health Outcomes.
• Variability of Glycemic Outcomes and Insulin Requirements Throughout the Menstrual Cycle: A Qualitative Study on Women with Type 1 Diabetes Using an Open-Source Automated Insulin Delivery System.

Children and Adolescents

• Predicting Childhood Obesity Using Machine Learning: Practical Considerations.
• Associations between Gene-Gene Interaction and Overweight/Obesity of 12-Month-Old Chinese Infants.
• Analysis of Adolescent Physical Activity Levels and Their Relationship with Body Image and Nutritional Habits.

Surgery

• Nutrition for Pregnancy After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Literature Review and Practical Guide.
• Designing Digital Health Technology to Support Patients Before and After Bariatric Surgery.
• Thiamine Deficiency in an Adolescent Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents – for Whom, When, & How?

Drugs

• Obesity and Insulin Resistance: Pathophysiology and Treatment.
• Impact of Obesity on Safety Outcomes and Treatment Modifications with Ado-Trastuzumab Emtansine in Breast Cancer Patients.
• Meta-Analysis: Does Tibolone Treatment Have Favorable Effects on Obesity, Blood Pressure, and Inflammation?
• Editorial: Pharmacotherapeutic Options in Pediatric Obesity: An Urgent Call for Further Research.

Food & Diet

• Commentary: "Allison emphasized that this is just one study. ‘No one study has all the answers’."
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Oats and Oat Processing on Postprandial Blood Glucose and Insulin Responses.
• Perspective: Does Glycemic Index Matter for Weight Loss and Obesity Prevention? Examination of the Evidence on “Fast” Compared with “Slow” Carbs.
• Meta-Analysis: Association of Low- and No-Calorie Sweetened Beverages as a Replacement for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages with Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Risk.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effects of Dietary Macronutrients on the Hepatic Transcriptome and Serum Metabolome in Mice.
• Fasting-Mimicking Diet Reduces Trimethylamine N-Oxide Levels and Improves Serum Biochemical Parameters in Healthy Volunteers.
• RCT: Calorie Restriction Improves Metabolic State Independently of Gut Microbiome Composition.
• Caloric Restriction in Mice Improves Short-Term Recognition Memory and Modifies the Neuroinflammatory Response in the Hippocampus of Male Adult Offspring.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Changes in Children’s Physical Fitness, BMI and Health-Related Quality of Life After the First 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown in England.
• Editorial: "I'm active enough in my job." Why is occupational physical activity not enough?
• Pilot Study: Effect of Morning and Evening Exercise on Energy Balance.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Factors Affecting the Probability of Obesity: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in Turkey.
• Education, Income, and Obesity: A Nationwide Chinese Twin Study.
• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of 4 GLP-1RAs in the Treatment of Obesity in a US Setting.

Epidemiology

• Long-Term Weight Loss as a Predictor of Mortality in Haemodialysis Patients.
• BMI and Risk of Obesity-Related Complex Multimorbidity: An Observational Multicohort Study.
• Practical, Evidence-Based Approaches to Nutritional Modifications to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: An American Society for Preventive Cardiology Clinical Practice Statement.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Sadness-Associated Eating Styles and Visual Food Cue Reactivity: An Eye-Tracking Investigation.
• “I Do What I Like”: 8- to 10-Year-Old Children’s Physical Activity Behavior Is Already Interrelated with Their Automatic Affective Processes.
• Salivary Bacterial Signatures in Depression-Obesity Comorbidity are Associated with Neurotransmitters and Neuroactive Dipeptides.

Equity and Disparities

• Technology Utilization in Black Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Exploring the Decision-Making Process.
• Systematic Review: Socioeconomic Determinants of Cardiovascular Diseases, Obesity, and Diabetes Among Migrants in the United Kingdom.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma as a Violation of the NASW Code of Ethics: A Call to Action.
• Discovering the Roots: A Qualitative Analysis of Medical Students Exploring Their Unconscious Obesity Bias.

Policy Related

• Meta-Analysis: The Impact on Dietary Outcomes of Licensed and Brand Equity Characters in Marketing Unhealthy Foods to Children.
• Systematic Review: Using Social Media to Understand Web-Based Social Factors Concerning Obesity.
• Using a Collective Impact Model in Communities to Improve the Physical Environment.
• Purchases of Nontaxed Foods, Beverages, and Alcohol in a Longitudinal Cohort After Implementation of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax.

