Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Humor & Physics: Lose Weight the Slow and Incredibly Difficult Way.
• Just Noticeable Difference in Sweetness Perception of Cola: Small Changes in Sugar are Noticeable.
• Machine Learning Modeling Practices to Support Principles of Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in Nutrition Research.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Eating Fewer Than 3 Meals Per Day Can Shorten Life Span, Study Says. Plus, Why Breakfast Really Might Be the Most Important Meal of the Day.
• Press Release: Food for Thought: If You Eat and When You Eat Can Impact Your Mortality.
• Study: Self-Reported Meal Skipping and Shorter Meal Intervals are Associated with Increased Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Among US Adults. Causation Not Necessarily Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Meta-Analysis: Rapamycin, Not Dietary Restriction, Improves Resilience Against Pathogens [in Mice].
• RCT: "Potato and Bean diets low in energy density were equally effective [or equally ineffective] in reducing insulin resistance and promoting weight loss in individuals with impaired blood glucose control."
• RCT: "Weight loss did not modify macronutrient specific response of hormones and satiety in people with overweight and obesity without metabolic disease."
• RCT: "Hypocaloric diet with lower meal frequency did not affect weight loss, body composition and insulin responsiveness..."
• Vitamin D Supplementation Is Not Preventative for Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms or Statin Discontinuation.
• No Evidence to Support a Causal Relationship between Circulating Adiponectin Levels and Ankylosing Spondylitis.
• No Evidence That Spice Consumption Is a Cancer Prevention Mechanism in Human Populations.
• "Contrary to expectations, overweight male politicians were rated lowest on these [positive] characteristics."

Basic

• Anti-Obesity Effects of Red Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) Leaf Extract on 3T3-L1 Preadipocytes and High Fat Diet-Fed Mice.
• Prebiotic Oligofructose Protects Against High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity by Changing the Gut Microbiota, Intestinal Mucus Production, Glycosylation and Secretion.
• Exercise Training Upregulates Cardiac Mtp Expression in Drosophila Melanogaster with HFD to Improve Cardiac Dysfunction and Abnormal Lipid Metabolism.
• The Effects of a Green Rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) Extract on Metabolic Parameters and Adipose Tissue Biology in Rats Fed Different Obesogenic Diets.
• Effect of Intermittent Fasting and Complete Fasting on Biochemical and Histological Parameters in High Fat High Sugar Induced Rat Model of Obesity.
• Exercise Training Prevents Obesity/ Diabetes-Induced Activation of Inflammatory Signaling in Rat Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Resistance Exercise Training-Induced Skeletal Muscle Strength Provides Protective Effects on High-Fat-Diet-Induced Metabolic Stress in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction Watch: A [Sport Science] Paper Used Capital T’s Instead of Error Bars. But Wait, There’s More!
• Article: Association between Dietary Habits in Midlife with Dementia Incidence over a 20-Year Period.
• Commentary: A Response to the Recent Study ‘Association between Dietary Habits in Midlife with Dementia Incidence over a 20 Year Period’ from the Olive Wellness Institute Scientific Advisory Committee.

Clinical

• Systematic Review: The Effect of Weight Loss Interventions for Obesity on Fertility and Pregnancy Outcomes.
• RCT: Therapeutic Effects of Butyrate on Pediatric Obesity.
• RCT: Mid- and Long-Term Changes in Satiety-Related Hormones, Lipid and Glucose Metabolism, and Inflammation After a Mediterranean Diet Intervention with the Goal of Losing Weight.
• Treating Chronic Diseases Without Tackling Excess Adiposity Promotes Multimorbidity.

Children and Adolescents

• Review: Anti-Obesity Pharmacotherapy for Treatment of Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Different Protein Intake in the First Year and Its Effects on Adiposity Rebound and Obesity Throughout Childhood.
• Mothers as Advocates for Healthier Lifestyle Behaviour Environments for Their Children.
• An Internet-Based Educational Intervention for Mothers Targeting Preschoolers’ Weight Management Promotion.

Surgery

• 2022 ASMBS/IFSO Guidelines on Indications for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
• "Bariatric surgery remains safe and effective therapy for chronically immunosuppressed patients with excellent long-term outcomes for patients with moderate to severe obesity."
• Effect of Weight Regain on Body Composition and Metabolic Biomarkers After Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• Review: Anti-Obesity Effects of Phytochemicals Through Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway.
• Review: Anti-Obesity Siddha Medicinal Plants.
• Can Homeopathic Medicine Chelidonium Majus Serve a Dual Role of an Anti-Obesity and Anti-Diabetic Agent?
• Discovery of Eukaryotic Cellular Receptor for Withaferin A, a Multifaceted Drug from Withania Somnifera Plant.
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Financial Barriers Among Adults with Overweight and Obesity Eligible for Semaglutide in the United States.

Food & Diet

• RCT: "Green Mediterranean diet reduces twice as much visceral fat as traditional Mediterranean diet."
• "During 2017–March 2020, less than one-third of U.S. adults had heard of MyPlate and less than one-tenth had tried to follow the recommendations." (pdf)

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Systematic Review: Investigating the Effectiveness of Very Low-Calorie Diets and Low-Fat Vegan Diets on Weight and Glycemic Markers in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Systematic Review: Effects of Time-Restricted Feeding and Ramadan Fasting on Body Weight, Body Composition, Glucose Responses, and Insulin Resistance.
• Dissertation: Do Sex and Age Influence the Metabolic and Cardiovascular Consequences of Caloric Restriction?

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Tracking Possible Differences between Female- and Male Staff in Promoting Physical Activity Towards Girls and Boys in the Outdoor Playground of the Kindergarten.
• Effects of Creatine Monohydrate Timing on Resistance Training Adaptations and Body Composition After 8 Weeks in Male and Female Collegiate Athletes.
• The Influence of Exercise Training Versus Intensive Insulin Therapy on Insulin Resistance Development in Type 1 Diabetes.

