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Featured

• Lactation Overnutrition-Induced Obesity Impairs Effects of Exogenous Corticosterone on Energy Homeostasis and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Male Rats.
• Cancer Cells Depend on Environmental Lipids for Proliferation When Electron Acceptors are Limited.
• Technical Report: An Online International Weight Control Registry to Inform Precision Approaches to Healthy Weight Management.
• Interindividual Variability of Human Thermoregulation: Toward Personalized Ergonomics of the Indoor Thermal Environment.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: America’s Obsession with Freedom Is Making Men Fat: Study.
• Study: Ecological correlation between national individualism construct and obesity rate.” Obsession" not assessed, and causal effect not established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Modestly Increased Incidence of Ketosis in Caloric Restriction Does Not Significantly Alter the Effects of Caloric Restriction.
• RCT: "We found no evidence of an effect of either antenatal diet and lifestyle, or of maternal early pregnancy BMI, on cord blood DNA methylation."
• "There was not a significant reduction in the number of fast-food outlets after controlling for population density.”
• "Overall, the studies were suggestive that CT [cash transfers] programs either have no impact or decrease the risk of overweight and/or obesity in children, adolescents, and adults, but no firm conclusions can be drawn from the available evidence."
• RCT: "Intent-to-treat analysis showed no between-group differences in change in BMIz and percentage from the 95th BMI percentile over time."
• RCT: "Although the intervention worksites had a reduction in body mass index (23.21 to 22.95, p < 0.01), hip circumference (95.97 to 95.28, p = 0.03) and waist-to-height ratio (0.49 to 0.48, p = 0.01), the differential changes compared to those of the control group were not statistically significant."
• "An 8-month MedDiet lifestyle intervention with or without caloric restriction for IWL did not produce superior effects on cognitive function compared to a TDC [typical diet]..."
• RCT: No Effect of Calorie Restriction or Dietary Patterns on Spatial Working Memory During a Two-Year Intervention.

Basic

• Intermittent Sucrose Solution Intake and Its Schedule of Access Modulate Energy Intake and Weight Gain in Response to Chronic Variable Stress in Mice.
• Early Life Stress Exacerbates Obesity in Adult Female Mice Via Mineralocorticoid Receptor-Dependent Increases in Adipocyte Triglyceride and Glycerol Content.
• The Chemerin-CMKLR1 Axis Is Functionally Important for Central Regulation of Energy Homeostasis.
• A Novel Anti-Obesity Mechanism for Liraglutide by Improving Adipose Tissue Leptin Resistance in High-Fat Diet-Fed Obese Mice.
• Loss of SQSTM1/p62 Induces Obesity and Exacerbates Alcohol-Induced Liver Injury in Aged Mice.
• Changes in Interstitial Cells and Gastric Excitability in a Mouse Model of Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Loss of Adipose TET Proteins Enhances β-Adrenergic Responses and Protects Against Obesity by Epigenetic Regulation of β3-AR Expression.
• Gasdermin D–mediated Release of IL-33 from Senescent Hepatic Stellate Cells Promotes Obesity-Associated Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction Watch: Journal Retracts a [Sports Science] Paper, Then Publishes It in an Issue 11 Months Later.
• Podcast: Research Integrity Concerns in Botany.

Clinical

• Dissecting the Clinical Relevance of Polygenic Risk Score for Obesity—a Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal Analysis.
• RCT: Effect of an Antenatal Diet and Lifestyle Intervention and Maternal BMI on Cord Blood DNA Methylation in Infants of Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• New-Onset Obesity After Lung Transplantation: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Clinical Outcomes.

Children and Adolescents

• Dietary Total, Plant and Animal Protein Intake in Relation to Metabolic Health Status in Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• Association between Intake of Marine Fat and Adiposity Development Among 2-6 Year Old Children: Substitution Analyses from the Healthy Start Intervention Study.
• Scoping Review: Probiotic Use in Children and Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity.
• Obesity in Adolescents: Understanding the Combined Role of Food Security and Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.
• School Environment and Obesity in Adolescents from a Brazilian Metropolis: Cross-Sectional Study.
• RCT: Ecological Factors and Childhood Eating Behaviours at 5 Years of Age: Findings from the ROLO Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study.
• Child ADHD and Autistic Traits, Eating Behaviours and Weight: A Population-Based Study.

Surgery

• Gender Disparities in Bariatric Surgery Among African Americans.
• The Influence of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Pregnancy, Delivery, and Infant: Does Timing of Pregnancy Following Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Affect Outcomes?
• Colorectal Cancer Risk Is Impacted by Sex and Type of Surgery After Bariatric Surgery.
• RCT: Effect of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass on Weight Loss, Comorbidities, and Reflux at 10 Years in Adult Patients with Obesity.

Drugs

• The Central Melanocortin System as a Treatment Target for Obesity and Diabetes: A Brief Overview.
• Cannabis Sativa as a Treatment for Obesity: From Anti-Inflammatory Indirect Support to a Promising Metabolic Re-Establishment Target.
• The Importance of AMPK in Obesity and Chronic Diseases and the Relationship of AMPK with Nutrition: A Literature Review.
• New Horizons. A New Paradigm for Treating to Target with Second-Generation Obesity Medications.

