Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Alterations of Lipid Metabolism with Age and Weight in Companion Dogs.
• Murine Genetic Models of Obesity: Type I Error Rates and the Power of Commonly Used Analyses Assessed by Plasmode-based Simulation.
• RCT: Energy Requirement Is Higher During Weight Loss Maintenance in Adults Consuming a Low- Compared with High-Carbohydrate Diet.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Gut Bug May Help Prevent Heart Disease and Promote Longevity.
• Study: Enzymes in a gut microbe might disrupt the creation of trimethylamine, associated with cardiovascular disease. “It’s too soon to say whether this bacterium could have therapeutic value" - Author.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Preprint: RCT: "Both FBCO treatment interventions were delivered with high fidelity; yet neither yielded significant improvements in child or parent BMI..[in] High intensity versus low intensity family-based childhood obesity treatment programs..." (pdf)
• RCT: No Significant Effects of School-based Physical Activity Interventions on Mental Health in Adolescents in Total Sample.
• "Contrary to expectation, the response at the supra-MLSS work rates had not two, but three, distinct phases: the primary phase and the slow component, plus a “delayed” third phase, which emerged after ~15 minutes. ...These results challenge commonly held beliefs about definitions and descriptions of exercise intensity domains."
• Hsd17b13 Deficiency Does Not Protect Mice from Obesogenic Diet Injury.
• RCT: A High Protein Meal Does Not Improve Blood Pressure or Vasoactive Biomarker Responses to Acute Exercise in Humans.
• DaPeCa5 – Obesity at the Time of Diagnosis Does Not Predict Poor Cancer-specific Survival in Patients with Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
• RCT: “The Aim of This Study Was to Evaluate the Effect of Probiotic Supplementation on Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) in Patients After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB)….The Prevalence of SIBO Was Similar Among Times, and the Mean Score of GSRS Responses Did Not Differ between Groups at Any Time.”. (pdf)
• RCT: "The interventions did not affect body mass on average, but promoted weight loss among the leaner participants."
• RCT: "In patients with septic shock, the combination of ascorbic acid, corticosteroids, and thiamine, compared with placebo, did not result in a statistically significant reduction in SOFA score during the first 72 hours after enrollment."

Basic

• Flux Through Mitochondrial Redox Circuits Linked to Nicotinamide Nucleotide Transhydrogenase Generates Counterbalance Changes in Energy Expenditure.
• Loss of APJ Mediated β-arrestin Signalling Improves High-fat Diet Induced Metabolic Dysfunction but Does Not Alter Cardiac Function in Mice.
• Collagen 24 α1 Is Increased in Insulin-Resistant Skeletal Muscle and Adipose Tissue.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effects of a Long-term Lifestyle Intervention on Metabolically Healthy Women with Obesity: Metabolite Profiles According to Weight Loss Response.
• Letter: Lifestyle Interventions on Weight Loss Among Metabolically Healthy Obese Women.
• Response: Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Lifestyle Interventions on Weight Loss Among Metabolically Healthy Obese Women.
• Editor's note on: Dishonesty Is More Affected by BMI Status Than by Short-term Changes in Glucose.
• PubPeer Comment on: Dishonesty Is More Affected by BMI Status Than by Short-term Changes in Glucose.
• PubPeer Comment on: Zinc Supplementation Reduces Common Cold Duration Among Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials with Micronutrients Supplementation.

Clinical

• COVID-19: Underlying Adipokine Storm and Angiotensin 1-7 Umbrella.
• Obesity and COVID-19: Immunological Perturbations, Therapeutic Challenges, and Opportunities in Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Comparing the Effects of Docosahexaenoic and Eicosapentaenoic Acids on Inflammation Markers.
• Bariatric Surgery for the Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-analysis: The Effect of School Intervention Programs on the BMI of Adolescents.
• Neonatal Adiposity and Childhood Obesity.
• Bridging Obstetrics and Pediatrics to Close the Life Span Gap in Child Obesity Research.
• Perceived Barriers/facilitators to a Healthy Lifestyle Among Diverse Adolescents with Overweight/obesity: A Qualitative Study.
• Systematic Review: Layperson-Led vs Professional-Led Behavioral Interventions for Weight Loss in Pediatric Obesity.

Surgery

• Pathophysiology, Prevention, and Treatment of Beriberi After Gastric Surgery.
• Thyroid Hormone Changes After Sleeve Gastrectomy with and Without Antral Preservation.
• Iron Deficiency Following Bariatric Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Drugs

• Phentermine.
• The Safety and Effectiveness of Commonly-marketed Natural Supplements for Weight Loss in Populations with Obesity: A Critical Review of the Literature from 2006 to 2016.
• GDF15 Mediates the Effects of Metformin on Body Weight and Energy Balance.

Food & Diet

• The Khmer Did Not Live by Rice Alone: Archaeobotanical Investigations at Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm.
• Seasoned Socialism: Gender & Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life.
• Anti-obesity Activity of Anthocyanin and Carotenoid Extracts from Color-fleshed Sweet Potatoes.
• Systematic Review: Ultra-processed Food and the Risk of Overweight and Obesity.
• Association of Organic Food Consumption with Obesity in a Nationally Representative Sample.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effect of 2 Years of Calorie Restriction on Liver Biomarkers.
• Systematic Review: The Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Glycemic Control and Body Composition in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Editorial: Fat Mobilization Without Weight Loss Is a Potentially Rapid Response to Nicotinamide Riboside in Obese People: It's Time to Test with Exercise.
• Perceived Change in Physical Activity Levels and Mental Health During Covid-19: Findings Among Adult Twin Pairs.
• Preprint: Effects of Stretching Exercises on Human Gait: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Obesity: A Review of Literature from the Past Decade to Inform Intervention Research.
• Dissertation: Acculturative Stress, Discrimination, Ethnic Identity, and Binge Eating Among Latina College Students.

