Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• With Appreciation to Dr Angelo Pietrobelli, IJO Pediatric Associate Editor and Pediatric Obesity Pioneer.
• Mitochondria as Central Characters in a Complex Narrative: Linking Genomics, Energetics, and Pace-of-life in Natural Populations of Garter Snakes.
• “You’ve Got to Be Old to Go There”: Psychosocial Barriers and Facilitators to Social Eating in Older Adults.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: The Prevention of Childhood Obesity Would Require Stricter Advertising Regulations.
• Study: Cross-sectional Correlation between Nutritional Values and Advertising Discursive Strategies. No Comparison of Stricter Regulation and Prevention of Childhood Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• A Family-oriented Intervention Programme to Curtail Obesity From Five Years of Age Had No Effect over No Intervention.
• RCT: "Home-based exercise demonstrates no substantial benefits to fasting glucose, HbA1c, insulin requirement, insulin sensitivity index, gestational age at delivery, preterm birth, birth weight and head circumference for gestational diabetes women."
• RCT: No apparent effect of postprandial Glycaemia on Cognitive Function.
• RCT: "Carbohydrate intake during labor did not modify the rate of instrumental vaginal delivery."
• "There were no meaningful associations between neighborhood fast-food outlets or physical activity facilities and obesity in men or women."
• Voluntary Running Does Not Reduce Neuroinflammation or Improve Non-cognitive Behavior in 5xFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Self-reported Periconception Weight Loss Attempts Do Not Alter Infant Body Composition.
• RCT: Reducing an Entrée Portion Size Does Not Affect the Amount of Dessert Consumed.
• A Fasting Period During Grow-out Make Juvenile Pacu (Piaractus Mesopotamicus) Leaner but Does Not Impair Growth.

Basic

• Macrophages Mediate Increased CD8 T Cell Inflammation During Weight Loss in Formerly Obese Mice.
• Suppressing Adipocyte Inflammation Promotes Insulin Resistance in Mice.
• CTRP12 Ablation Differentially Affects Energy Expenditure, Body Weight, and Insulin Sensitivity in Male and Female Mice.
• RCT: Hemp Extract on Markers of Wellness, Stress Resilience, Recovery and Clinical Biomarkers of Safety in Overweight, but Otherwise Healthy Subjects.
• RCT: Screening and Treatment Outcomes in Adults and Children with Type 1 Diabetes and Asymptomatic Celiac Disease.
• Egg Oil From Portunus Trituberculatus Alleviated Obesity and Regulated Gut Microbiota in Mice.
• Combined Amelioration of Prebiotic Resveratrol and Probiotic Bifidobacteria on Obesity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Glial A2B Adenosine Receptors Modulate Abnormal Tachykininergic Responses and Prevent Enteric Inflammation Associated with High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Nuclear-mitochondrial Communication Involving MiR-181c Plays an Important Role in Cardiac Dysfunction During Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• (Re)search Filter Bubble Effect—An Issue Still Unfairly Neglected.
• Lifestyle Interventions Along with Vitamin D Supplements on Reducing Leptinemia in Obese Man.
• Editorial: Standardization of Laboratory Practices and Reporting of Biomarker Data in Clinical Nutrition Research.
• Perspective: Standards for Research and Reporting on Low-Energy (“Artificial”) Sweeteners.
• Perspective: Proposed Harmonized Nutrient Reference Values for Populations.

Clinical

• Impact of Combined Hormonal Contraceptive Use on Weight Loss: A Secondary Analysis of a Behavioral Weight-Loss Trial.
• RCT: Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Bodyweight and Glycaemia in Early Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Anticipation of 24 H Severe Energy Restriction Increases Energy Intake and Reduces Physical Activity Energy Expenditure in the Prior 24 H, in Healthy Males.
• Phentermine and Topiramate on Weight Regain After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.

Children and Adolescents

• Sucking Behavior in Typical and Challenging Feedings in Association with Weight Gain From Birth to 4 Months in Full-term Infants.
• Low-carbohydrate Interventions for Adolescent Obesity: Nutritional Adequacy and Guidance for Clinical Practice.
• Early-Life Exposures and Their Impact on Gut Microbiota Assembly.
• Age-related Consequences of Childhood Obesity.
• Prevalence of Obesity in Elementary School Children and Its Association with Dental Caries.
• Commentary: Covid-19 School Closings May Spur Childhood Obesity, Experts Warn.
• Commentary: Healthy Eating Behaviors in Childhood May Reduce the Risk of Adult Obesity and Heart Disease.
• Commentary: Teen Obesity, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure May Lead to Prematurely Aged Arteries.
• Overweight and Obesity Impair Academic Performance in Adolescence.

Surgery

• Dyspnea Perception During the Inspiratory Resistive Loads Test in Subjects with Obesity Waiting Bariatric Surgery.
• Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Related to Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation in Patients with Obesity and Early Change of Its Levels After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Review: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Obesity, and Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: Complex Relationship.
• Report: Vascular Risk Reduction in Obesity Through Reduced Granulocyte Burden and Improved Angiogenic Monocyte Content Following Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Obesity Therapy: How and Why?
• Meta-analysis: Pharmacotherapy in Obesity.
• Obesity Paradox in Atrial Fibrillation: Implications for Outcomes and Relationship with Oral Anticoagulant Drugs.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: Fish Consumption and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• We are What We (think We) Eat: Expected Satiety on Subsequent Calorie Consumption.
• Today's Dietitian Survey: "An Overwhelming Majority of Nutrition Professionals Don’t Use the Glycemic Index."
• Commentary: What If Diet Books Had to Be Truthful?
• Short-term Exposure to High-fat Diet on Histology of Male and Female Gonads in Rats.
• Meta-analysis: Dietary Factors and Neurodegenerative Disorders.
• Commentary: Will COVID-19 Revive the Meal Kit Market?
• Meta-analysis: Green Tea Supplementation on Obesity.
• Commentary: High Fat Meal May Impair Concentration.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Control of Inflammation By Calorie Restriction Mimetics: On the Crossroad of Autophagy and Mitochondria.
• Caloric Restriction on the in Vivo Functional Properties of Aging Microglia.
• Dietary Buckwheat Enhances Sirtuin1 Without Calorie Restriction.
• Calorie Restriction and Intermittent Fasting: Impact on Glycemic Control in People with Diabetes.
• RCT: Time-Restricted Feeding in Low-Income Women with Obesity Placed on Hypoenergetic Diets.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Long-Term Exercise on Liver Cyst in Polycystic Liver Disease Model Rats.
• Association between Objective Activity Intensity and Heart Rate Variability Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Mediation.
• Acute Responses of Platelet Count and ADP-induced Platelet Aggregation to Different High Intensity Interval Exercise Modes.
• RCT: Whole-Body Electromyostimulation Associated with Dynamic Exercise on Functional Capacity and Heart Rate Variability After Bariatric Surgery.
• Contrasting Personal Characteristics and Psychosocial Correlates of Exercise and Eating Behavior Changes in Women Successful Vs. Unsuccessful with Weight Loss and Maintenance.

