Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Meta-Analysis: "In conclusion, SGLT2 inhibitors reduce all-cause mortality in randomized-controlled trials."
• Life’s Energy and Information: Contrasting Evolution of Volume- Versus Surface-Specific Rates of Energy Consumption.
• Association between Achieving Inpatient Glycemic Control and Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: A Multicenter, Retrospective Hospital-Based Analysis.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Increasing Water Intake May Help Prevent, Treat Metabolic Syndrome.
• Press-release: Water May Be an Effective Treatment for Metabolic Syndrome.
• Study: Vasopressin Mediates Fructose-induced Metabolic Syndrome by Activating the V1b Receptor... In Mice and Immortal Cells.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Overall, multiple food-specific or generic ICT sessions over the course of a four-week period do not affect overall weight loss, caloric intake, or N2 ERP amplitude."
• RCT: "While this trial was a pilot study and not powered to detect a difference between groups, there was no suggestion of any clinically important impact of this financial incentive on postoperative ambulation."
• RCT: No significant effect in "a 3-month ...feasibility trial comparing app-based diet tracking (active comparator) to app-based diet tracking plus feedback on DASH adherence via text message (intervention)."
• "The present study was unable to show any clear associations between ICFI [Infant and Child Feeding Index] and nutritional status..."
• "Contrary to expectations, DIP [glutamine and alanine supplementation, as dipeptide] administration increased central fatigue parameters, such as plasma concentration of free fatty acids (FFA), hypothalamic content of serotonin and serotonin/dopamine ratio" in rats.
• "Contrary to predictions, the monkeys spent equal proportions of time feeding...in forest edge and interior."
• RCT: No Differential Effect of Intermittent vs Continuous Energy Restriction Result in Similar Weight Loss, Weight Loss Maintenance, and Body Composition Changes.
• RCT: "Consumption of a Beverage Containing Aspartame and Acesulfame K for Two Weeks Does Not Adversely Influence Glucose Metabolism in Adult Males and Females."

Basic

• Resistin Is Co-Secreted with Adiponectin in White Mouse Adipocytes.
• Chronic Circadian Shift Leads to Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Fibrosis in Mice.
• Oxidative Stress and Neuroinflammation in a Rat Model of Co-Morbid Obesity and Psychogenic Stress.
• HIF1α Activation in Dendritic Cells Under Sterile Conditions Promotes an Anti-Inflammatory Phenotype Through Accumulation of Intracellular Lipids.
• The Effects of Ovariectomy on the Behavioral and Physiological Responses to Constant Light in C57BL6/J Mice.
• Appetite Regulating Hormones are Reduced After Oral Sucrose vs Glucose: Influence of Obesity, Insulin Resistance and Sex.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• PubPeer Comment On: Could Ketogenic Diet “starve” Cancer? Emerging Evidence.
• PubPeer Comments on: Exercise for Weight Loss.
• Retraction: Is Interval Training the Magic Bullet for Fat Loss? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Comparing Moderate-intensity Continuous Training with High-intensity Interval Training (HIIT).

Clinical

• Driver Versus Navigator Causation in Biology: The Case of Insulin and Fasting Glucose.
• The Impact of Obesity in End of Life Care in Patients with End Stage Liver Disease: An Observational Study.
• Body Weight Management in Breast Cancer Survivors with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Combined Effects of Continuous Exercise and Intermittent Active Interruptions to Prolonged Sitting on Postprandial Glucose, Insulin, and Triglycerides in Adults with Obesity.
• RCT: Intermittent and Continuous Energy Restriction Result in Similar Weight Loss, Weight Loss Maintenance, and Body Composition Changes.

Children and Adolescents

• Associations of Maternal Fructose and Sugar-sweetened Beverage and Juice Intake During Lactation with Infant Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 24 Months.
• The Impact of Obesity on Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Diastolic Function in Caucasian Children.
• Physical Activity and Screen Time of Children and Adolescents Before and During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany: A Natural Experiment.
• Childhood Exposure to Parental Smoking and Lifecourse Overweight and Central Obesity.

Surgery

• RCT: Effect of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass on Weight Loss and Quality of Life at 7 Years in Patients with Morbid Obesity.
• Partial Restoration of Normal Intestinal Microbiota in Women with Morbid Obesity Six Months After Bariatric Surgery.
• Granzyme B Expression in Visceral Adipose Tissue Associates with Local Inflammation and Glyco-Metabolic Alterations in Obesity.

Drugs

• Anti-Obesity Natural Products Tested in Juvenile Zebrafish Obesogenic Tests and Mouse 3T3-L1 Adipogenesis Assays.
• Pharmacotherapy in Pediatric Obesity: Current Evidence and Landscape.
• Obesity Treatment in Patients Both with and Without Diabetes: Current Options and Perspectives.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effects of Fasting-Mimicking Diet and Specific Meal Replacement Foods on Blood Glucose Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Meta-analysis: Calcium Supplements and Dairy Products for Changes in Body Weight and Obesity Indices.
• The Importance of 24-h Metabolism in Obesity-related Metabolic Disorders: Opportunities for Timed Interventions.
• Review: A Rational Review on the Effects of Sweeteners and Sweetness Enhancers on Appetite, Food Reward and Metabolic/adiposity Outcomes in Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Middle Age as a Turning Point in Mouse Cerebral Cortex Energy and Redox Metabolism: Modulation by Every-other-day Fasting.
• Enhanced Weight and Fat Loss from Long-term Intermittent Fasting in Obesity-prone, Low-fitness Rats.
• RCT: PROFAST: Assessing the Effects of Intermittent Fasting and Lacticaseibacillus Rhamnosus Probiotic Among People with Prediabetes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Resistance Training Is Associated with Significantly Improved Hip-related Quality of Life, Symptoms, and Sports and Recreation, and Decreased Pain Scores in Post-hip Replacement Patients.
• Effect of EHealth to Increase Physical Activity in Healthy Adults over 55 Years.
• The Influence of Physical Activity on the Bioactive Lipids Metabolism in Obesity-Induced Muscle Insulin Resistance.
• Carbohydrate Requirements for Prolonged, Fasted Exercise with and Without Basal Rate Reductions in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes on Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion.