Food & Diet

• Potential Mechanisms by Which Hydroxyeicosapentaenoic Acids Regulate Glucose Homeostasis in Obesity.
• Blenderized Watermelon Consumption Improves BMI, BMI Percentile, Body Fat, and A1C in Children with Overweight or Obesity.
• Lactobacillus plantarum FRT4 Alleviated Obesity by Modulating Gut Microbiota and Liver Metabolome in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Associations between Body Composition, Leptin, and Vitamin D Varied by the Body Fat Percentage in Adolescents.
• Influence of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation on Physical Performance and Body Composition Following Offseason Training in Division I Athletes.
• Association between Dietary Acid Load and Metabolic Health Status in Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• Effects of Kefir Lactic Acid Bacteria-Derived Postbiotic Components on High Fat Diet-Induced Gut Microbiota and Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction and Weight Loss are Primary Factors in the Early Tissue-Specific Metabolic Changes After Bariatric Surgery.
• Calorie Restriction on Normal Body Weight Mice Prevents Body Weight Regain on a Follow-Up High-Fat Diet by Shaping an Obesity-Resistant-Like Gut Microbiota Profile.
• The Gut Metabolite Indole-3 Propionate Promotes Nerve Regeneration and Repair.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Differential Impact of Biological and Behavioral Traits on Post-Exercise Energy Intake in Men and Women.
• Preprint: RCT: The Effects of Training Load During Dietary Intervention upon Fat Loss.
• Systematic review and meta-analysis: Effect of Resistance Training on HbA1c in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the Moderating Effect of Changes in Muscular Strength.
• Struggling to Enable Physical Activity for Children with Disabilities: A Narrative Model of Parental Roles.
• Associations between Sports Videogames and Physical Activity in Children.

Economics & Sociology

• Meta-Analysis: Evaluation of Economic and Health Outcomes Associated with Food Taxes and Subsidies.
• Meta-Analysis: Outcomes Following Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.
• How Childhood Socioeconomic Status Impacts Adult Food Preference: The Mediating Role of Stress and Trait Appetite.
• Advertising, Obesity and Child Health: The Case of Spain.

Epidemiology

• 10-Year Weight Gain in 13,802 US Adults: The Role of Age, Sex, and Race.
• Longitudinal Associations of Childhood Fitness and Obesity Profiles with Midlife Cognitive Function: An Australian Cohort Study.
• Light at Night in Older Age Is Associated with Obesity, Diabetes, and Hypertension.
• Preprint: Obesity and Longevity: The Retrospective Longitudinal Analysis of International Data.
• Risk of Breast Cancer in Men in Relation to Weight Change: A National Case-Control Study in England and Wales.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Modulating the Excitability of Olfactory Output Neurons Affects Whole-Body Metabolism.
• RCT: Supplementing a Widely Available Weight Loss Program with Gamified Inhibitory Control Training.
• Obesity and Neurodevelopmental and Mental Health Conditions Among Adolescents Aged 10–17 years: The National Survey of Children's Health 2017–2018.
• Child ADHD and Autistic Traits, Eating Behaviours and Weight: A Population-Based Study.

Equity and Disparities

• The Complex Contributors to Obesity-Related Health Disparities: Introduction to the Special Issue.
• Length of Residency in the United States and Obesity Across Race/Ethnicity.
• Understanding Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Immune Microenvironment by Disease Stages, Obesity, and Race.
• Coexistence of Obesity and Hunger in Young Adolescents: Evidence from the Global School-Based Student Health Survey.

Stigma

• Measuring Weight- and Shape-Based Social Identity Threat Vulnerability in Young Adults.
• Fat Is Feminine: A Qualitative Study of How Weight Stigma Is Constructed Among Sexual Minority Men Who Use Grindr.
• How Is Weight Teasing Cross-Sectionally and Longitudinally Associated with Health Behaviors and Weight Status Among Ethnically/Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Young People?
• Association of Weight-Related Stigmas with Daily Pain Symptoms Among Individuals with Obesity.
• Exploring Intended and Unintended Reactions to Healthy Weight and Lifestyle Advertisements: An Online Experiment.

Policy Related

• The Conceptual Framework for the International Food Policy Study: Evaluating the Population-Level Impact of Food Policy.
• Using Economics to Impact Local Obesity Policy: Introducing the UK Centre for Economics of Obesity (CEO).
• The Impacts of School Climate and Education Policy on Weight and Victimization Disparities Among Sexual Minority Adolescents.
• Modeling Spatiotemporal Associations of Obesity Prevalence with Biking, Housing Cost and Green Spaces in Chicago, IL, USA, 2015–2017.
• A Comparative Policy Analysis of the Adoption and Implementation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes (2016-19) in 16 Countries.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Dietary Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load in Pregnancy and Offspring Cord Blood DNA Methylation.
• Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Mother, Infant, and Placental Tissue, and Their Relationship with Pre-Pregnancy BMI.
• Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Obesity and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Increase the Risk of Childhood Obesity.
• Association between Maternal Antibiotic Exposure During Pregnancy and Childhood Obesity in the Japan Environment and Children's Study.
• Maternal Obesity: New Placental Paradigms Unfolded.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Coevolution of the Human Host and Gut Microbiome: Metagenomics of Microbiota.
• Animal Obesity: What Insights Can a ‘One Health’ Approach Offer When It Comes to Vets ‘Making Every Contact Count’.
• Balancing Growth, Reproduction, Maintenance, and Activity in Evolved Energy Economies.

Methods

• Preprint: Human Activity Recognition on Time Series Accelerometer Sensor Data Using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks.
• Development and Validation of a Metabolite Score for Red Meat Intake: An Observational Cohort Study and Randomized Controlled Dietary Intervention.
• The Quest to Advance Assessment of Dietary Intake: Metabolomic Meat Markers.
• Estimating BMI Distributions by Age and Sex for Local Authorities in England: A Small Area Estimation Study.
• Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Onset Using Logistic Regression-Based Scorecards.
• The Role of Devices in the Management of Pediatric Obesity.
• Lack of Validity of Free-Living Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Estimated from ActiGraph Equations in Severely Obese Women: A Doubly Labelled Water Study.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Height-Weight Formula to Measure Body Fat in Childhood Obesity.
• Preprint: Modeling the Impact of Heritability, Assortative Mating and Fertility on Population-Level Obesity Trends.

