Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• "What might have allowed ichthyosaurs to repeatedly and rapidly evolve enormous sizes is still an open question."
• RCT: "Impact of mothers' distress and emotional eating on calories served to themselves and their young children: An experimental study."
• RCT: The Effect of Personal Relative Deprivation on Food Choice.
• Genomic Loci Mispositioning in Tmem120a Knockout Mice Yields Latent Lipodystrophy.
• Histone Deacetylase 6 Inhibition Restores Leptin Sensitivity and Reduces Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Dried Goji Berries May Provide Protection Against Age-Related Vision Loss.
• Study: Pilot RCT of Goji Berry and Macular Pigment Optical Density in Healthy Adults. Vision Loss Not Tested. Differences Against Control Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Overall, supplementing women with micronutrient-rich foods from before pregnancy until delivery did not alter the body composition or cardiometabolic risk markers in the children."
• RCT: "No significant differences were found between treatment arms in BMI … triglycerides … HDL and glycemic control" in "lifestyle intervention on cardiometabolic risk factors in mental health rehabilitation hostel residents at-risk".
• Preprint: Time from Diagnosis Does Not Improve Diabetes Care Knowledge for Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Unlike Glycerophosphocholine or Choline Chloride, Dietary Phosphatidylcholine Does Not Increase Plasma Trimethylamine-N-Oxide Levels in Sprague-Dawley Rats.
• Vitamin B12 Does Not Protect Against the Damage Induced by Hydrogen Peroxide in Mouse Kidney Proximal Tubular Cells and Brain Endothelial Cells.
• Restricting Feeding to Dark Phase Fails to Entrain Circadian Activity and Energy Expenditure Oscillations in Pitx3-Mutant Aphakia Mice.
• Muscle Volume Vs. Anatomical Cross-Sectional Area: Different Muscle Assessment Does Not Affect the Muscle Size-Strength Relationship.
• "However, contrary to what was expected the greater efficiency for CR than PU cows was associated to an increased hepatic oxidative damage, which would probably reflect a greater metabolic activity of this organ in CR cows."
• In Bighorn Sheep, "no evidence that variance in multiple resource acquisition behaviours originates from a single axis of variation among individuals."

Basic

• Intestinal HIF-2α Regulates GLP-1 Secretion Via Lipid Sensing in L-Cells.
• Tangeretin Prevents Obesity by Modulating Systemic Inflammation, Fat Browning, and Gut Microbiota in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice.
• CREG1 Improves Diet-Induced Obesity Via Uncoupling Protein 1-Dependent Manner in Mice.
• Compromised Hepatic Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation and Reduced Markers of Mitochondrial Turnover in Human NAFLD.
• Leptin Resistance Before and After Obesity: Evidence That Tissue Glucose Uptake Underlies Adipocyte Enlargement and Liver Steatosis/steatohepatitis in Zucker Rats from Early-Life Stages.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Designing, Conducting, and Documenting Human Nutrition Plant-Derived Intervention Trials.
• A Systematic Review and Recommendations around Frameworks for Evaluating Scientific Validity in Nutritional Genomics.
• Strengthening Nutrition Education and Behavior Research for Academicians and Practitioners.
• Traffic Light Diets for Childhood Obesity: Disambiguation of Terms and Critical Review of Application, Food Categorization, and Strength of Evidence.

Clinical

• RCT: An Implicit Priming Intervention Alters Brain and Behavioral Responses to High-Calorie Foods.
• Review: Associations between Body Composition, Fat Distribution and Metabolic Consequences of Excess Adiposity with Severe COVID-19 Outcomes: Observational Study and Mendelian Randomisation Analysis.
• Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Health Across the Menopause Transition.

Children and Adolescents

• The Impact of Neonatal Morbidities on Child Growth and Developmental Outcomes in Very Low Birth Weight Infants: A Nationwide Cohort Study.
• Park and Neighbourhood Environmental Characteristics Associated with Park-Based Physical Activity Among Children in a High-Density City.
• Relationship of Sleep Quality with Screen-Based Sedentary Time and Physical Activity in Adolescents — the Moderating Effect of BMI.
• "[Nutrition-related claims on fruit drinks] made parents more likely to incorrectly believe that the fruit drinks contained no added sugar and were 100% juice compared to the control"

Surgery

• Weight Loss Is Associated with Reduced Risk of Knee and Hip Replacement, Regardless of BMI.
• Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Increases Duodenal Lactobacillus Spp. Richness Associated with Activation of Intestinal HIF2α Signaling and Metabolic Benefits.
• Gut HIF2α Signaling Is Increased After VSG, and Gut Activation of HIF2α Decreases Weight, Improves Glucose, and Increases GLP-1 Secretion.
• Systematic Review: Seventy Years of Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Lipogenesis Inhibitors: Therapeutic Opportunities and Challenges.
• Difference in Gastrointestinal Risk Associated with Use of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: A Real-World Pharmacovigilance Study.
• Iron Chelation Increases Beige Fat Differentiation and Metabolic Activity, Preventing and Treating Obesity.
• Dosing Therapeutic Radiopharmaceuticals in Patients with Obesity.
• In Silico Analysis of Glucosinolates as Pancreatic Lipase Inhibitor to Develop Anti-Obesity Drug.

