Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Considerations for Obesity, Vitamin D, and Physical Activity Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Liraglutide 3.0 Mg in Individuals with Overweight or Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Treated with Basal Insulin.
• Pimozide Alleviates Hyperglycemia in Diet-Induced Obesity By Inhibiting Skeletal Muscle Ketone Oxidation.
• Leptin: Less Is More.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: School Closures During the Coronavirus Pandemic Might Worsen the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity.
• Press-release: COVID-19 Pandemic May Exacerbate Childhood Obesity.
• Perspective: COVID-19–Related School Closings and Risk of Weight Gain Among Children. No Study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The school-based intervention for increasing PA and reducing sedentary time had no effect on adolescents' [total sleep time]."
• No Effect of a 24-month Physical Activity Program on Brain Changes in Older Adults at Risk of Alzheimer's Disease: The AIBL Active Trial.
• RCT: "These findings indicate that 8 weeks of daily cranberry beverage consumption may not impact insulin sensitivity..."
• RCT: "Supplementation with curcumin in HIV-infected individuals undergoing antiretroviral therapy and training did not improve the glycemic, inflammatory, or oxidative stress profiles."
• RCT: "The educational intervention did not improve the quality of the Mediterranean diet or physical activity..."
• RCT: No Statistically Significant Effect of Daily Weighing in Pregnancy to Control Gestational Weight Gain.
• In 3 Large International Prospective Studies Including ~177,000 Individuals, 12,701 Deaths, and 13,658 CVD Events From 50 Countries in 6 Continents, We Did Not Find Significant Associations between Egg Intake and Blood Lipids, Mortality, or Major CVD Events.
• Bacterial Fecal Microbiota Is Only Minimally Affected By a Standardized Weight Loss Plan in Obese Cats.
• RCT: "6-weeks of acupuncture treatment did not affect anthropometric" variables.

Basic

• Mechanical Roles of Anterograde and Retrograde Intestinal Peristalses After Feeding in a Larval Fish (Danio Rerio).
• Maternal Exercise Via Exerkine Apelin Enhances Brown Adipogenesis and Prevents Metabolic Dysfunction in Offspring Mice.
• Improving High-fat Diet-induced Obesity and Fatty Liver By Adipose Tissue Targeted Delivery of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-B.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Correction: Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging in Healthy, Non-obese Humans.
• Distinguishing between Statistical and Clinical Significance in a Meta-analysis of Acupuncture for Obesity: Avoiding Miscommunication of Study Findings.
• Article: Twice as High Diet-Induced Thermogenesis After Breakfast vs Dinner on High-Calorie as Well as Low-Calorie Meals.
• Letter to the Editor: Twice as High Diet-Induced Thermogenesis After Breakfast vs Dinner on High-Calorie as Well as Low-Calorie Meals.
• Response to letter to the editor: Twice as High Diet-induced Thermogenesis After Breakfast vs Dinner on High-calorie as Well as Low-calorie Meals.

Clinical

• Multicenter, Phase 1, Open Prospective Trial of Gastric Electrical Stimulation for the Treatment of Obesity: First-in-Human Results with a Novel Implantable System.
• RCT: Strength Plus Endurance Training and Individualized Diet Reduce Fat Mass in Overweight Subjects.
• RCT: Impact of a Web-Based Exercise and Nutritional Education Intervention in Patients Who are Obese with Hypertension.
• Greater Average Meal Planning Frequency Predicts Greater Weight Loss Outcomes in a Worksite-Based Behavioral Weight Loss Program.

Stigma

• Investigating the relationship between parental weight stigma and feeding practices.
• RCT: Effects of a cognitive-behavioral intervention targeting weight stigma.

Children and Adolescents

• The Application of Telemedicine to Pediatric Obesity: Lessons From the Past Decade.
• Associations of Objectively-Assessed Physical Activity and Sedentary Time with Hippocampal Gray Matter Volume in Children with Overweight/Obesity.
• Promoting Physical Activity Through Walking to Treat Childhood Obesity, Mainly for Mild to Moderate Obesity.

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery Improves HDL Function Examined By ApoA1 Exchange Rate and Cholesterol Efflux Capacity in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery in Morbidly Obese End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients as Preparation for Kidney Transplantation.
• Meta-analysis: Efficacy of Intragastric Balloons for Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Bariatric Surgery in the Super-super Morbidly Obese: Outcome Analysis of Patients with BMI >70 Using the ACS-NSQIP Database. (pdf)

Drugs

• Metabolic Measures 12 Months After RCT of Treatment of Clozapine Associated Obesity and Diabetes with Exenatide (CODEX).
• Liraglutide Attenuates Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mice By Regulating the Local Renin-Angiotensin System.
• The Limits and Challenges of Antiobesity Pharmacotherapy.
• Weight Gain Among Treatment-naïve Persons with HIV Starting Integrase Inhibitors Compared to Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors or Protease Inhibitors in a Large Observational Cohort in the United States and Canada.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Short-Term Effect of Whey Compared with Pea Protein on Appetite, Food Intake, and Energy Expenditure in Young and Older Men.
• Transforming Personalized Nutrition Practice.
• Systematic Review: Meat and Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Meat Abstention and Depression, Anxiety, and Related Phenomena.
• Meta-analysis: Breakfast Skipping, Body Composition, and Cardiometabolic Risk.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Differential Effects of Long-Term Caloric Restriction and Dietary Protein Source on Bone and Marrow Fat of the Aging Rat.
• RCT: Effects of Dietary Methionine and Cysteine Restriction on Plasma Biomarkers, Serum Fibroblast Growth Factor 21, and Adipose Tissue Gene Expression in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Short-term Calorie Restriction and 17α-Estradiol Administration Elicit Divergent Effects on Proteostatic Processes and Protein Content in Metabolically Active Tissues.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Does Modality Matter? A Latent Profile and Transition Analysis of Sedentary Behaviours Among School-aged Youth: The Up&down Study.
• Bidirectional Associations between Fitness and Fatness in Youth: A Longitudinal Study.
• Evaluation of Factors Related to Glycemic Management in Professional Cyclists with Type 1 Diabetes over a 7-Day Stage Race.

