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Featured

• High-Fat and High-Sucrose Diets Impair Time-of-Day Differences in Spatial Working Memory of Male Mice.
• RCT: Experimentally Manipulated Low Social Status and Food Insecurity Alter Eating Behavior Among Adolescents.
• Associations of Breastfeeding or Formula Feeding with Infant Anthropometry and Body Composition at 6 Months.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Physical Activity Reduces Cancer Risk, Morning Exercise May Have Greatest Protective Effect.
• Study: Researcher quotation from news: "...these new insights cannot be used as a basis for determining the ideal time of day to exercise in order to lower one's cancer risk..."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of Intervention to Provide Brief Support and Personalized Feedback on Food Shopping to Reduce Saturated Fat Intake.
• RCT: "Our findings do not support the supplementation of face-to-face follow-up of women with gestational diabetes mellitus with a smartphone app in the presence of high-standard usual care, as the Pregnant+ app did not have a beneficial effect on pregnant women's diet."
• RCT: "The personally tailored videos were not more effective than personally tailored text in increasing MVPA. The findings from this study conflict with pilot study outcomes and previous literature."
• RCT: Body Composition, Not Dietary Fatty Acid Composition, Explains Metabolic Responses Following a High-fat Meal in Premenopausal Normal Weight Women.
• RCT: "These findings do not support the use of vitamin D, omega-3, or a strength-training exercise program for [systolic or diastolic blood pressure, nonvertebral fractures, physical performance, infection rate, or cognition] among relatively healthy older adults.
• Natural Food Intake Patterns Have Little Synchronizing Effect on Peripheral Circadian Clocks.
• Eccentric Exercise Per Se Does Not Affect Muscle Damage Biomarkers: Early and Late Phase Adaptations.
• Adequate Vitamin D Supplementation Does Not Ameliorate Bone Loss Following Long Limb-biliopancreatic Diversion in Women with Obesity.

Basic

• "Consistently, our findings indicated that BAMBI may be a reactive oxygen regulator to affect adipogenesis, thereby controlling obesity and metabolic syndrome."
• Multinucleated Giant Cells in Adipose Tissue are Specialized in Adipocyte Degradation.
• High-Fat Diet and Acute Stress Have Different Effects on Object Preference Tests in Rats During Adolescence and Adulthood.
• Chronic Intermittent Hypobaric Hypoxia Improves Markers of Iron Metabolism in a Model of Dietary-induced Obesity.
• Review: The Circadian Clock, Shift Work, and Tissue-Specific Insulin Resistance.
• Review: Obesity-Related Endothelial Dysfunction: Moving from Classical to Emerging Mechanisms.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Three Expressions of Concern from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
• Four Expressions of Concern from the Journal of Nutrition.
• Journals Flag Concerns in Three Dozen Papers by Nutrition Researchers.

Clinical

• RCT: "...our study demonstrated that the consumption of a high-protein hypocaloric diet could be used as an important dietary strategy to improve insulin sensitivity in patients with obesity, regardless of amount and source of protein."
• RCT: The Effects of a Combined Intervention (DHA Supplementation and Home-based Dietary Counseling) on Metabolic Control in Pregnant Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: The Impact of Early Body-weight Variability on Long-term Weight Maintenance.
• RCT: "Combining population health management with an online program resulted in a small but statistically significant greater amount of weight loss at 12 months compared with usual care or the online program only."
• RCT: Is Dietary Nonadherence Unique to Obesity and Weight Loss?
• Meta-analysis: Effect of Early Time-restricted Feeding on the Metabolic Profile of Adults with Excess Weight.

Children and Adolescents

• Dietary Supplement Use in Children and Adolescents ≤ 19 Years – United States, 2017-2018.
• A Practical Screening Tool to Predict Early Childhood Obesity Risk.
• Pilot Intervention Enhances Preschoolers’ Self-Regulation and Food Liking.
• The Effectiveness of the Foodbot Factory Mobile Serious Game on Increasing Nutrition Knowledge in Children.
• Are the Italian Children Exposed to Advertisements of Nutritionally Appropriate Foods?
• Review: The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Unprecedented Tragedy in the Battle Against Childhood Obesity.

Surgery

• RCT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Versus Usual Care Before Bariatric Surgery: One-Year Follow-Up Results.
• Weight Loss After Sleeve Gastrectomy: Does Type 2 Diabetes Status Impact Weight and Body Composition Trajectories?
• Blood Donor Obesity Is Associated with Changes in Red Blood Cell Metabolism and Susceptibility to Hemolysis in Cold Storage and in Response to Osmotic and Oxidative Stress.
• Effect of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass on Lipoprotein Metabolism and Markers of HDL Functionality in Patients with Obesity.
• Association between Preoperative Blood Glucose Level and Hospital Length of Stay for Patients Undergoing Appendectomy or Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.

Drugs

• Press Release: Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Announces New Clinical Data on Setmelanotide at ObesityWeek® 2020.
• Commentary: High Expectations for Semaglutide in Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effects of Consuming Later Evening Meal Versus Earlier Evening Meal on Weight Loss During a Weight Loss Diet.
• Consumption of Ultra-processed Foods Is Associated with Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension in Canadian Adults.
• Meta-analysis: The Effects of Low-calorie Sweeteners on Energy Intake and Body Weight.
• Consumer Surveys: 2020 Food and Health Survey.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Percentage of Americans on Special Diets Up from 10 Years Ago.
• Caloric Restriction Modulates the Monoaminergic System and Metabolic Hormones in Aged Rats.
• Dissertation: Altered Leptin Signaling: The Impact of Caloric Restriction on the Anterior Pituitary of Neonatal and Adult Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Wearing of Cloth or Disposable Surgical Face Masks Has No Statistically Significant Effect on Vigorous Exercise Performance in Healthy Individuals.
• Post-swim Oxygen Consumption: Assessment Methodologies and Kinetics Analysis.
• Impact of Daily Physical Activity as Measured by Commonly Available Wearables on Mealtime Glucose Control in Type 1 Diabetes.
• Systematic Review: An Update on Secular Trends in Physical Fitness of Children and Adolescents from 1972 to 2015.

