Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Weight Stigma as a Predictor of Distress and Maladaptive Eating Behaviors During COVID-19: Longitudinal Findings from the EAT Study.
• Dietary Nitrate Supplementation and Exercise-Related Performance.
• Canagliflozin Extends Lifespan in Male but Not Female Genetically Heterogeneous Mice.
• Membrane Capacitance from a Bioimpedance Approach: Associations with Insulin Resistance in Relatively Healthy Adults.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Mindfulness Interventions Can Help Treat Obesity.
• Study: Examining the Effects of Two Mindful Eating Exercises on Chocolate Consumption: No Obesity Measured - "First, the present study is limited by its focus on healthy undergraduates, and therefore, cannot be accurately generalized to an overweight or obese population."

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Mediterranean diet adherence was not associated with overall cancer risk in male participants of the prospective Netherlands Cohort Study. HR estimates in women ...lost statistical significance after full adjustment for confounding in most cases."
• RCT: No Effect of 6-month Supplementation with 300 Mg/d Docosahexaenoic Acid on Executive Functions Among Healthy School-aged Children.
• "Despite the plethora of trials and the variety of examined interventions, the evidence supporting the efficacy of most dietary factors appears inadequate to recommend their use" in preventing prostate cancer.
• "The findings indicate that intervention emphasizing whole grains improved overall short-term but not long-term dietary intake among schoolchildren."
• RCT: "…supplementation of vitamin D3 has no additional benefit over placebo on pancreatic β-cell functions in non-diabetic Indian subjects with obesity."
• RCT: "Time-restricted eating, in the absence of other interventions, is not more effective in weight loss than eating throughout the day."
• RCT: "An SMS program increased self-reported adherence to unsupervised home exercise in people with knee OA and obesity, although this did not translate into improved clinical outcomes."
• RCT: "Binge-eating improvements and weight loss produced by BWL and adaptive Stepped Care did not differ significantly 12 months after completing treatments."
• Contrary to Previous Studies, Prepregnancy BMI and GWG Were Not Correlated with Metabolic Dysfunction.

Basic

• Review: Role of Energy Excretion in Human Body Weight Regulation.
• Pinealectomy Increases Thermogenesis and Decreases Lipogenesis in Male Wistar Rats.
• STAT1 Dissociates Adipose Tissue Inflammation from Insulin Sensitivity in Obesity.
• Role of Sex and High-Fat Diet in Metabolic and Hypothalamic Disturbances in the 3xTg-AD Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease.
• RIPK1 Gene Variants Associate with Obesity in Humans and Can Be Therapeutically Silenced to Reduce Obesity in Mice.
• Thesis: The Estrogen-Related Receptor’s Role in Fat Metabolism and Resistance to Obesity.
• Distinct Infrastructure of Lipid Networks in Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissues in Overweight Humans.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• High-Intensity Interval Training: Methodological Considerations for Interpreting Results and Conducting Research.
• Letter: Influence of Obesity on Diagnostic Accuracy and Optimal Cutoffs for Sarcopenia Screening in Non-Frail Older Adults: A Comparison of SARC-F Versus SARC-CalF.
• Retraction: Phytochemicals from Plants to Combat Cardiovascular Disease.
• What We Know About Vitamin D and Covid-19.

Clinical

• What Do Brazilian Owners Know About Canine Obesity and What Risks Does This Knowledge Generate?
• RCT: Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters in Women and Men with Overweight and Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Nutritional Intervention Strategies for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Primary Health Care.
• Systematic Review: Heterogeneity of Antidiabetic Treatment Effect on the Risk of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Type 2 Diabetes.
• The Genetic Architecture of the Association between Eating Behaviors and Obesity: Combining Genetic Twin Modeling and Polygenic Risk Scores.

Children and Adolescents

• Clinical Approaches to Minimize Iatrogenic Weight Gain in Children and Adolescents.
• Genetic Determinants of Childhood Obesity.
• Physical Activity in Adolescents During the Social Distancing Policies of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Score and Obesity Phenotypes in Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• A Total Weight Loss of 25% Shows Better Predictivity in Evaluating the Efficiency of Bariatric Surgery.
• Long-term Opioid Use After Bariatric Surgery.
• The Leptin to Adiponectin Ratio (LAR) Is Reduced by Sleeve Gastrectomy in Adults with Severe Obesity.
• Potential Benefits and Harms of Gastric Bypass Surgery in Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes and Obesity.

Drugs

• Effects of GLP-1 and Its Analogs on Gastric Physiology in Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity.
• Disease, Drugs and Dysbiosis: Understanding Microbial Signatures in Metabolic Disease and Medical Interventions.
• Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Risk; What the Pharmacotherapy Can Change Through the Epigenetics.
• Editorial: Dodging Physical Activity and Healthy Diet: Can Resveratrol Take the Edge Off the Consequences of Your Lifestyle?

Food & Diet

• Loss of CTRP4 Alters Adiposity and Food Intake Behaviors in Obese Mice.
• Late Eating Is Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Traits, Obesogenic Behaviors, and Impaired Weight Loss.
• The Metabolic Dysfunction of White Adipose Tissue Induced in Mice by a High-fat Diet Is Abrogated by Co-administration of Docosahexaenoic Acid and Hydroxytyrosol.
• Food Insecurity in the U.S. by the Numbers.
• Combined Associations of BMI and Adherence to a Mediterranean-like Diet with All-cause and Cardiovascular Mortality.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Diabetes Medications as Potential Calorie Restriction Mimetics-a Focus on the Alpha-glucosidase Inhibitor Acarbose.
• Impacts of Calorie Restriction and Intermittent Fasting on Health and Diseases: Current Trends.
• The Obesity Treatment Dilemma: Why Dieting Is Both the Answer and the Problem? A Mechanistic Overview.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity Space Methodology for Assessment and Prioritization (PASMAP): Combining Systematic Observations with Community Perceptions to Identify Community Physical Activity Resource Priorities.
• A Causal Pathway of Physical Activity to Motor Competence in Childhood: Evidence from a School-based Intervention.

