Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Mitochondrial and Metabolic Dysfunction in Ageing and Age-Related Diseases.
• RCT: French-Fried Potatoes Consumption and Energy Balance.
• Systematic Review: Retail Food Outlets and Metabolic Syndrome.
• A Practical Decision Tree to Support Editorial Adjudication of Submitted Parallel Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: First Controlled Human Trial Shows Cutting Calories Improves Health, Longevity.
• Study: Caloric Restriction in Humans Reveals Immunometabolic Regulators That Overlap with and Generate Effects in Mice, but Health Span and Longevity Not Tested in Humans.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effects in an Experimental Study Evaluating the Influence of Front-Of-Package Warning Labels on Adolescent's Purchase Intention of Processed Food Products.
• Meta-Analysis: Bariatric Surgery Does Not Improve Semen Quality.
• RCT: No Effect of Oral Ketone Ester Supplementation on Exercise Capacity in Patients with McArdle Disease and Healthy Controls.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Imagery Rescripting for Reducing Body Image Dissatisfaction.
• RCT: "No differences were observed between the study groups in the incidence of maternal and perinatal outcomes" with "a Step Counter Smartband and Midwife Counseling Intervention on Gestational Weight Gain and Physical Activity in Pregnant Women With Obesity..."
• RCT: A Poultry Value Chain Intervention Promoting Diversified Diets Has Limited Impact on Maternal and Child Diet Adequacy During the Lean Season.
• RCT: "Although higher dietary energy intake increased weight, body fat and menstrual frequency, bone mineral density was not improved, compared to the control group."
• RCT: "In this large-scale, multicenter trial, active implementation of an evidence-based feeding guideline ... did not translate to a reduction in mortality from critical illness."

Basic

• Sleep Is Increased by Weight Gain and Decreased by Weight Loss in Mice.
• ACSS3 in Brown Fat Drives Propionate Catabolism and Its Deficiency Leads to Autophagy and Systemic Metabolic Dysfunction.
• High-Fat Diet Rapidly Modifies Trafficking, Phenotype, and Function of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Adipose Tissue.
• MicroRNA-29 Ameliorates Fibro-Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in HIF1α-Deficient Obese Adipose Tissue by Inhibiting Endotrophin Generation.
• Differences in the Composition and Predicted Functions of the Intestinal Microbiome of Obese and Normal Weight Adult Dogs.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: A Guide for Authors and Readers of the American Society for Nutrition Journals on the Proper Use of P Values and Strategies That Promote Transparency and Improve Research Reproducibility.
• Letter: ASN Guidelines on P Values.
• Response: Reply to Verhoef et al.
• Article: The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: A Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic.
• Letter: Physics and Physiology of Obesity: Higher Rate of Energy Input Than Output. Comment on “The Carbohydrate–insulin Model: A Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic”.
• Letter: The Refined Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity.
• Letter: The Carbohydrate–insulin Model of Obesity.
• Letter: Misleading or Factually Incorrect Statements in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Perspectives Article by Ludwig et al.
• Response: Reply to A Drewnowski et al, O Devinsky, D a Booth and E L Gibson, and D J Millward.

Clinical

• RCT: Effectiveness of Clinical Pharmacist-Led Smartphone Application on Medication Adherence, Insulin Injection Technique and Glycemic Control for Women with Gestational Diabetes Receiving Multiple Daily Insulin Injection.
• Importance of Metabolic State on Metabolic Phenotype Assessment and the Energy Cost of Sitting and Standing.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Digital Health Interventions for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents.
• Adolescents’ Perspectives on the Drivers of Obesity Using a Group Model Building Approach: A South African Perspective.

Surgery

• Maternal Nutritional Status and Pregnancy Outcomes Post-Bariatric Surgery.
• Changes in the Composition of Oral and Intestinal Microbiota After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass and Their Impact on Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery.
• Estimated Cost-Effectiveness of Medical Therapy, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastric Bypass in Patients with Severe Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Drugs

• RCT: Metabolic Changes Induced by Dapagliflozin, an SGLT2 Inhibitor, in Japanese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Treated by Oral Anti-Diabetic Agents.
• Implications of Obesity for Drug Administration and Absorption from Subcutaneous and Intramuscular Injections: A Primer.
• Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Fish Oil and Fenofibrate on Plasma Metabolomic Profiles in Individuals with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Effect of Standardized Hydrangea serrata (Thunb.) Ser. Leaves Extract on Body Weight and Body Fat Reduction in Humans with Overweight or Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effectiveness of Partially Hydrolyzed Guar Gum in Reducing Constipation in Long Term Care Facility Residents.
• Meta-Analysis: Mediterranean Diet and Metformin Effects on Gestational Diabetes.
• RCT: Time-Restricted Eating in Healthy Volunteers Without Obesity.
• The Healthy/Unhealthy Dietary Pattern Is Associated with Resting Metabolic Rate Status Among Women with Overweight/Obesity.
• Dietary Patterns are Associated with Improved Ovarian Reserve in Women with Overweight and Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Lifestyle and Ovarian Reserve (LORe) Cohort.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) Surgery During High Liquid Sucrose Diet Leads to Gut Microbiota-Related Systematic Alterations.
• Low Energy Status Under Methionine Restriction Is Essentially Independent of Proliferation or Cell Contact Inhibition.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Preprint: Effect of Taurine Supplement on Aerobic and Anaerobic Outcomes: Meta-Analysis.
• RCT: Effects of Regular Exercise During Pregnancy on Early Childhood Neurodevelopment: The Physical Activity for Mothers Enrolled in Longitudinal Analysis.
• Review: If Exercise Is Medicine, Why Don’t We Know the Dose?
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Exercise Training on Bone Health Parameters in Individuals with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Preprint: Worldwide, Economic Affluence Was in Significantly Stronger Correlation to Obesity Prevalence Rate in Males Than in Females.
• Review: Obesity, Poverty and Public Policy.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity and Central Obesity and Factors Associated with BMI in Indigenous Yaqui People.
• Weight Trajectory Since Birth, Current Body Composition, Dietary Intake, and Glucose Tolerance in Young Underweight Japanese Women.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Longitudinal Patterns of Comorbidity between Anxiety, Depression and Binge Eating Symptoms Among Patients with Obesity: A Path Analysis.
• RCT: Effect of MIND Diet Intervention on Cognitive Performance and Brain Structure in Healthy Women with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Food Insecurity Influences Weight Trajectory in Children with Obesity.
• Chronic Diseases and Associated Risk Factors Among Adults in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria.
• Understanding Racially Diverse Community Member Views of Obesity Stigma and Bariatric Surgery.