Intergenerational Effects

• Associations of Maternal Gestational Hypertension with High Blood Pressure and Overweight/Obesity in Their Adolescent Offspring: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Programming of Cardio Metabolic Health: The Role of Maternal and Fetal Hyperinsulinaemia.
• A Lifestyle Intervention During Pregnancy and Its Effects on Child Weight 2.5 Years Later.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Brown Adipose Tissue: A Short Historical Perspective.
• Why Do Humans Undergo an Adiposity Rebound? Exploring Links with the Energetic Costs of Brain Development in Childhood Using MRI-Based 4D Measures of Total Cerebral Blood Flow.
• Sex and Species Differences in the Development of Diet-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Disturbances in Rodents.

Methods

• Deriving Weight from Big Data: Comparison of Body Weight Measurement–Cleaning Algorithms.
• A Hazard Ratio Above One Does Not Necessarily Mean Higher Risk, When Using a Time-Dependent Cox Model.

Sleep Awareness Week 2022

• RCT: Effects of the Healthy Start Intervention on Psychological Stress and Sleep Habits Among Obesity-Susceptible Healthy Weight Children and Their Parents.
• Effect of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Glucose Metabolism.
• Age-Associated Differences in Sleep Duration in the US Population: Potential Effects of Disease Burden.
• Patterns of Eating Associated with Sleep Characteristics: A Pilot Study Among Individuals of Mexican Descent at the US-Mexico Border.
• RCT: Sleep Extension and Metabolic Health in Male Short Sleepers with Overweight or Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Biomarker-Based Methods and Study Designs to Calibrate Dietary Intake for Assessing Diet–Disease Associations.
• Update on Analytical Methods and Research Gaps in the Use of Household Consumption and Expenditure Survey Data to Inform the Design of Food Fortification Programs.

Commentary

• Alanna M. Chamberlain, PhD, MPH, FAHA interviews Miguel Hernán, MD, DrPH about his Richard D. Remington Methodology Lecture "Do Lifestyle Interventions Work?: The Promises and Challenges of Causal Inference from Cohort Studies..."
• "With the fat producing process being well-understood (compared with the extreme complexity of cancer and heart disease), could Six-Sigma blackbelts play a role in creating a new approach to solving the problem of obesity?"
• USDA's FoodData Central: What Is It and Why Is It Needed Today?
• Beauty, Science, Food: The Art of Atanu Biswas.
• Big Data Reveals a Dominant Link between Education and Diet Quality.
• Vitamin C and Obesity: Problems and Solutions. (pdf)
• Pharmacotherapeutic Options in Pediatric Obesity: An Urgent Call for Further Research.
• Searching for Effective Policies in Obesity.
• "Mayor Adams’ food plans are all reward, no risk."
• Did Naming Obesity a Disease Improve the Outlook for People Living with It?

General

• SWI/SNF Senses Carbon Starvation with a PH-Sensitive Low-Complexity Sequence.
• Dear Colleague Letter: Effective Practices for Making Research Data Discoverable and Citable (Data Sharing).
• The Effects of Aging on Male Mouse Pancreatic β-Cell Function Involve Multiple Events in the Regulation of Secretion: Influence of Insulin Sensitivity.
• Sex Ratio in the Mother's Environment Affects Offspring Population Dynamics: Maternal Effects on Population Regulation.
• The Causal Effect of Education on Health: A Consideration of Methodological Challenges, Mediating Effects, and Variation by Age.
• Coffee Consumption and Diabetic Retinopathy in Adults with Diabetes Mellitus.
• Protective Effects of Cinnamon Powder Against Hyperlipidemia and Hepatotoxicity in Butter Fed Female Albino Mice.
• No One Solution to the “New Demarcation Problem”?: A View from the Trenches.
• The Validity and Reliability of Retrospective Measures of Childhood Socioeconomic Status in the Health and Retirement Study: Evidence from the 1940 U.S. Census.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington Has Received a Gold-Level Bicycle Friendly University Designation from the League of American Bicyclists.
• USDA Actions on Nutrition Security - VideoCast.
• Systems and Obesity: Advances and Innovations for Equitable Health and Well-Being: A Workshop.
• Call for Abstracts for Special Issue of Ethnicity & Disease.
• Department Chair and Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Kinesiology Sought at IU.
• 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.
• 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

• Metformin, Phenformin, and Galegine Inhibit Complex IV Activity and Reduce Glycerol-Derived Gluconeogenesis.
• RCT: Changes in Cardiometabolic Risk Among Older Adults with Obesity: An Ancillary Analysis Investigating Exercise Plus Weight Maintenance and Exercise Plus Intentional Weight Loss by Caloric Restriction.
• Matrisome Alterations in Obesity - Adipose Tissue Transcriptome Study on Monozygotic Weight-Discordant Twins.

