Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• The Influence of Defendant Body Size and Defendant Gender on Mock Juror Decision-making.
• On the Definition of Sarcopenia in the Presence of Aging and Obesity—Initial Results From UK Biobank.
• RCT: Effect of Weight Loss Via Severe vs Moderate Energy Restriction on Lean Mass and Body Composition Among Postmenopausal Women with Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Avocados May Help Manage Obesity, Prevent Diabetes.
• Study: An Avocado-derived Fatty Acid Oxidation Inhibitor Reduced Body Weight and Improved Insulin Sensitivity in Mice, No Statistical Differences in Human Pilot Study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "There was no evidence that other variables, including gender and BMI, were associated with healing" of chronic venous leg ulcers.
• RCT: No Significant Evidence of Effectiveness of a Behavioural Incentive Scheme for Weight Control in Children.
• RCT: No Differential Metabolic and Hepatic Impact of Two Personalized Dietary Strategies in Subjects with Obesity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Home-Based Exergaming on Preschoolers’ BMI.
• RCT: "However, in this small pilot study, the addition of a telehealth behavioral skills component to a face-to-face counseling visit to deliver the intervention did not significantly improve dietary, anthropometric or blood pressure outcomes when compared to the one-time face-to-face delivery approach alone."
• RCT: Daily Red Wine Vinegar Ingestion for Eight Weeks Improves Glucose Homeostasis and Affects the Metabolome but Does Not Reduce Adiposity in Adults.
• RCT: No Significant Effect on BMI of a Consumer-direct Digital Health Intervention for Cardiovascular Risk Management in Primary Care.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Adding a Self‐monitoring Wearable Device to a Multifaceted 8‐week Weight Loss Intervention for Weight Loss.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: “We believe this inappropriate study design to be the cause of the increased malnutrition recorded in the OAGB group”.
• Letter: “The authors must provide a per-protocol analysis without imputation and state whether the imputed and sensitivity analyses were prespecified in the first version of the protocol, or not.”
• Reply: The YOMEGA non-inferiority trial – Authors' reply.

Basic

• ACE2 Exerts Anti-obesity Effect Via Stimulating Brown Adipose Tissue and Induction of Browning in White Adipose Tissue.
• Regulation of Adipocyte Differentiation and Metabolism By Lansoprazole.
• Norepinephrine Transporter Availability in Brown Fat is Reduced in Obesity: A Human PET Study with [11C] MRB.
• Adiponectin and PPAR: A Setup for Intricate Crosstalk Between Obesity and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Empagliflozin Reverses Obesity and Insulin Resistance Through Fat Browning and Alternative Macrophage Activation in Mice Fed a High-fat Diet.

Clinical

• RCT: Clinical and Psychological Responses to Synbiotic Supplementation in Obese or Overweight Adults.
• RCT: Rhus Coriaria L. (Sumac) in Patients Who are Overweight or Have Obesity.
• Association Between Different Animal Protein Sources and Liver Status in Obese Subjects with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Fatty Liver in Obesity (FLiO) Study.
• Oral Semaglutide Versus Empagliflozin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Uncontrolled on Metformin: The PIONEER 2 Trial.
• The Association Between Sleep Efficiency and Diabetes Mellitus in Community‐dwelling Individuals with or Without Sleep‐disordered Breathing.

Children and Adolescents

• Physical Activity Mediates the Relationship Between Outdoor Time and Mental Health.
• Understanding Childhood Obesity in the US: The NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program.
• State of Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Impact of Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness on Diet and Exercise in Adolescents.
• Meta-analysis: Grocery Store Access and Childhood Obesity.

Surgery

• Obesity in the Liver Transplant Setting.
• Pediatric Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Evidence, Barriers, and Best Practices.
• Conversions of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass to Duodenal Switch (SADI-S and BPD-DS) for Weight Regain.
• Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for Pediatric Patients with Severe Obesity.

Drugs

• Current Options for the Pharmacotherapy of Obesity.
• Neuromodulatory Effect of Microbiome on Gut-Brain Axis; New Target for Obesity Drugs.
• Understanding the Mechanism of Action and Clinical Implications of Anti-Obesity Drugs Recently Approved in Korea.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Fiber Enrichment of Pasta: Metabolic Effects and Diet Adherence in Obese Subjects.
• RCT: Effects of Interventions Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior on Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption Intentions and Behavior.
• Effectiveness of Intermittent Fasting and Time-Restricted Feeding Compared to Continuous Energy Restriction for Weight Loss.
• Ketogenic Diet: A New Light Shining on Old but Gold Biochemistry.
• Safety and Tolerability of Sustained Exogenous Ketosis Using Ketone Monoester Drinks for 28 Days in Healthy Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• A Synergistic Triad of Chemotherapy, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, and Caloric Restriction Mimetics Eradicates Tumors in Mice.
• Myostatin Dysfunction is Associated with Lower Physical Activity and Reduced Improvements in Glucose Tolerance in Response to Caloric Restriction in Berlin High Mice.
• Increasing Energy Flux to Maintain Diet-Induced Weight Loss.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Active Commuting in Swedish Workers Between 1998 and 2015 ‐ Trends, Characteristics and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
• Meta-analysis: What is the Effect of Aerobic Exercise Intensity on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Those Undergoing Cardiac Rehabilitation?
• Will the Smartphone Become a Useful Tool to Promote Physical Activity?

Economics & Sociology

• "Discover Korea's Delicious Secret": The Politics of Gastro-national Branding.
• Socioeconomic Gradient in Physical Activity: Findings From the PERSIAN Cohort Study.