Economics & Sociology

• Transitions Among BMI States: A Test of Competing Hypotheses.
• Objectively Measured Waist Circumference Is Most Strongly Associated in Father–boy and Mother–girl Dyads in a Large Nationally Representative Sample of New Zealanders.

Epidemiology

• Cardiometabolic Morbidity and Mortality with Smoking Cessation, Review of Recommendations for People with Diabetes and Obesity.
• Association between High Birth Weight and Later Central Obesity in 9-Year-Old Schoolchildren.
• BMI Trajectories Among People with Obesity and Association with Mortality: Evidence from a Large Israeli Database.
• Meta-Analysis: Association between Obesity and Depression Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
• Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity Among Children and Adolescents Aged 2–19 Years: United States, 1963–1965 Through 2017–2018.
• Brief Communication: Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Activity Patterns and Weight Status Among Youths in China: The COVID-19 Impact on Lifestyle Change Survey (COINLICS).
• Brief Communication: The Association between BMI Class and Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outcomes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Barriers to Adherence to a Weight Loss Diet in Women.
• Bi-Directional Associations between Real-Time Affect and Physical Activity in Weight-Discordant Siblings.
• Food Reward Sensitivity, Impulsivity, and Weight Change During and After a 3-month Weight Loss Program.
• RCT: Exploring Attitudes, Subjective Norms and Perceived Behavioural Control in a Genetic-Based and a Population-Based Weight Management Intervention.
• Perceived Willpower Self-efficacy Fluctuates Dynamically with Affect and Distress Intolerance.
• Direct and Indirect Effects of Poor Sleep Quality on BMI and Waist Circumference in a Female Population-based Study in Southern Brazil.

Equity and Disparities

• A Culturally and Gender Responsive Stress and Chronic Disease Prevention Intervention for Low/no-income African American Men: The MOCHA Moving Forward RCT Protocol. (pdf)
• Less Obesity but Higher Inequalities in Portuguese Children: Trends of Childhood Obesity between 2002-2016.

Stigma

• Discrimination in the Health Care System Among Higher-weight Adults: Evidence from a Canadian National Cross-sectional Survey.

Policy Related

• On Shape and Being Shaped - Rethinking the Urban Built Environment as a Catalyst of Childhood Inactivity and Obesity.
• Energy Imbalance: Obesity, Associated Comorbidities, Prevention, Management and Public Health Implications.

Intergenerational Effects

• Observations of Maternal Feeding Practices and Styles and Young Children's Obesity Risk: A Longitudinal Study of Hispanic Mothers with Low Incomes.
• The Role of Vitamin A and Its Pro-vitamin Carotenoids in Fetal and Neonatal Programming: Gaps in Knowledge and Metabolic Pathways.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Prey Preferences of Modern Human Hunter-gatherers.
• Breaking Free from Thermodynamic Constraints: Thermal Acclimation and Metabolic Compensation in a Freshwater Zooplankton Species.

Methods

• Regression to the Mean Contributes to the Apparent Improvement in Glycemia 3.8 Years After Screening: The ELSA-Brasil Study.
• Comparison of Anthropometric Measures in US Military Personnel in the Classification of Overweight and Obesity.
• Dietary Metabolite Profiling Brings New Insight into the Relationship between Nutrition and Metabolic Risk: An IMI DIRECT Study.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Systematic Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation of Dietary Factors Associated with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Fatal Coronary Heart Disease.
• Relative Fat Mass Index Can Be Solution for Obesity Paradox in Coronary Artery Disease Severity Prediction Calculated by SYNTAX Score.

Commentary

• Is American Dietetics a White-Bread World? These Dietitians Think So.
• Exercise for Weight Loss: The Lie That Won’t Die.
• Race, Ethnicity, and Racism in the Nutrition Literature: An Update for 2020.
• Preconception Dilemma for Women with Obesity: Is It Worth Waiting to Lose Weight?
• A Blind Spot for Diversity in Nutrition?
• Psychological Aspects of Obesity.
• Dogs and Owners May Share Resemblance in Diabetes Risk.
• Study Finds No Evidence That Vegan Diet Benefits Specific Blood Type.
• Moderna Vaccine Works Well, Even with Severe Obesity.

General

• Race, Ethnicity, and Racism in the Nutrition Literature: An Update for 2020.
• The Effect of Offspring Sex on Parents’ Migration Probabilities and Outcomes—A Natural Experiment.
• RCT: The Effects of Four Doses of Vitamin D Supplements on Falls in Older Adults: A Response-Adaptive RCT.
• World Leaders are Waking Up to the Ocean’s Role in a Healthy Planet.
• Childbirth and the Women’s Aging Process.
• IEEE’s Refusal to Issue Corrections.
• Video: Smart Spoon for People with Parkinson's Disease.
• Statistical Discrimination and the Rationalization of Stereotypes.
• Fruit Flies are Essential to Science. So are the Workers Who Keep Them Alive [at Indiana University's Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center].

Announcements

• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington’s Department of Kinesiology Ranked 11th in the Nation.
• Award Opportunity: New Award from American Society for Nutrition Foundation for Scientific Achievements in Obesity Research.
• Award Opporunity: Expanded Call for Nominations for ASN Junior and Mid-Career Scientific Achievement Awards.
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.