Epidemiology

• Is Obesity the Missing Link between COVID-19 Severity and Air Pollution?
• Associations of Dietary Habits and Sleep in Older Adults: A 9-year Follow-up Cohort Study.
• COVID-19 and Obesity.
• Association between the Phytochemical Index and Lower Prevalence of Obesity/Abdominal Obesity in Korean Adults.
• COVID-19 and Morbid Obesity: Associations and Consequences for Policy and Practice.
• Neonatal Outcome by Planned Mode of Delivery in Women with a BMI of 35 or More: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Diabetes, Weight Change, and Pancreatic Cancer Risk.
• BMI and Total Symptom Burden in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Discovery of a U-shaped Association.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Meta-analysis: Is Obesity Related to Enhanced Neural Reactivity to Visual Food Cues?
• Reduced Neural Satiety Responses in Women Affected by Obesity.
• Restrained Eaters’ Consumption of Dietary Forbidden and Permitted Foods After Exposure to Incidental Fitness Cues.
• RCT: Effects of Food-related Behavioral Activation Therapy on Eating Styles, Diet Quality and Body Weight Change.
• Associations of Sleep with Gray Matter Volume and Their Implications for Academic Achievement, Executive Function and Intelligence in Children with Overweight/obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Weight-Based Discrimination in the Italian Labor Market: An Analysis of the Interaction with Gender and Ethnicity.
• Health Promotion Programs to Reduce Noncommunicable Diseases: A Call for Action in Kuwait.
• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in 3-to-10-year-old Children: Assessment of Different Cut-off Criteria WHO-IOTF.
• Dissertation: Association between Household/Housing Characteristics and Childhood Overweight/Obesity Among African American Children Aged 6 to 11.
• Obesity and Mortality Among Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19: Results from an Integrated Health Care Organization.
• Preprint: Income Inequality in Obesity Among US Adults 1999-2016: Does Sex Matter?

Stigma

• Associations between Weight Perception, Unhealthy Weight Control Behavior, and Suicidal Ideation and Planning Among Korean Adolescents.
• Associations between Husbands’ Weight Bias and Related Concerns and Husbands’ and Wives’ Psychological and Relationship Outcomes.
• Thesis: Does Presenting Obesity as a Disease or Food Addiction Reduce Stigma and Increase Support for Approaches Addressing Obesity Amongst Fitness Practitioners?

Policy Related

• Forging the Future of Food and Nutrition Education.
• Falsehoods and Facts About Dietary Sugars: A Call for Evidence-based Policy.
• Text Mining of United States Obesity-Related Public Policies: Systematic Document Search.
• Young Adolescents' Experiences and Views on Eating and Food.
• An Accountability Evaluation for the Responsible Use of Celebrity Endorsement by the Food and Beverage Industry to Promote Healthy Food Environments for Young Americans: A Narrative Review to Inform Obesity Prevention Policy.
• Simple Is Better for Local Beverage Tax Policy Diffusion.

Intergenerational Effects

• Sex-dependent Associations of Maternal Androgen Levels with Offspring BMI and Weight Trajectory from Birth to Early Childhood.
• Maternal Plant-based Diet During Gestation and Pregnancy Outcomes.
• Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls Exposure on Physical Growth from Birth to Childhood and Adolescence.
• Maternal Thyroid Disease and Adiposity in Mother and Child.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Microbes Make the Meal: Oligolectic Bees Require Microbes Within Their Host Pollen to Thrive.
• On the Comparative Biology of Mammalian Telomeres: Telomere Length Co-evolves with Body Mass, Lifespan and Cancer Risk (PDF). (pdf)
• Discrimination of Small Sugar Concentration Differences Helps the Nectar-feeding Bat Leptonycteris Yerbabuenae Cover Energetic Demands.

Methods

• Understanding Time Series Patterns of Weight and Meal History Reports in Mobile Weight Loss Intervention Programs: Data-Driven Analysis.
• Association Does Not Imply Prediction: The Accuracy of Birthweight in Predicting Child Mortality and Anthropometric Failure.
• Effects of Social Network Diversity in the Disablement Process: A Comparison of Causal Inference Methods and an Outcome-wide Approach to the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, 2007–2015.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Assessing Inequalities and Regional Disparities in Child Nutrition Outcomes in India Using MANUSH – a More Sensitive Yardstick.
• Systematic Review: The Range of Non-traditional Anthropometric Parameters to Define Obesity and Obesity-related Disease in Children.

Commentary

• Tsk Tsk: Obesity and COVID-19 Mortality.
• Mouse Study Reveals Previously Unknown Taste Cell That Detects Nearly All Flavours.
• Food System Workers are the Unexpected but Under Protected COVID Heroes.
• A New Concept in DR [dietary Restriction] Is Cleaning Up!
• How a Libertarian Is Tackling Obesity and Why Big Food Should Worry.
• Guidelines: Sugar, Alcohol, and Red Meat – Oh My!
• The Commonly Overlooked Factor. Commentary On: “Environmental Obesogens and Their Impact on Susceptibility to Obesity”.
• Is Objective Dialogue About Sugar Even Possible?

General

• Book: Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth.
• RCT: Effect of Long-term Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs Placebo on Risk of Depression or Clinically Relevant Depressive Symptoms and on Change in Mood Scores.
• Young Adults' Risks from First-time Opioid Prescriptions May Not Be as High as Previously Thought.
• Black Artists, Racial Equality, and Dr. Albert C. Barnes.
• Self-Reported Sexual Behavioral Similarities and Differences Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men with Childhood Sexual Abuse Histories: A Qualitative Exploratory Study.
• Adolescents' Discussion of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Topics with Providers: Findings from a Nationally Representative Probability Sample of U.S. Adolescents.
• Impacts of the Season and Reproductive Status on Fecal Reproductive and Adrenocortical Steroid Metabolites in Zoo Cuban Crocodiles (Crocodylus Rhombifer).
• Communicating Science in the Time of a Pandemic.

Video & Audio

• Audio: A New Fitness Routine -- Plus How Business Can Adapt to Pandemic-driven Consumer Changes.