Epidemiology

• Effects of BMI on the Life–course of Fatty Liver.
• Sick Individuals and Sick (Microbial) Populations: Challenges in Epidemiology and the Microbiome.
• Next Generation Sequencing Analysis of Patients with Mendelian Obesity.
• Weight Trends in a Multiethnic Cohort of Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survivors: A Longitudinal Analysis.
• Overweight and Obesity do Not Determine Worst Prognosis in Endometrioid Endometrial Carcinoma.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Article Open Access Published: 22 October 2019 Eating Style and the Frequency, Size and Timing of Eating Occasions: A Cross-sectional Analysis Using 7-day Weighed Dietary Records.
• Interactive Effects of Impulsivity and Dietary Restraint Over Snack Intake.
• Fat Intake and Stress Modify Sleep Duration Effects on Abdominal Obesity.
• Saturated Fatty Acid is a Principal Cause of Anxiety-like Behavior in Diet-induced Obese Rats in Relation to Serum Lysophosphatidyl Choline Level.

Equity and Disparities

• College Climate and Sexual Orientation Differences in Weight Status.
• Qualitative Analysis of COACH: A Community-based Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Obesity Health Disparities Within a Marginalized Community.
• Association of Social Adversity with Comorbid Diabetes and Depression Symptoms in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sociocultural Ancillary Study: A Syndemic Framework.
• Black-White Differences in 20-year Trends in Cardiovascular Risk in the United States, 1990-2010.

Stigma

• Nursing Students' Attitudes Towards Obese People, Knowledge of Obesity Risk, and Self-disclosure of Own Health Behaviours.
• Why We Should Never do It: Stigma as a Behaviour Change Tool in Global Health.
• Internalized Weight Bias and Cortisol Reactivity to Social Stress.
• Systematic Review: What is the Current Stance Towards Weight Stigmatization in Social Media Platforms?

Policy Related

• Does Japan’s National Nutrient-based Dietary Guideline Improve Lifestyle-related Disease Outcomes? A Retrospective Observational Cross-sectional Study.
• Challenges to Regulate Products Containing Bisphenol A: Implications for Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic review: Associations Between Maternal Stress During Pregnancy and Offspring Obesity Risk Later in Life.
• Associations Between Prenatal Physical Activity and Neonatal and Obstetric Outcomes.
• Intergenerational Transmission of Diet‐induced Obesity, Metabolic Imbalance, and Osteoarthritis in Mice.
• Adipokines Underlie the Early Origins of Obesity and Associated Metabolic Comorbidities in the Offspring of Women with Pregestational Obesity.
• Racial Differences of Incident Diabetes Postpartum in Women with a History of Gestational Diabetes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Crows and Common Ravens do Not Reciprocally Exchange Tokens with a Conspecific to Gain Food Rewards.
• The Evolution of Human Endurance.
• Slowing Down the Metabolic Engine: Impact of Early-life Corticosterone Exposure on Adult Metabolism in House Sparrows (Passer Domesticus).
• Cardiac Mitochondrial Function, Nitric Oxide Sensitivity and Lipid Composition Following Hypoxia Acclimation in Sablefish.

Methods

• Cross-cultural Validation of the Short Version of the Food Disgust Scale in Ten Countries.
• Assessing Dinner Meals Offered at Home Among Preschoolers From Low-income Families with the Remote Food Photography Method.
• Advances in Nutrition Science and Integrative Physiology: Insights From Controlled Feeding Studies.

Commentary

• Is Ditching Meat a “game-changer” for Your Health?
• Is Diet Soda More Dangerous than Sugar-sweetened Beverages?
• The Pain of Weight Gain: Self-experimentation with Overfeeding.
• How Certain Foods Affect Cognition, Seizures, and Cardiometabolic Disease.
• Choline: The Forgotten Vital Nutrient We’re Not Getting Enough Of.
• Disrupting Food Insecurity.
• Prescribing and Delivering Better Nutrition.
• Why Isn’t There a Diet that Works for Everyone?
• The ‘fundamental Questions of Obesity’: Asked and Answered.
• Overweight and Obesity in Women: Health Risks and Consequences.

General

• The Distinct Effects of Gratitude and Pride on Donation Choice and Amount.
• Sex Differences in Humor Production Ability: A Meta-analysis.
• Post-copulatory Sexual Selection Allows Females to Alleviate the Fitness Costs Incurred When Mating with Senescing Males.
• The Handicap Principle: How an Erroneous Hypothesis Became a Scientific Principle.
• Arrangement and Size Variation of Intra-gonadal Offspring in a Viviparous Asterinid Sea Star.
• Blind Spots in the ‘Blind Audition’ Study.
• Dietary Salt Promotes Cognitive Impairment Through Tau Phosphorylation.
• Knowledge and Debate in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: New Sections, New Science, and Looking Forward and Outward.

Video & Audio

• Understanding Lipids and Cardiovascular Risk Through Mendelian Randomization.
• Audio: Discussion of a Classic Paper By the Sociologist Robert Merton on 4 Norms that Govern Scientific Work.
• Health Equity: Watch the Video of Robert F. Smith's Exclusive Conversation with NYAM President Dr. Judith A. Salerno on His Life, His Beliefs and His Philanthropic Vision.

Announcements

• OBSSR R25 Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Awarded.
• Course Registration: Advanced Gene Mapping Course (The Rockefeller University, New York) - January 27-31, 2020.
• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Seeking Executive Director of Development: The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington is Searching for an Energetic and Successful Development Professional to Join Our Team.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured/tenure-track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington (SPH‐B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.

