Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Clinical Predictors of Muscle Function in Adults with Obesity.
• Preprint: Ambient Temperature and Adult Obesity: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Panel Data.
• D-Allulose Reduces Weight More Persistently Than Oral Semaglutide While Both Equally Elevate Grip Strength in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Preprint: Gut-Derived GLP-1 Released by Rare Sugar D-Allulose Cooperates with Insulin to Activate Left-Sided Vagal Afferents and Enhance Insulin Sensitivity.
• Adverse Effect of Obesity and Dysglycemia on Bone Microarchitecture and Strength in Youth: Sex-Related Differences.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Finds Bigger Breakfasts and Lighter Dinners May Aid Weight Loss in Obese Adults.
• Study: RCT Comparing High Fiber Versus High Protein Weight Loss Diets. Breakfast Size Not Tested as a Randomized Condition.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Evidence for Squaring the Survival Curve: Lifespan-Extending Treatments Increase Variation in Age-At-Death.
• Menstrual Cycle Phase Does Not Affect Carbohydrate Supplementation Ergogenic Effect After Heavy Intensity Cycling.
• Heat Acclimation During the Third Week of a Live-High-Train-High Training Camp Does Not Impair the Hematological and Perceptual Responses to Altitude.
• RCT: Regular Cold-Water Immersion Following HIIT Does Not Affect Intramuscular Adaptation Markers, Inflammatory Profile or Endurance Performance.
• Vitamin B12 Deficiency Does Not Induce Homocysteine Increase in Transfusion-Dependent β-Thalassemia Major Patients Receiving Folic Acid Supplementation.
• Statin Use Does Not Impair Muscle Health in Older Adults: Findings from the SCOPE Study.
• "No single nutrition support intervention emerged as superior for all outcomes of interest, although current best practices were supported. Certainty of evidence was very low for primary outcomes, and heterogeneity limited conclusions for secondary outcomes."
• RCT: "Differences between WL+VEST and WL were insignificant..."

Basic

• Liver-Derived Indian Hedgehog (Ihh) Couples Fast-Feed Transition to Thermogenic and Metabolic Homeostasis.
• Impact of Sodium Butyrate Supplementation on Insulin Resistance and Adipose Tissue Modulation in Murine Models of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Central Irisin Administration Attenuates Hypothalamic TLR4/MyD88-Mediated Neuroinflammatory Signaling in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• TRPC6 Governs Brown Adipose Thermogenesis Via a BMPR2-P38 MAPK Signaling Axis.
• MEDAG Functions as an A-Kinase-Anchoring Protein in Adipocytes.
• Sucralose and PMMA Microplastics Synergistically Induce Obesity with Altered Locomotion and Metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans.
• Dissertation: The Role of the Neuropeptide Y System in the Pancreas in the Development of Obesity and Diabetes.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Journal Retracts GLP-1 Study After Researcher Questions Central Finding.
• Implausible Apple Cider Vinegar Weight Loss Study Retracted.
• I Tried to Design a Clinical Trial for a Supplement. 5 Things Got in the Way.
• Webinar: Recording Available For: David B. Allison (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) (Virtual), Truth, Trust, Trustworthiness, and Transparency: Foundations for Rigorous Science and Communication.

Clinical

• Trends in Use of Obesity Medications and Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Among All of Us Participants from 2003 to 2023.
• Estimating the Clinical, Quality-Of-Life and Economic Impact of Optimized Management of Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Spain.
• Clinical Characteristics, Treatment Patterns, and Healthcare Utilization Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Obesity in the United States.
• Experience and Acceptability of a Reduced-Energy Whole-Diet Intervention in Women with Gestational Diabetes: A Qualitative Study of the Dietary Intervention in Gestational Diabetes Trial.
• The Effect of Whole-Body Cryostimulation Treatments on the Profile of Selected Adipokines and Sirtuins in Middle-Aged Individuals with Varying Degrees of Body Fatness.
• BMI Impact on Health Care Utilization Among People with Diabetes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Children and Adolescents

• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity and Associated Lifestyle Factors Among Apparently Healthy School-Going Children Aged 5-15 Years in Urban Lucknow.
• Pediatric Obesity Treatment: From Paradigm Shift to Implementation Challenges.
• Regional, Socioeconomic, and Health Determinants of Physical Fitness in School Children: Insights from a National Olympic Fitness Project.
• Decoding Adolescents’ and Parents’ Perspectives of Overeating.
• Systematic Review: Built Environment and Childhood Obesity. (pdf)
• Proximal and Distal Factors Associated with Obesity in Childhood: An Exploratory Structural Equation Model.
• Novel Epigenetic Marks of Insulin Resistance Trajectories in a Longitudinal Study of Childhood Obesity.
• Integrative Network Toxicology and Molecular Docking Preliminarily Explore the Potential Role of Polystyrene Microplastics in Childhood Obesity.
• Evaluating School-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions in 6-12-Year-Old Children: A Scoping Review of All Reported Outcomes and Expert Consultation.

Surgery

• Preprint: Phubbing Behaviors and Psychological Distress in Patients with Obesity Scheduled for Bariatric Surgery.
• Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass, Adjustable Gastric Banding or Sleeve Gastrectomy for Severe Obesity.

Drugs

• Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists for Weight Loss in Adults.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Bofanglutide, a GLP-1 Receptor Agonist, in Chinese Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Real-World 6-Month Persistence, Adherence, and Effectiveness of GLP-1 Medications for Overweight and Obesity in a Medicaid Population.
• Narrative Review: GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Obesity in Older Women: Maximizing Weight Loss While Preserving Lean Mass.