Featured

• Do Lower-Carbohydrate Diets Increase Total Energy Expenditure? An Updated and Reanalyzed Meta-Analysis of 29 Controlled-Feeding Studies.
• Similar Foraging Energetics of Two Sympatric Albatrosses Despite Contrasting Life Histories and Wind-mediated Foraging Strategies.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Obesity Drives Breast Cancer Risk for Black Women.
• Press-release: Study Finds Obesity Contributes to 40% Mortality Gap between Black and White Women with Early Breast Cancer.
• Study: Associations Among Obesity, Comorbidities, and Treatment Selection in Black and White Women with Early Breast Cancer.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "This study showed that physical exercise interventions did not enhance executive functioning in children."
• "There were only minimal associations of DNA methylation with childhood and adolescent BMI. …These findings may be compatible with the hypothesis that DNA methylation differences are mostly a consequence rather than a cause of obesity."
• Attenuated Early Pregnancy Weight Gain by Prenatal Lifestyle Interventions Does Not Prevent Gestational Diabetes in the LIFE-Moms Consortium.
• "The failure to find a relationship between parental feeding synchrony and nest survival seems exceptional because it is contrary to findings of previous studies."
• RCT: Few Structural Brain Changes Associated with Moderate-Intensity Interval Training and Low-Intensity Continuous Training in Older Adults.
• RCT: "The macronutrient composition of an isoenergetic WM diet did not affect fasting appetite-related hormone concentrations."
• RCT: Habitual Caffeine Consumption Does Not Affect the Ergogenicity of Coffee Ingestion During a 5 Km Cycling Time Trial.
• RCT: "A hypocaloric high-protein diet along with fennel supplementation could not provide additional improvements in anthropometric and androgen indices among PCOS women."
• RCT: No Consistent Statistically Significant Effect at 5-Year Follow-Up of a Telephone Intervention to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Preschoolers: The ‘Healthy Habits’ Trial.

Basic

• Whole Red Raspberry (Rubus Idaeus)-Enriched Diet Is Hepatoprotective in the Obese Zucker Rat, a Model of the Metabolic Syndrome.
• Inhibition of Mitochondrial Fission and INOS in the Dorsal Vagal Complex Protects from Overeating and Weight Gain.
• Gamma-Oryzanol as a Possible PPAR-γ Agonist in Adipose Tissue May Represent a Coadjutant Therapeutic to Prevent Cytokine Storm in COVID-19 Patients with Obesity.
• Intercellular Mitochondria Transfer to Macrophages Regulates White Adipose Tissue Homeostasis and Is Impaired in Obesity.
• Sex Differences in Macrophage Responses to Obesity-Mediated Changes Determine Migratory and Inflammatory Traits.
• How Targeting Fat Cells’ Estrogen Receptors Could Fight Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction Note: Dietary Patterns and Their Associations with Socio-demographic and Lifestyle Factors in Tasmanian Older Adults: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
• Republished: Longitudinal Associations of Dietary Patterns with Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors in Older Adults: The TASOAC Study.
• Editorial: "...we commend the authors’ intellectual honesty..."
• Letter: Covid-19 and Vit-D: Disease Mortality Negatively Correlates with Sunlight Exposure.
• Reply: Response to Naudet et al.

Clinical

• RCT: Post-weight Loss Changes in Fasting Appetite- and Energy Balance-related Hormone Concentrations and the Effect of the Macronutrient Content of a Weight Maintenance Diet.
• Meta-analysis: Effects of Capsicum Annuum Supplementation on the Components of Metabolic Syndrome.
• Meta-analysis: The Effect of the Magnitude of Weight Loss on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Feasibility of a Digital Health Intervention to Improve Diet Quality Among Women with High Blood Pressure.

Children and Adolescents

• Obesogenic Environment and Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Is There a Universally Accepted Definition? Does It Matter?

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Requiring Insulin: Clinical Outcome and Cost-effectiveness Analyses.
• Review: Immunometabolism, Micronutrients, and Bariatric Surgery: The Use of Transcriptomics and Microbiota-Targeted Therapies.
• Does Postoperative Oral and Intestinal Microbiota Correlate with the Weight-Loss Following Bariatric Surgery?—A Cohort Study.

Drugs

• FDA Approves Saxenda® for the Treatment of Obesity in Adolescents Aged 12-17.
• Commentary: Pfizer COVID Vaccine: Equally Effective with Obesity.
• The Potential of Resveratrol to Act as a Caloric Restriction Mimetic Appears to Be Limited: Insights from Studies in Mice.
• Enoxacin Induces Oxidative Metabolism and Mitigates Obesity by Regulating Adipose Tissue MiRNA Expression.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis of RCTs: The Impact of Low Advanced Glycation End Products Diet on Metabolic Risk Factors.
• Ultra-processed Food Consumption and Indicators of Obesity in the United Kingdom Population (2008-2016).
• Effect of a Low-Fat Vegan Diet on Body Weight, Insulin Sensitivity, Postprandial Metabolism, and Intramyocellular and Hepatocellular Lipid Levels in Overweight Adults.
• Longer Time Spent at Home During COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated with Binge Drinking Among US Adults.
• Metabolic Syndrome Features and Excess Weight Were Inversely Associated with Nut Consumption After 1-Year Follow-Up in the PREDIMED-Plus Study.
• Enhanced Weight and Fat Loss from Long-term Intermittent Fasting in Obesity-prone, Low-fitness Rats.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• A Hypoenergetic Diet with Decreased Protein Intake Does Not Reduce Lean Body Mass in Trained Females.
• Review: Still Living Better Through Chemistry: An Update on Caloric Restriction and Caloric Restriction Mimetics as Tools to Promote Health and Lifespan.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Maternal BMI, Change in Weight Status from Childhood to Late Adulthood and Physical Activity in Older Age.
• Moderate-to-vigorous Physical Activity Duration Is More Important Than Timing for Physical Function in Older Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Social Determination, Health Selection or Indirect Selection? Examining the Causal Directions between Socioeconomic Status and Obesity in the Chinese Adult Population.
• Economic Preferences and Obesity: Evidence from a Clinical Lab-in-Field Experiment. (PDF)

