Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Telehealth Use Among Community Health Centers and Cardio-Metabolic Health Outcomes.
• Food Insecurity, Gestational Weight Gain and Gestational Diabetes in the National Children’s Study, 2009–2014.
• Naturally Occurring Hormones in Foods and Potential Health Effects.

Headline vs Study

• Nutrimedia: A Novel Web-based Resource for the General Public That Evaluates the Veracity of Nutrition Claims Using the GRADE Approach.
• Headline: Healthier School Food and Physical Activity Affect Kids' BMI.
• Study: Associations between Food and Physical Activity Environments in Schools and BMI Z-score.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Active Travelling to School Is Not Associated with Increased Total Daily Physical Activity Levels, or Reduced Obesity and Cardiovascular/pulmonary Health Parameters in 10-12-year Olds.
• Meta-analysis: "Overall, supplementation with vitamin D produced no significant effect on the BMI, WC or WHR of healthy adults."
• RCT: "There was no statistically significant difference in the reduction of unhealthy attitudes towards sport and problematic exercise behavior between the intervention and the group, as measured with the Commitment to Exercise Scale."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on HBA1C of High-Intensity Interval Training on Glycemic Control in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes and Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Interpretation Bias Modification to Reduce Body Dissatisfaction in Women with Elevated Weight and Shape Concerns.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Calorie Restricted Ketogenic Diet and Fasting in Addition to Re-Irradiation on Progression Free Survival Rate for Malignant Glioma. (pdf)
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Multistrain Probiotic on Gestational Weight Gain in Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• RCT: "Parenteral nutrition using a mixed lipid emulsion containing fish oil did not improve neurodevelopment of ELBW infants at 12 and 24 months corrected age." (pdf)

Basic

• Transcriptome Analysis of the Adipose Tissue in a Mouse Model of Metabolic Syndrome Identifies Gene Signatures Related to Disease Pathogenesis.
• MAPK-Interacting Kinase 2 (MNK2) Regulates Adipocyte Metabolism Independently of Its Catalytic Activity.
• Inositol Polyphosphate Multikinase in Adipocytes Is Dispensable for Regulating Energy Metabolism and Whole-Body Metabolic Homeostasis.
• Dlk1 Expression Relates to Visceral Fat Expansion and Insulin Resistance in Male and Female Rats with Postnatal Catch-Up Growth.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The ARRIVE Guidelines 2.0: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Animal Research.
• Best (but Oft-forgotten) Practices: Sample Size and Power Calculation for a Dietary Intervention Trial with Episodically Consumed Foods.
• Methodological Approaches to the Design and Analysis of Nonrandomized Intervention Studies for the Prevention of Child and Adolescent Obesity.
• Article: Low-phytate Wholegrain Bread Instead of High-phytate Wholegrain Bread in a Total Diet Context Did Not Improve Iron Status of Healthy Swedish Females: A 12-week, Randomized, Parallel-design Intervention Study.
• Letter: Within-group Comparisons Led to Unsubstantiated Conclusions in “Low-phytate Wholegrain Bread Instead of High-phytate Wholegrain Bread in a Total Diet Context Did Not Improve Iron Status of Healthy Swedish Females: A 12-week, Randomized, Parallel-design Intervention Study”.
• Response: Reply to the Comments by Vorland et al. On Our Paper: “low-phytate Wholegrain Bread Instead of High-phytate Wholegrain Bread in a Total Diet Context Did Not Improve Iron Status of Healthy Swedish Females: A 12-week, Randomized, Parallel-design Intervention Study”.
• Correction: Correction To: Low-phytate Wholegrain Bread Instead of High-phytate Wholegrain Bread in a Total Diet Context Did Not Improve Iron Status of Healthy Swedish Females: A 12 Week, Randomized, Parallel-design Intervention Study.
• Response to Comments From Brydges & Gaeta and Vorland et al. With Respect to Hein et al. (2019) “Systematic Review of the Effects of Blueberry on Cognitive Performance as We Age”.

Clinical

• Meta-analysis: Impact of a Ketogenic Diet on Metabolic Parameters in Patients with Obesity or Overweight and with or Without Type 2 Diabetes.
• Endocrine and Metabolic Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Association between BMI and Perioperative Mortality After Repair of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms.
• RCT: A Factorial Experiment to Optimize Remotely Delivered Behavioral Treatment for Obesity: Results of the Opt-IN Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Infants with Big Appetites: The Role of a Nonfood Environment on Infant Appetitive Traits Linked to Obesity.
• New Book: Feeding Infants and Children From Birth to 24 Months (Summarizing Existing Guidance).
• Causal Associations of BMI and Waist-to-hip Ratio with Cardiometabolic Traits Among Chinese Children: A Mendelian Randomization Study. (pdf)
• Promoting Healthy Weight and Managing Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Using Evidence-based Methods.
• Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Preschool Children.
• BMI From Early to Late Childhood and Cardiometabolic Measurements at 11 to 12 Years.

Surgery

• Effects of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Gastric Structure and Function Documented by Magnetic Resonance Imaging are Strongly Associated with Post-operative Weight Loss and Quality of Life.
• Motivation and Weight Loss Expectations in Bariatric Surgery Candidates: Association with 1- and 2-Year Results After Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-analysis: Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices.

Drugs

• Enhanced Release of Glucose Into the Intraluminal Space of the Intestine Associated with Metformin Treatment as Revealed By [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose PET-MRI.
• Effect of Setmelanotide, an MC4R Agonist, on Obesity in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome.