Food & Diet

• Large-Scale Diet Tracking Data Reveal Disparate Associations between Food Environment and Diet.
• Healthy Dietary Patterns and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease in Less-Developed Ethnic Minority Regions: A Large Cross-Sectional Study.
• Dietary Patterns, Skeletal Muscle Mass Loss, and Cardiovascular Risk Among Elderly Men: A Preliminary Cross-Sectional Study in Sichuan Province.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Evaluation of a Blood-Based Geroscience Biomarker Index in a Randomized Trial of Caloric Restriction and Exercise in Older Adults with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
• Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass and Caloric Restriction but Not Gut Hormone-Based Treatments Profoundly Impact the Hypothalamic Transcriptome in Obese Rats.
• Real World Adherence to a Severely Energy Restricted Meal Replacement Diet in Participants with Class II and III Obesity.
• Reduced Calorie Diet Combined with NNMT Inhibition Establishes a Distinct Microbiome in DIO Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Atlas of Exercise Metabolism Reveals Time-Dependent Signatures of Metabolic Homeostasis.
• RCT: Effects of a Home-Based Physical Training and Activity Promotion Program in Community-Dwelling Older Persons with Cognitive Impairment After Discharge from Rehabilitation.
• Systematic Review: Muscular Fitness and Cardiometabolic Variables in Children and Adolescents.
• Meta-Analysis: Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Mortality from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer.

Economics & Sociology

• Subjective Social Status and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Young Adults.
• Socioeconomic Status Predicts Children's Moral Judgments of Novel Resource [Skittles] Distributions.

Epidemiology

• Association between Life-Course Cigarette Smoking and Metabolic Syndrome: A Discovery-Replication Strategy.
• Thesis: The Relationship between Food Environments and Obesity Rates in the United States; Measured by the Modified Retail Food Environment Index.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Effect of Personal Relative Deprivation on Food Choice: An Experimental Approach.
• Which Emotion-Regulation Strategies Explain the Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Eating to Cope?
• Patient-Centered Care for Obesity: How Healthcare Providers Can Treat Obesity While Actively Addressing Weight Stigma and Eating Disorder Risk.
• Meta-Analysis: Disentangling Binge Eating Disorder and Food Addiction.

Equity and Disparities

• Scoping Review: Nutrition Interventions Addressing Structural Racism.
• Systematic Review: Attrition and Retention in Multidisciplinary Weight Management Interventions for Adults with Obesity.
• Obesity Pillars Roundtable: Obesity and Diversity.

Stigma

• Demystifying ‘Diet Culture’: Exploring the Meaning of Diet Culture in Online ‘Anti-Diet’ Feminist, Fat Activist, and Health Professional Communities.
• Reporting Obesity Responsibly–a Review of English-Language Media Guidelines. (pdf)

Policy Related

• The Association between Patient Activation, Self-Management Behaviours and Clinical Outcomes in Adults with Diabetes or Related Metabolic.
• Scoping Review: Sedentarism and Chronic Disease Risk in COVID 19 Lockdown.
• Linking a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax with Fruit and Vegetable Subsidies: A Simulation Analysis of the Impact on the Poor.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal High-Fat Diet Programs White and Brown Adipose Tissue Lipidome and Transcriptome in Offspring in a Sex- and Tissue-Dependent Manner in Mice.
• Maternal Diet Quality During Pregnancy and Child Cognition and Behavior in a US Cohort.
• Trends of Central Obesity and Associations with Nutrients Intake and Daily Behaviors Among Women of Childbearing Age in China.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Do Honey Bees Modulate Dance Following According to Foraging Distance?
• Tissue Expression of Leptin Genes in Trachinotus blochii and Responses to Fasting and Refeeding.
• Emergence of Size-Structured Dominance Hierarchies Through Size-Dependent Feedback.

Methods

• Comparison of Growth Curves in Very Low Birth Weight Preterm Infants After Hospital Discharge.
• Total Energy Expenditure Is Repeatable in Adults but Not Associated with Short-Term Changes in Body Composition.
• Well-Defined Interventions for Nutritional Studies: From Target Trials to Nutritional Modeling.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Emergence of the Obesity Epidemic: Six Decade Visualization with Humanoid Avatars.

Commentary

• Sugar Detox? Cutting Carbs? A Doctor Explains Why You Should Keep Fruit on the Menu.
• Exercising After COVID-19: What Doctors Need to Know.
• Well-Defined Interventions for Nutritional Studies: From Target Trials to Nutritional Modeling.
• 4 Metabolism Myths, Busted.
• Obesity Harms Brain Health Throughout Life, Yet Scientists Don't Know Why.
• Breakthrough Using CRISPR to Target Fat Cells in Genetic Study of Obesity.
• Recognizing Obesity as a Disease, Not a Choice, Is a Step Toward Health Equity.
• Stress Hormone Levels May Predict Risk of Binge Eating Following Weight Restoration in Anorexia Nervosa.
• Why are We Failing on Diabetes Health Risks?
• Stamp Out Fake Clinical Data by Working Together.

General

• Dynamic Genetic Differentiation Drives the Widespread Structural and Functional Convergent Evolution of Snake Venom Proteinaceous Toxins.
• Meeting Assumptions in the Estimation of Reliability.
• Deceived, but Not Betrayed: Static Allometry Suggests Female Ornaments in the Long-Tailed Dance Fly (Rhamphomyia longicauda) Exaggerate Condition to Males.
• Medieval Warhorses Were Actually Quite Small, Study Finds.
• Crossover Effects of Education on Health Within Married Couples.
• Prevalence and Comparisons of Alcohol, Candy, Energy Drink, Snack, Soda, and Restaurant Brand and Product Marketing on Twitch, Facebook Gaming and YouTube Gaming.
• Leveraging Historical Data to Optimize the Number of Covariates and Their Explained Variance in the Analysis of RCTs.
• The Impact of Methodology on the Reproducibility and Rigor of DNA Methylation Data.

