Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• RCT: Effect of Bimagrumab vs Placebo on Body Fat Mass Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• RCT: 14-days of Ketone Supplementation Lowers Glucose and Improves Vascular Function in Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Unsweetened Preloads and Preloads Sweetened with Caloric or Low-/No-Calorie Sweeteners on Subsequent Energy Intakes in Controlled Human Intervention Studies.
• Metformin Use Is Associated with Reduced Mortality in a Diverse Population with COVID-19 and Diabetes.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: The Childhood Obesity Crisis Started Before Covid-19. The Pandemic Has Made It Much Worse.
• Letter: Lay Article Mostly About School Lunches. Only Reference About COVID and Obesity Seemed to Be This Letter Extrapolating from Summer Obesity Trends.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to our hypothesis that low n-3 PUFA levels would create risk, we found that while higher AA was associated with greater depression severity at baseline, low AA unexpectedly predicted subsequent suicide attempts, the more so in higher-risk patients."
• "Contrary to traditional views of adolescent weight status, physical activity (i.e., school-based, individual, active transport) and nutritious consumption (i.e., fruits, vegetables, milk) were not associated with weight status, when considering social factors. These findings challenge the utility of public health approaches that target individualistic behaviours as critical risk factors in “obesity prevention” efforts in adolescence."
• "Contrary to hypotheses, results showed that neither BMI/body fat nor metabolic indices were related to suicidal ideation, nor did social act as a moderator of these associations."
• Preprint: Chronic Dietary Erythritol Exposure Elevates Fasting Plasma Erythritol Levels but Does Not Cause Weight Gain or Modify Glucose Homeostasis in Mice.
• Preprint: "Simultaneous association of grip effort with snack food items does not change preferences… and call for a replication effort of previous findings."
• Increased Calbindin D28k Expression Via Long-Term Alternate-Day Fasting Does Not Protect Against Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: A Focus on Delayed Neuronal Death, Gliosis and Immunoglobulin G Leakage in Gerbils.
• Increasing Whole-body Energetic Stress Does Not Augment Fasting-induced Changes in Human Skeletal Muscle.
• RCT: A Comprehensive Self-Management Program with Diet Education Does Not Alter Microbiome Characteristics in Women with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Basic

• Meta-Analysis: Gene Expression Patterns in Down Syndrome Highlights Significant Alterations in Mitochondrial and Bioenergetic Pathways.
• Mast Cells Promote Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Phenotypes and Microvesicular Steatosis in Mice Fed Western Diet.
• Ginger (Zingiber Officinale) Attenuates Obesity and Adipose Tissue Remodeling in High-Fat Diet-Fed C57BL/6 Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Application of Modeling and Simulation to Public Health: Assessing the Quality of Agent-Based Models for Obesity.
• Retraction: Reliability and Validity of Using the Push Band V2.0 to Measure Repetition Velocity in Free-Weight and Smith Machine Exercises.
• Retraction: Estimating Repetitions in Reserve in Four Commonly Used Resistance Exercises.
• Exercise Science Grad Student at Australian University Dismissed After He Admitted Faking Data, Says Supervisor.

Clinical

• Systematic Review: Efficacy and Safety of Low and Very Low Carbohydrate Diets for Type 2 Diabetes Remission.
• Systematic Review: The Effect of Ketogenic Diet on Body Composition and Anthropometric Measures.

Children and Adolescents

• “Girls Aren’t Meant to Exercise”: Perceived Influences on Physical Activity Among Adolescent Girls.
• Obesogenic Home Food Availability, Diet, and BMI in Pakistani and White Toddlers.
• Changes in Community Food Environments Is Associated with Changes in Children’s Weight.

Surgery

• RCT: Effects of Lactobacillus Acidophilus NCFM and Bifidobacterium Lactis Bi-07 Supplementation on Nutritional and Metabolic Parameters in the Early Postoperative Period After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Systematic Review: The Effectiveness of Single-Anastomosis Duodenoileal Bypass with Sleeve Gastrectomy/One Anastomosis Duodenal Switch.
• How Far Can Our Expectations Go on Revisional Bariatric Surgery After Failed Adjustable Gastric Banding?

Drugs

• Durable Effects of IGlarLixi Up to 52 Weeks in Type 2 Diabetes: The LixiLan-G Extension Study.
• "Key chemical components of glabridin pertinent to its weight loss effects."

Food & Diet

• Systematic Review: Efficacy and Safety of Low and Very Low Carbohydrate Diets for Type 2 Diabetes Remission.
• Ginkgo Biloba Extract (GbE) Attenuates Obesity and Anxious/depressive-like Behaviours Induced by Ovariectomy.
• Baseline Characteristics of Older African American Adults with Obesity in a RCT to Examine the Effect of the Mediterranean Diet with and Without Weight Loss on Cognitive Functioning.
• Association between Consumption of Edible Seaweeds and Newly Diagnosed Non-alcohol Fatty Liver Disease.
• Review: The Beneficial Effects of Principal Polyphenols from Green Tea, Coffee, Wine, and Curry on Obesity.
• Probiotics Ameliorate Chronic Low-grade Inflammation and Fat Accumulation with Gut Microbiota Composition Change in Diet-induced Obese Mice Models.
• Association between Changes in Plant-Based Diet Indices and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women and Men.
• Effect of a Plant-based, Low-fat Diet Versus an Animal-based, Ketogenic Diet on Ad Libitum Energy Intake.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction in Female Reproduction: Is It Beneficial or Detrimental?
• Time-Restricted Eating Compared with Caloric Restriction: Potential Facilitators and Barriers of Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance.
• Alternate Day Fasting Combined with a Low Carbohydrate Diet: Effect on Sleep Quality, Duration, Insomnia Severity and Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults with Obesity.
• Importance of Adipose Tissue NAD+ Biology in Regulating Metabolic Flexibility.
• RCT: Effect of Time Restricted Eating on Body Weight and Fasting Glucose in Participants with Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Active Commuting to School Among 36,781 Spanish Children and Adolescents: A Temporal Trend Study.
• The Impact of Physical Activity on the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence and Lessons Learned from the Diabetes Prevention Program, a Long-Standing Clinical Trial Incorporating Subjective and Objective Activity Measures.
• Associations of Exercise Frequency and Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety.