Economics & Sociology

• The Diverging Impacts of Segregation on Obesity Risk By Nativity and Neighborhood Poverty Among Hispanic Americans.
• Dissertation: Weight as Status: An Expansion of Status Characteristics Theory.

Epidemiology

• The Global, Regional, and National Burden of Oesophageal Cancer and Its Attributable Risk Factors in 195 Countries and Territories, 1990–2017: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. (pdf)
• Longitudinal Relationship of Amino Acids and Indole Metabolites with Long-term BMI and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Young Individuals.
• Possible Modifiers of the Association between Change in Weight Status From Child Through Adult Ages and Later Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Regulating Food Craving: From Mechanisms to Interventions.
• Meta-analysis: Attentional Bias Toward Food in Individuals with Overweight and Obesity.
• Emotional Eating in Patients Attending a Specialist Obesity Treatment Service.
• Influence of Social Facilitation on Energy Intake Among University Students.

Equity and Disparities

• Ethnic Differences in Functional Limitations By Age Across the Adult Life Course.
• Comparison of Recruitment Strategies for Engaging Older Minority Adults: Results From Take Heart.
• Perceived Discrimination, Emotion Dysregulation and Loss of Control Eating in Young Men.

Policy Related

• A Public Health Messaging Campaign to Reduce Caloric Intake: Feedback From Expert Stakeholders.
• Body Weight Impact of the Sugar-sweetened Beverages Tax in Mexican Children: A Modeling Study.

Intergenerational Effects

• USPSTF 2020 Recommendations on Screening for Asymptomatic Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnancy.
• Changes in Maternal BMI, Weight Gain and Outcome of Singleton Pregnancies From 2000 to 2015.
• Contributions of Prenatal Exposures and Child Lifestyle to Insulin Sensitivity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Mouse Thermoregulation: Introducing the Concept of the Thermoneutral Point.
• Moderation of Mitochondrial Respiration Mitigates Metabolic Syndrome of Aging.
• Distinct Influence of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on the Plasma Metabolome of Healthy Older Adults.
• Hypothalamic Oestrogen Receptor Alpha Establishes a Sexually Dimorphic Regulatory Node of Energy Expenditure.
• Heat Dissipation Capacity Influences Reproductive Performance in an Aerial Insectivore.

Methods

• A Comparison between BMI and Waist Circumference for Identifying Continuous Metabolic Syndrome Risk Score Components in School-aged Children Using a Structural Equation Modeling Approach: The CASPIAN-V Study.
• Reproducibility of a Posteriori Dietary Patterns Across Time and Studies: A Scoping Review.
• Population Phenomena Inflate Genetic Associations of Complex Social Traits.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Body Weight Impact of the Sugar-sweetened Beverages Tax in Mexican Children: A Modeling Study.

Commentary

• Obesity Linked to Severe Coronavirus Disease, Especially for Younger Patients.
• "...obesity was the condition most often seen in COVID-19 patients."
• Regulation of Adipocyte Thermogenesis: Mechanisms Controlling Obesity.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Criteria, Epidemiology, Controversies, and Consequences.
• Weighting Evidence in MS: Obesity and Neurodegeneration.
• May Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Method Be Used in Alternative to the Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry in the Assessment of Fat Mass and Fat-Free Mass in Patients with Obesity? Pros, Cons, and Perspectives.
• Does COVID-19 Disprove the Obesity Paradox in ARDS?
• Getting the Care We Need Despite the Virus.
• The COVID-19 “Imperative” to Tackle Obesity.
• Obesity and COVID-19: Theories and Blame Fill the Scientific Void.

General

• Rabies Management Implications Based on Raccoon Population Density Indexes.
• First, Prevent Harm: Eliminate Firearm Transfer Liability as a Lethal Means Reduction Strategy.
• Lessons Learned From Using Respondent-driven Sampling (RDS) to Assess Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Kenyan Young Adults Living in Urban Slum Settlements: A Process Evaluation.
• RCT Reweighting Trial Evidence to Better Reflect Real Life - a Case Study of the Innovative Medicines Initiative.
• RCT: Asking Young Children to “do Science” Instead of “be Scientists” Increases Science Engagement.
• Multidrug Treatment with Nelfinavir and Cepharanthine Against COVID-19.
• Male Lemurs Use 'stink Flirting' to Attract Mates.
• Self-Reported Poor Sleep on Multiple Dimensions Is Associated with Higher Total Health Care Costs in Older Men.
• Subjective Social Status Is an Important Determinant of Perceived Stress Among Adolescents: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Survey: Cooking More at Home Could Become the New Normal Post-pandemic.

Video & Audio

• Video: 3rd World Obesity: Webinar on COVID-19 & Obesity.
• Peter Attia: #108 – AMA #13: 3-day Fasting, Exogenous Ketones, Autophagy, and Exercise for Longevity.

Announcements

• Emergency Meals Project Tackles Food Insecurity in IU Community During Pandemic.
• IU Bloomington Provost's 2020 State of the Campus Address.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.

