Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Aging, Obesity, and Motor Vehicle Collisions.
• Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors and Caloric Restriction—Common Pathways Affecting Metabolism, Health, and Longevity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Chocolate Is Good for the Heart – “Chocolate Helps Keep the Heart’s Blood Vessels Healthy”.
• Study: Meta-analysis of Associations between Self-reported Chocolate Consumption and Coronary Artery Disease. Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Even a high-quality nutritional educational intervention tailored to adolescents within an empowerment programme does not assure improved nutritional outcomes."
• RCT: "These results do not support the use of intravenous dextrose as a satisfactory alternative to ondansetron to prevent POV in ambulatory pediatric dental surgery patients."
• RCT: "Sucralose intake is not associated with changes in fasting concentrations of glucagon-like peptide 1, ghrelin, peptide tyrosine tyrosine, or leptin."
• RCT: "Consumption of 2 portions of fish per week has beneficial effects on biological n-3 PUFA concentrations in women of childbearing age; however, no effects on oxidative stress, inflammation or lipid profile were observed."
• RCT: In A tele-health intervention to increase physical fitness in people with spinal cord injury and cardiometabolic disease or risk factors, "The study did not meet key efficacy and feasibility objectives..."
• RCT: "There was no evidence for effect on zBMI, waist circumference z-score or physical activity...[in a]..study aimed to assess post-intervention effects of the Melbourne INFANT Program to child age 5y on diet, movement and adiposity."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Single Nutritional Intervention Previous to a Critical Period of Fat Gain in University Students with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: "Based on an intent-to-treat analysis using mixed effects models, we observed no differences in pattern of change in PA intensity and type over time between intervention groups (all p > 0.10)."

Basic

• Moderate Aerobic Exercise-induced Cytokines Changes are Disturbed in PPARα Knockout Mice.
• Adipose Depot-specific Upregulation of Ucp1 or Mitochondrial Oxidative Complex Proteins are Early Consequences of Genetic Insulin Reduction in Mice.
• A Leptin–BDNF Pathway Regulating Sympathetic Innervation of Adipose Tissue.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections.
• PubPeer Comment on: Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections.
• Are Questionable Research Practices Facilitating New Discoveries in Sport and Exercise Medicine? The Proportion of Supported Hypotheses Is Implausibly High.

Clinical

• Change in Weight, BMI, and Body Composition in a Population-Based Intervention Versus Genetic-Based Intervention: The NOW Trial.
• Intermittent Fasting and Metabolic Health: From Religious Fast to Time-Restricted Feeding.
• The Impact of Obesity on COVID-19 Complications: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• SARS-CoV-2-host Dynamics: Increased Risk of Adverse Outcomes of COVID-19 in Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Caloric Restriction in Heart Failure.
• Interventions for the Management of Obesity in People with Bipolar Disorder.
• Effects of Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy on BMI in Transgender Individuals: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
• RCT: Fitness, Strength and Body Composition During Weight Loss in Women with Clinically Severe Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Adiponectin and Leptin Gene Variants and Their Effects on Body Weight Trajectories in Children From Birth to Six Years of Age: The PREDI Study.
• Food Insecurity Is Associated with Increased Weight Loss Attempts in Children and Adolescents.
• Sensitization of the Reinforcing Value of Food: A Novel Risk Factor for Overweight in Adolescents.
• Does Proximity to Fast Food Cause Childhood Obesity? Evidence From Public Housing.

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery Impact on Reproductive Hormones, Semen Analysis, and Sperm DNA Fragmentation in Men with Severe Obesity: Prospective Study.
• Reversal of Long-Term Weight Regain After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Using Liraglutide or Surgical Revision: A Prospective Study.
• 5-Year Results of Banded One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass: A Pilot Study.
• Bariatric Surgery Impact on Reproductive Hormones, Semen Analysis, and Sperm DNA Fragmentation in Men with Severe Obesity: Prospective Study.

Drugs

• Smarter Modeling to Enable a Smarter Insulin. (pdf)
• Deciphering the Association between Psoriasis and Obesity: Current Evidence and Treatment Considerations.
• Drug Therapy in Obesity: A Review of Current and Emerging Treatments.
• Liraglutide Is an Effective Drug for the Treatment of Obesity Also in Real Life.
• Respiratory Outcomes of Metformin Use in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
• Metformin-induced Increases in GDF15 are Important for Suppressing Appetite and Promoting Weight Loss.

Food & Diet

• The Future of Food Looks Small, Dense, and Very Bushy.
• Review: Traditional Self-Reported Dietary Instruments are Prone to Inaccuracies and New Approaches are Needed.
• Meta-analysis: The Effect of Magnesium Supplementation on Anthropometric Indices.
• Review: Modulation of the Gut Microbiota by Olive Oil Phenolic Compounds: Implications for Lipid Metabolism, Immune System, and Obesity.
• Association between Unhealthy Plant-based Diets and Metabolic Syndrome in Adult Men and Women: A Population-based Study in South Korea.
• Meta-analysis: Intake of Sugar-Sweetened and Low-Calorie Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Dynamics of Breast Tumor Incidence, Tumor Volume and Serum Metabolic Hormones in Calorie Restricted Rats.
• Persistent Renin-Angiotensin System Sensitization Months After Body Weight Recovery from Severe Food Restriction in Female Fischer Rats.
• Calorie Restriction Increases the Number of Competing Stem Cells and Decreases Mutation Retention in the Intestine.
• Narrative Review: Cognitive Impact of Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Glucose Levels as a Mediator of the Detrimental Effect of Abdominal Obesity on Relative Handgrip Strength in Older Adults.
• Do Neighbourhood Characteristics Act Together to Influence BMI? A Cross-sectional Study of Urban Parks and Takeaway/fast-food Stores as Modifiers of the Effect of Physical Activity Facilities.

