Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Caloric Compensation and Appetite Control in Children of Different Weight Status and Predisposition to Obesity.
• Organisms Live at Far-from-equilibrium with Their Surroundings While Maintaining Homeostasis, Importing Exergy and Exporting Entropy.
• Why Does Caloric Restriction Increase Life and Healthspan? The ‘Clean Cupboards’ Hypothesis.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Coffee Helps Prevent Weight Gain During Quarantine.
• Press release (Dec. 19th): Caffeine May Offset Some Health Risks of Diets High in Fat, Sugar.
• Study (again): Caffeine, but Not Other Phytochemicals, in Mate Tea Attenuates Diet-driven Lipogenesis and Body Fat Accumulation... In Rats. Caffeine From Coffee (not Coffee Itself) Tested.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "...average area of green space was not associated with ...BMI."
• Baseline Metabolic Variables Do Not Predict Weight Regain in Premenopausal Women.
• "Unexpectedly, however, there was a striking absence of attentional bias to food above and beyond salient non-food stimuli, either within-subjects or in relation to traits implicated in food-biases."
• "Surprisingly, treating obese and diabetic rats with Mito-Q did not improve glucose utilization or vascular reactivity by epineurial arterioles to acetylcholine."
• "These findings challenge the hypothetical function of MG53 as a causative factor for the development of diabetes."
• Meta-analysis: No Association between Dietary Acrylamide and Renal Cell Carcinoma. 
• "We found no clinically important increase in pain scores or opioid consumption in association with higher BMI in patients 8 to 18 years of age recovering from elective non-cardiac surgery."
• "Higher body mass does not worsen functioning, mood or treatment response in adolescents with disabling chronic pain."
• "Contrary to what expected, obesity in adults was related to disruptions in small-world properties driven by increases in network segregation (i.e., clustering coefficient) as compared to elders."

Basic

• Weight Loss and Concomitant Adipose Autophagy in Methionine-Restricted Obese Mice Is Not Dependent on Adiponectin or FGF21.
• Thermo-TRPs and Gut Microbiota are Involved in Thermogenesis and Energy Metabolism During Low Temperature Exposure of Obese Mice.
• Genetic Background and Diet Affect Brown Adipose Gene Co-Expression Networks Associated with Metabolic Phenotypes.
• Angiotensin-(1-7) Induces Beige Fat Thermogenesis Through the Mas Receptor.
• BMPR2 Promotes Fatty Acid Oxidation and Protects White Adipocytes From Cell Death in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Imagination Running Wild in Research.
• Preprint: Magnitude Based Inference in Relation to One-sided Hypotheses Testing Procedures.
• Article: Intermittent Energy Restriction Is a Feasible, Effective, and Acceptable Intervention to Treat Adolescents with Obesity.
• Letter: Response to “Intermittent Energy Restriction Is a Feasible, Effective, and Acceptable Intervention to Treat Adolescents with Obesity” By H Jebeile Et Al.
• Response: Reply to C Vanderwall and AL Carrel.
• Article: The Effect of L-carnitine Supplementation on Lipid Profile and Glycaemic Control in Adults with Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Letter: Meta-analysis of L-carnitine Supplementation on Lipid Profile and Glycemic Control: Inadequate Search Strategy and Other Methodological Issues.
• Response: Reply - Letter to the Editor - Meta-analysis of L-carnitine Supplementation on Lipid Profile and Glycemic Control: Inadequate Search Strategy and Other Methodological Issues.
• Errors in Meta-Analysis Should Be Corrected: Comment on “Effects of a Paleolithic Diet on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials”.
• Testing the Carbohydrate Insulin Model in Mice: Erroneous Critique Does Not Alter Previous Conclusion.

