Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Electronic Cigarette Use Is Negatively Associated with BMI: An Observational Study of Electronic Medical Records.
• Describing the Weight-Reduced State: Physiology, Behavior, and Interventions.
• Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Proteins Regulate Intracellular Signaling and Neuronal Function in Patient-Specific IPSC-derived Neurons.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Late-Night Snacking Actually Makes You Less Productive at Work the Next Day—but Only If You Feel Guilty About It.
• Study: A Moderated Mediation Model of Daily Diary Data Shows Associations (Not Necessarily Causation) Among Evening Unhealthy Eating Behavior, Emotional Strain, Physical Strain, and Quality of Work Performance.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Meta-Analysis: "long-term school-based interventions on physical activity and dietary habits received by children aged 6–12 years seem to have no effect on BMI."
• RCT: No Effect on BMI of a Family Based Intervention for Paediatric Obesity in Primary Care.
• "This Mendelian Randomization analysis does not support a causal link between hepatic steatosis and HIC [hepatic insulin clearance]."
• RCT: "...no improvements were seen in the VR [virtually] intervention group over the control group..."
• RCT: "CPAP treatment for 12 weeks does not significantly change glycaemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes and OSA."
• RCT: "Energy content of almonds may not be as bioaccessible in individuals with hyperlipidemia as predicted by Atwater factors, as suggested by the increased fat excretion with almond intake compared with the control."
• RCT: No "effect of the onset time of skin-to-skin contact at birth, immediate compared to early, on the duration of breastfeeding in full term newborns."
• RCT: "Combining a wearable activity tracker with digital behaviour change resources and weekly challenges did not increase inactive adolescents' accelerometer-derived and self-reported physical activity levels immediately post-intervention."

Basic

• Phenotypic Changes in T Cell and Macrophage Subtypes in Perivascular Adipose Tissues Precede High-Fat Diet-Induced Hypertension.
• Review: What Is the Physiological Role of Hypothalamic Tanycytes in Metabolism?
• Genetically Increasing Flux Through β-oxidation in Skeletal Muscle Increases Mitochondrial Reductive Stress and Glucose Intolerance.
• Ablation of Nampt in AgRP Neurons Leads to Neurodegeneration and Impairs Fasting- and Ghrelin-Mediated Food Intake.
• Diet Protein Content and Individual Phenotype Affect Food Intake and Protein Appetence in Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Purified Palmitoleic Acid for the Reduction of High-sensitivity C-reactive Protein and Serum Lipids: A Double-blinded, Randomized, Placebo Controlled Study.
• RetractionWatch: Palmitoleic Acid Paper Pulled for Data Concerns.

Clinical

• Human White Adipose Tissue Displays Selective Insulin Resistance in the Obese State.
• Almond Bioaccessibility in a Randomized Crossover Trial: Is a Calorie a Calorie?
• Gaining Efficiency in Clinical Trials with Cardiac Biomarkers: JACC Review Topic of the Week.
• Meta-Analysis: Comparative Efficacy of Different Weight Loss Treatments on Knee Osteoarthritis: A Network Meta-analysis.
• Meta-Analysis: Reducing Weight and BMI Following Gestational Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Digital and Telemedicine Interventions.
• Meta-Analysis: Comparative Efficacy of Different Weight Loss Treatments on Knee Osteoarthritis.
• Chronic Pain and Weight Regain in a Lifestyle Modification Trial.
• Dissertation: The Effectiveness of Gradually Increasing Hydration Intake Among Adults with Class I Obesity to Decrease BMI in an 8-Week Period.
• Trends in Receipt of American Diabetes Association Guideline-Recommended Care Among U.S. Adults with Diabetes: NHANES 2005–2018.
• Systematic Review: The Delivery of Obesity Interventions to Children and Adolescents with Physical Disabilities.

Children and Adolescents

• Effects of Locomotion Task Constraints on Running in Boys with Overweight/Obesity: The Mediating Role of Developmental Delays.
• Does Physical Activity and Body Weight Status Determine Musculoskeletal Health Among Adolescents in Malaysia?
• Associations of Breastfeeding with Childhood Autoimmunity, Allergies, and Overweight: The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study.
• Early Origins of Body Mass in Later Life: Examining Childhood Risks and Adult Pathways.
• Systematic Review: Otitis Media and Obesity—An Unusual Relationship in Children.
• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities in China.
• The Challenges of Interpreting BMI in Children with Obesity.
• Systematic Review: The Effectiveness of Physical Activity Interventions in Asian Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Doctoral Thesis: Towards Individualized Management of Bariatric Surgery Patients.
• Bariatric Surgery in the Treatment of Adolescent Obesity: Current Perspectives in the United States.
• RCT: Comparison of Outcomes in Patients with Obesity between Two Administration Routes of Omeprazole After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• The Role of Gut Microbiota in Duodenal-Jejunal Bypass Surgery-Induced Improvement of Hepatic Steatosis in HFD-Fed Rats.

Drugs

• RCT: Effects of the SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin on Energy Metabolism in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Non-Insulin Anti-Diabetic Agents in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and COVID-19: A Critical Appraisal of Literature.
• Glucose Lowering Treatment Modalities of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Relationship between FGF21 and Drug or Nondrug Therapy of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Food & Diet

• Ninjin'yoeito Modulates Feeding and Activity Under Negative Energy Balance Conditions Via the NPY System.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption, Weight Gain, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases in Asia.
• RCT: The Impact of L-citrulline Supplementation on Glucose Homeostasis, Lipid Profile, and Some Inflammatory Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Overweight or Obesity.
• Review: The Role of Iron Homeostasis in Adipocyte Metabolism.
• Diet Scores and Prediction of General and Abdominal Obesity in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study.
• Dietary Fat and Low Fiber in Purified Diets Differently Impact the Gut-Liver Axis to Promote Obesity-Linked Metabolic Impairments.
• Leaf Powder Supplementation of Senna Alexandrina Ameliorates Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, and Hepatic Steatosis in High-Fat Diet-Fed Obese Rats.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effects of Calorie Restriction on Health Span and Insulin Resistance: Classic Calorie Restriction Diet vs Ketosis-Inducing Diet.
• The Influence of Fasting and Caloric Restriction on Inflammation Levels in Humans: A Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• RCT: Adherence and Dietary Composition During Intermittent Vs. Continuous Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Blood Volume, Hemoglobin Mass, and Peak Oxygen Uptake in Older Adults: The Generation 100 Study.
• Bi-Directional Prospective Associations between Sedentary Time, Physical Activity and Adiposity in 10-Year Old Norwegian Children.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a School-Based Program Aimed at Increasing Physical Activity Time in Adolescents.