Economics & Sociology

• Race/ethnicity, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Cardio-metabolic Risk.
• The “battle of Sexes” Construct Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews: What Is the Optimal Number of Children for a Minimal BMI?
• Factors Affecting Canine Obesity Seem to Be Independent of the Economic Status of the Country—A Survey on Hungarian Companion Dogs.

Epidemiology

• Using a Sibling-adoption Design to Parse Genetic and Environmental Influences on Children’s BMI.
• The Levels of Phthalate Exposure and Associations with Obesity in an Elderly Population in China.
• Smoking, Obesity, and Their Co-occurrence in the U.S. Military Veterans: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.
• Systematic Review: The Relationship of Prenatal and Infant Antibiotic Exposure with Childhood Overweight and Obesity.
• BMI and Risk for Intubation or Death in SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
• Distinct Phenotypic Characteristics of Normal-weight Adults at Risk of Developing Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases.
• Discovery and Mediation Analysis of Cross-Phenotype Associations with Asthma and BMI in 12q13.2.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• A Distinct Brain-Gut-Microbiome Profile Exists for Females with Obesity and Food Addiction.
• Dishonesty Is More Affected by BMI Status Than by Short-term Changes in Glucose.
• Depressive Symptoms Rather Than Executive Functioning Predict Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Outcome in Binge Eating Disorder.
• Review: Psychiatric Aspects of Obesity: A Narrative Review of Pathophysiology and Psychopathology.
• Child Neurobiology Impacts Success in Family-based Behavioral Treatment for Children with Obesity.
• Obesity May Connect Insulin Resistance to Decreased Neuronal Viability in Human Diabetic Brain.

Equity and Disparities

• The Impact of Obesity on COVID-19 Complications: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Feasibility of a Social Media-based Weight Loss Intervention Designed for Low-SES Adults.
• Covid-19 and Disparities in Nutrition and Obesity.

Ethics

• The Ethics of Excise Taxes on Sugar-sweetened Beverages.

Stigma

• Experiences of Discrimination are Associated with Worse Metabolic Syndrome Severity Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study.
• Exploring Patient Beliefs and Perceptions Regarding Obesity as a Disease, Obesity Causation and Treatment.
• Psychological and Social Functioning are Associated with Reports of Perceived Weight Discrimination Across Eight Years.
• The Use of Stigmatizing Messaging in Anti-Obesity Communications Campaigns: Quantification of Obesity Stigmatization.

Policy Related

• FDA Announces Qualified Health Claim for Certain Cranberry Products and Urinary Tract Infections.
• Tracking the Consolidation of U.S. Agriculture.
• Obesity: Have 20 Years of Policies Had Any Effect?
• The Influence of the Sugar-sweetened Beverage Industry on Public Policies in Mexico.

Intergenerational Effects

• Changes in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Before and After Gestational Diabetes: A Prospective Life-Course Analysis in CARDIA Women.
• Association of Maternal Sleep Before and During Pregnancy with Preterm Birth and Early Infant Sleep and Temperament.
• Infants with Big Appetites: The Role of a Nonfood Environment on Infant Appetitive Traits Linked to Obesity.
• Third-Trimester Glucose Homeostasis in Healthy Women Is Differentially Associated with Human Milk Oligosaccharide Composition at 2 Months Postpartum by Secretor Phenotype.
• Maternal High Linoleic Acid Alters Placental Fatty Acid Composition.
• Maternal Obesity: Focus on Offspring Cardiometabolic Outcomes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Coupling of Energy Intake and Energy Expenditure Across a Temperature Spectrum: Impact of Diet-induced Obesity in Mice.
• Effects of Temperature on Lifespan of Drosophila Melanogaster From Different Genetic Backgrounds: Links between Metabolic Rate and Longevity.
• Body Temperature, Heart Rate, and Activity Patterns of Two Boreal Homeotherms in Winter: Homeostasis, Allostasis, and Ecological Coexistence.

Methods

• How Shape-based Anthropometry Can Complement Traditional Anthropometric Techniques: A Cross-sectional Study.
• The Combined Used of Quantitative and Qualitative Longitudinal Methods in the Study of Obesity.
• Estimation of Body Fat Percentage Using Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithms.
• Association of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Sleep with Unhealthy Aging: Consistent Results for Device-measured and Self-reported Behaviors Using Isotemporal Substitution Models.
• The Relevance of BMI in Forensic Age Assessment of Living Individuals: An Age-adjusted Linear Regression Analysis Using Multivariable Fractional Polynomials.

Commentary

• Study Explains How a Fat Cell's Immune Response Makes Obesity Worse.
• When Obesity, COVID-19, and Health Disparities Collide.
• A Rapid Weight Loss Plan for the UK?
• Constitutional Thinness: TALKing the TALK or WALKing the WALK? (pdf)
• A New Theory on Exercise's Anti-Cancer Effect.
• Disparities in Obesity: The View From an Ivory Tower.
• Tailors Know New Yorkers’ Pandemic Secret: ‘Everybody Got Fat!’
• Strengthening Federal Nutrition Research: Request for Stakeholder Input.
• Covid-19: England’s Obesity Strategy Will Fail Without Tackling Social Factors, Warn Doctors.
• Cabbage Crowned, Lettuce Loses in Nutrition Correlation.
• Making Sense of Obesity and Bad COVID Outcomes.

General

• Immoral-like Behavior in Animals.
• Using Bayes Factor Hypothesis Testing in Neuroscience to Establish Evidence of Absence.
• Microfinance and Peer Health Leadership Intervention Implementation for Men in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: A Qualitative Assessment of Perceived Economic and Health Outcomes.
• Developing and Validating a Novel Anonymous Method for Matching Longitudinal School-Based Data.
• Tech Firms Hire 'Red Teams.' Scientists Should, Too.
• The Beef Merit of the Sire Mated to a Dairy Female Affects Her Subsequent Performance.
• Researchers Discover Two Paths of Aging, and New Insights on Promoting Healthspan.
• Climate Intervention Offers Some Crop Benefits, but Abruptly Ending It May Backfire.