Featured

• Meta-Analysis: The Risk of Overweight and Obesity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
• Does Body Size Influence Male Care? Investigating an Alternative Reproductive Tactic in Manogea Porracea (Araneae: Araneidae), a Spider with Amphisexual Care.
• Resting Energy Expenditure and Organ-Tissue Body Composition 5 Years After Bariatric Surgery.
• Improving the Quality of Dietary Research.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Alcohol May Interfere with Weight Loss.
• Study: Associations (not Necessarily Causation) Among Weight Status, Reported Weight Loss Attempts, and Recalled Alcohol Consumption.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significantly Differential Effect of Two Incremental Milk-Feeding Rates in Preterm Infants.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Resistant Starch Ingestion on Energy Intake or Postprandial Lipemia in Overweight or Obese Subjects.
• "Contrary to the initial hypothesis, the presence of an exercise companion while exercising was neither a positive or negative psychological distraction, as there was no overall significant change in exercise performance...".
• "Contrary to hypotheses, individuals with comorbid SUD [substance use disorder] and ED [eating disorder] evidenced slightly larger improvements in certain areas of eating pathology and affect dysregulation throughout treatment than those with ED diagnosis only."
• "Contrary to hypotheses, body dissatisfaction did not vary based on racial identity, and no significant relationships existed between body dissatisfaction, and strength of endorsement of ethnic identity or adherence to Asian cultural values."
• “Results Suggest That, Contrary to Earlier Work, Overall Social Media Use May Not Negatively Impact BD [body Dissatisfaction] as Previously Thought”.
• "...contrary to expectation, those with suboptimal biochemical control (with higher TSH) showed increased BAT activation."
• A Diet Containing High- Versus Low-daidzein Does Not Affect Bone Density and Osteogenic Gene Expression in the Obese Zucker Rat Model.
• "Low-volume HIIT [high intensity interval training], therefore, appears to be a time-efficient treatment for increasing fitness, but not for the improvement of body composition."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Exceptional Reported Effects and Data Anomalies Merit Explanation From “A Randomized Controlled Trial of Coordination Exercise on Cognitive Function in Obese Adolescents” By Liu et al. (2018).
• Conducting Exercise Trials for Obese Adolescents Within the Effectiveness Setting: A Response with Commentary to Ejima et al. (2019).
• Investigation of Risk of Bias Due to Unreported and SelecTively Included Results in Meta-analyses of Nutrition Research: The ROBUST Study Protocol.
• Agreement Between the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool and Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) Scale: A Meta-epidemiological Study of RCTs of Physical Therapy Interventions.

Basic

• Five Months of Voluntary Wheel Running Downregulates Skeletal Muscle LINE-1 Gene Expression in Rats.
• Activation of Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor Gamma/small Heterodimer Partner Pathway Prevents High Fat Diet-induced Obesity and Hepatic Steatosis in Sprague–Dawley Rats Fed Soybean Meal.
• The Clinical Potential of Circulating MicroRNAs in Obesity.

Clinical

• Does HealthAtEvery Size® Fit All? A Group-based Trajectory Modeling of a Non-diet Intervention.
• RCT: OnTrack, a Just-in-time Adaptive Intervention Designed to Enhance Weight Loss.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effectiveness of Intermittent Fasting to Reduce BMI and Glucose Metabolism.

Children and Adolescents

• Metabolic Response to Exercise in Childhood Brain Tumor Survivors: A Pilot Controlled Study.
• Emotion Identification in Preschool and Early Adolescent BMI: Exploring the Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Peer Relations.
• Urinary Biomarkers of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress are Elevated in Obese Children and Correlate with a Marker of Endothelial Dysfunction.
• Chronotype, Social Jet Lag, and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Early Adolescence.

Surgery

• Visceral Obesity is a Preoperative Risk Factor for Postoperative Ileus After Surgery for Colorectal Cancer: Single‐institution Retrospective Analysis.
• Simulation of Gastric Bypass Effects on Glucose Metabolism and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with the Sleeveballoon Device.

Drugs

• Therapeutic Treatment for Controlling Childhood Obesity.
• The Benefit of Short-Term Weight Loss with Anti-Obesity Medications in Real-World Clinical Practice.
• Benefit-Risk Assessment of Obesity Drugs: Focus on Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists.
• Antiobesity Medication Use in 2.2 Million Adults Across Eight Large Health Care Organizations: 2009‐2015.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Processed Meat Intake and Chronic Disease Morbidity and Mortality.
• RCT: A Moderate-Fat Diet with One Avocado Per Day Increases Plasma Antioxidants and Decreases the Oxidation of Small, Dense LDL in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Impact of Caloric Restriction on Peripheral Nerve Injury‐induced Neuropathic Pain During Aging in Mice.
• Gestational Caloric Restriction with Micronutrients Supplementation Does Not Delay Development and Promotes Feeding Behavior Benefits.
• A Nutritional Memory Effect Counteracts the Benefits of Dietary Restriction in Old Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Prison-Based Exercise Training Programs.
• RCT: Couples-Based Approach for Increasing Physical Activity Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Consensus Statement: Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effect of Yoga Practice on Glycemic Control and Other Health Parameters in the Prediabetic State.
• Lipid Metabolism Links Nutrient-exercise Timing to Insulin Sensitivity in Men Classified as Overweight or Obese.

Economics & Sociology

• Road Network Intersection Density and Childhood Obesity Risk in the US: A National Longitudinal Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Socioeconomic Status Throughout Life and BMI.
• Neighborhood-Level Analysis on the Impact of Accessibility to Fast Food and Open Green Spaces on the Prevalence of Obesity.
• The Call of the Wild: Rethinking Food Production in Ancient Amazonia.
• The Heavy Burden of Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Cognitive Restraint and History of Dieting are Negatively Associated with Organic Food Consumption in a Large Population-Based Sample of Organic Food Consumers.
• Adiposity and Asthma in Adults: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomisation Analysis of the HUNT Study.
• Association of Bulimia Nervosa with Long-term Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality Among Women.
• BMI, Triglycerides and Risk of Acute Pancreatitis: A Population-based Study of 118,000 Individuals.
• Weight Change Across Adulthood in Relation to All Cause and Cause Specific Mortality: Prospective Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Evaluation of the Correlation of the Effects of Obesity in the Quality of Social Life.
• The Effect of Food Anticipation on Cognitive Function: An Eye Tracking Study.
• Differences in Neurocognitive Performance and Metabolic and Inflammatory Indices in Male Adults with Obesity as a Function of Regular Exercise.
• Mediation of Emotional and External Eating Between Dieting and Food Intake or BMI Gain in Women.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic Review: Sexual Orientation Disparities in Disordered Eating and Weight-Related Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Toward a Developmental Model.
• Underpinnings of Entangled Ethnical and Gender Inequalities in Obesity in Cochabamba-Bolivia: An Intersectional Approach.
• Association of Cardiovascular Disease with Premature Mortality in the United States.