Commentary

• Scientists Figured Out the Reason Behind Cravings During Pregnancy.
• The Pandemic Showed Us How Many American Families are Left Hungry. Now’s the Time to Change That.
• New National Lipid Association Statement on Statin Intolerance.
• The Role of Devices in the Management of Pediatric Obesity.
• Atypical Anorexia in Youth: Cautiously Bridging the Treatment Gap.
• Study Shows Why Many Cancer Cells Need to Import Fat.
• COVID-19 Lockdown, Sedentarism, Metabolic Alterations, Obesity: Can We Reverse the Domino Effect in Children?
• Health at Every Size® or One Size Fits All?
• What Does a New Era of Obesity Care Look Like?
• Rising Obesity: Could Stress Matter More Than Food?

General

• Alone, in the Dark: The Extraordinary Neuroethology of the Solitary Blind Mole Rat.
• How Stress Can Change Our Deepest Preferences: Stress Habituation Explained Using the Free Energy Principle.
• Autophagy Dysfunction Represses MTORC1 Signaling Resulting in Neurodegeneration of Retinal Ganglion Cells in Glaucoma.
• A Glucose Meter Could Soon Say Whether You Have SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies.
• Inadequate Refrigeration of Some Commercial Foods Is a Continued Cause of Foodborne Botulism in the United States, 1994–2021.
• Research Must Do No Harm: New Guidance Addresses All Studies Relating to People.
• How Ubiquitous Is Aging in Vertebrates?
• Giant Bacteria Visible to the Naked Eye Discovered in Mangrove Swamp.
• Metformin, Rapamycin, or Nicotinamide Mononucleotide Pretreatment Attenuate Cognitive Impairment After Cerebral Hypoperfusion by Inhibiting Microglial Phagocytosis.
• These Experiments Could Lift Millions Out of Dire Poverty.

Video & Audio

• Video: IU's Chief Health Officer Dr. Aaron Carroll Answers Questions About the COVID-19 Vaccines Federal Regulators Recently Approved for Children Under the Age of 5.

Announcements

• SNEB2022 July 29 - 31 | Atlanta, GA.
• Applications Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research Short Course 2022.

Featured

• An Exercise-Inducible Metabolite That Suppresses Feeding and Obesity.
• The Evolution of Offspring Size: A Metabolic Scaling Perspective.
• Following Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery, Serum Ceramides Demarcate Patients That Will Fail to Achieve Normoglycemia and Diabetes Remission.
• U.S. Medical Students Personal Health Behaviors, Attitudes and Perceived Skills Towards Weight Management Counseling.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Your Taste Genes Might Determine What You Like to Eat and Your Health.
• Meeting Abstract: Association of Taste-Related Genes with Diet Quality and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors. Genes Might Determine... Or Might Not.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Ultraprocessed Foods: "The effect of food processing on GI (p < 0.001) and GL (p < 0.001) was contrary to the hypothesis as the mean GI and GL were highest for MPF [minimally processed foods]."
• RCT: "there was no evidence that body weight changed differently from baseline to 12 months …in the almond group and …the biscuit group…."
• RCT: Restricting Sugar or Carbohydrate Intake Does Not Impact Physical Activity Level or Energy Intake over 24 Hours Despite Changes in Substrate Use.
• RCT: "Among patients with obesity, a regimen of time-restricted eating was not more beneficial with regard to reduction in body weight, body fat, or metabolic risk factors than daily calorie restriction."
• RCT: "Muscle protein synthesis rates following the ingestion of 30 g potato protein do not differ from rates observed after ingesting an equivalent amount of milk protein."
• Asymmetric Density-Dependent Competition Does Not Contribute to the Maintenance of Sex in a Mixed Population of Sexual and Asexual Potamopyrgus antipodarum.
• 17α-Estradiol Does Not Adversely Affect Sperm Parameters or Fertility in Male Mice: Implications for Reproduction-Longevity Trade-Offs.
• "Contrary to our expectations, the children did not express experiences of weight bias or obesity stigma around meals, nor did they speak negatively about parental control of their food intake."
• In eating disorders treatment, "Contrary to our hypothesis, change being retrospectively identified as important or possible by the participant did not have a high degree of relation."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, high cognitive restraint was the predominant behavior associated with diet quality, not disinhibition."

Basic

• Angiotensin II Inhibits Insulin Receptor Signaling in Adipose Cells.
• Whey Protein and Xylitol Complex Alleviate Type 2 Diabetes in C57BL/6 Mice by Regulating the Intestinal Microbiota.
• Estrogen Receptor α Activation Modulates the Gut Microbiome and Type 2 Diabetes Risk Factors.
• Triiodothyronine (T3) Promotes Brown Fat Hyperplasia Via Thyroid Hormone Receptor α Mediated Adipocyte Progenitor Cell Proliferation.
• Androgen Signaling in Adipose Tissue, but Less Likely Skeletal Muscle, Mediates Development of Metabolic Traits in a PCOS Mouse Model.
• Chickpea Protein Hydrolysate Ameliorates the Impact of Feeding a High-Fat-Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice by Modulating Inflammation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Fructooligosaccharides: From Breast Milk Components to Potential Supplements. A Systematic Review.
• Letter: Fructooligosaccharides are Not the Same as Fucosylated Human Milk Oligosaccharides.
• Response: Reply to L Bode and SM Donovan.
• Examining the State, Quality and Strength of the Evidence in the Research on Built Environments and Physical Activity Among Children and Youth: An Overview of Reviews from High Income Countries.
• Bunk, Junk, and Food: On Defending a Line.

Clinical

• Adipocyte Size, Adipose Tissue Fibrosis, Macrophage Infiltration and Disease Risk are Different in Younger and Older Individuals with Childhood and Adulthood Onset Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Combined Physical Exercise on Plasma Lipid Variables, Paraoxonase 1 Activity, and Inflammation Parameters in Adults with Obesity.
• Abdominal Adipose Tissue and Liver Fat Imaging in Very Low Birth Weight Adults Born Preterm: Birth Cohort with Sibling-Controls.

Children and Adolescents

• Systematic Review: Food Insecurity and Childhood Obesity.
• Health and Academic Performance with Happy Children: A Controlled Longitudinal Study Based on the HOPP Project.
• Association of Insufficient Sleep and Skipping Breakfast with Overweight/Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Provincial Surveillance Project in Jiangsu.