Announcements

• Fundamentals of Obesity Treatment Virtual Course [Aug 7-8].
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.

Featured

• Obituary: Lupton, Dr. Joanne R. - a Gracious and Accomplished Colleague Passes.
• The Soluble Adenylyl Cyclase Inhibitor LRE1 Prevents Hepatic Ischemia/Reperfusion Damage Through Improvement of Mitochondrial Function.
• Physical Activity-mediated Associations between Perceived Neighborhood Social Environment and Depressive Symptoms.
• Intake of Whole Grain Foods and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Eating Sauerkraut, Coleslaw and Raw Cabbage ‘Could Protect Against Coronavirus’.
• Study: Preprint: Ecological Associations between Estimated Fermented Vegetable Intake and COVID-19 Mortality.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Supplementation with low-fat, calcium + vitamin D3 fortified milk and a multi-modal exercise program, alone or in combination, was not effective for improving BP or blood lipids in community-dwelling middle-aged and older men."
• RCT: "Mixed-design ANOVAs indicated that mindfulness, food neophobia and anxiety did not change over time in each trial arm."
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Effects of Zataria Oxymel on Obesity Indices.
• RCT: Null Results of Exergaming on Cognitive and Social Functioning of People with Dementia. (pdf)
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, we found that better transitional care and continuity of care were associated with higher odds of readmission" in patients with eating disorders.
• "Contrary to common thinking, the higher costs normally associated with sustainable sourcing were diluted by the higher margins and low weight of sustainable ingredients in the total operational costs."
• RCT: Oil Supplementation with a Special Combination of N-3 and N-6 Long-chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Does Not Protect for Exercise Induced Asthma.
• RCT: Tofogliflozin Does Not Delay Progression of Carotid Atherosclerosis in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Basic

• Inhibition of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Activation Suppresses High Fat Diet-Induced Weight Gain Via Alleviation of Hypothalamic Leptin Resistance.
• Effects of SFRP4 Overexpression on the Production of Adipokines in Transgenic Mice.
• PHD3 Loss Promotes Exercise Capacity and Fat Oxidation in Skeletal Muscle.
• The Inhibition of Hepatic Pxr-Oatp2 Pathway Mediating Decreased Hepatic Uptake of Rosuvastatin in Rats with High-fat Diet-induced Obesity.
• Ovariectomy Modifies Lipid Metabolism of Retroperitoneal White Fat in Rats.
• Ion Channel and Structural Remodeling in Obesity: Mediated Atrial Fibrillation.
• High-fat Diet-induced Adipose Tissue Expansion Occurs Prior to Insulin Resistance in C57BL/6J Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Consumption of Cooked Black Beans Stimulates a Cluster of Some Clostridia Class Bacteria Decreasing Inflammatory Response and Improving Insulin Sensitivity.
• Letter: Sucrose Matters. The Need to Make Groups Truly Comparable When Assessing Changes Associated with Insulin Sensitivity. Comment on ”Consumption of Cooked Black Beans Stimulates a Cluster of Some Clostridia Class Bacteria Decreasing Inflammatory Response and Improving Insulin Sensitivity.”.
• Preprint: Improbable Data Patterns in the Work of Barbalho et al..
• Improbable Data Patterns in the Work of Barbalho et al.: An Explainer.
• Retraction: Evidence of a Ceiling Effect for Training Volume in Muscle Hypertrophy and Strength in Trained Men—Less Is More?
• Calling Exercise Data “atypical, Improbable, and to Put It Bluntly, Pretty Weird,” Sleuths Call for Seven Retractions.
• Standardization of Laboratory Practices and Reporting of Biomarker Data in Clinical Nutrition Research.

Clinical

• RCT: Time-Restricted Feeding in Adults with Obesity.
• Consistent Sleep Onset and Maintenance of Body Weight After Weight Loss.

Children and Adolescents

• Associations of Childhood BMI and Change in BMI From Childhood to Adulthood with Risks of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy.
• Postnatal Growth in Extremely Low Birth Weight Newborns: Nature or Nurture?
• Anthropometric Data Quality Assessment in Multisurvey Studies of Child Growth.
• U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Recommends Eggs as a First Food for Babies and Toddlers.
• Flattening the (BMI) Curve: Timing of Child Obesity Onset and Cardiovascular Risk.
• Impact of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act on Obesity Trends.
• Microbiome of the First Stool and Overweight at Age 3 years: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Surgery

• RCT: 10-LB: Dasiglucagon Ameliorates Postprandial Hypoglycemia After Roux-en-y Gastric Bypass.
• COVID-19: Prioritizing Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery.
• Continuous Glucose Monitoring of Glycemic Variability During Fasting Post-Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• New-generation Anti-obesity Drugs: Naltrexone/bupropion and Liraglutide.
• Obesity: Pharmacotherapy.
• Metformin: An Old Drug Against Old Age and Associated Morbidities.
• The Association between Weight-promoting Medication Use and Weight Gain in Postmenopausal Women.