Epidemiology

• Increases in Prepregnancy Obesity: United States, 2016–2019.
• Height and Body-mass Index Trajectories of School-aged Children and Adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 Countries and Territories.
• Examining the Obesity Paradox: A Moderating Effect of Fitness on Adipose Endocrine Function in Older Adults.
• Sex Differences in the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Associated with Type 2 Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Narrative review: Sleep Extension: A Potential Target for Obesity Treatment.
• Higher HbA1c Levels Associate with Lower Hippocampal Serotonin Transporter Availability in Non-diabetic Adults with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• The Impacts of Racism and Bias on Black People Pursuing Careers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Proceedings of a Workshop.
• Food over Fear: Overcoming Barriers to Connect Latinx Immigrant Families to Federal Nutrition and Food Programs.
• Income-based Inequality of Adolescent Obesity in Australia.
• Obesity, Comorbidities, and Treatment Selection in Black and White Women with Early Breast Cancer.
• Weighing the Influence of Race and Obesity on Outcomes in Patients with Early-stage Breast Cancer.
• Trends in Hypertension Clinical Trials Focused on Interventions Specific for Black Adults.

Stigma

• Does Promoting Positive Body Image to a Friend Affect One’s Own Positive Body Image?
• Attitudes and Beliefs in Swedish Midwives and Obstetricians Towards Obesity and Gestational Weight Management.
• Body Appreciation and Appearance Evaluation in Individuals with Obesity Compared to Individuals with Normal-weight: Findings from a Representative German Population Sample.

Policy Related

• State of Obesity 2020: Better Policies for a Healthier America Congressional Briefing.
• Global Epidemics of Obesity and Diabetes: A Renewed Call for Action. (PDF)

Intergenerational Effects

• Moving Down the Energy Ladder: Average In-utero Temperature and Fuel Choice in Adulthood. (PDF)
• Maternal Obesity Is Associated with a Sex-specific Epigenetic Programming in Human Neonatal Monocytes.
• Parental Consumption of Ultra-processed, High-fat Products Has No Association with Childhood Overweight/obesity: An Epidemiological Study Among 10–12-years-old Children in Greece.
• Maternal GDM Status, Genetically Determined Blood Glucose, and Offspring Obesity Risk: An Observational Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• RCT: Nitrogen Recycling Buffers Against Ammonia Toxicity from Skeletal Muscle Breakdown in Hibernating Arctic Ground Squirrels.
• Blood as Fuel: The Metabolic Cost of Pedestrian Locomotion in Rhodnius Prolixus.
• Energetic Scaling Across Different Host Densities and Its Consequences for Pathogen Proliferation.
• Urbanization-driven Climate Change Increases Invertebrate Lipid Demand, Relative to Protein—A Response to Dehydration.

Methods

• Measuring Perceptions of Social Environments for Walking: A Scoping Review of Walkability Surveys.
• Development of a National Dietary Behaviors Questionnaire for EFNEP Adult Participants.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Modeling Obesity in Norway (The MOON Study): A Decision-Analytic Approach—Prevalence, Costs, and Years of Life Lost.
• A Health Inequality Impact Assessment from Reduction in Overweight and Obesity.
• Optimal Speed in Thoroughbred Horse Racing.
• Risk Prediction Model of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Based on Nomogram in a Chinese Population Cohort Study.

Commentary

• Lonely Brains Crave People Like Hungry Brains Crave Food.
• Do Cooler Temperatures Really Help with Weight Loss?
• Fruit and Cocoa Flavanols Improve Mental Agility in Human Study.
• Adult Obesity and Its Complications a Pediatric Disease?
• Lipoprotein (a) and Diabetes Mellitus Causes and Consequences.
• Promoting Regular Exercise as a Path to Obesity Treatment. (PDF)
• Liver Fat Storage Pathways Methodologies and Dietary Effects.
• "Fat poets speak: poetry about (some) fat women’s experiences with oppression."

General

• Questionable Utility of the Relative Risk in Clinical Research: A Call for Change to Practice.
• Photosynthesis: On the Art of Stealing Chloroplasts.
• ‘It Will Change Everything’: DeepMind’s AI Makes Gigantic Leap in Solving Protein Structures.
• Vaccines for a Common Pet Problem Could Help Save This Big Cat from Extinction.
• Science News in Brief: from Lizards Re-evolving Legs to How Octopuses Taste with Their Arms.
• Preprint: RCT: Effect of Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs Placebo on Hospital Length of Stay in Patients with Severe COVID-19.
• Folic Acid Supplementation in the Gestational Phase of Female Rats Improves Age-related Memory Impairment and Neuroinflammation in Their Adult and Aged Offspring.
• Peer Review: Implementing a "publish, then review" model of publishing.

Video & Audio

• Webinar: The Place of Nutrition in Medical Education.
• Video: Probiotics: The Friendly Bacteria.
• Podcast: Gerald Shulman, M.D., Ph.D.: A Masterclass on Insulin Resistance—molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Implications.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington leads nationwide study into COVID-19 infection, reinfection, immunity backed by philanthropic investment.
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Is Accepting Abstracts.
• Workshop: Promising Practices and Innovative Programs in the Responsible Conduct of Research.
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.