Economics & Sociology

• Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Physical Activity in Later Life: The Role of Perceived Neighborhood Cohesion and Wealth in Adulthood.
• Consumer Surveys: A Continued Look at COVID-19’s Impact on Food Purchasing, Eating Behaviors and Perceptions of Food Safety.

Epidemiology

• Obesity Status Modifies the Association between Rs7556897T>C in the Intergenic Region SLC19A3-CCL20 and Blood Pressure in French Children.
• Association of Class Number, Cumulative Exposure, and Earlier Initiation of Antibiotics During the First Two-years of Life with Subsequent Childhood Obesity.
• High-Mobility Group Box-1 Is Associated with Obesity, Inflammation, and Subclinical Cardiovascular Risk Among Young Adults a Longitudinal Cohort Study.
• Dissertation: Area-Level Factors Linked to Obesity in African American and Caucasian Women in Michigan.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• "Encouraging physical activity might also improve individuals’ eating self-regulation, especially if self-determined motivations are targeted in future interventions."
• Psychiatric Morbidities of Female Obesity Before and After Dieting.
• Gqα/G11α Deficiency in Dorsomedial Hypothalamus Leads to Obesity Resulting from Decreased Energy Expenditure and Impaired Sympathetic Nerve Activity.
• Associations of BMI with Hippocampal Morphology and Memory Performance in Late Childhood and Adolescence.
• Obesity Measures in Relation to Cognition in the Northern Manhattan Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Health Disparities of Older Adults in California: The Role of Sexual Identity and Latinx Ethnicity.
• Rural–urban Health Disparities for Mood Disorders and Obesity in a Midwestern Community.
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Rates of Continuous Glucose Monitor Initiation and Continued Use in Children with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity and Depression with Cardiovascular Events in Early-Onset Adult Type 2 Diabetes: A Multiethnic Study in the U.S.

Stigma

• Deprivation or Discrimination? Comparing Two Explanations for the Reverse Income – Obesity Gradient in the US and South Korea.
• Qualitative Analysis: Nursing Students' Perspectives on Observed Weight Bias in Healthcare Settings.

Policy Related

• An Analysis of Policy Interventions Regarding School Lunch Programs and Their Role in the Healthy Nutrition of Children in Córdoba, Argentina.
• Drawing on Strategic Management Approaches to Inform Nutrition Policy Design: An Applied Policy Analysis for Salt Reduction in Packaged Foods.
• Stakeholder Perspectives and Sustainability of an Integrated Care Model for the Prevention and Management of Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Retrospective Cohort: Maternal Gestational Diabetes and Early Childhood Obesity.
• Prospective Cohort: Association of Maternal Folate and Vitamin B12 in Early Pregnancy with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Manmade Chemical Exposure and Overweight/ Obesity Among Children in a Nationally Representative Sample.
• Toward an Affective Political Ecology of Obesity: Mediating Biological and Social Aspects.
• Phylogenetic Analysis of Maximal Oxygen Consumption During Exercise (V̇O2max) and Ecological Correlates Among Lizard Species.

Methods

• Occurrence of and Reasons for “Missing Events” in Mobile Dietary Assessments: Results from Three Event-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies.
• Review: Measuring Food Culture: A Tool for Public Health Practice.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Model-based and Phylogenetically Adjusted Quantification of Metabolic Interaction between Microbial Species.
• Estimation of Obesity Levels Based on Computational Intelligence.
• Predicting Human Glucose Response Curve Using an Engineered Small Intestine Model in Combination with Mathematical Modeling.

Commentary

• Health Plans Harming Health for People with Obesity.
• Quality Scientific Research Relies on Academia, Industry.
• Disparate Health and Obesity: by Design, Not Chance.
• COVID-19 Responses: Food Policy Councils are “stepping In, Stepping Up, and Stepping Back.
• World Heart Federation Policy Brief: Front-Of-Pack Labelling Unhealthy Changes in the Global Food System.
• American Kinesiology Association’s Role in Promoting School Physical Activity Policy.
• Rigged Monopoly Game Reveals New Obesity Insights.
• Challenging Popular Thoughts About Obesity.

General

• CRISPR Turns Normal Body Fat into a Type That Burns Energy.
• Preprint: Misinformation About COVID-19: Evidence for Differential Latent Profiles and a Strong Association with Trust in Science.
• US Food and Drug Administration Interactive Nutrition Facts Label.
• Female Big-game Hunters May Have Been Surprisingly Common in the Ancient Americas.
• Female Banded Mongooses Start Wars So They Can Mate with Rival Males.
• Narrative Review: Beneficial Effects of Exercise on Depression and Anxiety During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
• Free Fatty Acid Binding Pocket in the Locked Structure of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein.
• DNA Metabarcoding Reveals That African Leopard Diet Varies between Habitats.

Announcements

• Call to Action: Structural Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities: A Presidential Advisory from the American Heart Association.
• Virtual Event: New Scientist Live’s Future of Food and Agriculture.
• Virtual Event: State of Obesity 2020 Virtual Congressional Briefing.
• Virtual Event: the Importance of Nutrition and Food Security During COVID: A Closer Look at Resilient Resources and Adaptable Programming.
• Webinar Series: Nutrition in a Digital World.
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites National Applications for the Position of Associate Dean for Research and Tenured Full Professor.