Announcements

• IU Surpasses $1 Billion in Research and Philanthropic Funding.
• New Book: Sugarproof.
• "The Indiana University Board of Trustees has approved IU's 2021-23 legislative capital request....Renovation of the School of Public Health-Bloomington, including the attached Bill Garrett Fieldhouse, at $65 million."
• NORC Initiative to Advance the Careers of Researchers from Groups Underrepresented in Academia (URiA) Schedule.
• IU Public Health Expert Joins World Health Organization Group as Advisor on COVID-19 and Schools.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair for a Newly Conceived Department, Health and Wellness Design.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.

Featured

• "Most subseafloor cells subsist at energy fluxes lower than have previously been shown to support life, calling into question the power limit to life."
• Precision Nutrition—the Answer to “What to Eat to Stay Healthy”.
• Imprecision Nutrition? Different Simultaneous Continuous Glucose Monitors Provide Discordant Meal Rankings for Incremental Postprandial Glucose in Subjects Without Diabetes.
• Elucidating the Mechanisms by Which Disulfiram Protects Against Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: In Vino Veritas? Wine Can Mitigate the Symptoms of Coronavirus, Scientists Suggest.
• Perspective article: Biological Plausibility for Interactions between Dietary Fat, Resveratrol, ACE2, and SARS-CoV Illness Severity.
• Critique: Wine, Resveratrol and COVID-19: This Is How “Stupid Science” Gets Unleashed.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "This combination of herbal extracts likely does not acutely influence performance fatigability during high-intensity, repeated muscle actions."
• "Contrary to the common assumption, our results indicate that plant intake has little effect on hair evacuation in felid species."
• Sweet Taste Does Not Modulate Pain Perception in Adult Humans.
• "Nuclear pSTAT3 levels in this experimental paradigm were negatively correlated with satiety levels, contrary to the generally described transcriptional regulation for long-term satiety via leptin receptors."
• RCT: "There was no evidence for effect on zBMI, waist circumference z-score or physical activity...[in] Long-term outcomes (2 and 3.5 years post-intervention) of the INFANT early childhood intervention to improve health behaviors and reduce obesity."
• RCT: "the comprehensive obesity intervention didn’t improve the overall dietary diversity per day..."
• RCT: "Results indicate no significant differences between intervention and control groups for any stress measure at any time point... a pilot randomized control trial of a home-based obesity prevention intervention. Four measures of stress were investigated..."

Basic

• Effects of Dietary Macronutrients and Body Composition on Glucose Homeostasis in Mice.
• Estrogen Receptor α Controls Metabolism in White and Brown Adipocytes by Regulating Polg1 and Mitochondrial Remodeling.
• Methionine Restriction Alleviates High-Fat Diet-induced Obesity: Involvement of Diurnal Metabolism of Lipids and Bile Acids.
• Obesity-Related Hypoxia Via MiR-128 Decreases Insulin-Receptor Expression in Human and Mouse Adipose Tissue Promoting Systemic Insulin Resistance.
• PPARδ Attenuates Alcohol-Mediated Insulin Resistance by Enhancing Fatty Acid-Induced Mitochondrial Uncoupling and Antioxidant Defense in Skeletal Muscle.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Changes in Weight and Substrate Oxidation in Overweight Adults Following Isomaltulose Intake During a 12-Week Weight Loss Intervention: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial.
• Letter: Within-Group Instead of Between-Group Comparisons Affect the Conclusions. Comment On: “Changes in Weight and Substrate Oxidation in Overweight Adults Following Isomaltulose Intake During a 12-Week Weight Loss Intervention: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial”. Nutrients 2019, 11(10), 2367.
• Response: Reply to “Comparisons of Within-Group Instead of Between-Group Affect the Conclusions. Comment On: Changes in Weight and Substrate Oxidation in Overweight Adults Following Isomaltulose Intake During a 12-Week Weight Loss Intervention: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial. Nutrients 2019, 11(10), 2367”.
• PubPeer Comment On: Changes in Weight and Substrate Oxidation in Overweight Adults Following Isomaltulose Intake During a 12-Week Weight Loss Intervention: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial.
• A Retraction and a Retraction Request as Twitter Users Call Out Sexism, Fat-shaming, and Racism.
• Eliminating Scientific Error by Banning the Word.

Clinical

• Double Burden of Malnutrition in Persons with Obesity.
• COVID-19 and Obesity: Dangerous Liaisons.

Children and Adolescents

• Adolescent Sleep Characteristics and Body-mass Index in the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating (FLASHE) Study.
• Editorial: Obesity and Hunger: Two Faces of a Nation.
• Is There Any Association between Age at Menarche and Anthropometric Indices? A 15-year Follow-up Population-based Cohort Study.

Surgery

• RCT: Bariatric Surgery in the Elderly: Comparing Safety of Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (BASE Trial).
• Severe Nutritional Complications After Bariatric Surgery in Ontario Adults: A Population-based Descriptive Study.
• Reversal of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Fails to Facilitate the Management of Recalcitrant Hypocalcaemia Caused by Primary Hypoparathyroidism.

Drugs

• Discovery of a Promising Agent IQZ23 for the Treatment of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders.
• Identification of Isotschimgine as a Novel Farnesoid X Receptor Agonist with Potency for the Treatment of Obesity in Mice.