Economics & Sociology

• Relative Contributions of Health Behaviours Versus Social Factors on Perceived and Objective Weight Status in Canadian Adolescents.
• Citizenship Status and Prevalence of Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Hypertension and Diabetes Among Adults in the U.S.

Epidemiology

• Relation of Body Fat Mass and Fat-free Mass to Total Mortality: Results from 7 Prospective Cohort Studies.
• BMI Changes Associated with Smoking are Moderated by Race and Depression.
• The Joint Effects of Obesity and Pregestational Diabetes on the Risk of Stillbirth.
• India's Rural Transformation and Rising Obesity Burden.
• Central Airway Collapse Is Related to Obesity Independent of Asthma Phenotype.
• A Vegetarian Diet Is Associated with a Lower Risk of Cataract, Particularly Among Individuals with Overweight.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Review: Mechanisms Underlying the Cognitive and Behavioural Effects of Maternal Obesity.
• Dietary Lutein Plus Zeaxanthin and Choline Intake Is Interactively Associated with Cognitive Flexibility in Middle-adulthood in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic Review: Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Obesity and Biological, Behavioral, and Sociocultural Influences in the United States.
• Telomere Length as a Biomarker for Race-Related Health Disparities.
• Does Sex–Obesity Intersectionality Play a Role in Labor Inactivity? Results from the Brazilian National Health Survey.
• Eat Healthy, Be Active Community Workshops Implemented with Rural Hispanic Women.

Stigma

• Diabetes and Weight Stigma in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• "People affected by obesity characterized other people with obesity more positively (e.g. attractive or active), whereas people without obesity linked negative characteristics with obesity."

Policy Related

• Estimating the Potential Impact of Australia’s Reformulation Programme on Households’ Sodium Purchases.
• Mandatory Calorie Labelling in the Out-of-home Food Sector: An Obesity Policy with Multiple Mechanisms of Action.
• Independent and Combined Associations between Fast-food Outlet Exposure and Genetic Risk for Obesity: A Population-based, Cross-sectional Study in the UK.
• The Importance of Food Systems and the Environment for Nutrition.
• Social Determinants of Dietary Patterns, Food Basket Costs and Expenditure on Alcohol and Tobacco Amongst Greenland Inuit.

Intergenerational Effects

• Total Carotenoid Intake Is Associated with Reduced Loss of Grip Strength and Gait Speed over Time in Adults: The Framingham Offspring Study.
• Association between Long-term Carbohydrate Intake and Gut Microbiota in Young Adulthood.
• "Maternal dietary intake of nitrate or nitrite during pregnancy is not associated with the risk of islet autoimmunity or type 1 diabetes in the offspring genetically at risk for type 1 diabetes."
• Maternal Obesity Causes Fetal Hypothalamic Insulin Resistance and Disrupts Development of Hypothalamic Feeding Pathways.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Dissertation: Metabolic Rate in Drosophila: Sexual Dimorphism, Natural Selection, and Genetic Covariances with Mass and Locomotor Activity.
• Effects of Variable Oxygen Regimes on Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Reactive Oxygen Species Production in a Marine Bivalve Mya Arenaria.

Methods

• Essential Ingredients and Innovations in the Design and Analysis of Group-Randomized Trials.
• Food Folio by Columbia Center for Eating Disorders: A Freely Available Food Image Database.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Mathematical Model of Chronic Dermal Wounds in Diabetes and Obesity.
• Oral Minimal Model-based Estimates of Insulin Sensitivity in Youth with Obesity Depend on Oral Glucose Tolerance Test Protocol Duration.

Commentary

• (Re)claiming Our Bodies Using a Two-Eyed Seeing Approach: Health-At-Every-Size (HAES®) and Indigenous Knowledge.
• I Recommend Eating Chips.
• Do I Really Need 8 Glasses of Water a Day?
• More Diabetes Remission in T2DM Seen with Low-Carb Diets for Six Months.
• The Power of Educators in Weight Bias.
• Podcast: Why Do Some People Find It Harder Than Others to Lose Weight?
• Study of 50,000 People Finds Brown Fat May Protect Against Numerous Chronic Diseases.
• Is Keto Really Better for Weight Loss? A New Study Takes a Closer Look at the Diet.

General

• Effects of Acetaminophen on Risk Taking.
• Applicability of a Salient Belief Elicitation to Measure Abortion Beliefs.
• Association between Prediagnosis Depression and Mortality Among Postmenopausal Women with Colorectal Cancer.
• Coronavirus: Research, Commentary, and News.
• Biometric Data as Real-Time Measure of Physiological Reactions to Environmental Stimuli in the Built Environment.
• Adapting the RCT for Precision Medicine: Introducing the Nested-precision RCT (npRCT).
• RCT: Effects of ACT Out! Social Issue Theater on Social-Emotional Competence and Bullying in Youth and Adolescents.
• Dissertation: Exercise Is Neuroprotective to Motoneuron Dendrites Following Partial Motoneuron Depletion Via a Mechanism Dependent on Androgen Receptors at the Target Muscle.

Announcements

• FASEB Webinar: January 28: Supporting the Whole Scientist: Careers Beyond Academia.
• Gary Taubes’ Case for the Keto Diet: A Book Review.
• IU School of Public Health Professor Wins International Achievement Award.
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• School of Public Health-Bloomington to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.