Food & Diet

• Narrative Review: Relationship between Hypovitaminosis C, Obesity, and Features of Metabolic Syndrome.
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Whey Protein Supplementation in Weight Loss Interventions for Patients with Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Cafeteria Diet and Caloric Restriction on Pituitary Hormones and Metabolic Phenotype in Male Wistar Rats. (pdf)
• Consuming an Unprocessed Diet Reduces Energy Intake: A Post-Hoc Analysis of a RCT Reveals a Role for Human Nutritional Intelligence.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting for Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Prenatal Caloric Restriction Reprograms Endothelial Transcriptional States and Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity: Implications for Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Location of Physical Activity Determines Its Efficacy on Vitamin D Status.
• Relationship between BMI, Insulin Resistance, and Metabolic Syndrome in Children: Effect of Vigorous Physical Activity.
• Preprint: Leisure-Time Physical Activity on Lifelong Trajectories of BMI and Obesity Risk Throughout Life: Multivariable Regression and Mendelian Randomization Analyses Using Real-World Data from the CORDELIA-Catalunya Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Associations between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Cardiometabolic Health Among Asian American Residents of New York City.
• Ozempic and Wegovy Meet Congress: Political Economy Without Critique and Sociology Without Society.
• Maternal Higher Education and Children’s Weight: Evidence from the College Enrolment Expansion in China.
• The Secular Trend of the BMI of the U.S.-Born Population and the Rise of an Obesogenic Environment, 1882-2021.
• The Economics of a Sin Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.

Epidemiology

• Associations of Obesity, Systemic Inflammation, and Hyperinsulinemia with the Incidence of Non-Communicable Chronic Disease and Mortality.
• A Cross-Sectional Study Assessing Association of Renal Cell Carcinoma Pathological Grade and Stage with BMI and Obesity Related Factors.
• Body Fat Percentage Is Independently Associated with Lower Pulmonary Function in Korean Never-Smokers.
• Traditional, Central Obesity, and Metabolic Indices: Which Metrics Better Reflect Osteoarthritis Risk?
• Review: The Association of Obesity with Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Risk-Enhancing Factors.
• Prevalence and Determinants of Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity Among Reproductive-Aged Bangladeshi Women.
• Prevalence of Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Slovakia from 2018 to 2022.
• BMI Threshold for Obesity Should Be Personalized Based on Polygenic Score: Analysis of European and East Asian Biobanks.
• Sex-Specific Individual and Joint Associations of Multiple Environmental Exposures with Diabetes and Obesity in the Population-Based German National Cohort.
• Effects of Body Composition on Age- and Sex-Related Differences in Resting Metabolic Rate from a Healthy Aging Cohort.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• A Dorsal Hippocampus-Prodynorphinergic Dorsolateral Septum-To-Lateral Hypothalamus Circuit Mediates Contextual Gating of Feeding.
• Elevated BMI in Youth Is Associated with Neural Disinhibition and Internetwork Functional Dysconnectivity: A Magnetoencephalography Study.
• The Impact of Exercise on Dietary Fat Taste Perception: A Report on Its Role in Obesity Prevention.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• Access to Obesity Medicine Specialists and Endocrinologists for Populations with Obesity in US Counties, Is There a Rural-Urban Divide?
• Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Stages of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome Among Reproductive-Aged Women in the United States: NHANES 2011-2020.

Stigma

• Analysis of the Relationship between Physical Education Majors' Perceptions of Their Body Shape and Fatphobia.
• Experiences of Weight Stigma Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.
• Exploring Strategies for Addressing Weight Stigma: An Analysis of Health Communication Dynamics and Evolutionary Themes.

Policy Related

• Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition’s Report on Feeding Young Children Aged 1 to 5 Years.
• Quantifying Objective In-School Physical Activity During Recess and Physical Education in 6-12-Year-Old Children.
• The Future of Food Processing - A Food Science and Technology Perspective. Proceedings of a Roundtable Event.
• Scoping Review: Facilitators and Barriers to the Formulation of Public Policies on Food and Nutrition.
• Commentary: A Critical Evaluation of the 2025 - 2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Intergenerational Effects

• Epigenetic Analyses Suggest Different Pathways During Pregnancy for Development of Type 1 Diabetes in Children with High Versus Low-Neutral Human Leukocyte Antigen-Risk.
• Obesity-Associated Gestational Diabetes Promotes Cellular Heterogeneity and Dysfunction in Neonatal Offspring-Islets.
• Timing of Food Insecurity and Associations with Parent Feeding Behaviors and Toddler Weight Status.

Methods

• Scoping Review: Language Models in Nutrition and Dietetics.
• Validity of the Diet Quality Questionnaire Compared with Observed Intake for Estimating Population-Level Diet Quality in Rwandan Adults.
• Predictive Equations Commonly Used in the Clinic Underestimate Resting Energy Expenditure Compared with Whole-Room Indirect Calorimetry in Colorectal Cancer Survivors.

Commentary

• Intermittent Fasting: It’s Just a Diet, No Magic.
• Scientific American Podcast: How Seed Oils Became Controversial - And What the Science Really Says.
• Orforglipron vs Oral Semaglutide 1.0 in Lancet.
• Are We Prescribing GLP-1s Wrong?
• Choline Adequacy and Health Outcomes in Vegetarian and Vegan Diets.
• The Science of Safety: Adverse Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists as Glucose-Lowering and Obesity Medications.
• Taurine May Improve Multiple Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.
• The Language of GLP-1 Medication in UK Media Discourse: A Diachronic Perspective.
• What Is the Likely Impact of the Proposed Food and Drug Administration Front-Of-Package Criteria on the Labeling of Foods?
• Details Emerge on Obesity Medicines in Medicare.
• The Fading Fiction of Inflated GLP-1 List Prices.

General

• The Vicious Spiral of AI Slop.
• Why Do Cells Need to Die?
• OMICmAge Quantifies Biological Age by Integrating Multi-Omics with Electronic Medical Records.
• The Spark of Life: Bioelectronics That Orchestrate Cell Functions for Disease Control.
• Should Lipid Screening Start Earlier in Children with Type 1 Diabetes?
• Podcast: This New Study Will Change How You Think About Fatigue.
• Podcast: Stress Ages Us on a Cellular Level.
• Frozen Fruit and Vegetable Perceptions and Usage Among a Multistate Sample of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education and Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program Participants.
• Systematic Review: Fiber Intake and Laxation in People with Normal Bowel Function.