Featured

• Living in a Submerged Submarine Associated with Reduced Weight and Improvements in Serum Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Risk in Crew.
• RCT: Effects of Substituting Eggs for High-carbohydrate Breakfast Foods on the Cardiometabolic Risk-factor Profile in Adults at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Both Dietary Ratio of N-6 to N-3 Fatty Acids and Total Dietary Lipid are Positively Associated with Adiposity and Reproductive Health in Zebrafish.
• Olfaction and Changes in Body Composition in a Large Cohort of Older US Adults.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Mediterranean Diet Slows Cognitive Impairment, Studies Say.
• Study: Upper Tertile of Self-reported Mediterranean Diet Adherence Was Associated with Lower Risk of Cognitive Impairment but Not Slower Decline in Cognitive Function.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of Lifestyle Interventions in Obese Pregnant Women on the Anthropometrics of Preschool Children.
• RCT: Little If Any Effect of a Pulse-based Diet on Bone Measures and Body Composition in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• RCT: The Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme, When Delivered in the Community By Graduate Mental Health Workers, Showed No Significant Effect on BMI at 6 Months (primary Outcome) When Compared with Enhanced Usual Care.
• RCT: Three Weeks of Detraining Does Not Decrease Muscle Thickness, Strength or Sport Performance in Adolescent Athletes.
• Maternal Fasting or Fluid Abstention Does Not Significantly Affect the Macronutrient Composition of Human Milk: Clinical and Clinical Research Relevance.
• No Thermoregulatory or Ergogenic Effect of Dietary Nitrate Among Physically Inactive Males, Exercising Above Gas Exchange Threshold in Hot and Dry Conditions.
• Structured Physical Activity Did Not Affect the Body Fat Percentage Among Gymnastics Studio Members.
• "Our data do support the hypothesis that omentin-1 is reversibly decreased in obesity and is a link between obesity and insulin resistance."

Basic

• Short-Term High-Fat Overfeeding Does Not Induce NF-κB Inflammatory Signaling in Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue.
• Adipose Triglyceride Lipase Is a Key Lipase for the Mobilization of Lipid Droplets in Human Beta Cells and Critical for the Maintenance of Syntaxin1a Level in Beta Cells.
• Effect of Valine on Myotube Insulin Sensitivity and Metabolism with and Without Insulin Resistance.
• Hepatic Lipid Catabolism Via PPARα-Lysosomal Crosstalk.
• Is Exercise a Match for Cold Exposure? Common Molecular Framework for Adipose Tissue Browning.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Dietary Sugars and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Network Meta-analysis on Isocaloric Substitution Interventions.
• Letter: Apparent Conflicts of Interest Do Not Preclude Scientific Rigor.
• Response: Reply to Khan Et Al.

Clinical

• The Effectiveness of the Good Affordable Food Intervention for Adults with Low Socioeconomic Status and Small Incomes.
• RCT: Effects of Medicated Enema and Nasal Drops Using Triphaladi Oil in the Management of Obesity.
• Dissertation: The Effects of Small Changes Approach in Combination with Motivational Interviewing on Behavioral Weight Loss Management Among Overweight and Obese Adult Women.
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Weight Loss Interventions for Reducing Pain and Disability in People with Common Musculoskeletal Disorders.
• Influenza and Obesity: Its Odd Relationship and the Lessons for COVID-19 Pandemic.

Children and Adolescents

• The Role of Prenatal Melatonin in the Regulation of Childhood Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Regular Taekwondo Intervention on Oxidative Stress Biomarkers and Myokines in Overweight and Obese Adolescents.
• Are Low Income Children More Physically Active When They Live in Homes with Bigger Yards?
• Parental Feeding Practices in Relation to Maternal Education and Childhood Obesity.
• Concordance and Discordance in the Geographic Distribution of Childhood Obesity and Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes in New York City.
• Preschool Obesity Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Childhood Fracture: A Cohort Study of 466,997 Children and Up to 11 Years of Follow-up.

Surgery

• Successful Use of Intragastric Balloon Therapy as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation.
• The Procedureless Ellipse Gastric Balloon Program.
• Systematic Review: Comparative Safety and Effectiveness of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy in Obese Elder Patients.

Drugs

• Orlistat-Induced Gut Microbiota Modification in Obese Mice.
• Olanzapine-induced Liver Injury in Mice: Aggravation By High-fat Diet and Protection with Sulforaphane.
• Novel Insights Into the Organic Solute Transporter Alpha/beta, OSTα/β: From the Bench to the Bedside.
• Increased Fractalkine and Vascular Dysfunction in Obesity and in Type 2 Diabetes. Effects of Oral Antidiabetic Treatment.
• RCT: Liraglutide for Adolescents with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Systematic Review: The Effect of Coconut Oil Consumption on Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
• A Pro-inflammatory Diet Increases the Likelihood of Obesity and Overweight in Adolescent Boys: A Case–control Study.
• Association of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Frequency with Adiposity: Evidence From the “Children of 1997” Birth Cohort.
• Effect of Dairy Intake with or Without Energy Restriction on Body Composition of Adults: Overview of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses of RCTs.
• Outcome of the Public Consultation on a Draft Protocol for the Assessment of Hazard Identification and Characterisation of Sweeteners.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Long-term Treatment with Spermidine Increases Health Span of Middle-aged Sprague-Dawley Male Rats.
• Sustained Mitochondrial Biogenesis Is Essential to Maintain Caloric Restriction-induced Beige Adipocytes. (pdf)
• 12 Days of in Vivo Caloric Reduction Can Improve Important Parameters of Aging in Humans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Adaptations to Maximal Strength Training in Older Adults.
• Motives for Physical Activity in Older Men and Women: A Twin Study Using Accelerometer-measured Physical Activity.
• Physical Activity Investments That (Almost) Worked: Carrot Rewards App, Driving Engagement with Pennies a Day.

Economics & Sociology

• Physical Activity Among Adults with Low Socioeconomic Status Living in Industrialized Countries: A Meta-Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Socioecological Complexities.
• Does Education Lead to a Healthier Diet? Evidence From a Natural Experiment.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence and Factors Associated with Obesity Among the Oldest Old.
• An Examination of Potential Mediators of the Relationship between Polygenic Scores of BMI and Waist Circumference and Phenotypic Adiposity.
• Obesity and Incident Prescription Opioid Use in the U.S., 2000–2015.
• Prevalence and Sociodemographic Factors of Overweight and Obesity Among Pakistani Adults.
• Large Thigh Circumference Is Associated with Lower Blood Pressure in Overweight and Obese Individuals.
• Prepregnancy Dietary Patterns and Risk of Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight: Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health.
• Change in Body Weight and Long-Term Risk of Stroke and Death in Healthy Men.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: The (Bitter) Sweet Taste of Nudge Effectiveness: The Role of Habits in a Portion Size Nudge, a Proof of Concept Study.
• Visual Acuity Outcomes and Anti-VEGF Therapy Intensity in Diabetic Macular Oedema: A Real-World Analysis of 28 658 Patient Eyes.