Food & Diet

• Review: Low-carbohydrate Diets and Cardiometabolic Health: The Importance of Carbohydrate Quality over Quantity.
• RCT: The Effects of Spinach-derived Thylakoid Supplementation in Combination with Calorie Restriction on Anthropometric Parameters and Metabolic Profiles in Women with Obesity and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Review: Anti-Obesity Effects of Polyphenol Intake: Current Status and Future Possibilities.
• Ultra-processed Foods and the Nutrition Transition: Global, Regional and National Trends, Food Systems Transformations and Political Economy Drivers.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Ghrelin/GHS-R1a Signaling Plays Different Roles in Anxiety-related Behaviors After Acute and Chronic Caloric Restriction.
• Life Span Extension by Glucose Restriction Is Abrogated by Methionine Supplementation: Cross-talk between Glucose and Methionine and Implication of Methionine as a Key Regulator of Life Span.
• Book Chapter: Caloric Restriction, Longevity and Coenzyme Q.
• Chrono-nutrition for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: from Mice to Men.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Assessment of Acute Aerobic Exercise in the Morning Versus Evening on Asprosin, Spexin, Lipocalin-2, and Insulin Level in Adult Men with Overweight/Obesity Versus Normal Weight.
• Mapping Behavior Change Techniques to Characterize a Social Cognitive Theory Informed Physical Activity Intervention for Adults at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Compensatory Eating Behaviors in Male and Female Rats in Response to Exercise Training.
• Review: Exercising Your Fat (metabolism) Into Shape: A Muscle-centred View.

Economics & Sociology

• Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Consumption of Confectionery Among Adults with and without Obesity.
• Estimating Neighbourhood-level Prevalence of Adult Obesity by Socio-economic, Behavioral and Built Environment Factors in New York City.

Epidemiology

• Associations of Health Behaviors, Food Preferences, and Obesity Patterns with the Incidence of Mild Cognitive Impairment in the Middle-aged and Elderly Population: An 18-year Cohort Study.
• Land Use Mix in the Neighbourhood and Childhood Obesity.
• Moderating Effect of Obesity on Clinical Outcomes in NOAC-treated Atrial Fibrillation Patients or Just an Effect of Obesity?
• Obesity and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Children with CKD: Does Sex Matter?

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Why Did I Eat That? Contributions of Individual Differences in Incentive Motivation and Nucleus Accumbens Plasticity to Obesity.
• Chronic Gq Signaling in AgRP Neurons Does Not Cause Obesity.
• Preprint: RCT: Problem Solving Therapy-induced Amygdala Engagement Mediates Weight Loss and Lifestyle Behavior Change in Patients with Obesity and Depression. (pdf)

Equity and Disparities

• Race, Obesity and Mental Health Among Older Adults in the United States: A Literature Review.
• Understanding African American COVID-19 Severity and Mortality: Is Obesity the Key?
• a Faith-based Mind–body Intervention to Improve Psychosocial Well-being Among Rural Adults.
• Physical Activity Opportunities of Low-Income Elementary School-Aged Children During the Segmented School Day.

Stigma

• Weight-Based Discrimination in the Italian Labor Market: An Analysis of the Interaction with Gender and Ethnicity.
• Influence of BMI and Gender on Stigmatization of Obesity.

Policy Related

• Mexican Households’ Food Shopping Patterns in 2015: Analysis Following Nonessential Food and Sugary Beverage Taxes.
• Food Swamps Surrounding Schools in Three Areas of Guatemala. (pdf)
• PTSD and Obesity in U.S. Military Veterans: Prevalence, Health Burden, and Suicidality.

Intergenerational Effects

• Parents, Products, and the Development of Preferences: Child Palate and Food Choice in an Obesogenic Environment.
• Influence of Weight Gain on Risk for Cesarean Delivery in Pregnant Women with Obesity by Class of Obesity: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS).
• Relationships between Antenatal Corticosteroids and Catecholamine Blood Pressure Support in Neonates: Considering of Maternal Stress-related Diseases.
• Type 2 Diabetes in Youth: The Role of Early Life Exposures.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Ecologically Relevant Thermal Fluctuations Enhance Offspring Fitness: Biological and Methodological Implications for Studies of Thermal Developmental Plasticity.
• Systematic Review: Validity of Accelerometers for the Evaluation of Energy Expenditure in Individuals with Overweight or Obesity.

Methods

• Standardisation of Diet and Exercise in Clinical Trials of NAFLD-NASH: Recommendations from the Liver Forum.
• Personalized Medicine for Cardiovascular Diseases.
• The “Virtual Digital Twins” Concept in Precision Nutrition.
• Validation of a Virtual Reality Buffet Environment to Assess Food Selection Processes Among Emerging Adults.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Comparison of the Indirect Calorimetry and Different Energy Equations for the Determination of Resting Energy Expenditure of Patients with Renal Transplantation.
• Mathematical Modeling of Adulthood Obesity Epidemic in Spain Using Deterministic, Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches.

Commentary

• The Hard Problem of Breakfast.
• True, False, and Shades of Gray.
• Influencing Up: Children's Sway on Parents’ Food Choices.
• From Genetics to Bariatric Surgery and Soda Taxes: Using All the Tools to Curb the Rising Tide of Obesity.
• Addressing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Obesity: Democratising Access to Resources for Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy Weight.
• Pediatric Obesity: Prevention Is Better Than Care.
• Emerging Concepts in Metabolically Healthy Obesity.
• Assessment of Energy Expenditure: Are Calories Measured Differently for Different Diets?
• Facing the Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19.

General

• State Medical Marijuana Laws and Associated Marijuana Use, Attitudes, and Perceived Social Norms Among Adolescents in the U.S.
• Reanalysis of Tweeting Study Yields No Citation Benefit.
• How the Pandemic Defeated America.
• How to Think Like an Epidemiologist.
• How Scientists Can Stop Fooling Themselves over Statistics.
• Preprint: Competitive Effects of Federal and State Opioid Restrictions: Evidence from the Controlled Substance Laws.
• Extra DNA May Make Unlikely Hybrid Fish Possible.
• Grooming Behavior Reveals Social Networks Among Dairy Cows.

Announcements

• $2M Federal Grant Awarded to Chemical Risk Assessment Startup Founded by IU Professor.
• The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair & Tenured Full Professor.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly conceived department, Health & Wellness Design

Featured

• The Smallest Eating the Largest: The Oldest Mammalian Feeding Traces on Dinosaur Bone from the Late Jurassic of the Junggar Basin (Northwestern China).
• Is Adiposity Associated with Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors in Older Adults?
• Ovariectomy Uncouples Lifespan from Metabolic Health and Reveals a Sex-hormone-dependent Role of Hepatic MTORC2 in Aging.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: A Low-carb Diet May Lower the Risk of Blinding Eye Disease.
• Press-release: Low-Carbohydrate Diet May Be Associated with Lower Risk of Blinding Eye Disease.
• Study: "Low-carbohydrate diets were not associated with risk of [Primary open-angle glaucoma]."