Food & Diet

• Exploring the Diets of Adults with Obesity and Type II Diabetes From Nine Diverse Countries: Dietary Intakes, Patterns, and Quality.
• The Relationship between Protein Intake and Source on Factors Associated with Glycemic Control in Individuals with Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association of Plasma Biomarkers of Fruit and Vegetable Intake with Incident Type 2 Diabetes: EPIC-InterAct Case-cohort Study in Eight European Countries.
• Stearidonic-Enriched Soybean Oil Modulates Obesity, Glucose Metabolism, and Fatty Acid Profiles Independently of Akkermansia Muciniphila.
• Review: Intake of ω-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid-Rich Vegetable Oils and Risk of Lifestyle Diseases.
• The Effects of Magnesium Supplementation on Obesity Measures in Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effect of Calorie Restriction or Protein Intake on Circulating Levels of Insulin Like Growth Factor I in Humans: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Discovery of Fifteen New Geroprotective Plant Extracts and Identification of Cellular Processes They Affect to Prolong the Chronological Lifespan of Budding Yeast.
• RCT: Effects of 4- and 6-h Time-Restricted Feeding on Weight and Cardiometabolic Health in Adults with Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effects of Aerobic Exercise and Cognitively Engaging Exercise on Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Motor Skills in Primary School Children.
• Integrating Mortality Risk and the Adaptiveness of Hibernation.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomics of Obesity.
• Main and Interacting Effects of Physical Activity and Sedentary Time on Older Adults’ BMI: The Moderating Roles of Socio-demographic and Environmental Attributes.

Epidemiology

• Changing Social Inequalities in Smoking, Obesity and Cause-specific Mortality: Cross-national Comparisons Using Compass Typology.
• BMI and Risk of COVID -19 Across Ethnic Groups: Analysis of UK Biobank Study.
• Preprint: Causal Associations between Salt Intake with Body Mass, Shape and Composition: A Two-sample Mendelian Randomization Study. (pdf)

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Depression, Obesity and Their Comorbidity During Pregnancy: Effects on the Offspring’s Mental and Physical Health.
• Dietary Fat Exacerbates Postprandial Hypothalamic Inflammation Involving Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein-positive Cells and Microglia in Male Mice.
• Eating in Case of Emotion Dys-regulation, Depression and Anxiety: Different Pathways to Emotional Eating in Moderate and Severe Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Outcomes of COVID-19: Disparities in Obesity and By Ethnicity/race.
• Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Attenuate the Impact of Sarcopenic-Obesity on Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Korean Men.
• Characterizing Lifetime and Daily Experiences of Weight Stigma Among Sexual Minority Women with Overweight and Obesity: A Descriptive Study.
• Incorporating an Increase in Plant-Based Food Choices Into a Model of Culturally Responsive Care for Hispanic/Latino Children and Adults Who have Overweight or Obesity.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma, Chronic Stress, Unhealthy Diet, and Obesity in Chilean Adults.
• Commentary: COVID-19 and Obesity: Exploring Biologic Vulnerabilities, Structural Disparities, and Weight Stigma. (pdf)

Policy Related

• Scientists Helping to Update the Latest Edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are Taking a Harder Stance on Alcohol.
• The Association of a Sweetened Beverage Tax with Changes in Beverage Prices and Purchases at Independent Stores.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal and Perinatal Outcome of Women with Obesity in Pregnancy.
• Healthy Fathers, Healthy Kids: Preliminary Results of a Father-Focused Childhood Obesity Prevention Pilot Program.
• Paradoxical Long-term Impact of Maternal Influenza Infection on Neonates and Infants.
• Perinatal Exposure to Maternal Obesity: Lasting Cardiometabolic Impact on Offspring.
• Higher Maternal Weight Is Related to Poorer Fetal Autonomic Function.
• Integration of an Interpretable Machine Learning Algorithm to Identify Early Life Risk Factors of Childhood Obesity Among Preterm Infants.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Energetic Costs of Living in the Surf and Impacts on Zonation of Shells Occupied by Hermit Crabs.
• Parental Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance Related to Dietary Crude Oil Exposure in Danio Rerio.

Methods

• Effectiveness of Social Media (Facebook), Targeted Mailing, and In-person Solicitation for the Recruitment of Young Adult in a Diabetes Self-management Clinical Trial.
• Serious Analytical Inconsistencies Challenge the Validity of the Energy Balance Theory.

Commentary

• Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategies Must Start Early.
• Saturated Fat, Diets, and Diatribe: Nutrition Science Meets “Whac-a-Mole."
• Desk Jobs are Good for Your Brain?
• OAC’s YWM2020 Virtual: Rethinking Everything.
• Lean or Not, Who’s a Good Dog?
• Science and Health Equity for Obesity and COVID-19.
• Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Report – 2020.
• The News in 2020 Dietary Guidelines? Alcohol & Sugar.

General

• The Affordable Care Act: Effects of Insurance on Diabetes Biomarkers.
• Variability in the Analysis of a Single Neuroimaging Dataset by Many Teams.
• A Hybrid Biomonitoring System for Gut-Neuron Communication.
• Broadening the PhD Pipeline: A Summer Research Program for HBCU Students.
• Preprint: Sharing of Data from Clinical Research Projects – Guidance From the Swiss CTU Network.
• Estimating the Impact of Design Standards on the Rigor of a Subset of Single-Case Research.
• Guinea Pigging: Healthy Volunteers in Phase I Trials.
• The Global Food Syndemic: The Impact of Food Insecurity, Malnutrition and Obesity on the Healthspan Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Ethical Pandemic Control Through the Public Health Code of Ethics.
• OpenSAFELY: Factors Associated with COVID-19 Death in 17 Million Patients.
• Preventing a Secondary Epidemic of Lost Early Career Scientists: Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women with Children.