Economics & Sociology

• Association of Adult Socioeconomic Status with BMI: A Within- and Between-Twin Study.
• Are the Effects of Air Pollution on Birth Weight Modified by Infant Sex and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation? A Multilevel Analysis in Paris (France).

Epidemiology

• Naturalistic Assessment of Patterns and Predictors of Acute Headache Medication Use Among Women with Comorbid Migraine and Overweight or Obesity.
• The Association of Co-Morbid Asthma and Overweight/Obesity Status with Healthcare Utilization and Caregiver Perception of Health in Children 4-17 Years, an NHANES Study.
• Association between Parental Socioeconomic Status and Offspring Overweight/Obesity from the China Family Panel Studies: A Longitudinal Survey.
• Mid- to Late- Life BMI and Dementia Risk: 38 Years of Follow-up of the Framingham Study.
• Being Overweight Is Associated with Not Reaching Low Disease Activity in Women but Not Men with Psoriatic Arthritis.
• Maternal and Fetal Outcomes During Pregnancy and Puerperium in Pregnant Women with Overweight or Obesity. A Cohort Study.
• Prevalence and Associated Factors of Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity Among Bangladeshi Adults: An Analysis of Demographic and Health Survey 2017-18.
• Long-term BMI Changes in Adults with Overweight or Obesity and the Risk of Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality: A Cohort Study of over 260,000 Adults in the UK.
• BMI and Risk of All-Cause Mortality in Normotensive and Hypertensive Adults: The Rural Chinese Cohort Study.
• Remodeling of the Gut Microbiome During Ramadan-Associated Intermittent Fasting.
• Exposure to the Great Famine in Early Life and the Risk of Obesity in Adulthood: A Report Based on the China Health and Nutrition Survey.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Maternal Obesity and Developmental Programming of Neuropsychiatric Disorders: An Inflammatory Hypothesis.
• Hunger-Promoting AgRP Neurons Trigger an Astrocyte-Mediated Feed-Forward Auto-Activation Loop in Mice.
• Dietary Restraint Related to Body Weight Maintenance and Neural Processing in Value-Coding Areas in Adolescents.
• Dysfunctional Brain Reward System in Child Obesity.
• Delay Discounting and Obesity in Food Insecure and Food Secure Women.
• The Orbitofrontal Cortex, Food Reward, Body Weight and Obesity.
• BMI and Polygenic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease Predict Conversion to Alzheimer’s Disease.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in the Efficacy of a Family-Based Treatment Programme for Paediatric Obesity.
• Quantifying the Contribution of Modifiable Risk Factors [Including Obesity] to Socio-economic Inequities in Cancer Morbidity and Mortality: A Nationally Representative Population-Based Cohort Study.
• Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in the Efficacy of a Family-Based Treatment Programme for Paediatric Obesity.
• Obesity, Biased Mental Models, and Stigma in the Context of the Obesity COVID-19 Syndemic.
• Bariatric Surgery in the Treatment of Adolescent Obesity: Current Perspectives in the United States.
• Coverage of Obesity and Obesity Disparities on American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Examinations.

Stigma

• A Kaupapa Māori and Fat Studies Discussion of Fatness, Health and Healthism.
• Weight Stigma and Health – Repercussions on the Health of Adolescents and Adults: Integrative Review of the Literature.
• Examining the Relationship between Weight Controllability Beliefs and Eating Behaviors: The Role of Internalized Weight Stigma and BMI.

Policy Related

• Misperceptions About Added Sugar, Non-Nutritive Sweeteners and Juice in Popular Children's Drinks: Experimental and Cross-sectional Study with U.S. Parents of Young Children (1-5 years).
• Health Burden of Overweight and Obesity: Mortality and Years of Life Lost (YLL) of Diseases in Indonesia. (pdf)
• Quantifying the Sex-Race/Ethnicity-Specific Burden of Obesity on Incident Diabetes Mellitus in the United States, 2001 to 2016: MESA and NHANES.

Intergenerational Effects

• Effect of Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates on Epigenome-Wide DNA Methylations in Cord Blood and Implications for Fetal Growth.
• Maternal and Perinatal Risk Factors for Pediatric Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• How Many Tyrannosaurus Rexes Ever Lived on Earth? Here’s a New Clue.
• Household Food Insecurity, Hair Cortisol, and Adiposity Among Tsimane’ Hunter-Forager-Horticulturalists in Bolivia.
• Plasticity of Non-Shivering Thermogenesis and Brown Adipose Tissue in High-Altitude Deer Mice.
• The “Drive to Eat” Hypothesis: Energy Expenditure and Fat-free Mass but Not Adiposity are Associated with Milk Intake and Energy Intake in 12 Week Infants.

Methods

• Preprint: Center-Specific Causal Inference with Multicenter Trials: Reinterpreting Trial Evidence in the Context of Each Participating Center.
• Investigation on BMI Prediction from Face Images.
• Test-Retest Reliability of Functional MRI Food Receipt, Anticipated Receipt, and Picture Tasks.

Commentary

• In Defense of the Potato.
• The Sense, and Dollars, of Food as Medicine.
• How Dare There Be Effective Drugs for Obesity?
• Will the COVID-Obesity Intersection Bring Change?
• Home-Use HbA1c Kits Could Aid Virtual Diabetes Care.
• Fit-for-Fertility Program Boosts Births, Is Cost-Effective.
• Audio: Rethinking How We Talk About Obesity.
• What the Rising Level of Obesity Says About the Food System.

General

• Shared Injection Experiences: Interpersonal Involvement in Injection Drug Practices Among Women.
• Evidence of Female Preference for Odor of Distant over Local Males in a Bat with Female Dispersal.
• Deoxyhypusine Synthase, an Essential Enzyme for Hypusine Biosynthesis, Is Required for Proper Exocrine Pancreas Development.
• The Effects of Head Impact Exposure on Changes in Neurocognitive and Oculomotor Function Across a High School American Football Season.
• Preprint: Use of Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) in Different Phases of a COVID-19 RCT: A Practical Example. (pdf)
• Selenium Supplementation Provides Healthspan Benefits in Mice.
• Meta-Analysis: Condom Application Skills and Self-Efficacy in Youth.
• Attitudes of US Adults Toward Using Telemedicine to Prescribe Medication Abortion During COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Study.