Featured

• Meta-Analysis: "Findings... suggest that prior bariatric surgery is associated with a lower rate of mortality and hospital admission in patients with obesity who become infected with SARS-CoV-2."
• An Integrated Mathematical Model of the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Response to Exercise.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: This Breakfast Mistake Is Making You Gain Weight, New Study Says.
• Study: Yet Another Study Associating Self-Reported Breakfast Habits and Self-Reported Weight.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Acute Supplementation with Grapes in Subjects with Obesity Did Not Affect Postprandial Metabolism.
• RCT: No Differential Effect of Fasting-Mimicking Diet or Continuous Energy Restriction on Weight Loss Among Metabolically Healthy Women with Obesity.
• RCT: No Differential Effect of a Nut-Enriched vs Nut-Free Low-Calorie Diet on Body Weight and Most Selected Markers of Inflammation in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: "Protein intake above the recommended dietary allowance decreased VAT in functionally-limited older men but did not improve cardiovascular disease risk markers."
• RCT: No Effect of Salmon Fish Protein on 2h-Glucose in Adults with Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Meta-Analysis: "Prenatal lifestyle interventions were not shown to influence childhood weight or growth."
• "...differences in the treatment of patients undergoing mastectomy do not seem to be affected by an implicit bias against obese patients."
• " On the contrary, we found limited evidence in support of a causal effect of 25(OH)D on anthropometric traits, obesity, cognitive function, sleep behavior, breast and prostate cancer, and autoimmune, cardiovascular, metabolic, neurological and psychiatric traits and diseases, and blood biomarkers."

Basic

• Involvement of Prostacyclin Synthase in High-Fat-Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Helix-Loop-Helix Factor Id3 (Inhibitor of Differentiation 3): A Novel Regulator of Hyaluronan-Mediated Adipose Tissue Inflammation.
• Plasticity of Epididymal Adipose Tissue in Response to Diet-Induced Obesity at Single-Nucleus Resolution.
• Single-Cell Transcriptional Profiling of Mouse Islets Following Short-Term Obesogenic Dietary Intervention.
• Tregs Facilitate Obesity and Insulin Resistance Via a Blimp-1-IL-10 Axis.
• Protective Effects of Polyphenol Enriched Complex Plants Extract on Metabolic Dysfunctions Associated with Obesity and Related Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases in High Fat Diet-Induced C57BL/6 Mice.
• Stimulatory, but Not Anxiogenic, Doses of Caffeine Act Centrally to Activate Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis in Anesthetized Male Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "In the author’s opinion, an overall error rate of 40% across the three years for Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport is simply too high."
• Mendacity: The Tendency to Lie or Deceive. A Cautionary Tale in Obesity Research, Stigma, and Headlining.
• Retraction Note: Dishonesty Is More Affected by BMI Status Than by Short-Term Changes in Glucose.
• Response to Retraction of Dishonesty Is More Affected by BMI Status Than by Short-Term Changes in Glucose.
• "In short, this paper promoted weight bias with flawed science, raising serious ethical issues."
• ‘Deeply Unfair’: First Author of Newly Retracted Paper on Weight and Honesty Speaks Out.

Clinical

• "The number of interventions assessing the combined effects of both diet and exercise is low. Future studies should evaluate the impact of combined effects to ascertain whether cognitive decline may be reversed in older adults with a BMI ≥25 kg/m2."
• Diabesity Negatively Affects Transferrin Saturation and Iron Status.

Children and Adolescents

• "Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children and adolescents has an estimated prevalence of 36.1% in the context of obesity. "
• Childhood Obesity May Accelerate Timing of Human Facial Growth.
• Beyond Sleep Duration: Sleep Timing as a Risk Factor for Childhood Obesity.
• Eating Disorder Risk in Adolescents with Obesity.

Surgery

• Impact of Bariatric Surgery in Reducing Macrovascular Complications in T2DM Patients with Severe Obesity.
• Gastric Bypass Improves Microvascular Perfusion in Patients with Obesity.
• Comment On: Life Expectancy After Bariatric Surgery.
• A Matter of Timing—Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery.
• Thromboembolism and Fluid Collections Years Following Gastric Bypass: The Relevance of the Remnant.

Drugs

• Meta-Analysis: The Effects of Acarbose on Patients with Overweight or Obesity without Diabetes.
• Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of Anti-Obesity Treatment: Where Do We Stand?
• Use of Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by a Designer Drug Technology to Identify Novel Targets for Antidiabetic Drugs.
• Metabolic Analysis of the Illegal Analogues of Anti-Obesity Drugs.

Food & Diet

• Systematic Review: Effect of Dietary Acetic Acid Supplementation on Plasma Glucose, Lipid Profiles, and BMI in Human Adults.
• Opportunities for Plant-Derived Enhancers for Iron, Zinc, and Calcium Bioavailability.
• Postprandial Responses of Circulating Energy Homeostasis Mediators to Single Macronutrient Challenges: Influence of Obesity and Sex Hormones.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effect of Fasting-Mimicking Diet or Continuous Energy Restriction on Weight Loss, Body Composition, and Appetite-Regulating Hormones Among Metabolically Healthy Women with Obesity.
• Effects of Time-Restricted Feeding in Weight Loss, Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Risk in Women with Obesity.
• Food Liking but Not Wanting Decreases After Controlled Intermittent or Continuous Energy Restriction to ≥5% Weight Loss in Women with Overweight/Obesity.
• Carbohydrate Restriction for Diabetes: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Wisdom.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effects of a 10-Week Active Recess Program in School Setting on Physical Fitness, School Aptitudes, Creativity and Cognitive Flexibility in Elementary School Children.
• "...results suggest that exercise volumes lower than those currently recommended for weight loss maintenance, when completed in conjunction with a behavioral weight-maintenance intervention, may minimize weight regain over 12 months"
• Exercise During the First Trimester of Pregnancy and the Risks of Abnormal Screening and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

Economics & Sociology

• "A lower rate of time preference and lower stress levels may be mechanisms which help to explain the association between good financial health and obesity."
• Impact of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a French Urban Population.
• "High BMI, but not diabetes, shows a causal link with socioeconomic outcomes."
• Assessing the Importance of Relative Body Weight in Shaping Life Satisfaction: Evidence from 1 Million Americans.