Headline vs Study

• Press-Release: Fighting COVID-19 with Milk?
• Headline: Proteins in MILK Have Virus Inhibiting Properties That Can Help Prevent COVID-19.
• Study: Efficacy of Products Containing Bovine Lactoferrin (A Component of Milk) Against SARS-CoV-2 Variants Directly on Immortal Lung Cells in Vitro (That Is: A Model of Pouring Milk Products in the Lungs).

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The intervention was popular among participants and helped achieve initial reductions in meat intake, but the longer-term reductions did not exceed control."
• RCT: "Supplementing additional whey protein to the lowest-protein containing meals (i.e., ~20 g at breakfast and ~20 g at dinner, daily) did not further augment resistance training-induced neuromuscular adaptations (i.e. muscle strength and mass) in healthy older individuals."
• " Overall milk feeding strategy had no effect on growth, while milk acidification reduced growth in calves, despite lowering the likelihood of experiencing diarrhea." (pdf)
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, intermittent exposure to hypoxia did not attenuate the increase in plasma glucose levels during an oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with normal glycemic control."
• Preprint: RCT: "Treatment with capsiate for 8 weeks led to negligible changes in body weight in a small sample of slightly overweight women..."
• Obesity Does Not Increase Risk for Mortality in Severe Sepsis Trauma Patients.
• Diet Composition and Diversity Does Not Explain Fewer, Smaller Urban Nestlings.
• Fasting-Induced Renal HMGCS2 Expression Does Not Contribute to Circulating Ketones.

Basic

• Lipotoxicity-Induced MtDNA Release Promotes Diabetic Cardiomyopathy by Activating the CGAS-STING Pathway in Obesity-Related Diabetes.
• Methionine Adenosyltransferase 1a Antisense Oligonucleotides Activate the Liver-Brown Adipose Tissue Axis Preventing Obesity and Associated Hepatosteatosis.
• Acetate-Mediated-Obestatin Modulation Attenuates Adipose-Hepatic Dysmetabolism in High Fat Diet-Induced Obese Rat Model.
• Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Aortic Perivascular Adipose Tissue: Oxidative Stress, Leptin, and Vascular Dysfunction.
• Decreased Tubuloglomerular Feedback Response in High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity.
• The Composition, Function, and Regulation of Adipose Stem and Progenitor Cells.
• Intestinal Epithelial NAD + Biosynthesis Regulates GLP-1 Production and Postprandial Glucose Metabolism in Mice.
• Gut-Derived Serotonin and Its Emerging Roles in Immune Function, Inflammation, Metabolism and the Gut–Brain Axis.
• Role of T Cells in Obesity-Associated Inflammation and Metabolic Disease.
• Insights of the Role of Estrogen in Obesity from Two Models of ERα Deletion.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction Watch: Sports Medicine Researcher Requests Another Retraction.
• Concussion Expert Tenders Resignation from CISG Following Plagiarism Claims.
• Article: Estimating Impact of Food Choices on Life Expectancy: A Modeling Study.
• Comment (Preprint): Food Choices and Life Expectancy: Is It Just Beans?

Clinical

• RCT: The Results of the Families Improving Together (FIT) for Weight Loss Randomized Trial in Overweight African American Adolescents.
• RCT: Hunger Training as a Self-Regulation Strategy in a Comprehensive Weight Loss Program for Breast Cancer Prevention.
• Adipose Tissue Inflammation Is Not Related to Adipose Insulin Resistance in Humans.
• RCT: Effects of a Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Deterioration in Glycemic Status Among South Asian Women with Recent Gestational Diabetes.
• Adiposity, Metabolomic Biomarkers, and Risk of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Case-Cohort Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Epidemiology, Causes, Assessment, and Management.
• Lack of Evidence for a Causal Role of Hyperinsulinemia in the Progression of Obesity in Children and Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Screen Time Intervention on Obesity Among Children and Adolescent.
• Obesity Incidence in U.S Children and Young Adults: A Pooled Analysis.
• Body Image, Body Composition and Environment: Do They Affect Adolescents' Physical Activity?
• Timing of Infant Formula Introduction in Relation to BMI and Overweight at Ages 1 and 3 Years: The Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study (BIGCS).