Food & Diet

• Cycles of Attention to Fad Diets and Internet Search Trends by Google Trends.
• Systematic Review: The Nutritional Composition and Energy Content of Donor Human Milk.
• The Genetic Architecture of the Association between Eating Behaviors and Obesity: Combining Genetic Twin Modeling and Polygenic Risk Scores.
• Nutrient Pattern of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Vitamin E Increase Resting Metabolic Rate of Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• The Healthiness and Sustainability of National and Global Food Based Dietary Guidelines: Modelling Study.
• RCT: Long-Term (R)-α-Lipoic Acid Supplementation Promotes Weight Loss in Adults with Overweight or Obesity without Altering Baseline Elevated Plasma Triglyceride Concentrations.
• RCT: Effects of Sugar-Sweetened, Artificially Sweetened, and Unsweetened Beverages on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Body Composition, and Sweet Taste Preference.
• RCT: Polygenic Risk Score for Obesity and the Quality, Quantity, and Timing of Workplace Food Purchases.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Prevention of Mammary Tumorigenesis By Intermittent Caloric Restriction: Does Caloric Intake During Refeeding Modulate the Response?
• Targeting Hepatocyte Carbohydrate Transport to Mimic Fasting and Calorie Restriction.
• Hypocaloric Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets with Fixed Protein Lead to Similar Health Outcomes in Mice with Obesity.
• RCT: An Examination of a Novel Weight Loss Supplement on Anthropometry and Indices of Cardiovascular Disease Risk.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Health and Fitness, No Gym Required.
• Cardiovascular Determinants of Aerobic Exercise Capacity in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Mild Exercise Does Not Prevent Atherosclerosis in APOE*3-Leiden.CETP Mice or Improve Lipoprotein Profile of Men with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Associations between the Neighborhood Social Environment and Obesity Among Adolescents: Do Physical Activity, Screen Time, and Sleep Play a Role?
• Educational Differences in Mortality Associated with Central Obesity: Decomposing the Contribution of Risk and Prevalence.

Epidemiology

• Polygenic Risk Score for Obesity and the Quality, Quantity, and Timing of Workplace Food Purchases: A Secondary Analysis from an RCT.
• Obesity, Menstrual Irregularity and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Young Women with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Obesity-associated T-cell and Macrophage Activation Improve Partly After a Lifestyle Intervention.
• Association of Aldehydes Exposure with Obesity in Adults.
• RCT: Influence of Cinnamon on Glycemic Control in Subjects with Prediabetes.
• Association of High Level Gene Expression of ACE2 in Adipose Tissue with Mortality of COVID-19 Infection in Patients with Obesity.
• Growth Trajectories in Genetic Subtypes of Prader–Willi Syndrome.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effects of Physical Activity and Melatonin on Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor and Cytokine Expression in the Cerebellum of High-fat Diet-fed Rats.
• Body Weight and Self-perception are Associated with Depression.
• Health Behavior Change in the Classroom: A Means to a Healthy End?
• Adolescent Vulnerability to Heightened Emotional Reactivity and Anxiety After Brief Exposure to an Obesogenic Diet.

Equity and Disparities

• What Will It Take to Distribute Food More Equitably?
• In-patient Obesity Diagnosis, Use of Surgical Treatment and Associated Costs by Payer Type in the United States.
• Adolescent Vulnerability to Heightened Emotional Reactivity and Anxiety After Brief Exposure to an Obesogenic Diet.
• Meta-analysis: Socio-economic Inequalities in the Effectiveness of Workplace Health Promotion Programmes on BMI.
• Primary Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents.
• Protocol: Effect of an Innovative Behavioural Change Strategy and Small-quantity Lipid-based Nutrient Supplements on Stunting and Obesity in Children in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Obesity in Brazil.

Stigma

• Language Matters: Patients’ Preferred Terms for Discussing Obesity and Disordered Eating with Health Care Providers After Bariatric Surgery.
• Connections between Friendship Quality, Peer Competence, and Obesity in Early Childhood Through Adolescence.
• Characterizing Lifetime and Daily Experiences of Weight Stigma Among Sexual Minority Women with Overweight and Obesity.

Policy Related

• Strengthening National Nutrition Research: Rationale and Options for a New Coordinated Federal Research Effort and Authority.
• Personal and Psychological Traits Influencing the Willingness to Pay for Food with Nutritional Claims: A Comparison between Vice and Virtue Food Products.
• Strengthening National Nutrition Research: Rationale and Options for a New Coordinated Federal Research Effort and Authority.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Benefits of Probiotic Interventions in Maternal-fetal Health: An Appraise Review.
• Maternal Immune Activation Alters Behavior of Adult Offspring: Sex-Dependent Impairment and Attenuation by Glycan.
• Association of Third Trimester BMI and Pregnancy Weight Gain in Pregnant Women with Obesity to Umbilical Artery Atherosclerotic Markers and Fetal Outcomes.
• The Genes We Inherit and Those We Don’t: Maternal Genetic Nurture and Child BMI Trajectories.
• Exercise-induced 3′-sialyllactose in Breast Milk Is a Critical Mediator to Improve Metabolic Health and Cardiac Function in Mouse Offspring.
• Effectiveness of a Normative Nutrition Intervention in Chilean Pregnant Women on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Sex-Specific Responses of Life Span and Fitness to Variation in Developmental Versus Adult Diets in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• The Energy Budget and Fat Accumulation in Striped Hamsters (Cricetulus Barabensis) During Post-lactation.
• GBA3: A Polymorphic Pseudogene in Humans That Experienced Repeated Gene Loss During Mammalian Evolution.

Methods

• Development and Cross-Validation of Anthropometric Predictive Equations to Estimate Total Body Fat Percentage in Adult Women in Sri Lanka.
• New, Remote Weight-loss Method Helped Slash Pounds.

Commentary

• Calories, Carbs, Quality, and Obesity.
• Thin Privilege and White Fragility.
• New Smartphone App Uses Photos of Meals to Count Calories.
• Tall Children at Higher Risk of Developing Obesity, Says Study.
• A Dangerous Mix: High Ozone Levels and Obesity.
• Adults with Obesity More Likely to Develop H1N1 Influenza.
• PWS Patients with Chromosome 15 Deletions More Prone to Obesity, Study Contends.
• Lifestyle Factors Predict Likelihood of Diet Changes After Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis.