Epidemiology

• Food Insecurity Among Older Adults: 10-Year National Trends and Associations with Diet Quality.
• "Proximity to food establishments does not seem to significantly affect BMI, excess weight and obesity in the studied population."

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Neural Correlates of Attentional Bias to Food Stimuli in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Severe Obesity Restores Circadian Rhythms and Their Relationship with Sleep Pattern.

Equity and Disparities

• Race and the Healthy Immigrant Effect.
• Racial Inequality, Racial Discrimination and Obesity Incidence in Adults.
• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among African American Children and Adolescents: Risk Factors, Health Outcomes, and Prevention/Intervention Strategies.
• An Exploration of the Role of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage in Promoting Obesity and Health Disparities.
• The Healthy Brain and Child Development Study—Shedding Light on Opioid Exposure, COVID-19, and Health Disparities.

Stigma

• Stigmatizing Effects of Weight Status on Lay Perceptions of Eating Disorder-Related Distress.
• The Role of Weight Bias and Role-Modeling in Medical Students’ Patient-Centered Communication with Higher Weight Standardized Patients.
• Resisting the Problematisation of Fatness in COVID-19: In Pursuit of Health Justice.
• Body Image Disturbances and Weight Bias After Obesity Surgery: Semantic and Visual Evaluation.
• Understanding Stigma and Food Inequity: A Conceptual Framework to Inform Research, Intervention, and Policy.
• Chapter: Dealing with Obesity - Patient Perspective.

Policy Related

• What a Weight Loss Programme Should Contain If People with Obesity Were Asked.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes: Lessons to Date and the Future of Taxation.
• Did State-Mandated Restrictions on Sugar-sweetened Drinks in California High Schools Increase Soda Purchases in School Neighborhoods?
• Molecular Differences Based on Erythrocyte Fatty Acid Profile to Personalize Dietary Strategies between Adults and Children with Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-Analysis: Associations between Lifestyle Interventions During Pregnancy and Childhood Weight and Growth.
• Reducing Intergenerational Obesity and Diabetes Risk.
• Lifestyle Intervention in Pregnant Women with Obesity Impacts Cord Blood DNA Methylation Which Associates with Body Composition in the Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Why Do Sea Turtles Swim Slowly? A Metabolic and Mechanical Approach.
• Increasing Whole-Body Energetic Stress Does Not Augment Fasting-Induced Changes in Human Skeletal Muscle.

Methods

• The Four Domain Food Insecurity Scale: Development and Evaluation of a Complementary Food Insecurity Measure.
• "...video-supported assessment may increase the accuracy of self-reported MVPA among individuals who slightly underestimated and those who overestimated their MVPA."
• A Comparison of Methods Used to Determine Percent Body Fat, Minimum Wrestling Weight, and Lowest Allowable Weight Class.
• Evaluation of Pragmatic Methods to Rapidly Assess Habitual Beverage Intake and Hydration Status in U.S. Collegiate Athletes.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Linking the Endocannabinoidome with Specific Metabolic Parameters in an Overweight and Insulin-Resistant Population: from Multivariate Exploratory Analysis to Univariate Analysis and Construction of Predictive Models.
• Early Prediction of Diabetic Type 2 Based on Fuzzy Technique.

Commentary

• Resolution Season: Good, Bad, and Ugly.
• Is It Time for Sports and Health in the Era of Covid-19 Pandemic?
• Single Anastomosis Duodenal-Ileal Bypass with Sleeve Gastrectomy/One Anastomosis Duodenal Switch (SADI-S/OADS) IFSO Position Statement-Update 2020.
• What Can Longitudinal Observational Studies of Physical Activity Teach Us About Prevention of Dementia?
• Recommendations for Determining the Validity of Consumer Wearable Heart Rate Devices.
• Managing Patients with Obesity in the Post COVID-19 World: Time to Sharpen the Saw.
• Study Suggests Legislation to Tamp Down on Obesity, Improve Military Recruiting.
• Reflections on the Past Three Decades of High-Altitude Exercise Research and the Autonomic Nervous System.

General

• Sex Differences in Adult Lifespan and Aging Rates of Mortality Across Wild Mammals.
• Predicted Impact of Increasing Average Ambient Temperature over the Coming Century on Mortality from Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in the USA.
• Academic Productivity Differences by Gender and Child Age in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine Faculty During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Medical Foods: Science, Regulation, and Practical Aspects. Summary of a Workshop.
• Obesity and COVID-19: What Makes Hosts with Obesity So Vulnerable?
• Evaluating the Constraints Governing Activity Patterns of a Coastal Marine Top Predator.
• Video: The Experiences of Postdoctoral Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Podcast: John Ioannidis, M.D., D.Sc.: Why Most Biomedical Research Is Flawed, and How to Improve It.

Announcements

• IU-Bloomington School of Public Health Distinguished Colloquium Series Presents: Dean Deborah Prothrow-Stith - “Violence Prevention: Guns, Police, Public Health, and Healthcare” (January 27th).
• Invitation for American Society for Nutrition Foundation Awards Nominations/ Applications.
• Webinar: Dietary Guidelines for Americans (January 22nd).
• Webinar: Turning Chutes into Ladders for Women Faculty: A Roadmap to Equity in Academia (NCFDD Membership (which is free) Required).
• Webinar: Lessons Learned from Working with Patients with Obesity During COVID-19 (January 21st).
• Webinar: AI Next Generation Food Systems Seminar Series (January 27th).
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• School of Public Health-Bloomington to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.