Announcements

• Baylor College of Medicine Seeks Postdoctoral Associate - Nucleic Acid Delivery.
• Director of Body Composition Sought in Division of Nutrition, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Children’s Nutrition Research Center (CNRC), in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital.

Featured

• Physical Activity and Metabolic Rates in Humans.
• A Functionally Integrated Cross-Tissue Alternative Splicing Program During Short-Term Calorie Restriction.
• Preprint: Thermodynamic Scaling of Canine Aging and Reversible Clock Deceleration by a Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor. (pdf)
• The (ab)use of Food Frequency Questionnaire Data in Substitution Modelling in Nutritional Epidemiology: A Critique.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Moderate Physical Activity Lowers Risk of Sarcopenic Obesity in Seniors.
• Study: Associations between Accelerometer-Determined Physical Activity and Sarcopenia Obesity in Older European Men and Women. Cross-Sectional Study, So Future Risk Not Determined.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Supplementation with Mixed Nuts Does Not Improve Inflammatory Biomarkers or Dietary Inflammatory Potential in Post-Myocardial Infarction: A Secondary Analysis of the DICA-NUTS Trial.
• "Contrary to prediction of the aerobic model for endothermy evolution, we found near zero BMR-VO2max correlation on the between-individual level, suggesting null genetic co-variance, or its cancellation by among-individual maintenance-to-capacity trade-off."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, %LML plateaus with greater weight loss. Moreover, men experience greater %LML than women."
• "Contrary to expectations, placing larvae in hypoxia a day before they reached the critical weight delayed the molt significantly, suggesting that hypoxia is not a trigger for the initiation of metamorphosis."
• "The results showed that, contrary to widespread concerns, FCR was no higher in more active flocks and that on average more active flocks tended to have lower (i.e. more efficient) FCR (p = 0.060)."
• "Bergmann's rule posits that animals tend to have larger body sizes at higher latitudes with colder climates,...Contrary to expectation, however, Bergmann's rule is not stronger at the population level (21% of species) than at the species level (24% of families or orders). Bergmann's rule is likely moderated by thermoregulatory strategy, as body size was negatively correlated with temperature along latitudinal clines in endotherms but not in ectotherms."
• RCT: Foods Fortified with Soybean or Palm Oil Show No Effect on Inflammation or Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: "In summary, 30 days of greens-based supplementation led to selective changes in epigenetic aging markers and individual gut microbial taxa, without significant effects on overall microbiome diversity, metabolic health markers, or body composition."

Basic

• GPR75 in Glutamatergic Neurons Regulates Body Weight.
• High Fat Diet and Obesity Each Increase Tumor Cell Proliferation and Muscle Wasting in Experimental Cancer Cachexia.
• Angiotensin-(1-9) Attenuates Diabetic Cardiomyopathy by Improving Insulin Resistance.
• A Sensitive Reporter Mouse Model to Study Adipocyte-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Vivo.
• Deletion of Mfn2 in Endothelial Cells Triggers a Mitohormetic Response That Improves Systemic Metabolism and Healthspan in Mice.
• S-Nitrosoglutathione Reductase GSNOR Drives Age-Related Obesity by Promoting Adipose Tissue Whitening Through De-Nitrosation of Beclin-1.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Concerns Regarding the Standard Deviation of Individual Responses for Assessing Treatment Response Heterogeneity.
• Letter: Misconceptions About Variance Comparisons for Exploring the Presence of Treatment Response Heterogeneity in Randomized Controlled Trials.
• Sample Size Reporting in Human Cancer Microbiome Research Is Inconsistent and Unstandardized.

Clinical

• Genetic Determinants of BMI, Diet, and Fitness Interact to Partially Explain Anthropometric Obesity Traits but Not the Metabolic Consequences of Obesity in Men and Women.
• Preclinical and Clinical Obesity: Prevalence, Associations to Cardiometabolic Risk and Response to Lifestyle Intervention in NHANES and the EPIC-Potsdam and TULIP Studies.
• RCT: Effectiveness of Automatically-Adjusted Vs. Manually-Adjusted Noninvasive Ventilation in Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome.
• RCT: Intermittently Scanned Continuous Glucose Monitoring Enhances Weight Loss and Adherence in Women with Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Review: Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• The Prevalence of Obesity and Hypertension in Paediatric Cardiology Patients Before and After COVID-19 Lockdown Measures.
• Identifying and Managing Eating Disorders in Pediatric Obesity Treatment: Current Practices in Weight Management Programs Throughout the United States.

Surgery

• Obesity, Bariatric Surgery, and Cancer Risk: Nutritional Perspectives and Long-Term Clinical Implications.
• Impact of Obesity on Outcomes of Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy.
• Retrospective Study: Exploring the Benefits of Robotic Surgery in Endometrial Cancer Patients with Severe Obesity.
• Cancer in the Excluded Stomach After Gastric Bypass Surgery for Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Elevated Body Mass Index and Clinical Outcomes After Surgical Stabilization for Shoulder Instability.
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea Following Bariatric Surgery: 20 Year Outcomes from the Swedish Obese Subjects Study.

Drugs

• Commentary: Prioritising Nutrition Alongside Paediatric Obesity Management Medications.
• Reduced-Frequency GLP1 Therapy Maintains Weight, Body Composition, and Metabolic Syndrome Improvements: A Case Series.
• Efficacy of GLP-1 Analog Peptides, Semaglutide, Tirzepatide, and Retatrutide on MC4R Deficient Obesity and Their Comparison.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Bariatric Surgery and Pharmacological Treatments on Cardiovascular Risk Factors for Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Long-Term Effects of Orlistat on Lipid Metabolism and Anthropometric Indices.