Stigma

• Body Weight, Body Weight Perception, and Bullying Among Adolescents in Malaysia.
• Responding Positively to “children Who Like to Eat”: Parents’ Experiences of Skills-based Treatment for Childhood Obesity.
• Perceptions, Relationship, and Management of Morbidly Obese Patients and the Role of Robotic Surgery.
• Weigh More, Pay More? Public Opinion on Varying Health Insurance Contributions Among Divergent Weight Groups.
• Pediatric Weight Bias in Prehealth Profession Undergraduates: An Idiographic Approach.
• Book Chapter: Empathy and Ethics.
• Weight Status or Weight Stigma? Obesity Stereotypes—Not Excess Weight—Reduce Working Memory in School-aged Children.

Policy Related

• Neighborhood-Level Analysis on the Impact of Accessibility to Fast Food and Open Green Spaces on the Prevalence of Obesity.
• Outcomes From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018 Breastfeeding Report Card: Public Policy Implications.
• Harnessing Knowledge for Improving Access to Fruits and Vegetables at Farmers Markets: Interactive Data Visualization to Inform Food Security Programs and Policy.
• Addressing Health and Well-Being Through State Policy: Understanding Barriers and Opportunities for Policy-Making to Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in South Carolina.
• The Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Purchases: Evidence From Four City-Level Taxes in the U.S.
• Generating Health in New York City.
• Understanding and Use of Food Labeling Systems Among Whites and Latinos in the United States and Among Mexicans: Results From the International Food Policy Study, 2017.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Prenatal Stress Phenotypes Associate with Fetal Neurodevelopment and Birth Outcomes.
• Preconception Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Health in the Offspring of Overweight and Obese Women.
• Maternal Exposure to Environmental Disruptors and Sexually-Dimorphic Changes in Maternal and Neonatal Oxidative Stress.
• Effects of Social Exclusion and Maternal Rejection on Children's High-caloric Food Consumption.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Effects of Temperature and Meal Size on the Postprandial Metabolic Response of Leptodactylus Latrans (Anura, Leptodactylidae).
• Naked Mole Rats Reduce the Expression of ATP-dependent but Not ATP-independent Heat Shock Proteins in Acute Hypoxia.

Methods

• Identifying Athlete Body Fluid Changes During a Competitive Season with Bioelectrical Impedance Vector Analysis.
• Evaluating Steady-state Resting Energy Expenditure Using Indirect Calorimetry in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Simple Methods to Obtain Food Listing and Portion Size Distribution Estimates for Use in Semi-quantitative Dietary Assessment Methods.
• Mathematical Model of Diabetes and Lipid Metabolism Linked to Diet, Leptin Sensitivity, Insulin Sensitivity and VLDLTG Clearance Predicts Paths to Health and Type II Diabetes.

Commentary

• Neglecting Major Health Problems and Broadcasting Minor, Uncertain Issues in Lifestyle Science.
• Big Baby Food: Hooked on Sugar, Salt, and Fat.
• Time to Say Goodbye… to the “Household Measure” BMI?
• Fewer Birth Defects After Bypass Surgery.
• Sauropods Get a New Diet and a New Look.
• Pope Francis: Food for Profit at Any Cost.
• Are Women Eating Enough Protein?
• Why You Should Be Skeptical About Diets Tailored for Your DNA.
• Can Happy Rats Tell Us Something About Obesity?
• New PLOS ONE Statistical Reporting Guidelines.

General

• Ketone Administration for Seizure Disorders: History and Rationale for Ketone Esters and Metabolic Alternatives.
• Deconstructing Evolutionary Game Theory: Coevolution of Social Behaviors with Their Evolutionary Setting.
• Effects of Diabetes-related Stimuli on Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Expression.
• "This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences honors three researchers who pioneered the use of randomized controlled trials to determine how best to ameliorate global poverty."
• The Nature of Moral Motivation.
• Informational Nudges and Public Goods in Networks.
• Investigating Human Fertility Problems Via the Water Flea.
• Automated Study Challenges the Existence of a Foundational Statistical-Learning Ability in Newborn Chicks.
• RCT: Listening to Recorded Music is a Beneficial Distraction for Children Experiencing Pain During ER Procedures.
• Socially Transmitted Placebo Effects.
• Careless Citations Don't Just Spread Scientific Myths – They Can Make Them Stronger.
• Cooking Shapes the Structure and Function of the Gut Microbiome.
• Mice with Hyper-long Telomeres Show Less Metabolic Aging and Longer Lifespans.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Lifestyle Science and Health News: Neglecting Major Health Problems in Favor of Minor Uncertain Exposures.
• Video: What Happens in Your Brain When You Taste Food.

Announcements

• Will You Be at APHA in Philadelphia? Please Join Us for Our Reception.
• IU Dining Launches 2 Food Trucks in Bloomington.
• Center for Rural Engagement's Emerging Model for Arts and Cultural Partnerships Earns National Award.
• Public Notification: Skinny Pill Contains Hidden Drug Ingredient.
• European and International Congress on Obesity @ Dublin, Ireland (May 17-20, 2020).
• Symposium on Food Systems, Nutrition & the Microbiome @ Duke University (Nov 12).
• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Seeking Executive Director of Development: The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington is Searching for an Energetic and Successful Development Professional to Join Our Team.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured/tenure-track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington (SPH‐B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.