Economics & Sociology

• The Importance of the Social Environment in Achieving High Levels of Physical Activity and Fruit and Vegetable Intake in African American Church Members.
• Obesity-Related Health Information Sharing and Receiving between Midlife Adults and Their Adult Children and Aging Parents.
• RCT: Adding Financial Incentives to Online Group-Based Behavioral Weight Control.

Epidemiology

• Physical Activity and Risk of Bladder Cancer Among Postmenopausal Women.
• Dietary Fiber Intake and Total and Cause-specific Mortality.
• Lifestyle and Psychosocial Patterns and Diabetes Incidence Among Women with and Without Obesity: A Prospective Latent Class Analysis.
• Timing of Gestational Diabetes Diagnosis By Maternal Obesity Status: Impact on Gestational Weight Gain in a Diverse Population.
• Fast Food Outlets, Physical Activity Facilities, and Obesity Among Adults.
• Meta-analysis: Carotenoid Intake and Circulating Carotenoids are Inversely Associated with the Risk of Bladder Cancer.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• No Evidence for an Association between Obesity and Milkshake Liking.
• Imaginary Eating on Visual Food Cue Reactivity: An Event-related Potential Study.
• Provider Advice and Patient Perceptions on Weight Across Five Health Systems.
• Pilot Study: Hunger on Mood and Affect Reactivity to Monetary Reward in Women with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial/ethnic Variations in Weight Management Among Patients with Overweight and Obesity Status Who are Served By Health Centres.
• Associations between Rapid Weight Gain in Infancy and Weight Status Among Urban Aboriginal Children Participating in the Gudaga Study.
• The Association between National Income and Adult Obesity Prevalence: Empirical Insights Into Temporal Patterns and Moderators of the Association Using 40 Years of Data Across 147 Countries.
• Systematic review: Food Insecurity and Cognitive Function in Middle to Older Adulthood.
• Enhancing Adolescent and Young Adult Health Services! A Review of the Community Needs Assessment Process in an Urban Federally Qualified Health Center.
• Cultivating Sustainable, Resilient, and Healthy Food and Water Systems.

Ethics

• Symposium: Categorizing Religious Perceptions of Diet and Agriculture.
• Eating Our Way Through the Anthropocene.

Stigma

• A Letter to OAC Members: Journal of Internal Medicine Apologizes For, Removes Stigmatizing Obesity Infographic.
• Perceptions of Body Weight That Vary By BMI: Clear Associations with Perceptions Based on Personal Control and Responsibility.
• Coping with Weight Stigma Among Adults in a Commercial Weight Management Sample.
• A Qualitative Approach to Understanding the Relationship between Mothers’ and Daughters’ Body Image and Physical Activity Levels.
• Review of the Experience of Weight-Based Stigmatization in Romantic Relationships.
• BMI, Weight Discrimination, and Psychological, Behavioral, and Interpersonal Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Policy Related

• Impact of Introducing a Standardized Nutrition Protocol on Very Premature Infants’ Growth and Morbidity.
• Projecting the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood Obesity in the U.S.: A Microsimulation Model.
• Pushing Partnerships: Corporate Influence on Research and Policy Via the International Life Sciences Institute. (pdf)
• Food Addiction and Eating Addiction: Scientific Advances and Their Clinical, Social and Policy Implications.
• Children’s Fruit “Juice” Drinks and FDA Regulations: Opportunities to Increase Transparency and Support Public Health.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity on Placental Phenotype.
• Prenatal Maternal Objective and Subjective Stress Exposures and Rapid Infant Weight Gain.
• Adversity Exposure and Obesogenic Food Consumption in Young Children: The Transgenerational Role of Emotion Dysregulation.
• Sleep-disordered Breathing in Pregnancy: A Developmental Origin of Offspring Obesity?
• Commentary: Not Me, Not My Brother, Not My Sister.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Mitochondrial Stress-activated CGAS-STING Pathway Inhibits Thermogenic Program and Contributes to Overnutrition-induced Obesity in Mice.
• Review: Metabolic Regulation of Kisspeptin — the Link between Energy Balance and Reproduction.

Methods

• The Utility of Pediatric Age-based Weight Estimation Formulas for Emergency Drug Dose Calculations in Children with Obesity.
• The Relationship between Computed Tomography-derived Body Composition and Survival in Colorectal Cancer.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Is It Possible to Model the Impact of Calorie-Reduction Interventions on Childhood Obesity at a Population Level and Across the Range of Deprivation.

Commentary

• Pivotal Results for Semaglutide in Obesity.
• Four Immediate Results of a Dead Stop in Healthcare.
• Boris Johnson Gets Religion on Obesity.
• Pre-Op Weight Loss and Mortality, Cause and Effect.
• Quiet Progress: FDA OKs Setmelanotide Priority Review.
• Omega-3 Fatty Acid Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease Justified or Not?
• Nutrition Policy Must Be at the Center of the Conversation.
• This Cancer-related Gene May Also Hold the Key to Beating Obesity.
• Is Your Neighborhood Making You Fat? Maybe Not.
• Adding Up: More Risk in COVID-19 with Obesity.