Featured

• RCT: Testing the Effect of Summer Camp on Excess Summer Weight Gain in Youth from Low-income Households.
• The Impact of Summer Vacation on Children’s Obesogenic Behaviors and BMI: A Natural Experiment.
• Food Pantries Select Healthier Foods After Nutrition Information Is Available on Their Food Bank’s Ordering Platform.
• Learning to Overeat in Infancy: Concurrent and Prospective Relationships between Maternal BMI, Feeding Practices and Child Eating Response Among Hispanic Mothers and Children.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: How Gardening at School Can Tackle Child Obesity.
• Study: Quasi Experiment (1 Class Per Condition) of a Multi-component Intervention Including Gardening. Child Obesity Not Measured.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "These results do not support the hypothesis that inclusion of dairy in long-term dietary patterns influences appetite during weight loss."
• "Type 2 DM patients ...– contrary to our expectations – they did not differ in any functional characteristic assessed."
• "...all minority stressors and community involvement were positively associated with increased odds of disordered body image behaviors and concerns, with no evidence of a buffering effect for community involvement. The lack of a buffering effect is contrary to minority stress theory..."
• Metabolic Status Is Not Associated with Job Stress in Individuals with Obesity: The ELSA-Brasil Baseline.
• Diabetes Is Not Associated with an Increased Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Alcoholic or Hepatitis C Virus Cirrhosis.
• "Contrary to observational studies, genetically predicted cortisol was unrelated to IHD, ischemic stroke, T2DM, or CVD risk factors, or vice versa. Our MR results find no evidence that cortisol plays a role in cardiovascular risk, casting doubts on the cortisol-related pathway..."
• High BMI with Adequate Lean Mass Is Not Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents.

Basic

• MiR-146a Regulates Insulin Sensitivity Via NPR3.
• Senescent Cells Promote Tissue NAD+ Decline During Ageing Via the Activation of CD38+ Macrophages.
• NQO1 Protects Obese Mice Through Improvements in Glucose and Lipid Metabolism.
• Effects of Obesity on NK Cells in a Mouse Model of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer.
• Hyperleptinemia as a Contributing Factor for the Impairment of Glucose Intolerance in Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Association of Body Mass Index with Life Expectancy with and Without Cardiovascular Disease.
• Letter: Selection Bias Can Creep into Unselected Cohorts and Produce Counterintuitive Findings.
• Anchored Minimal Clinically Important Difference Metrics are Biased by Regression-to-the-Mean.

Clinical

• RCT: Effectiveness of an MHealth Intervention Combining a Smartphone App and Smart Band on Body Composition in a Population with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Effect of a Low-Fat Vegan Diet on Metabolic Measures in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: Replacing White Rice Bars with Peanuts as Snacks in the Habitual Diet Improves Metabolic Syndrome Risk Among Chinese Adults.
• RCT: Enhanced Long-term Dietary Change and Adherence in a Nutrigenomics-guided Lifestyle Intervention Compared to a Population-based (GLB/DPP) Lifestyle Intervention for Weight Management.

Children and Adolescents

• Slim Choices: Young People’s Experiences of Individual Responsibility for Childhood Obesity.
• The Efficacy of School-Based Interventions in Preventing Adolescent Obesity in Australia.
• Comparing Three Screen-based Sedentary Behaviours’ Effect upon Adolescents’ Participation in Physical Activity: The ESSENS Study.

Surgery

• Association of Prior Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery with Severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Patients with Obesity.
• Peri-Operative Antibiotics Acutely and Significantly Impact Intestinal Microbiota Following Bariatric Surgery.
• The Effect of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.

Drugs

• Narrative Review: The Potential of Artemisinins as Anti-obesity Agents Via Modulating the Immune System.
• Naltrexone + Bupropion Combination for the Treatment of Binge-eating Disorder with Obesity: A Randomized, Controlled Pilot Study.
• Effects of Dietary Self-Monitoring, Physical Activity, Liraglutide 3.0 mg, and Placebo on Weight Loss in the SCALE IBT Trial.

Food & Diet

• Dietary Vitamin a Supplementation Prevents Early Obesogenic Diet-induced Microbiota, Neuronal and Cognitive Alterations.
• RCT: Comparing the Impact of a Low-Calorie Ketogenic vs a Standard Low-Calorie Diet on Fat-Free Mass in Patients Receiving an Elipse™ Intragastric Balloon Treatment.
• The Association of Dietary Flavonoids, Magnesium and Their Interaction Effect with Metabolic Syndrome in Chinese Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Review: Nutritional Modulation of Leptin Expression and Leptin Action in Obesity and Obesity-associated Complications.
• Consumption of Foods with Higher Energy Intake Rates Is Associated with Greater Energy Intake, Adiposity, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adults.
• Association between Ketosis and Changes in Appetite Markers with Weight Loss Following a Very Low-Energy Diet.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Sestrin Is a Key Regulator of Stem Cell Function and Lifespan in Response to Dietary Amino Acids.
• Effects of Caloric Restriction on the Antagonistic and Integrative Hallmarks of Aging.
• Antioxidant/Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Caloric Restriction in an Aged and Obese Rat Model: The Role of Adiponectin.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Psychosocial Mediators of Physical Activity Change in a Web-based Intervention for Latinas.
• RCT: An Augmented Exercise Referral Scheme Using Web-based Behavioural Support for Inactive Adults with Chronic Health Conditions: The E-coachER Trial.
• The Influence of COVID-19 Measures in the United Kingdom on Physical Activity Levels, Perceived Physical Function and Mood in Older Adults: A Survey-based Observational Study.
• The Association between E-Sports Participation, Health and Physical Activity Behaviour.

Economics & Sociology

• Quantifying Socioeconomic Inequality in Childhood Obesity. (pdf)
• Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins. (pdf)
• Sex Difference in the Association of Obesity with Personal or Social Background Among Urban Residents in Japan.
• Upper Paleolithic Figurines Showing Women with Obesity May Represent Survival Symbols of Climatic Change.
• Do Disadvantageous Social Contexts Influence Food Choice? Evidence from Three Laboratory Experiments.
• Perceived Stress Can Mediate the Associations between a Lifestyle Intervention and Fat and Fast Food Intakes.