Surgery

• Anti-Obesity Effects of Polymethoxyflavone-Rich Fraction from Jinkyool (Citrus sunki hort. ex Tanaka) Leaf on Obese Mice Induced by High-Fat Diet.
• Association of Bariatric Surgery with Cancer Risk and Mortality in Adults with Obesity.
• Prevalence of Sarcopenia in Women at Stable Weight Phase After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass.
• The Benefit of Bariatric Surgery on Histological Features of Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease Assessed Through Noninvasive Methods.

Drugs

• Recent Evidence in Support of Traditional Chinese Medicine to Restore Normal Leptin Function in Simple Obesity.
• Cinnamomum verum-Derived Bioactives-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Prevention of Obesity Through Gut Microbiota Reshaping.
• Prevalence of General and Abdominal Obesity and Its Relationship with Opium, Total Opiate Drugs, and Chronic Smoking: Fasa Cohort Study.
• NLA Scientific Statement on Statin Intolerance: A New Definition and Key Considerations for ASCVD Risk Reduction in the Statin Intolerant Patient.

Food & Diet

• Levels of Abdominal Adipose Tissue and Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD) in Middle Age According to Average Fast-Food Intake over the Preceding 25 Years: The CARDIA Study.
• RCT: A Precision Nutrition Intervention Targeting a Reduction in Postprandial Glycemic Response to Meals with a Low-Fat Diet for Weight Loss.
• RCT: Acute Effects of Prior Dietary Fat Ingestion on Postprandial Metabolic Responses to Protein and Carbohydrate Co-Ingestion in Men with Overweight and Obesity.
• Consumption of Cricket (Acheta domesticus) Flour Decreases Insulin Resistance and Fat Accumulation in Rats Fed with High-Fat and -Fructose Diet.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Abstract: Premenopausal Vs. Postmenopausal Women: Effect of Time-Restricted Eating on Body Weight and Metabolic Health Markers.
• Effects of Short-Term Fasting on Ghrelin/GH/IGF-1 Axis in Healthy Humans: The Role of Ghrelin in the Thrifty Phenotype.
• Alternate Day Fasting Improves Endothelial Function in Type 2 Diabetic Mice: Role of Adipose-Derived Hormones.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Abstract: Acute Aerobic Exercise Unveils Serum Metabolomics Markers That Distinguish Overweight and Healthy Weight Individuals.
• Breaking Sitting Time with Physical Activity Increases Energy Expenditure but Does Not Alter Postprandial Metabolism in Girls.

Economics & Sociology

• Understanding Sociocultural Influences on Physical Activity in Relation to Overweight and Obesity in a Rural Indigenous Community of Fiji Islands.
• The Financial Correlates of Midlife Obesity.
• Theoretical Approaches to Research on the Social Determinants of Obesity.
• Evaluation of Obesity Trends Among US Adolescents by Socioeconomic Status, 1999-2018.

Epidemiology

• Obesity-Related Health Lifestyles of Late-Middle Age Black Americans: The Jackson Heart Study.
• Dissertation: Examining Sex and Race Differences in Obesity Risk Factors in Older Americans Using Genetic and Lifestyle Data in REGARDS.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Social Facilitation of Energy Intake in Adult Women Is Sustained over Three Days in a Crossover Laboratory Experiment and Is Not Compensated for Under Free-Living Conditions.
• RCT: Neuroendocrine Response and State Anxiety Due to Psychosocial Stress Decrease After a Training with Subject’s Own (but Not Another) Virtual Body.

Equity and Disparities

• Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome Among Mexican Adults.
• The Association between Metabolic Syndrome and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Diagnosis Varies by Race.

Stigma

• “It's Not the Stereotypical 80s Movie Bullying”: A Qualitative Study on the High School Environment, Body Image, and Weight Stigma.
• Addressing Weight Stigma and Obesity Based Discrimination in Children: Preparing Pediatricians to Meet the Challenge.
• Children’s Experiences of Meals After Obesity Treatment: A Qualitative Follow-Up Four Years After an RCT.

Policy Related

• How Do Local Authority Plans to Tackle Obesity Reflect Systems Thinking?
• Examining the Policy Process of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation in Ireland.
• No New Fast-Food Outlets Allowed! Evaluating the Effect of Planning Policy on the Local Food Environment in the North East of England.

Intergenerational Effects

• Developmental Programming in Animal Models: Critical Evidence of Current Environmental Negative Changes.
• Maternal Obesity Induces Cardiac Hypertrophy and Sex-Specific Myocardial Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Alterations.
• Maternal Chronic Perceived Stress, but Not Acute Stress Exposure, Is Associated with Ghrelin Levels Among Hispanic Pregnant Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Impact of Maternal High-Fat Induced Obesity on Offspring's Liver Transcriptome.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Faecal Metabolome of Black Howler Monkeys (Alouatta pigra) Varies in Response to Seasonal Dietary Changes.
• The Time Course of Metabolic Plasticity and Its Consequences for Growth Performance Under Variable Food Supply in the Northern Pike.
• Accelerating Animal Energetics: High Dive Costs in a Small Seabird Disrupt the Dynamic Body Acceleration–Energy Expenditure Relationship.

Methods

• The Universal Eating Monitor (UEM): Objective Assessment of Food Intake Behavior in the Laboratory Setting.
• Metabolic Risk Assessment in Children and Adolescents Using the Tri-Ponderal Mass Index.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Weight Loss Trajectory Patterns and Short-Term Prediction in a Weight Management Program.
• Equations Based on Anthropometric Measurements for Adipose Tissue, Body Fat, or Body Density Prediction in Children and Adolescents: A Scoping Review.