General

• How Incivility and Academic Stress Influence Psychological Health Among College Students: The Moderating Role of Gratitude.
• Meet This Super-spotter of Duplicated Images in Science Papers.
• Waste in Covid-19 Research.
• Multiple Methodologies: Addressing Ecological Validity and Conceptual Replication.
• Obesity Is a Risk Factor for Greater COVID-19 Severity.
• Beyond the Covid Crisis—A New Social Contract with Public Health.
• The Public Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used to Portray COVID-19.
• Social Class and (un)ethical Behavior: Causal Versus Correlational Evidence.
• Children May Be at Higher Risk of Drowning This Summer.
• Preprinting a Pandemic: The Role of Preprints in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Do My Microbes Make Me Fat? Potential for the Gut Microbiota to Influence Energy Balance, Obesity and Metabolic Health in Humans.
• Morbid Obesity as an Independent Risk Factor for COVID-19 Mortality in Hospitalized Patients Younger Than 50.

Announcements

• Launch of a New Network: The “Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network”.
• IU Reports Record Summer Enrollment.
• IU Faculty Members Win National Scientific Achievement Awards.
• 2020-2030 Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research.
• HER Call for COVID-19 Related Projects Focused on the Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs.
• SNEB Conference Update.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical 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 and Nutrition Research Domain.

Featured

• Disulfiram Treatment Normalizes Body Weight in Obese Mice.
• Wireless Optogenetics Protects Against Obesity Via Stimulation of Non-canonical Fat Thermogenesis.
• Eviction in Early Childhood and Neighborhood Poverty, Food Security, and Obesity in Later Childhood and Adolescence: Evidence From a Longitudinal Birth Cohort.
• Microvascular Vasodilatory Consequences of Acute Consumption of a High Fructose Caffeinated Soft Drink.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Chemicals Often Found in Consumer Products Could Lead to Obesity and Fatty Liver Diseases, Study Finds.
• Study: Metabolomic-based Assessment Reveals Exposure to Some Chemicals Changes Lipid Profiles... In Immortalized Human Liver Cell Culture.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Addition of Pectin-alginate to a Carbohydrate Beverage Does Not Maintain Gastrointestinal Barrier Function During Exercise in Hot-humid Conditions Better Than Carbohydrate Ingestion Alone.
• Temporal Discounting Does Not Influence BMI.
• RCT: A Low-Glycemic Index, High-Fiber, Pulse-Based Diet Improves Lipid Profile, but Does Not Affect Performance in Soccer Players.
• A Four-week White Bread Diet Does Not Alter Plasma Glucose Concentrations, Metabolic or Vascular Physiology in Mourning Doves, Zenaida Macroura.
• Remission of Food Addiction Does Not Induce Cross-Addiction After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• RCT: "...a wakame- and carob-enriched snack ...when compared to a control snack, [was] without effects on food consumption, other cardiovascular parameters, or anthropometric parameters."
• Muscle Sentry® Has No Effect on Total Work Performed and Estimated MVO2 After High Intensity Short Duration Resistance Training.
• Travel Distance Reduces Follow‑up Compliance but Has No Effect on Long‑term Weight Loss Success in Bariatric Patients. (pdf)

Basic

• Bile Acid Sequestration Synergistically Accelerates Glucagon Receptor-Stimulated Body Weight Loss in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• A Dysregulated Bile Acid-gut Microbiota Axis Contributes to Obesity Susceptibility.
• Strain Specific Variation Underlines the Disparity in Stress Response of Rats to Calorie Dense Diets in the Pathophysiology of Obesity.
• Brain-Sparing Sympathofacilitators Mitigate Obesity Without Adverse Cardiovascular Effects.
• Usefulness of Surrogate Markers to Determine Insulin Action in Fat Cells.
• Dietary Fat and Sugar Differentially Affect β-Adrenergic Stimulation of Cardiac ERK and AKT Pathways in C57BL/6 Male Mice Subjected to High-Calorie Feeding.
• Mitochondrial Uncoupler BAM15 Reverses Diet-induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "After correcting some calculation errors and fully accounting for uncertainty in the avoided mortalities, ...our findings call into question the global conclusions of the EAT-Lancet report..."
• Editorial: Evolution in Statistics: P Values, Statistical Significance, Kayaks, and Walking Trees.
• PRESENT 2020: Text Expanding on the Checklist for Proper Reporting of Evidence in Sport and Exercise Nutrition Trials.
• Missing Something? Comparisons of Effectiveness and Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery Procedures and Their Preferred Reporting: Refining the Evidence Base.
• Systematic Review: Retractions in Rehabilitation and Sport Sciences Journals: A Systematic Review.
• Testing the Carbohydrate-insulin Model of Obesity in a 5-month Feeding Study: The Perils of Post-hoc Participant Exclusions.

Clinical

• Notes From the Field: Creating a Typology of Childhood Obesity Intervention Strategies.
• Statin Therapy Is Associated with Lower Prevalence of Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis.
• RCT: Intrahepatic Fat and Postprandial Glycemia Increase After Consumption of a Diet Enriched in Saturated Fat Compared with Free Sugars.
• Human Milk Composition Differs by Maternal BMI in the First 9 Months Postpartum.

Children and Adolescents

• Accelerated Early Vascular Aging Among Adolescents with Obesity And/or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Associations of Childcare Type, Age at Start, and Intensity with BMI Trajectories From 10 to 42 years of Age in the 1970 British Cohort Study.
• Birth Weight and Weight Changes From Infancy to Early Childhood as Predictors of BMI in Adolescence.
• The Emotional Impact of Obesity on Children.

Surgery

• Association of Preoperative Body Weight and Weight Loss with Risk of Death After Bariatric Surgery.
• Rate and Determinants of Excessive Fat-Free Mass Loss After Bariatric Surgery.
• Swallowing in Obese Individuals Before and After Bariatric Surgery.
• Commentary: Success (but Unfinished) Story of Metabolic Surgery.