Economics & Sociology

• Obesity: A Sociological Guide for Health Practitioners.
• Association between Cumulative Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences and Childhood Obesity.
• Dissertation: #Imwithkap: The Perceived Role of Sport Psychology Practitioners in the Activist-Athlete Movement.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Children Enrolled in Head Start, 2012–2018.
• Bone Mass and Density in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, and Healthy Weight.
• Association of the National Health Guidance Intervention for Obesity and Cardiovascular Risks with Health Outcomes Among Japanese Men.
• From Farm to Kitchen: How Gender Affects Production Diversity and the Dietary Intake of Farm Households in Ethiopia.
• Dietary Inflammatory and Insulinemic Potential and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results from Three Prospective U.S. Cohort Studies.
• Association between Tear and Blood Glucose Concentrations.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Combined Effects of Episodic Future Thinking and Scarcity on Delay Discounting in Adults at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes.
• Linking Grazing to Inhibition and Goal-Directed Behaviour in Obesity with and Without Eating Disorder Features.
• Effects of a 12-Month Weight Loss Intervention on Cognitive Outcomes in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• The Time Is Ripe: Thinking About the Future Reduces Unhealthy Eating in Those with a Higher BM.
• Chronic Timed Sleep Restriction Attenuates LepRb-Mediated Signaling Pathways and Circadian Clock Gene Expression in the Rat Hypothalamus.
• Executive Function in Individuals with Clinically Significant Weight Loss Via Behavioral Intervention (PDF).
• Circadian Rhythms in Hormone-sensitive Lipase in Human Adipose Tissue: Relationship to Meal Timing and Fasting Duration.
• Hypothalamic REV-ERB Nuclear Receptors Control Diurnal Food Intake and Leptin Sensitivity in Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Short-term High-fat Feeding Induces a Reversible Net Decrease in Synaptic AMPA Receptors in the Hypothalamus.

Equity and Disparities

• Neighborhood Deprivation, Obesity and Diabetes in Gulf Residents.
• Barriers and Facilitators in Implementing a Pilot, Pragmatic, Telemedicine-delivered Healthy Lifestyle Program for Obesity Management in a Rural, Academic Obesity Clinic.
• Obesity and Activity Patterns Before and During COVID-19 Lockdown Among Youths in China.
• Recruiting Men from Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum Via GP Registers and Community Outreach to a Weight Management Feasibility RCT.
• Conceptualizing Food Insecurity Among Older Adults: Development of a Summary Indicator in the National Health and Aging Trends Study.

Stigma

• Weight in the Mind: Weight Perception and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents.
• General Self-Efficacy and Body Weight: The Role of Race and Gender.
• Growth Mindset Messaging in Stigma-Relevant Contexts: Harnessing Benefits Without Costs.
• More Than a “Monstrous Obesity”! Time to Overcome the “anti-fat” Bias.
• What are the Experiences of Women with Obesity Receiving Antenatal Maternity Care? A Scoping Review of Qualitative Evidence.
• Changing Frames of Obesity in the UK Press 2008–2017.
• Weight Stigma as a Predictor of Distress and Maladaptive Eating Behaviors During COVID-19.

Policy Related

• A Critical Review of National Physical Activity Policies Relating to Children and Young People in England.
• Obesity and Climate Change: Advocacy for a Brighter Future.

Intergenerational Effects

• Obesity and Hair Cortisol: Relationships Varied between Low-Income Preschoolers and Mothers.
• Maternal High-Fat–High-Carbohydrate Diet-Induced Obesity Is Associated with Increased Appetite in Peripubertal Male but Not Female C57Bl/6J Mice.
• Breastfeeding and Maternal Eating Behaviours are Associated with Child Eating Behaviours: Findings from the ROLO Kids Study.
• Offspring Susceptibility to Metabolic Alterations Due to Maternal High-fat Diet and the Impact of Inhaled Ozone Used as a Stressor.
• Maternal Lipid Profile in Early Pregnancy Is Associated with Foetal Growth and the Risk of a Child Born Large-for-gestational Age.
• Life Course Trajectories of Maternal Cardiovascular Risk Factors According to Offspring Birthweight.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Birds Advancing Lay Dates with Warming Springs Face Greater Risk of Chick Mortality.
• Accelerated Reproduction Is Not an Adaptive Response to Early-life Adversity in Wild Baboons.
• Red Knots (Calidris Canutus Islandica) Manage Body Mass with Dieting and Activity.

Methods

• Predicting 3D Body Shape and Body Composition from Conventional 2D Photography.
• Pilot Study GLIM Criteria for Categorization of a Malnutrition Diagnosis of Patients Undergoing Elective Gastrointestinal Operations: A Pilot Study of Applicability and Validation.

Commentary

• Nutrient Warnings on Unhealthy Foods.
• The Paleo Diet May Make Your Biological Age Older Than Your Real Age.
• 'Children are Going Hungry': Why Schools are Struggling to Feed Students.
• Overlooking Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: The Need for Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome Staging and Risk Stratification.
• Parents and Adolescents: What’s the Right Mix in Obesity Treatment?
• Pharmacotherapeutic Options for Prediabetes.
• Current Perspectives on the Pathophysiology of Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease: Are Macrophages a Viable Target for Therapy?
• Commentary on Canagliflozin Extends Lifespan in Genetically Heterogeneous Male but Not Female Mice (Miller Et Al., 2020).

General

• Opioid Use Disorder Trends from 2002 to 2017 by Cigarette Smoking Status in the United States.
• Determinants of Intergenerational Sexual Relationships and HIV Risk Among South African Women Outpatients in Gauteng.
• Parasite Intensity Drives Fetal Development and Sex Allocation in a Wild Ungulate.
• Abstract: Early Achievement of Enteral Nutrition Protein Goals by Intensive Care Unit Day 4 Is Associated with Fewer Complications in Critically Injured Adults.
• Solitary Versus Group Living Lifestyles, Social Group Composition and Cooperation in Otters.
• The Maternal Microbiome Modulates Fetal Neurodevelopment in Mice.
• Local Exposure to Inequality Raises Support of People of Low Wealth for Taxing the Wealthy.
• Legislation: Health Statistics Act of 2020:"...to encourage the development of certain public health data standards, authorize epidemiological surveillance grants, and authorize a data linkage demonstration project, and for other purposes."
• The Dark Side of Spectator Behavior: Effects of Spectator Dysfunctional Behavior on Anger, Rumination, and Revisit Intention.