Video & Audio

• What Is Nutrition Science | Stats + Stories Episode 214 /January 13, 2022.

Announcements

• Seeking Applications: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research at UAB.
• NASEM: Roundtable on Mentorship, Well-Being, and Creativity in Scientific Research.
• Call for Papers: Time-Restricted Eating.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic 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, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.

Featured

• The Energetics of Uniquely Human Subsistence Strategies.
• Sex- and Age-Specific Centile Curves and Downloadable Calculator for Clinical Muscle Strength Tests to Identify Probable Sarcopenia.
• Sexually Dimorphic Association of Circulating Leptin Levels with Early Amyloid-Beta Pathology Assessed by Amyloid PET.
• Review: A Scoping Review of Intermittent Fasting, Chronobiology, and Metabolism.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Genetics Could Be Key to Curbing Obesity.
• Study: Pannexin 3 Deletion Reduces Fat Accumulation and Inflammation in a Sex-Specific Manner... in Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Weight-loss drugs are generally ineffective in BED."
• "Treatment based solely on these natural products is not currently recommended as more studies are needed."
• RCT: "...among pregnant women and mothers of infants, graphic health warning labels and beverage sugar content information did not reduce maternal SSB consumption."
• "Contrary to predictions from simple dynamical models, increased belt speed difference resulted in increased energy cost..."
• RCT: No Effect of Moringa Oleifera Leaf Powder Supplementation on Anthropometric Parameters of Adult HIV Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in a Resource-Limited Setting.
• RCT: "In contrast to the strong results of small-scale trials, we do not observe systematic improvements in HNWASH knowledge, attitudes, behaviour or health outcomes but document irregularities in the implementation of the intervention. These findings call for caution when promising public health interventions are transformed into large policy programmes."
• RCT: No Additional Benefit of Prescribing a Very Low-Protein Diet in Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease Under Regular Nephrology Care.
• "APE [aerobic physical exercise] at a later age with a more severe degree of obesity did not attenuate the excessive body weight gain [in mice]."

Basic

• Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice Impairs Host Defense Against Klebsiella pneumonia in Vivo and Glucose Transport and Bactericidal Functions in Neutrophils in Vitro.
• Maternal High-Fat Diet Programs White and Brown Adipose Tissue Lipidome and Transcriptome in Offspring in a Sex- and Tissue-Dependent Manner in Mice.
• Conventional Type 1 Dendritic Cells Protect Against Age-Related Adipose Tissue Dysfunction and Obesity.
• Adrenomedullin Ameliorates Palmitic Acid-Induced Insulin Resistance Through PI3K/Akt Pathway in Adipocytes.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Concerns and Recommendations for Using Amazon MTurk for Eating Disorder Research.
• Commentary: "In this commentary, we outline key screening procedures that allow researchers to obtain quality MTurk data."
• Commentary: "We argue that it is also important to acknowledge and review the specific ethical issues that might arise when recruiting MTurk workers as participants."
• Authors to Correct PNAS ‘Nudge’ Paper That Cites Now-Retracted Article in the Same Journal.

Clinical

• Physical and Mental Health Differences Reported by Three Age Groups of Older Adults with Diabetes.
• RCT: Effect of Fat Reformulated Dairy Food Consumption on Postprandial Flow-Mediated Dilatation and Cardiometabolic Risk Biomarkers Compared with Conventional Dairy.
• Comprehensive Management of Cardiovascular Risk Factors for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.

Children and Adolescents

• Low Length/Weight Growth Trajectories of Early-Term Infants During the First Year.
• School Intervention with Recreational Motor Activity for Overweight Children.
• Infant Feeding Practices Associated with Adiposity Peak and Rebound in the EDEN Mother–Child Cohort.
• Cesarean Delivery and Risk of Excess Weight Among Brazilian Preschool Children.
• The Relationship between Body Composition and Physical Fitness and the Effect of Exercise According to the Level of Childhood Obesity Using the MGPA Model.

Surgery

• The Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Serum Tryptophan-Kynurenine Pathway Metabolites.
• Long-Term Weight Outcome After Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Melanocortin-4 Receptor Gene Variants.
• Meta-Analysis: Vitamin B Complex Deficiency After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• RCT: Effect of Weekly Subcutaneous Semaglutide vs Daily Liraglutide on Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity Without Diabetes.
• Semaglutide 2.4 Mg: The Latest GLP-1RA Approved for Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Role of Poultry Transfers in Diet Diversity.
• RCT: Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction Augments Weight Loss-Induced Improvements in Glycaemic Control and Liver Fat in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Effect of Chocolate on Older Patients with Cancer in Palliative Care.
• Influence of 8-Week Daily Consumption of a New Product Combining Green Coffee Hydroxycinnamates and Beta-Glucans on Polyphenol Bioavailability in Subjects with Overweight and Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Potential Therapeutic Effects of Green Tea on Obese Lipid Profile.
• Dietary Curcumin Restores Insulin Homeostasis in Diet-Induced Obese Aged Mice.
• Higher Iron Intake Is Independently Associated with Obesity in Younger Japanese Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effects of a Six-Month Low-Carbohydrate Diet on Glycemic Control, Body Composition and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• A Low-Carbohydrate Diet Realizes Medication Withdrawal: A Possible Opportunity for Effective Glycemic Control.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Collaborative, Dyadic, and Individual Planning and Physical Activity.
• Reproducibility, Validity, and Relative Validity of Self-Report Methods for Assessing Physical Activity in Epidemiologic Studies.