Food & Diet

• Diet-Based Weight Loss Intervention Is Not Associated with Meaningful Change in Lean Soft Tissue.
• A Ketogenic Diet Enhances Aerobic Exercise Adaptation and Promotes Muscle Mitochondrial Remodeling in Hyperglycemic Male Mice.
• Preprint: A Regionally Inspired West Virginia Obesogenic Diet Induces Fat Accretion and Metabolic Dysfunction While Identifying Sex Disparity. (pdf)
• RCT: Oleoylethanolamide Supplementation Enriches Akkermansia muciniphila and Modulates Intestinal Barrier Function in Adults with Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: Effects of Different Vitamin D Supplements on Body Fat Distribution and Glucolipid Metabolism in Patients with Obesity-Associated Metabolic Syndrome.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Pilot Study: Calorie Restricted Diet Versus Liraglutide on Intrapancreatic Fat Deposition in People with Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Intensive Lifestyle Modification Incorporating Calorie Restricted Feeding on Eating Disorder Psychopathology and Diabetes-Related Distress in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Impact of Short-Term Dietary Restriction Combined with Amaranth and Canola Oil Supplementation on Salivary Adipokines in Adults with Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: The Effect of an Exercise Program on Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes in Sedentary Pregnant Participants with Obesity.
• An Early-Stage Digital Therapeutic Intervention to Enhance Affective Response During Physical Activity Among Adults with Overweight or Obesity: Benchmark-Driven Formative Testing Study.
• Dyadic Planning as a Complementary Process to Individual Planning: Physical Activity in Daily Diaries of Persons with Pre-Obesity or Obesity.
• Physical Activity Patterns and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Age-Friendly Cities and the Incidence of Diagnosed Diabetes in China.
• Parental Country of Birth and Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Childhood Overweight and Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Review: Obesity in the United States: A Public Health Perspective.
• Prospective Associations of Obesity and Obesity Severity with 9 Cardiovascular Outcomes: The Cross-Cohort Collaboration.
• Normal Weight Obesity and Grip Strength.
• Meta-Analysis: The Relationship between Obesity and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Four Community-Based Cohorts.
• Non-Linear Association of Visceral Adiposity Index with Incident Diabetes: Insights from a Retrospective Japanese Cohort Study.
• Quantifying the U.S. Obesogenic Environment and Its Quasi-Causal Association with Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Twin Study.
• Greater Visceral Fat Mass Accumulation with High Alcohol Consumption.
• Beyond BMI: The Impact of the New Lancet Commission Diagnostic Criteria on Prevalence of Obesity in the United States.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Associations between Restrained, Emotional, and External Eating Behaviors and Obesity Among Saudi Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• The Link between Weight Gain and Hippocampal Atrophy in Bipolar Disorder.
• Linking Obesity with White Matter Microstructure Highlights the Importance of Brainstem Tracts and Sex Differences.
• Food Preference and Behavioural Choice Across the Eating Disorder and Body Weight Spectrum.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• Disparities in Obesity-Related Cardiovascular-Induced Mortality Trends in the U.S. Of America over Two Decades.
• Trends in the Prevalence of Clinical and Preclinical Obesity Among US Adults by Social Determinants of Health.
• Differential Pathophysiological Drivers of Susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Dysfunction - Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: Ethnic Differences.
• Maternal Screen-Related Behaviors, Toddler Screen Use, and Toddler BMI in Mexican American Families: Cross-Sectional Study.

Stigma

• Beyond Weight Loss: Quality of Life and Internalized Weight Bias in Endoscopic Bariatric Revision.
• Exploring Correlates of Weight Bias Among University Students in Diverse Programs.
• Systematic Review: Social Justice for Adults with High Body Weight.
• Review: Weight Stigma in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Policy Related

• Combo Deals, Junk Meals: A Systematic Review Examining the Healthiness of Foods Promoted on Meal Delivery Apps.
• In-Store Beverage Pricing and Marketing Before and After a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax in Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Health Systems Approaches for Advancing Implementation and Policy for Food Is Medicine.

Intergenerational Effects

• Joint and Independent Associations of Gestational Diabetes and Depression with Childhood Obesity.
• Weighing Down the Future: Long-Term Effects of Childhood Obesity on Intergenerational Mobility.

Methods

• Predicting Adult Overweight and Obesity Prevalences Using the Food Nutritive Value Supplies of the FAO's Food Balance Sheet Data: Case Study of Trends in Spain.
• Exploring the Association between Hedonic Hunger and Obesogenic Eating Behaviors in Females with Overweight/Obesity Using Machine Learning Methods.
• Exploring the Impact of Physical Activity Metrics on Calorie Consumption: A Machine Learning Approach Combined with SHAP Analysis.

Commentary

• Podcast: The Science of Muscle Building with James Krieger.
• Podcast: The Resilience Round Up Podcast, Episode 38: Fueling for Readiness and Resilience.
• Podcast: The Good and the Bad of the New US Dietary Guidelines | Dr David Katz.
• Podcast: What Post-GLP-1 Eating Means for Food Innovation | SciDish February 2026.
• Podcast: Dr. Nina Teicholz | America's Metabolic Decline: The High-Cost of Low Fat | the Metabolic Link Ep 80.
• Is a Reduction in Food Noise Good for Restaurants?
• Obesity & Energetics Offerings Featured in "Media Sites Recommended by Health Promotion Experts."

General

• Two Genetic “Hits” Required to Trigger Parkinson’s Neurodegeneration.
• Preprint: Randomized controlled trials claiming "personalized", "individualized" and" precision" interventions: characteristics, transparency and bias. (pdf)
• Understanding Mitochondria | Ask Me About My Research with Dr. Michael Bround.
• Adipose Tissue-Derived MFG-E8 Promotes Hepatic Inflammation and Fibrosis Through Macrophage Activation in a Mouse MASH Model.
• Regulating Direct-To-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising in the United States.
• A Critical Appraisal of Systematic Reviews Assessing the Effect of Chronic Velocity-Based Resistance Training on Health and Athletic Performance Outcomes: A Systematic Review.
• Why Do Little Dogs Shiver So Much?
• Implementation of Early Peanut Introduction Among Providers in a Southern U.S. State.