Announcements

• Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. (pdf)
• Safety First: The American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2020 Goes Virtual.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency and/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.

Featured

• CD81 Controls Beige Fat Progenitor Cell Growth and Energy Balance Via FAK Signaling. (pdf)
• Exome Sequencing Identifies Genes and Gene Sets Contributing to Severe Childhood Obesity, Linking PHIP Variants to Repressed POMC Transcription.
• Caregiver Influences on Eating Behaviors in Young Children: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.
• Exogenous Dietary Ketone Ester Decreases Body Weight and Adiposity in Mice Housed at Thermoneutrality.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Weight Loss Might Be Easier Than You Thought: Just Don't Eat at Night.
• Study: Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress in Men with Prediabetes... Even Without Weight Loss.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Use of WD [WellnessUp Diet] might have several beneficial effects and safety such as body fat reduction and improving some the element detoxification through caloric restriction but did not reducing body fat mass more than calorie-restricted diet."
• RCT: In "a Community-Based Randomized Trial for Rural Women...When comparing outcome changes between intervention and control group participants’ SNMs, we did not find any statistically significant ripple effect on weight, BMI, exercise, or diet changes."
• RCT: No Significant "Prognostic Value of the Dutch Sweet Eating Questionnaire on Weight Loss After Metabolic Surgery."
• "contrary to expectations, we found no association between food RT priming effects and choice behaviour."
• "Self-reported feelings of enjoyment declined steadily, and contrary to our first hypothesis, increasing salience of dietary variety did not prevent this decline."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, IE [intuitive eating] was neither associated with healthy nor total laboratory food intake in classical regression analyses."
• Thesis: "The PPAL [Positive Parenting and Active Lifestyle programme] programme failed to meet the needs of the overweight/obese child population it aimed to service."

Basic

• Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution (PM2.5) Induces Hypothalamic Inflammation, and Long-term Leads to Leptin Resistance and Obesity Via Tlr4/Ikbke in Mice.
• Identification of Molecular Mechanisms Related to Pig Fatness at the Transcriptome and MiRNAome Levels.
• Intact Vagal Gut-brain Signaling Prevents Hyperphagia and Excessive Weight Gain in Response to High-fat High-sugar Diet in Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "Our results indicate that almost a third of scientists may be making molar solutions incorrectly."
• Perspective: Chaos in a Bottle—A Critical Evaluation of Beverage Categorization in Nutrition Research.

Clinical

• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Probiotic Strains and Intervention Total Doses for Modulating Obesity-Related Microbiota Dysbiosis.
• RCT: 3-year Trial of Severe Vs. Moderate Energy Restriction Impacts Body Weight and Body Composition Among Postmenopausal Women with Obesity.
• Functional Loss of Pancreatic Islets in Type 2 Diabetes: How Can We Halt It?
• Evaluating Engagement in a Digital and Dietetic Intervention Promoting Healthy Weight Gain in Pregnancy: Mixed Methods Study.
• German Parliament Declares Obesity a Disease.

Children and Adolescents

• Special Attention to Diet and Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents with Obesity During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic.
• Changes in Dietary Intake of Major Nutrients and Food Sources Among Costa Rican Adolescents in the Last 20 Years.
• Strategies in the Management of Adolescent Obesity.
• Childhood Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Working Towards Solutions.

Surgery

• Obesity, Hypertension, and Bariatric Surgery.
• "Bariatric Families"- A New Phenomenon with Unique Characteristics.
• Bariatric Surgery in Prior Solid Organ Transplantation Patients: Is Race a Predictor of Adverse Outcomes?
• Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Has Better Weight Evolution and Serum Concentrations of Vitamin D When Compared with Roux-Y Gastric Bypass.

Drugs

• Repurposing Disulfiram as an Anti-Obesity Drug: Treating and Preventing Obesity in High-Fat-Fed Rats.
• Lancing Drug Reservoirs into Subcutaneous Fat to Combat Obesity and Associated Metabolic Diseases.
• Spin-off Prize: EraCal Therapeutics: A New Drug Candidate for Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: Low-carbohydrate Diets and Type 2 Diabetes Treatment.
• Systematic Review: To Keto or Not to Keto? The Effects of Ketogenic Therapy on Alzheimer Disease.
• Caribbean Nutrition Transition: What Can We Learn From Dietary Patterns in the French West Indies?
• Added Sugar and Sugar-sweetened Beverages are Associated with Increased Postpartum Weight Gain and Soluble Fiber Intake Is Associated with Postpartum Weight Loss in Hispanic Women From Southern California.
• Hypocaloric Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets with Fixed Protein Lead to Similar Health Outcomes in Obese Mice.
• FAO Predicts Global Shortage of Protein-rich Foods: Food Outlook Biannual Report on Global Food Markets. (pdf)
• Commercial Survey: Purchasing Behaviors, Eating Decisions and Health Perceptions of Dietary Fats and Oils.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Early Adaptive Thermogenesis Is a Determinant of Weight Loss After Six Weeks of Caloric Restriction in Overweight Subjects.
• Partial Body Mass Recovery After Caloric Restriction Abolishes Improved Glucose Tolerance in Obese, Insulin Resistant Rats.
• Does Calorie Restriction Modulate Inflammaging Via FoxO Transcription Factors?
• Higher Unacylated Ghrelin and Insulin Sensitivity Following Dietary Restriction and Weight Loss in Obese Humans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Worldwide Effect of COVID-19 on Physical Activity: A Descriptive Study.
• Mass-normalized Internal Mechanical Work in Walking Is Not Impaired in Adults with Class III Obesity.
• What Keeps Them Going, and What Gets Them Back? Older Adults’ Beliefs About Physical Activity Maintenance.
• Dissertation: An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship between Outdoor Adventure Recreation Activity Type and Environmental Self-selection Strategies for Health Promotion.