Stigma

• Anti-Fat Attitudes of Nutrition Undergraduates in Brazil Toward Individuals with Obesity.
• Respectful Language and Putting the Person First with Obesity.
• Patient-Centered Care for Obesity: How Health Care Providers Can Treat Obesity While Actively Addressing Weight Stigma and Eating Disorder Risk.

Policy Related

• Hunger, Obesity, Public Policies, and Food-Based Dietary Guidelines: A Reflection Considering the Socio-Environmental World Context.
• Prevalence and Correlates of Insufficient Physical Activity Among Adults Aged 18–69 Years in India: Findings from the National Noncommunicable Disease Monitoring Survey.

Intergenerational Effects

• Review: Chrononutrition and Human Milk.
• Breastfeeding and Infant Growth in Offspring of Mothers with Hyperglycaemia in Pregnancy: The Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Short-Term and Long-Term Consequences of Regeneration on the Reproductive Investment of a Multivoltine Lizard.
• Thesis: Energetics in Seasonal Environments: Reindeer as a Case Study.

Methods

• The Niche of N-Of-1 Trials in Precision Medicine for Weight Loss and Obesity Treatment: Back to the Future.
• Calibrating Validation Samples When Accounting for Measurement Error in Intervention Studies.

Commentary

• New Research Finds That with Obesity, the Problem Isn’t an Excess of Fat but Its Loss of Function.
• Countering Obesity with Eosinophils and Sympathetic Fat.
• The Seed, the Tree, the Fruit, the Juice.
• Wrangling a Hot Mess That Magnifies Obesity.
• Blueberries and Blood: Aging Research Goes from Great Science to Snake Oil.
• The Pandemic Rise in Eating Disorders.
• Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief.
• The Calorie Counter: Evolutionary Anthropologist Herman Pontzer Busts Myths About How Humans Burn Calories—and Why.

General

• RCT: The Life History Theory of the Lord of the Rings: Using Fact Versus Fiction to Teach Life History Theory.
• Meta-Analysis Reveals an Extreme “Decline Effect” in the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Fish Behavior.
• Is Earth a Perfect Square? Repetition Increases the Perceived Truth of Highly Implausible Statements.
• RCT: The Influence of Message Framing on Nocebo Headaches.
• RCT: The Effects of Designing an Educational Animation Movie in Virtual Reality on Preoperative Fear and Postoperative Pain in Pediatric Patients.
• Ethical and Epistemic Issues in the Design and Conduct of Pragmatic Stepped-Wedge Cluster RCTs.
• Systematic Review: Association between Social Network and Obesity Among Adult Population.
• On Local Projection Based Inference.

Announcements

• IU Partners with Native American Tribe to Expand COVID-19 Study.
• Sugar: Commodity And Confection in Art - Museum Exhibit, Indianapolis.
• Webinar: Intermittent Fasting: Does the Evidence Support the Hype?
• Dr. Gerald Shulman Wins Manpei Suzuki International Prize for Diabetes Research.
• LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Department Chair and Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Kinesiology.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.

Featured

• RCT: Sugar-Free Dark Chocolate Consumption Results in Lower Blood Glucose in Adults with Diabetes.
• Feed Intake as an Estimation of Attractability in Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei.
• Caloric Restriction Has a New Player.
• Caloric Restriction in Humans Reveals Immunometabolic Regulators of Health Span.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Changing Your Diet Could Add 13 Years to Your Life, According to a New Study.
• Study: Modeling Study Using Summaries of Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies on Associations between Self-Reported Food Intake and Mortality Risk. Changing Diet Not Studied; Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: A Wheat Aleurone-Rich Diet Improves Oxidative Stress but Does Not Influence Glucose Metabolism in Individuals with Overweight/Obesity.
• Treatment with Fenfluramine in Patients with Dravet Syndrome Has No Long-Term Effects on Weight and Growth.
• RCT: "Contrary to predictions, an independent-samples t-test revealed that participants who experienced social threat consumed significantly less wine than those who were socially accepted..."
• "In some instances, [calorie] labelling may actually increase intake among those less motivated by health and weight concerns, but further research is needed to substantiate this concern."
• "Contrary to both predictions, we found little evidence that human food flavours were preferred compared with control flavours at any site." [in Darwin's finches].
• Standard Metabolic Rate Does Not Associate with Age-At-Maturity Genotype in Juvenile Atlantic Salmon.
• Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Does Not Alter Bacterial Translocation and Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Individuals with Obesity.
• RCT: Provision of Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Does Not Improve Intestinal Health Among Rural Malawian Children.