Drugs

• Effects of a Selective Long-acting Amylin Receptor Agonist on Alcohol Consumption, Food Intake and Body Weight in Male and Female Rats.
• Therapeutic Approaches to Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: Targeting the Antioxidant Pathway.
• Mechanism of Inflammatory Response in Associated Comorbidities in COVID-19.
• Obesity: The New Global Epidemic. Pharmacological Treatment, Opportunities and Limits for Personalized Therapy.
• Combination Therapy with Canagliflozin Plus Liraglutide Exerts Additive Effect on Weight Loss, but Not on HbA1c, in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Examining the Effects of Time Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Metabolic Markers.
• Sweet Satiation: Acute Effects of Consumption of Sweet Drinks on Appetite for and Intake of Sweet and Non-sweet Foods.
• RCT: Stevia Beverage Consumption Prior to Lunch Reduces Appetite and Total Energy Intake Without Affecting Glycemia or Attentional Bias to Food Cues.
• RCT: Effect of Blueberry Consumption on Cardiometabolic Health Parameters in Men with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Snacking on Whole Almonds for 6 Weeks Improves Endothelial Function and Lowers LDL Cholesterol but Does Not Affect Liver Fat and Other Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Healthy Adults.
• RCT: Whole-Grain Processing and Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Proteomic Profiles Before and During Weight Loss.
• RCT: Effects of Low-Energy Diet or Exercise on Cardiovascular Function in Working-Age Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Moving Towards Physical Activity Equality: How Message Framing Impacts Young Adult Female Belief and Intention to Engage in Movement Behaviors.
• An Item Response Theory Analysis of Residents’ Perceived Sporting Event Impacts.
• Systematic Review: The Effect of Exercise Interventions on Resting Metabolic Rate: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Economics & Sociology

• Social Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in the Mother-child Binomial: Evidences From Mexico.
• How Does Socioeconomic Development in Brazil Shape Social Inequalities in Diabetes?
• Neighbourhood Fast Food Exposure and Consumption: The Mediating Role of Neighbourhood Social Norms.
• Social Norms and Obesity Prevalence: From Cohort to System Dynamics Models.
• Long-term Metabolic and Socioeducational Outcomes of Transient Neonatal Diabetes: A Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Study.
• Gene–obesogenic Environment Interactions on Body Mass Indices for Older Black and White Men and Women From the Health and Retirement Study.

Epidemiology

• "The Obesity Paradox in the Trauma Patient: Normal May not Be Better."
• Soft Drink Intake Is Associated with Weight Gain, Regardless of Physical Activity Levels: The Health Workers Cohort Study.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in the California Teachers Study.
• Differences in Bone Mineral Density between Adult Vegetarians and Nonvegetarians Become Marginal When Accounting for Differences in Anthropometric Factors.
• Waist Circumference and Its Changes are More Strongly Associated with the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Than BMI and Changes in Body Weight in Chinese Adults.
• Dietary Potassium Intake Remains Low and Sodium Intake Remains High, and Most Sodium Is Derived From Home Food Preparation for Chinese Adults, 1991–2015 Trends.
• Protein Requirements of Elderly Chinese Adults are Higher Than Current Recommendations.
• The Association of Energy and Macronutrient Intake at Dinner Versus Breakfast with Disease-Specific and All-Cause Mortality Among People with Diabetes: The U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2003–2014.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Implementation Intentions for Weight Loss in College Students with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Cognitive Distraction at Mealtime Decreases Amount Consumed in Healthy Young Adults.
• Aerobic Exercise Improves Cognition and Cerebrovascular Regulation in Older Adults.
• Identification of a Brain Fingerprint for Overweight and Obesity.
• Measures of Adherence as Predictors of Early and Total Weight Loss with Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity Combined with Liraglutide.

Equity and Disparities

• Inequalities in Education and National Income are Associated with Poorer Diet: Pooled Analysis of Individual Participant Data Across 12 European Countries.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Non-communicable Diseases in South Africa.
• Patterns and Correlates of Objectively Measured Physical Activity in 3-year-old Children.
• Prevalence of Overweight and Metabolic Syndrome, and Associated Sociodemographic Factors Among Adult Ecuadorian Populations: The ENSANUT-ECU Study.
• Systematic Review: Interventions to Prevent or Treat Childhood Obesity in Māori & Pacific Islanders: A Systematic Review.

Ethics

• Ethical Considerations for Food and Beverage Warnings.

Stigma

• Global Publications on Stigma between 1998-2018: A Bibliometric Analysis.
• Commentary: From Pelosi or Trump, Fat Shaming Is Never Cool.

Policy Related

• The Neighborhood Food Environment Modifies the Effect of the 2009 WIC Food Package Change on Childhood Obesity in Los Angeles County, California.
• Exploring the Influence of Alcohol Industry Funding in Observational Studies on Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Health.
• Association between Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages and Soft Drink Consumption in Adults in Mexico: Open Cohort Longitudinal Analysis of Health Workers Cohort Study.

Intergenerational Effects

• In Utero Nutritional Stress as a Cause of Obesity: Altered Relationship between Body Fat, Leptin Levels and Caloric Intake in Offspring Into Adulthood.
• Effect of Paternal BMI on Neonatal Outcomes of Singletons After Frozen−thawed Embryo Transfer Cycles: Analysis of 7,908 Singleton Newborns.
• Do Maternal Intrauterine Environmental Influences That Lower Offspring Birthweight Causally Increase Offspring Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Later Life? A Mendelian Randomization Study of 45,849 Genotyped Parent Offspring Pairs in the HUNT Study.
• Maternal Obesity Modulates Both the Renin-angiotensin System in Mice Dams and Fetal Adiposity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Obesity Epidemic in the Face of Homeostatic Body Weight Regulation: What Went Wrong and How Can It Be Fixed?
• The Impact of Chronic Exposure to a Magnetic Field on Energy Metabolism and Locomotion of Blaptica Dubia

Methods

• Narrative Review of Social Media as a Research Tool for Diet and Weight Loss.
• Single-cell Transcriptional Networks in Differentiating Preadipocytes Suggest Drivers Associated with Tissue Heterogeneity.
• Examination of Carbohydrate Products in Feces Reveals Potential Biomarkers Distinguishing Exclusive and Nonexclusive Breastfeeding Practices in Infants.
• Identification of Milk and Cheese Intake Biomarkers in Healthy Adults Reveals High Interindividual Variability of Lewis System–Related Oligosaccharides.
• Systematic Review: Criterion-Related Validity of Spectroscopy-Based Skin Carotenoid Measurements as a Proxy for Fruit and Vegetable Intake: A Systematic Review.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Better Predictions of Vitamin a Total Body Stores By the Retinol Isotope Dilution Method are Possible with Deeper Understanding of the Mathematics and By Applying Compartmental Modeling.
• Predictive Energy Equations for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type I Children.