Featured

• The Obesity Society Announced the Three Recipients of the 2020 Presidential Medal of Distinction, - Roxane Gay, Ted Kyle and Rudolph Leibel.
• RCT: Does Acute Soccer Heading Cause an Increase in Plasma S100B?
• RCT: Effects of Potato Resistant Starch Intake on Insulin Sensitivity, Related Metabolic Markers and Appetite Ratings in Men and Women at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: This Delicious Food Will Help You Lose Weight, New Study Shows.
• Study: RCT of behavioral weight loss with or without pistachios showed "a comparable degree of weight loss, and similar reductions in BMI and waist circumference."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of Health-promoting Messages in Television Food Commercials on Adolescents’ Attitudes and Consumption.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Assignment to Vitamin D Supplementation vs Control in Sri Lankan Children with Obesity.
• RCT: "Dietary protein intake did not affect any objective or subjective sleep quality outcomes measured..."
• RCT: No Statistically Significant Treatment Effect of Using Motivational Interviewing to Enhance Emerging Adults' Engagement in Weight Loss.
• Manipulation of the Gut Microbiota by the Use of Prebiotic Fibre Does Not Override a Genetic Predisposition to Heart Failure [in Mice].
• Preprint: Odor-taste Interactions in Food Perception: Exposure Protocol Shows No Effects of Associative Learning.
• Overall, the Findings Suggest That Merely Placing Healthy Snacks More Prominently in People’s Food Environment Is Not Sufficient to Lead People to Snack More Healthily.
• Application of SWATH Mass Spectrometry in the Identification of Circulating Proteins Does Not Predict Future Weight Gain in Early Psychosis.

Basic

• Coxsackievirus B Type 4 Infection in β Cells Downregulates the Chaperone Prefoldin URI to Induce a MODY4-like Diabetes Via Pdx1 Silencing.
• Wake-sleep Cycles are Severely Disrupted by Diseases Affecting Cytoplasmic Homeostasis.
• Diet-Induced Obesity Attenuates the Hypothermic Response to Lipopolysaccharide Independently of TNF-α Production.
• Palmitoleic Acid Decreases Non-alcoholic Hepatic Steatosis and Increases Lipogenesis and Fatty Acid Oxidation in Adipose Tissue from Obese Mice.
• A Novel Endocrine Role of the BAT-Released Lipokine 12,13-diHOME to Mediate Cardiac Function.
• Lifelong Voluntary Aerobic Exercise Prevents Age- and Western Diet- Induced Vascular Dysfunction, Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Mice.
• Differential Effect of Four-Week Feeding of Different Dietary Fats on the Accumulation of Fat and the Cholesterol and Triglyceride Contents in the Different Fat Depots [in Rats].

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Comment on “Effects of Flaxseed Interventions on Circulating Inflammatory Biomarkers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials”.
• Response: Reply to M Amiri et al.
• Retraction: Obesity-induced Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Causes Lung Endothelial Dysfunction and Promotes Acute Lung Injury.
• PubPeer Comment On: Potato Protein Isolate Stimulates Muscle Protein Synthesis at Rest and with Resistance Exercise in Young Women.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of Carbohydrate Restriction on Postprandial Glucose Metabolism, Beta-cell Function, Gut Hormone Secretion, and Satiety in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: The Role of Dietary Fibre in Modulating Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Effects of Underlying Morbidities on the Occurrence of Deaths in COVID-19 Patients.
• Tissue and Circulating MicroRNAs as Biomarkers of Response to Obesity Treatment Strategies.

Children and Adolescents

• Systematic Review: Lung Function in Children and Adolescents with Obesity and Without Respiratory Disease.
• G146(P) Efforts to Increase Early Detection of Children with Overweight and Obesity in General Pediatric Clinics.
• Cost–utility and Cost–benefit Analyses of School-based Obesity Prevention Program.
• Child Social Media Influencers and Unhealthy Food Product Placement.

Surgery

• Endocannabinoid Receptor-1 and Sympathetic Nervous System Mediate the Beneficial Metabolic Effects of Gastric Bypass.
• Modeling the Impact of Delaying Bariatric Surgery Due to COVID-19.
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of a Low-Calorie Diet for Liver Volume Reduction Prior to Bariatric Surgery.
• Gut Microbiota in Patients with Morbid Obesity Before and After Bariatric Surgery: A Ten-Year Review Study (2009–2019).
• The Bariatric Experience Long Term (BELONG): Factors Related to Having Bariatric Surgery in a Large Integrated Healthcare System.

Drugs

• Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Type 2 Diabetes: Associations and Therapeutic Implications.
• Anti-obesity Drug Therapy in Clinical Practice: Evidence of a Poor Prescriptive Attitude.
• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Efficacy and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Across BMI Categories.
• Anti-obesity Therapy with Peripheral CB1 Blockers: from Promise to Safe(?) Practice.

Food & Diet

• Narrative Review: The Influence of Carbohydrate Ingestion on Peripheral and Central Fatigue During Exercise in Hypoxia.
• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: The Association between Coffee Consumption and Metabolic Syndrome in Adults.
• RCT: Lower Nocturnal Blood Glucose Response to a Potato-based Mixed Evening Meal Compared to Rice in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Systematic Review: Probiotics Have Minimal Effects on Appetite-related Hormones in Individuals with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Effect of the Intake of Dietary Protein on Insulin Resistance in Subjects with Obesity.
• Sugary Drinks, Artificially-Sweetened Beverages, and Cardiovascular Disease in the NutriNet-Santé Cohort.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Differential Effects of Sulfur Amino Acid-restricted and Low-calorie Diets on Gut Microbiome Profile and Bile Acid Composition in Male C57BL6/J Mice.
• Calorie Restriction Changes Muscle Satellite Cell Proliferation in a Manner Independent of Metabolic Modulation.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Comparative Effectiveness of Physical Exercise Interventions for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain.
• Deep Learning to Predict Energy Expenditure and Activity Intensity in Free Living Conditions Using Wrist-specific Accelerometry.
• RCT: Efficacy of the ‘Stand and Move at Work’ Multicomponent Workplace Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Time and Improve Cardiometabolic Risk.

Economics & Sociology

• Sociodemographic Correlates of Obesity Among Spanish Schoolchildren: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Feeding Inequality: Food Insecurity, Social Status and College Student Health.
• Diet Quality and Food Prices Modify Associations between Genetic Susceptibility to Obesity and Adiposity Outcomes.