Announcements

• Webinar: ASN's Obesity Research Interest Section Conversations in Nutrition & Obesity Research: Dr. Jim Hill, April 28th.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Dean David B. Allison Appointed to National Academies Committee on Assessing Misinformation About Biological Threats.
• Dr. Pamela S. Whitten Elected 19th President of Indiana University (IU) and Confirmed as Tenured Professor in the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington by the IU Board of Trustees.

Featured

• Organ-Specific, Multimodal, Wireless Optoelectronics for High-throughput Phenotyping of Peripheral Neural Pathways.
• Fat Tissue Regulates the Pathogenesis and Severity of Cardiomyopathy in Murine Chagas Disease.
• Obesity Therapeutics: The End of the Beginning.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: A New Way to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
• Study: Development and Validation of a Prediction Model for Childhood Obesity in an Australian Prospective Birth Cohort. No New Prevention of Childhood Obesity Demonstrated.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The results suggest that a stand-alone low-threshold minimal e-health intervention for general practitioners does not improve weight management in the long term."
• RCT: Multiple-day High-dose Beetroot Juice Supplementation Does Not Improve Pulmonary or Muscle Deoxygenation Kinetics of Well-trained Cyclists in Normoxia and Hypoxia.
• Vitamin D Supplementation Does Not Enhance Resistance Training-induced Gains in Muscle Strength and Lean Body Mass in Vitamin D Deficient Young Men.
• Prediction of Eating Disorder Treatment Response Trajectories Via Machine Learning Does Not Improve Performance Versus a Simpler Regression Approach.
• RCT: Daily 30-min Exposure to Artificial Gravity During 60 Days of Bed Rest Does Not Maintain Aerobic Exercise Capacity but Mitigates Some Deteriorations of Muscle Function.
• RCT: "...contrary to hypotheses, the incentive interventions including self-monitoring were not more efficacious than self-monitoring alone, and increased reported behaviour was not associated with enhancements in attitudes."
• RCT: No effect of "Oral nutritional supplements versus a regular diet alone for body weight loss after gastrectomy" at 1 year.

Basic

• Special Issue: Physiology of the Weight-Reduced State (Obesity: Vol 29, No S1).
• Antibiotic Followed by a Potential Probiotic Increases Brown Adipose Tissue, Reduces Biometric Measurements, and Changes Intestinal Microbiota Phyla in Obesity.
• β-Sitosterol Circumvents Obesity Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance by Down-Regulating IKKβ/NF-κB and JNK Signaling Pathway in Adipocytes of Type 2 Diabetic Rats.
• Pu-erh Tea Ameliorates Obesity and Modulates Gut Microbiota in High Fat Diet Fed Mice.
• Obesity Prevents S-Adenosylmethionine-Mediated Improvements in Age-Related Peripheral and Hippocampal Outcomes.
• The Good and Bad of Adipose Tissue Macrophage Exosomes in Obesity.
• Effects of High Fat Diets and Supplemental Tart Cherry and Fish Oil on Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Male and Female C57BL/6J and TALLYHO/Jng Mice.
• Dietary Supplementation with Glycine Enhances Intestinal Mucosal Integrity and Ameliorates Inflammation in C57BL/6J Mice with High-Fat Diet–Induced Obesity.
• High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Primes Impaired Fatty Acid β-Oxidation and Consequent Ovarian Dysfunction During Early Pregnancy.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Selection of Antiobesity Medications Based on Phenotypes Enhances Weight Loss: A Pragmatic Trial in an Obesity Clinic.
• Twitter Thread: Questions on Study Registration.
• PubPeer Comment on: Extra Dose of Vitamin C Based on a Daily Supplementation Shortens the Common Cold: A Meta-Analysis of 9 RCTs.
• Correction: Critchlow, N., et al. Adolescents’ Reactions to Adverts for Fast-Food and Confectionery Brands That are High in Fat, Salt, And/or Sugar (HFSS), and Possible Implications for Future Research and Regulation: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Survey of 11–19 Year Olds in the United Kingdom. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 1689.
• Review of Analytical Methods and Reporting of the Polyphenol Content of Tart Cherry Supplements in Human Supplementation Studies Investigating Health and Exercise Performance Effects: Recommendations for Good Practice.
• Letter: Response to the Retraction of Papers by Yoshihiro Sato - a Review of Vitamin D and Parkinson's Disease.
• Retraction Watch: One in Six of the Papers You Cite in a Review Has Been Retracted. What Do You Do?

Clinical

• Impact of Obesity on Influenza Compared to Pneumonia Hospitalization Outcomes.
• Weight Loss Through Lifestyle Intervention Improves Mobility in Older Adults.
• Metabolic Adaptation Characterizes Short-term Resistance to Weight Loss Induced by a Low-Calorie Diet in Individuals with Overweight/Obesity.
• Effect of Obesity on the Ovarian Follicular Environment and Developmental Competence of the Oocyte.
• RCT: Obesity Does Not Interfere with the Cholesterol-Lowering Effect of Plant Stanol Ester Consumption (as Part of a Heart-Healthy Diet).
• Comparison of Argentinean Microbiota with Other Geographical Populations Reveals Different Taxonomic and Functional Signatures Associated with Obesity.
• RCT: Telemedicine Intervention to Improve Long-Term Risk Factor Control and Body Composition in Persons with High Cardiovascular Risk.
• Systematic Review of RCTs: Probiotics, Prebiotics and Synbiotics in the Treatment of Pre-Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• The Association between Overweight and Prevalence of Food Allergy in Japanese Children: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Memory and Executive Function in Adolescent and Young Adult Females with Moderate to Severe Obesity Before and After Weight Loss Surgery.
• An Action-Oriented Framework for Systems-Based Solutions Aimed at Childhood Obesity Prevention in US Latinx and Latin American Populations.
• Longitudinal Associations of Fruit Juice Intake in Infancy with DXA-Measured Abdominal Adiposity in Mid-Childhood and Early Adolescence.
• Associations of Prenatal Metabolomics Profiles with Early Childhood Growth Trajectories and Obesity Risk in African Americans.
• What Affects Programme Engagement for Māori Families? A Qualitative Study of a Family-Based, Multidisciplinary Healthy Lifestyle Programme for Children and Adolescents.
• Resting Energy Expenditure Is Not Altered in Children and Adolescents with Obesity. Effect of Age and Gender and Association with Serum Leptin Levels.
• Childhood Overweight and Obesity and Pubertal Onset Among Mexican American Boys and Girls.