General

• Smoking Behaviors in Survivors of Smoking-Related and Non–Smoking-Related Cancers.
• Free-roaming Dogs Limit Habitat Use of Giant Pandas in Nature Reserves.
• Private Well Water Increases Risk of Lead Exposure in Kids, Study Finds.
• Children Drinking Private Well Water Have Higher Blood Lead Than Those with City Water.
• The Neuroscience of Socioeconomic Inequality.
• Letter: An “alarming” and “exceptionally High” Rate of COVID-19 Retractions?
• Reply: Response to an ‘alarming’ and ‘exceptionally High’ Rate of COVID-19 Retractions? By Oransky.
• BMI Is Racist and Sexist? Yes, Just as Numbers Lie.

Announcements

• IFT: Building Work Relationships in a Virtual Workplace.
• Labeling Requirements and Implications for Foods Marketed in the U.S.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.

Featured

• Telehealth Use Among Community Health Centers and Cardio-Metabolic Health Outcomes.
• Food Insecurity, Gestational Weight Gain and Gestational Diabetes in the National Children’s Study, 2009–2014.
• Naturally Occurring Hormones in Foods and Potential Health Effects.

Headline vs Study

• Nutrimedia: A Novel Web-based Resource for the General Public That Evaluates the Veracity of Nutrition Claims Using the GRADE Approach.
• Headline: Healthier School Food and Physical Activity Affect Kids' BMI.
• Study: Associations between Food and Physical Activity Environments in Schools and BMI Z-score.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Active Travelling to School Is Not Associated with Increased Total Daily Physical Activity Levels, or Reduced Obesity and Cardiovascular/pulmonary Health Parameters in 10-12-year Olds.
• Meta-analysis: "Overall, supplementation with vitamin D produced no significant effect on the BMI, WC or WHR of healthy adults."
• RCT: "There was no statistically significant difference in the reduction of unhealthy attitudes towards sport and problematic exercise behavior between the intervention and the group, as measured with the Commitment to Exercise Scale."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on HBA1C of High-Intensity Interval Training on Glycemic Control in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes and Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Interpretation Bias Modification to Reduce Body Dissatisfaction in Women with Elevated Weight and Shape Concerns.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Calorie Restricted Ketogenic Diet and Fasting in Addition to Re-Irradiation on Progression Free Survival Rate for Malignant Glioma. (pdf)
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Multistrain Probiotic on Gestational Weight Gain in Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• RCT: "Parenteral nutrition using a mixed lipid emulsion containing fish oil did not improve neurodevelopment of ELBW infants at 12 and 24 months corrected age." (pdf)

Basic

• Transcriptome Analysis of the Adipose Tissue in a Mouse Model of Metabolic Syndrome Identifies Gene Signatures Related to Disease Pathogenesis.
• MAPK-Interacting Kinase 2 (MNK2) Regulates Adipocyte Metabolism Independently of Its Catalytic Activity.
• Inositol Polyphosphate Multikinase in Adipocytes Is Dispensable for Regulating Energy Metabolism and Whole-Body Metabolic Homeostasis.
• Dlk1 Expression Relates to Visceral Fat Expansion and Insulin Resistance in Male and Female Rats with Postnatal Catch-Up Growth.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The ARRIVE Guidelines 2.0: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Animal Research.
• Best (but Oft-forgotten) Practices: Sample Size and Power Calculation for a Dietary Intervention Trial with Episodically Consumed Foods.
• Methodological Approaches to the Design and Analysis of Nonrandomized Intervention Studies for the Prevention of Child and Adolescent Obesity.
• Article: Low-phytate Wholegrain Bread Instead of High-phytate Wholegrain Bread in a Total Diet Context Did Not Improve Iron Status of Healthy Swedish Females: A 12-week, Randomized, Parallel-design Intervention Study.
• Letter: Within-group Comparisons Led to Unsubstantiated Conclusions in “Low-phytate Wholegrain Bread Instead of High-phytate Wholegrain Bread in a Total Diet Context Did Not Improve Iron Status of Healthy Swedish Females: A 12-week, Randomized, Parallel-design Intervention Study”.
• Response: Reply to the Comments by Vorland et al. On Our Paper: “low-phytate Wholegrain Bread Instead of High-phytate Wholegrain Bread in a Total Diet Context Did Not Improve Iron Status of Healthy Swedish Females: A 12-week, Randomized, Parallel-design Intervention Study”.
• Correction: Correction To: Low-phytate Wholegrain Bread Instead of High-phytate Wholegrain Bread in a Total Diet Context Did Not Improve Iron Status of Healthy Swedish Females: A 12 Week, Randomized, Parallel-design Intervention Study.
• Response to Comments From Brydges & Gaeta and Vorland et al. With Respect to Hein et al. (2019) “Systematic Review of the Effects of Blueberry on Cognitive Performance as We Age”.

Clinical

• Meta-analysis: Impact of a Ketogenic Diet on Metabolic Parameters in Patients with Obesity or Overweight and with or Without Type 2 Diabetes.
• Endocrine and Metabolic Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Association between BMI and Perioperative Mortality After Repair of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms.
• RCT: A Factorial Experiment to Optimize Remotely Delivered Behavioral Treatment for Obesity: Results of the Opt-IN Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Infants with Big Appetites: The Role of a Nonfood Environment on Infant Appetitive Traits Linked to Obesity.
• New Book: Feeding Infants and Children From Birth to 24 Months (Summarizing Existing Guidance).
• Causal Associations of BMI and Waist-to-hip Ratio with Cardiometabolic Traits Among Chinese Children: A Mendelian Randomization Study. (pdf)
• Promoting Healthy Weight and Managing Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Using Evidence-based Methods.
• Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Preschool Children.
• BMI From Early to Late Childhood and Cardiometabolic Measurements at 11 to 12 Years.