Epidemiology

• Risk Factors and Association of Body Composition Components for Lumbar Disc Herniation in Northwest, Mexico.
• Associations between Weight Loss Attempts, Food Planning, and the Home Food Environment.
• Association between Parent’s Metabolic Syndrome and 12- To18-Year-Old Offspring’s Overweight.
• Dietary Inflammatory Potential and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Among Men and Women in the U.S.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Food Insecurity and Likely Psychological Distress: Isolation of BMI and Income Among Women in California.
• Functional Brain Networks: Unique Patterns with Hedonic Appetite and Confidence to Resist Eating in Older Adults with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial and Geographic Disparities in Internet Use in the U.S. Among Patients with Hypertension or Diabetes: Implications for Telehealth in the Era of Coronavirus Disease 2019.
• Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: A Scientific Review.
• The Hunger-obesity Paradox: Exploring Food Banking System Characteristics and Obesity Inequities Among Food-insecure Pantry Clients.
• Effect of Stress on the Health of African American Women in Low-Income Neighborhoods.
• Healthier Together: Co-design of a Culturally-tailored Childhood Obesity Community Prevention Program for Māori & Pacific Islander Children and Families.

Stigma

• “I Am So Ashamed of My Body”: Experiences of Guests with Obesity in Hotels.
• Developing Expert Consensus on How to Address Weight Stigma in Public Health Research and Practice: A Delphi Study.
• Differential Stigmatization in the Context of Eating Disorders: Less Blame Might Come at the Price of Greater Social Rejection.

Policy Related

• Examining Chile's Unique Food Marketing Policy: TV Advertising and Dietary Intake in Preschool Children, a Pre- and Post- Policy Study.
• The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Employment: A Synthetic Control Analysis.
• Systematic Review: The Effect of Front-of-package Labels or Point-of-sale Signage on Consumer Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior Regarding Sugar-sweetened Beverages.
• Lessons Learned from Implementing a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax in Berkeley, California.
• Trust for America’s Health: The State of Obesity 2020: Better Policies for a Healthier America.
• Costs, Equity and Acceptability of Three Policies to Prevent Obesity: A Narrative Review to Support Policy Development.

Intergenerational Effects

• Lactational Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls Is Higher in Women with Overweight/Obesity and Associated with Altered Infant Growth Trajectory: A Pilot Study.
• Brown Fat-activating Lipokine 12,13-diHOME in Human Milk Is Associated with Infant Adiposity.
• Association of Maternal Prepregnancy BMI with Fetal Growth and Neonatal Thalamic Brain Connectivity Among Adolescent and Young Women.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Urbanization and Market Integration Have Strong, Nonlinear Effects on Cardiometabolic Health in the Turkana.
• Thesis: Lipid Mediators as Regulators of Lipid and Energy Metabolism During Energy Balance Derangement in Animal Models. (pdf)
• Male Bats Respond to Adverse Conditions with Larger Colonies and Increased Torpor Use During Sperm Production.

Methods

• Survey on - Identification of Coronary Artery Disease Using Deep Learning.
• Performance of the Pooled Cohort Equations to Estimate Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk by BMI.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Forecasting the Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Epidemic and the Role of Key Risk Factors in Oman Up to 2050: Mathematical Modeling Analyses.

Commentary

• Food Tech: Sugar 2.0 Coming Your Way.
• Is Intermittent Fasting More Effective Than Daily Calorie Restriction for Weight Loss in Otherwise Healthy Overweight Adults?
• Perspective: Ketone Supplementation in Sports—Does It Work?
• Hidden Hunger: Food Insecurity in the Age of Coronavirus.
• Promoting Obesity around the World: More Than Diet.
• The “Body” of Research About Scary Diet Drinks.
• Can You Really Overdose on Black Licorice? Here's the Science on the Hidden Dangers.
• Achieving Food System Transformation: Insights from a Retrospective Review of Nutrition Policy (In)Action in High-Income Countries. (pdf)

General

• How Obesity Could Create Problems for a COVID Vaccine.
• Meta-Analysis: Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the Risk of Obesity for Critically Illness and ICU Admitted.
• Meta-Analysis: The Association between Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status and Subjective Well-being.
• Female Salamanders Experience Higher Parasitism Compared to Males: A Cost of Female Reproduction?
• Implementation Science to Address Health Disparities During the Coronavirus Pandemic.
• The Importance of Engaging in Physical Activity in Older Adulthood for Transitions between Cognitive Status Categories and Death: A Coordinated Analysis of Fourteen Longitudinal Studies.
• Wild Vampire Bats Socially Distance When They Get Ill.
• False Individual Patient Data and Zombie RCTs Submitted to Anaesthesia.

Announcements

• Webinar: Science Is Self-Correcting- but the Record Is Not. Opportunities for Improvement for Journals and Scientists.
• Online Event: Communicating Statistics in the Time of COVID (Nov 12).
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites National Applications for the Position of Associate Dean for Research and Tenured Full Professor.

Featured

• Effect of Endurance Exercise Training on Liver Gene Expression in Male and Female Mice.
• Meta-Analysis: "There was no discernible effect of eating or skipping breakfast on obesity-related anthropometric measures..."
• The Effects of Graded Levels of Calorie Restriction: XVI. Metabolomic Changes in the Cerebellum Indicate Activation of Hypothalamocerebellar Connections Driven by Hunger Responses.
• The Role of Elevated Branched-Chain Amino Acids in the Effects of Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy to Reduce Weight and Improve Glucose Regulation.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Coffee, Green Tea May Help Against Type 2 Diabetes.
• Study: Additive Associations of Green Tea and Coffee with All-cause Mortality. Type 2 Diabetes Was Not the Outcome; Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Increased Wholegrain Intake Does Not Reduce Blood Pressure and Other Markers of Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Unmedicated Pre-hypertensive/stage 1 Hypertensive Volunteers.
• Systematic Review: "Our findings question the traditional view of AB as a trait-like index of preoccupation with food and have implications for novel theoretical perspectives on the role of food AB in appetite control and obesity."
• Systematic Review: "Step-count monitoring leads to short and long-term step-count increases, with no evidence that either body-worn trackers/smartphone applications, or additional counselling/incentives offer further benefit over simpler pedometer-based interventions."
• "Sibling differences in compensation for energy from sweetened beverages were not associated with differences in their adiposity."
• "Personal and psychological correlates of mis-reporting identified displayed no clear pattern across studies or dietary assessment techniques, and had little utility in predicting mis-reporting."
• Meta-analysis: Kinesio Taping Does Not Improve Ankle Functional or Performance in People with or Without Ankle Injuries.
• RCT: Six Months Vitamin K Treatment Does Not Affect Systemic Arterial Calcification or Bone Mineral Density in Diabetes Mellitus 2.
• "Contrary to our expectations, hypercarnivores display a higher disparity for the skull than generalist species."