Featured

• Impact of Dietary Sucrose on Adiposity and Glucose Homeostasis in C57BL/6J Mice Depends on Mode of Ingestion: Liquid or Solid.
• TOR Inhibition Interrupts the Metabolic Homeostasis By Shifting the Carbon–nitrogen Balance in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii.
• Foraging Theory and the Propensity to Be Obese: An Alternative to Thrift.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Father’s Nutritional Pattern Affects Child’s Cardiovascular Health.
• Study: Paternal Diet Impairs F1 and F2 Offspring Vascular Function Through Sperm and Seminal Plasma Specific Mechanisms… in Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Providing Mothers with a Pedometer and Did Not Significantly Effect on the Physical Activity of Their Children.
• RCT: "The two groups using scales also significantly increased their BMI."
• Contrary to Expectations, Bivariate Mixed Model Analysis Revealed that More Active Individuals [fish] Had Lower RMR (r = −.58) After Accounting for Mass Effects and Other Covariates.
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, we observed no difference in the magnitude of hypertrophy between WT and KI [eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) knocked-in] groups in response to 14 days of mechanical overload induced by synergistic ablation."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, a HFM [high fat meal] did not elicit PPI [inflammation] in YA or OA."
• Metabolic Abnormalities, but Not Obesity Per Se, Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease in a Taiwanese Population.
• Change in Hepatic Fat Content Measured By MRI Does Not Predict Treatment-induced Histological Improvement of Steatohepatitis.
• Abstract: "Caffeine but not sugar or color impact [associates with] beverage preference among elementary students."

Basic

• Postprandial Oxidative Metabolism of Human Brown Fat Indicates Thermogenesis.
• Bisphenol AF Promotes Inflammation in Human White Adipocytes.
• Trimethylamine N-Oxide Binds and Activates PERK to Promote Metabolic Dysfunction.
• A Short-term Feeding of Dietary Casein Increases Abundance of Lactococcus Lactis and Upregulates Gene Expression Involving Obesity Prevention in Cecum of Young Rats Compared with Dietary Chicken Protein.
• Transgenerational Obesity and Healthy Aging in Drosophila. (pdf)

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Trends in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Letter: Letter: Trends in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Comment: Sugar Consumption and T2D in the US.
• Errors or Irreproducibility in Effect Size Calculations and Incomplete Reporting of Results in “Systematic Review of the Effects of Blueberry on Cognitive Performance as We Age”.
• There is No Meta-Analytic Evidence of Blueberries Improving Cognitive Performance or Mood.
• In Response to “There is No Meta-Analytic Evidence of Blueberries Improving Cognitive Performance or Mood”.

Clinical

• RCT: Web-based Intervention to Increase Weight Loss Treatment Initiation.
• The Challenge of Stratifying Obesity: Attempts in the Quebec Family Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Associations Between Breastfeeding Duration and Overweight/obese Among Children Aged 5–10: A Focus on Racial/ethnic Disparities in California.
• Circannual Growth in Wisconsin Children and Adolescents: Identifying Optimal Periods of Obesity Prevention.
• Role of Appetitive Phenotype Trajectory Groups on Child Body Weight During a Family-based Treatment for Children with Overweight or Obesity.
• Child and Maternal BMI and Maternal Education Predict Overweight/obesity Onset and Resolution By Adolescence.

Surgery

• A Comparison of the Effects of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy on Body Mass Composition as Measured By Air Displacement Plethysmography.
• Sex-Specific Glucose Homeostasis and Anthropometric Responses to Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Association of Maternal Gastric Bypass Surgery with Offspring Birth Defects.

Drugs

• Glucagon-like Peptide-1-t3 Conjugates.
• Gender-Related Issues in the Pharmacology of New Anti-Obesity Drugs.
• Childhood Obesity: Pharmacokinetics Considerations for Drugs Used in the Intensive Care Unit.

Food & Diet

• Effect of a Nutritional and Behavioral Intervention on Energy-Reduced Mediterranean Diet Adherence Among Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Understanding the Protein Transition: The Rise of Plant-based Meat Substitutes.
• From Agribusiness to Food Democracy: Comparative Study on Agricultural Policy and Organic Farming in France and in Japan.
• Commentary: The Competing Interests Fueling Nutrition Controversy.
• What do the Studies on Red Meat Mean?

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Impact of Energy Turnover on Fat Balance in Healthy Young Men During Energy Balance, Caloric Restriction and Overfeeding.
• Adaptive Effects of Gestational Caloric Restriction in the Mitochondria of Wistar Rats’ Brain: A DOHaD Approach.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Relationship Between Weight Status and Cognition in Children: A Mediation Analysis of Physical Fitness Components.
• Comparison of Cardiorespiratory Fitness Between Preschool Children with Normal and Excess Body Adipose. An Observational Study.
• Maternal Physical Activity Prevents the Overexpression of Hypoxia-inducible Factor 1-α and Cardiorespiratory Dysfunction in Protein Malnourished Rats.

Economics & Sociology

• Hotspots of Childhood Obesity in a Large Metropolitan Area: Does Neighbourhood Social and Built Environment Play a Part?
• Stability of Differences in Weight-Related Characteristics of Mothers Across Economic, Cultural, Social, and Environmental-Health Indicators of Socioeconomic Status.

Epidemiology

• Association of BMI with Life Expectancy with and Without Cardiovascular Disease.
• Road Network Intersection Density and Childhood Obesity Risk in the US: A National Longitudinal Study.
• Association of Total Sedentary Behaviour and Television Viewing with Risk of Overweight/obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension: A Dose–response Meta‐analysis.
• The Association Between Obesity and Secular Trend of Stature: A Nationwide Study of 2.8 Million Adolescents Over Five Decades.
• Phenotypic and Genetic Analysis of an Adult Cohort with Extreme Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Preprint: Translation of Laboratory Research Into Behavioral Interventions for Obesity and Problem Drinking: The Experimental Medicine Approach.
• Rethinking Food Reward.
• Effects of Working Memory on Naturally Occurring Cravings.
• Essay: Making Peace with Imperfection.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic review: Influence of Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity and Excessive Gestational Weight Gain on Maternal and Child Gastrointestinal Microbiome Composition.
• Socio-economic and Ethnic Disparities of Malnutrition in All Its Forms in Guatemala.
• Ethnic Differences in Hepatic, Pancreatic, Muscular and Visceral Fat Deposition in Healthy Men of White European and Black West African Ethnicity.