Announcements

• Abstract Submission Open Through March 9, 2026 for the American Society for Nutrition's NUTRITION 2026.
• The Division of Nutrition, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Children’s Nutrition Research Center (CNRC), in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital Seeks Applicants for an Appointment at the Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Associate Professor (Tenured) Level, or Professor (Tenured) Level Who Will Also Serve as Director of the Body Composition Unit.

Featured

• Plasma Biomarkers of Senescence in Cholestatic Liver Disease: A Signature of Risk Stratification and Progression.
• Advancing Protein Quality Knowledge and Access with a Centralized and Interactive Database.
• Dietary Fats, Blood Lipids & Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: Time for Food-Based Approach?
• Preprint: "The limited use of rigorous causal inference approaches remains a key barrier to producing actionable evidence in microbiome research...Only 15% of studies used designs or analytical strategies capable of approximating causal effects..." (pdf)

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Icelandic Study Finds Following Nutritional Guidance Reduces Children’s Obesity Risk.
• Study: Infant Diet Score Is Inconsistently Associated with (not Necessarily Causally Related To) BMI in Some Parts of Childhood.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The labeling intervention did not reduce kcal purchased" in Trial of "Changing portion size labels of main courses to encourage selection of smaller portions when dining out".
• RCT: "Neither MetS z-scores nor MetS prevalence had statistically significant improvements" in "Effect of the healthy school recognized campus initiative on metabolic syndrome among adolescents in Texas…".
• RCT: "In line with earlier observations in relatively healthy populations, long-term almond consumption (50 g/day) did not enhance cognitive performance in overweight/obese individuals with prediabetes. Moreover, brain vascular function was unaffected."
• RCT: "Providing free FVs without focused interventions to improve diet quality and reduce waste fails to increase FV intake and increases FV waste."
• RCT: "No additional effects on fecal short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) concentrations or human health markers were identified" in "Impact of Yogurt and Rolled Oats Consumption on the Gut Microbiome: A Randomized Crossover Study displaying Individual Responses and General Resilience."
• RCT: "21 days of n-3 fatty acid supplementation modified PUFA content and influenced inflammation status, but did not affect maximal anaerobic performance."
• RCT: "No significant between-group differences were detected for anthropometric or metabolic outcomes after adjustment" in "Multicomponent Nutritional Approach (NutrirCom) and Its Effects on Anthropometric, Metabolic, and Psychoemotional Outcomes in Women with Obesity".
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: "Vitamin D supplementation was safe and well-tolerated, but no meaningful clinical benefit was identified for hepatic or metabolic parameters of interest in MASLD."
• RCT: "Daily consumption of 4 oz of beef or plant-based meat for 8 wk does not affect cardiometabolic risk factors in [women of reproductive age] with low iron stores."

Basic

• Siah2 Is a Lipid-Meditated Metabolic Sensor in Adipose Tissue Macrophage.
• Growth Hormone Enhances Mitochondria Biogenesis and Endows Mitochondrial Thermogenesis in Murine Adipocytes.
• Ufmylation-Deficient DDRGK1 Ameliorates Obesity by Inhibiting FASN-Mediated Adipocyte Lipogenesis.
• C/EBPα Is Essential for Gonadal but Not Inguinal White Adipose Tissue Formation in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Podcast: Dr. Jordan Gebhardt: Precise Experimental Design | Ep. 84 [The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast].
• Coffee Is Great but It Does Not Prevent Dementia.

Clinical

• Harnessing Metabolic Insights: A Framework for Dietary Patterns in Chronic Disease Prevention and Management.
• RCT: Choline and Betaine Concentrations in Plasma Discriminate Levels of Dietary Choline Intake in Healthy Adults.
• A Factorial Model of the Minimum Metabolic Demand for Protein and Indispensable Amino Acids in Young Adult Males: Implications for Current Recommendations.

Children and Adolescents

• Children’s Healthy Weight State Capacity Building Program: Incorporating Nutrition Into States’ Maternal and Child Health Programming.
• Clinical and Biological Phenotypes of Patients Carrying a Heterozygous Variant in Genes of Leptin-Melanocortin Signaling Pathway.
• A Growing Burden: Obesity’s Impact on Cardiometabolic Disease Risk in Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Obesity Does Not Influence the Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair for Mitral Regurgitation.
• Nutritional Management of an Adolescent Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Retrospective Study: Active GLP-1 RA Use Is Associated with Lower Rates of Surgical Complications Across BMI Cohorts with Diabetes.

Drugs

• JAAD CME Part 2: Clinical Evidence and Safety Considerations for GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Dermatology.
• Meta-analysis: Semaglutide and the Risk of Non-Arteritic Ischemic Optic Neuropathy.

Food & Diet

• Editorial: Reconsidering the Role of Full-Fat Dairy: Beyond Nutrient Reductionism.
• Review: Molecular Mechanisms of Lignans in Lowering Blood Pressure and Anti-Obesity Effects.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Impact of Caloric Restriction and Resistance Training on Weight Management, Insulin Sensitivity, and Adipose Tissue Protein Dynamics [in rats].
• Oxytocin, Weight Loss and Ketosis in Response to a Very-Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet: An Exploratory Study.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Seven-Year Changes of BMI and Grip Strength in Older Adults: Incidence of the Obese-Weak Phenotype and the Protective Role of Physical Activity.
• Association between Eating Speed, Body Composition, and Physical Activity: A Cross-Sectional Study in Gujarat, India.
• High-Speed Resistance Training Vs. Low-Speed Resistance Training on Body Composition and Physical Function in Adults with Sarcopenic Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Estimating the Causal Effect of Cardiometabolic Conditions on Socioeconomic and Healthcare Outcomes: A Scoping Review of Mendelian Randomization Studies.
• Household Food Insecurity Is Associated with Higher Adiposity over Time Among Adolescents in Louisiana.
• How Does the Built Environment Affect Obesity? A Review from the Perspective of Urban Planning.
• Does Urban Environment at Birth and Adolescence Affect Cardiometabolic Morbidity in Adolescents?