Basic

• Small Molecule SWELL1 Complex Induction Improves Glycemic Control and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Murine Type 2 Diabetes.
• REEP6 Knockout Leads to Defective β-Adrenergic Signaling in Adipocytes and Promotes Obesity-Related Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Specific Adipose Tissue Lbp Gene Knockdown Prevents Diet-Induced Body Weight Gain, Impacting Fat Accretion-Related Gene and Protein Expression.
• Tea Polyphenols Attenuate Inflammation Via Reducing Lipopolysaccharides Level and Inhibiting TLR4/NF-κB Pathway in Obese Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Invalid Design and Analyses in “School Physical Education-Based Reinforced Program Through Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity Improves and Maintains School Children’s Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial” Render Results and Conclusions Unsubstantiated.
• Article: School Physical Education-Based Reinforced Program Through Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity Improves and Maintains Schoolchildren's Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Perspective: Opportunities and Challenges of Technology Tools in Dietary and Activity Assessment: Bridging Stakeholder Viewpoints.
• Article: Stimulated Insulin Secretion Predicts Changes in Body Composition Following Weight Loss in Adults with High BMI.
• Commentary: Suppressed Insulin Secretion and Fat Content of Weight Loss: Association and Causal Direction.
• Response: Reply to DA Booth.
• Food Marketing: The Blinding Distraction of Healthy Food.

Clinical

• Weight Gain, Weight Management and Medical Care for Individuals Living with Overweight and Obesity During the COVID-19 Pandemic (EPOCH Study).
• Rapid Conversion to Virtual Obesity Care in COVID-19: Impact on Patient Care, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, and Training.

Children and Adolescents

• An Ecological Model of Weight Gain Among School-Age Children.
• Associations between Frequency of Dairy Intake with Body Composition and Excess Adiposity in Preschool Children from Poland.
• Increased Adiposity and Low Height-For-Age in Early Childhood are Associated with Later Metabolic Risk in American Indian Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Review: Hypoglycemia and Dysautonomia After Bariatric Surgery.
• Review: Changes in Antihypertensive Medication Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Can We Benefit from the Preoperative Psychometric Test with Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) to Predict Weight Loss After Sleeve Gastrectomy?
• Liver Decompensation After Bariatric Surgery in the Absence of Cirrhosis.
• Estimated Cost-Effectiveness of Medical Therapy, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastric Bypass in Patients with Severe Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Drugs

• Histone Deacetylase 6 Inhibition Restores Leptin Sensitivity and Reduces Obesity.
• Brain GLP-1 and the Regulation of Food Intake: GLP-1 Action in the Brain and Its Implications for GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Obesity Treatment.
• RCT: Effect of Weekly Semaglutide vs Daily Liraglutide on Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity Without Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Animal-Based Food Choice and Associations with Long-Term Weight Maintenance and Metabolic Health After a Large and Rapid Weight Loss: The PREVIEW Study.
• Animal Board Invited Review: Animal Source Foods in Healthy, Sustainable, and Ethical Diets – an Argument Against Drastic Limitation of Livestock in the Food System.
• Review: Impact of Alpha-Linolenic Acid, the Vegetable Omega-3 Fatty Acid, on Cardiovascular Disease and Cognition.
• Systematic Review: How Does the Food Environment Influence People Engaged in Weight Management?

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Satiety Associated with Calorie Restriction and Time-Restricted Feeding: Central Neuroendocrine Integration.
• Comparison of the Effects of Different Dietary Regimens on Susceptibility to Experimental Acute Kidney Injury: The Roles of SIRT1 and TGF-β1.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Does Regular Physical Activity Mitigate the Age-Associated Decline in Pulmonary Function?
• Meta-Analysis: The Acute Effects of Interrupting Prolonged Sitting Time in Adults with Standing and Light-Intensity Walking on Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Health in Adults.
• Daily Motivational Text Messages to Promote Physical Activity in University Students: Results from a Microrandomized Trial.

Economics & Sociology

• Menu Labeling Utilization and Socioeconomic Status in West Virginia and Mississippi.
• Obesity Burden by Socioeconomic Measures between 2000 and 2018 Among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys.

Epidemiology

• Novel Insights into the Consequences of Obesity: A Phenotype-Wide Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Preprint: Causal Associations between Body Fat Accumulation and COVID-19 Severity: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Correlates of Psychological Distress Among Adults with Obesity During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Enhanced Capacity to Switch but Not to Maintain: The Basis of Attentional Bias to High Calorie Foods in Restrained Eaters.
• Preprint: A Community-Based Feasibility RCT to Test Food-Specific Inhibitory Control Training in People with Disinhibited Eating During COVID-19 in Italy.
• Effect of Disrupted Episodic Memory on Food Consumption: No Impact of Neuronal Loss of Endophilin A1 on Food Intake and Energy Balance.
• Meta-Analysis: Obesogenic Diets Induce Anxiety in Rodents.
• Exercise Increases Attentional Bias Towards Food Cues in Individuals Classified with Overweight to Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Disparities in Reasons for Mortality Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Race and Obesity Disparities Among Adults Living in Gentrifying Neighborhoods.
• Review: Anesthetic Implications of Morbid Obesity During Pregnancy.
• Risk Behavioral Contexts in Adolescence of Adults with Obesity.