Stigma

• Psychological Perspectives on Obesity: Addressing Policy, Practice, and Research Priorities.
• Weigh More, Pay More? Public Opinion on Varying Health Insurance Contributions Among Divergent Weight Groups.

Policy Related

• FDA Publishes Food Safety Standard Revisions.
• Aging in Mexico: Obesity.
• The Heavy Burden of Obesity: The Economics of Prevention.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Effect of Maternal High-fat/high-sugar Diet on Offspring Oocytes and Early Embryo Development. (pdf)
• Increased Maternal Prenatal Adiposity, Inflammation, and Lower Omega-3 Fatty Acid Levels Influence Child Negative Affect.
• Maternal Cardiometabolic Markers are Associated with Fetal Growth.
• Influence of Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity and Excessive Gestational Weight Gain on Maternal and Child Gastrointestinal Microbiome Composition.
• Association Between Maternal Exposure to Lead, Maternal Folate Status, and Intergenerational Risk of Childhood Overweight and Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Maternal Obesity Accelerates Rat Offspring Metabolic Aging in a Sex Dependent Manner.
• Narrative Review: The Impact of Time of Day on Energy Expenditure: Implications for Long-Term Energy Balance. (pdf)

Methods

• Hierarchies of Evidence Applied to Lifestyle Medicine (HEALM): Introduction of a Strength-of-evidence Approach Based on a Methodological Systematic Review.
• Food Craving, Seeking, and Consumption Behaviors: Conceptual Phases and Assessment Methods Used in Animal and Human Studies.
• Air Pollution and Child Obesity: Assessing the Feasibility of Measuring Personal PM2.5 Exposures and Behaviours Related to BMI in Preschool-aged Children in China.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Using Mathematical Models to Understand Causal Mechanisms Underlying Counterintuitive Epidemiological Data.
• Predictive Regression Modeling of Body Segment Parameters Using Individual-based Anthropometric Measurements.

Commentary

• Opinion: The latest flip-flop on red meat uses best science in place of best guesses.
• Nutrition Researchers are Battling Methodologists. What Does It Mean for What You’re Supposed to Eat?
• Government has "moral duty" to act on child obesity, says outgoing chief medical officer.
• The 10 Things Food Advocates Need to Know Before Working with a Supermarket.
• World Obesity Day: Stigma and Neglect at the Crux.
• Deceiving Consumers About What to Eat and Drink.
• It Was Never Really About Meat.
• Report: ACTION on Obesity – It’s About Time!
• On Red Meat Imbroglio: "One may wonder if we should stop nutritional research altogether until we can get it right."
• Why U.S. Cities are Banning New Fast-Food Drive-Throughs.
• Five Reasons the Diet Soda Myth Won’t Die.
• Is This Study Legit? Five Questions to Ask.
• Record High in Severe Childhood Obesity for the UK.

General

• Calcium Intake and Serum Calcium Level in Relation to the Risk of Ischemic Stroke: Findings From the REGARDS Study. (pdf)
• The Value of Failure in Science: The Story of Grandmother Cells in Neuroscience.
• How One NHS Anaesthetist is Fighting International Medical Research Fraud.
• A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More than 100 Published Studies.
• Leisure Behavior and Sense of Coherence in the Context of Depression.
• Women's Sexual Satisfaction, Communication, and Reasons for (No Longer) Faking Orgasm: Findings From a U.S. Probability Sample.
• Inclusion of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems in Indoor Smoke-free Air Policies and Associated Vaping Behavior.
• Former NASA Scientist Says They Found Life on Mars in the 1970s.
• 20-Year Follow-up of Statins in Children with Familial Hypercholesterolemia.
• "Using our model, we find that 99.98% of Americans would be correctly re-identified in any dataset using 15 demographic attributes."
• Ten-Year Outcome of Islet Alone or Islet After Kidney Transplantation in Type 1 Diabetes: A Prospective Parallel-Arm Cohort Study.
• Preprint: Investigating the Reproducibility of Meta-Analyses in Psychology.

Video & Audio

• How Food Effects Your Brain.
• The Leading Voices in Food Podcast Series.

Announcements

• Cellular Oxygen Sensor System Earns Nobel for Trio.
• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Seeking Executive Director of Development: The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington is Searching for an Energetic and Successful Development Professional to Join Our Team.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured/tenure-track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington (SPH‐B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.

Featured

• Effect of Dietary Fat and Sucrose Consumption on Cardiac Fibrosis in Mice and Rhesus Monkeys.
• Genetic Overlap: Executive Functions and BMI in Childhood.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Snacking on Nuts Found to Help Prevent Weight Gain.
• Study: Increased Self-reported Daily Consumption of Nuts is Associated [not Necessarily Causally Related] with Less Long-term Self-reported Weight Gain and a Lower Risk of Self-reported Obesity in Adults.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "vitamin D3 supplementation had no effect on insulin action in people with prediabetes."
• RCT: Conditional Cash Transfer And/or Lipid-based Nutrient Supplement Targeting the First 1000 D of Life Increased Attendance at Preventive Care Services but Did Not Improve Linear Growth in Young Children in Rural Mali.
• RCT: "The influence of exercise in the natural environment on adolescents’ sustained attention and working memory."
• RCT: "Implementation of the FIFA 11+ Injury Prevention Program by High School Athletic Teams Did Not Reduce Lower Extremity Injuries."
• Carbohydrate Source Offered in the Prepartum Diet Did Not Affect Postpartum Metabolic Status or Milk Yield in Dairy Cows.
• "...contrary to hypotheses, neither expenditure type [on parks and recreation] was linked to county black-white disparities" in low birth weight.
• RCT: "...pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) associated with weight loss (WL) ...[was not] better than isolated PFMT to provide additional beneficial effects to urinary symptoms in women with MUI."
• RCT: "This remotely delivered intervention did not produce statistically significant between-group differences in minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity."