Economics & Sociology

• RCT: Effectiveness of Goal-Directed and Outcome-Based Financial Incentives for Weight Loss in Primary Care Patients with Obesity Living in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Neighborhoods.
• "Increasing sleep duration was associated with a decreased risk of overweight/obesity, but the association was not present in adolescents from racial/ethnic minority groups (i.e. Hispanic) and those with low socioeconomic status."

Epidemiology

• Obesity Marker Trajectories and Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: A 10-Year Follow-Up in Taichung Community Health Study for Elders.
• Adipose Tissue Insulin Resistance Is Not Associated with Changes in the Degree of Obesity in Children and Adolescents.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• "Our findings provide evidence in support of the neuroinflammation and neuronal stress theories of overeating, specifically, with greater area deprivation influencing health outcomes of obesity via brain structure alterations."
• The Immediate Effect of Overnutrition and Fluoxetine Treatment During the Critical Period of Development on the Hippocampus.
• Assessing Adolescents' Readiness for Action and Attitudes Toward Obesity Prevention: Instrument Development and Psychometric Properties.
• Food-Induced Brain Activity in Children with Overweight or Obesity Versus Normal Weight.

Equity and Disparities

• RCT: Reaching High-Risk Black Adults for Diabetes Prevention Programming During a Pandemic.
• The “Our Voice” Method: Participatory Action Citizen Science Research to Advance Behavioral Health and Health Equity Outcomes.
• Home Physical Activity Environments of Racially/Ethnically Diverse and Immigrant/Refugee Children.
• African American Patients Experience Worse Outcomes Than Hispanic Patients Following Bariatric Surgery.

Stigma

• How Do Looking Patterns, Anti-Fat Bias, and Causal Weight Attributions Relate to Adults' Judgements of Child Weight?
• The Impact of a Values Affirmation Intervention on Body Dissatisfaction and Negative Mood in Women Exposed to Fitspiration.
• Daily Weight Stigma Experiences, and Disordered and Intuitive Eating Behaviors Among Young Adults with Body Dissatisfaction.

Policy Related

• Systematic Review: The Impact of Mass-Media Campaigns on Physical Activity.
• Review: Estimating the Impact of Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies with Quasi-Experimental Methods and Simulation Modeling.
• Short Commentary: From Childhood Obesity Risk to Healthy Growth in the U.S.: A 10-Year Social Work Research & Policy Update.
• Leveraging a Community Engaged Citizen Science Method to Contextualize the New Orleans Food Environment.
• Using GRADE Evidence to Decision Frameworks to Support the Process of Health Policy-Making: An Example Application Regarding Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.
• Public Preferences for Policies Promoting a Healthy Diet.
• The Impact of the ‘Planning Health in School’ Program on a Pair of Twins with Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-Analysis: Pre-Pregnancy Maternal BMI and Placental DNA Methylation Identifies 27 CpG Sites with Implications for Mother-Child Health.
• Maternal Diabetes in Youth-Onset T2D Is Associated with Progressive Dysglycemia and Risk of Complications.
• Is Small for Gestational Age Status Independently Correlated with Body Composition During Childhood?
• Effects of Bisphenol a (BPA) Substitutes on the Prenatal and Cardiovascular Systems.
• Intergenerational Pathways between Parental Experiences of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Weight: Implications for Intervention.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• TRH and NPY Interact to Regulate Dynamic Changes in Energy Balance in Male Zebra Finch.
• Intestinal Plasticity and Metabolism as Regulators of Organismal Energy Homeostasis.

Methods

• Nascent to Novel Methods to Evaluate Malnutrition and Frailty in the Surgical Patient.
• Smartwatch-Based Bioimpedance Analysis for Body Composition Estimation: Precision and Agreement with a 4-Compartment Model.
• Mean Intake and Trends of Whole-Grain Food Consumption Varies by Whole-Grain Definition.

Commentary

• Are Americans Eating Enough Whole Grains? It Depends on Who You Ask.
• The Most Damaging Exercise Myth.
• Why 2023 Will Be the Year of Strength Training for Longevity.
• Regular Physical Activity May Improve Vaccine Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Outcomes.
• The Real Benefits of Walking in a Winter Wonderland.
• Psychological Perspectives on Consumer Obesity.
• ”Why are So Many of Us Fat? Pandemic Obesity, and the Absence of Mystery”.
• A Unified Definition of Whole-Grain Foods Is Needed.

General

• "New predictive model of the touchdown times in a high level 110 m hurdles."
• Serum Syndecan-4 Correlates with Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Parameters but Not Proinflammatory Markers in Healthy Older Women.
• Diabetes, Metformin Use, and Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Postmenopausal Women.
• War in Ukraine: The Rationale “Wait-And-See” Mode of Global Food Markets.
• Cannabis Use Among Pregnant Women Under Different Legalization Frameworks in the United States.
• Pupating Ants Make Milk — and Scientists Only Just Noticed.
• Association of Dietary Sodium, Potassium, Sodium/Potassium, and Salt with Objective and Subjective Cognitive Function Among the Elderly in China.
• In Praise of Research in Fundamental Biology.

Announcements

• Healthy People 2030’s Population Data are Here!
• New Book: Outlive the Science and Art of Longevity.
• Redesigning Diabetes Technology to Detect Low Blood Sugar in Older Adults with Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Seeks Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency and/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Is Recruiting for Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department!