Economics & Sociology

• Adverse Childhood Experiences, Economic Hardship, and Obesity: Differences by Gender.
• Socioeconomic Correlates of Obesity in African-American and Caribbean-Black Men and Women.

Epidemiology

• Association between Glycemic Status and the Risk of Parkinson Disease: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.
• A Large Prospective Investigation of Outdoor Light at Night and Obesity in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.
• Urinary Markers of Nucleic Acid Oxidation Increase with Age, Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Danish Children and Adolescents.
• Prospective Association of Obesity Patterns with Subclinical Carotid Plaque Development in Early Postmenopausal Chinese Women.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Psychological Mechanisms Associated with Food Security Status and BMI in Adults: A Mixed Methods Study.
• DHA Reduces Hypothalamic Inflammation and Improves Central Leptin Signaling in Mice.
• Tocotrienols Influence Body Weight Gain and Brain Protein Expression in Long-Term High-Fat Diet-Treated Mice.

Equity and Disparities

• Association of Altitude and Urbanization with Hypertension and Obesity: Analysis of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2016.
• Measuring Overweight and Obesity in Chinese American Children Using US, International and Ethnic-specific Growth Charts.
• Familism, Self-Esteem, and Weight-Specific Quality of Life Among Latinx Adolescents with Obesity.
• Stark Racial Disparities Emerge as Families Struggle to Get Enough Food.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma Experiences and Physical (In)activity.
• Scoping Review: Summarizing Recommendations to Eliminate Weight Stigma in Prenatal Health Care Settings.
• Commentary: Bing! One Less Dose of Explicit Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• The Association of Obesity with Health Insurance Coverage and Demographic Characteristics: A Statewide Cross-sectional Study.
• Aircraft Accommodation for People Living with Obesity: A Call for a Review of Existing Seating, Safety and Emergency Regulations.
• Every Month Matters: Longitudinal Associations between Exclusive Breastfeeding Duration, Child Growth and Obesity Among WIC-participating Children.
• One-year Changes in Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumers’ Purchases Following Implementation of a Beverage Tax: A Longitudinal Quasi-experiment.
• Commentary: Policy-Based Evidence for School Nutrition.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-analysis: Pre-pregnancy Obesity and Risk of Congenital Abnormalities of the Kidney and Urinary Tract (CAKUT).
• Anti-fat Attitudes and Dietary Restraint Within Mother-daughter Dyads: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) Analysis.
• Preprint: Mid-late Pregnancy Maternal Glycolipids in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Fluctuated in Glycosylated Hemoglobin Levels of 5.5%-6.4% Associated with Umbilical Cord Blood of Amino Acid and Carnitine Proles: A Nested Case-cohort Observational Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Nest Predation and Adult Mortality Relationships with Post-natal Metabolic Rates and Growth Among Songbird Species.
• Mitochondrial Performance of a Continually Growing Marine Bivalve, Mytilus Edulis, Depends on Body Size.

Methods

• Accelerometry Analysis Options Produce Large Differences in Lifestyle Physical Activity Measurement.
• Future Directions for Integrative Objective Assessment of Eating Using Wearable Sensing Technology.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Mathematical Analysis of an Obesity Model with Eating Behaviors. (pdf)

Commentary

• Will Opening Gyms Spread COVID-19? An RCT.
• Urban Legends of Obesity Prevention.
• Obesity, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Ethnicities are Common Risk Factors for COVID-19 and H1N1 Influenza Infections.
• Exercise Can Slow or Prevent Vision Loss [in Mice], Study Finds.
• Fatty Liver, Obesity, and COVID-19.
• Neural Insensitivity to the Effects of Hunger: A Potential Mechanism Underlying Persistent Dietary Restriction in Anorexia Nervosa?
• Commentary On: "The Contribution of Tissue-Specific BMI-associated Gene Sets to Cardiometabolic Disease Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study".
• Editorial: The Shortcomings and Harms of Using Hard Cutoffs for BMI, Hemoglobin A1C, and Smoking Cessation as Conditions for Elective Orthopaedic Surgery.

General

• Male Care Status Influences the Risk-taking Decisions in a Glassfrog.
• Effectiveness of Accessibility Information on Hotels’ Websites: A Quasi-experimental Design.
• Review: Natural Human Chimeras.
• Stress of Pandemic Has Negative Impact on Mental Health and Relationships, Study Shows.
• Independent Validation of Experimental Results Requires Timely and Unrestricted Access to Animal Models and Reagents.
• Cholesterol in Relation to COVID-19: Should We Care About It?
• Pragmatic Trials and the Evolution of Serious Illness Research.
• Altered Health Knowledge and Attitudes Among Health Sciences Students Following Media Exposure.
• Data Show Panic and Disorganization Dominate the Study of Covid-19 Drugs.

Video & Audio

• Audio Interview: Limited Evidence for the Health Effects and Safety of Intermittent Fasting in Type 2 Diabetes.
• On Demand Virtual Sessions: Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine.
• Webinar: Sweet Talk: A Review of the Science of Sweetness and Its Potential Impacts on Health.

Announcements

• Video: IU-Bloomington SPH COVID-19 Seminar Shares Diverse Insights and Health Disparities.
• TOS Announces Interactive, Online Format for ObesityWeek.
• IFT’s Diversity & Inclusion Discussions.
• IFT20 Virtual Event and Expo Registration Now Open.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.