Contrary or Null Findings

• Wearing a Surgical Mask Does Not Affect the Anaerobic Threshold During Pedaling Exercise.
• "Contrary to the data of the literature, the discriminating power of anthropometry in the prediction of the HBP [high blood pressure] is limited or absent whatever the value of the BMI."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, there was not a significant correlation between late pregnancy physical activity and infant body fat percentage."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, the use of FO [fish oil] containing IV lipid emulsions for the routine PN of the preterm infant did not improve lung growth compared to the infants who received conventional IV lipid emulsions."
• Thesis: “contrary to Our Hypothesis, GTS-21 Had No Impact …on Food Intake and Increased …body Weight at the Highest Dose Tested.”
• Invert Sugar Induces Glucose Intolerance but Does Not Cause Injury to the Pancreas nor Permanent DNA Damage in Rats.
• "Our results showed that in an area with prevalent undernutrition, protein-calorie food supplements offered to pregnant women and their offspring below the age of 6 years were not associated with lower levels of cardiovascular risk factors among offspring when they were young adults."
• RCT: In a Multi-disciplinary Assessment and Intervention for Children and Adolescents with Weight Issues...This Trial Was Negative in Terms of Primary Outcome at 24 months.
• Meta-analysis: "professional-led weight loss interventions were associated with short-term but not sustained weight reduction among children and adolescents with overweight or obesity, and the evidence for layperson-led approaches was insufficient to draw firm conclusions."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• PubPeer Comment On: The Adaptive Value of Gluttony: Predators Mediate the Life History Trade-offs of Satiation Threshold.
• Commentary: A False Claim About Dishonesty and Causality.
• Letter to the Editor: Regarding “Accuracy of Predictive Equations Versus Indirect Calorimetry for the Evaluation of Energy Expenditure in Cancer Patients with Solid Tumors – an Integrative Systematic Review Study”. (PDF)
• Improving Nutrition Research Through Better Methodology: Study Protocols Now Accepted in Clinical Nutrition ESPEN.

Basic

• Pdgfrα-Cre Mediated Knockout of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Protects Mice from High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity and Hepatic Steatosis.
• Insulin Receptor Substrate-1 Inhibits High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity by Browning of White Adipose Tissue Through MiR-503.
• Loss of Uncoupling Protein 3 Attenuates Western Diet–Induced Obesity, Systemic Inflammation, and Insulin Resistance in Rats.

Clinical

• BMI and Risk for Intubation or Death in SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Meta-analysis: Food Texture Influences on Satiety.
• Association between Fasting Glucose Variability in Young Adulthood and the Progression of Coronary Artery Calcification in Middle Age.

Children and Adolescents

• cRCT: Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of the GoActive Intervention to Increase Physical Activity Among UK Adolescents.
• Preliminary Impact of an Adapted Emotion Regulation Intervention for Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity Attempting to Lose Weight.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Intergenerational Patterns of Cardiovascular Risk Factors at Midlife.

Surgery

• Systematic review: Association of Bariatric Surgery with All-cause Mortality and Incidence of Obesity-related Disease at a Population Level.
• The First Modified Delphi Consensus Statement for Resuming Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery in the COVID-19 Times.
• Rates and Predictors of 30-Day Readmissions in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery in the US.
• Impaired Succinate Response to a Mixed Meal in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Is Normalized After Metabolic Surgery.
• COVID-19 Outcomes with a History of Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• HOPE for Rational Statin Allocation for Primary Prevention: A Coronary Artery Calcium Picture Is Worth 1000 Words.
• Pharmacological Strategies for Insulin Sensitivity in Obesity and Cancer: Thiazolidinediones and Metformin.
• Coronavirus Infections and Type 2 Diabetes-Shared Pathways with Therapeutic Implications.

Food & Diet

• A Comprehensive Critical Assessment of Increased Fruit and Vegetable Intake on Weight Loss in Women.
• Review: The Role of Dietary Protein in Obesity.
• Review: Low-carbohydrate Diets and Cardiometabolic Health: The Importance of Carbohydrate Quality over Quantity.
• Association between the Phytochemical Index and Lower Prevalence of Obesity/Abdominal Obesity in Korean Adults.
• Review: Probiotics for the Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Humans.
• Avoid the “Southern Diet”? What, Really, Do You Mean?
• Meta-analysis: Mediterranean Diet and Telomere Length.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effects of Short-Term Dietary Protein Restriction on Blood Amino Acid Levels in Young Men.
• A 28-Day Carbohydrate-Restricted Diet Improves Markers of Cardiovascular Disease in Professional Firefighters.
• Two Weeks of Early Time-restricted Feeding (eTRF) Improves Skeletal Muscle Insulin and Anabolic Sensitivity in Healthy Men.
• Meta-analysis of RCTs: Is Caloric Restriction Associated with Better Healthy Aging Outcomes?

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Associations between Physical Activity, Body Composition and Physical Fitness in the Transition from Preschool to School.
• Meta-analysis: Is Running Associated with a Lower Risk of All-cause, Cardiovascular and Cancer Mortality, and Is the More the Better?
• RCT: Metabolic Impact of Breaking Up Prolonged Sitting with Stair Climbing Exercise Snacks.

Economics & Sociology

• Association between Neighborhood Aesthetics and Childhood Obesity.
• Thesis: Does Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Moderate the Association between ADHD and Overweight/Obesity?
• Changes in the Amount of Nutrient of Packaged Foods and Beverages After the Initial Implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising: A Nonexperimental Prospective Study.