Epidemiology

• Review: Obesity in 2026: Analyzing the Rapid Rise and Pathways to Prevention.
• Modeling of Ultraprocessed Foods Taxation on Overweight Prevalence and Noncommunicable Diseases in Brazil.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Commentary: ...on “Emotional and External Eating Behaviors Associated with Fat-Free Mass Loss Following Sleeve Gastrectomy”.
• Review: Mental- and Physical Health, and General Well-Being in Patients with Polyposis Syndromes.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• Genetic Insights Into Socioeconomic Inequalities and Adiposity-Related Interventions for Reducing Accelerated Biological Aging.
• Temporal Trends and Disparities in Cardiovascular Mortality Among Adults with Obesity in the United States from 1999 to 2023.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma Among Diverse Ethnic Groups with Obesity in the U.S.: The USA-OBESTIGMA Study.
• RCT: Feasibility Study Assessing Acute Physiological Responses to Weight Stigma in Women Living with Obesity.
• Addressing Weight Stigma in Medical Education: Insights and Strategies from a Nutrition Curriculum Review.

Policy Related

• Children’s Perspectives of Their Everyday Food Practices: Insights to Inform Policy and Interventions.
• Medicaid and Health Resilience: Evidence from TennCare Disenrollment.
• BMI Was Maintained Among Women with Low Incomes in Indiana Who Participated in Food Assistance and/or Federal Nutrition Education over 1 Year.
• Anticipating Unintended Consequences of Public Health Nutrition Policy: Implications for Disordered Eating and Weight Stigma.
• Perspectives on Universal Free School Meals Among Rural Middle and High School Students: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Intergenerational Effects

• Growing Inequities in Median Age of Death and Obesity Prevalence between Australian Major Cities and Remote Areas.
• Placental mRNA and miRNA Dynamics Associated with Lipid Metabolism Pathways in Pregnancies Affected by Obesity.
• Fetal Growth Outcomes in Early Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Managed Immediately After Diagnosis.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Evidence for Constrained Total Energy Expenditure in Humans and Other Animals.
• Urban Green Space and Its Impact on the Health of Urban Residents.
• Chapter: Advances in Marine Medical Nutrition: Achieving an Ecological Balance.
• Protective Effects of Neutral Lipids from Phaeodactylum tricornutum on Palmitate-Induced Lipid Accumulation in HepG2 Cells: An in Vitro Model of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Methods

• Multi-Omics Analysis of Morbid Obesity Using a Patented Unsupervised Machine Learning Platform: Genomic, Biochemical, and Glycan Insights.
• OBE-DB: A Computational Tool and Web Server for the Prediction of Obesity Drugs.

Commentary

• Does Exercise Actually Burn Calories?
• Podcast: Should Ultraprocessed Foods Be Off the Menu?
• Podcast: Debated: Seed Oils, Beef Tallow, Raw Milk, Eggs, and Soy | Max Lugavere.
• Podcast: Seed oils vs. beef tallow, with Unbiased Science.
• Researchers are Applying Insights Into the Genetic Variations and Physiology of Obesity to Apply Tailored Interventions to Patients to Improve Treatment Outcomes.
• The Misguided Effort to Equate Food with Tobacco.
• Super Bowl Food Ads Aren’t Causing the Obesity Problem.
• Toward Reproducible Metabolism Research: Consensus Emerges on Preclinical Indirect Calorimetry.
• Popular Weight-Loss Plan Is More Hype Than Help, New Study Finds: ‘Doesn’t Justify the Enthusiasm.’

General

• miRNAs Shape Mouse Age-Independent Tissue Adaptation to Spaceflight Via ECM and Developmental Pathways. (pdf)
• Preprint: A Searchable Metadata Network Graph for Microbiome Metabolomics.
• APOE-Stratified Proteomic and Metabolomic Analysis Reveals Mitochondrial Dysfunction Inflammation and Lipid Dysregulation in Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Preprint: Balance between DNA Repair, LINE1 Suppression and Lifespan in Mice with SIRT6 Serine 10 Phosphorylation Site Mutations.
• Study Finds Termites Built Mega-Colonies by Losing Genes, Not Gaining Them.
• Review: Protein Supplements and Protein-Containing Product Use in Ice Cream.
• Semaglutide Ameliorates Osteoarthritis Progression Through a Weight Loss-Independent Metabolic Restoration Mechanism.
• Follow‑Up: Drs. Ballantyne and Abushamat Discuss Follow‑up Care for a Young Patient with FCS on Quarterly Triglyceride‑lowering Injections.
• Episode #386: Longevity Myths- Biological Clocks, GLP-1 Muscle Loss, and What Actually Predicts Lifespan.

Announcements

• Webinar: Food Is Medicine: Advancing the Intersection of Physicians and Dietitians March 19, 2026.