Featured

• RCT: Randomized Re-Opening of Training Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• RCT: "reductions in fat-free mass resulting from an aerobic exercise intervention aimed at weight loss plays an important role in energy balance regulation by increasing operant responding for food."
• Preprint: Canagliflozin Extends Lifespan in Genetically Heterogeneous Male but Not Female Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Urine Test Can Tell If You are on the Best Diet for Your Body.
• Study: Associations among 24 hour dietary recalls, urine metabolites, and dietary patterns; "these data cannot be used to define a dietary score based on urine measurements alone due to the cross-sectional design."
• Study: "our feasibility study [of 10 participants] demonstrates that there are interindividual differences in response to the same diet, even when the environment is controlled."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The effect of EFT [emotional freedom techniques] combined with the eating plan on psychological variables was largely inconsistent with prior research..."
• "Among the experimental studies without daily total energy intake restrictions, pork intake was associated with a reduction in body weight by 0.86 kg (95% CI = 0.17-1.55) and body fat percentage by 0.77% (95% CI = 0.11%-1.43%)..."
• Combining a High Dose of Metformin with the SIRT1 Activator, SRT1720, Reduces Lifespan in Aged Mice Fed a High-fat Diet.
• No Significant Effects on BMI in Neighborhood Investments and Cardiometabolic Health in Two Predominantly African-American Communities: A Natural Experiment Study.
• Meta-Analysis: "It seems that ginseng supplementation does not affect anthropometric and body composition indices in adults."
• Meta-Analysis: "psychological treatments offer minimal clinical benefit in improving glycated haemoglobin levels for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, there was no evidence of benefit compared with control interventions in improving glycated haemoglobin levels for people with type 1 diabetes mellitus."
• Meta-Analysis: "There were no significant favorable effects of pomegranate supplementation on metabolic parameters in patients with T2DM."
• RCT: "Vitamin D3 supplementation for 24 wk had no significant effect on surrogate biomarkers of cholesterol absorption or endogenous synthesis, consistent with the lack of effect on serum cholesterol profile."

Basic

• Mating in the Absence of Fertilization Promotes a Growth-reproduction Versus Lifespan Trade-off in Female Mice.
• Alteration of Gut Microbiota Affects Expression of Adiponectin and Resistin Through Modifying DNA Methylation in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• P2Y2 Receptor Promotes High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Cigarette Smoking Blocks the Benefit From Reduced Weight Gain for Insulin Action By Shifting Lipids Deposition to Muscle.
• MicroRNA 182 Is a Novel Negative Regulator of Adipogenesis By Targeting CCAAT/Enhancer-Binding Protein α.
• Dietary Genistein Reduces Methylglyoxal and Advanced Glycation End Product Accumulation in Obese Mice Treated with High-Fat Diet.
• Gut Bacteria Selectively Altered By Sennoside a Alleviate Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Traits.
• Obesity Drives Delayed Infarct Expansion, Inflammation, and Distinct Gene Networks in a Mouse Stroke Model.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Comparison of Methodological Quality between the 2007 and 2019 Canadian Dietary Guidelines.
• Editorial: Absence of Evidence Is No Evidence for Absence of the Phenomenon.
• Systematic Review: The Use of “Magnitude-based Inference” in Sports Science and Medicine.
• Letter: Is the Use of Triglyceride-glucose (TyG) Index to Recognize Glucose Disorders Really Practical?
• Reply: The Correct Formula for the Triglycerides and Glucose Index.

Clinical

• Obesity Is Associated with Increased Risk for Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19.
• Systematic Review: RCTs of Polyphenol Supplementation in Addition to Calorie Restricted Diets And/or Physical Activity on Body Composition Parameters.
• Is There an Obesity Paradox in Critical Illness?
• The Potential Impacts of Obesity on COVID-19.

Children and Adolescents

• History of Child Maltreatment and Excessive Dietary and Screen Time Behaviors in Young Adults: Results From a Nationally Representative Study.
• RCT: Are Sugar-Reduced and Whole Grain Infant Cereals Sensorially Accepted at Weaning?
• Early-Life Environmental Exposures and Childhood Obesity: An Exposome-Wide Approach.
• Psychosocial, Behavioral and Clinical Correlates of Children with Overweight and Obesity.
• Improving the Assessment and Management of Obesity in UK Children and Adolescents: The PROMISE Research Program Including a RCT.
• Turning the Tables on Obesity: Young People, IT and Social Movements.

Surgery

• Prevalence of Endoscopic Findings Before Bariatric Surgery and Their Influence on the Selection of the Surgical Technique.
• Relapse of Diabetes After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Patients with Obesity: 12 Years Follow-up Study.
• RCT: The Role of Ursodeoxycholic Acid (UDCA) in Cholelithiasis Management After One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass (OAGB) for Morbid Obesity.

Drugs

• Metformin Corrects Abnormal Circadian Rhythm and Kir4.1 Channels in Diabetes.
• Meta-Analysis: Pharmacotherapy in Obesity - RCTs of Anti-Obesity Drugs.
• Meta-Analysis: Efficacy and Safety of Lorcaserin in Obesity From RCTs.
• Observational Study of Metformin and Risk of Mortality in Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19.