Economics & Sociology

• Decreased Global Online Interest in Obesity from 2004 to 2021: An Infodemiology Study.
• Association between Community Average BMI and Perception of Overweight.
• Stereotyping at the Intersection of Race and Weight: Diluted Threat Stereotyping of Black Men with Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Higher Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Score Is Associated with Slower Epigenetic Age Acceleration.
• Novel Application of Nutritional Biomarkers from a Controlled Feeding Study and an Observational Study to Characterization of Dietary Patterns.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Weaker Connectivity in Resting State Networks Is Associated with Disinhibited Eating in Older Adults.
• Disrupted Stepwise Functional Brain Organization in Overweight Individuals.

Equity and Disparities

• Tackling Persistent and Large Disparities in Birth Outcomes in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
• Geography and Equity: Expanding Access to Obesity Medicine Diplomate Care.
• Using Black Feminist Theory and Methods to Uncover Best Practices in Health Promotion Programming.
• The Effect of High BMI on Self-Esteem and Sexual Functions in Females with Obesity Admitted to the Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Department.

Stigma

• Review: Obesity Stigma: The Role of Healthcare Practitioners in Improving Patient Outcomes.
• Weight Stigma in the British Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Thematic Analysis.
• A Brief Pilot Self-Compassion Intervention for Women with Overweight/Obesity and Internalized Weight Bias: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Future Directions.
• An Examination of the Link between Empathy and Weight-Based Victimization.

Policy Related

• Obesity and Overweight in Children Below 5 Years of Age: Environmental, Behavioural and Social Factors and Their Active Use in Prevention and Management.
• Association between Tobacco Retailer Density and Smoking Among Adults with Diabetes and Serious Mental Illness in New York State.
• Obesity and the Increased Risk for COVID-19: Mechanisms and Nutritional Management.
• Market and Welfare Effects of Quality Misperception in Food Labels.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational Effects of a Paternal Western Diet During Adolescence on Offspring Gut Microbiota, Stress Reactivity, and Social Behavior.
• Associations between Infant and Maternal Characteristics Measured at Child Age 5 Months and Maternal Feeding Styles and Practices Up to Child Age Two Years.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Distinguishing Different Modes of Growth Using Single-Cell Data.
• Phenotypic Plasticity to Chronic Cold Exposure in Two Species of Peromyscus from Different Environments.
• Environmental Correlates of Activity and Energetics in a Wide-Ranging Social Carnivore.

Methods

• The Energy Balance Hypothesis of Obesity: Do the Laws of Thermodynamics Explain Excessive Adiposity?
• Integrative System Biology and Mathematical Modeling of Genetic Networks Identifies Shared Biomarkers for Obesity and Diabetes.
• Approaches to Assessing Intake of Food and Dietary Supplements in Pregnant Women and Children 2 to 11 Years of Age: A Workshop Series.

Commentary

• In Swedish Adolescents, the Celiac Dietary Adherence Test Simplifies Determining Adherence to a Gluten-Free Diet.
• Have We Got the Science of Obesity Back to Front?
• Where Can People Get Access to Real Obesity Care?
• It’s 2022: DIEt or LIVEit?
• Wellness, Nostalgia, Innovation and New Views of Sustainability are Among the Food Trends for 2022.
• Omicron, Obesity, and Children in the Hospital.
• S2G Ventures Reveals 10 Trends Shaping the Future of Food & AgTech in 2022.
• Kentucky Fake Chicken and Chipotle Vegan Sausage.

General

• Why Objective Science Does Not Resolve Environmental Policy Issues.
• Thesis: Effects of Plant Origin on Insect Community Composition and Bird Predation.
• Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Inhibit a Pentameric Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Through One of Two Binding Sites.
• Mitochondria as a Target and Central Hub of Energy Division During Cold Stress in Insects.
• Flying Fish and Aquarium Pets Yield Secrets of Evolution.
• Benefits, Toxicity and Current Market of Cannabidiol in Edibles.
• Mirror Self-Recognition in Gorillas (Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla): A Review and Evaluation of Mark Test Replications and Variants.
• In a First, Man Receives a Heart from a Genetically Altered Pig.

Announcements

• Indiana IFT: Virtual Event, January 18, 2022 at 3pm ET/2pm CT - Sean Leighton to Discuss the Future of Food Science.
• Dean David Allison Is Named a 2022-2023 Distinguished Lecturer by Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic 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, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.

Featured

• CARL: A Running Recognition Algorithm for Free-Living Accelerometer Data.
• Meta-Analysis: The Influence of Experimental Confederate Peers on Children's Food Intake.
• Construction of Glycogen-Based Nanoparticles Loaded with Resveratrol for the Alleviation of High-Fat Diet-Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease [in Mice].
• Nudge: "Food choices are particularly responsive to choice architecture interventions, with effect sizes up to 2.5 times larger than those in other behavioral domains."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Treatment Method Leads to Fewer Episodes of Overeating in Patients with Morbid Obesity.
• Press-Release: New Treatment Leads to Much Less Overeating.
• Feasibility Study: A Group Intervention for Individuals with Obesity and Comorbid Binge Eating Disorder with No Control Group. Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "we could not detect effects of a preconception lifestyle intervention in [women with infertility and obesity] on the cardiometabolic health of their offspring."
• RCT: No evidence for "efficacy of a family-based intervention [Healthy Lifestyle Summer Camp and Parenting program (HLSC+HLPP)] compared with a child-based camp intervention [Healthy Lifestyle Summer Camp (HLSC)] on improving child and parent health outcomes."
• "Contrary to a-priori hypotheses, there were no differences in D-height-for-age z-score, a surrogate for a pubertal growth spurt (+0.16 vs.-0.15, p=0.113), or number of carbohydrate boluses per day, a surrogate for missed boluses."
• "Contrary to some other studies, among our studied cohort glycemic control also exhibited deterioration in the early follicular phase that was associated with greater carbohydrate consumption compared to the luteal phase."
• "Contrary to the literature, alcohol consumption was positively associated with AE-DII [dietary inflammatory index] scores."
• Drenching Bovine Colostrum, Quercetin or Fructo-Oligosaccharides Has No Effect on Health or Survival of Low Birth Weight Piglets.
• No Effect by Increasing Proteins in Diet, but a Positive Effect by Recording Food Intake on Decreasing Mental Complaints in Humans.
• RCT: Caffeinated Gum Does Not Influence RPE-Regulated Cadence in Recreationally-Active, College Females Regardless of Habitual Caffeine Consumption.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Protein Supplements on Weight Loss or Body Composition, Post Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Basic