Featured

• RCT: "Results provide evidence for an affect-regulating function of sugar consumption following social rejection."
• Estimation of Sparse Functional Quantile Regression with Measurement Error Applied to National Health and Examination Survey Data to Assess the Relationship between Physical Activity and BMI Among Adults in the United States: A SIMEX Approach.
• Patient and Family Perspectives on Terms for Obesity.
• Variation in Human Water Turnover Associated with Environmental and Lifestyle Factors.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Snacking on Almonds Can Help People Reduce Calorie Intake: Study.
• Press Release: Believe It or 'Nut', Almonds Can Help You Cut Calories, Study Finds.
• Study: "There was no significant difference in total energy intake ([…] p = 0.286) or energy from core ([…] p = 0.860) or discretionary foods ([…] p = 0.158) between [almonds and an isocaloric carbohydrate-rich snack bar]."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Short-term home meal delivery with provision of cooking/serving resources improved dietary quality among preschool-aged children but did not change ... BMIz."
• "Low HDL-C was associated with increased CHD risk in White but not Black adults, and high HDL-C was not protective in either group."
• High-Fat [lower Carb] Diet Causes Mechanical Allodynia in the Absence of Injury or Diabetic Pathology [in Mice].
• Metabolic Dysfunctions Promoted by AIN-93G Standard Diet Compared with Three Obesity-Inducing Diets in C57BL/6J Mice.
• "They note that the mice on the highly processed food diet ate less than those given grains and wound up getting less nutrients."
• RCT: “Myofunctional therapy exerted no significant effect on habitual snoring in [patients with obesity] despite the reduction of the snore score..."
• "Contrary to expectations we find that ....women's diet diversity increased over the year partly marked by the COVID-19 pandemic."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, the more the participants reported controlling their diet, the less they overestimated the time when presented with food stimuli."

Basic

• Coconut Oil and Medium-Chain Fatty Acids Attenuate High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice Through Increased Thermogenesis by Activating Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Effects of Protein Intake from an Energy-Restricted Diet on the Skeletal Muscle Composition of Overweight and Obese Rats.
• GPSM1 Impairs Metabolic Homeostasis by Controlling a Pro-Inflammatory Pathway in Macrophages.
• Modulation of PPARα-Thermogenesis-Gut Microbiota Interactions in Obese Mice Administrated with Zingerone.
• An Obesogenic Diet Impairs Uncoupled Substrate Oxidation and Promotes Whitening of the Brown Adipose Tissue in Rats.
• Brown Adipocytes Local Response to Thyroid Hormone Is Required for Adaptive Thermogenesis in Adult Male Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Science Paper on Sense of Taste Gets Expression of Concern as University Investigates.
• Article: This Scientist Busts Myths About How Humans Burn Calories—and Why.
• Comment: Measurement Rigor Is Not a Substitute for Design Rigor in Causal Inference: Increased Physical Activity Does Cause (Modest) Weight Loss.

Clinical

• BMI and Molecular Subtypes of Colorectal Cancer.
• Diet-Induced Obesity Results in Impaired Oral Tolerance Induction.
• Adiposity in the Older Population and the Risk of Dementia: The Rotterdam Study.
• BMI and the Risk of Abdominal Hernia: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Comparative Effectiveness of Single Foods and Food Groups on Body Weight.
• The Anti-Obesity Effect of Mulberry Leaf (Mori folium) Extracts Was Increased by Bioconversion with Pectinex.

Children and Adolescents

• The Current Paradigm of Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents.
• Longitudinal Changes in Various BMI Metrics and Adiposity in 3- to 7-Year-Olds.
• Obesity-Related Pediatric Asthma: Relationships between Pulmonary Function and Clinical Outcomes.

Surgery

• Risk-Benefit Balance Associated with Obstetric, Neonatal, and Child Outcomes After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
• CT Evaluation of Bone Fragility 2 Years After Bariatric Surgery: An Observational Study.

Drugs

• The Anorexic Effect of DL-Fenfluramine Is Dependent on Animals' Habituation to Different Food Types.
• Meta-Analysis : Reducing Craving and Consumption in Individuals with Drug Addiction, Obesity or Overeating Through Neuromodulation Intervention.
• AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on Pharmacological Interventions for Adults with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• The Portfolio Diet and Incident Type 2 Diabetes: Findings from the Women’s Health Initiative Prospective Cohort Study.
• RCT: The Effect of High-Polyphenol Mediterranean Diet on Visceral Adiposity.
• Review: Effects of Green Tea Catechins and Exercise Training on Body Composition Parameter.
• Meta-Analysis: Comparative Effectiveness of Single Foods and Food Groups on Body Weight: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of 152 RCTs.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• The Lipid Profile of the Endomyces Magnusii Yeast upon the Assimilation of the Substrates of Different Types and upon Calorie Restriction.
• Simultaneous SGLT2 Inhibition and Caloric Restriction Improves Insulin Resistance and Kidney Function in OLETF Rats.
• Cysteine Restriction-Specific Effects of Sulfur Amino Acid Restriction on Lipid Metabolism.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Narrative Review: Mechanisms for Combined Hypoxic Conditioning and Divergent Exercise Modes to Regulate Inflammation, Body Composition, Appetite, and Blood Glucose Homeostasis in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Systematic Review: Prevalence and Correlates of Pre-Diabetes in Adults of Mixed Ethnicities in the South African Population.

Economics & Sociology

• Applicability of the Socioecological Model for Understanding and Reducing Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods in Canada.
• How Easy Is It to Feed Everyone? Economic Alternatives to Eliminate Human Nutrition Deficits.

Epidemiology

• Sex Differences in Overweight and Obesity Among Mexican Americans in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: A Comparison of Measures.
• Facility-Level Program Components Leading to Population Impact: A Coincidence Analysis of Obesity Treatment Options Within the Veterans Health Administration.
• Impact of Different Obesity Patterns on Coronary Microvascular Function in Male Patients with Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Relationships between Social Media Exposure, Food Craving, Cognitive Impulsivity and Cognitive Restraint.
• RCT: Mental Health and Quality of Life During Weight Loss in Females with Clinically Severe Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• The Role of Energy Balance Related Behaviors in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood BMI: A Comparative Analysis of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• Food Environments and Obesity: A Geospatial Analysis of the South Asia Biobank, Income and Sex Inequalities.
• Race-Dependent Association of High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels with Incident Coronary Artery Disease.
• Racial Disparities and Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, and Cardiovascular Health Metrics Among US Adults: NHANES 2011–2018.
• Metabolic Health Disparities Driven by Financial Stress: Behavioral Adaptation or Modification? (pdf)

Stigma

• Commentary: Ineffective Obesity Policies Anchored to Stigma.
• Narrative Review: Obesity Stigma and Its Impact on Health.
• Exploring the Association between Obesity and Problems with Peer Relationships in Children: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Study.