Stigma

• The Effects of Nursing Students’ Beliefs Towards Individuals with Obesity on Their Stigmatisation Tendencies.
• The Weight of Words: Discursive Constructions of Health in Weight-Neutral Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles.

Policy Related

• Public Health Considerations Regarding Obesity.
• How Have Media Campaigns Been Used to Promote and Discourage Healthy and Unhealthy Beverages in the United States? A Systematic Scoping Review to Inform Future Research to Reduce Sugary Beverage Health Risks.

Intergenerational Effects

• Diet and Maternal Obesity are Associated with Increased Oxidative Stress in Newborns: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Breastfeeding May Benefit Cardiometabolic Health of Children Exposed to Increased Gestational Glycemia in Utero.
• Associations between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Neonatal Neurobehavior in Infants Born Before 30 Weeks Gestation.
• Influence of Exclusive Breastfeeding on Hippocampal Structure, Satiety Responsiveness, and Weight Status.
• Impact of Zinc Deficiency During Prenatal And/or Postnatal Life on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases: Experimental and Clinical Evidence.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Biological and Economic Responses to Increasing Nitrogen Rates in Mombaça Guinea Grass Pastures.
• Flight Rapidly Modulates Body Temperature in Freely Behaving Bats.

Methods

• Modelling Changes in Fat-Free Mass in Response to Severe Energy Restriction.
• Systematic Review: Use of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for Recruiting Healthy Participants in Nutrition-, Physical Activity–, or Obesity-Related Studies.
• Measurement Error Affecting Web- and Paper-Based Dietary Assessment Instruments: Insights from the Multi-Cohort Eating and Activity Study for Understanding Reporting Error.

Commentary

• The Turmoil of Menopause The potential metabolic consequences during "The Change." (pdf)
• Diving Into a Culture of Trauma.
• One Size Does Not Fit All: An Historian's Perspective on Precision Diabetes Medicine.
• Scientists Discover How Caffeine Protects Against Cardiovascular Disease.
• Weight Loss May Take Longer Than Expected Due to Metabolic Adaptation.
• Weighing the Rituals of Body Weight.
• Continuous Glucose Monitors for One and All?
• Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy: A Woman's Dilemma. (pdf)

General

• Thesis: Presence and Physiological Effects of Phytoestrogens in the Diet of Ugandan Red Colobus Monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles).
• How a Trained Dog’s Sense of Smell Can Prevent a Pandemic.
• Application of Insects to Wounds of Self and Others by Chimpanzees in the Wild.
• The Costs and Benefits of Primary Prevention of Zoonotic Pandemics.
• Relationship between High-Risk Alcohol Consumption and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Seroconversion: A Prospective Seroepidemiologic Cohort Study Among American College Students.
• Why RCTs Matter and the Procedures That Strengthen Them.
• The Joke of Self-Correcting Science: The Andero Lab and Nature Communications | Introduction to the New Statistics.
• NIH Issues a Seismic Mandate: Share Data Publicly.

Announcements

• Registration Open: 2022 IU Obesity Symposium, April 29. CME Available.
• New Book: Nutrition in Clinical Practice.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.

Featured

• Moderate Intensity of Static Magnetic Fields Can Alter Fat Storage of Caenorhabditis elegans Via Serotonin.
• The Role of Calorie Restriction in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.
• RCT: Prolonged Glycemic Adaptation Following Transition from a Low- to High-Carbohydrate Diet.
• ARTE Index Revisited: Linking Biomarkers of Cardio-Metabolic Health with Free-Living Physical Activity in Postmenopausal Women.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Weight Loss: Expert Unveils Simple Way to Lose 2 Stone ‘Without Diet or Exercise’.
• Study: RCT: Effect of Sleep Extension on Objectively Assessed Energy Intake Among Adults with Overweight in Real-Life Settings over Two Weeks. Mean Weight Difference Was 0.87kg.

Macronutrient Musings – Isoenergetic Interlocutions

• The Energy Balance Model of Obesity: Beyond Calories In, Calories Out.
• An Integrated Model of Obesity Pathogenesis That Revisits Causal Direction.
• Perspective: The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: A Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effect of Resveratrol on Fatty Acid Oxidation or Exercise Capacity in Patients with Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders.
• RCT: "Perioperative interventions with high inspiratory oxygen fraction and antioxidants did not change the degree of myocardial injury within the first 3 days of surgery."
• RCT: "There was no evidence of harm to depression or anxiety symptoms as a result of attending a group-based weight loss programme."
• RCT: "exposure to food cues in a situation in which the desire to eat food interferes with the completion of a food-related task reduces the subsequent food intake (i.e., the pre-exposure effect). ...We were unable to replicate the exposure effect in our complete sample..."
• RCT: "Six months of nutritional supplementation did not reduce aggressive incidents among long-stay psychiatric in-patients."
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: "Incorporating cherries into the diet has no significant effect on blood pressure."
• RCT: "Playing the advergame promoting fruit did not stimulate the subsequent intake of fruit."