Epidemiology

• The Association of Subscapular Skinfold with All-Cause, Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Mortality.
• Meta-analysis: Dietary Intake of Total, Animal, and Plant Proteins and Risk of All Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality.
• AMY1 Gene Copy Number Correlates with Glucose Absorption and Visceral Fat Volume, but Not with Insulin Resistance.
• The Global Burden of Disease Attributable to High BMI in 195 Countries and Territories, 1990–2017: An Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study.
• Impact of Pesticide Exposure on Adipose Tissue Development and Function.
• Medical Marijuana, Recreational Cannabis, and Cardiovascular Health.
• Stable Isotopes in Hair Reveal Dietary Protein Sources with Links to Socioeconomic Status and Health.
• Computed Tomography Highlights Increased Visceral Adiposity Associated with Critical Illness in COVID-19.
• Obesity Is Associated with Increased Susceptibility to Influenza a (H1N1pdm) but Not H3N2 Infection.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Associations of Health Behaviors, Food Preferences, and Obesity Patterns with the Incidence of Mild Cognitive Impairment in the Middle-aged and Elderly Population: An 18-year Cohort Study.
• High Reinforcing Value of Food Is Related to Slow Habituation to Food.
• Associations between Social Connections, Their Interactions, and Obesity Differ by Gender.
• Evaluation of the Relationships between Dietary Restraint, Emotional Eating, and Intuitive Eating Moderated by Sex.
• Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Food Craving and Eating When Using a Control Method That Minimizes Guessing of the Real Vs. Control Condition.
• High-fat Food Biases Hypothalamic and Mesolimbic Expression of Consummatory Drives.
• Mitigation of the Effects of Emotional Eating on Sweets Consumption by Treatment-associated Self-regulatory Skills Usage in Emerging Adult and Middle-age Women with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Addressing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Obesity: Democratising Access to Resources for Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy Weight.
• Review: Race, Obesity and Mental Health Among Older Adults in the United States.
• IL-6 and Soluble Receptors in African American Women with Overweight and Obesity, With and Without Breast Cancer.
• Trends in Urban/rural Inequalities in Physical Growth Among Chinese Children over Three Decades of Urbanization in Guangzhou: 1985–2015.
• Intraindividual Double Burden of Overweight or Obesity and Micronutrient Deficiencies or Anemia Among Women of Reproductive Age in 17 Population-based Surveys.

Stigma

• Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: A Mindset Intervention for Youth with Obesity.
• The Impact of Obesity Level on the Relationship between Weight Bias and Employment Discrimination.
• Pre-pregnancy Body Dissatisfaction and Weight-related Outcomes and Behaviors During Pregnancy.

Policy Related

• Predicting Obesity Reduction After Implementing Warning Labels in Mexico: A Modeling Study.
• Obesity in Adults: A Clinical Practice Guideline.
• Mapping of Food Industry Strategies to Influence Public Health Policy, Research and Practice in South Africa.
• COVID-19 Risks to Global Food Security.
• Health Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Obesity. (PDF)

Intergenerational Effects

• Impact of Maternal Diabetes and Obesity on Fetal Cardiac Functions.
• Pregnancy BMI and Its Relationship with Maternal and Fetal Health Outcomes in Rural Appalachia.
• No Effect of Gestational Diabetes or Pre-gestational Obesity on 6-year Offspring Left Ventricular Function—RADIEL Study Follow-up.
• Maternal High-fat Diet Increases Vascular Contractility in Adult Offspring in a Sex-dependent Manner.
• Large for Gestational Age and Risk for Academic Delays and Learning Disabilities: Assessing Modification by Maternal Obesity and Diabetes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Meta-analysis: Environmental and Life History Factors, but Not Age, Influence Social Learning About Food.
• Review: Individual Differences in Within-subject Weight Variability: There's a Signal in the Noise.

Methods

• Meta-analysis: Comparison of Total and Activity Energy Expenditure Estimates from Physical Activity Questionnaires and Doubly Labeled Water.
• Maternal Eating Behavior and Problematic Eating Behaviors of Children Undergoing Weight Loss Treatment: A Cluster Analysis.
• Projected Impact of a Reduction in Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Argentina: A Modeling Study.

Commentary

• Does Consuming More Lean Unprocessed Beef Influence Type 2 Diabetes Risk?
• How Data Science Will Revolutionize Food Science.
• Sugar in Your Food, Your Blood, and Your Exercise.
• Synergistic Misinformation About COVID and Obesity.
• "...failure to regulate one’s relationship to objects can contribute to problematic outcomes such as neglect, obesity, hoarding, and addiction."
• Too Many Senior White Academics Still Resist Recognizing Racism.

General

• Are Replication Rates the Same Across Academic Fields? Community Forecasts from the DARPA SCORE Programme.
• It’s Ethical to Test Promising Coronavirus Vaccines Against Less-promising Ones.
• Boosting the Promise — and Reining in the Peril — of Covid-19 Preprints.
• We Made a Mistake with Masks. Now It Could Be Tests.
• The Molecular Basis of Thioalcohol Production in Human Body Odour.
• Changes in the Wing Shape and Size in Drosophila Melanogaster Treated with Food Grade Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles (E171) – a Multigenerational Study.
• Research Ethics During a Pandemic: A Call for Normative and Empirical Analysis.
• ACA Medicaid Expansion Associated with Increased Medicaid Participation and Improved Health Among Near-Elderly: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Podcast Episode 154: Diabetes & Heart Health: New Research on Lean Beef– Dr. Kevin Maki.
• Video: NIH Response to COVID-19 and Nutrition-Specific Funding Opportunities (On Demand).

Announcements

• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair & Tenured Full Professor.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly conceived department, Health & Wellness Design.
• Partnership with Big Ten Peers Provides Free Online Courses to IU Bloomington Students.
• Workshop: Precision Nutrition: Research Gaps and Opportunities.
• Food Safety Alert: Outbreak of Salmonella Newport Infections Linked to Onions.