Policy Related

• Policy Implementation and Priorities to Create Healthy Food Environments Using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): A Pooled Level Analysis Across Eleven European Countries.
• Systematic Review: Review of Effect of Regulatory Strategies on Obesity.
• Review: Public Health Interventions Tackling Childhood Obesity at European Level.
• Nutritional Quality and Consumer Health Perception of Online Delivery Food in the Context of China.
• Strategies to Improve Adolescent Food Security from the Perspectives of Policy Advocates, Parents, and Adolescents.

Intergenerational Effects

• Effects of Elevated Maternal Adiposity on Offspring Reproductive Health: A Perspective from Epidemiologic Studies.
• Maternal Vitamin D Levels Correlate with Fetal Weight and Bone Metabolism During Pregnancy: A Materno-Neonatal Analysis of Bone Metabolism Parameters.
• Markers of Kidney Function in Early Childhood and Association with Maternal Comorbidity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• In Vivo Partial Reprogramming by Bacteria Promotes Adult Liver Organ Growth Without Fibrosis and Tumorigenesis.
• Comparative Genomics Reveals Insight Into the Evolutionary Origin of Massively Scrambled Genomes.
• Of Fruits and Fats: High-Sugar Diets Restore Fatty Acid Profiles in the White Adipose Tissue of Captive Dwarf Lemurs.

Methods

• First Use of Triply Labelled Water Analysis for Energy Expenditure Measurements in Mice.
• Commentary: Modelling Change in a Causal Framework.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Mathematical Modeling and Optimal Control Strategy for the Obesity Epidemic.
• Agreement of Measures between Measured Body Adiposity and Calculated Indices of Fatness in Sedentary and Active Male and Female Students.

Commentary

• New Research on Feast, Thanks, and Retail.
• When It Comes to Medical Advice, Is Less Always More?
• Watch lemurs fatten up for winter's slumber.
• Food Stress Promotes Viral Spillover in Bats.
• Scientists Say You May Not Actually Need to Drink Two Liters of Water a Day.
• Obesity: A Rare Consensus Among Scientists on What Doesn’t Explain Why We’re Fatter.
• Fewer Fingers Wagging, More Hands Helping.
• The FDA's New Healthy Rule.
• Can We Afford Optimism About Treating Obesity?
• How Does a Change in Eating Patterns Affect Patients with Obesity?
• Can We Trust Agriculture to Make Itself Sustainable?

General

• Rainforest Carnivore Ecology in a Managed Forest Reserve: Differential Seasonal Correlates between Habitat Components and Relative Abundance.
• Loss of Osteocytes, the Predominant Cells in Mature Bone, Leads to Faster Aging in Surrounding Bone and Bone Marrow Cells.
• "... better therapies could emerge now that Tsai and her team have helped to put cholesterol dysregulation on the Alzheimer’s research map."
• Academic Bias Under the Microscope.
• Nudging Research Integrity: A White Paper. (pdf)
• Will Pigs Solve the Organ Crisis? The Future of Animal-To-Human Transplants.
• Where Have All the Snow Crabs Gone?
• The Simple Geometry Behind Brownie Bake Offs and Equal Areas.
• Pathogen Spillover Driven by Rapid Changes in Bat Ecology.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Building the World’s Largest Animal Crossing Outside of LA.
• Presentations by Drs. David Marrero and LaShawn McIver Were an Outstanding Way to Begin the 2022–23 Distinguished Colloquium Speaker Series. See Videos of Their Remarks and Learn About Upcoming DCS Presentations at Go.iu.edu/4gWs.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Seeks Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency and/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Is Recruiting for Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department!

Featured

• Brown Adipocytes Local Response to Thyroid Hormone Is Required for Adaptive Thermogenesis in Adult Male Mice.
• RCT: "Different protein intake in the first year and its effects on adiposity rebound and obesity throughout childhood: 11 years follow-up."
• RCT: Impact of Wine Bottle and Glass Sizes on Wine Consumption at Home.
• Statins Induce Locomotion and Muscular Phenotypes in Drosophila Melanogaster That are Reminiscent of Human Myopathy: Evidence for the Role of the Chloride Channel Inhibition in the Muscular Phenotypes.

Headline vs Study

• Sensational Headlines, Trivializing Obesity.
• Headline: Non-Alcoholic Beer: The New Weight Loss Elixir?
• Study: None of the References Test Alcohol vs Non-Alcoholic Beer on Weight.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Two weeks of pistachio consumption failed to elicit changes in any biomarker...[with]...short-term pistachio consumption before and throughout recovery from an intense exercise bout on cardiometabolic markers."
• RCT: "However, co-ingestion of almond paste with bread increased the postprandial triglyceride levels."
• RCT: With pistachio consumption, "Creatine kinase, myoglobin, and C-reactive protein … [showed] no advantages following pistachio consumption. No significant changes in vertical jump or superoxide dismutase were elicited during any trial," although some effects on other variables were noted.
• RCT: "High intense physical exercise did not lead to a general enhancement of CBT outcome, but higher increases in physical fitness seem to improve symptom change during CBT."
• RCT: No discernable effect "of postprandial exercise on mean blood glucose concentrations following high and maintenance carbohydrate content meals in healthy dogs."
• RCT: "KD-induced glutamate elevation did not produce significant sleep improvements...[in]...Brain glutamate and sleep efficiency associations following a ketogenic diet intervention in individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder."
• RCT: "Greater protein quality of an egg breakfast may be inadequate to induce satiety during weight loss, compared with a cereal breakfast of equal protein quantity."
• Meta-Analysis: "...overweight and obesity might not be associated with primary dysmenorrhea."