Surgery

• Increased Inflammatory Low-Density Neutrophils in Severe Obesity and Effect of Bariatric Surgery.
• RCT: Sympathomimetic Increases Resting Energy Expenditure Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Review: Renal Function Following Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Nuciferine, an Active Ingredient Derived from Lotus Leaf, Lights Up the Way for the Potential Treatment of Obesity and Obesity-Related Diseases.
• Metformin Booster Adipocyte-Targeted Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Obesity and Related Metabolic Syndromes.
• Liraglutide and the Management of Overweight and Obesity in People with Severe Mental Illness: Qualitative Sub-Study.
• Perspective: The Case for Clinical Trials with Novel GABAergic Drugs in Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Commentary: Good Food, Bad Food: Almonds Vs. Fries.
• Food Consumption in the Canary Islands: Nutritional Implications of Food Imports and Local Production.
• Effects of High Fructose Corn Syrup on Intestinal Microbiota Structure and Obesity in Mice.
• PET/MRI-Evaluated Brown Adipose Tissue Activity May Be Related to Dietary MUFA and Omega-6 Fatty Acids Intake.
• Individuals with Obesity Do Not Underreport Dietary Intake to a Greater Extent Than Individuals without Obesity When Data are Allometrically-Scaled.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Challenges in Defining Successful Adherence to Calorie Restriction Goals in Humans: Results from CALERIE 2.
• RCT: Long-Term Kidney and Systemic Effects of Calorie Restriction in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Clinical Intervention to Reduce Dietary Sugar Does Not Impact Liver Fat in Latino Youth, Regardless of PNPLA3 Genotype.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Effects of Cardiorespiratory Fitness on Cerebral Oxygenation in Healthy Adults.
• Time Spent Walking and Disability-Free Survival in Older Japanese: The Ohsaki Cohort 2006 Study.
• RCT: Effects of School-Based High-Intensity Interval Training on Body Composition, Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Cardiometabolic Markers in Adolescent Boys with Obesity.
• High-Intensity Interval Training and Moderate Intensity Training with Exogenous Adenosine Counteract Development of Obesity in Rats.

Economics & Sociology

• Review: Reconceptualising Judith Butler’s Theory of ‘Grievability’ in Relation to the UK’s ‘War on Obesity’: Personal Responsibility, Biopolitics and Disposability.
• Dietary Behaviors, Physical Activity, and Reported Role Models Among Emerging and Young Adults with Overweight and Obesity.

Epidemiology

• BMI and Risk of Obesity-Related Complex Multimorbidity.
• Association of BMI and Waist Circumference with Falls in Chinese Older Adults.
• Association between Obesity and Lung Function in South African Adolescents of African Ancestry.
• Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Expansion Mechanisms are Similar in Early and Late Onset Overweight/Obesity.
• Review: Obesity: A Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation and Its Markers.
• Systematic Review: Does Obesity Put Your Brain at Risk?
• Heavy Metal-Induced Lipogenic Gene Aberration, Lipid Dysregulation and Obesogenic Effect.
• Association between Environmental Composite Quality Index Score and Obesity in Children and Their Family.
• Lifestyle Factors and Fetal and Childhood Origins of Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Study of Chinese and European Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Perceived Rather Than Objective Weight Status Is Associated with Suicidal Behaviors Among Chinese Adolescents.
• Preprint: A Hedonic Orexigenic Subnetwork Within the Human Hippocampus.
• PEA-OXA Ameliorates Allodynia, Neuropsychiatric and Adipose Tissue Remodeling Induced by Social Isolation.
• Longitudinal Evidence of a Vicious Cycle between Nucleus Accumbens Microstructure and Childhood Weight Gain.

Equity and Disparities

• Birth Cohort, Sex and Educational Disparities in the Trajectories of BMI in Taiwan.
• The Impact of Neighborhood Deprivation on Glycemic Control for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes During Pregnancy.
• Improving Urban Food Systems Requires Emphasizing Nutrition Equity in Interventions and Policy Action.
• Black/White Disparities in Obesity Widen with Increasing Rurality: Evidence from a National Survey.
• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children of Immigrant Origin in Spain: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• The Association between Skinfold Thicknesses and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Stigma

• Effects of Weight-Related Self-Stigma and Smartphone Addiction on Female University Students’ Physical Activity Levels.
• Under the ‘Weight’ of Norms: Social Representations of Overweight and Obesity Among Brazilian, French and Spanish Dietitians and Laywomen.
• Fat Embodiment for Resistance and Healing from Weight Stigma.