Basic

• Adipose-Tissue Plasticity in Health and Disease.
• Insulin Resistance Corresponds with a Progressive Increase in NOD1 in High Fat Diet-Fed Mice.
• Targeting Mineralocorticoid Receptors in Diet-Induced Hepatic Steatosis and Insulin Resistance.
• Carbonic Anhydrase 3 Increases During Liver Adipogenesis Even in Pre-Obesity, and Its Inhibitors Reduce Liver Adipose Accumulation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effects of Flaxseed Interventions on Circulating Inflammatory Biomarkers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
• Letter: Comment on “Effects of Flaxseed Interventions on Circulating Inflammatory Biomarkers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials”.
• Letter: Errors in Analyses and Undisclosed Methods Render Meta-Analysis Irreproducible: A Second Comment on “Effects of Flaxseed Interventions on Circulating Inflammatory Biomarkers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials”.
• Blog Post: Flack About Flaxseed – Irreproducible Research.
• Article: The Low-Carbohydrate-Diet Score Is Associated with Resting Metabolic Rate: An Epidemiologic Study Among Iranian Adults.
• Letter: Errors and Incorrect Conclusions Need Correction in “The Low-Carbohydrate-Diet Score Is Associated with Resting Metabolic Rate: An Epidemiologic Study Among Iranian Adults”.
• "DNA barcoding brought botanist Steven Newmaster scientific fame and entrepreneurial success. Was it all based on fraud?"

Clinical

• RCT: A Preliminary Investigation of Yoga as an Intervention Approach for Improving Long-Term Weight Loss.
• Protocol: Unpacking the Behavioural Components and Delivery Features of Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Interventions in the TOPCHILD Collaboration.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Animal-Source Foods as a Suitable Complementary Food for Improved Physical Growth in 6 to 24-Month-Old Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Weight Spurt and Body Image Messages in Girls’ Puberty Books.

Surgery

• Risks and Prevention of Surgical Site Infection After Hernia Mesh Repair and the Predictive Utility of American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
• Compensatory Intestinal Antibody Response Against Pro-Inflammatory Microbiota After Bariatric Surgery.
• Review: Emergence of Bariatric Psychiatry as a New Subspecialty.

Drugs

• Network Meta-analysis: Pharmacotherapy for Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Pharmacotherapy of Obesity in Complex Diseases.
• Anti-Obesity Effects of Galacto-Oligosaccharides in Obese Rats.
• Amyloidogenicity of Peptides Targeting Diabetes and Obesity.
• Effect of Subcutaneous Tirzepatide vs Placebo Added to Titrated Insulin Glargine on Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Assessing the Validity of Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acids as Biomarkers of Dairy Fat Intake Using Data from an RCT.
• Estimating Impact of Food Choices on Life Expectancy: A Modeling Study.
• Commentary: A Native American Food Truck Is Keeping Tribal Cultures Alive.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Substitution of Calorie Restriction for Protective Effects of Estrogen on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Oxidative Stress in Obese Postmenopausal Rat Model.
• Impact of a Short-Term Low Calorie Diet Alone or with Interval Exercise on Quality of Life and Oxidized Phospholipids in Females with Obesity.
• Internet-Based Platform for a Low-Calorie Dietary Intervention Involving Prepackaged Food for Weight Loss in Individuals with Overweight and Obesity in China.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Associations between Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Fatness, Hemodynamic Characteristics, and Sedentary Behaviour in Primary School-Aged Children.
• The Association between Physical Activity and Insulin Level Under Different Levels of Lipid Indices and Serum Uric Acid.
• Resistance Training Variable Manipulations Is Less Relevant Than Intrinsic Biology in Affecting Muscle Fiber Hypertrophy.
• RCT: Effect of Severe Versus Moderate Energy Restriction on Physical Activity Among Postmenopausal Female Adults with Obesity: A Pre-Specified Secondary Analysis of the TEMPO Trial.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighborhood Socioeconomic Environment and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Associations and Mediation Through Food Environment Pathways.
• A Critical Biocultural Approach to Early Growth in the United States.

Epidemiology

• RCT: Diverging Metabolic Effects of Two Energy Restricted Diets Differing in Nutrient Quality.
• Obesity and Risk of Female Reproductive Conditions: A Mendelian Randomisation Study.
• Objectively Measured Total Sedentary Time and Pattern of Sedentary Accumulation in Older Adults: Associations with Incident Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Prone to Food in Bad Mood—Emotion-Potentiated Food-Cue Reactivity in Patients with Binge-Eating Disorder (PDF).
• Are Music Listening Strategies Associated with Reduced Food Consumption Following Negative Mood Inductions; A Series of Three Exploratory Experimental Studies.
• Emphasizing Pleasure over Health Promotes Preference for Nutritious Foods in People of Low Socioeconomic Status.
• Can Responsive Deep Brain Stimulation Be a Cost-Effective Treatment for Severe Obesity?
• Is More, Better? Relationships of Multiple Psychological Well-Being Facets with Cardiometabolic Disease.
• Evaluation of Adiposity and Cognitive Function in Adults.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic Review: Representation of Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in Clinical Nutrition Interventions.
• Monte Carlo Analysis of Optical Heart Rate Sensors in Commercial Wearables: The Effect of Skin Tone and Obesity on the Photoplethysmography (PPG) Signal.
• Systematic Review: Do Sex and Gender Modify the Association between Green Space and Physical Health?

Stigma

• Weight-Based Cybervictimization: Implications for Adolescent Health.
• Experiences of Weight Stigmatization in the Israeli Healthcare System Among Individuals with Overweight and Obesity.
• Social Alienation of Adolescents with Obesity in Classrooms: A Multilevel Approach.