Clinical

• RCT: Increased Weight Loading Reduces Body Weight and Body Fat in Subjects with Obesity. (pdf)
• Pilot Trial of Acceptance-Based Behavioral Weight Loss and Neurocognition Among American Indians.
• RCT: Effect of Lifestyle Intervention Enabled By Mobile Technology on Weight Loss in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• RCT: Effect of Blueberry Consumption on Cardiometabolic Health Parameters in Men with Type 2 Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• The Association between Father Involvement in Caregiving and Early Childhood Overweight or Obesity.
• Adolescent Obesity and Early-Onset Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association of Video Game Use with BMI and Other Energy-Balance Behaviors in Children.
• Systematic Review: Active Video Games on Youth's Body Composition and Physical Activity.
• Systematic Review: Assessment of Body Composition in Pediatric Overweight and Obesity.

Surgery

• High Prevalence of Food Insecurity in Participants Attending Weight Management and Bariatric Surgery Programs.
• Plasma N-Acetylaspartate Is Related to Age, Obesity, and Glucose Metabolism: Effects of Antidiabetic Treatment and Bariatric Surgery.
• Preoperative Chemerin Level Is Predictive of Inflammatory Status 1 Year After Bariatric Surgery.
• Review: Do Bariatric Surgeries Enhance Brown/Beige Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis?

Drugs

• Recent Updates on Obesity Treatments: Available Drugs and Future Directions.
• Status on the Use of Anti-hypertensive Drugs in the Southwest Areas of China.
• Glucose and Lipid Metabolism Screening Models of Hepatocyte Spheroids After Culture with Injectable Fiber Fragments.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Exposure Therapy vs Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Food Cue Reactivity and Binge Eating in Obesity.
• Caloric Restriction Induces Anabolic Resistance to Resistance Exercise.
• Ultra-processed Food Consumption and Indicators of Obesity in the United Kingdom Population (2008-2016).
• The Power of Protein.
• Preprint RCT: A Plant-based, Low-fat Diet Decreases Ad Libitum Energy Intake Compared to an Animal-based, Ketogenic Diet.
• How COVID-19 Affects Farmers and the Food Supply Chain.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Mechanisms of Lifespan Regulation By Calorie Restriction and Intermittent Fasting in Model Organisms.
• Weight Loss and Concomitant Adipose Autophagy in Methionine-Restricted Obese Mice Is Not Dependent on Adiponectin or FGF21.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Do Multi-ingredient Protein Supplements Augment Resistance Training-induced Gains in Skeletal Muscle Mass and Strength?
• Meta-analysis: Physically Active Individuals Have a 23% Lower Risk of Any Colorectal Neoplasia and a 27% Lower Risk of Advanced Colorectal Neoplasia Than Their Non-active Counterparts.
• Hourly 4-s Sprints Prevent Impairment of Postprandial Fat Metabolism From Inactivity.

Economics & Sociology

• Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status Associated with Metabolic Syndrome Severity Among African American Adults.
• Better Dietary Knowledge and Socioeconomic Status (SES), Better BMI? Evidence From China—An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach.
• We Built This City on Meat and Metrics.
• Review: The Obesity Epidemic – Nature Via Nurture.

Epidemiology

• Salivary AMY1 Copy Number Variation Modifies Age-Related Type 2 Diabetes Risk.
• Exploring Food Insecurity and Obesity in Dutch Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: A Cross-sectional Mediation Analysis.
• Prevalence and Time Trends of Overweight, Obesity and Severe Obesity in 447,925 Swedish Adults, 1995–2017.
• Brain Insulin Sensitivity Is Linked to Adiposity and Body Fat Distribution.
• Meta-analysis: Relationship between Age at Menarche and Risk of Glucose Metabolism Disorder.
• Debunking the Quarantine Weight Gain Meme.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Contribution of Executive Functions to Eating Behaviours in Obesity and Eating Disorders.
• Tackling Sabotaging Cognitive Processes to Reduce Overeating; Expectancy Violation During Food Cue Exposure.
• RCT: Multidimensional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity Using a Digital Platform.
• The Role of Weight Perceptions and Their Impact on Health and Well-being: A Multiple Mediation Model.
• Individual Differences in Biological Regulation: Predicting Vulnerability to Drug Addiction, Obesity, and Other Dysregulatory Disorders.
• Behavior-Specific Cognitions Moderate Rural Women's Responsiveness to Web-Based Interventions for Weight Loss.