• Altered Cardiac Energetics and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
• Hepatic Retinaldehyde Dehydrogenases are Modulated by Tocopherol Supplementation in Mice with Hepatic Steatosis.
• Hepatic CPT1A Facilitates Liver-Adipose Cross-Talk Via Induction of FGF21 in Mice.
• JMJD8 Is a Novel Molecular Nexus between Adipocyte-Intrinsic Inflammation and Insulin Resistance.
• Plasma FGF21 Concentrations and Spontaneous Self-Selection of Protein Suggest That 15% Protein in the Diet May Not Be Enough for Male Adult Rats.
• The Microbial Gbu Gene Cluster Links Cardiovascular Disease Risk Associated with Red Meat Consumption to Microbiota L-Carnitine Catabolism.
• Endothelial NOX5 Expression Modulates Thermogenesis and Lipolysis in Mice Fed with a High-Fat Diet and 3T3-L1 Adipocytes Through an Interleukin-6 Dependent Mechanism.
• Diet Dependent Impact of Benzoate on Diabetes and Obesity in Mice.
• FGF1 and Insulin Control Lipolysis by Convergent Pathways.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Unique Challenges of Studying the Genetics of Diet and Nutrition.
• Compliance of Clinical Trial Protocols for Foods with Function Claims (FFC) in Japan: Consistency between Clinical Trial Registrations and Published Reports.
• "This has raised some eyebrows in the research community, given the paucity of evidence supporting GABA as a health supplement." GABA-enriched tomato is first CRISPR-edited food to enter market.

Clinical

• "DentalSlim Diet Control is an intra-oral device fitted by a dental professional to the upper and lower back teeth."
• Energy Balance in Hypothalamic Obesity in Response to Treatment with a Once-Weekly GLP-1 Receptor Agonist.
• RCT: Self-Monitored Blood Glucose (BGM) Versus Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Data to Optimize Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: Effects of Milk and Milk-Product Consumption on Growth Among Children and Adolescents Aged 6–18 Years.
• Body Composition Data Show That High BMI Centiles Over-Diagnose Obesity in Children Aged Under 6 Years.
• Adipokines Profile and Inflammation Biomarkers in Prepubertal Population with Obesity and Healthy Metabolic State.

Surgery

• Trajectory Analysis and Predictors of the Percentage of Body Fat Among Chinese Sleeve Gastrectomy Patients.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiorespiratory Fitness.
• Association of Weight Loss Achieved Through Metabolic Surgery with Risk and Severity of COVID-19 Infection.
• Seven-Year Trajectories of Body Weight, Quality of Life and Comorbidities Following Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• Anti-Inflammatory and Protective Effects of Combined Treatment with Sitagliptin and Melatonin in Cardiac Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Obese Rats: Involvement of TLR-4/NF-κB Pathway.
• Review: Wegovy (Semaglutide): A New Weight Loss Drug for Chronic Weight Management.

Food & Diet

• The USDA’s New Labeling for Genetically Modified Foods Goes Into Effect Jan. 1. Here’s What You Need to Know.
• Large State Variation in Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Purchases: What We Learn from the Beverage Industry Data.
• Review: Vegetarian Diets: Planetary Health and Its Alignment with Human Health.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: The Effects of Almond Consumption on Inflammatory Biomarkers in Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Late-Onset Calorie Restriction Worsens Cognitive Performances and Increases Frailty Level in Female Wistar Rats.
• Association between Ketosis and Metabolic Adaptation at the Level of Resting Metabolic Rate.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Relationship between Actual Exercise Intensity and Rating of Perceived Exertion in Populations with Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Various Exercise Training Interventions on Cardiac Autonomic Function in Individuals with Obesity.
• RCT: Intervening on Exercise and Daylong Movement for Weight Loss Maintenance in Older Adults.
• RCT: The Effect of Group Walking Program on Social Physique Anxiety and the Risk of Eating Disorders in Aged Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Association between Area-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation and Diabetes Care Quality in US Primary Care Practices.
• Integrating Experiential Learning Into a Food Systems Framework: An Application to Promote Food Deserts and Food Access Concepts Among College Students (PDF).

Epidemiology

• Adult Lifetime BMI Trajectories and Endometrial Cancer Risk.
• Adult but Not Childhood Onset Asthma Is Associated with the Metabolic Syndrome, Independent from BMI.
• The Association of Changes in BMI and Metabolic Parameters between Adults with Overweight or Obesity and Their Children in a Family-Based RCT.
• RCT: Replacing Meat with Alternative Plant-Based Products (RE-MAP): Multicomponent Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Meat Consumption.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Waiting Longer, Feeling Fatter: Effects of Response Delay on Tactile Distance Estimation and Confidence in Females with Anorexia Nervosa.
• RCT: Comparing Prevention and Promotion Cognitive Strategies in a Behavioral Weight-Loss Intervention.
• Systematic Review: Mindfulness-Based Programs for the Prevention of Childhood Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Intra-Household Double Burden of Overweight/Obesity and Anaemia: Evidence from 49 Low-And Middle-Income Countries.
• Socioeconomic Status, Lifestyle Factors and Asthma Prevalence: Results from a Population-Based Study in Sweden.