Announcements

• Indiana University Awarded IU Alumnus Jamie Hyneman the Bicentennial Medal - Presented by Dean David B. Allison of IU's School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Researchers Studying How Antibody Test Results Affect COVID-19 Protective Behaviors.
• Opportunity at IU: New Director of Facilities and Safety Management!
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites National Applications for the Position of Associate Dean for Research and Tenured Full Professor.
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Invites Proposals for Conference.
• Webinar: An Imminent Food Crisis: Fact or Fiction?
• IU School of Public Health Dean Honored with 2020 Don Owen Statistics Award.

Featured

• Serotonin Signaling Suppresses the Nutrition-responsive Induction of an Alternate Male Morph in Horn Polyphenic Beetles.
• The Daytime Feeding Frequency Affects Appetite-regulating Hormones, Amino Acids, Physical Activity, and Respiratory Quotient, but Not Energy Expenditure, in Adult Cats Fed Regimens for 21 Days.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Vitamin D Deficiency Can Lead to Obesity: Study.
• Study: Vitamin D Deficiency Serves as a Precursor to Stunted Growth and Central Adiposity... In Zebrafish.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effects on BMI in Toddler Obesity Prevention: A Two-generation Trial.
• Preprint: "Meta-analyses showed no evidence that communicating information about the environment’s influence on obesity changed policy support or the belief that the environment influences obesity."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, associations between appetite hormones and global ED pathology were stronger than associations with bulimic behaviors..."
• "Significant lengthening of the RL at the cost of the common channel seems to have no effect on the weight loss at 1-year follow-up, which supports the theory that absorption of nutrients also occurs in the RL."
• "...when applied in healthy doses, diet-related compensatory behavior may contribute to the maintenance of a balanced and healthy body weight, but it is not a successful strategy for weight loss over time."
• RCT: "No significant results were observed over time for the dependent measures" in "a three-month co-active coaching and/or health education intervention on the dietary intake and physical activity behaviours of parents with overweight/obesity and their children ..."
• RCT: In "Whānau Pakari, a multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention for children and adolescents with weight issues", "this trial was negative in terms of primary outcome at 24 months."
• RCT: "The PREVIEW study observed no effect of a high protein/low GI diet on IR in adolescents with overweight/obesity and IR because of lack of feasibility, due to insufficient retention and dietary compliance after 2 years."
• RCT: "Time-restricted eating, in the absence of other interventions, is not more effective in weight loss than eating throughout the day."

Basic

• Is Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) Really Completely Innocent? It May Be Triggering Obesity.
• Role for Retinoic Acid-Related Orphan Receptor Alpha (RORα) Expressing Macrophages in Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Lack of the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase March1 Affects CD8 T Cell Fate and Exacerbates Insulin Resistance in Obese Mice.
• Growth Arrest-Specific 6 Modulates Adiponectin Expression and Insulin Resistance in Adipose Tissue.
• Metabolic Differences between Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipocytes Differentiated with an Excess of Saturated and Monounsaturated Fatty Acids.
• Fructose Stimulated De Novo Lipogenesis Is Promoted by Inflammation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Evidence That Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Deaths.
• Letter: Vitamin D Supplementation in Influenza and COVID-19 Infections Comment On: “Evidence That Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Deaths” Nutrients 2020, 12(4), 988.
• Response: Reply: “Vitamin D Supplementation in Influenza and COVID-19 Infections. Comment On: Evidence That Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Deaths Nutrients 2020, 12(4), 988”.
• Article: Covid-19 and Vit-d: Disease Mortality Negatively Correlates with Sunlight Exposure.
• Letter: Letter to the Editor: Covid-19 and Vit-D: Disease Mortality Negatively Correlates with Sunlight Exposure.

Clinical

• Dietary Fibres and the Management of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome: The RESOLVE Study.
• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Obesity. Impact of Obesity and Its Main Comorbidities in the Evolution of the Disease.
• Evidence-Based Weight Loss Interventions: Individualized Treatment Options to Maximize Patient Outcomes.
• Meta-analysis: Weight Loss and Serum Lipids in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Learning More from What We Already Know About Childhood Obesity Prevention.
• Strategies to Reduce Attrition in Managing Paediatric Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Garden-Based Interventions and Early Childhood Health: An Umbrella Review.
• Wellness and Excessive Weight Gain.
• Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Rationale for Taxonomic Versus Conventional Meta-Analysis.
• Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of a New Taxonomy of Intervention Components to Improve Weight Status in Children 2–5 Years of Age, 2005–2019.
• Elements of Effective Population Surveillance Systems for Monitoring Obesity in School Aged Children.
• Early-Life Nutrition Interventions and Associated Long-Term Cardiometabolic Outcomes.

Surgery

• Infusion of Donor Feces Affects the Gut-Brain Axis in Humans with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Case Report: Acquired Copper Deficiency Following Revisional Single Anastomosis Duodeno-Ileal Bypass with Sleeve Gastrectomy (SADI-S) Leading to Severe Pancytopenia with Refractory Anemia.
• Effect of Roux-en-Y Bariatric Bypass Surgery on Subclinical Atherosclerosis and Oxidative Stress Markers in Leukocytes of Patients with Obesity: A One-Year Follow-Up Study.

Drugs

• New Insights into Potential Nutritional Effects of Dietary Saponins in Protecting Against the Development of Obesity.
• Therapy to Obesity with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: How Far Will We Go Down the Wrong Road?
• Meta-Analysis: ffects of Metformin in Obesity Treatment in Different Populations.