Surgery

• Predictors of Remission and Relapse of Diabetes After Conventional Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study.
• AGA Technical Review on Intragastric Balloons in the Management of Obesity.
• Evaluation of Super-obesity and Super-super-obesity as Risk Factors for Difficult Intubation in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Health Status, Eating, and Lifestyle Habits in the Long Term Following Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• Liraglutide Combined with Intense Lifestyle Modification in the Management of Obesity in Adolescents.
• The Influence of Liraglutide on the Level of Blood Pressure in Patients with Arterial Hypertension Against the Background of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Medicines for the Treatment of Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Diet, Lifestyle, and Livelihoods During Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)–related Lockdowns and the Value of Web-Based Nutrition Studies.
• Vitamin B-6 Intake Is Related to Physical Performance in European Older Adults: Results of the New Dietary Strategies Addressing the Specific Needs of the Elderly Population for Healthy Aging in Europe (NU-AGE) Study.
• Impact of Dietary and Obesity Genetic Risk Scores on Weight Gain.
• RCT: Avocado Consumption Alters Gastrointestinal Bacteria Abundance and Microbial Metabolite Concentrations Among Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Association of Weight Status and Carbohydrate Intake with Gestational Weight Gain.
• Cholecalciferol Supplementation Does Not Prevent the Development of Metabolic Syndrome or Enhance the Beneficial Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Obese Mice.
• Eggs, Dietary Cholesterol, Choline, Betaine, and Diabetes Risk in the Women's Health Initiative: A Prospective Analysis.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Long-Term Chronic Caloric Restriction Alters MiRNA Profiles in the Brain of Ageing Mice.
• A Review: Obesity and Intestinal Stem Cell Susceptibility to Carcinogenesis.
• RCT: The Effect of Intermittent Energy Restriction on Weight Loss and Diabetes Risk Markers in Women with a History of Gestational Diabetes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Protocol: Can Non-Responders Be ‘Rescued’ by Increasing Exercise Intensity? A Quasi-experimental Trial of Individual Responses Among Humans Living with Pre-diabetes or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Canada.
• Preschool Physical Activity and Fitness Predicts Conceptual, Verbal and Perceptual Skills at School.
• Appetite and Energy Intake Regulation in Response to Acute Exercise.
• Literature Review: Does Obesity Affect the Severity of Exercise-Induced Muscle Injury?

Economics & Sociology

• The Impact of Late-Career Job Loss and Genetic Risk on BMI: Evidence from Variance Polygenic Scores.
• Changes in BMI from Young Adulthood to Late Midlife in 1536 Danish Men: The Influence of Intelligence and Education.
• Association between Parental Socioeconomic Status and Offspring Overweight/Obesity from the China Family Panel Studies.
• Shifting Toward a Healthier Dietary Pattern Through Nudging and Pricing Strategies: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Virtual Supermarket Experiment.
• Associations of Neighborhood Physical and Crime Environments with Obesity-Related Outcomes in Jamaica.
• Conservative to Disruptive Diets for Optimizing Nutrition, Environmental Impacts and Cost in French Adults from the NutriNet-Santé Cohort.
• Effectiveness of a Weight Loss Program Using Digital Health in Adolescents and Preadolescents.

Epidemiology

• The Association of Dietary Patterns with Dietary Inflammatory Index, Systemic Inflammation, and Insulin Resistance, in Apparently Healthy Individuals with Obesity.
• Association between BMI and Falls in Community-Dwelling Men and Women: A Prospective, Multinational Study in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.
• Ambient Air Pollutants are Associated with Morning Serum Cortisol in Latino Youth with Overweight and Obesity in Los Angeles.
• BMI and Risk of Dementia – Potential Explanations for Lifecourse Differences in Risk Estimates and Future Research Directions.
• Association between Different Obesity Phenotypes and Hypothyroidism: A Study Based on a Longitudinal Health Management Cohort.
• Literature Review: Obesity and Its Impact on COVID-19.
• US Obesity Mortality Trends and Associated Noncommunicable Diseases Contributing Conditions Among White, Black, and Hispanic Individuals by Age from 1999 to 2017.
• Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women with Class III Obesity with Normal Early Glucola.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Executive Functioning, Depressive Symptoms, and Intervention Engagement in a Sample of Adolescents Enrolled in a Weight Management Program.
• The Effect of a Food Addiction Explanatory Model of Eating Behaviours on Weight-Based Stigma: An Experimental Investigation.
• Social Network Analysis of the Effects of a Social Media–Based Weight Loss Intervention Targeting Adults of Low Socioeconomic Status: Single-Arm Intervention Trial.
• RCT: Self-Monitoring Interventions with or Without Incentives for Diet and Exercise Among Individuals with Overweight or Obesity: Psychological and Behavioural Effects.
• RCT: Diets Varying in Carbohydrate Content Differentially Alter Brain Activity in Homeostatic and Reward Regions in Adults.
• Satiety Does Not Affect Neuroaffective Electrophysiological Responses to Food-Related or Emotional Visual Cues.
• Food Addiction in a Large Community Sample of Canadian Adults: Prevalence and Relationship with Obesity, Body Composition, Quality of Life and Impulsivity.

Equity and Disparities

• Ethnic Variation, Socioeconomic Status, and Factors Associated with Cardio-Metabolic Multi-Mmorbidity Among Uncontrolled Hypertension in Multiethnic Singapore.
• Relationships of Dietary Factors with Obesity, Hypertension, and Diabetes by Regional Type Among Single-Person Households in Korea.
• Contribution of Prepregnancy Obesity to Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity.

Stigma

• Examining the Impact of Weight Bias on the Association between Exercise Identity and Maladaptive Exercise Behaviors.
• Associations between Weight-Based Teasing and Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Youth.
• Obesity Bias and Stigma, Attitudes and Beliefs Among Entry-Level Physiotherapy Students in the Republic of Ireland.
• Meta-Analysis: Weight Stigma and Mental Health.
• Weight-Based Victimization and School Performance in Adolescence: Can Teachers Help Reduce Academic Risks?

Policy Related

• Baseline Assessment of Children’s Meals and Healthy Beverage Options Prior to a State-Level Healthy Default Beverage (HDB) Law.
• The Association between Number of Children and Weight Loss Outcomes Among Individuals Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• To Assist the Large Number of Countries Facing the Double Burden of Malnutrition We Must Understand Its Causes and Recognize the Need for Policies That Do No Harm.
• Capacity for Childhood Obesity Research in Latin American and US Latino Populations: State of the Field, Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions.
• Action-Oriented Prospective Policy Analysis to Inform the Adoption of a Fiscal Policy to Reduce Diet-related Disease in the Solomon Islands.
• Secondary School Nutrition Policy Compliance in Ontario and Alberta, Canada: A Follow-Up Study Examining Vending Machine Data from the COMPASS Study.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Reduction Policies: Progress and Promise.