Basic

• Activin Receptor ALK4 Promotes Adipose Tissue Hyperplasia by Suppressing Differentiation of Adipocyte Precursors.
• Asprosin Exacerbates Endothelium Inflammation Induced by Hyperlipidemia Through Activating IKKβ-NF-κBp65 Pathway.
• Netrin-1 Attenuates Hepatic Steatosis Via UNC5b/PPARγ-Mediated Suppression of Inflammation and ER Stress.
• Insulin Sensitivity Is Preserved in Mice Made Obese by Feeding a High Starch Diet.
• PPARγ Acetylation Orchestrates Adipose Plasticity and Metabolic Rhythms.
• Hepatic Acat2 Overexpression Promotes Systemic Cholesterol Metabolism and Adipose Lipid Metabolism in Mice.
• Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor Deletion from Catecholaminergic Neurons Protects from Diet-Induced Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Interventions Designed to Improve Agricultural Practices Often Lack a Solid Evidence Base. A New Initiative Could Change That.
• A Critical Review of Children's Culinary Nutrition Interventions, the Methodologies Used and Their Impact on Dietary, Psychosocial and Wellbeing Outcomes.
• From Model Organisms to Humans, the Opportunity for More Rigor in Methodologic and Statistical Analysis, Design, and Interpretation of Aging & Senescence Research.

Clinical

• Phenotype Tailored Lifestyle Intervention on Weight Loss and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adults with Obesity.
• Exploratory Analysis of Eating- and Physical Activity-Related Outcomes from a Weight Loss Maintenance Program with Exercise and Liraglutide Single or Combination Treatment.
• Weight Loss and Exercise Effects on Rate of Torque Development and Physical Function in Overweight Older Women.
• Approach to the Patient with Hypothalamic Obesity.
• Impact of Maternal BMI and Gestational Weight Gain on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Twin Pregnancies.
• Association of Concomitant Gestational Hypertensive Disorders and Gestational Diabetes with Cardiovascular Disease.

Children and Adolescents

• Systematic Review: The Effectiveness of Interventions During the First 1,000 days to Improve Energy Balance-Related Behaviors or Prevent Overweight/obesity in Children from Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Families of High-Income Countries.
• Maternal Insulin Resistance in Pregnancy Is Associated with Fetal Fat Deposition: A Longitudinal Study.

Surgery

• A Multi-Center Study on Glucometabolic Response to Bariatric Surgery for Different Subtypes of Obesity.
• National Trends in Pediatric Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: 2010-2017.
• Special Delivery—Metabolic Bariatric Surgery as a Key Component of Maternal-Fetal Health Care.

Drugs

• RCT: Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin to Promote Weight Loss in Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Hypothalamic Obesity.
• Bioinformatics Analysis of Candidate Genes and Potential Therapeutic Drugs Targeting Adipose Tissue in Obesity.
• Pharmacotherapy in Childhood Obesity.
• 3D Printed Biodegradable Implants Loaded with Capsaicin for the Treatment of Obesity and Its Related Health Risks. (pdf)
• Improved Metabolic Efficacy of a Dual Amylin and Calcitonin Receptor Agonist When Combined with Semaglutide or Empagliflozin.

Food & Diet

• "In this two-sample MR analysis, we observed that higher beef intake may be protective against MDD."
• Systematic Review: Scientific Evidence of the Association between Oral Intake of Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids and the Metabolic Syndrome in Adolescents.
• The Mechanism of Plant-Derived Polysaccharides Regulating the Obesity and Metabolic Diseases in Humans.
• Meta-Analysis: Comparing the Effectiveness of Alternate Day Fasting, the 5:2 Diet, and Time-Restricted Eating for Weight Loss.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Evidence-Based Information About Intermittent Fasting in Diabetes Patients: Useful or Harmful?
• Changes in Aortic Diameter Induced by Weight Loss.
• Nigerian Muslim’s Perceptions of Changes in Diet, Weight, and Health Status During Ramadan.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Late Isocaloric Eating Increases Hunger, Decreases Energy Expenditure, and Modifies Metabolic Pathways in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Exercise-Induced Anti-Senescence and Autophagy Restoration Mitigate Metabolic Disorder-Induced Cardiac Disruption in Mice.

Economics & Sociology

• Meta-Analysis: The Influences of Food Environments and Food Insecurity on Obesity in High-Income Countries: A Mixed Methods Approach.
• Association of Social Capital with Obesity Among Older Adults in China.
• Association between Housing Affordability and Severe Maternal Morbidity.
• Meta-Analysis: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Behavioral Economic Incentive Programs for Goal Achievement on Healthy Diet, Weight Control and Physical Activity.

Epidemiology

• A Causal Relationship between Alcohol Intake and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.
• The Link between Liver Fat and Cardiometabolic Diseases Is Highlighted by Genome-Wide Association Study of MRI-Derived Measures of Body Composition.
• Quantifying the Phenome-Wide Disease Burden of Obesity Using Electronic Health Records and Genomics.
• Panorama of Diabetes in the Americas.
• A Prospective Study on the Prevalence of NAFLD, Advanced Fibrosis, Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma in People with Type 2 Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Pharmacological Targeting of Glutamatergic Neurons Within the Brainstem for Weight Reduction.
• Review of Potential Link between Visceral Obesity and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Effects of Acute Sleep Loss on Leptin, Ghrelin, and Adiponectin in Adults with Healthy Weight and Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Investigating Socioeconomic Inequalities in BMI Growth Rates During Childhood and Adolescence.
• Systematic Review: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Dietary Intake in Chile.
• Association between Social Determinants of Health and Glycemic Control Among African American People with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Complex Systems and Participatory Approaches to Address Maternal Health Disparities: Findings from a System Dynamics Group Model Building Project in North Texas.