Commentary

• What Is the Best Time of Day to Work Out?
• Why Do We Lose Muscle Strength with Age?
• Mediterranean Diet Associated with Lifespan and Healthspan.
• "New article demonstrates reproducibility and rigor of epidemiologic research."
• Commentary on Assessing Stability of Research Results.
• The Puzzle of Food Insecurity, Diet Quality, and Obesity.
• The Less We Eat, the Longer We Live: Can Caloric Restriction Help Us Become Centenarians?
• Is Calorie Labelling on Menus the Solution to Obesity?
• Obesity: My Model’s Better Than Your Model.

General

• Multiple Paternity in Superfetatious Live-Bearing Fishes.
• Thesis: First Foods, Intestinal Ecology, and Early Life Health and Growth Outcomes.
• Monarch Butterflies May Be Doing Better Than Thought, Controversial Study Suggests.
• Videos of NINDS Workshop: Catalyzing Communities of Research Rigor Champions.
• "The Giraffe Neck Evolved for Sexual Combat."
• Valid research begins with valid premises: ipse dixit and the giraffe.
• Sperm Epigenetic Clock Sheds Light on Fertility Timetable.

Announcements

• 8th Annual Diabetes Symposium - August 5, 2022.
• Webinar: Live Better Longer: The Circadian Diabetes Code - Jun 29, 2022 03:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada).
• Applications Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research Short Course 2022.

Featured

• The Sting of Sizeism in the Scientific Workplace.
• Sex Differences in the Relationships between Body Composition, Fat Distribution, and Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism: A Pilot Study.
• Dietary Oleamide Attenuates Obesity Induced by Housing Mice in Small Cages.
• Anopheles stephensi Feeding, Flight Behavior, and Infection with Malaria Parasites are Altered by Ingestion of Serotonin.
• Serotonin and Dopamine Modulate Aging in Response to Food Odor and Availability.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: To Lose Weight and Keep It Off, Study Finds Lifestyle Changes and Medications Can Be Crucial.
• Meeting Abstract: Abstract OR10 - A "retrospective observational study of adults 18-75 years treated for overweight/obesity at a tertiary academic weight management center". Causation (and "Cruciality") Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Meta-Analysis: "when compared with in-person interventions, technology-based interventions were found to lead in significantly higher weight regain".
• Consumption of Low Dose Fucoxanthin Does Not Prevent Hepatic and Adipose Inflammation and Fibrosis in Mouse Models of Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Addition of Prebiotics to the Ketogenic Diet Improves Metabolic Profile but Does Not Affect Seizures in a Rodent Model of Infantile Spasms Syndrome.
• RCT: Weight-Loss Induced by Carbohydrate Restriction Does Not Negatively Affect Health-Related Quality of Life and Cognition in People with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Neuropeptide Neuromedin B Does Not Alter Body Weight and Glucose Homeostasis nor Does It Act as an Insulin-Releasing Peptide [in Mice].
• Living Alone Is Not Associated with Cardiovascular Events and Hypoglycemia in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Treatment of Hyperglycemia Not Associated with NAFLD Improvement in Children with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: Omega-3 Index Is Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors but Is Not Improved by Walnut Intake in Free Living Elderly.

Basic

• SARS-CoV-2 Infection Impairs the Insulin/IGF Signaling Pathway in the Lung, Liver, Adipose Tissue, and Pancreatic Cells Via IRF1.
• Emerging Central and Peripheral Actions of Spexin in Feeding Behavior, Leptin Resistance and Obesity.
• Hypothalamic NPY-Y1R Interacts with Gonadal Hormones in Protecting Female Mice Against Obesity and Neuroinflammation.
• An Exercise-Inducible Metabolite That Suppresses Feeding and Obesity.
• Functional and Morphologic Dysfunctions in the Airways of Rats Submitted to an Experimental Model of Obesity-Exacerbated Asthma.
• Intermittent Sucrose Solution Intake and Its Schedule of Access Modulate Energy Intake and Weight Gain in Response to Chronic Variable Stress in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Energy Balance Model Vs. The Carbohydrate Insulin Model.
• Letter: Leaving Energy Balance Behind.
• Letter: Clarification on Our Critique of the Energy Balance Hypothesis of Obesity.
• Response: Reply to Taubes, Friedman, and Torres-Carot et al.
• Perspective: Does the Concept of “Ultra-Processed Foods” Help Inform Dietary Guidelines, Beyond Conventional Classification Systems? YES.
• Perspective: Does the Concept of “Ultra-Processed Foods” Help Inform Dietary Guidelines, Beyond Conventional Classification Systems? NO.
• Letter Preprint: Effects of Being Overweight on Mortality are Unclear Given Multiple Methodological Problems.

Clinical

• RCT: Increased Weight Loading Reduces Body Weight and Body Fat in Subjects with Obesity.
• The Feasibility and User-Experience of a Digital Health Intervention Designed to Prevent Weight Gain in New Kidney Transplant Recipients.
• Meta-Analysis: Effectiveness of Prone Position in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Moderating Factors of Obesity Class and Treatment Durations for COVID-19 Patients.
• Intermittent Fasting Two Days Versus One Day Per Week, Matched for Total Energy Intake and Expenditure, Increases Weight Loss in Men and Women with Overweight/Obesity.
• An Atypical Form of Diabetes Among Individuals with Low BMI.
• Exercise and Nutrition Strategies for Combating Sarcopenia and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Older Adults.

Children and Adolescents

• Obesity in Adolescents Associated with Vascular Aging – a Study Using Ultra-High-Resolution Ultrasound.
• The Mediating Effect of Sleep Duration on the Association between Food Insecurity and Childhood Obesity.
• Impacts of an Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program in Mexico.

Surgery

• Rhabdomyolysis as a Rare Complication of Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Physical Exercise on Muscle Strength in Adults Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Association of Bariatric Surgery with Cancer Risk and Mortality in Adults with Obesity.
• Review: Differences between the 2016 and 2022 Editions of the Enhanced Recovery After Bariatric Surgery (ERABS) Guidelines.
• Obesity Pillars Roundtable: Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Children and Adolescents.