Stigma

• Ain't Misbehaving? Self-Inflicted Illness - We blame the victim for failures of self-care.
• Demographic Predictors of Objectification Theory and Tripartite Influence Model Constructs: The U.S. Body Project I.
• First Do No Harm: Measuring Weight Bias Beliefs in Preschool-Age Children.
• Self-Protection and Correction for Automatically Activated Weight Bias: Revisiting the Applicability of the MODE Model.

Policy Related

• Outcomes of Exposure to Healthy Weight and Lifestyle Advertising: An Experimental Study of Adults from the United Kingdom.
• Moving Toward Health Policy That Respects Both Science and People Living with Obesity.
• How to Apply Excise Taxes to Fight Obesity.
• Validity and Reliability of a Site-Level Assessment Questionnaire to Assess Nutrition and Physical Activity Practices in Schools.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-Analysis: Multigenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Association of Gestational Weight Gain with Infant Morbidity and Mortality in the United States.
• Triceps Skinfold Thickness and BMI and the Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Evidence from a Multigenerational Cohort Study.
• Commentary: Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Obesity and Consideration of Infant Morbidity and Mortality in Clinical Practice.
• RCT: Pregnancy Outcomes with Differences in Grain Consumption.
• Maternal Food Restriction During Pregnancy Affects Offspring Development and Swimming Performance in a Placental Live-Bearing Fish.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Fat-Free Mass and Total Daily Energy Expenditure Estimated Using Doubly Labelled Water Predict Energy Intake in a Large Sample of Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
• Field Metabolic Rates of Giant Pandas Reveal Energetic Adaptations.

Methods

• Identification of Common Genes in Obesity and Cancer Through Network Interaction and Targeting Those Genes by Virtual Screening Approach.
• The Development of a Biocalorimeter's Calibration System.
• Construct Validation of the Reasons Individuals Stop Eating Questionnaire (RISE-Q) and the Development of the RISE-Q-15.

Commentary

• Is COVID-19 the Newest Comorbidity of Obesity Mitigated by Bariatric Surgery?
• How Shifting Your Expectations About Food Can Help You Lose Weight.
• It's Time to 'Build Back Best' for Americans with Diabetes.
• Five Trends to Shape 2022 in Health and Obesity.
• Lipidomics in Diabetes.
• Respectful Language and Putting the Person First with Obesity.
• Vegetarian Eating.
• Mitochondrialand: What Will Come Next?
• 'Top Diets' for 2022 Aren't Really Diets.

General

• Journals Adopt AI to Spot Duplicated Images in Manuscripts.
• The Impact of Sex Ratio Perceptions on Condom Use Attitudes and Behaviors Among Black Women in the United States.
• Whole Embryonic Detection of Maternal Microchimeric Cells Highlights Significant Differences in Their Numbers Among Individuals.
• Meta-Research: Investigating Disagreement in the Scientific Literature.
• Sex Difference and Interaction of SIRT1 and FOXO3 Candidate Longevity Genes on Life Expectancy: A 10-Year Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study.
• Build a Registry of Results That Students Can Replicate.
• Science for Others or the Self? Presumed Motives for Science Shape Public Trust in Science.
• Postdialysis Serum Phosphate Equilibrium in Hemodialysis Patients on a Controlled Diet and No Binders.
• Saliva Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Risk in a Rat Model of Low and High Intrinsic Exercise Capacity.

Video & Audio

• Video: The Importance, Safety & Effectiveness of Meal Replacements in the Treatment of Obesity: A Dietitian’s Perspective.

Announcements

• Policies, Environments, and Obesity Prevention.
• Audio: Francis Collins, Longest-Running NIH Director, to Step Down.
• UAB Nathan Shock Center Virtual Seminar: A Preclinical Model of Nutritional Ketosis for Enhancing Cognitive Resilience in Advanced Age.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic 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, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.

Featured

• "Here we demonstrate that miRNAs possess sorting sequences that determine their secretion in sEVs (EXOmotifs) or cellular retention (CELLmotifs) and that different cell types, including white and brown adipocytes..."
• Preventing Childhood Obesity in Primary Schools: A Realist Review from UK Perspective.
• Endogenous Cannabinoids are Required for MC4R-Mediated Control of Energy Homeostasis.
• Assessment of Baseline Rates of Functional and Absolute Iron Deficiency in Bariatric Surgery Candidates: A Retrospective Study.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: "Move More, Sit Less" Messaging Effective Approach for Weight Loss in Obesity.
• Press-Release: Study: Move More Often Supports Better Long-Term Weight Loss for Older Adults.
• Study: RCT: Among Assignment to Dietary Weight Loss Plus Aerobic Exercise, Sit Less Daylong Movement Program, or Both, There Was No Significant Group Difference in Adjusted Body Weight at 18 Months (The Primary Outcome).