Surgery

• Effects of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Gastric Structure and Function Documented by Magnetic Resonance Imaging are Strongly Associated with Post-operative Weight Loss and Quality of Life.
• Motivation and Weight Loss Expectations in Bariatric Surgery Candidates: Association with 1- and 2-Year Results After Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-analysis: Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices.

Drugs

• Enhanced Release of Glucose Into the Intraluminal Space of the Intestine Associated with Metformin Treatment as Revealed By [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose PET-MRI.
• Effect of Setmelanotide, an MC4R Agonist, on Obesity in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome.

Food & Diet

• Exploring the Diets of Adults with Obesity and Type II Diabetes From Nine Diverse Countries: Dietary Intakes, Patterns, and Quality.
• The Relationship between Protein Intake and Source on Factors Associated with Glycemic Control in Individuals with Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association of Plasma Biomarkers of Fruit and Vegetable Intake with Incident Type 2 Diabetes: EPIC-InterAct Case-cohort Study in Eight European Countries.
• Stearidonic-Enriched Soybean Oil Modulates Obesity, Glucose Metabolism, and Fatty Acid Profiles Independently of Akkermansia Muciniphila.
• Review: Intake of ω-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid-Rich Vegetable Oils and Risk of Lifestyle Diseases.
• The Effects of Magnesium Supplementation on Obesity Measures in Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effect of Calorie Restriction or Protein Intake on Circulating Levels of Insulin Like Growth Factor I in Humans: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Discovery of Fifteen New Geroprotective Plant Extracts and Identification of Cellular Processes They Affect to Prolong the Chronological Lifespan of Budding Yeast.
• RCT: Effects of 4- and 6-h Time-Restricted Feeding on Weight and Cardiometabolic Health in Adults with Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effects of Aerobic Exercise and Cognitively Engaging Exercise on Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Motor Skills in Primary School Children.
• Integrating Mortality Risk and the Adaptiveness of Hibernation.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomics of Obesity.
• Main and Interacting Effects of Physical Activity and Sedentary Time on Older Adults’ BMI: The Moderating Roles of Socio-demographic and Environmental Attributes.

Epidemiology

• Changing Social Inequalities in Smoking, Obesity and Cause-specific Mortality: Cross-national Comparisons Using Compass Typology.
• BMI and Risk of COVID -19 Across Ethnic Groups: Analysis of UK Biobank Study.
• Preprint: Causal Associations between Salt Intake with Body Mass, Shape and Composition: A Two-sample Mendelian Randomization Study. (pdf)

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Depression, Obesity and Their Comorbidity During Pregnancy: Effects on the Offspring’s Mental and Physical Health.
• Dietary Fat Exacerbates Postprandial Hypothalamic Inflammation Involving Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein-positive Cells and Microglia in Male Mice.
• Eating in Case of Emotion Dys-regulation, Depression and Anxiety: Different Pathways to Emotional Eating in Moderate and Severe Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Outcomes of COVID-19: Disparities in Obesity and By Ethnicity/race.
• Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Attenuate the Impact of Sarcopenic-Obesity on Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Korean Men.
• Characterizing Lifetime and Daily Experiences of Weight Stigma Among Sexual Minority Women with Overweight and Obesity: A Descriptive Study.
• Incorporating an Increase in Plant-Based Food Choices Into a Model of Culturally Responsive Care for Hispanic/Latino Children and Adults Who have Overweight or Obesity.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma, Chronic Stress, Unhealthy Diet, and Obesity in Chilean Adults.
• Commentary: COVID-19 and Obesity: Exploring Biologic Vulnerabilities, Structural Disparities, and Weight Stigma. (pdf)

Policy Related

• Scientists Helping to Update the Latest Edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are Taking a Harder Stance on Alcohol.
• The Association of a Sweetened Beverage Tax with Changes in Beverage Prices and Purchases at Independent Stores.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal and Perinatal Outcome of Women with Obesity in Pregnancy.
• Healthy Fathers, Healthy Kids: Preliminary Results of a Father-Focused Childhood Obesity Prevention Pilot Program.
• Paradoxical Long-term Impact of Maternal Influenza Infection on Neonates and Infants.
• Perinatal Exposure to Maternal Obesity: Lasting Cardiometabolic Impact on Offspring.
• Higher Maternal Weight Is Related to Poorer Fetal Autonomic Function.
• Integration of an Interpretable Machine Learning Algorithm to Identify Early Life Risk Factors of Childhood Obesity Among Preterm Infants.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Energetic Costs of Living in the Surf and Impacts on Zonation of Shells Occupied by Hermit Crabs.
• Parental Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance Related to Dietary Crude Oil Exposure in Danio Rerio.

Methods

• Effectiveness of Social Media (Facebook), Targeted Mailing, and In-person Solicitation for the Recruitment of Young Adult in a Diabetes Self-management Clinical Trial.
• Serious Analytical Inconsistencies Challenge the Validity of the Energy Balance Theory.

Commentary

• Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategies Must Start Early.
• Saturated Fat, Diets, and Diatribe: Nutrition Science Meets “Whac-a-Mole."
• Desk Jobs are Good for Your Brain?
• OAC’s YWM2020 Virtual: Rethinking Everything.
• Lean or Not, Who’s a Good Dog?
• Science and Health Equity for Obesity and COVID-19.
• Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Report – 2020.
• The News in 2020 Dietary Guidelines? Alcohol & Sugar.

General

• The Affordable Care Act: Effects of Insurance on Diabetes Biomarkers.
• Variability in the Analysis of a Single Neuroimaging Dataset by Many Teams.
• A Hybrid Biomonitoring System for Gut-Neuron Communication.
• Broadening the PhD Pipeline: A Summer Research Program for HBCU Students.
• Preprint: Sharing of Data from Clinical Research Projects – Guidance From the Swiss CTU Network.
• Estimating the Impact of Design Standards on the Rigor of a Subset of Single-Case Research.
• Guinea Pigging: Healthy Volunteers in Phase I Trials.
• The Global Food Syndemic: The Impact of Food Insecurity, Malnutrition and Obesity on the Healthspan Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Ethical Pandemic Control Through the Public Health Code of Ethics.
• OpenSAFELY: Factors Associated with COVID-19 Death in 17 Million Patients.
• Preventing a Secondary Epidemic of Lost Early Career Scientists: Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women with Children.