Epidemiology

• Longitudinal Associations of Toothbrushing with Obesity and Hyperglycemia.
• Comparison of Metabolic and Obesity Biomarkers between Adolescent and Adult Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Systematic Review: Predictors of Successful Weight Loss Outcomes Amongst Individuals with Obesity Undergoing Lifestyle Interventions.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Expression of Genes in Top Obesity-associated Loci Is Enriched in Insula and Substantia Nigra Brain Regions Involved in Addiction and Reward.
• Association of Genetic and Phenotypic Assessments with Onset of Disordered Eating Behaviors and Comorbid Mental Health Problems Among Adolescents.

Equity and Disparities

• Neighborhood Deprivation Index Is Associated with Weight Status Among Long-term Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
• National Nutrition Policy in High-income Countries: Is Health Equity on the Agenda?
• Obesity and COVID-19 in Latin America: A Tragedy of Two Pandemics—Official Document of the Latin American Federation of Obesity Societies.
• Socio-economic Inequalities in Overweight and Obesity Among Women of Reproductive Age in Bangladesh: A Decomposition Approach.

Stigma

• Weight Management Efforts, but Not Weight Perceptions, are Associated with Dietary Quality Among Youth and Young Adults in Canada.
• Stigmatizing Media Portrayal of Obesity During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic.
• RCT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guided Self-Help for Adults with Overweight and Obesity with High Weight Self-Stigma.
• RCT: Six-Month Follow-up of the Weight BIAS Program.

Policy Related

• Women, Wellbeing and the City: A Model of Participatory Health Research Exploring Physical Activity in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities.
• Meta-analysis: Communicating Evidence About the Environment’s Role in Obesity and Support for Government Policies to Tackle Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Impact of Maternal Obesity on Childhood Neurodevelopment.
• Childhood Obesity and Device-Measured Sedentary Behavior: An Instrumental Variable Analysis of 3,864 Mother–Offspring Pairs.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Preprint: Redundant Relationships in Multiplex Food Sharing Networks Increase Food Security in a Nutritionally Precarious Environment. (pdf)
• Quantifying Selection on Standard Metabolic Rate and Body Mass in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Life-long Exposure to Hypoxia Affects Metabolism and Respiratory Physiology Across Life Stages in High-altitude Deer Mice (Peromyscus Maniculatus).
• Interplays between Pre- and Post-natal Environments Affect Early-life Mortality, Body Mass and Telomere Dynamics in the Wild.

Methods

• Comparing Two Methods for Deriving Dietary Patterns Associated with Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Among Middle-aged and Elderly Taiwanese Adults with Impaired Kidney Function.
• Top 10 Research Questions Related to Body Composition.

Commentary

• Epigenetic Clocks and Obesity: Towards the Next Frontier Using Integrative Approaches and Early Life Models.
• Endobariatrics and Metabolic Endoscopy: Can We Solve the Obesity Epidemic with Our Scope?
• Fat in All the Wrong Places.
• Facilitator or Roadblock to Nutrition and Other Science Communication?
• Setmelanotide Approved: Is This the Future?
• Bariatric Surgery May Cut COVID Risk More Than Half.
• Obesity Is a Possible Priority for the COVID Vaccination.
• Flooding the Zone with Vitamin D Studies.

General

• Thesis: No Evidence for Unconscious Reward Priming Effects on Performance.
• Coding Errors in Study of Meta-analyses with Falsified Data in the Results.
• Negotiating Novelty: Constructing the Novel Within Scientific Accounts of Epigenetics.
• No Evidence for Increased Transmissibility from Recurrent Mutations in SARS-CoV-2.
• Errors of Omission: Why We are Deeply Concerned About Research on Autism Therapies.
• Video: Inside Dynamical Systems and the Mathematics of Change.
• How Do We Stop This Surge? Here's What Experts Say Could Help.
• Correcting the Scientific Record- a Broken System?

Video & Audio

• Interview - Ivan Oransky on Scientific Papers.
• Webinar: The Impact of Obesity and Diabetes on COVID-19 Infection.

Announcements

• Webinar: Generating and Interpreting Evidence About Effects in Obesity Research.
• Webinar: Overcoming Methodological Challenges in Obesity Research Webinar.
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.

Featured

• Cranberry Extract Protects Against Endogenous Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants During Weight Loss in Mice.
• Does Exercise Make Me More Attractive? Exploring the Relations between Exercise and Mate Value.
• Preprint: A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic.
• Size Variation Does Not Act as Insurance in Bumble Bees; Instead, Workers Add Weight in an Unpredictable Environment.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: An Egg a Day Can Trigger Diabetes Too, Warn Researchers.
• Press Release: Go (over) Easy on the Eggs: ‘Egg-cess’ Consumption Linked to Diabetes.
• Study: Self-reported Egg Consumption Associated with (not Necessarily Causally Related To) Diabetes Diagnosed by Fasting Blood Glucose.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Although thousands of schools currently send BMI reports to parents, the practice alone has no impact on pediatric obesity and may decrease student weight satisfaction; schools should consider dedicating resources to evidence-based approaches to improve student health."
• "Access to unhealthy CF&B [competitive food and beverage] items may influence in-school purchases but does not appear to influence overall dietary behaviors and BMI outcomes."
• Obesity Does Not Adversely Impact the Outcome of Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty for Osteoarthritis: A Meta-analysis of 80,798 Subjects.
• Obesity Was Not Associated with Overall Short-term Revision After Total Knee Arthroplasty - an Analysis of 121,819 Primary Procedures from the Dutch Arthroplasty Register.
• Constitutive PGC-1α Overexpression in Skeletal Muscle Does Not Contribute to Exercise-Induced Neurogenesis.
• RCT: Wearing Knee Sleeves During Back Squats Does Not Improve Mass Lifted or Affect Knee Biomechanics.
• Short-Term Tea Consumption Is Not Associated with a Reduction in Blood Lipids or Pressure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of RCTs.
• RCT: Isoflavone Supplementation Does Not Potentiate the Effect of Combined Exercise Training on Resting and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Non-Obese Postmenopausal Women.