Drugs

• Medical Nutritional Therapy on Schizophrenic Patient with Grade 2 Obesity and Continued Antipsychotic Drug Use.
• A GLP-1/Glucagon (GCG)/CCK2 Receptors Tri-Agonist Provides New Therapy for Obesity and Diabetes.
• Meta-Analysis: Efficacy and Safety of Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Untapped Pharmaceutical Potential of 4,5,4′-Trihydroxy-3,3′-Dimethoxybibenzyl for Regulating Obesity: A Cell-Based Study with a Focus on Terminal Differentiation in Adipogenesis.
• Long-term Weight Loss Maintenance with Obesity Pharmacotherapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: A Single High-Fat Meal Adversely Affects Postprandial Endothelial Function.
• Systematic Review: Nutri-Epigenetic Effects of Phenolic Compounds from Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
• Contributing Factors of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake in the Latinx Population: A Narrative Review Using the Social-Ecological Model.
• Consumption of Takeaway and Delivery Meals Is Associated with Increased BMI and Percent Fat Among UK Biobank Participants.
• Systematic Review: Factors Influencing Independent Older Adults (Un)healthy Food Choices:.
• Meta-Analysis: Consumption of Whole Grains and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Avocado Consumption for 12 Weeks and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors in Adults with Overweight or Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Vegan Diets on Cardiometabolic Health.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Dietary Restriction Ameliorates TBI-Induced Phenotypes in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Longitudinal Effects of Growth Restriction on the Murine Gut Microbiome and Metabolome.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Effects of Reconditioning Exercises Following Prolonged Bed Rest on Lumbopelvic Muscle Volume and Accumulation of Paraspinal Muscle Fat.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Protein Supplementation Associated with Resistance Training on Body Composition and Muscle Strength in Older Adults.
• Examining the State, Quality and Strength of the Evidence in the Research on Built Environments and Physical Activity Among Children and Youth: An Overview of Reviews from High Income Countries.

Economics & Sociology

• The Relationships between Socioeconomic Status, Dietary Knowledge and Patterns, and Physical Activity with Adiposity in Urban South African Women.
• Community Food Security: The Multi-Level Association between Social Capital, Economic Capital, and Diet Quality.
• Revisiting the Obesity Paradox in Health Care Expenditures Among Adults with Diabetes.

Epidemiology

• Meta-Analysis: The Association between Workplace Built Environment and Metabolic Health.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Inflammatory Biomarkers and Adipokines in Elderly Population.
• A Lifecourse Mendelian Randomization Study Highlights the Long-Term Influence of Childhood Body Size on Later Life Heart Structure.
• Robust Variation in Infant Gut Microbiome Assembly Across a Spectrum of Lifestyles.
• Sibling Group Size and BMI over the Life Course: Evidence from Four British Cohort Studies.
• Meta-Analysis: Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Nigeria.
• Changes in Anthropometric Indicators and Gait Speed in Older Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Pathophysiological Mechanisms Explaining the Association between Low Skeletal Muscle Mass and Cognitive Function.
• Chronic Experience with Unpredictable Food Availability Promotes Food Reward, Overeating, and Weight Gain in a Novel Animal Model of Food Insecurity.
• White Matter Fiber-Specific Degeneration in Older Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Long Term High Fat Diet Induces Metabolic Disorders and Aggravates Behavioral Disorders and Cognitive Deficits in MAPT P301L Transgenic Mice.

Equity and Disparities

• Trends and Disparities in Adult BMI Across the 47 Prefectures of Japan, 1975–2018.
• Using Syndemic Theory to Understand Food Insecurity and Diet-Related Chronic Diseases.

Stigma

• Does Obesity Rule Out Happiness? Preschool Children’s Perceptions of Beauty-Related Happiness.
• Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say: The Importance of Language in the Treatment of Obesity.

Policy Related

• Obesity Prevention Across the US: A Review of State-Level Policies from 2009-2019.
• The Nutrition Transition, Food Retail Transformations, and Policy Responses to Overnutrition in the East Asia Region: A Descriptive Review.
• Nutrition Policies in Germany: A Systematic Assessment with the Food Environment Policy Index.
• Benchmarking for Accountability on Obesity Prevention: Evaluation of the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) in Australia (2016–2020).

Intergenerational Effects

• Normalization of Maternal Adiponectin in Obese Pregnant Mice Prevents Programming of Impaired Glucose Metabolism in Adult Offspring.
• Eating Competence Among Caregivers of Toddlers: Associations with Caregiver and Child Overweight/Obesity.
• Associations of Cord Blood Lipids with Childhood Adiposity at the Age of Three Years.
• Effect of a Maternal High Fat Diet with Vegetable Substitution on Fetal Brain Transcriptome.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Darwinian Applications to Nutrition: The Value of Evolutionary Insights to Teachers and Students.
• Skeletal Muscle Plasticity and Thermogenesis: Insights from Sea Otters.

Methods

• Agreement and Precision of Deuterium Dilution for Total Body Water and Multicompartment Body Composition Assessment in Collegiate Athletes.
• Estimating National and Subnational Nutrient Intake Distributions of Global Diets.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Theoretical Analysis of a Model for Diabesity Dynamics. (pdf)
• A comprehensive dynamic model of the adipocyte.

Commentary

• A Darkened Neck Could Be a Sign for Type 2 Diabetes. But Texas Screenings Have Slowed.
• Diabetes Drug Helps Patients Lose Never-Before-Seen Amounts of Weight, New Study Shows.
• Obesity: Policy and Practice Recommendations for High-Risk Populations Influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Changes are Coming to School Meals Nationwide – an Expert in Food Policy Explains.
• Weight Loss Tied to a Dramatic Drop in Cancer Risk, New Study Shows.
• 5 Nutrition and Food Safety Pregnancy Myths.
• Muddled Thinking and Silly Arguments About BMI.
• Are Ultra-Processed Foods Harmful? Experts Weigh the Evidence.