Featured

• Deletion of SREBF1, a Functional Bone-Muscle Pleiotropic Gene, Alters Bone Density and Lipid Signaling in Zebrafish.
• Fitness Trends from around the Globe.
• Mechanisms by Which Adiponectin Reverses High Fat Diet-induced Insulin Resistance in Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Study Reveals COVID-19 Pandemic Fueling Pet Obesity.
• Press-release: No Formal Study Report Found. Survey of Pet Owner and Veterinarian Perception of Eating Behavior and Pet Obesity Patterns. No Pet Obesity Reported.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "neither mindful nor slow eating strategies significantly decreased acute EI or satiety..."
• "Nearby restaurant count was not associated with children's diet quality or anthropometrics."
• Appetite Control Might Not Be Improved After Weight Loss in Adolescents with Obesity, Despite Non-Persistent Metabolic Syndrome.
• "This study using interrupted time series analysis found no net change in volume sold of taxed beverages following the implementation and repeal of the Cook County SBT, suggesting the tax had no signaling association."
• RCT: Eucaloric Diets Enriched in Palm Olein, Cocoa Butter, and Soybean Oil Did Not Differentially Affect Liver Fat Concentration in Healthy Participants.
• Food Security Status Is Not Associated with Increased Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Adults.
• Food craving "...appears to be of clinical relevance in individuals with BD. Contrary to previous data, this does not seem to be a female phenomenon only and might encompass more than the specific craving for carbohydrates."
• No Significant Effect on BMI Z-score of a Blended In-Person and Online Family-Based Childhood Obesity Management Program.
• No Effect of Dietary Fish Oil Supplementation on the Recruitment of Brown and Brite Adipocytes in Mice or Humans Under Thermoneutral Conditions.

Basic

• Machine Learning Prediction of Crossbred Pig Feed Efficiency and Growth Rate from Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms.
• KLF10 Deficiency in CD4+ T Cells Triggers Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Fatty Liver.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Diet Restriction Inhibits Apoptosis and HMGB1 Oxidation and Promotes Inflammatory Cell Recruitment During Acetaminophen Hepatotoxicity.
• Retraction: Retraction Notice to “Placental Serotonin Systems in Pregnancy Metabolic Complications Associated with Maternal Obesity and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.” [Biochim. Biophys. Acta (BBA) - Mol. Basis Dis. 1866 (2020) 65391].

Clinical

• BMI and Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Among US Veterans.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effect of Replacing Sitting with Standing on Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
• RCT: Effect of an Enriched Protein Drink on Muscle Mass and Glycemic Control During Combined Lifestyle Intervention in Older Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Pathophysiology-based Subphenotyping of Individuals at Elevated Risk for Type 2 Diabetes.
• Prevention or Delay of Type 2 Diabetes: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2021.

Children and Adolescents

• Family Characteristics, Perceived Environment for Physical Activity, and Childhood Obesity: An Approach with Structural Equation Models.
• Collecting Early Childhood Obesity Measurements Through a Home Visiting Program: A Proof-of-Concept Study.
• RCT: Improving Toddlers' Healthy Eating Habits and Self-regulation.
• BMI in the Lower and Upper Quartiles at Diagnosis and at 1-year Follow-up Is Significantly Associated with Higher Risk of Disease Exacerbation in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
• A Hybrid Intervention Combining Group-Based Physical Activity and an Individual Goal-Oriented Approach for Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Pre-Post Intervention Study.
• Systematic Review: The Impact of Childhood Obesity on Human Capital in High-income Countries.

Surgery

• Atherosclerotic Disease Burden After Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Role of Gastrointestinal Hormones as a Predictive Factor for Long-Term Diabetes Remission: Comparing Metabolic Gastric Bypass, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Greater Curvature Plication.
• Alterations in the Serum Urate Concentrations After Bariatric Surgery: A Short-Term Prospective Observational Study.

Drugs

• 17α-Estradiol Prevents Ovariectomy-Mediated Obesity and Bone Loss.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Dulaglutide 3.0 Mg and 4.5 Mg Versus Dulaglutide 1.5 Mg in Metformin-Treated Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Pharmacological Treatment of Eating Disorders, Comorbid Mental Health Problems, Malnutrition and Physical Health Consequences.
• Therapeutic Effect of Berberine on Metabolic Diseases: Both Pharmacological Data and Clinical Evidence.
• Drugs Affecting Body Weight, Body Fat Distribution, and Metabolic Function-Mechanisms and Possible Therapeutic or Preventive Measures: An Update.
• Are New Antiretroviral Treatments Increasing the Risk of Weight Gain?

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effects of Whey Protein Plus Vitamin D Supplementation Combined with Resistance Training on Glycemic Control, Body Composition, Muscle Function and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Middle-aged and Older Adults with Overweight/Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes?
• Increased Oral Processing and a Slower Eating Rate Increase Glycaemic, Insulin and Satiety Responses to a Mixed Meal Tolerance Test.
• Low Dietary Magnesium and Overweight/Obesity in a Mediterranean Population: A Detrimental Synergy for the Development of Hypertension. The SUN Project.
• Tart Cherry (Prunus Cerasus L.) Dietary Supplement Modulates Visceral Adipose Tissue CB1 MRNA Levels Along with Other Adipogenesis-related Genes in Rat Models of Diet-induced Obesity.
• Review: Polyphenols and Their Anti-obesity Role Mediated by the Gut Microbiota.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Serum Factors Mediate the Bioenergetic Benefits of Exercise Training and Caloric Restriction.
• Review: Beyond Calorie Restriction: Aging as a Biological Target for Nutrient Therapies.
• Review: Recent Advances in the Field of Caloric Restriction Mimetics and Anti-aging Molecules.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Review: Elevated Peak Systolic Blood Pressure in Endurance-Trained Athletes: Physiology or Pathology?
• Physical Activity and Well-Being of High Ability Students and Community Samples During the COVID-19 Health Alert.
• Obesity, Eating Behavior and Physical Activity During COVID-19 Lockdown: A Study of UK Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Assortative Marriage for Height–BMI in an Israeli Sample.
• Perspective: Community-Academic Partnerships to Promote Health Literacy and Address Social Needs Among Low-Income Families During COVID-19.