Featured

• Mapping the Causal Chain from Genetic Risk Variants to Lipid Dysmetabolism in Parkinson’s Disease.
• Ameliorative Effects of Tallow and Olive Oil on Hyperlipidemia-Induced Atherogenesis in Male Albino Rats.
• RCT: Bioenhancer Assessment of Black Pepper with Turmeric on Self-Reported Pain Ratings in Adults.
• Bile Acid Binding Resins Improve Glucagon Receptor Agonist-Mediated Weight-Loss in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Dietary Melatonin May Lower Obesity and Depression Risk.
• Study: The Content of Dietary Melatonin in 119 Self Reported Food Items and Cross-Sectional Relationship with Self Reported Chronic Diseases.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "A moderate, fat-dominant preload consumed before a mixed meal did not alter nadir or overall postprandial glucose in adults without diabetes after SG."
• RCT: Limited to No Effects Detected in Preplanned Analyses of Primary Endpoints in the Effect of a Supervised Exercise Program Throughout Pregnancy on Longitudinal Lipid Profile Changes.
• RCT: "In this relatively small study, providing a modified, low-protein infant formula during the first months of life did not affect hormonal and metabolic markers during early childhood".
• "Contrary to expectations, placing larvae in hypoxia a day before they reached the critical weight delayed the molt significantly, suggesting that hypoxia is not a trigger for the initiation of metamorphosis. Nevertheless, an increase in lactate levels in the second half of the final instar, and the leveling off of metabolic rate, indicate that a metabolic shift occurs at the critical weight."
• "Contrary to the general belief of the dominance of Lactobacillus in the human endometrium, our study suggests that the endometrial microenvironment may be harbouring DNA fragments and/or cells of lactobacilli originating from the lower reproductive tract. Our study results indicate a need to re-consider/re-analyse the endometrial microbiome in health and disease."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, we find dietary benefits in individuals with lower ADHD PGS, necessitating replication."
• "Contrary to the persistent assumption that hippos rest in water by day and graze on land all night, hippos in this study fed during only a quarter of the night and were active for a similar proportion of the day."
• "Strikingly, and in contrast to prevailing expectations based on metabolic improvements, this shortened lifespan in females occurred despite marked enhancements in metabolic health, including reduced body weight and adiposity, preferential glucose oxidation, elevated metabolic rate, and enhanced glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity throughout adulthood."

Basic

• An Oral, Liver-Restricted LXR Inverse Agonist for Dyslipidemia: Preclinical Development and Phase 1 Trial.
• Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Wnt Pathway Modulation: A Novel Therapy for Liver Cirrhosis and Steatosis.
• Treatment with Curcumin Delays the Development of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Decreasing Proinflammatory Cytokines in Non-Obese Diabetic Mice.
• Neomycin-Sensitive Gut Bacteria-Derived Brassicasterol Mediates the Anti-Obesity Effects of Cordyceps militaris Polysaccharide.
• Early-Life Dietary Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Consumption Promotes Immune Function and Reduces Systemic and Adipose Inflammation in a Sex-Specific Manner in Obese Wistar Rats.
• High-Fat and Choline-Deficient Western Diets Disrupt the Ovarian Microenvironment in Mice.
• Central FGF19 Reduces Hypothalamic Inflammation and Improves Leptin Signaling in Obese Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• A Framework for Assessing the Trustworthiness of Scientific Research Findings.
• Reproducibility and Sources of Variation of Urinary Biomarkers of Food Intake of Fruits, Vegetables, and Chocolate in European Children and Adolescents.
• Rapid Response: Re: Misleading Narrative of “Healthy” Ultraprocessed Foods.

Clinical

• RCT: Oral Multi-Enzyme Supplementation Alters Postprandial Plasma Nutrient Concentrations After a Mixed Meal in Healthy Middle-Aged and Older Adults.
• Review: Digestible and Metabolizable Energy Intake in Humans.
• Obesity-Driven Hypertension: Exploring the Mechanisms and Modern Treatment Strategies.

Children and Adolescents

• Infant Diet Is Associated with BMI Later in Childhood.
• Cross-Sectional: Relationship between Body Adiposity and Glycemic Control in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Review: Participatory Approaches with Girls in Physical Activity Contexts.
• Body Roundness Index Outperforms Traditional Obesity Metrics in Predicting Cardiometabolic Risk Among Children and Adolescents.
• Interrelationships between Sarcopenia, Bone Mass and Metabolic Parameters in Pediatric Obesity.
• Multicomponent Intervention Improves Gut Microbiome and Cardiac Autonomic Function in Childhood Obesity.

Surgery

• Optimizing Safety and Outcomes in Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery: A Conceptual Framework for Staged Minimally Invasive Treatment.
• RCT: Preoperative Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Therapy in Bariatric Surgery Patients with Morbid Obesity.
• The Role and Effects of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery on Endometrial Cancer Care.

Drugs

• Review: Pharmacological Management of Obesity in Pregnancy: A Review of Current and Emerging Therapies.
• Pediatric Use of Compounded GLP-1 Agents: Benefits, Risks, and Equity.
• Lean Mass Loss in Glucagon-Like Peptide-1/GIP Therapy: Clinical Implications for Obesity and Cardiovascular Care.

Food & Diet

• Maternal Mediterranean Diet During Pregnancy and Adiposity from Early Childhood Through Preadolescence.
• RCT: Eating Rate Has Sustained Effects on Energy Intake from Ultraprocessed Diets.
• RCT: The Impact of Restaurant Menu Eco Labels on Consumer Meal Selections.
• RCT: Diet Quality and Nutritional Adequacy During a 2-Year Calorie Restriction Intervention.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• A Very-Low-Energy Fast Involves Increased Adipose Inflammatory Gene Expression.
• Effects of 1-Month Very-Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet on 24-Hour Energy Metabolism and Body Composition in Women with Obesity.
• Preprint: Biological Mechanisms of Strength Preservation During Calorie Restriction-Induced Weight Loss Among Young- to Middle-Aged Adults Without Obesity.
• Content of Fatty Acid and Eicosanoids in Muscle and Intestinal Tissue of C57BL/6 Mice Subjected to Long-Term Caloric Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Resistance Training as a Key Strategy for High-Quality Weight Loss in Men and Women.
• Leisure-Time Physical Activity Is Associated with Reduced Risks of Mortality in Adults with General or Abdominal Obesity in Mexico.

Economics & Sociology

• Preprint: Evaluation of the Experience of People Referred Under the NHS Enhanced Service Incentive for Obesity to the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme.
• Associations between Historical Redlining and BMI: Potential Indirect Pathways Through Neighborhood Socioeconomic and Environment Factors and Their Associated Lifestyle Behaviors in CARDIA.
• Burden of Obesity in Local Health Systems: A Comparative Analysis Across Three Integrated Care Boards in England with a Focus on Type 2 Diabetes.