Food & Diet

• Thesis: The Effect of Aspartame and Sucralose Consumption on Food Intake and Body Composition of Rats. 
• A Comparison of a Ketogenic Diet with a LowGI/nutrigenetic Diet over 6 months for Weight Loss and 18-month Follow-up.
• Nervonic Acid Limits Weight Gain in a Mouse Model of Diet-induced Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: L-Carnitine’s Effect on the Biomarkers of Metabolic Syndrome.
• Long-Term Results of the Mediterranean Diet After Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Meta-Analysis: Association of Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages or Artificially Sweetened Beverages with Mortality.
• Decreasing Trends in Heavy Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in the United States, 2003 to 2016.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• The Effect of Caloric Restriction and Fasting on Cancer.
• Thesis: The Effect of Dietary Menthol on Weight Regain After Caloric Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Socioeconomic and Gender-based Disparities in the Motor Competence of School-age Children.
• Healthy Lifestyle and Life Expectancy in People with Multimorbidity in the UK Biobank: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
• Dissertation: The Relationship between Non-running Physical Activity and the Development of Running Related Overuse Injuries in Recreational Runners.

Economics & Sociology

• Education Differences in Women’s Body Weight Trajectories: The Role of Motherhood.
• Multilevel Prenatal Socioeconomic Determinants of Mexican American Children's Weight: Mediation by Breastfeeding.
• Asymmetric Effects of Obesity on Loneliness Among Older Germans. Longitudinal Findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.

Epidemiology

• The Role of Obesity and Vitamin D Deficiency in Primary Headaches in Childhood.
• A Microarray Study of Articular Cartilage in Relation to Obesity and Severity of Knee Osteoarthritis.
• Relationship between Obesity and Risk of Major Osteoporotic Fracture in Postmenopausal Women: Taking Frailty into Consideration.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Obesity and BMI on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Severity.
• Changes in BMI are Related to Faster Cognitive Decline Among African American Older Adults.
• Adiposity and Mortality in Korean Adults: A Population-based Prospective Cohort Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Central Fatness and Risk of All Cause Mortality.
• CDC Releases 2019 Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps for 49 States, the District of Columbia, and 2 US Territories.
• "These results support a weaker association between BMI and pancreatic cancer among current smokers than among never smokers."

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Preprint: Social Distance Regulation for Control of COVID-19 May Foster the Global Obesity Pandemic: Social Distancing Increases the Desire for Food. (pdf)
• How Psychiatric Diagnoses Can Help Discern Food Addiction from Dietary Restraint.
• Neural Correlates of Future Weight Loss Reveal a Possible Role for Brain-gastric Interactions.
• Disruption of Essential Metal Homeostasis in the Brain by Cadmium and High-fat Diet.

Equity and Disparities

• A Cross-Sectional Study of the Relationship between Mental Health Problems and Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents.
• Stress Coping Strategies and Stress Reactivity in Adolescents with Overweight/obesity.
• Rural–urban Differences in BMI and Obesity-related Behaviors Among Low-income Preschoolers.
• Disparity between United States Adolescent Class II and III Obesity Trends and Bariatric Surgery Utilization, 2015-2018.
• Consideration of Social Disadvantages for Understanding and Preventing Obesity in Children.
• Trends in Adiposity and Food Insecurity Among US Adults.

Stigma

• BMI, Weight Discrimination, and the Trajectory of Distress and Well-Being Across the Coronavirus Pandemic.
• A Social-Belonging Intervention Benefits Higher Weight Students’ Weight Stability and Academic Achievement.

Policy Related

• A Neurobehavioral Study on the Efficacy of Price Interventions in Promoting Healthy Food Choices Among Low Socioeconomic Families.
• Considerations for Obesity, Vitamin D, and Physical Activity Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Integrating Systems and Sectors Toward Obesity Solutions Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief (2020).

Intergenerational Effects

• Exercise During Pregnancy Mitigates the Adverse Effects of Maternal Obesity on Adult Male Offspring Vascular Function and Alters One-carbon Metabolism.
• The Dual Nature of Obesity in Metabolic Programming: Quantity Versus Quality of Adipose Tissue.
• Fetal Growth Trajectories and Their Association with Maternal, Cord Blood, and 5-year Child Adipokines.
• The Influence of Increased Prepregnancy BMI and Excessive Gestational Weight Gain on Pregnancy Course and Fetal and Maternal Perinatal Outcomes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Thyroid Hormone Receptor α in Skeletal Muscle Is Essential for T3-mediated Increase in Energy Expenditure (PDF).
• Early-life Hypoxia Alters Adult Physiology and Reduces Stress Resistance and Lifespan in Drosophila.
• Detecting the Signature of Body Mass Evolution in the Broad-Scale Architecture of Food Webs.

Methods

• Cross-classified Multilevel Models (CCMM) in Health Research: A Systematic Review of Published Empirical Studies and Recommendations for Best Practices.
• Estimating Prices for Foods in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: The Purchase to Plate Price Tool.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• The Role of BMI at Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer on Black-White Disparities in Survival: A Density Regression Mediation Approach.

Commentary

• Obesity and Male Osteoporosis: Protective Factor?
• Addressing Disparities in the Management of Obesity in Primary Care Settings.
• Compensatory Conspicuous Communication: Low Status Increases Jargon Use.
• A Guide to Introducing Effective Front-of-package Nutrient Labels.
• Hearts from Donors with Obesity Still Safe: Study.
• Balanced Carbohydrate and Fat Intake Can Prevent Certain Diseases.
• COVID: Protect Your Health and Save a Life – Your Own.
• Embodiment and the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Body as a Resource in Recovery.