Commentary

• Normative Does Not Mean Inclusive: A Diverse Approach to Size in Public Health Training.
• Captive to the Bias of an Attractive Narrative.
• New Insights Into Potential Nutritional Effects of Dietary Saponins in Protecting Against the Development of Obesity.
• Angiogenesis in Obesity.
• Postpartum Weight Retention in Women with Obesity.
• Risk of COVID-19 for Patients with Obesity.
• Nature, Nurture, and Weight Loss.
• Mixed Results in the Holy War Against Sweet Drinks.

General

• Mutation Load Is the Spectre of Species Conservation.
• General Claims Require Generalized Effects: A Reply to Ruiz et al.’s (2020) ‘A Systematic and Critical Response to Pendrous Et Al. (2020) Replication Study’.
• Vaccination Strategies to Enhance Immunity in Neonates.
• Herpesvirus Infection in Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus Lumholtzi).
• Dietary Separation between Co-occurring Copepods in a Food-limited Tropical Coral Reef of the Sanya Bay.
• Psychological Stress of Bicycling with Traffic: Examining Heart Rate Variability of Bicyclists in Natural Urban Environments.
• Can Coffee Combat Caries? An in Vitro Study.
• RCT: Promoting Gratitude as a Resource for Sustainable Mental Health. (pdf)

Video & Audio

• VIDEO: COVID-19 & Diabetes: How to Manage SGLT2, GLP-1 RAs, Metformin, ACE Inhibitors, ARBs, DPP-4, and Insulin in Hospitalized Pts with Coronavirus? Should We Await for More Research on Hydroxychloroquine Efficacy?

Announcements

• Integrating Systems and Sectors Toward Obesity Solutions: Part 2.
• Meeting: Nutrition 2020 Live Online, June 1-4. Science, Developments, and Collaboration.
• Gilbert Antonio (Gil) Leveille, PhD (1934–2019).
• Biography of Leann L Birch, PhD, 25 June 1946 – 26 May 2019.
• American Society for Nutrition Foundation Announces Recipients of National Scientific Achievement Awards.
• American Society for Nutrition Foundation Announces 2020 Class of Fellows.

Featured

• Comparison of Dietary Macronutrient Patterns of 14 Popular Named Dietary Programmes for Weight and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Reduction in Adults: Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Towards Precision Medicine: Defining and Characterizing Adipose Tissue Dysfunction to Identify Early Immunometabolic Risk in Symptom-free Adults.
• Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status Associated with Metabolic Syndrome Severity Among African American Adults in Jackson Heart Study.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Vitamin D Levels May Impact COVID-19 Mortality Rates, Study Claims.
• Pre-print: Ecological Correlation of Vitamin D and COVID-19, and Calculations between US Vitamin-D:CRP Correlations with Chinese CRP:COVID-19 Correlations.
• Headline: Coronavirus: Adults Should Take Vitamin D, Researchers Say.
• Study: Ecological Correlation between Country COVID-19 Mortality and Mean 25(OH)D Concentrations.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "There is currently insufficient evidence to recommend any of the herbal medicines for weight loss included in the present review."
• "Contrary to our expectations, ‘Avoidance’ (latencies to approach and eat the novel food) did not predict boldness trait, and the factors ‘Inspecting’ (time spent inspecting food and empty buckets) and ‘Eating’ (time spent eating food and total intake) did not predict exploration trait [in calves]...."
• "Contrary to our original hypothesis, carnivorous and herbivorous copepods had similar lipid levels."
• "The present study does not suggest an effect of obesity on renal function in domestic cats."
• No Significant Difference in Influence of Attractiveness and Convenience Cues on Food Appeal in Adults with and Without ADHD.
• "Timing of bedtime appears inconsistently related to obesity in young children..."
• "Cardamom intake from 3 small studies resulted in a significant *increase* in BMI when compared with the control group." (pdf)
• "Meta-analyses for weight (n=19 studies), body mass index (BMI) (n=20 studies), and waist circumference (n=10 studies) demonstrated no significant between-group differences at ≤3 or >3 months."

Basic

• Role of GPRC6A in Regulating Hepatic Energy Metabolism in Mice.
• Thermoneutral Conditions Correct the Obese Phenotype in Female, but Not Male, Kiss1r Knockout Mice.
• Secreted Phospholipase PLA2G2D Contributes to Metabolic Health By Mobilizing ω3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in WAT.
• GPx3 Dysregulation Impacts Adipose Tissue Insulin Receptor Expression and Sensitivity.
• Misadjustment of Diurnal Expression of Core Temperature and Locomotor Activity in Lactating Rabbits Associated with Maternal Over-nutrition Before and During Pregnancy.
• Vitamin D Receptor Overexpression in β-Cells Ameliorates Diabetes in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Ten Common Statistical Errors From All Phases of Research, and Their Fixes.
• Article: Vitamin C Supplementation Reduces the Odds of Developing a Common Cold in Republic of Korea Army Recruits: Randomised Controlled Trial.
• Comment: Statistical Problems in the Vitamin C and Common Cold Trial with South Korean Army Recruits.
• Correction: Comments on “Effects of Auriculotherapy on Weight and Body Mass Index Reduction in Patients with Overweight or Obesity: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”.
• Causal Inference, Interpreting and Communicating Results on Red and Processed Meat.
• Reply to BC Johnston and GH Guyatt.
• Letter: There Is a Relationship between Obesity and COVID-19 but More Information Is Needed.

Clinical

• Human Brown Adipose Tissue: Classical Brown Rather Than Brite/beige?
• Metabolic Adaptation Is Not a Major Barrier to Weight-loss Maintenance.
• Effects of 20-year Infancy-onset Dietary Counselling on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: 6-year Post-intervention Follow-up.

Children and Adolescents

• Bedtime, BMI and Obesity Risk in Preschool-Aged Children.
• Effective Strategies for Childhood Obesity Prevention Via School Based, Family Involved Interventions: A Critical Review for the Development of the Feel4Diabetes-Study School Based Component.
• Childhood Overweight and Obesity and Timing of Puberty in Boys and Girls: Cohort and Sibling-matched Analyses.
• Accelerated Weight Gain, Prematurity, and the Risk of Childhood Obesity: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review.
• Perspective: Childhood Obesity Requires New Strategies for Prevention.
• Caregiver Influences on Eating Behaviors in Young Children: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

Surgery

• Weight and Waiting for Adolescent’s Bariatric Surgery: Changes in Weight During Waiting Periods for Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents.
• COVID-19 and Obesity—the Management of Pre- and Post-bariatric Patients Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic. (pdf)
• Effect of RYGB on Oxidative Stress in Adults: A 6-Year Follow-up Study.