Food & Diet

• Systematic Review: The Effect of Ultra-processed Very Low-energy Diets on Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Outcomes in Individuals with Obesity.
• Dietary Plant Flavonoids in Prevention of Obesity and Diabetes.
• RCT: Increased Dairy Product Consumption as Part of a Diet and Exercise Weight Management Program Improves Body Composition in Adolescent Females with Overweight and Obesity.
• Differential Effects of Protein Intake Versus Intake of a Defined Oligopeptide on FGF-21 in Humans with Obesity in Vivo.
• RCT: Influence of a Novel Food-Grade Formulation of Red Chili Extract (Capsicum Annum) on Overweight Subjects.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Meta-Analysis: Gradual Weight Loss vs Rapid Weight Loss Impact on Body Composition and Resting Metabolic Rate.
• Caloric Restriction-Induced Weight Loss with a High-Fat Diet Does Not Fully Recover Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Previously Obese C57BL/6 Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Cognitive and Neural Effects of Exercise Following Traumatic Brain Injury From RCTs.
• Meta-Analysis: The Impact of High-intensity Interval Training on Inflammatory Markers in Metabolic Disorders.
• The Association between Residential Housing Prices, Bicycle Infrastructure and Ridership Volumes.

Economics & Sociology

• Low Socioeconomic Status and Eating in the Absence of Hunger in Children Aged 3–14.
• The Sociological and Environmental Factors Influencing Eating Food Behavior in Canada.
• Sexual Fluidity and BMI, Obesity, and Physical Activity.

Epidemiology

• BMI and All-cause Mortality in Older Adults: A Scoping Review of Observational Studies.
• Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus and Its Associated Factors in Bangladesh: Application of Two-level Logistic Regression Model.
• Associations of Exposure to Nitrogen Dioxide and Major Roadways with Growth Trajectories and Obesity at 2 Years Old: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Independent Influences of Maternal Obesity and Fetal Sex on Maternal Cardiovascular Adaptation to Pregnancy: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Is the Association between Sleep Apnea and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Obesity-independent?
• Obesity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cause of High Risk or an Effect of Lockdown? A Population-Based Electronic Health Record Analysis in 1 958 184 Individuals.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Emotion Dysregulation as a Correlate of Food and Alcohol Disturbance in Undergraduate Students.
• Excess Body Weight as a Predictor of Response to Treatment with Antidepressants in Patients with Depressive Disorder.

Equity and Disparities

• America’s Largest Food & Retail Union Confirms Growing COVID-19 Impact on Frontline Workers.
• Disparities in Access to Healthy Diets: How Food Security and Food Shopping Behaviors Relate to Fruit and Vegetable Intake.
• Perceived Benefits and Barriers in the Mediation of Exercise Differences in Older Black Women with and Without Obesity.
• Using Electronic Medical Record Data to Better Understand Obesity in Hispanic Neighborhoods in El Paso, Texas.

Stigma

• Attitudes and Self-Perception of 10- to 14-Year-Old Students Toward Children with Obesity.
• Associations between Trust of Healthcare Provider and BMI in Adolescents.
• Nurse Practitioner Students' Observations of Preceptor Engagement in Obesity Management and Weight Bias.
• Accommodating Patients with Obesity and Mobility Difficulties: Observations From Physicians.

Policy Related

• The Potential Health Impact of Restricting Less-healthy Food and Beverage Advertising on UK Television between 05.30 and 21.00 Hours: A Modelling Study.
• Linking Agriculture to Nutrition: The Evolution of Policy.
• Saturated Fats and Health: A Reassessment and Proposal for Food-based Recommendations.
• CDC Broadens Guidance on Obesity Risk for COVID-19.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-Analysis: Association of Maternal Caffeine Intake During Pregnancy with Low Birth Weight, Childhood Overweight, and Obesity.
• Maternal High-fat Diet During Lactation Reprograms the Dopaminergic Circuitry in Mice.
• Maternal High-fat Diet Regulates Glucose Metabolism and Pancreatic β Cell Phenotype in Mouse Offspring at Weaning.
• Maternal Obesity and Risk of Early-onset Neonatal Bacterial Sepsis: Nationwide Cohort and Sibling-controlled Studies.
• Multigenerational Maternal Obesity Increases the Incidence of HCC in Offspring Via MiR-27a-3p.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest.
• Rapid Differentiation of Plasticity in Life History and Morphology During Invasive Range Expansion and Concurrent Local Adaptation in the Horned Beetle Onthophagus Taurus.
• Plasticity, Repeatability, and Phenotypic Correlations of Aerobic Metabolic Traits in a Small Estuarine Fish.
• Oxidative Damage to Lipids Is Rapidly Reduced During Migratory Stopovers.

Methods

• Nutriome–metabolome Relationships Provide Insights Into Dietary Intake and Metabolism.
• Dietary Metabotype Modelling Predicts Individual Responses to Dietary Interventions.
• Mid-infrared Metabolic Imaging with Vibrational Probes.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Machine Learning Approach to Short-Term Body Weight Prediction in a Dietary Intervention Program.
• Machine Learning Prediction of Combat Basic Training Injury From 3D Body Shape Images.

Commentary

• Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: In Need of a Dose of Kindness?
• Perspective: Chaos in a Bottle—A Critical Evaluation of Beverage Categorization in Nutrition Research.
• COVID-19 Pandemic and Mitigation Strategies: Implications for Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition.
• "The future of buffets may depend on robots like the ones at Orlando's U & Me Hot Pot restaurant."
• Boosting Research Without Supporting Universities Is Wrong-headed.
• Racism Baked Into Health and Obesity Care.
• Proving an Important Point with a Lousy Study.
• Advancing Effective Obesity Communications: Proceedings of a Workshop.

General

• If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist.
• Childhood Friendship Experiences and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life: The Mediating Roles of Adult Social Disconnectedness and Adult Loneliness.
• The Relationship between College Students’ Campus Sexual Health Resource Utilization and Self-reported STI Testing: Findings From an Undergraduate Probability Survey.
• What's Up with Vitamin D and the Coronavirus?
• Video: COVID-19: Health Disparities, Communities, and Discrimination.
• Video: A Virtual Conversation with Ivan Oransky.
• Video: The Covid-19 Nose: Upper Airway Symptoms and Cell Biology Relevant to SARS-CoV-2.
• Audio: Taking a Closer Look at COVID-19, Health Inequities, and Racism.