Equity and Disparities

• Bringing Health Disparities Into Plain View.
• Racial Disparities in Positive Airway Pressure Therapy Adherence Among Veterans with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
• Childhood Socioeconomic Hardship, Family Conflict, and Young Adult Hypertension: The Santiago Longitudinal Study.

Stigma

• Sick but Healthy: Bariatric Patients and the Social Construction of Illness and Disability.
• The Association of Direct Observation of Medical Students with Patient-Centered Care for Obesity.

Policy Related

• Master's Thesis: Investigating the Effects of Calorie Labels, Caloric Content, and Food Descriptions on Consumer Evaluations of Restaurant Menu Items.
• Impact of a Policy to Deliver at 39 Weeks for the Indication of Class III Obesity.
• Understanding the LiveLighter® Obesity Prevention Policy Processes: An Investigation Using Political Science and Systems Thinking.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Association of Maternal Obesity and Race with Pregnancy Weight Gain and Small for Gestational Age Infant Birth: The Effect of Prenatal Care.
• Dissertation: Reproductive Factors and Maternal Long-term Mortality.
• The Joint Associations of Maternal BMI and Glycemia with Childhood Adiposity.
• Comparison of Leptin Levels in Neonates Born to Mothers with High or Low Gestational Weight Gain.
• The Impact of Parental Diabetes on the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Humans Living in Amazon 10,000 Years Ago Cultivated Plants, Study Finds.
• Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ Moments.
• Hummingbird Torpor in Context: Duration, More Than Temperature, Is the Key to Nighttime Energy Savings.
• Improving Energy Expenditure Estimates From Wearable Devices: A Machine Learning Approach.

Methods

• Assessing Evidence of Validity for the Intuitive Eating Scale-2 Among Adult Latina Women.
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Body Roundness Index in Predicting Metabolic Syndrome.
• Quantification of the Overall Contribution of Gene-environment Interaction for Obesity-related Traits.

Commentary

• Egg Consumption and Risk of Chronic Disease: An (un-)resolved Issue?
• COVID-19 ICU Admissions Double with Obesity.
• School Closures Could Be Adding to Kids' Waistlines.
• Today’s Nonsense: Diet and Exercise to Fight COVID-19.
• Dietary Protein Intake and Bone Across Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Complicated Gestational Diabetes: A Challenge!
• Aligning Business and Health By Making Eaters Happier to Send More for Less Food. (pdf)

General

• Effects of an 80% Cigarette Price Increase on Quit Attempts, Successful Quitting and Smoking Intensity Among Korean Adult Smokers: Results From Nationally Representative Longitudinal Panel Data.
• Nutrition Transition and Health Outcomes Among Indigenous Populations of Chile.
• Risk-sensitive Maternal Investment: An Evaluation of Parent–offspring Conflict over Nest Site Choice in the Wild.
• So About That Thermometer Data That Says Fevers are on the Decline ….
• Cooperation: How Vampire Bats Build Reciprocal Relationships.
• Coronavirus Tests Science’s Need for Speed Limits.
• Our Pandemic Summer.
• Why Test for Proportional Hazards?
• Contraction as a Response to Group Threat: Demographic Decline and Whites’ Classification of People Who are Ambiguously White.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Does Coronavirus Spread Through the Air, and the Biology of Anorexia.

Announcements

• Video: Never daunted: "Together, we will lift each other up. We will fight our way back. We will emerge from this moment. Because we are Hoosiers -- tried and true."
• Indiana University Board of Trustees Approves New Master of Arts in Food Studies at IU Bloomington.
• IU Health Angels on the Front Lines Battling COVID-19.
• COVID-19 Public Dataset Program: Making Data Freely Accessible for Better Public Outcomes.
• Webinar: Church Leaders’ Views of Obesity Prevention Efforts for Children and Youth.
• Webinar: Creating Interactive Simulations Online with Vensim and Forio Epicenter.
• FAO Rolls Out Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA) Toolkit for Smart Policymaking During the COVID-19 Crisis.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.

Featured

• The Effect of Adipose Tissue Material Properties on the Lap Belt-pelvis Interaction: A Global Sensitivity Analysis.
• RCT: Influence of Heat on Appetite-Regulating Adipokines.
• Effects of Different Nutrition Labels on Visual Attention and Accuracy of Nutritional Quality Perception - Results of an Experimental Eye-tracking Study.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Free School Dinners ‘Led to Fall in Childhood Obesity Rates’.
• Foundation Press Release: Universal Free School Meals Winning in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity.
• Draft Foundation Report: Interrupted time series with estimated 'dose' of free meals calculates that by the end of the school year an average child is "0.7 percentage points less likely to [have obesity]." (pdf)

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effects of a Citywide Bike Share System on Active Transportation Among College Students.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: No Effects of Fatty Acids Composition in a Breakfast Meal on the Postprandial Lipid Responses.
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Skim Milk and Isotonic Drink Consumption Before Exercise on Fluid Homeostasis and Time-trial Performance in Cyclists.
• The Different Daily Distribution of Proteins Does Not Influence the Variations in Body Composition in a Sample of Subjects Undergoing a Low-calorie Mediterranean-type Diet.
• RCT: No Effects of Turmeric Supplementation on Serum Klotho Level and Health Related Quality of Life in Overweight Post-menopausal Women.
• "No significant relationship was observed between [dietary energy density] and depression, anxiety and sleep quality.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: Protein Intake Increases Lean Body Mass but Not Strength.
• RCT: "There were no significant differences observed in primary outcomes for adolescents randomized to the standard and enhanced versions of the JOIN for ME program."