Intergenerational Effects

• Milky Ways: Effects of Maternal Obesity on Human Milk Composition and Childhood Obesity Risk.
• Associations between Exposure to Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Utero and Daily Energy Intake, Brain Responses to Food Cues, and Adiposity in Children.
• Lactational Metformin Treatment in Mouse Dams Ameliorates Maternal High-Fat Diet-Induced Metabolic Complications in Male Offspring.
• Endothelial Function and Its Determinants in Children Born After Maternal Bariatric Surgery.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Avian Red Blood Cell Mitochondria Produce More Heat in Winter Than Autumn.
• Quantifying Energetic Costs and Defining Energy Landscapes Experienced by Grizzly Bears.

Methods

• "Systematic reviews of nutritional epidemiology studies often have serious limitations."
• Identifying and Measuring the Behavioural, Dietary, and Physical Activity Components of Weight Management Consultations Delivered by General Practice Nurses in Routine Care.
• The Perils of Using Predicted Values in Place of Observed Covariates: An Example of Predicted Values of Body Composition and Mortality Risk.
• How Body Composition Techniques Measure Up for Reliability Across the Age-Span.
• Pre-print: Visceral Adiposity Index Outperforms Conventional Anthropometric Assessments as Predictor of Diabetes Mellitus in Elderly Chinese: A Population-Based Study.
• Prediction of Early Childhood Obesity with Machine Learning and Electronic Health Record Data.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Personalized Computational Model Quantifies Heterogeneity in Postprandial Responses to Oral Glucose Challenge.

Commentary

• How Much Does Obesity Explain COVID Death Rates?
• New Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise to Prevent Diabetes-related Amputations.
• Heartwarming Family Meals Prevent Obesity?
• Obesity, Mediterranean Diet, and Public Health: A Vision of Obesity in the Mediterranean Context from a Sociocultural Perspective.
• Fruit Drink Labeling Is Confusing to Many Parents, Study Finds.
• Obesity and Depression: Investigating the Link.
• Inhibiting Asc-1 Protein Function Could Present New Drug Target for Obesity.
• Adding the Nutrient Selenium to Diets Protects Against Obesity and Provides Metabolic Benefits to Mice.

General

• Conceptualization of Switching Costs in Fitness Centers: A Higher-Order Reflective-Formative Model.
• Pre-print: Targeting the Microbiome with KB109 in Outpatients with Mild to Moderate COVID-19 Reduced Medically Attended Acute Care Visits and Improved Symptom Duration in Patients with Comorbidities.
• The Association between Citrus Consumption and Melanoma Risk in the UK Biobank.
• Antibiotic Resistance: Bacterial Evolution on Demand.
• Commentary: Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So are Scientists.
• Pursuing ‘Conclusions Infinite:’ the Divine Inspiration of Georg Cantor.
• Could the Pandemic Prompt an ‘Epidemic of Loss’ of Women in the Sciences?

Announcements

• Canadian, U.S. And Danish Scientists Win Gairdner Prize for Key Discovery on Insulin-Regulating Hormones.
• Students Distribute Globally Inspired Food Boxes, Develop Symposium to Combat Food Insecurity.
• Meeting: American Society for Nutrition Live Online 2021 June 7 – 10 Registration Open.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.

Featured

• Effects of Edible Insect Tenebrio molitor Larva Fermentation Extract as a Substitute Protein on Hepatosteatogenesis and Proteomic Changes in Obese Mice Induced by High-Fat Diet.
• Insulin-Stimulated Endoproteolytic TUG Cleavage Links Energy Expenditure with Glucose Uptake.
• Personalized Computational Model Quantifies Heterogeneity in Postprandial Responses to Oral Glucose Challenge.
• A Plateful of Medicine.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: One Family Meal ‘As Important’ as Your 5 a Day, Claims Obesity Study.
• Study: Qualitative, Cross-Sectional Study of 12 Two-Parent Families' Eating Habits and Attitudes. Only 1 of 16 Adolescents Classified in 'Overweight' Range Based on Adolescent Self-Report.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Donor-Recipient Body Size Mismatch Has No Impact on Outcomes After Deceased Donor Whole Liver Transplantation: Role of Donor Liver Size Measurement.
• Endothelial Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Is of Minor Importance for Vascular and Renal Function and Obesity-Induced Dysfunction in Mice.
• "Contrary to previous work, we found that women with BN [bulimia nervosa] showed decreased delay discounting of monetary and food reward relative to HC [psychiatrically healthy] women."
• "Higher levels of leptin were associated...contrary to expectation, with slower baPWV [brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity], particularly among women with diabetes mellitus or obesity."
• RCT: No significant "effect of a one-year vigorous physical activity intervention on fitness, cognitive performance and mental health in young adolescents."
• Bariatric Surgery Does Not Seem to Affect Fall Risk Factors.
• "Maternal HFD consumption could not ameliorate the adverse effect of maternal SE [smoking] but exaggerate metabolic disorders in adult offspring [in mice]."
• RCT: "There was no significant difference in weight loss between TRE [12 h time-restricted eating] and SDA [standard dietary advice]".

Basic

• Network Dynamics of Hypothalamic Feeding Neurons.
• D-Mannitol Induces a Brown Fat-like Phenotype Via a β3-Adrenergic Receptor-Dependent Mechanism.
• Endothelial Nox5 Expression Modulates Glucose Uptake and Lipid Accumulation in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet and 3T3-L1 Adipocytes Treated with Glucose and Palmitic Acid.
• Compound- and Fiber Type-Selective Requirement of AMPKγ3 for Insulin-Independent Glucose Uptake in Skeletal Muscle.
• GHS-R in Brown Fat Potentiates Differential Thermogenic Responses Under Metabolic and Thermal Stresses.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Causation of Cigarette Smoke–induced Emphysema by P-Benzoquinone and Its Prevention by Vitamin C.
• Retraction: Upper Threshold for Resistance Training Volume in Trained Women.

Clinical

• Anticipatory Human Subthalamic Area Beta-Band Power Responses to Dissociable Tastes Correlate with Weight Gain.
• Review: Obesity, Adipose Tissue and Vascular Dysfunction.
• Association between Obesity and Histological Tumor Budding in Patients with Nonmetastatic Colon Cancer.
• Vitamin D and Obesity: Current Evidence and Controversies.