Announcements

• Food Forum: Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Building a More Sustainable, Resilient, Equitable, and Nourishing Food System - a Workshop.
• NIH Request for Information (RFI): Enhancing Rigor, Transparency, and Translatability to Improve Biomedical Research Involving Animal Models.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.

Featured

• Who’s a Good Boy? Effects of Dog and Owner Body Weight on Veterinarian Perceptions and Treatment Recommendations.
• RCT: Effect of Telehealth Extended Care for Maintenance of Weight Loss in Rural US Communities.
• T. Rex Was a Slacker a Natural Wonder of the Big Theropod Was How It Conserved Energy.
• What If Doctors Stopped Prescribing Weight Loss?
• RCT: "Increased weight loading reduces body weight and fat mass in obese subjects in a similar way as previously shown in obese rodents. These findings demonstrate that there is weight loading dependent homeostatic regulation of body weight, the gravitostat, also in humans."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Menu Data Improves Health. Study Finds Posting Calorie Info Means Better Choices.
• Press-release: Study: National Calorie Menu Labeling Law Will Add Years of Healthy Living, Save Billions.
• Study: Microsimulation Study of Menu Labeling Law. No Observed Improvement in Health. No Observed Better Choices. No Observation of Added Years of Healthy Living or Billions Saved.

Contrary or Null Findings

• A High-protein Content Did Not Moderate the Triacylglycerol Response of Fructose.
• "Despite superior excess weight loss after RYGB, T2D remission rates did not differ significantly between RYGB and SG after 2 years." (pdf)
• "Weight-based dosing of vitamin D is not superior to a fixed dose in order to maintain stable 25OHD levels in IBD patients."
• RCT: "An intervention to reduce carbohydrate intake in GDM did not raise ketones to clinical significance, possibly because the target of 135 g/d was difficult to achieve in pregnancy."
• RCT: In adult ventilated ICU patients, "Tight Calorie Control guided by indirect calorimetry decreased the rate of infection and mortality but not significantly." (pdf)
• RCT: "Individualized counseling aiming at increasing self-selected out-of-home activity had nonsystematic effects on mobility and positively affected physical performance only."
• RCT: "short-term daily consumption of a large portion of mixed dried plums, figs, dates, and raisins, without structured dietary guidance, did not improve cardiometabolic risk factors, compared to carbohydrate-rich snacks, in adults with increased baseline cardiometabolic risk."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on HBA1C Pure Prairie Living Program in Type 2 Diabetes Participants.

Basic

• Obesity-Induced Excess of 17-Hydroxyprogesterone Promotes Hyperglycemia Through Activation of Glucocorticoid Receptor.
• Leptin Production Capacity Determines Food Intake and Susceptibility to Obesity-Induced Diabetes in Oikawa–Nagao Diabetes-Prone and Diabetes-Resistant Mice.
• Phosphocholine Accumulation and PHOSPHO1 Depletion Promote Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Tortuous and Torturous: Why Publishing a Critical Letter to the Editor Is So Difficult.
• What If the Traffic Light Diet Doesn’t Work?
• Peer Review Should Be an Honest, but Collegial, Conversation.

Clinical

• Obesity as a Risk Factor for COVID-19: An Overview.
• Association of FTO and ADRB2 Gene Variation with Energy Restriction Induced Adaptations in Resting Energy Expenditure and Physical Activity.
• RCT: Substituting Lean Beef for Carbohydrate in a Healthy Dietary Pattern Does Not Adversely Affect the Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Profile in Men and Women at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes.
• Meta-analysis: "...Comparing heterogeneity in body mass responses between low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets"

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Associations of Telomere Length with Two Dietary Quality Indices After a Lifestyle Intervention in Children with Abdominal Obesity.
• Review: Precision Nutrition and Childhood Obesity.
• Review: The Bones of Children with Obesity.

Surgery

• Impact of Obesity on Male Urethral Sling Outcomes.
• Swallow Magnetic Resonance Imaging Compared to 3D-Computed Tomography for Pouch Assessment and Hiatal Hernias After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Different Malabsorptive Obesity Surgery Interventions Result in Distinct Postprandial Amino Acid Metabolomic Signatures.

Drugs

• Review: Obesity: The New Global Epidemic. Pharmacological Treatment, Opportunities and Limits for Personalized Therapy.
• Review: Existing and Emerging Molecular Targets for the Pharmacotherapy of Obesity.
• Review: Recent Development on Anti-Obesity Compounds and Their Mechanisms of Action.

Food & Diet

• RCT: DHA-enriched Fish Oil Reduces Insulin Resistance in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• RCT: Comparison of the Effect of Rapeseed Oil or Amaranth Seed Oil Supplementation on Weight Loss, Body Composition, and Changes in the Metabolic Profile of Obese Patients Following 3-week Body Mass Reduction Program.
• Determinants of Weekly Raw Milk Use By At-home Meal Preparers in the USA: Evidence From the 2014–2016 American Time Use Survey – Eating and Health Module.
• Commentary: “Really? Blame the Food Industry for COVID-19?”
• 2020 Food and Health Survey. (pdf)
• FDA Adds QR Code to Certain Export Certificates for Food.
• Association between Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction and Aging in Humans.
• Abstract: Leptin Treatment Prevents Impaired Hypoglycemic Counterregulation Induced By Exposure to Recurrent Hypoglycemia or Caloric Restriction.
• Changes Induced By Physical Activity, Weight Loss and Calorie Restriction in Body Composition, Lipoproteins and Functional Capacity in Obese Congolese Women.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Temporal Trends in the Sit-ups Performance of 9,939,289 Children and Adolescents between 1964 and 2017.
• Biomechanics of Breast Support for Active Women.