Basic

• Bofutsushosan Improves Gut Barrier Function with a Bloom of Akkermansia Muciniphila and Improves Glucose Metabolism in Mice with Diet-induced Obesity.
• Bifidobacterium Animalis Subsp. Lactis A6 Alleviates Obesity Associated with Promoting Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Function of Adipose Tissue in Mice.
• METTL3 Is Essential for Postnatal Development of Brown Adipose Tissue and Energy Expenditure in Mice.
• Regulation of Adipogenesis and Lipid Deposits By Collapsin Response Mediator Protein 2.
• Self-Assembled Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticle Suppresses Fat Accumulation Via CD44 in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Oxidized LDL Modify the Human Adipocyte Phenotype to an Insulin Resistant, Proinflamatory and Proapoptotic Profile.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Incorrect Statistical Analysis for Comparing Groups in an RCT: Comment on 'Studying a Possible Placebo Effect of an Imaginary Low-Calorie Diet.'
• Article: Positive Effects of “Textured Lunches” Gatherings and Oral Exercises Combined with Physical Exercises on Oral and Physical Function in Older Individuals: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Letter: "In this study, the sample size was calculated without considering the intra-cluster correlation coefficient..."

Clinical

• Contribution of Macronutrients to Obesity: Implications for Precision Nutrition.
• Does Repeatedly Viewing Overweight Versus Underweight Images Change Perception of and Satisfaction with Own Body Size?
• Community-Based Hemoglobin A1C Testing in Barbershops to Identify Black Men with Undiagnosed Diabetes.
• Association of Obesity with Prescription Opioids for Painful Conditions in Patients Seeking Primary Care in the US.
• Mighty Men: A Faith-based Weight Loss Intervention to Reduce Cancer Risk in African American Men.

Children and Adolescents

• Processed Food Consumption Is Associated with Diet Quality, but Not Weight Status, in a Sample of Low-income and Ethnically Diverse Elementary School Children.
• Systematic Review: Parenting Styles and the Dietary Intake of Pre-School Children.
• Process Evaluation of a Whole-of-Community Systems Approach to Address Childhood Obesity in Western Victoria, Australia.
• Eviction in Early Childhood and Neighborhood Poverty, Food Security, and Obesity in Later Childhood and Adolescence.
• Does Obesity Have an Effect on the ECG in Children?

Surgery

• Changes in Faecal Short-Chain Fatty Acids After Weight-Loss Interventions in Subjects with Morbid Obesity.
• Ethnic Disparities in Use of Bariatric Surgery in the USA: The Experience of Native Americans.
• Meta-Analysis: Targeting Bile Acid Metabolism in Obesity Reduction.

Drugs

• Metabolic and Addiction Indices in Patients on Opioid Agonist Medication-Assisted Treatment: A Comparison of Buprenorphine and Methadone.
• RCT: Optimal Timing of a Caffeine-Containing Supplement for Exercise Performance.
• Contentious Issues and Evolving Concepts in the Clinical Presentation and Management of Patients with COVID-19 Infection with Reference to Use of Therapeutic and Other Drugs Used in Co-morbid Diseases (Hypertension, Diabetes Etc.).
• Review: Abietane Diterpenes as Potential Candidates for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Selection of Thai Medicinal Plants with Anti-Obesogenic Potential Via in Vitro Methods.
• Effects of Liraglutide on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Diabetes with or Without Heart Failure.
• EU Nod for Novo's Diabetes Drug Rybelsus.

Food & Diet

• Network Meta-analysis: Comparison of Dietary Macronutrient Patterns of 14 Popular Named Dietary Programmes for Weight and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Reduction in Adults.
• Health Effects of Supplementation with Cod Protein Hydrolysate: Impact on Glucose Metabolism and Appetite in Healthy Subjects and Gut Health in Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Nonnutritive Sweeteners on Body Weight and BMI in Diverse Clinical Contexts.
• RCT: Combined Cranberry Supplementation and Weight Loss Diet in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Meta-analysis: Effect of Dairy Intake with or Without Energy Restriction on Body Composition of Adults.
• Could Vitamin D Reduce Obesity-associated Inflammation? Observational and Mendelian Randomization Study.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• When Does Diet Matter? The Roles of Larval and Adult Nutrition in Regulating Adult Size Traits in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• In Contrast to Dietary Restriction, Application of Resveratrol in Mice Does Not Alter Mouse Major Urinary Protein Expression.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Built Environment, Physical Activity, and Obesity: Findings From the International Physical Activity and Environment Network (IPEN) Adult Study Annual Review.
• Sedentary Behavior and Public Health: Integrating the Evidence and Identifying Potential Solutions.
• RCT: Effects of Active Commuting on Health-related Quality of Life and Sickness Related Absence.

Economics & Sociology

• The Rise in Pediatric Obesity-Related Conditions and Costs in Public Insurance Programs: Evidence From Alabama.
• A Social Marketing Perspective of Young Adults' Concepts of Eating for Health: Is It a Question of Morality?
• Effect of Parental Socio-economic Status and Lifestyle Habits on Risk of Childhood Obesity in a Developing Nation: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Epidemiology

• Associations between Early-life Food Deprivation During World War II and Risk of Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes at Adulthood.
• The Role of Comorbidity in the Association of Obesity with Unemployment and Disability.
• Growth Patterns From Birth to Overweight at Age 5-6 years of Children with Various Backgrounds in Socioeconomic Status and Country of Origin: The ABCD Study.
• Meta-analysis: Gut Microbiota-derived Metabolite Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) Potentially Increases the Risk of Obesity in Adults.
• The Association between BMI and Health-related Physical Fitness Among Chinese College Students.
• Relationship between Body Composition Indicators and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Chinese Adults.
• Level of Body Fat Relates to Memory Decline and Interacts with Age in Its Association with Hippocampal and Subcortical Atrophy.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Meta-analysis: Neural-based Valuation of Functional Foods Among Lean Individuals and Individuals with Obesity.
• Mere Presence of Co-eater Automatically Shifts Foraging Tactics Toward ‘Fast and Easy' Food in Humans.
• Food Waste Concerns, Eating Behaviour and Body Weight.
• Physical Discomfort Intolerance as a Predictor of Weight Loss and Physical Activity in a Lifestyle Modification Program.
• A High Perceptual Load Task Reduces Thoughts About Chocolate, Even While Hungry.
• Examining Whether the Social Cognitive Theory Concepts Predict Childhood Obesity Prevention Outcome Expectations.