Featured

• Aging, Obesity, and Motor Vehicle Collisions.
• Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors and Caloric Restriction—Common Pathways Affecting Metabolism, Health, and Longevity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Chocolate Is Good for the Heart – “Chocolate Helps Keep the Heart’s Blood Vessels Healthy”.
• Study: Meta-analysis of Associations between Self-reported Chocolate Consumption and Coronary Artery Disease. Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Even a high-quality nutritional educational intervention tailored to adolescents within an empowerment programme does not assure improved nutritional outcomes."
• RCT: "These results do not support the use of intravenous dextrose as a satisfactory alternative to ondansetron to prevent POV in ambulatory pediatric dental surgery patients."
• RCT: "Sucralose intake is not associated with changes in fasting concentrations of glucagon-like peptide 1, ghrelin, peptide tyrosine tyrosine, or leptin."
• RCT: "Consumption of 2 portions of fish per week has beneficial effects on biological n-3 PUFA concentrations in women of childbearing age; however, no effects on oxidative stress, inflammation or lipid profile were observed."
• RCT: In A tele-health intervention to increase physical fitness in people with spinal cord injury and cardiometabolic disease or risk factors, "The study did not meet key efficacy and feasibility objectives..."
• RCT: "There was no evidence for effect on zBMI, waist circumference z-score or physical activity...[in a]..study aimed to assess post-intervention effects of the Melbourne INFANT Program to child age 5y on diet, movement and adiposity."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Single Nutritional Intervention Previous to a Critical Period of Fat Gain in University Students with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: "Based on an intent-to-treat analysis using mixed effects models, we observed no differences in pattern of change in PA intensity and type over time between intervention groups (all p > 0.10)."

Basic

• Moderate Aerobic Exercise-induced Cytokines Changes are Disturbed in PPARα Knockout Mice.
• Adipose Depot-specific Upregulation of Ucp1 or Mitochondrial Oxidative Complex Proteins are Early Consequences of Genetic Insulin Reduction in Mice.
• A Leptin–BDNF Pathway Regulating Sympathetic Innervation of Adipose Tissue.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections.
• PubPeer Comment on: Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections.
• Are Questionable Research Practices Facilitating New Discoveries in Sport and Exercise Medicine? The Proportion of Supported Hypotheses Is Implausibly High.

Clinical

• Change in Weight, BMI, and Body Composition in a Population-Based Intervention Versus Genetic-Based Intervention: The NOW Trial.
• Intermittent Fasting and Metabolic Health: From Religious Fast to Time-Restricted Feeding.
• The Impact of Obesity on COVID-19 Complications: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• SARS-CoV-2-host Dynamics: Increased Risk of Adverse Outcomes of COVID-19 in Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Caloric Restriction in Heart Failure.
• Interventions for the Management of Obesity in People with Bipolar Disorder.
• Effects of Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy on BMI in Transgender Individuals: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
• RCT: Fitness, Strength and Body Composition During Weight Loss in Women with Clinically Severe Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Adiponectin and Leptin Gene Variants and Their Effects on Body Weight Trajectories in Children From Birth to Six Years of Age: The PREDI Study.
• Food Insecurity Is Associated with Increased Weight Loss Attempts in Children and Adolescents.
• Sensitization of the Reinforcing Value of Food: A Novel Risk Factor for Overweight in Adolescents.
• Does Proximity to Fast Food Cause Childhood Obesity? Evidence From Public Housing.

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery Impact on Reproductive Hormones, Semen Analysis, and Sperm DNA Fragmentation in Men with Severe Obesity: Prospective Study.
• Reversal of Long-Term Weight Regain After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Using Liraglutide or Surgical Revision: A Prospective Study.
• 5-Year Results of Banded One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass: A Pilot Study.
• Bariatric Surgery Impact on Reproductive Hormones, Semen Analysis, and Sperm DNA Fragmentation in Men with Severe Obesity: Prospective Study.

Drugs

• Smarter Modeling to Enable a Smarter Insulin. (pdf)
• Deciphering the Association between Psoriasis and Obesity: Current Evidence and Treatment Considerations.
• Drug Therapy in Obesity: A Review of Current and Emerging Treatments.
• Liraglutide Is an Effective Drug for the Treatment of Obesity Also in Real Life.
• Respiratory Outcomes of Metformin Use in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
• Metformin-induced Increases in GDF15 are Important for Suppressing Appetite and Promoting Weight Loss.

Food & Diet

• The Future of Food Looks Small, Dense, and Very Bushy.
• Review: Traditional Self-Reported Dietary Instruments are Prone to Inaccuracies and New Approaches are Needed.
• Meta-analysis: The Effect of Magnesium Supplementation on Anthropometric Indices.
• Review: Modulation of the Gut Microbiota by Olive Oil Phenolic Compounds: Implications for Lipid Metabolism, Immune System, and Obesity.
• Association between Unhealthy Plant-based Diets and Metabolic Syndrome in Adult Men and Women: A Population-based Study in South Korea.
• Meta-analysis: Intake of Sugar-Sweetened and Low-Calorie Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Dynamics of Breast Tumor Incidence, Tumor Volume and Serum Metabolic Hormones in Calorie Restricted Rats.
• Persistent Renin-Angiotensin System Sensitization Months After Body Weight Recovery from Severe Food Restriction in Female Fischer Rats.
• Calorie Restriction Increases the Number of Competing Stem Cells and Decreases Mutation Retention in the Intestine.
• Narrative Review: Cognitive Impact of Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Glucose Levels as a Mediator of the Detrimental Effect of Abdominal Obesity on Relative Handgrip Strength in Older Adults.
• Do Neighbourhood Characteristics Act Together to Influence BMI? A Cross-sectional Study of Urban Parks and Takeaway/fast-food Stores as Modifiers of the Effect of Physical Activity Facilities.

Economics & Sociology

• Race/ethnicity, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Cardio-metabolic Risk.
• The “battle of Sexes” Construct Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews: What Is the Optimal Number of Children for a Minimal BMI?
• Factors Affecting Canine Obesity Seem to Be Independent of the Economic Status of the Country—A Survey on Hungarian Companion Dogs.