Epidemiology

• Preprint: Gut Microbiome of Indonesian Adults Differently Associated with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Under Varied Dietary Habits: A Cross-sectional Study in an Asian Developing City, Yogyakarta.
• The Shared Risk of Diabetes between Dog and Cat Owners and Their Pets: Register Based Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Desire to Eat and Intake of ‘insect’ Containing Food Is Increased by a Written Passage: The Potential Role of Familiarity in the Amelioration of Novel Food Disgust.
• The Appeal of Virtual Chocolate: A Systematic Comparison of Psychological and Physiological Food Cue Responses to Virtual and Real Food.
• Obesity Impairs Performing and Learning a Timing Perception Task.
• Review: On the Role of Central Type-1 Cannabinoid Receptor Gene Regulation in Food Intake and Eating Behaviors.
• Obesity and the Risk of Multiple Sclerosis. The Role of Leptin.
• Healthy Subjects with Obesity Differ in Chronotype, Sleep Habits, and Adipose Tissue Fatty Acid Composition from Their Non-Healthy Counterparts.

Equity and Disparities

• Obesity and Eating Disorder Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.
• Willingness of Black and White Adults to Accept Vaccines in Development: An Exploratory Study Using National Survey Data.
• Relationship of Socio-economic Inequality and Overweight with Non-communicable Diseases Risk Factors: A Study on Underprivileged Population.

Stigma

• "I Feel Like Less of a Mom": Experiences of Weight Stigma by Association among Mothers of Children with Overweight and Obesity.
• Is There a Bias Against Patients with Obesity in the Treatment of Breast Cancer?
• Preoperative Body-related Emotional Distress and Culture as Predictors of Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery.

Policy Related

• Association between Nutrition Policies and Student BMI.
• Meta-Analysis: The Performance of Anthropometric Tools to Determine Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Consumption of Artificially Sweetened Beverages During Pregnancy Is Associated with Infant Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Modifications and Increased Infant BMI.
• Associations between Maternal Obesity, Gestational Cytokine Levels and Child Obesity in the NEST Cohort.
• No Sustained Effects of an Intervention to Prevent Excessive GWG on Offspring Fat and Lean Mass at 54 weeks: Yet a Greater Head Circumference Persists.
• Associations between Maternal Socioeconomic, Psychosocial and Seasonal Factors, Infant Characteristics and Human Milk Cortisol Concentrations.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Galapagos Tortoises: Diet, Behavior, and Activity Patterns.
• Effects of Temperature on Growth, Development and the Leptin Signaling Pathway of Bufo Gargarizans.

Methods

• Perspective: Measuring Sweetness in Foods, Beverages, and Diets: Toward Understanding the Role of Sweetness in Health.
• RCT: The Behavioral Intervention with Technology for E-Weight Loss Study (BITES): Incorporating Energy Balance Models and the Bite Counter into an Online Behavioral Weight Loss Program.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Impact of Restricting Sugar-Sweetened Beverages from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Children's Health.
• Reliance on Model-based and Model-free Control in Obesity.
• In Silico Study to Quantify the Effect of Exercise on Surface GLUT4 Translocation in Diabetes Management.

Commentary

• Gut Microbiota and Its Metabolic Potential. (pdf)
• Obesity Management and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.
• Why Do People with Obesity Have Higher Risk from COVID-19?
• New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake Limit.
• FDA Approves Anti-obesity Medicine for Teens.
• Is Convenient, Pleasing Food Addictive?
• Recognizing and Treating Child Overweight and Obesity. (pdf)

General

• Determinate Growth Is Predominant and Likely Ancestral in Squamate Reptiles.
• A Population-based Study of Concurrent Prescriptions of Opioid Analgesic and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Medications During Pregnancy and Risk for Adverse Birth Outcomes.
• Under-Sink Activated Carbon Water Filters Effectively Remove Lead from Private Well Water for over Six Months.
• A Science Impact Framework to Measure Impact Beyond Journal Metrics.
• Changing Educational Gradients in Life Expectancy with and Without Disease Among U.S. Older Adults from 2000 to 2010.
• In Alzheimer Research, Glucose Metabolism Moves to Center Stage.
• Commentary: 2020 Concept of the Year: Immunity.
• Make Every Bite Count: USDA, HHS Release Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025.

Announcements

• C. Ronald Kahn: The Louisville Slugger of Metabolic Science.
• Webinar: Lessons Learned from Working with Patients with Obesity During COVID-19.
• Women's Interprofessional Network of the American Diabetes Association (WIN ADA).
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• School of Public Health-Bloomington to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.