Basic

• Central Ceramide Signaling Mediates Obesity-Induced Precocious Puberty.
• Short-term Protein Restriction at Advanced Age Stimulates FGF21 Signalling, Energy Expenditure and Browning of White Adipose Tissue.
• PHOSPHO1 Is a Skeletal Regulator of Insulin Resistance and Obesity.
• Iodine Deficiency Increases Fat Contribution to Energy Expenditure in Male Mice.
• Chronic N-3 Fatty Acid Intake Enhances Insulin Response to Oral Glucose and Elevates GLP-1 in High-Fat Diet-Fed Obese Mice.
• Gut Microbiota Mediated-xanthine Metabolism Is Associated with Resistance to High-fat Diet Induced Obesity.
• PHOSPHO1 Is a Skeletal Regulator of Insulin Resistance and Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• PubPeer Comment On: "SIDT1-dependent absorption in the stomach mediates host uptake of dietary and orally administered microRNAs."
• Expression of Concern from the AJCN Editorial Office About: Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation on Glucose Metabolism, Lipid Concentrations, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Gestational Diabetes: A Double-blind Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.
• Expression of Concern from the AJCN Editorial Office About: Magnesium Supplementation Affects Metabolic Status and Pregnancy Outcomes in Gestational Diabetes: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial.
• Paper Suggesting Vitamin D Might Protect Against COVID-19 Earns an Expression of Concern.

Clinical

• "These data suggest that participants engaged in health-related research perceive COVID-19 as a significant threat, affecting mental health, desire to participate in research, and ability to adhere to intervention recommendations."
• Usefulness of the Edmonton Obesity Staging System for Stratifying the Presence and Severity of Weight-related Health Problems in Clinical and Community Settings: A Rapid Review.
• Emerging Insights in Weight Management and Prevention: Implications for Practice and Research.
• Meta-analysis: The Impact of Adult Behavioural Weight Management Interventions on Mental Health.
• High Protein Calorie Restriction Diet Alters the Gut Microbiome in Obesity.
• Effects of Fish-Oil and Curcumin Supplementation on Cognitive Performance in Middle-Aged and Older Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• The Obesity-Susceptibility Gene TMEM18 Promotes Adipogenesis Through Activation of PPARG.
• Latent Profiles of Health Behaviors in Rural Children with Overweight and Obesity.
• RWJF Report: State of Childhood Obesity. (pdf)
• Commentary: Pediatric Undernutrition Defined by Body Composition—are We There Yet?

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery Outcomes in Patients with Previous Organ Transplant: Scoping Review and Analysis of the MBSAQIP.
• Life Expectancy After Bariatric Surgery in the Swedish Obese Subjects Study.
• Modeling the Impact of Delaying Bariatric Surgery Due to COVID-19: A Decision Analysis.
• Patient Adherence to Multivitamin Supplementation After Bariatric Surgery: A Narrative Review.

Drugs

• Kisspeptin-52 Partially Rescues the Activity of the Hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal Axis in Underweight Male Rats Dosed with an Anti-obesity Compound.
• Overcoming Obesity: Weight-loss Drugs are Underused.
• The Risk of Cardiovascular Complications with Current Obesity Drugs.
• Anti-obesity Effect of Plant Diterpenes and Their Derivatives: A Review.

Food & Diet

• Nutritional Value of the Middle Eastern Diet: Analysis of Total Sugar, Salt, and Iron in Lebanese Traditional Dishes.
• Biomarker-estimated Flavan-3-ol Intake Is Associated with Lower Blood Pressure in Cross-sectional Analysis in EPIC Norfolk.
• RCT: Blood Orange Juice Consumption Increases Flow-Mediated Dilation in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Higher Eating Frequency Is Associated with Lower Adiposity and Robust Circadian Rhythms: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Replacing the Consumption of Red Meat with Other Major Dietary Protein Sources and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• A High Protein Calorie Restriction Diet Alters the Gut Microbiome in Obesity.
• RCT: Adults Who are Overweight or Obese and Consuming an Energy-Restricted Healthy US-Style Eating Pattern at Either the Recommended or a Higher Protein Quantity Perceive a Shift from “Poor” to “Good” Sleep.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Report: Time-Restricted Feeding Mice a High-fat Diet Induces a Unique Lipidomic Profile.
• 1‑Kestose Supplementation Mitigates the Progressive Deterioration of Glucose Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetes OLETF Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Exercise Treatment Effect Modifiers in Persistent Low Back Pain.
• A Swedish Primary Healthcare Prevention Programme Focusing on Promotion of Physical Activity and a Healthy Lifestyle Reduced Cardiovascular Events and Mortality.
• RCT: Potato Ingestion Is as Effective as Carbohydrate Gels to Support Prolonged Cycling Performance.
• Combining Leisure, Occupational, Household, and Transportation Physical Activity Assessments in U.S. Adults, NHANES 2011-2016.
• Monitoring State-Level Changes in Walking, Biking, and Taking Public Transit to Work — American Community Survey, 2006 and 2017.
• Contralateral Effects of Eccentric Resistance Training on Immobilized Arm.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Environment and Obesity on the US West and East Coasts.
• Association of Geographic Differences in Prevalence of Uncontrolled Chronic Conditions with Changes in Individuals’ Likelihood of Uncontrolled Chronic Conditions.
• cRCT: The Effects of Financial Incentives on Diabetes Prevention Program Attendance and Weight Loss Among Low-income Patients.
• Tracking Preschoolers’ Lifestyle Behaviors and Testing Maternal Sociodemographics and BMI in Predicting Child Obesity Risk.
• Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors for Spousal Resemblance in Obesity Status in China.
• Cost–utility and Cost–benefit Analyses of School-based Obesity Prevention Program.