Announcements

• Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. (pdf)
• Safety First: The American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2020 Goes Virtual.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency and/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.

Featured

• CD81 Controls Beige Fat Progenitor Cell Growth and Energy Balance Via FAK Signaling. (pdf)
• Exome Sequencing Identifies Genes and Gene Sets Contributing to Severe Childhood Obesity, Linking PHIP Variants to Repressed POMC Transcription.
• Caregiver Influences on Eating Behaviors in Young Children: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.
• Exogenous Dietary Ketone Ester Decreases Body Weight and Adiposity in Mice Housed at Thermoneutrality.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Weight Loss Might Be Easier Than You Thought: Just Don't Eat at Night.
• Study: Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress in Men with Prediabetes... Even Without Weight Loss.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Use of WD [WellnessUp Diet] might have several beneficial effects and safety such as body fat reduction and improving some the element detoxification through caloric restriction but did not reducing body fat mass more than calorie-restricted diet."
• RCT: In "a Community-Based Randomized Trial for Rural Women...When comparing outcome changes between intervention and control group participants’ SNMs, we did not find any statistically significant ripple effect on weight, BMI, exercise, or diet changes."
• RCT: No Significant "Prognostic Value of the Dutch Sweet Eating Questionnaire on Weight Loss After Metabolic Surgery."
• "contrary to expectations, we found no association between food RT priming effects and choice behaviour."
• "Self-reported feelings of enjoyment declined steadily, and contrary to our first hypothesis, increasing salience of dietary variety did not prevent this decline."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, IE [intuitive eating] was neither associated with healthy nor total laboratory food intake in classical regression analyses."
• Thesis: "The PPAL [Positive Parenting and Active Lifestyle programme] programme failed to meet the needs of the overweight/obese child population it aimed to service."

Basic

• Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution (PM2.5) Induces Hypothalamic Inflammation, and Long-term Leads to Leptin Resistance and Obesity Via Tlr4/Ikbke in Mice.
• Identification of Molecular Mechanisms Related to Pig Fatness at the Transcriptome and MiRNAome Levels.
• Intact Vagal Gut-brain Signaling Prevents Hyperphagia and Excessive Weight Gain in Response to High-fat High-sugar Diet in Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "Our results indicate that almost a third of scientists may be making molar solutions incorrectly."
• Perspective: Chaos in a Bottle—A Critical Evaluation of Beverage Categorization in Nutrition Research.

Clinical

• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Probiotic Strains and Intervention Total Doses for Modulating Obesity-Related Microbiota Dysbiosis.
• RCT: 3-year Trial of Severe Vs. Moderate Energy Restriction Impacts Body Weight and Body Composition Among Postmenopausal Women with Obesity.
• Functional Loss of Pancreatic Islets in Type 2 Diabetes: How Can We Halt It?
• Evaluating Engagement in a Digital and Dietetic Intervention Promoting Healthy Weight Gain in Pregnancy: Mixed Methods Study.
• German Parliament Declares Obesity a Disease.

Children and Adolescents

• Special Attention to Diet and Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents with Obesity During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic.
• Changes in Dietary Intake of Major Nutrients and Food Sources Among Costa Rican Adolescents in the Last 20 Years.
• Strategies in the Management of Adolescent Obesity.
• Childhood Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Working Towards Solutions.

Surgery

• Obesity, Hypertension, and Bariatric Surgery.
• "Bariatric Families"- A New Phenomenon with Unique Characteristics.
• Bariatric Surgery in Prior Solid Organ Transplantation Patients: Is Race a Predictor of Adverse Outcomes?
• Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Has Better Weight Evolution and Serum Concentrations of Vitamin D When Compared with Roux-Y Gastric Bypass.

Drugs

• Repurposing Disulfiram as an Anti-Obesity Drug: Treating and Preventing Obesity in High-Fat-Fed Rats.
• Lancing Drug Reservoirs into Subcutaneous Fat to Combat Obesity and Associated Metabolic Diseases.
• Spin-off Prize: EraCal Therapeutics: A New Drug Candidate for Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: Low-carbohydrate Diets and Type 2 Diabetes Treatment.
• Systematic Review: To Keto or Not to Keto? The Effects of Ketogenic Therapy on Alzheimer Disease.
• Caribbean Nutrition Transition: What Can We Learn From Dietary Patterns in the French West Indies?
• Added Sugar and Sugar-sweetened Beverages are Associated with Increased Postpartum Weight Gain and Soluble Fiber Intake Is Associated with Postpartum Weight Loss in Hispanic Women From Southern California.
• Hypocaloric Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets with Fixed Protein Lead to Similar Health Outcomes in Obese Mice.
• FAO Predicts Global Shortage of Protein-rich Foods: Food Outlook Biannual Report on Global Food Markets. (pdf)
• Commercial Survey: Purchasing Behaviors, Eating Decisions and Health Perceptions of Dietary Fats and Oils.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Early Adaptive Thermogenesis Is a Determinant of Weight Loss After Six Weeks of Caloric Restriction in Overweight Subjects.
• Partial Body Mass Recovery After Caloric Restriction Abolishes Improved Glucose Tolerance in Obese, Insulin Resistant Rats.
• Does Calorie Restriction Modulate Inflammaging Via FoxO Transcription Factors?
• Higher Unacylated Ghrelin and Insulin Sensitivity Following Dietary Restriction and Weight Loss in Obese Humans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Worldwide Effect of COVID-19 on Physical Activity: A Descriptive Study.
• Mass-normalized Internal Mechanical Work in Walking Is Not Impaired in Adults with Class III Obesity.
• What Keeps Them Going, and What Gets Them Back? Older Adults’ Beliefs About Physical Activity Maintenance.
• Dissertation: An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship between Outdoor Adventure Recreation Activity Type and Environmental Self-selection Strategies for Health Promotion.