General

• Thought to Be Extinct for 50 Years, New Guinea Singing Dog Was Thriving All Along.
• Caenorhabditis Elegans Gastrulation: A Model for Understanding How Cells Polarize, Change Shape, and Journey Toward the Center of an Embryo.
• There's No Evidence 'Blue-Light Blocking' Glasses Help You Sleep, Says Neurologist.
• A Tutorial on Methodological Studies: What, When, How and Why.
• Inside the Supergene of the Bird with Four Sexes.
• Functional Advantages of Lévy Walks Emerging Near a Critical Point.
• Scientists Create Gene-edited Livestock 'surrogate Sires'.
• RCT: Big Smile, Small Self: Awe Walks Promote Prosocial Positive Emotions in Older Adults.
• Frozen Meat Against COVID-19 Misinformation: An Analysis of Steak-Umm and Positive Expectancy Violations.
• Research Culture: Why Scientific Societies Should Involve More Early-career Researchers.

Video & Audio

• Webinar: A Guide to Methods for Assessing Childhood Obesity [Oct. 8].
• Nutrition for Precision Health, Powered by the All of Us Research Program | NIH Council of Councils - September 2020 (at 1:54:00).

Announcements

• School of Public Health Researchers Awarded Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) Grant.

Featured

• Loss of MAGEL2 in Prader-Willi Syndrome Leads to Decreased Secretory Granule and Neuropeptide Production.
• Can the Participant Speak Beyond Likert? Free Text Responses in COVID-19 Obesity Surveys.
• Late Lactation in Small Mammals Is a Critically Sensitive Window of Vulnerability to Elevated Ambient Temperature.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Blueberries Improve Cognitive Performance in Healthy Adults.
• Study: No Significant Time-by-treatment Interactions and Few Significant Post-hoc Tests of Blueberries vs Control on Cognitive Outcomes.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Cochrane review: "There is currently no evidence on the effect of a tax on total fat or saturated fat on total energy intake or energy intake through saturated fat or total fat, or preventing the incidence or reducing the prevalence of overweight or obesity."
• "We found no evidence that changes in feeding practices or changes in child food intake mediated child weight loss."
• "The addition of metformin to dietary and lifestyle advice in pregnancy for overweight and obese women has no clinically relevant effect on ultrasound measures of fetal biometry or adiposity."
• RCT: "The multi-component interventions focusing on either physical activity or sedentary behaviour were unsuccessful at increasing device-measured physical activity or reducing sedentary behaviour compared to a control group."
• RCT: Aerobic Exercise and Cognitively Engaging Exercise on Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Motor Skills in Primary School Children.
• RCT: "The systematic exercise program for 8-weeks did not change circulating irisin and no statistically significant difference was observed between the exercise methods."
• RCT: Primary Endpoint or Weight in Time-restricted Feeding in Low-income Women with Obesity Placed on Hypoenergetic Diets.
• RCT: Hypnosis-induced Hallucinated Meal on Primary Endpoints (appetite Variables). (pdf)

Basic

• CB2R Agonist JWH-133 Attenuates Chronic Inflammation by Restraining M1 Macrophage Polarization Via the Nrf2/HO-1 Pathway in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Fgr Kinase Is Required for Proinflammatory Macrophage Activation During Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Depletion of ASK1 Blunts Stress-Induced Senescence in Adipocytes.
• Intranasal Targeting of Hypothalamic PTP1B and TCPTP Reinstates Leptin and Insulin Sensitivity and Promotes Weight Loss in Obesity.
• Metformin Effectively Restores the HPA Axis Function in Diet-induced Obese Rats.
• Genetic Deletion of MiR-204 Improves Glycemic Control Despite Obesity in Db/db Mice.
• Influence of Obesity on Remodeling of Lung Tissue and Organization of Extracellular Matrix After Blunt Thorax Trauma.
• Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase as a Therapeutic Target for Obesity-induced Disorders: Roles of Gut Barrier Function Involved.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Erratum on Two Papers on Exercise in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Editorial: Low-energy Sweeteners and Cardiometabolic Health: Is There Method in the Madness?
• Retraction: The Parenteral Vitamin C Improves Sepsis and Sepsis-Induced Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome Via Preventing Cellular Immunosuppression.
• Statistical Analysis of Continuous Outcomes from Parallel-arm Randomized Controlled Trials in Nutrition—a Tutorial.
• The Long Road to Retraction in Childhood Obesity.

Clinical

• Severe Metabolic Acidosis: A Case of Triple Hit with Ketogenic Diet, Vinegar, and Metformin in a Patient with Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Intake of Nuts or Nut Products Does Not Lead to Weight Gain, Independent of Dietary Substitution Instructions.
• RCT: Intervention Enhancement Strategies Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in a Very Low–Carbohydrate Web-Based Program.
• Obesity Trends Amongst Hospitalized Patients with Spinal Cord Stimulator Implants.
• Lower Extremity Lymphatic Function Predicted by BMI.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project.
• Preventing Obesity in 2–5-Year Olds: A Pathway to Advancing Intervention Research.
• Female Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity Share Their Perspectives on the Clinical Setting and Weight Management.
• Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: Building Translational Capacity Through Meta-Analytic Methods.
• High-Calorie Formula Preferred for Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
• A 24-week Intervention Based on Nutrition Care Process Improves Diet Quality, BMI and Motivation in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Assessment of Active Video Games’ Energy Expenditure in Children with Overweight and Obesity and Differences by Gender.
• A National E-Health Program for the Prevention and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence in Greece.

Surgery

• Defining Postoperative Weight Change After Pancreatectomy: Factors Associated with Distinct and Dynamic Weight Trajectories.
• Association between Metabolic Surgery and Cardiovascular Outcome in Patients with Hypertension.
• RCT: Long Alimentary Limb Duodenal Switch.
• Prognostic Impact of Sarcopenic Obesity After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Followed by Surgery in Elderly Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
• Disparity between United States Adolescent Class II and III Obesity Trends and Bariatric Surgery Utilization, 2015-2018.