Policy Related

• Changes in Weight-Related Outcomes Among Adolescents Following Consumer Price Increases of Taxed Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.
• Examining the Influence of Positive Childhood Experiences on Childhood Overweight and Obesity Using a National Sample.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-Analysis: Association of Antenatal Diet and Physical Activity–Based Interventions with Gestational Weight Gain and Pregnancy Outcomes.
• Advanced Paternal Age Increased Metabolic Risks in Mice Offspring.
• Exposure to Maternal Fuels During Pregnancy and Offspring Hepatic Fat in Early Childhood.
• Pregnancy, Perinatal and Childhood Outcomes in Women with and Without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Metformin During Pregnancy: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• An Enriched Environment Reestablishes Metabolic Homeostasis by Reducing Obesity-Induced Inflammation.
• Energy Expenditure Does Not Solely Explain Step Length-Width Choices During Walking.

Methods

• Characterization of Lipid Droplet-Mitochondrial Contacts Using Fluorescence Microscopy and Image Analysis.
• Registration and Primary Outcome Reporting in Behavioral Health Trials.

Commentary

• Chemicals in Plastic Consumer Products May Trigger Obesity and Weight Gain, Study Finds.
• Skepticism and Grace: Can They Coexist?
• Two Reasons for Failure to Prevent the Rise of Obesity.
• Sweeteners, Rats, and Babies.
• The History of “First Sleep” and “Second Sleep” Holds Surprising Lessons About Preindustrial Life, 21st-Century Anxiety, and the Problem with Digging for Utopia in the Past.
• 100,000 More Diabetes Deaths, More of Same Policies.
• Exercise Harder If You Want to Ward Off Pain Due to Aging.
• Breast Milk: A Meal Worth Having.

General

• Contrary: "A novel mindfulness curriculum did not significantly affect emotional exhaustion, burnout, empathy, or mindfulness immediately or 9 months after curriculum implementation" in a cluster randomized controlled trial.
• Senolytic Vaccination Improves Normal and Pathological Age-Related Phenotypes and Increases Lifespan in Progeroid Mice.
• Jeremiah Stamler, Who Found Ways to Curb Heart Disease, Dies at 102.
• Transparency in Authors’ Contributions and Responsibilities to Promote Integrity in Scientific Publication.
• Sleep: "Data misrepresentation may win you big gigs, but it makes a bad name for scientists."
• Turning Back Time with Epigenetic Clocks.
• The Impact of International Scientists, Engineers, and Students on U.S. Research Outputs and Global Competitiveness.
• COVID-19: Hamsters Can Infect Humans with the Coronavirus - Study.

Announcements

• Next ABOM Obesity Medicine Certification Exam for Physicians to Be Administered at Pearson VUE Test Centers November 7-19, 2022; Apply by July 15.
• Department Chair and Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Kinesiology Sought at IU.
• The 14-Day Writing Challenge: Experience Explosive Writing Productivity.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.

Featured

• RCT: Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction Augments Weight Loss Induced Improvements in Glycaemic Control and Liver Fat in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Evaluation of the Type I Error Rate When Using Parametric Bootstrap Analysis of a Cluster RCTs with Binary Outcomes and a Small Number of Clusters.
• RCT: Reducing Eating Disorder Risk Among Male Athletes: ...the Male Athlete Body Project.
• Emergence of the Obesity Epidemic: Six Decade Visualization with Humanoid Avatars.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Brain Tissue Study Sheds Light on How Exercise Can Fight Dementia.
• Study: Associations between Late-Life Physical Activity and Brain Tissue Synaptic Integrity Markers in Older Adults. Fighting Dementia Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Only negligible effects on student physical activity were found" in trial of the impact of an implementation intervention that increased school's delivery of a mandatory physical activity policy on student outcomes.
• No Impact of Diabetes, Glycemic Control on COVID-19 Vaccine Response.
• "All findings of association indicated higher muscle strength and skeletal muscle mass with higher acid diet measures, contrary to the acid hypothesis."
• "However, contrary to expectations, we witnessed that HbA1c was 0.3% higher in summer than in winter in Istanbul, where the temperature change over a year is 22.5°C, the coldest month is January, and the hottest month is August."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, our results indicate that TL [telomere length] does not reflect accelerated biological ageing in patients with AN [anorexia nervosa]."
• "Our findings showed that adipose tissue rather than erythrocytes may serve as reservoir of PUFAs and LCPUFAs for human milk."
• "Contrary to predictions, we found no compensatory adult feeding. mass-adjusted flight metabolic rate was reduced, suggesting poor dispersal capacity. Larval DR did not affect adult lifespan, nor did the rate of metabolic senescence change. Larval DR did affect RMR" in Butterflies.
• RCT: No Effect of Cornus mas L. Fruit Extract on Lipid Accumulation Product and Cardiovascular Indices in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Basic