Basic

• GDF5 Promotes White Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis Via P38 MAPK Signaling Pathway.
• Sestrin 3 Protects Against Diet-Induced Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Mice Through Suppression of Transforming Growth Factor β Signal Transduction. (pdf)
• Bilirubin Reduces Visceral Obesity and Insulin Resistance By Suppression of Inflammatory Cytokines.
• Maresin 1 Regulates Hepatic FGF21 in Diet‐Induced Obese Mice and in Cultured Hepatocytes.
• Low- and High-Thermogenic Brown Adipocyte Subpopulations Coexist in Murine Adipose Tissue.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Comment: Do Low-carbohydrate Diets Increase Energy Expenditure?
• Response: Scientific Discourse in the Era of Open Science: A Response to Hall Et Al. Regarding the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model.
• Letter: Comment on “Plasma, Urine, and Adipose Tissue Biomarkers of Dietary Intake Differ Between Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian Diet Groups in the Adventist Health Study-2”.
• Reply: Comment on “Plasma, Urine, and Adipose Tissue Biomarkers of Dietary Intake Differ Between Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian Diet Groups in the Adventist Health Study-2”.
• Error in Statistical Code in Cluster Randomized Trial on the Effect of a Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative on Obesity in Urban, School-aged Children.
• Commentary: Debunking the Debunking of Nutrition Beliefs.
• Systematic Review: Reproducibility and Validity of a Posteriori Dietary Patterns.

Children and Adolescents

• Atlas of Childhood Obesity. (pdf)
• Childhood Obesity, Cortical Structure and Executive Function in Healthy Children.
• Meta-analysis : Global Prevalence of Hypertension in Children.
• Meta-analysis: Prevalence and Trends of Overweight and Obesity in European Children From 1999 to 2016.

Surgery

• Biliopancreatic Diversion Induces Greater Metabolic Improvement than Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• The Effects of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on the Parameters of Leptin Resistance in Obesity.

Drugs

• Amphetamine Dose‐Dependently Decreases and Increases Binge Intake of Fat and Sucrose Independent of Sex [IN MICE].
• RCT: Diazoxide Choline Controlled-release in Patients with Prader-Willi Syndrome.

Food & Diet

• The Effectiveness of App-based Mobile Interventions on Nutrition Behaviours and Nutrition-related Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Meta-analysis: Marine Omega‐3 Supplementation and Cardiovascular Disease.
• Impact on Cardiometabolic Risk of a Weight Loss Intervention with Higher Protein From Lean Red Meat.
• Review of the Scientific Evidence and Technical Opinion on Noncaloric Sweetener Consumption in Gastrointestinal Diseases.
• RCT: BMI Modifies the Effect of Dietary Fat on Atherogenic Lipids.
• A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Social Facilitation of Eating.
• Changes in Consumption of Sugary Beverages and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Adipose Tissue as a Possible Therapeutic Target for Polyphenols: A Case for Cyclopia Extracts as Anti-obesity Nutraceuticals.
• RCT: Increasing Vegetable Intake By Emphasizing Tasty and Enjoyable Attributes: Taste-Focused Labeling.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie-Restriction-Induced Insulin Sensitivity is Mediated By Adipose MTORC2 and Not Required for Lifespan Extension.
• Examining the Impact of Estrogen on Binge Feeding, Food‐Motivated Behavior, and Body Weight in Female Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Associations of Pregnancy Physical Activity with Maternal Cardiometabolic Health, Neonatal Delivery Outcomes and Body Composition in a Biethnic Cohort of 7305 Mother–Child Pairs: The Born in Bradford Study.
• Symptomatic Venous Thromboembolism After Achilles Tendon Rupture: A Nationwide Danish Cohort Study of 28,546 Patients with Achilles Tendon Rupture.
• Systematic Review: Utility of Ketone Supplementation to Enhance Physical Performance.
• RCT: The Impact of Timing of Exercise Initiation on Weight Loss.

Economics & Sociology

• Environmental, Social, and Economic Factors Related to the Intersection of Food Security, Dietary Quality, and Obesity.
• Longitudinal Associations Between Monetary Value of the Diet, DASH Diet Score and the Allostatic Load Among Middle-Aged Urban Adults.

Epidemiology

• Daily Diet and Physical Activity Profiles in Young Normal-and Overweight Men Measured By the WellBeNet Scientific Application.
• Maternal Education in Early Life and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Young Adult American Females and Males.
• Bidirectional Associations Between Obesity and Cognitive Function in Midlife Adults.
• Association Between the Exposure to Phthalates and Adiposity: A Meta-analysis in Children and Adults.
• Meat Consumption and Health: Food for Thought.
• Birth Weight, Weight Over the Adult Life Course, and Risk of Breast Cancer.
• Eating Occasions, Obesity and Related Behaviors in Working Adults: Does It Matter When You Snack?

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Which Healthy Eating Nudges Work Best? A Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments.
• Lowered Reward Responsivity, but No Differential Reward Drive, Punishment Sensitivity or Attention for Cues Signaling Reward or Punishment in Adolescents with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• RCT: A Gender- and Culturally Sensitive Weight Loss Intervention for Hispanic Men.
• Prevalence of Abdominal Obesity in China: Results From a Cross‐Sectional Study of Nearly Half a Million Participants.
• Church-based Interventions to Address Obesity Among African Americans and Latinos in the United States: A Systematic Review.
• Food Insecurity and Obesity: Research Gaps, Opportunities, and Challenges.