Drugs

• Prescriptions Slowly Recovering from Pandemic Hit.
• Meta-Analysis: Asthma Medication Use in Patients with Asthma with or without Obesity.
• Obesity and Hormonal Contraception: An Overview and a Clinician's Practical Guide.
• Efficacy and Safety of Once-weekly Semaglutide 1.0mg vs Once-daily Liraglutide 1.2mg as Add-on to 1-3 Oral Antidiabetic Drugs in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes (SUSTAIN 10).
• 48Biochemical Mechanisms of the Anti-obesity Effect of a Triterpenoid-enriched Extract of Cynomorium Songaricum in Mice with High-fat-diet-induced Obesity.
• GLP-1R Agonists for the Treatment of Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Conference abstract: Diets High in Fish and Sugar-sweetened Beverages Affect Energy Expenditure and Energy Balance.
• Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Prevent Obesity by Improving Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Homeostasis.
• A Scoping Review of the Operationalization of Fruit and Vegetable Variety.
• Meta-Analysis: Comparing Heterogeneity in Body Mass Responses between Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets.
• Review: Current Evidence to Propose Different Food Supplements for Weight Loss.
• Meta-Analysis: Intake of Nuts or Nut Products Does Not Lead to Weight Gain, Independent of Dietary Substitution Instructions.
• Mediterranean Diet Helps Offset the Health Impacts of Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction on Human Physiological, Psychological, and Behavioral Outcomes.
• Dietary Methionine Restriction Signals to the Brain Through Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 to Regulate Energy Balance and Remodeling of Adipose Tissue.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Review: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Effects of Carbohydrate Ingestion During Exercise.
• Temporal Trends in the Handgrip Strength of 2,592,714 Adults from 14 Countries between 1960 and 2017.
• Usability Inquiry of a Gamified Behavior Change App for Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behavior in Adults with and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Exercise During Weight Loss Maintenance on Appetite Regulation in Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Household Socioeconomic Status Modifies the Association between Neighborhood SES and Obesity in a Nationally Representative Sample of First Grade Children in the United States.
• Child Bodyweight and Human Capital: Test Scores, Teacher Assessments and Noncognitive Skills.

Epidemiology

• Long-term Trajectories of BMI Predict Carotid Stiffness and Plaque Volume in Type 2 Diabetes Older Adults.
• Association of a Genetic Risk Score with BMI Along the Life-cycle: Evidence from Several US Cohorts.
• Prevalence of Hypothyroidism in a Large Sample of Patients with Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome.
• Meta-Analysis: Hypomagnesemia in Subjects with Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Relationship between Sleep and Hedonic Appetite in Shift Workers.
• A Reinforcer Pathology Model of Health Behaviors in Individuals with Obesity.
• Longitudinal Study Examining the Influence of Diet-related Compensatory Behavior on Healthy Weight Management.
• Prevalence of Social, Cognitive, and Emotional Impairment Among Individuals with Food Addiction.
• Social Support-based Weight Loss Intervention for Adults with Obesity.
• Neural Correlates of Verbal Recognition Memory in Adults with Obesity, with or without Major Depressive Disorder.

Equity and Disparities

• Grow Well/Crecer Bien: A Protocol for Research on Infant Feeding Practices in Low-income Families.
• Gender-specific Temporal Trends in Overweight Prevalence Among Chinese Adults.
• Provide Policy Options Based on the Results of a Survey on Food Security Status, the Willingness to Pay for Healthy Food and Food Choices and Their Association with Some of the Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Associated with Obesity.

Stigma

• Enacted Weight Stigma and Weight Self Stigma Prevalence Among 3821 Adults.
• Me Too: Weight Discrimination Is Stubborn.
• Enacted Weight Stigma and Weight Self Stigma Prevalence Among Adults.

Policy Related

• Federal Register: National Organic Program (NOP); Final Decision on Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices Rule and Summary of Comments on the Economic Analysis Report. (pdf)
• Role of Food Aid and Assistance in Addressing the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Ghana. (pdf)
• Childhood Obesity Prevention and Federal Food Policy Approaches.
• “There’s Always Something Else”: Patient Perspectives on Improving the Implementation of Obesity Guidelines in General Practice.

Intergenerational Effects

• Child’s BMI and Mother’s Obesity: The Moderating Role of Physical Fitness.
• Maternal Lipid Levels Across Pregnancy Impact the Umbilical Cord Blood Lipidome and Infant Birth Weight.
• Early Life Predictors of Development of Blood Pressure from Childhood to Adulthood.
• The Role of Lifestyle and Non-modifiable Risk Factors in the Development of Metabolic Disturbances from Childhood to Adolescence.
• Birth Weight, Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Effect Modification of Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents.
• Prenatal Maternal Vitamin D Deficiency Sex-Dependently Programs Adipose Tissue Metabolism and Energy Homeostasis in Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Social Hierarchy Reveals Thermoregulatory Trade-offs in Response to Repeated Stressors.
• Review: Nutrition, Bioenergetics, and Metabolic Syndrome (PDF). (pdf)

Methods

• An Ecological Study on the Spatially Varying Association between Adult Obesity Rates and Altitude in the United States.
• Health Differences between Religious and Secular Subgroups in the United States.
• A GUIDE TO METHODS FOR Assessing Childhood Obesity.
• 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction for Precise Anthropometry with Handheld Devices.

Commentary

• Pitfalls and Challenges of the Purinergic Signaling Cascade in Obesity.
• Chemical Components of Plastics as Endocrine Disruptors.
• A New FGF21 Analog for the Treatment of Fatty Liver Disease.
• Perspective: Towards Automated Tracking of Content and Evidence Appraisal of Nutrition Research.
• An Enduring Link: COVID-19 and Cardiometabolic Health.
• Unravelling the Role of Oestrogen in Feeding Control.
• Healthy Plant-based Diet Confers Longer-lasting Cardiometabolic Benefits in Obesity.
• Obesity Increasing in U.S. Adults.

General

• Fossil Evidence of 'hibernation-like' State in 250-million-year-old Antarctic Animal.
• Preprint: BigO: A Public Health Decision Support System for Measuring Obesogenic Behaviors of Children in Relation to Their Local Environment.
• Toxin-Antidote Elements Across the Tree of Life.
• The Opium Eaters.
• RCT: Minimal Effects of Cocoa-Rich Chocolate and Quality of Life in Postmenopausal Women.
• Frozen Meat Against COVID-19 Misinformation: An Analysis of Steak-Umm and Positive Expectancy Violations.
• Space Food for Thought: Challenges and Considerations for Food and Nutrition on Exploration Missions.
• Obesity Is a Potential Risk Factor Contributing to Clinical Manifestations of COVID-19.
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• Factors Associated with Increased Morbidity and Mortality of COVID-19 Patients with Overweight or Obesity.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Prof. Diana Thomas, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Announcements

• Addressing Food Insecurity and Poor Nutrition During COVID-19.
• Nutrition 2021 Call for Ideas.