Epidemiology

• Causal Associations between Urinary Sodium with Body Mass, Shape and Composition: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Ultra-processed Food Consumption and Risk of Obesity: A Prospective Cohort Study of UK Biobank.
• Incident Impaired Cognitive Function in Sarcopenic Obesity: Data from the National Health and Aging Trends Survey.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Evaluation of Cognitive Performance Following Fish-Oil and Curcumin Supplementation in Middle-Aged and Older Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: The Impact of Adult Behavioural Weight Management Interventions on Mental Health.
• Higher BMI, but Not Obesity-related Genetic Polymorphisms, Correlates with Lower Structural Connectivity of the Reward Network in a Population-based Study.
• BMI, Functional and Cognitive Status in a Cohort of Nonagenarians: Results from the Mugello Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Age and Gender Specific Association between Obesity and Depressive Symptoms: A Large-scale Cross-sectional Study.
• The Hispanic Paradox in the Prevalence of Obesity at the County-level.
• The Hunger-obesity Paradox: Exploring Food Banking System Characteristics and Obesity Inequities Among Food-insecure Pantry Clients.
• Can Poverty Status Explain Obesity in Developing Countries? Evidence from Ghana.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma in Youth: Prevalence, Consequences, and Considerations for Clinical Practice.
• Associations between Weight Talk Exposure and Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors Among Young Adults.
• A Matter of Justice: “Fat” Is Not Necessarily a Bad Word.

Policy Related

• Eating Behavior and Food Purchases During the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Cross-sectional Study Among Adults in the Netherlands.
• Describing the Process and Tools Adopted to Cocreate a Smartphone App for Obesity Prevention in Childhood: Mixed Method Study.

Intergenerational Effects

• Understanding Maternal Mortality in Women with Obesity and the Role of Care They Receive: A National Case-control Study.
• Association of Maternal Prepregnancy Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus with Congenital Anomalies of the Newborn.
• Associations of Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Bioactive Proteins with Infant Growth and Development Among Malawian Mother-infant Dyads.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Fecal Microbiota in Client-owned Obese Dogs Changes After Weight Loss with a High-fiber-high-protein Diet.
• Review: Low Energy Availability: History, Definition and Evidence of Its Endocrine, Metabolic and Physiological Effects in Prospective Studies in Females and Males.
• The Relationship between Longevity and Diet Is Genotype Dependent and Sensitive to Desiccation in Drosophila Melanogaster.

Methods

• Postural Stability in Obese Preoperative Bariatric Patients Using Static and Dynamic Evaluation.
• An Assessment of the Novel COVISTRESS Questionnaire: COVID-19 Impact on Physical Activity, Sedentary Action and Psychological Emotion.
• RCT: Counselor Surveillance of Digital Self-Monitoring Data.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Obesity Prevalence in the Long-Term Future in 18 European Countries and in the USA.
• Healthy Diet Recommendation Via Food-Nutrition-Recipe Graph Mining.

Commentary

• The Obesity Era.
• The Body Fires 'blobs of Fat' Packed with Toxic Proteins to Fight Bacteria.
• Hitting the Mute Button on Weight-Based Bullying.
• The Untidy Reality of Living Larger in a Lockdown.
• Can We Build an Evidence Base on the Impact of Systems Thinking for Wicked Problems?
• Translating Research on Diabetes and Obesity in Pregnancy into Prevention: The 2019 Norbert Freinkel Award Lecture.
• Childhood Obesity in the Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities.
• Use of Beetroot Juice Extract for Hypertension Treatment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

General

• Living on the Edge: Lower Thermal Quality but Greater Survival Probability at High Altitude Mountain for the Mesquite Lizard (Sceloporus Grammicus).
• Preprint: Where are the Self-Correcting Mechanisms in Science?
• Effects of Women’s Short-Term Mating Orientation and Self-Perceived Attractiveness in Rating and Viewing Men’s Waist to Chest Ratios.
• Improving Open and Rigorous Science: Ten Key Future Research Opportunities Related to Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency in Scientific Research.
• Wasp Venom Used to Potentially Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.
• Report: 130,000 – 210,000 Avoidable COVID-19 Deaths – and Counting – in the U.S. (pdf)
• Reviving Cells After a Heart Attack.
• Some Male Fish Use Tail Fin to ‘fan’ Rival Sperm Off Eggs: Study.

Video & Audio

• APHA 2020 Virtual Presentation: The Association between BMI and Mortality Across Generations.
• Preventing cardiovascular disease and the risk of too much exercise.

Announcements

• Article Collection: Nutrition, Sleep, & Time.
• AFAR Receives Renewal Award from NIA to Pursue Research into the Biology of Aging.
• Webinar: Science Is Self-Correcting- but the Record Is Not. Opportunities for Improvement for Journals and Scientists - Friday, November 13, 1:30-3:00 P.m. ET.
• Nutrition 2021 in Boston, July 10 – 13, 2021.
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.
• Opportunity at IU: New Director of Facilities and Safety Management!
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites National Applications for the Position of Associate Dean for Research and Tenured Full Professor.