Stigma

• News: Delegates Act on Obesity Bias, Other Public Health Issues.
• Social Implications of Weight Bias Internalisation: Parents’ Ultimate Responsibility as Consent, Social Division and Resistance’.
• Interpersonal Difficulties in Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Weight Status and School Bullying Experiences in Urban China: The Difference Between Boys and Girls.
• Perceptions and Realities of Shopping for Women’s Plus-Size Exercise Apparel.

Policy Related

• Multilevel Legal Approaches to Obesity Prevention: A Conceptual and Methodological Toolkit.
• Double-Duty Actions: Seizing Program and Policy Opportunities to Address Malnutrition in All Its Forms.
• Corporations’ Use and Misuse of Evidence to Influence Health Policy: A Case Study of Sugar-sweetened Beverage Taxation.
• Community Coalitions for Change and the Policy, Systems, and Environment Model: A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Addressing Obesity in Rural Tennessee.
• RE-AIM Analysis of a Community-partnered Policy, Systems, and Environment Approach to Increasing Consumption of Healthy Foods in Schools Serving Low-income Populations.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association Between Maternal Exposure to Lead, Maternal Folate Status, and Intergenerational Risk of Childhood Overweight and Obesity.
• Offspring of Women Following Bariatric Surgery and Those of Patients with Obesity are at an Increased Risk for Long-term Pediatric Endocrine Morbidity.
• Maternal Diet–induced Obesity Alters Muscle Mitochondrial Function in Offspring Without Changing Insulin Sensitivity.
• Providing Mothers with a Pedometer and Subsequent Effect on the Physical Activity of Their Children.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Accuracy of the Multisensory Wristwatch Polar Vantage's Estimation of Energy Expenditure in Various Activities: Instrument Validation Study.
• Sex, Senescence, Sources and Sinks.
• Energetics Meets Sexual Conflict: The Phenology of Hibernation in Tasmanian Echidnas.

Methods

• Data for Decision-Making: Exploring the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity’s Data, Trends, and Maps.
• Urinary Total T3 Levels as a Method to Monitor Metabolic Changes in Relation to Variation in Caloric Intake in Captive Bonobos (Pan Paniscus).
• Exercise During the First Trimester and Infant Size at Birth: Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Causal Risk Difference.
• Video: Measures Registry Learning Modules: Helping You Understand Measurement Concepts and Approaches for Diet and Physical Activity Research.
• BMI Versus Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis for Classifying Physical Function Impairment in a Racially Diverse Cohort of Midlife Women.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• U.S. Obesity as Delayed Effect of Excess Sugar.
• Mathematical Model for the Dynamics of Glucose, Insulin and β-Cell Mass Under the Effect of Trauma, Excitement and Stress.
• A Computational Model of Postprandial Adipose Tissue Lipid Metabolism Derived Using Human Arteriovenous Stable.

Commentary

• Will Eating Breakfast Keep You Lean?
• Basic Statistical Errors are Common in Canadian Psychology Journals...But the Computer Programs that Detect Them are Far From Perfect.
• Dairy Foods, Dairy Fat, Diabetes, and Death: What Can Be Learned From 3 Large New Investigations?
• Obesity, Income and Gender: The Changing Global Relationship.
• Lipokines and Thermogenesis.
• Ketogenic Diets and Exercise Performance.
• Gut Microbiota: An Important Link Between Western Diet and Chronic Diseases.
• Why are Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder at Risk Group for Unhealthy Weight?
• Nutritional Strategies to Combat Type 2 Diabetes in Aging Adults: The Importance of Protein.
• Personal, Corporate, and Public Responsibility for Obesity.
• Building Critical Mass for Real Obesity Care.
• Meatless Meat is Becoming Mainstream — and It’s Sparking a Backlash.
• Peloton: Hot Tech Stock or Fitness Spin?
• The Actual Reason Meat is Not Healthy: Nutrition Studies Leave Out a Crucial Factor.

General

• Twenty Percent of Secondary Publications of RCTs of Drugs Did Not Provide New Results Relative to the Primary Publication.
• An Authoritative Attitude to the Limits of Scientific Research.
• Nudging Healthcare Professionals Towards Evidence-based Medicine: A Systematic Scoping Review.
• Evidence Distilling for Fact Extraction and Verification.
• The Glutamate Receptor GluK2 Contributes to the Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis and Its Deterioration During Aging.
• Snake- and Spider-Venom-Derived Toxins as Lead Compounds for Drug Development.
• Tiger and Leopard Co-occurrence: Intraguild Interactions in Response to Human and Livestock Disturbance.
• How Does Evidence-based Practice in Psychology Work? – as an Ethical Demarcation.
• Preprint: Alpha-ketoglutarate, an Endogenous Metabolite, Extends Lifespan and Compresses Morbidity in Aging Mice.
• Research on Research Gains Steam.
• Variation in Responsiveness to Warranted Behaviour Change Among NHS Clinicians: Novel Implementation of Change Detection Methods in Longitudinal Prescribing Data.
• Media Bubbles Aren’t the Biggest Reason We’re Partisans.
• Effects of 20 Mph Interventions on a Range of Public Health Outcomes: A Meta-narrative Evidence Synthesis.
• No Evidence for a Protective Effect of Education on Mental Health.

Video & Audio

• New Red Meat Study Confuses Consumers, Exposes Flaws in Nutrition Research.
• "We’re making an NIH-funded podcast on a very important topic! Maybe we want to interview you! [what drives people to p-hack/duplicate images/fabricate data]"

Announcements

• IU Professors Studying Effects of Repetitive Hits on Football Players.
• IU Professors Enlist Bloomington North Football Players for Concussion Study.
• Targeting the Metabolic Roots of Chronic, Non-communicable Diseases.
• Apply to Become an IU CRRES Postdoc.
• Register to Attend Meeting 3 of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• IU Bloomington's School of Public Health Opens Second Wave of Faculty Recruitment: Multiple Positions Available in Every Department.
• Chair Search for Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at IUB's School of Public Health Now Open!