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative Does Not Improve Attendance or Standardized Test Scores Among Urban Students.
• Contrary to Our Hypotheses, Genetically Inferred Caffeine Sensitivity Was More Strongly Associated with Coffee Taste Preferences Than with Genetically Inferred Bitter Taste Perception.
• High-Fat Meals Do Not Affect Thrombin Formation and Fibrin Clot Lysis in Individuals with Obesity During Intentional Weight Loss.
• RCT: "Despite promoting greater treatment engagement and initial weight loss, financial incentives as offered in this study did not promote better extended weight control."
• Partial-Body Cryotherapy Exposure 2 Hours Prior to a Shuttle Run Does Not Enhance Running Performance.
• Nine Years of Experimental Warming Did Not Influence the Thermal Sensitivity of Metabolic Rate in the Medaka Fish Oryzias latipes.
• RCT: Liraglutide Treatment Does Not Induce Changes in the Peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy.
• RCT: Resveratrol Treatment Does Not Reduce Arterial Inflammation in Males at Risk of Type-2 Diabetes.
• No Evidence of Association between Habitual Physical Activity and ECG Traits: Insights from the Electronic Framingham Heart Study.

Basic

• Defective Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and Impaired Glucose Metabolism in Mice Lacking Letmd1.
• Ablation of ORMDL3 Impairs Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and Insulin Sensitivity by Increasing Ceramide Generation.
• NPC1L1 Deficiency Suppresses Ileal Fibroblast Growth Factor 15 Expression and Increases Bile Acid Pool Size in High-Fat-Diet-Fed Mice.
• Targeting PLD2 in Adipocytes Augments Adaptive Thermogenesis by Improving Mitochondrial Quality and Quantity in Mice.
• Review: Genetic Variation in Satiety Signaling and Hypothalamic Inflammation: Merging Fields for the Study of Obesity.
• Apolipoprotein CIII Reduction Protects White Adipose Tissues Against Obesity-Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in Mice.
• Current Understanding of the Role of MicroRNAs from Adipose-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Preprint: Mixed Random and Nonrandom Allocation, and Group Randomization Have Been Mislabeled and Misanalysed, Necessitating Reanalysis. Comment On: “KiwiC for Vitality: Results of a Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial Testing the Effects of Kiwifruit or Vitamin C Tablets on Vitality in Adults with Low Vitamin C Levels”.
• Editor’s Note On: The Best Drug Supplement for Obesity Treatment: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.
• Perspective: USDA Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review Methodology: Grading the Strength of Evidence in Diet-And-Health-Related Systematic Reviews.
• Are Systematic Reviews Addressing Nutrition for Cancer Prevention Trustworthy? A Systematic Survey of Quality and Risk of Bias.
• Article: Attempting to Separate Placebo Effects from Exercise in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Comment: On: “Attempting to Separate Placebo Effects from Exercise in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta‑analysis”. (pdf)
• Response: To Comment On: “Attempting to Separate Placebo Effects from Exercise in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta‑Analysis”. (pdf)
• Podcast: How to Read and Understand Scientific Studies.
• Methodological Quality and Reporting Standards in Systematic Reviews with Meta-Analysis of Physical Activity Studies: A Report from the Strengthening the Evidence in Exercise Sciences Initiative (SEES Initiative).

Clinical

• RCT: Financial Incentives During Weight-Loss Induction and Maintenance in Online Group Weight Control.
• Mechanisms of Action in a Behavioral Weight-Management Program: Latent Growth Curve Analysis.
• Systematic Review: Stem Cells as a Potential Therapy in Managing Various Disorders of Metabolic Syndrome.
• Adequacy of Prescribed Caloric and Protein Intake and Reduction of Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with BMI Less Than 30 Kg/m2.

Children and Adolescents

• Use of Person-Centred Language Among Scientific Research Focused on Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Resting Energy Expenditure Prediction Equations in the Pediatric Population.
• Childhood Obesity Within the Lens of Racism.
• Growth During Times of Fear and Emotional Stress.
• Obesogens in Children—An Uncharted Territory.

Surgery

• Review: Personalized Approach for Patients with Obesity Undergoing Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty.
• Brain Imaging of the GLP-1 Receptor in Obesity Using 68Ga-NODAGA-Exendin-4 PET.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Circulating Levels of Oxidized Low-Density Lipoproteins Is Apparently Independent of Changes in BMI.
• Outcomes of Heart Transplant Recipients with Class II Obesity: A United Network for Organ Sharing Database Analysis.

Drugs

• RCT: Metformin for Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain in Patients with First-Episode Psychosis: A Pilot Study.
• The Omentum in Obesity-Associated Cancer: A Hindrance to Effective Natural Killer Cell Migration Towards Tumour Which Can Be Overcome by CX3CR1 Antagonism.
• Semaglutide for the Treatment of Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: SGLT Inhibitors on Weight and Body Mass.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Well-Balanced Lunch Reduces Risk of Lifestyle-Related Diseases in Middle-Aged Japanese Working Men.
• Association between Egg Consumption and Metabolic Syndrome in Chinese Population: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Distinct Nutrient Intake Style in Inhabitants of Ultra-High-Altitude Areas in North of Tibet, China.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Proteomic Analysis of Dietary Restriction in Yeast Reveals a Role for Hsp26 in Replicative Lifespan Extension.
• A Hypercaloric Diet Induces Early Podocyte Damage in Aged, Non-Diabetic Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Relationships between University Students’ Gender and Physical Activity (PA) and Their Exercise Self-Schemas, Processing of PA-Related Information, and PA Decision-Making.
• Dose–response Association between Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Incident Morbidity and Mortality for Individuals with a Different Cardiovascular Health Status.
• Sarcopenia: Molecular Pathways and Potential Benefits of Exercise Training.
• Systematic Review: What Predicts the Physical Activity Intention–Behavior Gap?