Economics & Sociology

• The Consequences of Living in a Small-town Food Desert: Mixed Methods Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment.
• Exploring Dietary Behavior Differences Among Children By Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities and Severe Obesity—Sex Differences in a Nationwide Study of 1.12 Million Israeli Adolescents.

Epidemiology

• Ambient Air Pollution and Body Weight Status in Adults.
• Anaemia, Iron Deficiency, Iron-deficiency Anaemia and Their Associations with Obesity Among Schoolchildren in Guangzhou, China.
• Obesity Is a Risk Factor for Exercise-induced Bronchospasm in Asthmatic Adolescents.
• Obesity, Race, and Long-term Prostate Cancer Outcomes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Vicious Cycle of Stressors, Food Advertising and Overeating: How Stigmatizing Anti-obesity PSAs, Which Precede Food Commercials, Influence Subsequent Implicit ….
• Higher Risk of Dementia in English Older Individuals Who are Overweight or Obese.
• Mori Cortex Radicis Attenuates High Fat Diet-Induced Cognitive Impairment Via an IRS/Akt Signaling Pathway.

Equity and Disparities

• Using Geo-mapping Technology to Assess Obesity and Food Insecurity in Detroit.
• Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status and the Nutritional Status of Chinese Children and Adolescents: Findings From Three Consecutive National Surveys between 2005 and 2014.
• Defining Abdominal Obesity as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease in the U.S.: Results From the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).

Stigma

• Weight Stigma as a Risk Factor for Suicidality.
• Perceived Overweight and Suicidality Among US Adolescents From 1999 to 2017.
• The Disparate Influence of Bullying on Student Wellbeing: Race, Weight, and Place.

Policy Related

• "'Nothing about us without us': Fat people speak."
• A Qualitative Study to Explore the Role of Pharmacists in Healthy Weight Management in Adults in Pakistan: Current Scenario and Future Perspectives.
• Simulations of Future Cardiometabolic Disease and Life Expectancy Under Counterfactual Obesity Reduction Scenarios.
• Gain Vs. Loss-framing for Reducing Sugar Consumption: Insights From a Choice Experiment with Six Product Categories.

Intergenerational Effects

• High Fat Diet Induced Obesity Increases Proportion of Linoleic Acyl Residues in Dam Serum and Milk and in Suckling Neonate Circulation.
• Maternal Exercise Attenuates the Lower Skeletal Muscle Glucose Uptake and Insulin Secretion Caused By Paternal Obesity in Female Adult Rat Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Review: Mealtime - a Circadian Disruptor and Determinant of Energy Balance?
• The Interactions of Diet-induced Obesity and Organophosphate Flame Retardant Exposure on Energy Homeostasis in Adult Male and Female Mice.

Methods

• Identifying Geographic Differences in Children's Sugar-sweetened Beverage and 100% Fruit Juice Intake Using Health System Data.
• Association of Body Surface Scanner-based Abdominal Volume with Parameters of the Metabolic Syndrome and Comparison with Manually Measured Waist Circumference.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Priority-setting for Obesity Prevention—The Assessing Cost-Effectiveness of Obesity Prevention Policies in Australia (ACE-Obesity Policy) Study.
• Development and Validation of Prediction Model for Risk Reduction of Metabolic Syndrome By Body Weight Control: A Prospective Population-based Study.

Commentary

• Healthy Meat? Researchers Reignite Debate.
• Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Children.
• Use of Oral Contraceptives May Reduce Sustained Efficacy of Weight-Loss Interventions.
• Can a Food’s Taste Help You Run Faster?
• More Than One Trick in Obesity Innovation.
• Dietary Guidelines 2020: Plenty of Heat, Less Light.
• Doctors Add Diabetes to the List of COVID-triggered Conditions.
• Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Metabolically Unhealthy Fat Distribution.

General

• Estimation of the Genome-Wide Mutation Rate and Spectrum in the Archaeal Species Haloferax Volcanii.
• RCT: How Social Instant Messaging Questions Affect Replies.
• Nearly 1 in 3 Young Men in the US Report Having No Sex, Study Finds.
• Estimation of Genomic Breed Composition for Purebred and Crossbred Animals Using Sparsely Regularized Admixture Models.
• Duration of Female Parental Care and Their Survival in the Little Auk Alle Alle - are These Two Traits Linked?
• A Unifying Framework for the Transient Parasite Dynamics of Migratory Hosts.
• Audio: David Watkins, Ph.D.: A Masterclass in Immunology, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Vaccine Strategies for COVID-19.
• Validation of Stable Isotope Analysis for Determining Dietary Proportions and Trophic Dynamics in Plains Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus Phasianellus Jamesi).

Video & Audio

• Virtual Event: Food for Thought 2020: The Science and Politics of Nutrition [June 29-30].
• Integrating Systems and Sectors Toward Obesity Solutions: Part 2.

Announcements

• IU Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on DACA Program.
• Request for Information (RFI): Enhancing Rigor, Transparency, and Translatability to Improve Biomedical Research Involving Animal Models.
• Nutrition 2020 Access for Non-members Until July 5, 2020.
• Dr. Arya Sharma's Free Mentorship Offer.
• Virtual Short Course: Food Science for the Non-Food Scientist.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.