Featured

• Effect (association) of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Food Craving and Eating When Using a Control Method That Minimizes Guessing of the Real Vs. Control Condition.
• Energetic Limits: Defining the Bounds and Trade-offs of Successful Energy Management in a Capital Breeder.
• Why COVID-19 Is More Deadly in People with Obesity—even If They’re Young.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Researchers Perplexed: COVID-19 Stress May Be Hard to Beat Even with Exercise.
• Study: Perceived Change in Physical Activity Levels and Mental Health During COVID-19: Findings Among Adult Twin Pairs.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "There was no evidence that physical activity, sedentary behaviours, and perennial mean temperature mediated the associations between neighbourhood greenness and markers of adiposity."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Obesity and Related Metabolic Abnormalities Among Sri Lankan Children with Obesity and VDD [vitamin D Deficiency].
• "Contrary to hypotheses, olfactory stimulation did not influence AATs towards food pictures in normal weight and obese participants. Further, no differences in AATs were found in different BMI groups."
• "A sweetened beverage tax was not associated with reduced taxed beverage purchases among SSB consumers 12 mo posttax in the full sample."
• "Results from this study do not support an inverse association of yogurt consumption or other dairy consumption with T2D risk in black women."
• Amyloidosis Increase Is Not Attenuated by Long-term Calorie Restriction or Related to Neuron Density in the Prefrontal Cortex of Extremely Aged Rhesus Macaques.
• "...contrary to expectations, exhaustive chase protocols underestimate MMR and AS [maximum metabolic rate (MMR) and aerobic scope (AS)] at 18°C, compared to the no-chase control."
• "We found insufficient evidence on the short- and long-term effects of carbohydrate supplementation of human milk in preterm infants."

Basic

• Genetic and Pharmacological Inhibition of PAPP-A Protects Against Visceral Obesity in Mice.
• Progesterone Receptor Membrane Associated Component 1 Enhances Obesity Progression in Mice by Facilitating Lipid Accumulation in Adipocytes.
• Eicosapentaenoic Acid Regulates Inflammatory Pathways Through Modulation of Transcripts and MiRNA in Adipose Tissue of Obese Mice.
• Sex Differences in Liver, Adipose Tissue, and Muscle Transcriptional Response to Fasting and Refeeding in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: A School-Based, Peer-Led, Social Marketing Intervention to Engage Spanish Adolescents in a Healthy Lifestyle (“We are Cool”—Som La Pera Study): A Parallel-Cluster Randomized Controlled Study.
• Retraction: Cinnamaldehyde Ameliorates High-Glucose–Induced Oxidative Stress and Cardiomyocyte Injury Through Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1.
• Withdrawal: Increased Expression of Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 (FGF21) During Chronic Undernutrition Causes Growth Hormone Insensitivity in Chondrocytes by Inducing Leptin Receptor Overlapping Transcript (LEPROT) and Leptin Receptor Overlapping Transcript-like 1 (LEPROTL1) Expression.
• Expression of Concern: Development of Plasma and Whole Blood Taurine Reference Ranges and Identification of Dietary Features Associated with Taurine Deficiency and Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Golden Retrievers: A Prospective, Observational Study.
• Blog Post On: "Dramatic clinical improvement in nine consecutive acutely ill elderly COVID-19 patients treated with a nicotinamide mononucleotide cocktail: A retrospective case series."
• Doing the Right Thing: Alcoholism Researchers Retract Six-week Old Paper After Finding Errors.
• And, Yet, the Soup Moves.

Clinical

• The Clinical Consequences of Heterogeneity Within and between Different Diabetes Types.
• The Collision of Meta-Inflammation and SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Infection.
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Individual Real-Time Video Counseling on Smoking, Nutrition, Alcohol, Physical Activity, and Obesity Health Risks.
• Mediterranean Diet and Endothelial Function in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: An Analysis of the CORDIOPREV RCT.
• RCT: Group Lifestyle Phone Maintenance for Weight, Health and Physical Function in Adults Ages 65-80 Years.
• Conference abstract: Small Weight Loss Produces Impressive Drop in Type 2 Diabetes Risk.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Effects of School-based Interventions on Motivation Towards Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents.
• Systematic Review: Family-based Nutrition Interventions for Obesity Prevention Among School-aged Children.
• Thinking Beyond the Norm: Using Alternate Theories in Early Childhood Education and Care Physical Activity Interventions.
• Index of Nutritional Quality (INQ) and the Risk of Obesity in Male Adolescents: A Case-Control Study.

Surgery

• Review: The Clinical Obesity Maintenance Model: A Theoretical Framework for Bariatric Psychology.
• Gut Microbiota Modifications and Weight Regain in Women with BMI>35 After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Patients >60 Years of Age: Morbidity and Short-Term Outcomes.

Drugs

• RCT: Efficacy of the Treatment with Dapagliflozin and Metformin Compared to Metformin Monotherapy for Weight Loss in Patients with Class III Obesity.
• Transnasal Delivery of the Peptide Agonist Specific to Neuromedin-U Receptor 2 to the Brain for the Treatment of Obesity.
• Dulaglutide: A Review in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Implications for IV Posaconazole Dosing in the Era of Obesity.