Children and Adolescents

• Systematic Review: Addressing Obesity in the First 1000 Days in High-Risk Infants.
• Prevalence of Elevated Intraocular Pressure Among a Random Sample of 8-Year-Old Italian Students.
• The Relation between Increased Carotid Intima-media Thickness with Fibrin Monomers in Children with Obesity.
• Research Note: Adolescent Obesity Facts.
• Characterization of a Regional Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment System.
• COVID-19 and Changes in Child Obesity.
• High Prevalence of Weight Gain in Childhood Brain Tumor Survivors and Its Association with Hypothalamic-Pituitary Dysfunction.

Surgery

• Doctoral Thesis: To Cut or Not to Cut: The Association between Weight Loss and Cardiometabolic Health in Adolescents and Adults After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Comparison of Liver Recovery After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y-Gastric Bypass.
• Model-Based Assessment of C-Peptide Secretion and Kinetics in Post Gastric Bypass Individuals Experiencing Postprandial Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia.

Drugs

• RCT: Saroglitazar, a PPAR-α/γ Agonist, for Treatment of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• "Findings indicate the therapeutic potential of the phenolic-rich jabuticaba peel and seed powder in preventing obesity-related disorders."

Food & Diet

• A Brief Motivational Intervention Differentially Reduces Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Consumption.
• The Association of Dietary Patterns with Dietary Inflammatory Index, Systemic Inflammation, and Insulin Resistance, in Apparently Healthy Individuals with Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Fried-Food Consumption and Risk of Overweight/obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and Hypertension in Adults.
• Review: Coffee and Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Arguments for a Causal Relationship.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Short-Term Calorie Restriction Maintains Plasma Insulin Concentrations Along with a Reduction in Hepatic Insulin-Degrading Enzyme Levels in Db/db Mice.
• Perspective: Oxidative Stress, Antioxidants, Hormesis and Calorie Restriction.
• Study of Longitudinal Aging in Mice: Presentation of Experimental Techniques.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Asthma, Atopy, and Exercise: Sex Differences in Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction.
• Women’s Health Initiative Strong and Healthy Pragmatic Physical Activity Intervention Trial for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: Design and Baseline Characteristics.
• Association between Low Protein Intake, Physical Activity, and Physical Function in Community-dwelling Older Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Cost-Effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery Versus Community Weight Management to Treat Obesity-related Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: Evidence from a Single Payer Health Care System.
• Factors Associated with Favorable Changes in Food Preferences After Bariatric Surgery.
• RCT: Health Behaviour Outcomes of a Family Based Intervention for Paediatric Obesity in Primary Care.
• Stay Slim or Get Fat?: An Examination of the "Jolly Fat" Effect in Chinese Older Adults.
• Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Risk of Weight Gain and Obesity in United States Veterans: An Observational Cohort Study.

Epidemiology

• Information Seeking Behavior About Obesity Among South Koreans: Applying the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model.
• Obesity as a Driver of International Differences in COVID-19 Death Rates.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Preprint: Psychosocial Resources and Diet-Related Lifestyle in Overweight and Obesity.
• Supplement: Physiology of Energy Intake in the Weight-Reduced State.

Equity and Disparities

• Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Underweight and Obesity in 5-Year-Old Children, 2011–2018.
• Patterns of Eating Associated with Sleep Characteristics: A Pilot Study Among Individuals of Mexican Descent at the US-Mexico Border.
• Black–White Disparities in Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health Index and Their Associations with Self-Rated Health and Functional Limitations in Older Adults.

Stigma

• Association between Racial Discrimination and Change in Adiposity Among Emerging Adult Women Enrolled in a Behavioral Weight Loss Program.
• Frequency and Correlates of Weight-Based Discrimination Among Adolescents in China.
• The Relation between Anti-Fat Stereotypes and Anti-Fat Prejudices: The Role of Gender as a Moderator.
• Review: The Complexity and Stigma of Pediatric Obesity.

Policy Related

• Systematic Review: Natural Environment and Childhood Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Influence of Sugar Label Formats on Consumer Understanding and Amount of Sugar in Food Choices.

Intergenerational Effects

• Impact of Maternal Obesity and Prebiotic Supplementation on Select Maternal Milk MiRNA Levels and Correlation to Offspring Outcomes.
• Pre-Pregnancy Maternal BMI Classification Is Associated with Preschool Childhood Diet Quality and Childhood Obesity.
• Factors Associated with Small- and Large-for-Festational-Age in Socioeconomically Vulnerable Individuals.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Metabolic Response of Dolphins to Short-Term Fasting Reveals Physiological Changes That Differ from the Traditional Fasting Model.
• Eat Yourself Sexy: How Selective Macronutrient Intake Influences the Expression of a Visual Signal in Common Mynas.

Methods

• Weight Change Adjusted Equations for Assessing Resting Metabolic Rate in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• The Adaptation, Validation, and Application of a Methodology for Estimating the Added Sugar Content of Packaged Food Products When Total and Added Sugar Labels are Not Mandatory.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Interpretable Conditional Recurrent Neural Network for Weight Change Prediction: Algorithm Development and Validation Study.
• Analysis of Fractional-Order Population Model of Diabetes and Effect of Remission Through Lifestyle Intervention.

Commentary

• Seaweed Can Reduce Methane Emissions & Feed Costs in Cattle.
• Deep Seafloor Nutrient Vital in Global Food Chain.
• Science Feature: A Plateful of Medicine: Special Diets Might Boost the Power of Drugs to Vanquish Cancers.
• Time to End Weight Stigma in Healthcare.
• Is the Classical Oral Antidiabetic Metformin the Novel Miracle Drug to Combat Aging?
• Review: Obesity and Energy Substrate Transporters in Ovarian Cancer.
• Exploring the Genetic Conception of Obesity Via the Dual Role of FoxO.
• The Role of Diagnostic Biomarkers, Omics Strategies, and Single-Cell Sequencing for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Patients with Severe Obesity.
• Adipose Tissue Lipolysis, Plasma Fatty Acids, and Glucose Homeostasis in People with Obesity: New Pieces That Help Solve the Puzzle.

General

• Deep Sea Science: Deep Sea Reveals Insights on Human Immunity.
• Littlest Shop of Horrors: Hungry Green Algae Prefer to Eat Bacteria Alive.
• On Mining Words: The Utility of Topic Models in Health Education Research and Practice.
• A Mechanistic Study of the Antiaging Effect of Raw-Milk Cheese Extracts.
• The Evaluation of Dark Chocolate-Elicited Emotions and Their Relation with Physico Chemical Attributes of Chocolate.
• Reliability and Reproducibility in Computational Science: Implementing Validation, Verification and Uncertainty Quantification in Silico.
• Estimation of the Incubation Period of COVID-19 Using Viral Load Data.
• They Swore by the Diet I Created — but I Completely Made It Up.