Featured

• Can a Brief Assessment of Social Support Predict Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery?
• The Antidiabetic Agent Acarbose Improves Anti-PD-1 and Rapamycin Efficacy in Preclinical Renal Cancer.
• Quantile-dependent Expressivity of Plasma Adiponectin Concentrations May Explain Its Sex-specific Heritability, Gene-environment Interactions, and Genotype-specific Response to Postprandial Lipemia.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: The #1 Thing That Drives Your Weight Gain, Says New Study.
• Study: Neural Correlates (not Necessarily Causes) of Future Weight Loss Reveal a Possible Role for Brain-gastric Interactions. #1 Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "A high salt meal does not impair cerebrovascular reactivity in healthy young adults."
• Preschool Healthy Food Policy Did Not Increase Percent of Food Wasted: Evidence from the Carolinas.
• RCT: Whey Protein Supplementation Does Not Accelerate Recovery from a Single Bout of Eccentric Exercise.
• RCT: "Contrary to predictions, all three animations were comparably effective [OR EQUALLY INEFFECTIVE] at eliciting intervention effects."
• Revisiting the Effects of Sugar Taxes on Sugary Drink Consumption: Evidence from the Random-Coefficient Demand Mode.
• "Contrary to this argument, the author finds no spillover effect to other types of food processing firms."
• "...contrary to females, male mice lacking circadian nuclear receptors REV-ERB alpha and beta in the tuberal hypothalamus (HDKO) gained excessive weight on an obesogenic high fat diet due to both decreased energy expenditure and increased food intake during the light phase."
• CART Decreases Islet Blood Flow, but Has No Effect on Total Pancreatic Blood Flow and Glucose Tolerance in Anesthetized Rats.

Basic

• The P2X7 Ion Channel Is Dispensable for Energy and Metabolic Homeostasis of White and Brown Adipose Tissues.
• Reduced Mitochondrial Translation Prevents Diet-Induced Metabolic Dysfunction but Not Inflammation.
• Chronic Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor (GIPR) Agonism Desensitizes Adipocyte GIPR Activity Mimicking Functional GIPR Antagonism.
• Increased Whole Body Energy Expenditure and Protection Against Diet-Induced Obesity in Cyp8b1-Deficient Mice Is Accompanied by Altered Adipose Tissue Features.
• Review: Sex Differences in Behavioral and Metabolic Effects of Gene Inactivation: The Neuropeptide Y and Y Receptors in the Brain.
• Adaptive Thermogenesis Enhances the Life-Threatening Response to Heat in Mice with an Ryr1 Mutation.
• Association of Apolipoprotein E Gene Polymorphism with the Risk of T2DM and Obesity Among Egyptian Subjects.
• Emergent Coordination of the CHKB and CPT1B Genes in Eutherian Mammals: Implications for the Origin of Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Glutamine Metabolism in Adipocytes: A Bona Fide Epigenetic Modulator of Inflammation.
• A Feedback Loop Governs the Relationship between Lipid Metabolism and Longevity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Nutrition Study Design Issues—Important Issues for Interpretation.
• Letter: Current Methods Inadequate in Assessing the Association between Junk Food Intake and Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Letter to Editor.
• Nutritional Profile of Rodent Diets Impacts Experimental Reproducibility in Microbiome Preclinical Research.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Efficacy and Safety of a Specific Commercial High-protein Meal-replacement Product Line in Weight Management.
• Systematic Review: Effects of Partial Sleep Deprivation on Dietary Energy Intake in a Healthy Population.
• RCT: The Combined Effects of Probiotics and Restricted Calorie Diet on the Anthropometric Indices, Eating Behavior, and Hormone Levels of Women with Obesity and Food Addiction.
• Leptin Alters Energy Intake and Fat Mass but Not Energy Expenditure in Lean Subjects.
• Rural Family Medicine Clinicians' Motivations to Participate in a Pragmatic Obesity Trial.

Children and Adolescents

• Fat Mass and Fat-free Mass New Equations for Hispanic Children 7-8 Years of Age.
• Dissertation: Diet and Exercise: Its Effects on Obesity in Children.
• Food Insecurity and Pediatric Obesity: A Double Whammy in the Era of COVID-19.
• Nucleus Accumbens Cytoarchitecture Predicts Weight Gain in Children.
• Caesarean Delivery Increases the Risk of Overweight or Obesity in 2-year-old Children.
• Ecological Factors and Strategies for Childhood Obesity Prevention Targeting Vulnerable Children: Using Community-Based Participatory Research.

Surgery

• The Use of Visceral Adiposity Index to Predict Diabetes Remission in Low BMI Chinese Patients After Bariatric Surgery.
• Robotic-Assisted Surgery Results in a Shorter Hospital Stay Following Revisional Bariatric Surgery.
• Bariatric Surgery and Type 1 Diabetes: Unanswered Questions.

Drugs

• Leptin Alters Energy Intake and Fat Mass but Not Energy Expenditure in Lean Subjects.
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Medications and BMI Trajectories: The Role of Medication Type, Sex and Age.
• The Limits and Challenges of Antiobesity Pharmacotherapy.
• Early Hepatic Gene Expression Profile of Lipid Metabolism of Mice on High Fat Diet After Treatment with Anti-Obesity Drugs.
• Obesity Medications: Pharmaco-Economical Outline.

Food & Diet

• High Consumption of Red Meat Is Associated with Excess Mortality Among African-American Women.
• Systematic Review: Effect of Dairy Intake with or Without Energy Restriction on Body Composition of Adults: Overview of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses of RCTs.
• Ultra-processed Food Consumption and Risk of Obesity: A Prospective Cohort Study of UK Biobank.
• Systematic Review: Whole Grain Food Definition Effects on Determining Associations of Whole Grain Intake and Body Weight Changes.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Extends Lifespan of Mothers at the Expense of Offspring Survival in a Predatory Mite (Neoseiulus Cucumeris).
• Systematic Review: The Potential of Fasting and Caloric Restriction to Mitigate Radiation Damage.
• Whole-body Electromyostimulation Plus Caloric Restriction in Metabolic Syndrome.
• Systematic Review: Effect of Alternate-day Fasting on Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Heat Versus Altitude Training for Endurance Performance at Sea-Level.
• Systematic Review: Which Physical Exercise Interventions Increase HDL-Cholesterol Levels?

Economics & Sociology

• Spatial Patterns of Childhood Obesity Prevalence in Relation to Socioeconomic Factors Across England.
• Improvements in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Conditions May Improve Resident Diet.
• Preprint: Sex Differences in the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Metabolic Syndrome in Rural China: An Updated Cross-Sectional Study.