Stigma

• Newspaper Media Framing of Obesity During Pregnancy in the UK: A Review and Framework Synthesis.
• Weight Stigma, Citizenship, and Neoliberal Democracy.
• The Relation between Weight Bias Attitudes and Judgments of Sexual Assault Scenarios.
• How Do Looking Patterns, Anti-Fat Bias, and Causal Weight Attributions Relate to Adults’ Judgements of Child Weight?

Policy Related

• Ecological Associations between Obesity Prevalence and Neighborhood Determinants Using Spatial Machine Learning in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Partial Replacement of Red and Processed Meat with Legumes – a Modelling Study of the Impact on Nutrient Intakes and Nutrient Adequacy on the Population Level.
• Position of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior: Nutrition Educator Competencies for Promoting Healthy Individuals, Communities, and Food Systems: Rationale and Application.
• Walking in Two Worlds with Type 2 Diabetes: A Scoping Review of Prevention and Management Practices Incorporating Traditional Indigenous Approaches.

Intergenerational Effects

• High-Fat Diet Consumption by Male Rat Offspring of Obese Mothers Exacerbates Adipose Tissue Hypertrophy and Metabolic Alterations in Adult Life.
• Prenatal Ozone Exposure Programs a Sexually Dimorphic Susceptibility to High-Fat Diet in Adolescent Long Evans Rats.
• Impact of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain on Exclusive Breastfeeding Among Women with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Fetal Growth Trajectories of Babies Born Large-For-Gestational Age.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Metabolic Rate and Climate Change Across Latitudes: Evidence of Mass-Dependent Responses in Aquatic Amphipods.
• Heat Tolerance Limits of Mediterranean Songbirds and Their Current and Future Vulnerabilities to Temperature Extremes.

Methods

• Measuring and Estimating Insulin Resistance in Clinical and Research Settings.
• Neighborhood Food Environment and Children’s BMI: A New Framework with Structural Equation Modeling.

Commentary

• Brands That Keep Obesity Separate and Unequal.
• Of Diet, Doctors, and Denial.
• Sleeping with Light Pollution Linked to Diabetes, Study Says.
• Metabolic Health in a Holiday Environment.
• Early Data Hint at Benefit for Amgen’s Obesity Drug.
• Integrating Nutrition and Obesity Prevention Considerations Into Institutional Investment Decisions Regarding Food Companies: Australian Investment Sector Perspectives.
• Bariatric Surgery to Cut the Risk of a Heart Attack.
• Can a Multicultural Healthy Diet Reduce Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer's Disease Risk?
• Scientists Don’t Agree on What Causes Obesity, but They Know What Doesn’t.

General

• Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Distance Learning and Telementoring Program for Cervical Cancer Prevention in Cameroon.
• The Creation Of the Belmont Report And its Effect On Ethical Principles: A Historical Study.
• Silicon Nanochip Could Treat Traumatic Muscle Loss.
• Within-Person Associations of Escalated Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Use with Cigarette, Alcohol, Marijuana, and Drug Use Behaviors Among U.S. Young Adults.
• Disclosing Political Partisanship Polarizes First Impressions of Faces.
• Enzyme Treatment Given Directly to Fetus Prevents Symptoms of Rare Genetic Disease - First of Its Kind in Utero Therapy Could Treat Other Genetic Disorders.
• Ancient Disease Has Potential to Regenerate Livers.
• Identifying High-Risk Areas for Dog-Mediated Rabies Using Bayesian Spatial Regression.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Seeks Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency and/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Is Recruiting for Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department!

Featured

• Investigating Temporal Patterns of Glycemic Control around Holidays.
• RCT: Simultaneous Assessment of Motor and Cognitive Tasks Reveals Reductions in Working Memory Performance Following Exercise in the Heat.
• Ketogenic Diet and Chemotherapy Combine to Disrupt Pancreatic Cancer Metabolism and Growth.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Converting 'Bad' Fat to 'Good' Fat to Treat Obesity and Diabetes.
• Study: Drug-Initiated Activity Metabolomics Identifies Myristoylglycine as a Potent Endogenous Metabolite for Human Brown Fat Differentiation... In Vitro.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "This study found no evidence that commercial weight management programs differed in 5-year changes in depression and anxiety symptoms, compared with BI [brief intervention]."
• RCT: "Results suggest that choices for grocery products might be too ingrained to be changed by subtle rearrangements of choice architecture like the ordering interventions..."
• Meta-Analysis: "Except for reducing HbA1c levels and adiposity parameters at short-to-intermediate terms, a LC diet appears to be equally effective as a LF diet in terms of control of cardiometabolic markers and the risk of adverse events in obese patients with T2D."
• "...contrary to our expectations, non-lactating dairy sheep and goats prefer single components over a mixed ration of the same components and similar nutritional value."
• "The division of labour, combined with inter-individual variability, leads to predictions of the food dynamics and exchange networks that run, contrary to the other models" in ants.
• "Offspring exposed to maternal diet-induced obesity demonstrate a phenotype consistent with energy excess. Contrary to previous studies, the observed energy phenotype was not associated with hyperphagia or decreased basal metabolic rate but rather decreased hypothalamic neuronal activity and energy production."
• "Vitamin D3 supplementation not effective in preventing ventricular hypertrophy."
• Meta-Analysis: "Vitamin D supplementation had no effect on the risk of total cancer incidence (RR 0.99, 95% CI: 0.94-1.04; I 2 = 0%), total cancer mortality (RR 0.93, 95% CI: 0.84-1.03; I 2 = 24%) and total mortality (RR 0.92, 95% CI: 0.82-1.04; I 2 = 36%)."