Announcements

• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.

Featured

• Drew Sayer Named Inaugural Ronald L. & David B. Allison Endowed Scholar.
• Systematic Review: Adenovirus 36 Prevalence and Association with Human Obesity.
• Systematic Review: "...consumption of whole grain foods, compared with refined grain foods, significantly impacts subjective appetite, and might partly explain the inverse associations between whole grain food intake and risk of overweight, obesity, and weight gain over time."
• Reciprocal Control of Obesity and Anxiety–depressive Disorder Via a GABA and Serotonin Neural Circuit.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: This One Eating Habit Raises Your Risk of Early Death by 50%, Says Study: New Research Says Eating Too Many Restaurant-prepared Meals Can Shorten Your Lifespan.
• Study: Self-Reported Frequency of Meals Away from Home (Restaurants, Fast Food Places, Food Stands, Grocery Stores, Vending Machines) Statistically Significantly Associated with (Not Necessarily Causally Related To) All-Cause Mortality.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "These findings suggest no effects of the provision of a variety of vegetables to meet Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommendations for 8 weeks on vegetable reinforcement".
• RCT: No Significant Differential Effects of High-intensity Interval Training Combined with Traditional Strength or Power Training on Body Composition in Healthy Older Men.
• RCT: "Overall, we found the priming group did not choose lower energy-dense foods significantly more than the control group, hence priming did not increase lower energy-dense food selection."
• Systematic Review: "No evidence was found to support the efficacy of dietary zinc supplements on serum levels of adipokine."
• "Compared to standardized advice, personalized advice based on cancer risk prediction had no effect on improving lifestyle."
• "Acute infusion of lipid and insulin, to mimic the metabolic syndrome of obesity, was not associated with an increase in inflammatory markers."
• "We found no significant association between dolutegravir pharmacokinetic parameters and weight gain amongst treatment-experienced people with HIV newly switched to a dolutegravir-based dual regimen."
• No Significant Improvements in Overall Activity Seen in Evaluation of a Voucher Scheme to Increase Child Physical Activity in Participants of a School Physical Activity Trial in the Hunter Region of Australia.

Basic

• Developmental Programming of Offspring Adipose Tissue Biology and Obesity Risk.
• Characterization of Differentially Expressed Circulating MiRNAs in Metabolically Healthy Versus Unhealthy Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effects of Diets Enriched in Monounsaturated Oleic Acid on the Management and Prevention of Obesity: A Systematic Review of Human Intervention Studies.
• Letter to the Editor: On “Systematic Review of Diets Enriched in Oleic Acid and Obesity”.
• Response: Reply to H. Raeisi-Dehkordi Et Al. Letter to the Editor.
• PubPeer Comment On: Difference in the Effect of Sedentary Behavior and Fast Food Consumption Habit on BMI Among [Children with Obesity].
• Retraction: Exercise-induced Mitochondrial P53 Repairs MtDNA Mutations in Mutator Mice.

Clinical

• RCT: "This pilot study represents an innovative model for behavioral weight loss by reversing the typical treatment intensity model with the aim of providing interventionist support during a critical period after initial weight loss."
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis: Causal Effects of the Human Gut Microbiota on Abdominal Obesity.
• "Altered glycosylation is associated with several diseases, particularly cancer and type 2 diabetes, and this study raises the possibility that diet may influence disease state by altering glycosylation."
• Probiotics Reduce Self-reported Symptoms of Upper Respiratory Tract Infection in Adults with Overweight and Obesity: Should We Be Considering Probiotics During Viral Pandemics?
• Comprehensive Lifestyle Improvement Program for Prostate Cancer (CLIPP) Is Associated with Improvement in Weight and Components of Metabolic Syndrome in Men Exposed to Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer.

Children and Adolescents

• "These findings support those of previous studies reporting greater fat-free mass in formula-fed infants during the first 6 months of life."
• Review: "...even though increased body mass index is the main determinant of blood pressure in the general population, not every adolescent [with hypertension has obesity]".
• Review: Family and Child Perspectives of Clinic-Based Obesity Treatment.
• Growth and Neurodevelopment in Low Birth Weight Versus Normal Birth Weight Infants from Birth to 24 months, Born in an Obstetric Emergency Hospital in Haiti.
• The Impact of Body Weight Trajectory from Childhood on Chronic Inflammation in Adulthood.
• Body Adiposity Index to Analyze the Percentage of Fat in Young Men Aged between 7 and 17 years.
• Impact of a Year-round School Calendar on Children's BMI and Fitness.
• "For all infectious disease measures an increase in BMI z-score for the highest childhood exposure to infectious disease was observed, although only statistically significant for parent-reported infections."
• Preprint: Differences in Total and Regional Body Fat and Their Association with BMI in UK-born White and South Asian Children.

Surgery

• Review: The Gut/Lung Microbiome Axis in Obesity, Asthma, and Bariatric Surgery.
• Effect of Preoperative Weight Loss and Baseline Comorbidity on Short-Term Complications and Reoperations After Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in 2,067 Patients.
• Bariatric Surgery Reduces Cancer Risk in Adults with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Severe Obesity.
• Long-term Incidence of Colorectal Cancer After Bariatric Surgery or Usual Care.

Drugs

• RCT: Reducing the Need for Carbohydrate Counting in Type 1 Diabetes Using Closed-loop Automated Insulin Delivery (artificial Pancreas) and Empagliflozin.
• Systematic Review: Long-term Effects of Weight-reducing Drugs in People with Hypertension.
• Review: Best Practices in the Management of Overweight and Obesity.
• The Effect of an Orally-dosed Caralluma Fimbriata Extract on Appetite Control and Body Composition in Overweight Adults.
• Selection of Antiobesity Medications Based on Phenotypes Enhances Weight Loss: A Pragmatic Trial in an Obesity Clinic.
• "In participants with overweight or obesity, 2.4 mg of semaglutide once weekly plus lifestyle intervention was associated with sustained, clinically relevant reduction in body weight."

Food & Diet

• Review: Soft Drinks and Sweeteners Intake: Possible Contribution to the Development of Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Diseases. Beneficial or Detrimental Action of Alternative Sweeteners?
• "A high-protein (~ 1.6 g kg/day), exclusively plant-based diet (plant-based whole foods + soy protein isolate supplementation) is not different than a protein-matched mixed diet (mixed whole foods + whey protein supplementation) in supporting muscle strength and mass accrual..."
• "These findings suggest that a vegan diet is an effective strategy for improving glucose tolerance and reducing plasma TMAO in individuals with dysglycemia or obesity."