Epidemiology

• Adult Obesity and Risk of Severe Infections: A Multicohort Study with Global Burden Estimates.
• The Impact of the Lancet Commission Definition of Obesity on Its Prevalence and Implications on Long-Term Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Outcomes in East Asians.
• Genetics Identifies Obesity as a Shared Risk Factor for Co-Occurring Multiple Long-Term Conditions.
• Cross-Sectional: The Association between Serum α1-Acid Glycoprotein and Obesity and Abdominal Obesity in Women.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, Physical Activity, and Core Self-Evaluation in Chinese Adolescents.
• A Ketogenic Diet for Treatment-Resistant Depression.
• The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Gut Microbiota and Markers of Inflammation Is Mediated by Obesity and Depression.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• Fifteen-Year Trends in Behavioral Risk Factors and Metabolic Health Conditions for Non-Communicable Diseases: Persistent Race and Gender Inequalities in Brazil.
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Postnatal Growth of Infants Born Before 30 Weeks of Gestation.
• Review: Socioeconomic Position and the Gut Microbiota.
• Pre-print: Obesity, Urbanization, and Food Access in Wisconsin: The Intersection of Healthcare Provider Access and Population Health Outcomes.
• Review: Social Determinants of Health Associated with Perinatal Health Outcomes in Different Racial/Ethnic Groups.
• Disparities in Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity Medication Dispensing.

Stigma

• Contraceptive Care for Patients with Bigger Bodies in the US: Evaluation of a Provider Training Intervention.
• Internalized Weight Stigma, Breastfeeding Difficulties, and Self-Efficacy as Mediators between Pre-Pregnancy Overweight/Obesity and Exclusive Breastfeeding at 6 Months Postpartum.

Policy Related

• Nanotechnology in Food Systems: Opportunities and Risks for Human Health.
• From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Engineering Fuels the Epidemic of Preventable Disease.
• Burden of Obesity in India: Need for Policy Changes to Attain Highest Possible Level of Health and Well-Being.
• Digitalization of the Retail Food Environment: Modernizing Food Access, Highlighting Health Equity, and Identifying Opportunities for Future Research and Practice.
• Review: Addressing Childhood Malnutrition in Europe: Policy Approaches to Promote Healthy Eating in Young Children.

Intergenerational Effects

• NASEM Proceedings: Prepregnancy BMI and Gestational Weight Gain: New Evidence, Emerging Innovations, and Policy Implications.
• Pre-print: Maternal Obesity Reprograms Differentiation Trajectories of Fetal Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells Through Altered Inflammatory Signaling.
• Effects of Maternal High-Fat Diet During Pregnancy and Lactation on Behaviour and Hypothalamic Orexin Neurons in Mice Offspring.
• Impact of Obesity and Preconceptional Bariatric Surgery on Feto-Placental Unit in a Rat Model.
• Associations of Maternal Prenatal Inflammation with Child Adiposity.
• Maternal and Fetal Genetic Predispositions to Insulin Deficiency and Resistance Affect Fetal Growth Through Distinct Pathways.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Energetics link long-term environmental variations to breeding success in a wild penguin population.
• The cheeky ape hypothesis: Is rosacea the evolutionary price of human buccal fat?

Methods

• A Novel Electrochemical Glucose Biosensor Based on MnO2/Carboxylated Graphene Oxide/Glucose Oxidase for Sensitive Glucose Biosensing.
• Preference-Informed Cluster Randomized Design for Pragmatic Clinical Trials.
• Identifying Genome-By-Childhood Trauma Interactions for Depression Using a Forest-Based Approach.
• Explainable Machine Learning for Depression Risk Prediction in Adults with Obesity: Development of an Online Tool.
• Integrating Body Composition Analysis and Machine Learning for Non-Invasive Identification of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease.

Commentary

• Podcast: How Body Fat Affects Your Metabolic Health and Risk of Metabolic Disease | Dr Robert Eckel.
• Podcast: Study Deep Dive: Does Aspartame Increase Insulin?
• Podcast: Can We Define Hyper-Palatable Foods? And Is Processing Actually the Problem? - Tera Fazzino, PhD.
• Unintended Risks of Sarcopenic Obesity During Weight-Loss Interventions in Older People.
• Podcast: Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Sits Down with Dr. Donald Layman, One of the World’s Leading Protein Researchers and a Key Contributor to the Newly Released U.S. Dietary Guidelines.
• "A longevity researcher [Steve Austad] changed his routine after visiting an island 'Blue Zone' where people live to 100."
• Do GLP-1s Have Deleterious Effects on Muscle?
• The Next Wave of GLP-1 Drugs are Coming - And They’re Stronger Than Wegovy and Zepbound.

General

• Commentary Urges Balance between Research Integrity and Technology Transfer in Biomedicine.
• Not Eating Red Meat Is Associated with Reporting the Environment and Climate Change as a Top Concern.
• Richard DiMarchi: "The biggest reward is the people you produce,” he said. “I’ve contributed technology and drug candidates to the world, but I’ve also contributed the next generation of scientists capable of continuing to improve the world."
• How Gene Loss and Monogamy Built Termite Mega Societies.
• "A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital has discovered a connection between a genetic variant, disruptions in lipid metabolism, and the development of Parkinson's disease."
• Comparing Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study Designs for Accurate Viral Dynamics Estimation: Insights from the NBA Cohort Data.
• Review: Nudges for Enhancing Agricultural Policy.
• Norovirus Growth Breakthrough Using Mini-Gut Organoids.

Announcements

• The Division of Nutrition, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Children’s Nutrition Research Center (CNRC), in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital Seeks Applicants for an Appointment at the Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Associate Professor (Tenured) Level, or Professor (Tenured) Level Who Will Also Serve as Director of the Body Composition Unit.