Economics & Sociology

• Adverse Childhood Experiences, Economic Hardship, and Obesity: Differences by Gender.
• Socioeconomic Correlates of Obesity in African-American and Caribbean-Black Men and Women.

Epidemiology

• Association between Glycemic Status and the Risk of Parkinson Disease: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.
• A Large Prospective Investigation of Outdoor Light at Night and Obesity in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.
• Urinary Markers of Nucleic Acid Oxidation Increase with Age, Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Danish Children and Adolescents.
• Prospective Association of Obesity Patterns with Subclinical Carotid Plaque Development in Early Postmenopausal Chinese Women.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Psychological Mechanisms Associated with Food Security Status and BMI in Adults: A Mixed Methods Study.
• DHA Reduces Hypothalamic Inflammation and Improves Central Leptin Signaling in Mice.
• Tocotrienols Influence Body Weight Gain and Brain Protein Expression in Long-Term High-Fat Diet-Treated Mice.

Equity and Disparities

• Association of Altitude and Urbanization with Hypertension and Obesity: Analysis of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2016.
• Measuring Overweight and Obesity in Chinese American Children Using US, International and Ethnic-specific Growth Charts.
• Familism, Self-Esteem, and Weight-Specific Quality of Life Among Latinx Adolescents with Obesity.
• Stark Racial Disparities Emerge as Families Struggle to Get Enough Food.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma Experiences and Physical (In)activity.
• Scoping Review: Summarizing Recommendations to Eliminate Weight Stigma in Prenatal Health Care Settings.
• Commentary: Bing! One Less Dose of Explicit Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• The Association of Obesity with Health Insurance Coverage and Demographic Characteristics: A Statewide Cross-sectional Study.
• Aircraft Accommodation for People Living with Obesity: A Call for a Review of Existing Seating, Safety and Emergency Regulations.
• Every Month Matters: Longitudinal Associations between Exclusive Breastfeeding Duration, Child Growth and Obesity Among WIC-participating Children.
• One-year Changes in Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumers’ Purchases Following Implementation of a Beverage Tax: A Longitudinal Quasi-experiment.
• Commentary: Policy-Based Evidence for School Nutrition.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-analysis: Pre-pregnancy Obesity and Risk of Congenital Abnormalities of the Kidney and Urinary Tract (CAKUT).
• Anti-fat Attitudes and Dietary Restraint Within Mother-daughter Dyads: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) Analysis.
• Preprint: Mid-late Pregnancy Maternal Glycolipids in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Fluctuated in Glycosylated Hemoglobin Levels of 5.5%-6.4% Associated with Umbilical Cord Blood of Amino Acid and Carnitine Proles: A Nested Case-cohort Observational Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Nest Predation and Adult Mortality Relationships with Post-natal Metabolic Rates and Growth Among Songbird Species.
• Mitochondrial Performance of a Continually Growing Marine Bivalve, Mytilus Edulis, Depends on Body Size.

Methods

• Accelerometry Analysis Options Produce Large Differences in Lifestyle Physical Activity Measurement.
• Future Directions for Integrative Objective Assessment of Eating Using Wearable Sensing Technology.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Mathematical Analysis of an Obesity Model with Eating Behaviors. (pdf)

Commentary

• Will Opening Gyms Spread COVID-19? An RCT.
• Urban Legends of Obesity Prevention.
• Obesity, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Ethnicities are Common Risk Factors for COVID-19 and H1N1 Influenza Infections.
• Exercise Can Slow or Prevent Vision Loss [in Mice], Study Finds.
• Fatty Liver, Obesity, and COVID-19.
• Neural Insensitivity to the Effects of Hunger: A Potential Mechanism Underlying Persistent Dietary Restriction in Anorexia Nervosa?
• Commentary On: "The Contribution of Tissue-Specific BMI-associated Gene Sets to Cardiometabolic Disease Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study".
• Editorial: The Shortcomings and Harms of Using Hard Cutoffs for BMI, Hemoglobin A1C, and Smoking Cessation as Conditions for Elective Orthopaedic Surgery.

General

• Male Care Status Influences the Risk-taking Decisions in a Glassfrog.
• Effectiveness of Accessibility Information on Hotels’ Websites: A Quasi-experimental Design.
• Review: Natural Human Chimeras.
• Stress of Pandemic Has Negative Impact on Mental Health and Relationships, Study Shows.
• Independent Validation of Experimental Results Requires Timely and Unrestricted Access to Animal Models and Reagents.
• Cholesterol in Relation to COVID-19: Should We Care About It?
• Pragmatic Trials and the Evolution of Serious Illness Research.
• Altered Health Knowledge and Attitudes Among Health Sciences Students Following Media Exposure.
• Data Show Panic and Disorganization Dominate the Study of Covid-19 Drugs.

Video & Audio

• Audio Interview: Limited Evidence for the Health Effects and Safety of Intermittent Fasting in Type 2 Diabetes.
• On Demand Virtual Sessions: Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine.
• Webinar: Sweet Talk: A Review of the Science of Sweetness and Its Potential Impacts on Health.

Announcements

• Video: IU-Bloomington SPH COVID-19 Seminar Shares Diverse Insights and Health Disparities.
• TOS Announces Interactive, Online Format for ObesityWeek.
• IFT’s Diversity & Inclusion Discussions.
• IFT20 Virtual Event and Expo Registration Now Open.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) invites applications for the position of Chair for a newly reorganized department, Health & Wellness Design.