Equity and Disparities

• Understanding the Role of Inequality of Opportunity in BMI and Waist Circumference Among Mexican Adults. (pdf)
• Examining Spatial Disparities of Obesity: Residential Segregation and the Urban–Rural Divide.
• Beyond Insurance: Race-based Disparities in the Use of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for the Management of Severe Pediatric Obesity.

Stigma

• Body-related Discrimination and Dieting and Substance Use Behaviors in Adolescence.
• The Association of Direct Observation of Medical Students with Patient-Centered Care for Obesity.

Policy Related

• Strengthening the Public Health Impacts of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Through Policy.
• Nutrients, Foods, Diets, People: Promoting Healthy Eating.
• Socioeconomic and Health Characteristics of Families at Risk for Losing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits.

Intergenerational Effects

• Can Adipokine Visfatin Be a Novel Marker of Pregnancy-related Disorders in Women with Obesity?
• Association between Excessive Maternal Weight, Periodontitis During the Third Trimester of Pregnancy, and Infants’ Health at Birth.
• Parental Metabolic Syndrome Epigenetically Reprograms Offspring Hepatic Lipid Metabolism in Mice.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Oftedal Theory for Duration of Lactation and Neonatal Growth of Mammalian Species.
• Seasonal Rhythms of Energy Metabolism (PDF).
• A Plant’s Diet, Surviving in a Variable Nutrient Environment.

Methods

• Essential Ingredients and Innovations in the Design and Analysis of Group-RCTs.
• Serum Non-esterified Fatty Acids Have Utility as Dietary Biomarkers of Fat Intake From Fish, Fish Oil and Dairy in Women.
• Systematic Review: Methods for Accounting for Neighbourhood Self-selection in Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviour Research.
• High Inter-observer Reliability in Standardized Ultrasound Measurements of Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue in Children Aged Three to Six Years.
• Measuring Food Insecurity Using the Food Abundance Index: Implications for Economic, Health and Social Well-Being.
• Systematic Review: Different Models of Inducing Obesity in Animals: Advantages and Limitations.

Commentary

• "Drinking fruit juice does not contribute to type-2 diabetes."
• Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: Stretching the Health Dollar.
• Mitochondrial Transplantation Gives Cells a Short-Term Boost of Energy.
• Americans are Already Too Diseased to Go Back to Work Right Now.
• Reasons You've Hit a Weight Loss Plateau.
• From Firefighter to Nutritionist: Tackling Obesity in the Fire Service.
• COVID-19, Obesity, Disparities, and Denial Meet in New Orleans.
• Chow Down to Boost Your Immune System?
• Obesity and Its Implications for COVID-19 Mortality.
• All Alone with Our Food.
• Why Obesity Matters for COVID-19 Outcomes.

General

• Do 5- and 6-Year-Old Children Attempt to Appear Fair to Others?
• Audio: Hot Hands, Winning Streaks and Perception.
• Lead Pollution in Ancient Ice Cores May Track the Rise and Fall of Medieval Kings.
• Preprint: Telephone Delivery of Health Behaviour Change Interventions: A Systematic Review.
• Underwater Video Cameras Allow for Detection of North American Giant Salamanders (Cryptobranchus Alleganiensis Alleganiensis) in Both Captive and Wild Streams.
• ROCKETS: Reaching Our Community Through Kindness, Education, Togetherness and STEM – a Sustainable Communities Project in Sumter County, Georgia.
• The (Very) Human Nature of STEM: Truth, Beauty, and Mathematics.
• Bioarchaeology of Human Skeletons From an Elite Tomb at Pacopampa in Peru’s Northern Highlands.
• Trends in Cannabis Use Among Older Adults in the United States, 2015-2018.
• NIH’s Process for Removing Reviewers Remains a Mystery, Watchdog Finds.
• Subjective Social Status and Health During High School and Young Adulthood.
• Nutritional Epidemiologist’s Encounter with Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China.
• Associations of Birth Size, Infancy, and Childhood Growth with Intelligence Quotient at 5 Years of Age: A Danish Cohort Study.
• Soil Gets Its Smell From Bacteria Trying to Attract Invertebrates.

Video & Audio

• NOVA PBS: The Truth About Fat.

Announcements

• UAB's NORC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Efficacy and Safety of Ertugliflozin in Patients with Overweight and Obesity with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: The Effect of Exercise Training on Total Daily Energy Expenditure & Body Composition in Weight-Stable Adults.
• Automated Lipid Droplet Quantification System for Phenotypic Analysis of Adipocytes Using CellProfiler.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Why We Need to Restrict Calories Right Now.
• Study: Chronic Caloric Restriction Affects Single-Cell Transcriptional Landscapes in Rats. Not We, Not Now, and Not Acute Changes in Response to a Pandemic.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Meta-analysis: Whole-Grain Consumption Does Not Affect Obesity Measures.
• RCT: Combination Therapy with Canagliflozin Plus Liraglutide Exerts Additive Effect on Weight Loss, but Not on HbA1c, in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• "Associations with BMI were almost all null." - Snacking characteristics and patterns and their associations with diet quality and BMI in the Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Research Consortium.
• RCT: Incorporating Milk Protein Isolate Into an Energy-Restricted Western-Style Eating Pattern Augments Improvements in Blood Pressure and Triglycerides, but Not Body Composition Changes in Adults Classified as Overweight or Obese.
• RCT: "Exergaming ....was not effective in improving outcomes on submaximal aerobic exercise capacity."
• RCT: "...L-THE incorporated in a food matrix (mango sorbet) demonstrated no reduction in BP or HR..."
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Beetroot Juice Ingestion on Physical Performance in Highly Competitive Tennis Players.
• "Our findings demonstrate no evidence that provision of an antenatal dietary and lifestyle intervention for pregnant women with obesity or overweight alters child growth and adiposity measures at age 3–5 years."