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Workshop Proceedings: Describing the Weight-Reduced State: Physiology, Behavior, and Interventions.
• Cardioprotective Effects of Severe Calorie Restriction from Birth in Adult Ovariectomized Rats.
• A Fifty Percent Leucine-restricted Diet Reduces Fat Mass and Improves Glucose Regulation.
• Preprint: Comparative Effects of Calorie Restriction on Health Span and Insulin Resistance: Classic Calorie Restriction Diet vs Ketosis-Inducing Diet.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Association of Cycling with Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality.
• Review: Exercise Is Muscle Mitochondrial Medicine.
• Effects of Two Workload-Matched High-Intensity Interval Training Protocols on Regional Body Composition and Fat Oxidation in Men with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic review: Economic Evaluations of Web-based or Telephone-delivered Interventions for Preventing Overweight and Obesity And/or Improving Obesity-related Behaviors.
• A Life Course Perspective on BMI in Rural America.
• Polygenic Risk for Obesity and Its Interaction with Lifestyle and Sociodemographic Factors in European Children and Adolescents.
• Maternal Stress Moderates the Relationship of Food Insufficiency with  BMI Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adulthood Among U.S. Rural Youth.
• Job Absenteeism Costs of Obesity in the United States: National and State-Level Estimates.

Epidemiology

• Environmental Mismatch and Obesity in Humans.
• Childhood Patterns of Overweight and Wheeze and Subsequent Risk of Current Asthma and Obesity in Adolescence.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Can a Short Screening Tool Discriminate between Overeating and Binge Eating in Treatment-Seeking Individuals with Obesity?
• The Combined Effects of Obesity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness are Associated with Response Inhibition.
• Predictors and Outcomes of Digital Weighing and Activity Tracking Lapses Among Young Adults During Weight Gain Prevention.
• See the Cake and Have It Too? Investigating the Effect of Watching a Cooking Show on Unhealthy Food Choices.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic Review: Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Obesity and Biological, Behavioral, and Sociocultural Influences in the United States.
• "Results are congruent with findings from other studies reporting associations between racial inequality and obesity incidence and also suggest racial discrimination may be one of the mechanisms leading to such inequalities."
• Traditional Societal Practices Can Avert Poor Dietary Habits and Reduce Obesity Risk in Preschool Children of Mothers with Low Socioeconomic Status and Unemployment.
• "Differences in patterns of coping strategies may help to explain disparities in obesity-related health behavior."
• Time Trends in Socio-economic, Urban-rural and Regional Disparities in Prevalence of Obesity Among Non-pregnant Women in Lesotho.

Stigma

• Qualitative: Eradicating Weight Stigma by Combating Pathologization.
• Review: Weight Bias During COVID-19.
• Self-Compassion, Internalized Weight Stigma, Psychological Well-Being, and Eating Behaviors in Women.
• Weight Stigma Experiences and Self-exclusion from Sport and Exercise Settings Among People with Obesity.
• An Exploratory Examination of Internalized Weight Stigma in a Sample Living with Food Insecurity.

Policy Related

• Federal Nutrition Programs After the Pandemic: Learning from P-EBT and SNAP to Create the Next Generation of Food Safety Net Programs.
• School Nutrition Director Perceptions of Flexible Regulations for School Nutrition Programs in One Southeastern State.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic Review: Maternal and Infant Factors Influencing Human Milk Oligosaccharide Composition: Beyond Maternal Genetics.
• Bayesian Regularized Mediation Analysis: Intergenerational Associations between Maternal Diet and Childhood Adiposity.
• "Maternal obesity is negatively associated with the content of select miRNAs in human milk."
• "Findings suggest that caffeine consumption during pregnancy, even at levels much lower than the recommended 200 mg per day of caffeine, are associated with decreased fetal growth."
• Antenatal Fetal Size and Obesity in Five-Year-Old Children in a Large Cohort Created by Data Linkage.
• Maternal Adipose Tissue to Early Preeclampsia Risk Detection: Is the Time to Maternal Ultrasound Beyond Fetal Evaluation?

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Brown and Beige Adipose Tissue Regulate Systemic Metabolism Through a Metabolite Interorgan Signaling Axis.
• Surviving Winter: Physiological Regulation of Energy Balance in a Temperate Ectotherm Entering and Exiting Brumation.

Methods

• Nanoproteomic Approach for Isolation and Identification of Potential Biomarkers in Human Urine from Adults with Normal Weight, Overweight and Obesity.
• Derivation and Validation of a Total Fruit and Vegetable Intake Prediction Model to Identify Targets for Biomarker Discovery Using the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• CODY Enables Quantitatively Spatiotemporal Predictions on in Vivo Gut Microbial Variability Induced by Diet Intervention.

Commentary

• Metformin and COVID-19 Mortality Risk; A Timeline of Kobe’s Last Day.
• Factoids and Links: Deceiving with the Truth.
• Obesity Screening in School: Can We Please Stop Now?
• Time to Shed Covid Fat.
• Better-for-You Bunk: False Advertising?
• Does Fenugreek Aid Weight Loss?
• Misconceptions About Obesity Have Led to a Spike in Weight Shaming During COVID-19, Experts Say.
• The Air That We (do Not) Breathe: Lower Adipose Tissue Oxygen Availability in Patients with Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome?

General

• Wild Insect Diversity Increases Inter-annual Stability in Global Crop Pollinator Communities.
• US Health Agency Will Invest $1 Billion to Investigate ‘long COVID’.
• Coronapod: COVID and Pregnancy - What Do We Know?
• Associations of Habitual Dietary Intake with Fecal Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Bowel Functions in Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
• An Open Plea for Dignity and Respect in Science.
• The Fight Against Fake-paper Factories That Churn Out Sham Science.
• A Quantitative Model Used to Compare Within-host SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV Dynamics Provides Insights into the Pathogenesis and Treatment of SARS-CoV-2.
• Associations between Everyday Discrimination and Sleep: Tests of Moderation by Ethnicity and Sense of Purpose.

Announcements

• OEO Contributor Garr Barry Wins UAB Barker Award for Excellence.
• The Obesity Society's Abstract Submission Site Now Open for Obesity Week (April 15 Deadline).
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Survey Development Webinar (April 12).
• New Book - Food History: A Feast of the Senses in Europe, 1750 to the Present.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.