• FTO Knockout in Adipose Tissue Effectively Alleviates Hepatic Steatosis Partially Via Increasing the Secretion of Adipocyte-Derived IL-6.
• Adipocyte-Specific Modulation of KLF14 Expression in Mice Leads to Sex-Dependent Impacts on Adiposity and Lipid Metabolism.
• BCAA–BCKA Axis Regulates WAT Browning Through Acetylation of PRDM16.
• Clusterin Is Involved in Mediating the Metabolic Function of Adipose SIRT1.
• Therapeutic Ketosis Decreases Methacholine Hyperresponsiveness in Mouse Models of Inherent Obese Asthma.
• An Assessment of Thermoneutral Housing Conditions on Murine Cardiometabolic Function.
• Susceptibility to Diet-Induced Obesity at Thermoneutral Conditions Is Independent of UCP1.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Do Collagen Supplements Reduce Symptoms of Osteoarthritis? Meta-Analytic Results Do Not Support Strong Conclusions.
• Commentary: Researching Collagen to Help His Achy Knees, a Statistician Explores the Painfully Weak Evidence.
• Article: Projected U.S. State-Level Prevalence of Adult Obesity and Severe Obesity.
• Article: Evaluation of a Suggested Novel Method to Adjust BMI Calculated from Self-Reported Weight and Height for Measurement Error.
• Letter: A Rigorous Evaluation of a Method to Adjust BMI for Self-Report Bias.
• Reply: Response To: “A Rigorous Evaluation of a Method to Adjust BMI for Self-Report Bias”.
• Commentary: Seeking Gold in the Myths of Self-Reported Weight.

Clinical

• Visceral Fat Inflammation and Fat Embolism are Associated with Lung's Lipidic Hyaline Membranes in Subjects with COVID-19.
• Review: The Role of the Androgen Receptor in the Pathogenesis of Obesity and Its Utility as a Target for Obesity Treatments.
• Prepregnancy Weight Change Associated with High Gestational Weight Gain.
• Preconception Weight Loss Improves Fertility and Maternal Outcomes in Obese Mice.
• RCT: Effects of a Low Free Sugar Diet on the Management of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Children and Adolescents

• Managing Obesity in Young Children: A Multiple Methods Study Assessing Feasibility, Acceptability, and Implementation of a Multicomponent, Family-Based Intervention.
• cRCT: Impact of a School-Based Health Intervention Program on Body Composition Among South African Primary Schoolchildren.
• Acceleration in BMI Gain Following COVID-19 Restrictions. A Longitudinal Study with 7- to 10-Year-Old Primary School Children.

Surgery

• Pulmonary Complications are a Strong Independent Predictor of 30-Day Mortality Following Elective Bariatric Surgery.
• COVID-19 Vaccination and Timing of Bariatric Surgery: Considerations and Concerns for Patients with Severe Obesity.
• Body Composition, Basal Metabolic Rate and Leptin in Long-Term Weight Regain After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass are Similar to Pre-Surgical Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Gastroesophageal Cancer After Gastric Bypass Surgeries.

Drugs

• Aspirin Use for Preeclampsia Prevention Among Women with Prepregnancy Diabetes, Obesity, and Hypertension.
• Meta-Analysis: Impact of Intraoperative Ketamine on Postoperative Analgesic Requirement Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Use of Prescription Medications Associated with Weight Gain Among US Adults, 1999-2018: A Nationally Representative Survey.
• ‘Saba’ Banana (Musa acuminata x balbisiana BBB Group) Peel Pectin Supplementation Improves Biomarkers of Obesity and Associated Blood Lipid Disorders in Obese Hypercholesterolemic Mice.
• Hibiscus manihot L Improves Obesity in Mice Induced by a High-Fat Diet.
• The Beneficial Effects of Genetically Engineered Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 in Obese C57BL/6J Mice.

Food & Diet

• Weight Loss and High-Protein, High-Fiber Diet Consumption Impact Blood Metabolite Profiles, Body Composition, Voluntary Physical Activity, Fecal Microbiota, and Fecal Metabolites of Adult Dogs.
• Meta-Analysis: Low-Carbohydrate Versus Balanced-Carbohydrate Diets for Reducing Weight and Cardiovascular Risk.
• Chia Seed in Health and Disease Prevention: Present Usage and Future Perspectives.
• RCT: Prolonged Glycemic Adaptation Following Transition from a Low- to High-Carbohydrate Diet.
• Polymorphisms in the Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase Gene Modify Blood Glucose Response to Dietary Oils Varying in MUFA Content in Adults with Obesity.
• Dietary Tryptophan and the Risk of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Total Effect and Mediation Effect of Sleep Duration.
• Association between Dairy Protein and Body Composition in Middle-Aged and Older Women: A Community-Based, 12-Year, Prospective Cohort Study.
• Food Perceptions, Beliefs, and Behaviors Amid a Global Pandemic: Results of the International Food Information Council 2021 Food & Health Survey.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Streptococcus thermophilus Extends Lifespan Through Activation of DAF-16-Mediated Antioxidant Pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans.
• Role of Nutritional Ketosis in the Improvement of Metabolic Parameters Following Bariatric Surgery.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Moderate Treadmill Exercise Modulates Gut Microbiota and Improves Intestinal Barrier in High-Fat-Diet-Induced Obese Mice Via the AMPK/CDX2 Signaling Pathway.
• Predictors of Post-Exercise Energy Intake in Adolescents Ranging in Weight Status from Overweight to Severe Obesity.
• Effect of Aerobic or Resistance Exercise, or Both, on Intermuscular and Visceral Fat and Physical and Metabolic Function in Older Adults with Obesity While Dieting.
• Estimated Number of Deaths Prevented Through Increased Physical Activity Among US Adults.
• Metabolite Signature of Physical Activity and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in 7271 Men.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Short Sprint Interval Training on Aerobic and Anaerobic Indices.
• Moderate Physical Activity May Not Decrease the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults with Persistent Overweight and Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status, BMI, and Brain Development in Children.
• Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Childhood BMI Trajectories from Birth to 7 Years of Age.
• Bariatric Surgery and Risk of Unemployment and Sickness Absence.