Equity and Disparities

• Planning a Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Obesity Intervention for Hispanic/Latino Children Living in Rural Nebraska.
• Zooming Towards a Telehealth Solution for Vulnerable Children with Obesity During COVID-19.
• Obesity in African-Americans: Is Physiology to Blame?

Stigma

• Thesis: Shame and Stigma in Weight Management During Pregnancy and Post Bariatric Surgery : Perspectives of Patients and Healthcare Providers.
• Weight Stigma in the School Setting: The Role of Inclusive Weight Climate—A Commentary.

Policy Related

• Effects of United States WIC Infant Formula Contracts on Brand Sales of Infant Formula and Toddler Milks.
• Prevalence of Current School-level Nutrition Policies and Practices of Secondary Schools in NSW, Australia.
• Strong Support for Broad Policies to Prevent Childhood Obesity Among Mothers in New South Wales, Australia.
• Oakland's Sugar-sweetened Beverage Tax: Impacts on Prices, Purchases and Consumption By Adults and Children.
• Distributional Changes in U.S. Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Purchases, 2002–2014.
• Always the Bridesmaid, Public Health Rarely Spotlighted Until It’s Too Late.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Burden of Placental Histopathology in Stillbirths Associated with Maternal Obesity.
• Association between Maternal Obesity Class, Adherence to Labor Guidelines and Perinatal Outcomes.
• Nonnutritive Sweetener Consumption During Pregnancy, Adiposity, and Adipocyte Differentiation in Offspring: Evidence From Humans, Mice, and Cells.
• Mothers’ Feeding Profiles Among Overweight, Normal Weight and Underweight Chinese Preschoolers.
• Review: Nutrition And its Role In epigenetic Inheritance of obesity and diabetes Across generations. (pdf)

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Presence of Active Brown Adipose Tissue Determines Cold-induced Energy Expenditure and Oxylipin Profiles in Humans.
• Is Repeatability of Metabolic Rate Influenced By Social Separation? A Test with a Teleost Fish.
• The Metabolic Responses to 24-h Fasting and Mild Cold Exposure in Overweight Individuals are Correlated and Accompanied By Changes in FGF21 Concentration.

Methods

• How Useful Is Each Item in the Sport Spectator Identification Scale?: An Item Response Theory Analysis.
• G-computation, Propensity Score-based Methods, and Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Causal Inference with Different Covariates Sets: A Comparative Simulation Study.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Mathematical Modelling of Diabetes Mellitus and Associated Risk Factors in Saudi Arabia. (pdf)
• A Mathematical Model of Adiponectin Resistance.

Commentary

• Coconut Oil’s Health Halo a Mirage, Clinical Trials Suggest.
• Finding an Old Normal in the Midst of Great Losses.
• Diet and Health: The Need for New and Reliable Approaches.
• Systematic Review: Communication of Children’s Weight Status: What Is Effective and What are the Children’s and Parents’ Experiences and Preferences?
• Intragastric Balloon Removal During the COVID-19 Pandemic: To Postpone or Not? That Is the Question. (pdf)
• Nutrition Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-level Framework for Action.
• Discrimination, Denial, Obesity, and COVID-19.
• Miraculous Quarantine Weight Loss and Fitness Tips.
• Obesity and Impaired Metabolic Health in Patients with COVID-19.

General

• Food Waste to Biofertilizer: A Potential Game Changer of Global Circular Agricultural Economy.
• Thesis: Accommodation of Scientific Intuition Within Statistical Inference.
• Audio: The Need to Improve the Clinical Utility of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests: Either Too Narrow or Too Broad.
• Meal Chat: Promoting Mealtime Social Interaction for College Students.
• Precision Health: The Role of the Social and Behavioral Sciences in Advancing the Vision.
• More Than Just Academics: Teaching Kindness.
• Rapid Spread of Mutant Alleles in Worldwide COVID-19 Strains Revealed By Genome-wide SNP Analysis.
• Genomic Signatures After Five Generations of Intensive Selective Breeding: Runs of Homozygosity and Genetic Diversity in Representative Domestic and Wild Populations of Turbot (Scophthalmus Maximus).
• Video: COVID-19: An Update From the CDC.
• Correlation or Causation? Mathematics Can Finally Give Us an Answer.