Basic

• Monoacylglycerol O-Acyltransferase 1 Lowers Adipocyte Differentiation Capacity in Vitro but Does Not Affect Adiposity in Mice.
• Deficiency of Exchange Protein Directly Activated by CAMP (EPAC)-1 in Mice Augments Glucose Intolerance, Inflammation, and Gut Dysbiosis Associated with Western Diet.
• Sex Differences in Adipose Tissue Distribution Determine Susceptibility to Neuroinflammation in Mice with Dietary Obesity.
• Severe Maternal Stress Alters Placental Function, Resulting in Adipose Tissue and Liver Dysfunction in Offspring of Mice.
• IGF1R Is a Mediator of Sex-Specific Metabolism in Mice: Effects of Age and High-Fat Diet.
• A Gut-Derived Hormone Suppresses Sugar Appetite and Regulates Food Choice in Drosophila.
• Two-Sided Roles of Adipose Tissue: Rethinking the Obesity Paradox in Various Human Diseases from a New Perspective.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Bias Attributable to the Use of a Composite Outcome in Evaluating a Cocoa Extract Supplement.
• Reply: To PC Ramírez and FA Diaz-Quijano.
• Red Pen Review of "The Proof is in the Plants: How science shows a plant-based diet could save your life."

Clinical

• Long-Term Effects on Weight Loss and Maintenance by Intensive Start with Diet and Exercise.
• Obesity Downregulates Lipid Metabolism Genes in First Trimester Placenta.
• Meta-Analysis: Obesity and the Risk of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection.
• From Soup to Nuts: Obesity Impairs Chemotherapy During Early and Late Phases of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment.
• Getting Them Through the Door: Social and Behavioral Determinants of Uptake and Engagement in an Obesity Intervention.
• Decreased Adiponectin/Leptin Ratio Relates to Insulin Resistance in Adults with Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Preprint: Waist-To-Height Ratio Associated Cardiometabolic Risk Phenotype in Children with Overweight/Obesity.
• European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) Position Statement on Medical Nutrition Therapy for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• Habitual Coffee Consumption and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Individuals with a History of Gestational Diabetes - a Prospective Study.
• The Effect of Healthy Lifestyle Strategies on the Management of Insulin Resistance in Children and Adolescents with Obesity: A Narrative Review.
• Visceral Adipose Tissue Molecular Networks and Regulatory MicroRNA in Pediatric Obesity: An in Silico Approach.
• Early-Life Stress and Current Stress Predict BMI and Height Growth Trajectories in Puberty.
• RCT: Home Meal Delivery on Preschoolers' BMI Z-Score, Dietary Quality, and Family Meal Frequency.
• Protocol: Design of the FRESH-DOSE Study: A Randomized Controlled Noninferiority Trial Evaluating a Guided Self-Help Family-Based Treatment Program for Children with Overweight or Obesity.

Surgery

• Body Image and BMI Influence on Psychophysical Well-Being in Bariatric Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Delayed Gastric Emptying After Sleeve Gastrectomy Is Associated with Poor Weight Loss.
• Predictors of Morbidity in Revisional Bariatric Surgery and Bariatric Emergencies at an MBSAQIP-Accredited Community Hospital.
• Binge Eating in Patients Pursuing Bariatric Surgery: Understanding Relationships with Food Insecurity and Adverse Childhood Experiences.
• National Trends in Pediatric Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: 2010–2017.
• Food Intake Following Gastric Bypass Surgery: Patients Eat Less but Do Not Eat Differently.
• Improvement of Low-Grade Inflammation in Patients with Metabolically Healthy Severe Obesity After Primary Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Advances in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity-Driven Effects in Breast Cancers.
• Targeting the Enteroendocrine System for Treatment of Obesity.
• Obesity Alters Pathology and Treatment Response in Inflammatory Disease.
• Evaluating Prediction Methods for Glomerular Filtration to Optimise Drug Doses in Patients With and Without Obesity.
• Once-Weekly Semaglutide 2.4 Mg Improved Glucose Metabolism and Prediabetes in Adults with Overweight/Obesity in the STEP 1 Trial.

Food & Diet

• Effects of an Exogenous Ketone Ester Using Multi-Omics in Skeletal Muscle of Aging C57BL/6J Male Mice.
• Dissertation: The Effects of Pasture-Raised Versus Conventional Whey Protein Supplementation on Vascular Function and Markers of Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage in Resistance-Trained Individuals.
• The Role of the Gut Microbiota in the Relationship between Diet and Human Health.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption and Plasma Lipoprotein Cholesterol, Apolipoprotein, and Lipoprotein Particle Size Concentrations in US Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Obese Outbred Mice Only Partially Benefit from Diet Normalization or Calorie Restriction as Preconception Care Interventions to Improve Metabolic Health and Oocyte Quality.
• RCT: Resistance Training Added to Caloric Restriction Plus Aerobic Exercise Training in Heart Failure with Obesity and Preserved Ejection Fraction.
• Caloric Restriction Improves Glycaemic Control Without Reducing Plasma Branched-Chain Amino Acids or Keto-Acids in Men with Obesity.
• Calorie Restriction, but Not Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery, Increases [3H] PK11195 Binding in a Rat Model of Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Independent and Joint Associations of Weightlifting and Aerobic Activity with All-Cause, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Mortality in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial.
• Effect of a Single Bout of High-Intensity Sprint Exercise Programme Compared to Traditional High-Intensity Sprint Interval Exercise and Endurance Exercise on Inflammatory Markers, Lipid Profile and Health-Related Physical Fitness Measurements in Participants with Elevated Cardiovascular Disease Risk.

Economics & Sociology

• Cute Kid? Patient Obesity Status and the Use of Nonmedical Descriptors in Presentations by Pediatric Residents.
• Subjective Social Status Is Associated with Happiness but Not Weight Status or Psychological Distress: An Analysis of Three Prospective Birth Cohorts from Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Are Women’s Empowerment and Income Inequality Associated with Excess Weight in Latin American Cities?
• Meta-Analysis: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Behavioral Economic Incentive Programs for Goal Achievement on Healthy Diet, Weight Control and Physical Activity.
• Navigating Hidden Hunger: An Exploratory Analysis of the Lived Experience of Food Insecurity Among College Students.
• What Is Free Food Worth? A Nonmarket Valuation Approach to Estimating the Welfare Effects of Food Pantry Services.