Epidemiology

• Using a Sibling-adoption Design to Parse Genetic and Environmental Influences on Children’s BMI.
• The Levels of Phthalate Exposure and Associations with Obesity in an Elderly Population in China.
• Smoking, Obesity, and Their Co-occurrence in the U.S. Military Veterans: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.
• Systematic Review: The Relationship of Prenatal and Infant Antibiotic Exposure with Childhood Overweight and Obesity.
• BMI and Risk for Intubation or Death in SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
• Distinct Phenotypic Characteristics of Normal-weight Adults at Risk of Developing Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases.
• Discovery and Mediation Analysis of Cross-Phenotype Associations with Asthma and BMI in 12q13.2.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• A Distinct Brain-Gut-Microbiome Profile Exists for Females with Obesity and Food Addiction.
• Dishonesty Is More Affected by BMI Status Than by Short-term Changes in Glucose.
• Depressive Symptoms Rather Than Executive Functioning Predict Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Outcome in Binge Eating Disorder.
• Review: Psychiatric Aspects of Obesity: A Narrative Review of Pathophysiology and Psychopathology.
• Child Neurobiology Impacts Success in Family-based Behavioral Treatment for Children with Obesity.
• Obesity May Connect Insulin Resistance to Decreased Neuronal Viability in Human Diabetic Brain.

Equity and Disparities

• The Impact of Obesity on COVID-19 Complications: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Feasibility of a Social Media-based Weight Loss Intervention Designed for Low-SES Adults.
• Covid-19 and Disparities in Nutrition and Obesity.

Ethics

• The Ethics of Excise Taxes on Sugar-sweetened Beverages.

Stigma

• Experiences of Discrimination are Associated with Worse Metabolic Syndrome Severity Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study.
• Exploring Patient Beliefs and Perceptions Regarding Obesity as a Disease, Obesity Causation and Treatment.
• Psychological and Social Functioning are Associated with Reports of Perceived Weight Discrimination Across Eight Years.
• The Use of Stigmatizing Messaging in Anti-Obesity Communications Campaigns: Quantification of Obesity Stigmatization.

Policy Related

• FDA Announces Qualified Health Claim for Certain Cranberry Products and Urinary Tract Infections.
• Tracking the Consolidation of U.S. Agriculture.
• Obesity: Have 20 Years of Policies Had Any Effect?
• The Influence of the Sugar-sweetened Beverage Industry on Public Policies in Mexico.

Intergenerational Effects

• Changes in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Before and After Gestational Diabetes: A Prospective Life-Course Analysis in CARDIA Women.
• Association of Maternal Sleep Before and During Pregnancy with Preterm Birth and Early Infant Sleep and Temperament.
• Infants with Big Appetites: The Role of a Nonfood Environment on Infant Appetitive Traits Linked to Obesity.
• Third-Trimester Glucose Homeostasis in Healthy Women Is Differentially Associated with Human Milk Oligosaccharide Composition at 2 Months Postpartum by Secretor Phenotype.
• Maternal High Linoleic Acid Alters Placental Fatty Acid Composition.
• Maternal Obesity: Focus on Offspring Cardiometabolic Outcomes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Coupling of Energy Intake and Energy Expenditure Across a Temperature Spectrum: Impact of Diet-induced Obesity in Mice.
• Effects of Temperature on Lifespan of Drosophila Melanogaster From Different Genetic Backgrounds: Links between Metabolic Rate and Longevity.
• Body Temperature, Heart Rate, and Activity Patterns of Two Boreal Homeotherms in Winter: Homeostasis, Allostasis, and Ecological Coexistence.

Methods

• How Shape-based Anthropometry Can Complement Traditional Anthropometric Techniques: A Cross-sectional Study.
• The Combined Used of Quantitative and Qualitative Longitudinal Methods in the Study of Obesity.
• Estimation of Body Fat Percentage Using Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithms.
• Association of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Sleep with Unhealthy Aging: Consistent Results for Device-measured and Self-reported Behaviors Using Isotemporal Substitution Models.
• The Relevance of BMI in Forensic Age Assessment of Living Individuals: An Age-adjusted Linear Regression Analysis Using Multivariable Fractional Polynomials.

Commentary

• Study Explains How a Fat Cell's Immune Response Makes Obesity Worse.
• When Obesity, COVID-19, and Health Disparities Collide.
• A Rapid Weight Loss Plan for the UK?
• Constitutional Thinness: TALKing the TALK or WALKing the WALK? (pdf)
• A New Theory on Exercise's Anti-Cancer Effect.
• Disparities in Obesity: The View From an Ivory Tower.
• Tailors Know New Yorkers’ Pandemic Secret: ‘Everybody Got Fat!’
• Strengthening Federal Nutrition Research: Request for Stakeholder Input.
• Covid-19: England’s Obesity Strategy Will Fail Without Tackling Social Factors, Warn Doctors.
• Cabbage Crowned, Lettuce Loses in Nutrition Correlation.
• Making Sense of Obesity and Bad COVID Outcomes.

General

• Immoral-like Behavior in Animals.
• Using Bayes Factor Hypothesis Testing in Neuroscience to Establish Evidence of Absence.
• Microfinance and Peer Health Leadership Intervention Implementation for Men in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: A Qualitative Assessment of Perceived Economic and Health Outcomes.
• Developing and Validating a Novel Anonymous Method for Matching Longitudinal School-Based Data.
• Tech Firms Hire 'Red Teams.' Scientists Should, Too.
• The Beef Merit of the Sire Mated to a Dairy Female Affects Her Subsequent Performance.
• Researchers Discover Two Paths of Aging, and New Insights on Promoting Healthspan.
• Climate Intervention Offers Some Crop Benefits, but Abruptly Ending It May Backfire.

Announcements

• Fundamentals of Obesity Treatment Virtual Course [Aug 7-8].
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.