Epidemiology

• A Life Course Approach to Elucidate the Role of Adiposity in Asthma Risk: Evidence from a Mendelian Randomisation Study.
• Associations of Staple Food Consumption and Types of Cooking Oil with Waist Circumference and BMI in Older Chinese Men and Women: A Panel Analysis.
• BMI and All-Cause Mortality in a Population-Based Cohort in Rural South Africa.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Brain Connectivity, and Hormonal and Behavioral Correlates of Sustained Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• How Is Obesity Associated with Happiness? Evidence from China.
• Pilot Study of a Treatment Using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills for Adults with Overweight/Obesity and Emotional Eating.
• Weight Discordant Siblings’ Ability to Reduce Energy Intake at a Meal as Compensation for Prior Energy Intake from Sugar-sweetened Beverages (SSBs).
• Contributions of Emotional Overload, Emotion Dysregulation, and Impulsivity to Eating Patterns in Patients with Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder Seeking Bariatric Surgery.
• High-Fat and High-Sucrose Diets Impair Time-of-Day Differences in Spatial Working Memory of Male Mice.
• Anxiety and Eating Behaviors: Mediating Effect of Ethnic Identity and Acculturation Stress.

Equity and Disparities

• Beyond Maternal Education: Socio-economic Inequalities in Children’s Diet in the ABCD Cohort.
• Racial Discrimination, Racial Identity, and Obesity in Collegiate African American Women.
• Reframing the Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Narrative Through an Equitable Nurturing Approach.
• Trends and Inequalities in the Nutritional Status of Adolescent Girls and Adult Women in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 2000: A Cross-sectional Series Study.
• Systematic Review: Differential Exposure To, and Potential Impact Of, Unhealthy Advertising to Children by Socio-economic and Ethnic Groups.
• Ethnicity, Neighborhood and Individual Socioeconomic Status, and Obesity: The Singapore Multiethnic Cohort.

Stigma

• Guidelines for Caregivers and Healthcare Professionals on Speaking to Children About Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review of the Gray Literature.
• Disinhibition and Subjective Hunger as Mediators between Weight Bias Internalization and Binge Eating Among Pre-Surgical Bariatric Patients.
• Weight-based Teasing in Youth: Associations with Metabolic and Inflammatory Markers.
• Internalized Weight Bias and Suicidality are Associated Indirectly Via Perceived Burdensomeness and Thwarted Belongingness.

Policy Related

• Study of the Effect of Family Communication and Function, and Satisfaction with Body Image, on Psychological Well-being of Girls with Obesity: The Mediating Role of Self-esteem and Depression.
• Development of a Conceptual Model for Interpretation of Monitoring Indicators of Childhood Obesity Prevention from the Italian National Prevention Plan.

Intergenerational Effects

• Associations between Gestational Weight Gain and Preterm Birth in Puerto Rico.
• Associations of Maternal Soy Product Consumption and Urinary Isoflavone Concentrations with Neonatal Anthropometry.
• Maternal and Infant Prediction of the Child BMI Trajectories; Studies Across Two Generations of Northern Finland Birth Cohorts.
• Our Mothers are Dying: The Current State of Maternal Mortality in Hawai'i and the United States. (pdf)
• Parental Mental Health Before and During Pregnancy and Offspring Birth Outcomes: A 20-year Preconception Cohort of Maternal and Paternal Exposure.
• The Role of Obesity and Gestational Diabetes on Placental Size and Fetal Oxygenation.
• Mid-pregnancy Weight Gain Is Associated with Offspring Adiposity Outcomes in Early Childhood.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Field Data Confirm the Ability of a Biophysical Model to Predict Wild Primate Body Temperature.
• Metabolic and Behavioral Adaptations of Greater White-toothed Shrews to Urban Conditions.

Methods

• Development and Psychometric Evaluation of an Empirically-derived Daily Checklist of Weight Control: Consumption-reduction Strategies and Health-focused Strategies in College Students.
• Development and Evaluation of Mixed Reality Co-eating System: Sharing the Behavior of Eating Food with a Robot Could Improve Our Dining Experience.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Commentary: Objective Numbers for Health, Nutrition, and Obesity?
• The Assessment of Supportive Accountability in Adults Seeking Obesity Treatment: Psychometric Validation Stud.

Commentary

• Diet More Vital Than Ever.
• Bariatric Surgery? Only If You Want a Longer Life.
• Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda Prevented Obesity.
• Studies Find Even Minimal Physical Activity Measurably Boosts Health.
• Editorial Comment: Impact of Obesity on Perioperative Outcomes at Robotic-assisted and Open Radical Prostatectomy: Results from the National Inpatient Sample. (pdf)
• Neuroscience - Obesity.
• An (Auto)Taxing Effort to Mechanistically Link Obesity and Calcific Aortic Valve Disease.
• Chrono-Nutrition: An Idea Whose Time Has Come. (pdf)

General

• Editorial: Dying in a Leadership Vacuum.
• Safe Sisters: A Sorority-Based Bystander Intervention Program to Prevent Sexual Assault.
• Kidney Physiology and Pathophysiology During Heat Stress and the Modification by Exercise, Dehydration, Heat Acclimation and Aging.
• Extra-pair Paternity and Antiparasitic Defense.
• How Venus Flytraps Store Short-term ‘memories’ of Prey.
• Millions of Animals May Be Missing from Scientific Studies.
• When Fiction Becomes Fact: Exaggerating Host Manipulation by Parasites.
• Preprint: "Improving open and rigorous science: ten key future research opportunities related to rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in scientific research"

Video & Audio

• Video: "Does Science Self-Correct? What We've Learned at Retraction Watch".
• Video: Dr. Peter Attia's Insights on Dr. Weiss' JAMA Internal Medicine Study on Time Restricted Feeding.

Announcements

• IU Professor Named 2020 MacArthur Fellow, Receives $625,000 'genius Grant'.
• New Book: Salt Wars: The Battle over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet.
• IU Working to Address Food Insecurity Exacerbated by Pandemic.
• Internationally Known Educator and Researcher Esther F. Myers Receives Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Highest Honor.
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.
• Opportunity at IU: New Director of Facilities and Safety Management!
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites National Applications for the Position of Associate Dean for Research and Tenured Full Professor.