Video & Audio

• Webinar: The United States’ Complex and Delicate Food Supply Chain on May 12.
• Webinar: A New Approach to the Study of Energy Balance and Obesity Using CalR.
• Podcast: IU's Dr. Allison Gruber and John Davis (OEO Contributor) Discuss Monitoring Running Exposure with Wearables.

Announcements

• Indiana University and the World: A Celebration of Collaboration, 1890-2018, Written By Patrick O’Meara (with Leah K. Peck).
• Indiana University ranked 15th in "universities that played a disproportionate role in molding this cadre of 21st century thought leaders and decision makers." (pdf)
• Special Delivery: IU Employee Starts Food Train to Aid Local Residents.

Featured

• Smelling Our Appetite? The Influence of Food Odors on Congruent Appetite, Food Preferences and Intake.
• The Gut–brain Axis Mediates Sugar Preference.
• Joint International Consensus Statement for Ending Stigma of Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Press release: Orujo Olive Oil Reduces Obesity.
• Press release: Pomace Olive Oil Reduces Obesity.
• Study: Pomace Olive Oil Concentrated in Triterpenic Acids Restores Vascular Function, Glucose Tolerance and Obesity Progression in Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Regular Supervised Exercise During Pregnancy Does Not Alter Normal Maternal Physiology.
• Poster: "Depressive symptoms moderated the effect of thinness ideal on risky sexual behavior (b =-.03, p =.039), but only for women who were relatively high on depressive symptoms. Moreover, this effect was in the negative direction, contrary to our hypothesis." (pdf)
• Abstract: "These findings indicate limited changes whole body metabolic and physical activity levels in a model of VML [Volumetric Muscle Loss] injury, contrary to our hypothesis."
• Increased BMI ‘alone’ Does Not Negatively Influence Sperm Function - a Retrospective Analysis of Men Attending Fertility Treatment with Corresponding Liver Function Results.
• Abstract: Calorie Restriction Without Restricting Vitamins and Minerals Does Not Deteriorate Bones.
• Abstract: Ketone Ester Supplementation Does Not Impair Cognitive or Motor Performance and Delays CNS Oxygen Toxicity in Male Sprague-Dawley Rats.
• RCT: Resistant Starch Has No Effect on Appetite and Food Intake in Individuals with Prediabetes.
• RCT: Reduction in Dietary Fructose Was Not Effective in Decreasing Insulin Resistance (HOMA2-IR).
• "A food hub did not improve dietary intake or body mass index in a food desert setting."

Basic

• Resveratrol Reduces Obesity in High-fat Diet-fed Mice Via Modulating the Structure and Metabolic Function of the Gut Microbiota.
• Wntless Regulates Lipogenic Gene Expression in Adipocytes and Protects Against Diet-Induced Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Long-Term Hypercortisolism Induces Lipogenesis Promoting Palmitic Acid Accumulation and Inflammation in Visceral Adipose Tissue Compared to HFD-Induced Obesity.
• Myeloid-Specific Asxl2 Deletion Limits Diet-Induced Obesity By Regulating Energy Expenditure.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Uncertainty in Human Nutrition Research.
• Editorial Retraction: A Review on the Role of Irisin in Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Assessing Successful Completion of Calorie Restriction Studies for the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer.
• COVID-19: Critical Thinking Versus Unreasonable Doubt.
• ”Publisher Slaps Expressions of Concern on 20 Papers By Nutrition Supplement-selling Doctor”.
• "While Panayotov reported very strong effects in their study of a “placebo” diet (1), the statistical analysis was performed incorrectly."