Basic

• Germ-Free Mice are Not Protected Against Diet-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Beige Fat Is Dispensable for the Metabolic Benefits Associated with Myostatin Deletion.
• Retinol Binding Protein 4 Primes the NLRP3 Inflammasome by Signaling Through Toll-like Receptors 2 and 4.
• High-Fat Diet-Induced and Genetically Inherited Obesity Differentially Alters DNA Methylation Profile in the Germline of Adult Male Rats.
• Maresin 1 Regulates Insulin Signaling in Human Adipocytes as Well as in Adipose Tissue and Muscle of Lean and Obese Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Intermittent Energy Restriction Attenuates the Loss of Fat Free Mass in Resistance Trained Individuals. A Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Letter: Contrary to the Conclusions Stated in the Paper, Only Dry Fat-Free Mass Was Different between Groups upon Reanalysis. Comment On: “Intermittent Energy Restriction Attenuates the Loss of Fat-Free Mass in Resistance Trained Individuals. A Randomized Controlled Trial”.
• Response: A Reply to Contrary to the Conclusions Stated in the Paper, Only Dry Fat-Free Mass Was Different between Groups upon Reanalysis—Comment On: “Intermittent Energy Restriction Attenuates the Loss of Fat-Free Mass in Resistance Trained Individuals: A Randomized Controlled Trial”.
• Whether Higher Chocolate Consumption Is Associated with a Reduction in Risk of Coronary Artery Disease? We are Not Sure.
• Video: Science Is Self-Correcting- but the Record Is Not.
• ASN Trust Initiative: Guiding Principles for Managing and Conducting Nutrition Research Funded by Entities at Interest. (pdf)
• ASN Trust Initiative: Guiding Principles for Relationships with Entities at Interest. (pdf)

Clinical

• The Association between BMI Class and Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outcomes.
• The Dark Side of the Spoon - Glucose, Ketones and COVID-19: A Possible Role for Ketogenic Diet?
• Body Fatness Influences Associations of Body Composition and Energy Expenditure with Energy Intake in Healthy Women.
• Attrition Bias in an Observational Study of Very Low-Energy Diet: A Cohort Study.
• Glycemic Control Before Admission Is an Important Determinant of Prognosis in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019.
• Older Age Does Not Influence the Success of Weight Loss Through the Implementation of Lifestyle Modification.

Children and Adolescents

• Barriers and Facilitators to Changes in Adolescent Physical Activity During COVID-19.
• Associations of Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Obesity Parameters with Blood Pressure: Fitness and Fatness in Youth Latin-American Ethnic Minority.
• Sweat, Sit, Sleep: A Compositional Analysis of 24-hr Movement Behaviors and BMI Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Surgery

• Impact of Pre-operative Aerobic Exercise on Cardiometabolic Health and Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-Analysis: Are We Ready for Bariatric Surgery in a Liver Transplant Program?
• Meta-Analysis: Preoperative Binge Eating and Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Research and Prospect of Peptides for Use in Obesity Treatment (Review).
• Efficacy and Safety of Lorcaserin in Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Abuse and Illicit Drug Use in South Korea by Wastewater-based Epidemiology.

Food & Diet

• Genetic, Lifestyle, and Health-related Characteristics of Adults Without Celiac Disease Who Follow a Gluten-free Diet.
• USDA Shares Easy At-Home Advice for Handling Food Safely This Thanksgiving.
• RCT: The Effect of Green Mediterranean Diet on Cardiometabolic Risk.
• RCT: A Whole-Diet Approach Affects Not Only Fasting but Also Postprandial Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Consumption of Dried Fruits Is Associated with Greater Intakes of Underconsumed Nutrients, Higher Total Energy Intakes, and Better Diet Quality in US Adults.
• Mediterranean Diet, Stress Resilience, and Aging in Nonhuman Primates.
• A High-protein Total Diet Replacement Increases Energy Expenditure and Leads to Negative Fat Balance in Healthy, Normal-weight Adults.
• Dietary Pattern Trajectories in Middle Age and Physical Function in Older Age.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Energy and Caloric Restriction, and Fasting and Cancer: A Narrative Review.
• Reasons for and Consequences of Low Energy Availability in Female and Male Athletes: Social Environment, Adaptations, and Prevention.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Frailty and Physical Fitness in Elderly People.
• Meta-analysis: Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage During the Menstrual Cycle.
• Association of Physical Activity Intensity with Mortality a National Cohort Study of 403 681 US Adults.
• Neighbourhood Walkability and Physical Activity: Moderating Role of a Physical Activity Intervention in Overweight and Obese Older Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Strength Training Reduces Fat Accumulation and Improves Blood Lipid Profile Even in the Absence of Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Condition.

Economics & Sociology

• Trends in Obesity by Socioeconomic Status Among Non-pregnant Women Aged 15–49 Y: A Cross-sectional, Multi-dimensional Equity Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys in 11 Sub-Saharan Africa Countries, 1994–2015.
• Neighborhood Social Environments, Healthy Resources, and Adult Diabetes: Accounting for Activity Space Exposures.
• Nutritional Analysis of Foods and Beverages Depicted in Top-Grossing US Movies, 1994-2018.
• Metabolic Profiles of Socio-economic Position: A Multi-cohort Analysis.
• America's Obesity Crisis: The Health and Economic Costs of Excess Weight.