General

• Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics: Comment.
• Trait Energy and Fatigue May Be Connected to Gut Bacteria Among Young Physically Active Adults: An Exploratory Study.
• Importance of Treating Smoking in Conjunction with Mental Health.
• The Replication Crisis and the Problem with Basic Science.
• Palatal Morphology Predicts the Paleobiology of Early Salamanders.
• Dissertation: Investigating the Performance of Survival Regression Models Under Multiple, Simultaneous Assumption Violations.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Sugar Consumption and Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality According to Anatomic Subsite.
• Is the Future of Peer Review Automated?

Announcements

• WORKSHOP SERIES: The Role of Plant Agricultural Practices on Development of Antimicrobial Resistant Fungi Affecting Human Health.
• 8th Annual Diabetes Symposium - August 5, 2022.
• Applications Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research Short Course 2022.

Featured

• Dietary Restriction and the Transcription Factor Clock Delay Eye Aging to Extend Lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster.
• The Effects of Graded Levels of Calorie Restriction XVIII: Tissue Specific Changes in Cell Size and Number in Response to Calorie Restriction.
• Does Maternal Nutrition Have Any Impact on Sex Ratio at Birth in Animal and Human Studies?
• A Fat-Promoting Botanical Extract from Artemisia scoparia Exerts Geroprotective Effects on Caenorhabditis elegans Life Span and Stress Resistance.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Brain’s Wiring, Not Lack of Willpower, May Drive Obesity: Study.
• Study: Grant Award. No Study (yet).

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Null Effects in Full Sample in Low vs Moderate Dose of Recreational Football on Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
• RCT: "There were no differences in excessive gestational weight gain observed between groups when analyzing participants in aggregate."
• RCT: The Role of Physical Activity in Long-Term Weight Loss: Null 36-Month Results.
• RCT: Limited to No Effects of Response Inhibition Training Following Binge Memory Retrieval in Young Adults Binge Eaters.
• RCT: "Pasture versus Grain origins of the beef had little influence on participants' responses."
• RCT: "Among Latino men with overweight and obesity, HOMBRE was not more effective for clinically significant weight loss than a minimal-intensity intervention at 18 months."
• Low-Dose Gallic Acid Administration Does Not Improve Diet-Induced Metabolic Disorders and Atherosclerosis in ApoE Knockout Mice.
• New Measures, Old Conclusions: Obesity Does Not Worsen Outcomes After Elective Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair.

Basic

• Severe Muscle Deconditioning Triggers Early Extracellular Matrix Remodeling and Resident Stem Cell Differentiation Into Adipocytes in Healthy Me.
• Exercise Protects Intestinal Epithelial Barrier from High Fat Diet-Induced Permeabilization Through SESN2/AMPKα1/HIF-1α Signaling.
• Downregulation of Peripheral Lipopolysaccharide Binding Protein Impacts on Perigonadal Adipose Tissue Only in Female Mice.
• β-Elemene Regulates M1-M2 Macrophage Balance Through the ERK/JNK/P38 MAPK Signaling Pathway.
• The Effects of Brewers’ Spent Grain on High-Fat Diet-Induced Fatty Liver.
• The Impact of High Fat Consumption on Neurological Functions Following a Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats.
• IDF21-0176 Spatial Memory Impairment in Type 2 Diabetic Rats Is Associated with Adiposity and Altered Glucose Metabolism.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "Clarification on our critique of the Energy Balance Hypothesis of Obesity”.
• Controversial Supplements Researcher Not Guilty of Misconduct, Canadian University Concludes.
• Retraction: Caloric Restriction Reverses Obesity-Induced Mammary Gland Inflammation in Mice.
• Preprint: Replication Concerns in Sports Science: A Narrative Review of Selected Methodological Issues in the Field.

Clinical

• Changes in Adiponectin:Leptin Ratio Among Older Adults with Obesity Following a 12-Month Exercise and Diet Intervention.
• Obesity Subtyping: The Etiology, Prevention, and Management of Acquired Versus Inherited Obese Phenotypes.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: Effects of Self-Care Programs on the Incidence of Diabetes Among Adults with Prediabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Childhood Obesity: A Review of Current and Future Management Options.
• Effect of an Interactive Mobile Health Support System and Daily Weight Measurements for Pediatric Obesity Treatment.
• Measuring Change in Adolescent Physical Activity: Responsiveness of a Single Item.
• What Do Health Professionals and Parents Want as Part of an Online Childhood Obesity Prevention Program?
• The Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes in Youth: Where We are and the Road Ahead.
• Review: Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder —Strategies for Dietary Management in Children.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: Effects of Physical Exercise on Cardiometabolic Biomarkers and Inflammatory Markers in Children.
• Review: The Effects of Nutrition on Linear Growth.

Surgery

• Comparison of Weight Loss Outcomes between Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy in a Racially Mixed Urban Patient Population.
• The Cost-Effectiveness of Surgical Weight Loss Interventions for Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis and Class III Obesity.
• Changes of Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Their Receptors in an Obese Rat Model After Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Body Composition, Mitochondrial Oxygen Metabolism and Metabolome of Patients with Obesity Before and After Bariatric Surgery.
• Review: Regulation of Body Weight: Lessons Learned from Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-Analysis: Sex Difference in the Safety and Efficacy of Bariatric Procedures.

Drugs

• Long-Term Impact of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Drug Costs of Japanese Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• A National Survey on Current Clinical Practice Pattern of Korean Medicine Doctors for Treating Obesity.
• Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity.
• Once-Weekly Dulaglutide for the Treatment of Youths with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Evaluating Anti-Obesity Potential, Active Components, and Antioxidant Mechanisms of Moringa peregrina Seeds Extract on High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Women with Obesity Have a High Carbohydrate Intake Without Changes in the Resting Metabolic Rate in the Luteal Phase.
• Multiple Metrics of Carbohydrate Quality Place Starchy Vegetables Alongside Non-Starchy Vegetables, Legumes, and Whole Fruit.
• Secondary Analysis of RCT: The Effect of Nigella sativa on Total Antioxidant Capacity and Malondialdehyde in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Perspective: Vegan Diets for Older Adults? Potential Impact on Muscle Mass and Strength.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Modulation of Nigral Dopamine Signaling Mitigates Parkinsonian Signs of Aging: Evidence from Intervention with Calorie Restriction or Inhibition of Dopamine Uptake.
• Perspective: Time-Restricted Eating—Integrating the What with the When.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Concurrent Training Promotes Greater Gains on Body Composition and Components of Physical Fitness Than Single-Mode Training (Endurance or Resistance) in Youth with Obesity.
• Determinants of Dropout from and Variation in Adherence to an Exercise Intervention.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: Effects of Exercise Training on Glycaemic Control in Youths with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Review: Influence of Nutritional Status and Physical Exercise on Immune Response in Metabolic Syndrome.