Economics & Sociology

• The Sociocultural Mechanism of Obesity: The Influence of Gender Role Attitudes on Obesity and the Gender Gap.
• Grandparental Care and Childhood Obesity in China.
• "Obesity in the City" – urbanization, health risks and rising obesity rates from the viewpoint of human biology and public health.
• A Market Basket Assessment: Prices and Availability of Healthy Foods Across SNAP-Authorized Food Outlets in Counties with High Obesity Rates in Mississippi.
• Is Overweight Still a Problem of Rich in Sub-Saharan Africa? Insights Based on Female-Oriented Demographic and Health Surveys.
• Healthy Eating Determinants and Food Security Resource Opportunities: Urban-Dwelling American Indian and Alaska Native Older Adults Perspectives.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Abdominal Obesity in Chinese Middle-Aged and Older Adults with a Normal BMI and Its Association with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Adiposity, Related Biomarkers, and Type 2 Diabetes After Gestational Diabetes.
• Genetic Variation in Satiety Signaling and Hypothalamic Inflammation: Merging Fields for the Study of Obesity.
• Early-Life Exposure to Famine and the Risk of General and Abdominal Obesity in Adulthood.
• Associations between BMI and Bladder Cancer Survival: Is the Obesity Paradox Short-Lived?
• Associations between DNA Methylation and BMI Vary by Metabolic Health Status: A Potential Link to Disparate Cardiovascular Outcomes.
• BMI, Diabetes, and Risk of Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Systematic Review: Cat and/or Dog Ownership, Cardiovascular Disease, and Obesity.
• Geographic Variation in Obesity at the State Level in the All of Us Research Program.
• The Links between Sleep Duration, Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Conscientiousness and Cardiometabolic Risk: A Test of the Health Behavior Model of Personality Using Structural Equation Modeling.
• Is Obesity in the Brain? Parent Perceptions of Brain Influences on Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Sociodemographic Disparities and Contextual Factors in Obesity: Updated Evidence from a National Survey of Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases.
• Everyday Discrimination as a Predictor of Maladaptive and Adaptive Eating.
• Weight-Based Stereotype Threat in the Workplace: Consequences for Employees with Overweight or Obesity.
• Regional Adolescent Obesity and Overweight Status in Korea from 2018–2019: Comparison between Two Data Sources.
• Microsimulation Projections of Obesity Interventions on Cardiometabolic Health Disparities in the United States.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma, Policy Initiatives, and Harnessing Social Media to Elevate Activism.
• An Intervention for Women with Weight Bias Internalization.

Policy Related

• Nutrition-Related Health Taxes: Setting Expectations.
• The European Food Regulatory Environment Index: A Tool to Monitor Progress in Implementing Food Environment Policies.
• What Opportunities Exist for Making the Food Supply Nutrition Friendly? A Policy Space Analysis in Mexico.
• Associations of a National Tax on Non-Essential High Calorie Foods with Changes in Consumer Prices.

Intergenerational Effects

• First Trimester Waist-Hip Ratio and Adverse Metabolic Outcomes in Pregnancy.
• Offspring from Trained Male Mice Inherit Improved Muscle Mitochondrial Function Through PPAR Co-Repressor Modulation.
• Birthweight Associations with Parental Obesity: Retrospective Analysis of 1,778 Singleton Term Births Following Assisted Reproductive Treatment.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Relation between Obesity, Kisspeptin, Leptin, and Male Fertility.
• Weather Permitting: Increased Seasonal Efficiency of Nonshivering Thermogenesis Through Brown Adipose Tissue Activation in the Winter.
• Test of Theory of Foraging Mode: Goldcrests, Regulus, Forage by High-Yield, Energy-Expensive Hovering Flight When Food Is Abundant but Use Low-Yield, Low-Cost Methods When Food Is Scarce.
• Energetic Costs of Ectoparasite Infection in Atlantic Salmon.

Methods

• From Model Organisms to Humans, the Opportunity for More Rigor in Methodologic and Statistical Analysis, Design, and Interpretation of Aging and Senescence Research.
• Computational Approaches to Predicting Treatment Response to Obesity Using Neuroimaging.

Commentary

• A Century of Exercise Physiology: Key Concepts in ….
• Rethinking a Study of the Biggest Loser.
• Too Many Positive Studies in Kinesiology?
• Eating in the Age of Smartphones: The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral.
• A Critique of the English National Policy from a Social Determinants of Health Perspective Using a Realist and Problem Representation Approach: The 'Childhood Obesity: A Plan for Action' (2016, 2018, 2019).
• The Ongoing Impact of Colonisation on Childhood Obesity Prevention: A First Nations’ Perspective.
• Obesity/ies: Bodies, Foods and Inequalities.
• Obesogens in Children—An Uncharted Territory.
• A Healthy Diet Is Too Costly for Three Billion People.

General

• Tanycyte Specific Ablation of Diacylglycerol Lipase Alpha Stimulates the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis by Decreasing the Endocannabinoid Mediated Inhibition of TRH Release.
• Applying Crowd Risk Mitigation Technologies in Urban Sport Events.
• Street Food around the World: A Review of the Literature.
• The 12 Most Intriguing Animal Discoveries of 2021.
• Improving the Reliability of Citizen Science Data.
• Bland–Altman Limits of Agreement from a Bayesian and Frequentist Perspective.
• The Unequal Burden of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Capturing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in US Cause-Specific Mortality.
• Edward O. Wilson, Harvard Naturalist Often Cited as Heir to Darwin, Dies at 92.

Announcements

• IU Researchers: Food Insecurity in Southern Indiana Linked to Transportation.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic 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, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.