Basic

• Arsenic Exposure Decreases Adiposity During High-Fat Feeding.
• Drosophila Estrogen-Related Receptor Directs a Transcriptional Switch That Supports Adult Glycolysis and Lipogenesis.
• Housing Temperature Influences Exercise Training Adaptations in Mice.
• EHD2-mediated Restriction of Caveolar Dynamics Regulates Cellular Fatty Acid Uptake.
• Intestinal Gluconeogenesis Prevents Obesity-linked Liver Steatosis and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Iron and Advanced Glycation End Products: Emerging Role of Iron in Androgen Deficiency in Obesity.
• Commiphora Myrrha Resin Alcoholic Extract Ameliorates High Fat Diet Induced Obesity Via Regulation of UCP1 and Adiponectin Proteins Expression in Rats.
• The Effect of a High-Fat Diet on the Fatty Acid Composition in the Hearts of Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Sharing Data and Code: A Comment on the Call for the Adoption of More Transparent Research Practices in Sport and Exercise Science.
• Letter: Corrections requested for: "Effects of auriculotherapy on weight and BMI reduction in patients with overweight or obesity: Systematic review and meta-analysis"
• Reply: Comments on “Effects of Auriculotherapy on Weight and BMI Reduction in Patients with Overweight or Obesity: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”.
• Reliable Measures of Sarcopenia in Cirrhosis. Comment On: “The Relationship of Obesity, Nutritional Status and Muscle Wasting in Patients Assessed for Liver Transplantation, Nutrients 2019, 11, 2097”.
• Reply: Reply to “Comments on the Editor Re: The Relationship of Obesity, Nutritional Status and Muscle Wasting in Patients Assessed for Liver Transplantation, Nutrients 2019, 11, 2097.”

Clinical

• Metabolic Syndrome Increases Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Recurrence After Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
• Predicting 10-Year Risk of End-Organ Complications of Type 2 Diabetes with and Without Metabolic Surgery: A Machine Learning Approach.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-analysis: Influence of Grandparental Child Care on Childhood Obesity.
• Longitudinal Assessment of Sleep Trajectories During Early Childhood and Their Association with Obesity.
• RCT: Liraglutide for Adolescents with Obesity.
• Environmental Influences on Dietary Intake of Children and Adolescents.
• Eating Behaviors Moderate the Associations between Risk Factors in the First 1000 Days and Adiposity Outcomes at 6 Years of Age.
• COVID-19 Related School Closings and Risk of Weight Gain Among Children.
• The Rise in Pediatric Obesity-Related Conditions and Costs in Public Insurance Programs: Evidence From Alabama.

Surgery

• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis.
• Improvement of Cardiac Function After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Morbidly Obese Patients Without Cardiac History.
• Hepatic Function and Fibrosis Assessment Via 2D-Shear Wave Elastography and Related Biochemical Markers Pre- and Post-Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Temporospatial Shifts in the Human Gut Microbiome and Metabolome After Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Environmental and Individual Factors Associated with Quality of Life of Adults Who Underwent Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Computational Approaches for the Discovery of Natural Pancreatic Lipase Inhibitors as Antiobesity Agents.
• Anti-Obesity Drugs: Long-Term Efficacy and Safety: An Updated Review.
• Crystal Structure of Pathogenic Staphylococcus Aureus Lipase Complex with the Anti-obesity Drug Orlistat.

Food & Diet

• Systematic Review: Fermented Milk Products and Bone Health in Postmenopausal Women.
• Consumer Reports of “Keto Flu” Associated with the Ketogenic Diet.
• RCT: Spices in a High-Saturated-Fat, High-Carbohydrate Meal Reduce Postprandial Proinflammatory Cytokine Secretion in Men with Overweight or Obesity.
• Association between Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Abdominal Obesity and Healthy Eating Index in a Representative Older Spanish Population.
• Dietary Intake of Bioactive Ingredients Impacts Liver and Adipose Tissue Transcriptomes in a Porcine Model of Prepubertal Early Obesity.
• Presence of Hypertension Is Negatively Associated with Mediterranean Diet Adherence in All Individuals with a More Pronounced Association in People with Obesity.
• Development of a Danish Adapted Healthy Plant-Based Diet Based on the EAT-Lancet Reference Diet.
• RCT: Effects of an Alkalizing or Acidizing Diet on High-Intensity Exercise Performance Under Normoxic and Hypoxic Conditions in Physically Active Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effects of Underfeeding and Oral Vancomycin on Gut Microbiome and Nutrient Absorption in Humans.
• Sex-Specific Effects of Dietary Methionine Restriction on the Intestinal Microbiome.
• Differential Responses of White Adipose Tissue and Brown Adipose Tissue to Calorie Restriction During Aging in Mice.
• Non-controlled Intervention Study of Caloric Restriction and BMI, Gut Microbiota, and Blood Amino Acid Levels in Adults Without Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Resistance Training as a Treatment for Older Persons with Peripheral Artery Disease.
• How Physically Literate are Children Today? A Baseline Assessment of Greek Children 8-12 Years of Age.

Economics & Sociology

• Associations of Types of Green Space Across the Life-course with Blood Pressure and BMI.
• Relationship between Different Levels of the Mexican Food Environment and Dietary Intake.

Epidemiology

• Association between Weight Change over a Period of 4 years and Mortality in Korean Older Adults.
• Metabolic Profiling of Tissue-specific Insulin Resistance in Human Obesity.
• Health Related Quality of Life Associated with Extreme Obesity in Adolescents.
• Annual Report on Children's Healthcare: Healthcare Access and Utilization By Obesity Status in the United States.
• Dietary Inflammatory Index and Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Brazilian Graduates From the Cohort of Universities of Minas Gerais.
• Quantifying Dietary Vitamin K and Its Link to Cardiovascular Health: A Narrative Review.
• Prediagnostic Adult BMI Change and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Survival.
• RCT: Effects of Low-Energy Diet or Exercise on Cardiovascular Function in Working-Age Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Is the Experience of Hunger Associated with Risk of Engaging in Condomless Anal Sex Among Minority Young Men Who Have Sex with Men?
• The Influence of Attractiveness and Convenience Cues on Food Appeal in Adults with and Without ADHD.
• The Association of Food Insecurity with the Relative Reinforcing Value of Food, BMI, and Gestational Weight Gain Among Pregnant Women.
• Influence of Hunger on Attentional Engagement with and Disengagement From Pictorial Food Cues in Women with a Healthy Weight.
• Which Strategies to Manage Problem Foods Were Related to Weight Loss in a RCT?