Economics & Sociology

• Comorbid Depression and Obesity Among Adults in Germany: Effects of Age, Sex, and Socioeconomic Status.
• How Socioeconomic Status and Acculturation Relate to Dietary Behaviors Within Latino Populations.

Epidemiology

• Changes in Obesity Prevalence Attributable to Ultra-Processed Food Consumption in Brazil between 2002 and 2009.
• Genetic Determinants of BMI and Fasting Glucose are Mediators of Grade 1 Diastolic Dysfunction.
• Lifetime BMI and Grip Strength at Age 46 Years.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Supplementing a Widely Available Weight Loss Program with Gamified Inhibitory Control Training.
• Circulating FGF21 Vs. Stress Markers in Girls During Childhood and Adolescence, and in Their Caregivers: Intriguing Inter-Relations between Overweight/Obesity, Emotions, Behavior, and the Cared-Caregiver Relationship.
• Altered Intrinsic Regional Spontaneous Brain Activity in Patients with Severe Obesity and Meibomian Gland Dysfunction.
• Early Childhood Dietary Intake and Subsequent Socioemotional and Cognitive School Readiness Among Australian Children.
• Review: A Neuroeconomics Approach to Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• "Future work should evaluate African Americans' experience with nutrition-focused policy, systems, and environmental changes...which may be better able to address racial disparities in obesity and food insecurity."
• Determinants and Consequences of Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Justice-Impacted Populations.
• Impact of Trends and Gender Disparity in Obesity on Future Type 2 Diabetes in Turkey.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Individuals Seeking Bariatric Surgery.
• Development and Validation of the Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT): A Multidimensional Nonstigmatizing Measure of Contemporary Attitudes Toward Fatness and Fat People.
• Describing the Views of Canadian Post-Secondary Students in Health-Related Disciplines on the Recognition of Obesity as a Chronic Disease.

Policy Related

• Identifying Strategies for Facilitating Physical Activity Among Older Adults.
• Are Front-Of-Pack Labels a Health Policy Tool?
• Comment on Muzzioli et al. Are Front-Of-Pack Labels a Health Policy Tool? Nutrients 2022, 14, 771.
• Review: Front-Of-Pack Labelling Systems to Improve the Quality of Nutrition Information to Prevent Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Prenatal Neighborhood Environment and Geographic Hotspots of Infants with At-Risk Birthweights in New York City.
• Underreporting of Energy Intake Increases over Pregnancy.
• Pregnancy Homocysteine and Cobalamin Status Predict Childhood Metabolic Health in the Offspring.
• Influence of Parental Weight Change on the Incidence of Overweight and Obesity in Offspring.
• Parenting Styles in Relation to Childhood Obesity, Smoking and Drinking.
• Maternal Glycemic Spectrum and Adverse Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcomes in a Multiracial US Cohort.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effect of Dietary Patterns on Clinical Pregnancy and Live Birth Outcomes in Men and Women Receiving Assisted Reproductive Technologies.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Let’s Play at Digging. How Vigorous Is This Energetic Task for a Young Forager?
• Racing Time: Physiological Rates and Metabolic Scaling in Marine Mammals.

Methods

• Characteristics of Body Composition Estimated by Air-Displacement Plethysmography in Chinese Preschool Children.
• Learning from Missing Data: Examining Nonreporting Patterns of Height, Weight, and BMI Among Canadian Youth.
• Update on Analytical Methods and Research Gaps in the Use of Household Consumption and Expenditure Survey Data to Inform the Design of Food-Fortification Programs.
• Implementation of Physical Activity on Prescription for Children with Obesity in Paediatric Health Care: Protocol for a Feasibility and Evaluation Study Using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods.
• Assessment of Inequity in Bicyclist Crashes Using Bivariate Bayesian Copulas.

Commentary

• The Avocado-Cancer Link: Is This Fruit Cancer-Protective?
• The Effects of Phosphorus in Cardiovascular and Renal Health.
• The Immune Response in Adipocytes and Their Susceptibility to Infection: A Possible Relationship with Infectobesity.
• Evaluating the Evidence on Beverage Taxes: Implications for Public Health and Health Equity.
• Climate Change Is Coming for Your Pizza Sauce.
• Fatty Acids Activate All but One Member of the KV7 Family of Ion Channels.
• Salmonella Vaccine for Poultry Contributed to Rise of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, Researchers Report.
• Bias of Obesity Professionals: A Fork in the Road?

General

• The Organizational Evolution of Small Food Buying Clubs.
• Fetal-Placental Antigens and the Maternal Immune System: Reproductive Immunology Comes of Age.
• A Meiotic Driver Alters Sperm Form and Function in House Mice: A Possible Example of Spite.
• Food: Nourishment, Poverty, Love, and Hope in Gods of Green County.
• Short-Necked Giraffe Relative Discovered in China. It Used Its Helmet Head to Bash Rivals.
• Focus on the ‘Why’ and You Will Work with Great Passion and Focus.
• How Science Fuels a Culture of Misinformation.
• The Good Science Project Interview with David Allison.

Announcements

• Nutrition 2022 Live Online Program [June 14-16].
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Recruiting for Many Staff Opportunities - COME JOIN US!
• Applications Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research Short Course 2022.