Epidemiology

• Association of Household Air Pollution with Glucose Homeostasis Markers in Chinese Rural Women: Effect Modification of Socioeconomic Status.
• Comparison of Serum Magnesium and Blood Sugar Levels between Adolescents With Obesity and Normal-Weight.
• Threshold of BMI for the Development of Hypertension Among Japanese Adults.
• Environmental Toxicants, Brown Adipose Tissue, and Potential Links to Obesity and Metabolic Disease.
• Meta-Analysis: Association of Adult Height with Cardiovascular Mortality.
• Twelve-Year Trajectory of Disease Burden and Mortality by Obesity Level in Korea: Analysis of the National Health Insurance Service Database.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction: Role of Physical Fitness, Body Satisfaction, and Shopping.
• Hypothalamic TTF-1 Orchestrates the Sensitivity of Leptin.
• Loss of Hypothalamic Furin Affects POMC to ProACTH Cleavage and Feeding Behavior in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice.

Equity and Disparities

• The “Double Burden of Malnutrition” in the Amazon: Dietary Change and Drastic Increases in Obesity and Anemia over 40 Years Among the Awajún.
• The Positive Impact of a Care–Physical Activity Initiative for People with a Low Socioeconomic Status on Health, Quality of Life and Societal Participation: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Stigma

• Associations Among Enacted Weight Stigma, Weight Self-Stigma, and Multiple Physical Health Outcomes, Healthcare Utilization, and Selected Health Behaviors.
• Lifetime and Daily Weight Stigma Among Higher Weight Sexual Minority Women: Links to Daily Weight-Based Concerns, Avoidance, and Negative Affect.
• Examining the Role of Experiential Avoidance and Valued Action in the Negative Effects of Weight Self-Stigma.
• Childhood Obesity and Weight Stigma Experiences and Its Implications on Health and Wellbeing: A Mixed-Method Study.

Policy Related

• Systematic Review: Dietary Environment in Early Care and Education Settings and Young Children's Eating Behavior.
• Systematic Review: Effects of Public–Private Partnership on Diet-Related Obesity Risk Factors Among School-Aged Children.
• RCT: The Influence of Increased Dairy Product Consumption, as Part of a Lifestyle Modification Intervention, on Diet Quality and Eating Patterns in Female Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity.
• The Negative Effects of Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent Labels on Consumers' Food Brand Evaluation.
• Narrative Review: The Influence of Front-of-Pack Nutritional Labels on Eating and Purchasing Behaviors.
• Reconsidering Food Prescription Programs in Relation to Household Food Insecurity.
• The Impact of Agricultural Subsidies on Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic Review: Breast Milk Microbiota Composition and the Evidence for Transfer to and Colonisation of the Infant Gut.
• Maternal Prenatal Cortisol Trajectories Predict Accelerated Growth in Infancy.
• The Associations of Maternal and Paternal Obesity with Latent Patterns of Offspring BMI Development between 7 and 17 Years of Age: Pooled Analyses of Cohorts Born in 1958 and 2001 in the United Kingdom.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Metabolic Upper Critical Temperature of the Human Thermoneutral Zone.
• Body and Fat Mass are Not Regulated, Controlled, or Defended: An Introduction to the Invisible Hand’ and ‘Competition’ Models of Metabolism.
• A Modest Change in Housing Temperature Alters Whole Body Energy Expenditure and Adipocyte Thermogenic Capacity in Mice.

Methods

• Review: Real-World Data: Methods, Applications, Challenges and Opportunities.
• Evaluating the Nonlinearity of Calorie-Income Relationship by Semi-Parametric Estimation Strategy: Do the Model Fit the Data.
• Psychometric Properties of the Eating in the Absence of Hunger Questionnaire in Treatment-Seeking Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Advanced Dietary Analysis and Modeling: A Deep Dive Into the National Cancer Institute Method.

Commentary

• BMI Trajectories Preceding Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia.
• Fermented Foods and Fiber May Lower Stress Levels, Says New Study.
• Lifestyle Strategies for the Management of Obesity in Older Adults: From Controversies to Alternative Interventions.
• ‘You Don’t Look Anorexic’: New Research Shows That Our Assumptions About Eating Disorders are Often Wrong — and That Many Larger-Bodied People are Starving Themselves.
• Hypothesis: Metformin Is a Potential Reproductive Toxicant.
• Food Environment: Consumption Occasions.
• Could Diet Be Another Vital Sign in the Electronic Health Record?
• Spurious Correlation: Obesity and Criminality.
• Can Deep Brain Stimulation Stop Binge Eating?

General

• Plagiarism Scandal Puts Renowned Concussions Doctor Under Scrutiny.
• ‘I’m Nauseated’: Alzheimer’s Whistleblower Finds Possible Misconduct by His Mentor in Their Papers.
• Video: Scientific Discovery Through Open Science First Requires Cleaning Up Our Metadata Mess.
• Epigenetic Regulation of Aging: Implications for Interventions of Aging and Diseases.
• Why Do Fish Look Down When They Swim?
• Comparative Analysis of the Fecal Microbiome and Metabolomics of Healthy Versus Captive South China Tigers with Mild Diarrhea.
• Clinical Trials Design, Scientific Rigor, and Higher-Level Evidence in Surgery.
• Elite Greek Warrior Myth Debunked.

Video & Audio

• The Recruiting Crisis: Obesity’s Challenge to Military Readiness.

Announcements

• Scholarships for a Stronger Public Health Workforce: Professor Jon Macy of Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Leads Successful Acquisition of Grant.
• This Is a Great Time for IU Bloomington's School of Public Health.
• New, Exciting #research Opportunities in #IUSPH Now That the Brand-New Immersion Tank and Swim Flume are Operational!
• Webinar: Managing Scientific Whiplash: The Evolution of Dietary Fat & Cholesterol Research.
• SNEB International Conference Call for Abstracts.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Seeks Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency and/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Is Recruiting for Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department!