Food & Diet

• News report: Study Finds That Insect Shows Promise as a Sustainable Protein Source.
• Article: The Yellow Mealworm (Tenebrio Molitor) Genome: A Resource for the Emerging Insects as Food and Feed Industry.
• Review: Very Low Calorie Ketogenic Diets in Overweight and Obesity Treatment: Effects on Anthropometric Parameters, Body Composition, Satiety, Lipid Profile and Microbiota.
• Review: ω-3 and ω-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Obesity and Cancer.
• Carbohydrate and Fat Intake Associated with Risk of Metabolic Diseases Through Epigenetics of CPT1A.
• Lactobacillus Fermentum Promotes Adipose Tissue Oxidative Phosphorylation to Protect Against Diet-induced Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Dietary Restriction Regulates Brain Acetylcholinesterase in Female Mice as a Function of Age.
• Intermittent Caloric Restriction with a Modified Fasting-mimicking Diet Ameliorates Autoimmunity and Promotes Recovery in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis.
• Calorie Restriction Delays Cardiac Senescence and Improves Cardiac Function in Obese Diabetic Rats.
• Metabolic Adaptation to Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Acute Metabolic Responses After Continuous or Interval Exercise in Postmenopausal Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Wearable-device-measured Physical Activity and Future Health Risk.
• Network Meta-Analysis: What Exercise Prescription Is Optimal to Improve Body Composition and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Adults Living with Obesity?
• PuzzleWalk: A Theory-driven Iterative Design Inquiry of a Mobile Game for Promoting Physical Activity in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Design and Validity of a Choice-Modeling Questionnaire to Analyze the Feasibility of Implementing Physical Activity on Prescription at Primary Health-Care Settings. (pdf)

Economics & Sociology

• Can the Participant Speak Beyond Likert? Free Text Responses in COVID-19 Obesity Surveys.
• Interaction of Neighborhood and Genetic Risk on Waist Circumference in African-American Adults: A Longitudinal Study.

Epidemiology

• Association of Sleep Duration and Variability with BMI.
• Association of BMI with Endothelial Function in Asian Men.
• Relation between Pregestational Obesity and Characteristics of the Placenta.
• Meta-Analysis: Association between Soup Consumption and Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Acceptability and Feasibility of Two Interventions in the MooDFOOD Trial: A Food-related Depression Prevention RCT in Overweight Adults with Subsyndromal Symptoms of Depression.
• Trying Again (and Again): Weight Cycling and Depressive Symptoms in U.S. Adults.

Equity and Disparities

• Differences in Health Behaviors Related to Overweight/obesity by Race/ethnicity in a Diverse Urban Commuter College.
• Changes in the Recreational Built Environment and Youth BMI.
• Continuity of Care for Patients with Obesity-Associated Chronic Conditions: Protocol for a Multisite Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Variation in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Obesity by Ethnicity – England’s National Child Measurement Programme.
• Using a New Socioepidemiological Questionnaire to Analyse Associations between Intergenerational Upward Social Mobility and Body Fat Distribution: A Pilot Study with the Oxford BioBank Cohort.
• Quantifying Gender Inequalities in Obesity: Findings from the Turkish Population-based Balcova Heart Study.

Stigma

• Assessing the Relationship between Weight Stigma, Stress, Depression, and Sleep in Chinese Adolescents.
• Weight Stigma as a Predictor of Distress and Maladaptive Eating Behaviors During COVID-19: Longitudinal Findings from the EAT Study.

Policy Related

• Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Children Living in the U.S..
• UK Policy Targeting Obesity During a Pandemic — the Right Approach?

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity in Prolonged Pregnancy: Labor, Mode of Delivery, Maternal and Fetal Outcomes.
• Recalled Maternal Lifestyle Behaviors Associated with Anti-müllerian Hormone of Adult Female Offspring.
• Associations of Gestational Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes During Pregnancy with Breastfeeding at Hospital Discharge and Up to 6 Months: The PANDORA Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Thesis: The Phenotypic Flexibility of Thermogenic Capacity: from Physiological Mechanism to Evolutionary Implication.
• Review: Cellular, Molecular, and Physiological Adaptations of Hibernation: The Solution to Environmental Challenges (PDF). (pdf)

Methods

• Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: Methods for Taxonomy Development for Application in Taxonomic Meta-Analysis.
• Accuracy of a Semi-Quantitative Ultrasound Method to Determine Liver Fat Infiltration in Early Adulthood.

Commentary

• When Fat Is Favorable: The Unexpected Relationship between Obesity and Response to Immunotherapy.
• Obesity, COVID-19 and Innate Immunometabolism.
• Health Benefits of Calorie Restriction Linked with Reduced Body Temperature.
• When Dietary Dogma Meets Inconvenient Facts.
• A Doctor's Apology to Patients with Obesity.
• A Revealing FDA Op-Ed About Lorcaserin and Obesity.
• What Exactly Is Well-Controlled Obesity? Does It Matter?
• Obesity Policy: Improving Health or Promoting Stigma?

General

• College Students’ Underlying Beliefs About Using E-cigarettes: An Application of the Reasoned Action Approach.
• I’ve Got Corona Questions: An Honest-to-god Epidemiologist Tells Us What to Expect.
• Romantic Relationship Conflict Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Intimate and Sexual Behaviors in a Nationally Representative Sample of American Adults.
• How to Design a Pre-specified Statistical Analysis Approach to Limit P-hacking in Clinical Trials: The Pre-SPEC Framework.
• What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers.
• Scientists Found Phosphine on Venus—A Possible Hint of Life.
• Using Qualitative Research to Explore Intervention Mechanisms: Findings from the Trial of the Learning Together Whole-school Health Intervention.
• Food Need Very High Compared to Pre-Pandemic Levels, Making Relief Imperative.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Total Red Meat Intake on Glycemic Control and Inflammatory Biomarkers.

Video & Audio

• Webinar: Why Did I Eat That? Obesity and the Neuroscience of Food Craving.
• Webinar: Treating Obesity in Patients with Down Syndrome and Development Delay.

Announcements

• $3.7 Million Grant Awarded to UAB to Study Antiviral Therapies and Accelerated Aging.
• IU Pandemic Health Disparities Committee Unveils Recommendations to Support Underserved Students.
• Obesity Week Registration Is Now Open.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair for a Newly Conceived Department, Health and Wellness Design.