Drugs

• Should the Same Safety Scrutiny of Antiobesity Medications Be Applied to Other Chronic Usage Drugs?
• Obesity: Pharmacotherapy.
• The Fight Against Obesity Escalates: New Drugs on the Horizon and Metabolic Implications.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effects of Pre-sleep Consumption of Casein Protein on Next-morning Measures of Resting Metabolic Rate and Appetite Compared between Sedentary Pre- and Postmenopausal Women.
• RCT: Afternoon Distraction: A High-saturated-fat Meal and Endotoxemia Impact Postmeal Attention.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Metabolic Health Outcomes Following Nine Months of Mild Caloric Restriction in Male Rats Adhering to a Western or Vegan Diet.
• Gut Microbiota Mediates Intermittent-fasting Alleviation of Diabetes-induced Cognitive Impairment.
• Ramadan Fasting During Covid-19 Pandemic.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Comparison of Device-based Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in a Cohort From Sweden and Australia: A Harmonised, Exploratory Study.
• RCT: Effect of Exercise on Knee Joint Contact Forces in People Following Medial Partial Meniscectomy.
• Exercise and Muscle Lipid Content, Composition, and Localization: Influence on Muscle Insulin Sensitivity.

Economics & Sociology

• Grandparents’ Wealth and the BMI Trajectories of Grandchildren.
• Obesity and Religious Composition: Understanding Obesity Rates in Major US Cities. (pdf)

Epidemiology

• Lipophilic Environmental Chemical Mixtures Released During Weight-Loss: The Need to Consider Dynamics.
• Regional Patterns and Association between Obesity and Hypertension in Africa.
• Adverse Childhood Experiences and Obesity Among Young Children with Neurodevelopmental Delays.
• Association of Osteosarcopenic Obesity and Its Components: Osteoporosis, Sarcopenia and Obesity with Insulin Resistance.
• Use of Genetic Variation to Separate the Effects of Early and Later Life Adiposity on Disease Risk: Mendelian Randomisation Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Food Cue Recruits Increased Reward Processing and Decreased Inhibitory Control Processing in the Obese/overweight: An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-analysis of FMRI Studies.
• Obesity Increases the Risk of Depression in Children and Adolescents: Results From a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Equity and Disparities

• Pandemic Disparities in Obesity, Health, and Care.
• A Call to Action-The Need to Address Obesity in the Black Community.
• Use of Small-Area Estimates to Describe County-Level Geographic Variation in Prevalence of Extreme Obesity Among US Adults.
• Snacking, Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption and Child Obesity in Low-income Households.

Stigma

• Examining the Contribution of Weight-bias Internalization to the Associations between Weight Suppression and Disordered Eating in Undergraduates.
• An Accidental Infographic on Bias and Stereotyping.
• Book Chapter: Body Image and Body Dissatisfaction.
• Experiences of Weight Stigma and Links with Self-compassion Among a Population-based Sample of Young Adults From Diverse Ethnic/racial and Socio-economic Backgrounds.

Policy Related

• Psychological Perspectives on Obesity: Policy, Practice and Research Priorities.
• Association of Multisetting Community Programs and Policies with Child BMI: The Healthy Communities Study.

Intergenerational Effects

• Newborn Body Composition After Maternal Bariatric Surgery.
• Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Is Associated with Age-Specific Alterations in Markers of Adiposity in Offspring: A Narrative Review.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Some Comb Jellies Cannibalize Their Young When Food Is Scarce.
• Scientists Waited Two and a Half Years to See Whether Bacteria Can Eat Rock.
• The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Mediating Standard Metabolic Rate After Dietary Shifts in the Viviparous Cockroach, Diploptera Punctata.
• Body Temperature Stability Observed in the Whale Sharks, the World's Largest Fish.
• Sex-specific Alterations in Whole Body Energetics and Voluntary Activity in Heterozygous R163C Malignant Hyperthermia- Susceptible Mice (pdf).

Methods

• A Primer on COVID-19 Mathematical Models.
• Assessment of Body Composition in Pediatric Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review of the Reliability and Validity of Common Techniques.
• Comparison of Discriminability of Common Food Acceptance Scales for the Elderly.

Commentary

• Perspective: Childhood Obesity Requires New Strategies for Prevention.
• Semaglutide Hits a Milestone in NASH.
• Fighting Fat Discrimination, but Still Wanting to Lose Weight.
• The Obesity Puzzle.
• How to Talk to a Loved One About Their Weight and Its Links to Severe Coronavirus.
• Looking for a Keto Veto in a 4-Week Study.
• Obesity Could Shift Severe COVID-19 Disease to Younger Ages.
• Permission to Lose, Gain, or Maintain Weight.

General

• European Association for the Study of Obesity Position Statement on the Global COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing.
• Too Many States are Flying Blind Into Reopening. Not Indiana.
• Preprint: OpenSAFELY: Factors Associated with COVID-19-related Hospital Death in the Linked Electronic Health Records of 17 Million Adult NHS Patients. (pdf)
• Scorpions, Scorpionism, Life History Strategies and Parthenogenesis.
• Paternal Provisioning Results From Ecological Change. (pdf)
• Do Peer Reviewers Prefer Significant Results?
• Genetic Evidence of Widespread Variation in Ethanol Metabolism Among Mammals: Revisiting the ‘Myth' of Natural Intoxication.

Video & Audio

• Video: Three Characters of the Appetite System.
• Nutritional Management of COVID-19 Patients.

Announcements

• Innovations in the Food System: Shaping the Future of Food - a Workshop.
• Registration Open: Nutrition 2020 Live Online (free!).
• Meeting: Causes of Obesity: Theories, Conjectures and Evidence.