Equity and Disparities

• Ethnic Discrimination and Weight Outcomes Among Latinx Emerging Adults: Examinations of an Individual-level Mediator and Cultural Moderators.
• Time Trends and Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents in Spain.

Ethics

• Ready, Fire, Aim: The Underperformance of Current Food Access Efforts and “Food for Thought” Regarding Potential Solutions.
• Utilizing a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Study Design in Nutrition Research: Describing a Clinical Trial of Protected Mealtimes.

Stigma

• ‘I’d Say I’m Fat, I’m Not Obese’: Obesity Normalisation in Urban-poor South Africa.
• Weight Discrimination, Anticipated Weight Stigma, and Disordered Eating.
• Systematic review: Stigma of Eating Disorders and Recovery-related Outcomes.

Policy Related

• A Natural Experiment of State-level Physical Activity and Screen-time Policy Changes Early Childhood Education (ECE) Centers and Child Physical Activity.
• Potential for Unintended Consequences: The Association between Smoking and BMI Among Public Housing Residents in Baltimore, MD.
• Linking the Dimensions of Policy-related Research on Obesity: A Hybrid Mapping with Multicluster Topics and Interdisciplinarity Maps.
• Implementation of Dietary Reference Intake Standards in Prison Menus in Poland.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational Transmission of the Effects of Maternal Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment on Offspring Obesity Risk: A Fetal Programming Perspective.
• Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Obesity Susceptibility.
• Meta-analysis: The Impact of Maternal Obesity on Human Milk Macronutrient Composition.
• Maternal Psychological Distress and Child Weight at 24 Months.
• The Influence of Transmitted and Non-transmitted Parental BMI-associated Alleles on the Risk of Overweight in Childhood.
• Grandmother’s Diet Matters: Early Life Programming with Sucrose Influences Metabolic and Lipid Parameters in Second Generation of Rats.
• Maternal Glycemia During Pregnancy and Offspring Abdominal Adiposity Measured By MRI in the Neonatal Period and Preschool Years.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Negative Energy Balance Induced By Exercise or Diet: Effects on Visceral Adipose Tissue and Liver Fat.
• The Aging Human Body Shape.
• Experimental Facilitation of Heat Loss Affects Work Rate and Innate Immune Function in a Breeding Passerine Bird.
• The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence From China.

Methods

• Study of Cardiovascular Disease Prediction Model Based on Random Forest in Eastern China.
• Development and Evaluation of a Food Frequency Questionnaire for Use Among Young Children.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Hemodynamic Assessment of Diastolic Function for Experimental Models.
• The Potential Global Gains in Health and Revenue From Increased Taxation of Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugar-sweetened Beverages: A Modelling Analysis.

Commentary

• Mongolians’ DNA Says They Can’t Digest Milk, Yet Their Diet Relies on Dairy. A Researcher Investigates Why.
• Moving Toward the Implementation of Precision Medicine Needs Highly Discriminatory, Validated, Inexpensive, and Easy-to-Use Prediction Models.
• Energy Balance as a Moderator of Neurologic Disease Risk and Progression.
• Obesogenic Environments and Obesity: A Comment on ‘Are Environmental Area Characteristics at Birth Associated with Overweight and Obesity in School-aged Children? Findings From the SLOPE (Studying Lifecourse Obesity PrEdictors) Population-based Cohort in the South of England’.
• Gasoline-derived Methyl Tert-butyl Ether as a Potential Obesogen Linked to Metabolic Syndrome.
• The Dark Face of Fructose as a Tumor Promoter.
• American Youth: Eating Better, Growing Fatter.
• Obesity Treatment for Teens: Liraglutide Coming Soon?
• COVID-19 Related School Closings and Risk of Weight Gain Among Children.

General

• Social Media as a Personal Branding Tool: A Qualitative Study of Student-Athletes’ Perceptions and Behaviors.
• “Digging Deeper” Into the Relationship between Safety Climate and Turnover Intention Among Stone, Sand and Gravel Mine Workers: Job Satisfaction as a Mediator.
• Recent Advances in the Chemical Synthesis of Insulin and Related Peptides.
• "A second reason why quackery seems to work is regression to the mean."
• Science, Advocacy, and Quackery in Nutritional Books: An Analysis of Conflicting Advice and Purported Claims of Nutritional Best-sellers.
• "We tried to reproduce our 2012 paper on how to make people report their income more honestly—and we ended up refuting it."
• Subjective Social Status Is Indirectly Associated with Short-term Smoking Cessation Through Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms.
• Conducting Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding in Observational Studies Using E-values: The Evalue Package.

Video & Audio

• Video: IFT20 to Transition to Virtual Experience.
• Audio: COVID-19—Lessons Learned, Challenges Ahead, and Reasons for Optimism and Concern.

Announcements

• Nutrition 2020: Will Not Take Place in Seattle, but Plans are Underway to Deliver the Same Great Content and Collaboration in New Ways. Save the Dates!
• IU Postdoc Relies on the Help of Many to Return Home During COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Workshop: Virtual Workshop April 6th: Roundtable on Obesity Solutions.
• Webinar: April 3rd: The Collision of Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and Obesity.
• IFT Transitions Annual Event to Virtual Experience.
• Abstract Submissions for the 38th Annual Meeting of the Obesity Society (TOS) to Be Held at ObesityWeek® 2020 are Now Open.
• UAB's NORC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency and/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.