Clinical

• RCT: Short-term and Long-term Effect of a High Intensity Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program in Obese Patients with Asthma.
• Psychological and Weight History Variables as Predictors of Short-term Weight and Body Fat Mass Loss.
• Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Adult Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 — Georgia, March 2020.
• Measuring Weight with E-scales in Clinical and Research Settings During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Children and Adolescents

• Systematic Review: Impact of Parent Engagement in Childhood Obesity Prevention Interventions on Anthropometric Indices Among Preschool Children: A Systematic Review.
• Associations between Naturalistically Assessed Physical Activity Patterns, Affect, and Eating in Youth with Overweight and Obesity.
• A Pilot Study of Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Adiposity, and Cardiometabolic Health in Youth with Overweight and Obesity.
• Normal-Weight Obesity Is Associated with Poorer Cardiometabolic Profile and Lower Physical Fitness Levels in Children and Adolescents.
• Commentary: A Model for Curing Childhood Obesity in Mexico.

Surgery

• FDA: Potential Risks with Liquid-filled Intragastric Balloons - Letter to Health Care Providers.
• Changes of Resting Energy Expenditure in Type 2 Diabetes Rats After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Review: Revisiting the Ghrelin Changes Following Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery.

Drugs

• RCT: Safety of Lixisenatide Plus Basal Insulin Treatment Regimen in Indian People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus During Ramadan Fast.
• Glycomacropeptide: A Bioactive Milk Derivative to Alleviate Metabolic Syndrome Outcomes.
• Anti-obesity Therapy with Peripheral CB1 Blockers: From Promise to Safe(?) Practice.
• The Role of Adipocytes and Adipocyte-like Cells in the Severity of COVID-19 Infections.

Food & Diet

• Systematic Review: Precision Nutrition and Mediterranean Diet: A Personalized Nutrition Approaches for Prevention and Management of Obesity Related Disorders.
• Consumer Survey: COVID-19’s Impact on Food Purchasing, Eating Behaviors and Perceptions of Food Safety.
• Protein Intake Is More Stable Than Carbohydrate or Fat Intake Across Various US Demographic Groups and International Populations.
• Associations of Fat and Lean Body Mass with Circulating Amino Acids in Older Men and Women.
• Use and Abuse of Dietary Supplements in Persons with Diabetes.
• Global Report on Food Crisis. (pdf)

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Mitochondrial Adaptations in Liver and Skeletal Muscle to Pro-longevity Nutritional and Genetic Interventions: The Crosstalk between Calorie Restriction and CYB5R3 Overexpression in Transgenic Mice.
• Four Weeks of Time-Restricted Feeding Combined with Resistance Training Does Not Differentially Influence Measures of Body Composition, Muscle Performance, Resting Energy Expenditure, and Blood Biomarkers.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Males and Females Exhibit Similar Muscle Glycogen Recovery with Varied Recovery Food Sources.
• Relationships between Lower Limbs Fatigability Threshold and Postural Control in Obese Adults.
• Association of Sedentary and Physical Activity Time with Maximal Fat Oxidation During Exercise in Sedentary Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• The Role of Socioeconomic Factors in Food Consumption of Portuguese Children and Adolescents.
• The Influence of Socioeconomic Status and Age on the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among 5 to 10-year-old Children in Curitiba, Brazil.

Epidemiology

• Association of Birth By Cesarean Delivery with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Among Adult Women.
• Adipose Tissue Derived Bacteria are Associated with Inflammation in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Weight Trajectories After Delivery are Associated with Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Markers at 3 Years Postpartum Among Women in Project Viva.
• Seropositivity of Selected Chronic Infections and Different Measures of Obesity.
• Recent Trends in Junk Food Intake in U.S. Children and Adolescents, 2003–2016.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Delay Discounting, Glycemic Regulation and Health Behaviors in Adults with Prediabetes.
• Eating Together While Being Apart: A Pilot Study on the Effects of Mixed-reality Conversations and Virtual Environments on Older Eaters’ Solitary Meal Experience and Food Intake. (pdf)
• Mental Health Diagnostic Patterns in Behavioral Weight Loss Program Attendees.
• Greater Social Cohesion Is Associated with Lower BMI Among African American Adults.

Equity and Disparities

• Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Insurance Coverage Rates Among Adult Populations with Low Income and By Obesity Status.
• Cultural Adaptation of ‘Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids’ for Hispanic Families: Applying the Ecological Validity Model.