Featured

• Caloric Compensation and Appetite Control in Children of Different Weight Status and Predisposition to Obesity.
• Organisms Live at Far-from-equilibrium with Their Surroundings While Maintaining Homeostasis, Importing Exergy and Exporting Entropy.
• Why Does Caloric Restriction Increase Life and Healthspan? The ‘Clean Cupboards’ Hypothesis.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Coffee Helps Prevent Weight Gain During Quarantine.
• Press release (Dec. 19th): Caffeine May Offset Some Health Risks of Diets High in Fat, Sugar.
• Study (again): Caffeine, but Not Other Phytochemicals, in Mate Tea Attenuates Diet-driven Lipogenesis and Body Fat Accumulation... In Rats. Caffeine From Coffee (not Coffee Itself) Tested.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "...average area of green space was not associated with ...BMI."
• Baseline Metabolic Variables Do Not Predict Weight Regain in Premenopausal Women.
• "Unexpectedly, however, there was a striking absence of attentional bias to food above and beyond salient non-food stimuli, either within-subjects or in relation to traits implicated in food-biases."
• "Surprisingly, treating obese and diabetic rats with Mito-Q did not improve glucose utilization or vascular reactivity by epineurial arterioles to acetylcholine."
• "These findings challenge the hypothetical function of MG53 as a causative factor for the development of diabetes."
• Meta-analysis: No Association between Dietary Acrylamide and Renal Cell Carcinoma. 
• "We found no clinically important increase in pain scores or opioid consumption in association with higher BMI in patients 8 to 18 years of age recovering from elective non-cardiac surgery."
• "Higher body mass does not worsen functioning, mood or treatment response in adolescents with disabling chronic pain."
• "Contrary to what expected, obesity in adults was related to disruptions in small-world properties driven by increases in network segregation (i.e., clustering coefficient) as compared to elders."

Basic

• Weight Loss and Concomitant Adipose Autophagy in Methionine-Restricted Obese Mice Is Not Dependent on Adiponectin or FGF21.
• Thermo-TRPs and Gut Microbiota are Involved in Thermogenesis and Energy Metabolism During Low Temperature Exposure of Obese Mice.
• Genetic Background and Diet Affect Brown Adipose Gene Co-Expression Networks Associated with Metabolic Phenotypes.
• Angiotensin-(1-7) Induces Beige Fat Thermogenesis Through the Mas Receptor.
• BMPR2 Promotes Fatty Acid Oxidation and Protects White Adipocytes From Cell Death in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Imagination Running Wild in Research.
• Preprint: Magnitude Based Inference in Relation to One-sided Hypotheses Testing Procedures.
• Article: Intermittent Energy Restriction Is a Feasible, Effective, and Acceptable Intervention to Treat Adolescents with Obesity.
• Letter: Response to “Intermittent Energy Restriction Is a Feasible, Effective, and Acceptable Intervention to Treat Adolescents with Obesity” By H Jebeile Et Al.
• Response: Reply to C Vanderwall and AL Carrel.
• Article: The Effect of L-carnitine Supplementation on Lipid Profile and Glycaemic Control in Adults with Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Letter: Meta-analysis of L-carnitine Supplementation on Lipid Profile and Glycemic Control: Inadequate Search Strategy and Other Methodological Issues.
• Response: Reply - Letter to the Editor - Meta-analysis of L-carnitine Supplementation on Lipid Profile and Glycemic Control: Inadequate Search Strategy and Other Methodological Issues.
• Errors in Meta-Analysis Should Be Corrected: Comment on “Effects of a Paleolithic Diet on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials”.
• Testing the Carbohydrate Insulin Model in Mice: Erroneous Critique Does Not Alter Previous Conclusion.

Clinical

• RCT: Increased Weight Loading Reduces Body Weight and Body Fat in Subjects with Obesity. (pdf)
• Pilot Trial of Acceptance-Based Behavioral Weight Loss and Neurocognition Among American Indians.
• RCT: Effect of Lifestyle Intervention Enabled By Mobile Technology on Weight Loss in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• RCT: Effect of Blueberry Consumption on Cardiometabolic Health Parameters in Men with Type 2 Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• The Association between Father Involvement in Caregiving and Early Childhood Overweight or Obesity.
• Adolescent Obesity and Early-Onset Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association of Video Game Use with BMI and Other Energy-Balance Behaviors in Children.
• Systematic Review: Active Video Games on Youth's Body Composition and Physical Activity.
• Systematic Review: Assessment of Body Composition in Pediatric Overweight and Obesity.

Surgery

• High Prevalence of Food Insecurity in Participants Attending Weight Management and Bariatric Surgery Programs.
• Plasma N-Acetylaspartate Is Related to Age, Obesity, and Glucose Metabolism: Effects of Antidiabetic Treatment and Bariatric Surgery.
• Preoperative Chemerin Level Is Predictive of Inflammatory Status 1 Year After Bariatric Surgery.
• Review: Do Bariatric Surgeries Enhance Brown/Beige Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis?

Drugs

• Recent Updates on Obesity Treatments: Available Drugs and Future Directions.
• Status on the Use of Anti-hypertensive Drugs in the Southwest Areas of China.
• Glucose and Lipid Metabolism Screening Models of Hepatocyte Spheroids After Culture with Injectable Fiber Fragments.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Exposure Therapy vs Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Food Cue Reactivity and Binge Eating in Obesity.
• Caloric Restriction Induces Anabolic Resistance to Resistance Exercise.
• Ultra-processed Food Consumption and Indicators of Obesity in the United Kingdom Population (2008-2016).
• The Power of Protein.
• Preprint RCT: A Plant-based, Low-fat Diet Decreases Ad Libitum Energy Intake Compared to an Animal-based, Ketogenic Diet.
• How COVID-19 Affects Farmers and the Food Supply Chain.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Mechanisms of Lifespan Regulation By Calorie Restriction and Intermittent Fasting in Model Organisms.
• Weight Loss and Concomitant Adipose Autophagy in Methionine-Restricted Obese Mice Is Not Dependent on Adiponectin or FGF21.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Do Multi-ingredient Protein Supplements Augment Resistance Training-induced Gains in Skeletal Muscle Mass and Strength?
• Meta-analysis: Physically Active Individuals Have a 23% Lower Risk of Any Colorectal Neoplasia and a 27% Lower Risk of Advanced Colorectal Neoplasia Than Their Non-active Counterparts.
• Hourly 4-s Sprints Prevent Impairment of Postprandial Fat Metabolism From Inactivity.

Economics & Sociology

• Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status Associated with Metabolic Syndrome Severity Among African American Adults.
• Better Dietary Knowledge and Socioeconomic Status (SES), Better BMI? Evidence From China—An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach.
• We Built This City on Meat and Metrics.
• Review: The Obesity Epidemic – Nature Via Nurture.