Featured

• How Long Do People Stick to a Diet Resolution? A Digital Epidemiological Estimation of Weight Loss Diet Persistence.
• Genetic Studies of Leptin Concentrations Implicate Leptin in the Regulation of Early Adiposity.
• Adenovirus 36 Infection and Daycare Starting Age are Associated with Adiposity in Children and Adolescents.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: More Sleep Can Prevent Childhood Obesity, Study Says.
• 2016 Study: Effect of Experimental Change in Children's Sleep Duration on Television Viewing and Physical Activity. No Obesity Measured.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Preprint: Uncontrolled Eating in Healthy Women Has Limited Influence on Food Reward Sensitivity and Food-Related Inhibitory Control.
• No Significant Associations between Social Jetlag and Emerging Adults’ Performance in a Behavioral Weight Loss Trial.
• "Findings suggest that the effectiveness of SSB taxes in discouraging SSB consumption may be limited in fast-food restaurants in Oakland, California..."
• RCT: "A combined and supervised physical training program, with or without load progression, was not able to promote changes in the sedentary behavior and physical activity levels of obese adults..."
• RCT: "In older, obese hypogonadal men, adding testosterone for six months to lifestyle therapy does not further improve overall physical function."
• "being overweight with a high WC was correlated with higher frequencies of vegetables and fruits intake..."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Exercise for the Prevention of Weight Regain.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Daily Raspberry Consumption on Metabolic Health in Subjects at Risk of Metabolic Syndrome.

Basic

• The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in Energy Balance: The Road from Dioxin-Induced Wasting Syndrome to Combating Obesity with Ahr Ligands.
• Does MicroRNA Perturbation Control the Mechanisms Linking Obesity and Diabetes? Implications for Cardiovascular Risk.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• A Tale of Two Retractions – It’s Complicated.
• Rapid Responses: Effect of Exercise Training for Five Years on All Cause Mortality in Older Adults—the Generation 100 Study: Randomised Controlled Trial.
• Article: Traditional Brazilian Diet and Extra Virgin Olive Oil Reduce Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Individuals with Severe Obesity: Randomized Clinical Trial.
• Letter: Inadequate Statistical Inferences in the Randomized Clinical Trial by Canheta et al.

Clinical

• A Dieting Facilitator on the Fridge Door: Can Dieters Deliberately Apply Environmental Dieting Cues to Lose Weight?
• A Weight Loss Intervention Augmented by a Wearable Device in Rural Older Adults with Obesity: A Feasibility Study.
• Impact of Sarcopenia, BMI, and Inflammatory Biomarkers on Survival in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Anti-PD-1 Antibody.
• RCT: Effect of a Culturally Adapted Behavioral Intervention for Latino Adults on Weight Loss over 2 Years.
• Glycogenosis Is Common in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Is Independently Associated with Ballooning, but Lower Steatosis and Lower Fibrosis.
• RCT: Effects of a Tailored Text Messaging Intervention Among Diverse Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• The Impact of Physical Activity on the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence and Lessons Learned from the Diabetes Prevention Program, a Long-Standing Clinical Trial Incorporating Subjective and Objective Activity Measures.
• Systematic review: Dietary Interventions for Weight Loss in Adults in the Middle East and North Africa Region.

Children and Adolescents

• Individual Physical Activity Behaviour and Group Composition as Determinants of the Effectiveness of a Childhood Obesity Intervention Program.
• Physical Activity, Screen Time, and Sleep Duration of Children Aged 6-9 Years in 25 Countries: An Analysis Within the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) 2015-2017.
• Associations between Fetal Growth Trajectories and the Development of Myopia by 20 Years of Age.
• Review: Caring for US Children: Barriers to Effective Treatment in Children with the Disease of Obesity.
• The Relation of Adiposity Rebound to Subsequent BMI in a Large Electronic Health Record Database.
• A Comparative Study of Clinical Profile and Symptom Control in Overweight and Normal Weight School-age Children with Mild Persistent Asthma.
• Obesity and Eating Disorder Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.

Surgery

• Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery in Patients with Obesity: Can the Bigger Afford the Smaller?
• Connectome-Based Prediction of Optimal Weight Loss Six Months After Bariatric Surgery.
• Psychosocial Predictors of Work Ability in Patients with Greater than Class I Obesity: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in the Context of Bariatric Surgery.
• Hepatic Steatosis Is Associated with Elevated Serum Iron in Patients with Obesity and Improves After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• The Association between Combined Oral Contraceptive Use and Overweight/obesity: A Secondary Data Analysis of the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey.
• Ketogenesis and SIRT1 as a Tool in Managing Obesity.

Food & Diet

• "A high sucrose diet improved the catabolism and liver function of cirrhotic rat."
• Snacking May Improve Dietary Fiber Density and Is Associated with a Lower BMI in Postmenopausal Women.
• Screening of Weight-Loss Herbal Products for Synthetic Anti-Obesity Adulterants: A Target-Oriented Analysis by Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry.
• Effect of Raspberry Ketone on Normal, Obese and Health-Compromised Obese Mice: A Preliminary Study.
• Impact of Ultra-processed Food Consumption on Metabolic Health.
• RCT: The Effect of Nigella Sativa on Appetite, Anthropometric and Body Composition Indices Among Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Metabolic Phenotypes in Relation to Biomarker-calibrated Estimates of Energy and Protein Intakes: An Investigation from the Women's Health Initiative.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Testing Evolutionary Explanations for the Lifespan Benefit of Dietary Restriction in Fruit Flies (Drosophila Melanogaster).
• The Effect of Caloric Restriction and Aerobic Exercise on Serum FGF-23 in Patients with Moderate to Severe CKD.
• Preprint: Caloric Restriction, Physical Exercise, and CB1 Receptor Blockade as an Efficient Combined 2 Strategy for Bodyweight Control and Cardiometabolic Status Improvement.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Do Smartphone Applications and Activity Trackers Increase Physical Activity in Adults?
• Low Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Obesity for ADHD in Childhood and Adolescence: A 6-year Cohort Study.
• High Intensity Resistance Exercise Training Vs. High Intensity (Endurance) Interval Training to Fight Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Overweight Men 30–50 Years Old.
• Systematic Review: Green Space Exposure Association with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Physical Activity, and Obesity.
• Acute Effects of Leg Heat Therapy on Walking Performance and Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Responses to Exercise in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease.