Stigma

• Shifting From Weight Loss to Well-being.
• Weight Bias Internalization and Its Association with Health Behaviour Adherence After Bariatric Surgery.
• The Importance of Language in Engagement between Health-care Professionals and People Living with Obesity: A Joint Consensus Statement.
• Put an End to Obesity Stigma, International Panel Urges.
• Weight Stigma and the "Quarantine-15."
• Weight Stigma and Weight-Related Health: Associations of Self-Report Measures Among Adults in Weight Management.

Policy Related

• Healthful and Less-healthful Foods and Drinks From Storefront and Non-storefront Businesses: Implications for ‘food Deserts’, ‘food Swamps’ and Food-source Disparities.
• Change in an Urban Food Environment in a Single Year: Considerations for Food-Environment Research and Community Health.
• School Food and Beverage Availability and Children's Diet, Purchasing, and Obesity: Evidence From a Natural Experiment.
• Can Unhealthy Food Purchases at Checkout Counters Be Discouraged By Introducing Healthier Snacks? A Real-life Experiment in Supermarkets in Deprived Urban Areas in the Netherlands.

Intergenerational Effects

• Effect of Excessive Gestational Weight on Daughters’ Breast Density at the End of Puberty Onset.
• Associations of Parental Feeding Practices and Food Reward Responsiveness with Adolescent Stress-eating.
• Maternal Exposure to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol Impairs Female Offspring Glucose Homeostasis and Endocrine Pancreatic Development in the Rat.
• Maternal Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus as Risk Factors for Congenital Heart Disease in Offspring.
• Maternal Pre-pregnancy Overweight/obesity and the Risk of Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder in Offspring.
• Maternal Glucose Concentrations in Early Pregnancy and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Childhood.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Dietary Carbohydrates Modulate Metabolic and Beta Cell Adaptation to High Fat Diet-induced Obesity.
• Genetic Variants in the Activation of the Brown-Like Adipocyte Pathway and the Risk for Severe Obesity.

Methods

• The Micro-Randomized Trial for Developing Digital Interventions: Data Analysis Methods [Illustrated with Physical Activity Outcomes].
• Sample Multiplexing for Targeted Pathway Proteomics in Aging Mice.

Commentary

• Meat? Essential. Worker Health and Safety? Less So.
• The Persistent Potency of Magical Thinking.
• Genetic Risk for Obesity Linked to Shorter Lifespan, Study Reports.
• Mouse Study Identifies Gut-Brain Sugar Sensor.
• Adiposity and Inflammation: A Pathway to Cognitive Dysfunction.
• Wake Up and Smell the Virus.
• The Importance of Language in Engagement between Health-care Professionals and People Living with Obesity: A Joint Consensus Statement.
• Commentary: Intergenerational BMI Association: Is There a Role for Fetal Programming?
• Coconut Oil’s Health Halo a Mirage, Clinical Trials Suggest.

General

• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death: 8 Reasons People Ignore and Defy COVID-19 Safeguards.
• Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — We’ve Had Enough Already.
• Scientists Who Express Different Views on Covid-19 Should Be Heard, Not Demonized.
• Event Impacts Associated with Residents' Satisfaction and Behavioral Intentions: A Pre-post Study of the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games.
• A Cardiology Handbook App to Improve Medical Education for Internal Medicine Residents: Development and Usability Study.
• Rationalization: Why, When, and What For?
• Rapid and Repeated Divergence of Animal Chemical Signals in an Island Introduction Experiment.
• Change in an Urban Food Environment Within a Single Year: Considerations for Food-Environment Research and Community Health.
• Estimated Population Wide Benefits and Risks in China of Lowering Sodium Through Potassium Enriched Salt Substitution: Modelling Study.
• Traces of Ourselves: The Remarkable Power of Touch.

Video & Audio

• COVID-19 – Implications in the Management of Patients with T2D and CVD.
• Audio: Episode 040: Songbird Scents.

Announcements

• Virtual Conference: Indiana University Public Health Research Day 2020.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.

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.