Epidemiology

• In Adults with Obesity, Copeptin Is Linked with BMI but Is Not Associated with Long-term Exposure to Cortisol and Cortisone.
• Association of Obesity with Depressive Symptomatology, Eating Habits, Interleukin-8 and Cortisol in a Young Population.
• Sarcopenic Obesity and 10-year Cardiovascular Disease Risk Scores in Cancer Survivors and Non-cancer Participants Using a Nationwide Survey.
• Overweight Improves Long-term Survival in Japanese Patients with Asthma.
• Adiposity Measures and Mortality in an Asian Population.
• BMI and Risk of Dying from a Bloodstream Infection: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Early Weight Gain Trajectories and Body Composition in Infancy in Infants Born Very Preterm.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Taste, Sickness, and Learning: Understanding How We Form Aversions to Particular Flavors Has Led to New Ideas About Learning—and Could Have Implications for Treating Obesity and Drug Use.
• Can Visual Cues to Portion Size Reduce the Number of Portions of Consumed? Two RCTs.
• Calories Count: Memory of Eating Is Evolutionarily Special.
• Prisoners of Addictive Cues: Biobehavioral Markers of Overweight and Obese Adults with Food Addiction.
• Food Addiction, Executive Function and Mood in Adolescents with Obesity Seeking Treatment.
• RCT: Acute Sleep Curtailment Increases Sweet Taste Preference, Appetite and Food Intake in Healthy Young Adults.
• Food Addiction and Psychosocial Adversity: Biological Embedding, Contextual Factors, and Public Health Implications.

Equity and Disparities

• Preconception Health Risks Among U.S. Women: Disparities at the Intersection of Disability and Race or Ethnicity.
• Association between Obesity and Education Level Among the Elderly in Taipei, Taiwan between 2013 and 2015: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Trends in Obesity by Socioeconomic Status Among Non-pregnant Women Aged 15–49 Y: A Cross-sectional, Multi-dimensional Equity Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys in 11 Sub-Saharan Africa Countries, 1994–2015.

Stigma

• Weight-Focused Public Health Interventions—No Benefit, Some Harm.
• Perceived and Preferred Social Support in Patients Experiencing Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery.
• Changes in the Prevalence and Correlates of Weight-Control Behaviors and Weight Perception in Adolescents in the UK, 1986-2015.
• Implicit and Explicit Fat Bias Among Adolescents from Two US Populations Varying by Obesity Prevalence.
• Adults’ Attitudes Toward Children, Adolescents, and Adults Who are Obese and Tax-funded Programs to Combat Obesity.
• The Media as a Source of Weight Stigma for Pregnant and Postpartum Women.

Policy Related

• Vitamin D and SARS-CoV-2 Infection—evolution of Evidence Supporting Clinical Practice and Policy Development.
• Is Obesity Policy in England Fit for Purpose? Analysis of Government Strategies and Policies, 1992-2020.
• Nutrition Policy and Healthy China 2030 Building.

Intergenerational Effects

• Effects of Maternal Periconceptional Undernutrition in Sheep on Offspring Glucose–insulin Axis Function into Adulthood.
• Maternal-infant Nutrition and Development Programming of Offspring Appetite and Obesity.
• Maternal and Paternal Obesity are Associated with Offspring Obestatin Levels in the Nutritionists’ Health Study.
• Effect of BMI on Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes in Nulliparous Women: A Prospective Comparative Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Diapause Lipidomes of Three Closely Related Beetle Species Reveal Mechanisms for Tolerating Energetic and Cold Stress in High-Latitude Seasonal Environments.

Methods

• Comparing Two Analytical Approaches to Evaluate Access to Fresh, Healthy Food: A Case of the Indiana Uplands.
• Perspective: Laboratory Considerations and Clinical Data Management for Human Nutrition RCTs: Guidance for Ensuring Quality and Integrity.
• Perspective: Design and Conduct of Human Nutrition RCTs.
• Perspective: Guidelines Needed for the Conduct of Human Nutrition RCTs.
• A Multi-component Screen for Feeding Behaviour and Nutritional Status in Drosophila to Interrogate Mammalian Appetite-related Genes.

Commentary

• The Science Behind Thanksgiving Dinner.
• Sugar Intake and Cancer Risk: When Epidemiologic Uncertainty Meets Biological Plausibility.
• Today in Shoddy Science: Do Eggs Cause Diabetes?
• Connecting the Dots: Cheesecake, COVID, and Obesity.
• Serving a Hot Dish of Anti-Inflammatory Food.
• Do Not Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water: It Is Too Early to Know Whether School Food Policy Can Shape Dietary Choices and Prevent Obesity.
• Establishing Consensus on Key Public Health Indicators for the Monitoring and Evaluating Childhood Obesity Interventions: A Delphi Panel Study.
• Childhood Obesity Campaigns: All Harm, No Benefit.

General

• A Space-Time Permutation Scan Statistic for Evaluating County-Level Tickborne Disease Clusters in Indiana, 2009-2016.
• The Master Developmental Regulator Jab1/Cops5/Csn5 Is Essential for Proper Bone Growth and Survival in Mice.
• Safety of In-person Courses at Indiana University Supported by New Analysis.
• Air Pollutants and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Medication Administration in Elementary Schools.
• Health, Physical Activity and Musculoskeletal Symptoms Among Stone, Sand, and Gravel Mine Workers: Implications for Enhancing and Sustaining Worker Health and Safety.
• Is Neurodevelopment Related to Exercise Capacity in Single Ventricle Patients Who Have Undergone Fontan Palliation?
• Creating Guardians or Warriors? Examining the Effects of Non-Stress Training on Policing Outcomes.
• Preprint: Optimal Joint Allocation of Efforts in Inclusive Fitness by Related Individuals.

Announcements

• IU Alumnus, Professional Chef Led Diabetic Friendly Food Demo on Nov 20.
• Amid Pandemic and Overall Enrollment Decline, IU Sets Diversity Records.
• 7 Indiana University Faculty Named 2020 AAAS Fellows.
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites National Applications for the Position of Associate Dean for Research and Tenured Full Professor.