Economics & Sociology

• Thesis: The Causal Relationship between Subjective Social Status and Different Health Outcomes [including Obesity].
• Weight Status and BMI-Related Traits in Adolescent Friendship Groups and Role of Sociodemographic Factors.
• Intergenerational Social Mobility and BMI Trajectories.

Epidemiology

• The Relationship between Body-mass Index and Overall Survival in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer by Sex, Smoking Status, and Race: A Pooled Analysis of 20,937 International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO) Patients.
• Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Clinically Meaningful Weight Loss Among Adults with Overweight or Obesity: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
• Serum Levels of ACE2 are Higher in Patients with Obesity and Diabetes.
• High Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental Problems in Adolescents Eligible for Bariatric Surgery for Severe Obesity.
• Central Adiposity and Subsequent Risk of Breast Cancer by Menopause Status.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Gender Discrepancies in Perceptions of the Bodies of Female Fashion Models.
• Does Self-compassion Help to Deal with Dietary Lapses Among Adults with Overweight and Obesity Who Pursue Weight-loss Goals?
• Modulation of Neural FMRI Responses to Visual Food Cues by Overeating and Fasting Interventions: A Preliminary Study.
• Evidence of FNIRS-Based Prefrontal Cortex Hypoactivity in Obesity and Binge-Eating Disorder.
• Review: from Obesity to Hippocampal Neurodegeneration: Pathogenesis and Non-Pharmacological Interventions.
• Cyclin-dependent Kinase 4/6 Inhibitors Require an Arcuate to Paraventricular Hypothalamus Melanocortin Circuit to Treat Diet-induced Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Schools and Adolescents’ Risk of Being Overweight.
• Obesity-related Behaviors of Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Students at Non- Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Stigma

• Internalized Weight Bias, Teasing, and Self-Esteem in Children with Overweight or Obesity.
• “This Is What You’re Supposed to Do”: Weight Stigma in Dietetics Education.
• Weight and Gender Bias in Observer Perceptions of Organizational Leadership: Effects of Perceived Leader Prototypicality and Unit Performance.
• The Value of Normal Body Weight: Evidence from Iceland.
• Reception of Health Messages: Effects of Stigmatization and Forcefulness.
• Physical Education Teachers and Competing Obesity Discourses: An Examination of Emerging Professional Identities.

Policy Related

• Analyzing the Association between Student Weight Status and School Meal Participation: Evidence from the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study.
• No Evidence of Food or Alcohol Substitution in Response to a Sweetened Beverage Tax.
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025.
• Effects of Pairing Health Warning Labels with Energy-dense Snack Foods on Food Choice and Attitudes: Online Experimental Study.
• New Federal Dietary Guidelines Sidestep Science on Sugar Intake.
• Commentary: Gains and Gaps in Guidelines for Eating Circa 2020.

Intergenerational Effects

• Influence of Maternal Aerobic Exercise During Pregnancy on Fetal Cardiac Function and Outflow.
• Feeding Style Profiles are Associated with Maternal and Infant Characteristics and Infant Feeding Practices and Weight Outcomes in African American Mothers and Infants.
• Are There Birth Cohort Effects in Disparities in Child Obesity by Maternal Education?

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Gregariousness, Foraging Effort, and Affiliative Interactions in Lactating Bonobos and Chimpanzees.
• Thesis: A Top Predator in Hot Water: Effects of a Marine Heatwave on Foraging and Reproduction in the Northern Elephant Seal.
• Acclimation of Intestinal Morphology and Function in Djungarian Hamsters (Phodopus Sungorus) Related to Seasonal and Acute Energy Balance.
• Physiology and Behavior Under Food Limitation Support an Escape, Not Preparative, Response in the Nomadic Pine Siskin (Spinus Pinus).

Methods

• Dataset for the Estimation of a New Body Fat Measurement Method.
• Using Metrics of Kilograms (or Pounds) Overweight or Kilograms (or Pounds) Obese to Help Interpret and Communicate Magnitudes of Excess BMI.
• Food Processing Needs, Advantages and Misconceptions.

Commentary

• Deep Dive: Sugar and Sugar Substitutes.
• Our All Too Human Gullibility.
• Present and Future of Digital Health in Diabetes and Metabolic Disease.
• Benchmarking as a Public Health Strategy for Creating Healthy Food Environments: An Evaluation of the INFORMAS Initiative (2012–2020).
• Placental Impact of Dietary Supplements: More Than Micronutrients.
• Physical Exercise and Atrial Fibrillation in Athletes and Heart Failure Patients: Is It Favorable or Harmful?
• Soda Taxes: Feel Great, Less Fulfilling.
• Perspective: Characterization of Dietary Supplements Containing Calcium and Magnesium and Their Respective Ratio—Is a Rising Ratio a Cause for Concern?

General

• Harvard Data Science Review Explores Reproducibility and Replicability in Science.
• Reporting of Methodological Studies in Health Research: A Protocol for the Development of the Methodological Study Reporting Checklist (MISTIC).
• Influence of Zinc on the Acute Changes in Erythropoietin and Proinflammatory Cytokines with Hypoxia.
• ACT Out! Social Issue Theater: A Cluster Randomized Trial with Short-term Outcomes.
• Outwitting the Grim Reaper.
• Functional Decline Common, Persistent Among Older Adults Hospitalized with Influenza.
• Why Should I Trust the Coronavirus Vaccine When It Was Developed So Fast? A Doctor Answers That and Other Reader Questions.
• Demographic Consequences of Changing Body Size in a Terrestrial Salamander.

Announcements

• IU Study Suggests Food Insecurity, Isolation Is Connected Among Seniors.
• Bald Eagle Conservation Reaches New Milestone in Indiana.
• Exercise Physiology and Its Role in the Treating Patients with Morbid Obesity (January 14, Online).
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• School of Public Health-Bloomington to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.