Epidemiology

• Salivary AMY1 Copy Number Variation Modifies Age-Related Type 2 Diabetes Risk.
• Exploring Food Insecurity and Obesity in Dutch Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: A Cross-sectional Mediation Analysis.
• Prevalence and Time Trends of Overweight, Obesity and Severe Obesity in 447,925 Swedish Adults, 1995–2017.
• Brain Insulin Sensitivity Is Linked to Adiposity and Body Fat Distribution.
• Meta-analysis: Relationship between Age at Menarche and Risk of Glucose Metabolism Disorder.
• Debunking the Quarantine Weight Gain Meme.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Contribution of Executive Functions to Eating Behaviours in Obesity and Eating Disorders.
• Tackling Sabotaging Cognitive Processes to Reduce Overeating; Expectancy Violation During Food Cue Exposure.
• RCT: Multidimensional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity Using a Digital Platform.
• The Role of Weight Perceptions and Their Impact on Health and Well-being: A Multiple Mediation Model.
• Individual Differences in Biological Regulation: Predicting Vulnerability to Drug Addiction, Obesity, and Other Dysregulatory Disorders.
• Behavior-Specific Cognitions Moderate Rural Women's Responsiveness to Web-Based Interventions for Weight Loss.

Equity and Disparities

• Planning a Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Obesity Intervention for Hispanic/Latino Children Living in Rural Nebraska.
• Zooming Towards a Telehealth Solution for Vulnerable Children with Obesity During COVID-19.
• Obesity in African-Americans: Is Physiology to Blame?

Stigma

• Thesis: Shame and Stigma in Weight Management During Pregnancy and Post Bariatric Surgery : Perspectives of Patients and Healthcare Providers.
• Weight Stigma in the School Setting: The Role of Inclusive Weight Climate—A Commentary.

Policy Related

• Effects of United States WIC Infant Formula Contracts on Brand Sales of Infant Formula and Toddler Milks.
• Prevalence of Current School-level Nutrition Policies and Practices of Secondary Schools in NSW, Australia.
• Strong Support for Broad Policies to Prevent Childhood Obesity Among Mothers in New South Wales, Australia.
• Oakland's Sugar-sweetened Beverage Tax: Impacts on Prices, Purchases and Consumption By Adults and Children.
• Distributional Changes in U.S. Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Purchases, 2002–2014.
• Always the Bridesmaid, Public Health Rarely Spotlighted Until It’s Too Late.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Burden of Placental Histopathology in Stillbirths Associated with Maternal Obesity.
• Association between Maternal Obesity Class, Adherence to Labor Guidelines and Perinatal Outcomes.
• Nonnutritive Sweetener Consumption During Pregnancy, Adiposity, and Adipocyte Differentiation in Offspring: Evidence From Humans, Mice, and Cells.
• Mothers’ Feeding Profiles Among Overweight, Normal Weight and Underweight Chinese Preschoolers.
• Review: Nutrition And its Role In epigenetic Inheritance of obesity and diabetes Across generations. (pdf)

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Presence of Active Brown Adipose Tissue Determines Cold-induced Energy Expenditure and Oxylipin Profiles in Humans.
• Is Repeatability of Metabolic Rate Influenced By Social Separation? A Test with a Teleost Fish.
• The Metabolic Responses to 24-h Fasting and Mild Cold Exposure in Overweight Individuals are Correlated and Accompanied By Changes in FGF21 Concentration.

Methods

• How Useful Is Each Item in the Sport Spectator Identification Scale?: An Item Response Theory Analysis.
• G-computation, Propensity Score-based Methods, and Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Causal Inference with Different Covariates Sets: A Comparative Simulation Study.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Mathematical Modelling of Diabetes Mellitus and Associated Risk Factors in Saudi Arabia. (pdf)
• A Mathematical Model of Adiponectin Resistance.

Commentary

• Coconut Oil’s Health Halo a Mirage, Clinical Trials Suggest.
• Finding an Old Normal in the Midst of Great Losses.
• Diet and Health: The Need for New and Reliable Approaches.
• Systematic Review: Communication of Children’s Weight Status: What Is Effective and What are the Children’s and Parents’ Experiences and Preferences?
• Intragastric Balloon Removal During the COVID-19 Pandemic: To Postpone or Not? That Is the Question. (pdf)
• Nutrition Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-level Framework for Action.
• Discrimination, Denial, Obesity, and COVID-19.
• Miraculous Quarantine Weight Loss and Fitness Tips.
• Obesity and Impaired Metabolic Health in Patients with COVID-19.

General

• Food Waste to Biofertilizer: A Potential Game Changer of Global Circular Agricultural Economy.
• Thesis: Accommodation of Scientific Intuition Within Statistical Inference.
• Audio: The Need to Improve the Clinical Utility of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests: Either Too Narrow or Too Broad.
• Meal Chat: Promoting Mealtime Social Interaction for College Students.
• Precision Health: The Role of the Social and Behavioral Sciences in Advancing the Vision.
• More Than Just Academics: Teaching Kindness.
• Rapid Spread of Mutant Alleles in Worldwide COVID-19 Strains Revealed By Genome-wide SNP Analysis.
• Genomic Signatures After Five Generations of Intensive Selective Breeding: Runs of Homozygosity and Genetic Diversity in Representative Domestic and Wild Populations of Turbot (Scophthalmus Maximus).
• Video: COVID-19: An Update From the CDC.
• Correlation or Causation? Mathematics Can Finally Give Us an Answer.

Video & Audio

• Webinar: The United States’ Complex and Delicate Food Supply Chain on May 12.
• Webinar: A New Approach to the Study of Energy Balance and Obesity Using CalR.
• Podcast: IU's Dr. Allison Gruber and John Davis (OEO Contributor) Discuss Monitoring Running Exposure with Wearables.

Announcements

• Indiana University and the World: A Celebration of Collaboration, 1890-2018, Written By Patrick O’Meara (with Leah K. Peck).
• Indiana University ranked 15th in "universities that played a disproportionate role in molding this cadre of 21st century thought leaders and decision makers." (pdf)
• Special Delivery: IU Employee Starts Food Train to Aid Local Residents.