Policy Related

• The Potential of Food Environment Policies to Reduce Socioeconomic Inequalities in Diets and to Improve Healthy Diets Among Lower Socioeconomic Groups.
• Weight-Biased Language Across 30 Years of Australian News Reporting on Obesity: Associations with Public Health Policy.
• Food Assistance Programs and Reduced Hospitalizations for Older Adults with Diabetes.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes in Europe: Learning for the Future.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI Categories and Infant Birth Outcomes: A Population-Based Study of 9 Million Mother–Infant Pairs.
• The Protective Role of Physical Fitness on Cardiometabolic Risk During Pregnancy: The GESTAtion and FITness Project.
• Predicting Preschool Children's Emotional Eating: The Role of Parents' Emotional Eating, Feeding Practices and Child Temperament.
• How Heavy Is the Price of Smoking? Estimating the Effects of Prenatal Smoking on Child Weight Outcomes.
• Maternal High-Fat Diet Aggravates Fructose-Induced Mitochondrial Damage in Skeletal Muscles and Causes Differentiated Adaptive Responses on Lipid Metabolism in Adult Male Offspring.
• Meta-Analysis: Maternal BMI, Diabetes, and Gestational Weight Gain and Risk for Pediatric Cancer in Offspring.
• The Edmonton Obesity Staging System and Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Overweight, Obesity and Excessive Weight Gain in Pregnancy as Risk Factors for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes.
• Maternal Body Size at Birth, Childhood, and Adolescence: A Window of Opportunity to Reduce Preterm Birth.

Methods

• The Use of the GRADE Dose-Response Gradient Domain in Nutrition Evidence Syntheses Varies Considerably. (pdf)
• Book Chapter: Metabolic Phenotyping in Mice with NASH Using Indirect Calorimetry.

Ecology, Evolution, and Energetics

• Preprint: Direct and delayed synergistic effects of marine heatwaves, metals and food limitation on tropical reef-associated fish larvae
• Preprint: Intergenerational effects of overfeeding on aversive learning in zebrafish

Commentary

• Beyond Strict Meal Planning: Dietary Flexibility Won’t Hurt Body Composition Goals.
• 5 Reasons Why Eating Insects Could Reduce Climate Change.
• Scientists Identify the Optimal Number of Daily Steps for Longevity, and It's Not 10,000.
• Don’t Throw Watermelon Seeds, Make Soup Instead.
• Weighing Up: What’s the Bottom Line When It Comes to Weight Loss?
• Getting Real About Obesity Prevention.
• Which Promote Greater Metabolic Health, Almonds or Potatoes? Rigorous, Randomized Trial Weighs In.
• Conflicted Interests in the Healthy Living Industry.
• National-Level Action Is Needed to Achieve Food System Transformation.

General

• Deprivation of Parental Care Reveals the Value of Sibling Cooperation in Burying Beetles.
• Employing an International Research Collaboration Framework to Pilot Test an Evidence-Based Recreational Therapy Program.
• Preprint: Measuring the Seasonality of Human Contact Patterns and Its Implications for the Spread of Respiratory Infectious Diseases.
• Indiana University Study Links Lead Exposure to Juvenile Delinquency.
• Misconceptions About Misclassification: Non-Differential Misclassification Does Not Always Bias Results Toward the Null.
• A Preliminary Comparison of a Songbird's Song Repertoire Size and Other Song Measures between an Urban and a Rural Site.
• Intersection between Parental Investment, Transgenerational Immunity, and Termite Sociality in the Face of Disease: A Theoretical Approach.
• For Insects, the Amazon’s Canopy Contains a Dazzling Multiverse.

Video & Audio

• ON-DEMAND // Fine Tuning Nutrient Intake Timing for Cardiac Health.

Announcements

• OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, Recreational Sports.
• Webinar: Beyond the Headlines - Communicating the Science of Caffeine March 21, 2022, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET.
• Professor Ruth Loos Receives DKK 8 Million DNRF Chair Grant.
• Webinar: Research Designs to Account for Diversity and Inclusiveness and Impact Food Guidance Policy (Live: March 11, 2022; Recorded Released Thereafter).
• Abstract Submission Open Through April 11 for 2022 IU Obesity Symposium. (pdf)
• Department Chair and Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Kinesiology Sought at IU.
• 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.