Epidemiology

• Non-Linear Associations between Healthy Nordic Foods and All-Cause Mortality in the NOWAC Study: A Prospective Study.
• Insulin Sensitivity and Kinetics in African American and White People with Obesity: Insights from Different Study Protocols.
• Disease Consequences of Higher Adiposity Uncoupled from Its Adverse Metabolic Effects Using Mendelian Randomisation.
• Association of Anthropometric Parameters as a Risk Factor for Development of Diabetic Retinopathy in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus.
• Age-Appropriate BMI Cut-Points for Cardiometabolic Health Risk: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
• Social Determinants of Health and Obesity: Findings from a National Study of US Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Parents’ Perceptions of Their Child’s Weight Among Children in Their First Year of Primary School: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of an Australian Cross-Sectional (Complete Enumeration) Study.
• Adolescents’ Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms: A Psychosocial Mechanism.
• The Relationship between Autism Diagnostic Criteria and Problematic Eating Behaviors.
• The Role of Cognitive Flexibility in Weight Loss After Severe Obesity Surgery—A Retrospective Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Prevalence and Socio-Economic Determinants of Inadequate Dietary Diversity Among Adolescent Girls and Boys in Bangladesh: Findings from a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey.
• Racial Differences in Psychological Stress and Insulin Sensitivity in Non-Hispanic Black and White Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity.
• Regional Disparities in Obesity Among a Heterogeneous Population of Chinese Children and Adolescents.
• Food Insecurity Among American Indian and Alaska Native People: A Scoping Review to Inform Future Research and Policy Needs.

Stigma

• Association of Body Perception and Dietary Weight Management Behaviours Among Children and Adolescents Aged 6–17 Years in China: Cross-Sectional Study Using CHNS (2015).
• RCT: The Effect of an Education Module to Reduce Weight Bias Among Medical Centers Employees.
• Mapping Changes in the Obesity Stigma Discourse Through Obesity Canada: A Content Analysis.

Policy Related

• The Obesity Effect of Arizona’s State Immigration Law Among Hispanic Adolescents.
• Food Policies and Obesity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• COVID-19 and Childhood Obesity (CO-BESITY) in the Era of New Normal Life: A Need for a Policy Research.
• Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdown on Food Ordering Patterns Among Youths in China: The COVID-19 Impact on Lifestyle Change Survey.
• Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Cancer: Pathophysiological and Therapeutic Associations.
• RCT: The Impact of Pictorial Health Warnings on Purchases of Sugary Drinks for Children.
• Commentary: RCT: Gross Pics on Beverage Labels Deter Purchases.

Intergenerational Effects

• Delivery Indication Matters for Perinatal Outcomes in Late Preterm Newborns.
• RCT: Effects of Preconception Lifestyle Intervention in Infertile Women with Obesity.
• Exploring the Causal Effect of Maternal Pregnancy Adiposity on Offspring Adiposity: Mendelian Randomisation Using Polygenic Risk Scores.
• Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Obesity Combined with Abnormal Glucose Metabolism Further Increases Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Chinese Pregnant Women.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The First Three Records of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) Killing and Eating Blue Whales (Balaenoptera musculus).
• The Seasonal Variation of Basal Metabolic Rate Is Related to the Expression of Torpor Among Small Mammals.
• Can Temperature-Dependent Changes in Myocardial Contractility Explain Why Fish Only Increase Heart Rate When Exposed to Acute Warming?

Methods

• Perspective: Novel Approaches to Evaluate Dietary Quality: Combining Methods to Enhance Measurement for Dietary Surveillance and Interventions.
• Noise-Augmented Directional Clustering of Genetic Association Data Identifies Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Obesity.
• Estimating the Potential Public Health Impact of Fibre Enrichment: A UK Modelling Study.

Commentary

• How Dentists Should Consider Obesity in Patients.
• An Overview of Epigenetics in Obesity: The Role of Lifestyle and Therapeutic Interventions.
• Kuwait & Obesity: What Can You See from the City Streets?
• Nutrition Policy Should Leave Out Politics.
• An Elusive Reality: Slower Metabolism with Weight Loss.
• Drug Mimics Beneficial Effects of Fasting in Mice.
• WHO/Europe to Launch New Sugar and Calorie Reduction Initiative Led by the United Kingdom.
• Study Identifies Estrogen-Regulated Brain Circuit That Helps Women Control Obesity.

General

• The Transcriptomic Signature of Obligate Parthenogenesis.
• A PARTHENOGENESIS Allele from Apomictic Dandelion Can Induce Egg Cell Division Without Fertilization in Lettuce.
• Massive Open Index of Scholarly Papers Launches.
• Dissertation: Hormonal and Behavioral Responses to Competition: How Evolution Has Shaped Social and Seasonal Mechanisms of Aggression in a Female Songbird.
• “May I Present You: My Disgust!” – Declared Disgust Sensitivity in the Presence of Attractive Models.
• Out on a Limb: Female Chameleons (Bradypodion pumilum) Position Themselves to Minimise Detection, Whereas Males Maximise Mating Opportunity.
• Consequences of Nescient Mating: Artificial Insemination Increases Cub Rejection in the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca).
• Sex-Specific Aging in Animals: Perspective and Future Directions.

Announcements

• SNEB Annual Conference Call for Abstracts: The Deadline for Submissions Is Feb 14, 2022.
• Online seminar: Metabolic Regulation of Insulin Secretion in Health and Disease, Feb 9, 2022.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.