Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• A Novel Larval Diet Interacts with Nutritional Stress to Modify Juvenile Behaviors and Glucocorticoid Responses.
• Systematic Review: Eating Versus Skipping Breakfast Has No Discernible Effect on Obesity Related Anthropometric Outcomes.
• University of Alabama at Birmingham Nathan Shock Center: Comparative Energetics of Aging.
• What Is Normal Body Weight? Perceptions Around “Average” and “Healthy” Body Weight Among Adolescents in Indiana.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Suggests Hemp Extract Is an Effective Weight-Loss Aid.
• No Published Study: Company Press-Release on Randomized Trial.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "This study aimed to evaluate whether dynamic tailoring in a narrative-driven mobile exergame for adolescents played in leisure settings,...but the non-tailored condition showed longer play-time."
• RCT: "The main preregistered effect of the visual cue [on food consumption] was not statistically significant."
• RCT: “...a Diet Rich in Full-Fat Dairy Had No Effects on Fasting Lipid Profile or Blood Pressure Compared with Diets Limited in Dairy or Rich in Low-Fat Dairy.”.
• Class 3 Obesity Is Not Associated with Same-Day Admission in Patients with Obesity Undergoing Parathyroidectomy.
• “Our MR analysis provided precise evidence that genetically lowered serum 25(OH)D concentrations were not causally associated with COVID-19 susceptibility, severity or hospitalized traits."
• RCT: “Among People with Known Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes, There Were No Significant Differences in Glycaemic or Insulinaemic Response to Breads Made with Coarse Stoneground Flour, Fine Stoneground Flour, and Fine Roller-Milled Flour...Our Unexpected Findings for Postprandial Insulinaemia Did Not Align with Findings from Prior Studies.”
• RCT: "There was also no difference between women randomized to placebo or ω-3-FA in change in total mass (- 10% and -9%), fat mass (-20%), or android fat mass (-11% and -8%) (Table 2)." (pdf)
• RCT: "In conclusion, our findings do not provide any evidence that short-term regular intake of added sugars is linked to higher cardiometabolic risks, with exception of uric acid in overweight men."

Basic

• Uncoupling Protein 1-Independent Effects of Eicosapentaenoic Acid in Brown Adipose Tissue of Diet-Induced Obese Female Mice.
• PCSK9 Deficiency Rewires Heart Metabolism and Drives Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Adjustment for Energy Intake in Nutritional Research: A Causal Inference Perspective.
• Ten Ways Bias Creeps into Randomized Studies.

Clinical

• Non-Communicable Diseases Deaths Attributable to High BMI in Chile.
• Systematic Review: Rare Sugars and Their Health Effects in Humans.
• Systematic Review: Neuromodulation Therapies for Reducing Body Weight in Patients with Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of a Very Low-Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet vs Recommended Diets in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Metabolomic Profiling of Stool of Two-Year Old Children from the INSIGHT Study Reveals Links between Butyrate and Child Weight Outcomes.
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness and Safety of Herbal Medicine on Children with Simple Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Stress Management as an Effective Complementary Therapeutic Strategy for Weight Loss in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Improving Implementation of School-Based Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Policies, Practices, and Programs.

Surgery

• Higher Socioeconomic Status Is Associated with Improved Outcomes After Obesity Surgery Among Women in Germany.
• Psychological Functioning and Health Behaviors Associated with Weight Loss Patterns Up to 13.7 Years After Weight Loss Surgery.
• Sleeve Gastrectomy Suppresses Hepatic Glucose Production and Increases Hepatic Insulin Clearance Independent of Weight-Loss.
• Machine Learning to Identify Metabolic Subtypes of Obesity: A Multi-Center Study.

Drugs

• Prospects for New Drugs to Treat Binge-Eating Disorder: Insights from Psychopathology and Neuropharmacology.
• Trends in Prescribing Anti-Obesity Pharmacotherapy for Paediatric Weight Management: Data from the POWER Work Group.
• Pharmacology of Gut Hormone Mimetics for Obesity and Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Low Glycaemic Index or Load Dietary Patterns on Glycaemic Control and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Diabetes.
• The Negative Relationship of Dietary Inflammatory Index and Sleeping Quality in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Protein Supplementation During an Energy-Restricted Diet Induces Visceral Fat Loss and Gut Microbiota Amino Acid Metabolism Activation.
• Individual Saturated Fatty Acid Intake and Risk of Overweight/Obesity: Findings from a Population-Based Nationwide Cohort Study.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• The Potential of Calorie Restriction and Calorie Restriction Mimetics in Delaying Aging: Focus on Experimental Models.
• Caloric Restriction Disrupts the Microbiota and Colonization Resistance.
• High 5-Methyletetrahydrofolate and Folic Acid Gestational Diets Differ on Leptin-Dependent Hypothalamic Genes Regulating Food Intake in Female Offspring.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• High-Protein Plant-Based Diet Versus a Protein-Matched Omnivorous Diet to Support Resistance Training Adaptations: A Comparison between Habitual Vegans and Omnivores.
• Systematic Review: Associations between Meeting 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and Health in the Early Years.
• No Association between Maternal Exercise During Pregnancy and the Child’s Weight Status at Age 7 Years.
• Exercise Capacity in Young Adults Born Small for Gestational Age.
• Implementation of a Workplace Physical Activity Intervention in Child Care: Process Evaluation Results from the Care2BWell Trial.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic Review: Life Course Socioeconomic Position and Body Composition in Adulthood.
• Systematic Review: Socioeconomic Position and Body Composition in Childhood in High- and Middle-Income Countries.
• How Early Socioeconomic Adversity Combines with BMI-Linked Genetics to Launch Adverse Developmental Processes Leading to Economic Hardship.
• Is Store Density Associated with Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Consumption and Overweight or Obesity in Mexican Adolescents?
• Systematic Review: Insufficient Physical Activity and High Sedentary Behaviour are Associated with Loneliness in Adolescents with Overweight/obesity: Evidence from 23 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Systematic Review: Do Associations between Education and Obesity Vary Depending on the Measure of Obesity Used.
• Food-Spending Patterns of U.S. Consumers During COVID-19 Pandemic.

Epidemiology

• Using of Licensed and Unlicensed Anti-Obesity Medications Among the University Students.
• Weight Change and the Onset of Cardiovascular Diseases: Emulating Trials Using Electronic Health Records.
• The Association of the Parent–Child Language Acculturation Gap with Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Hispanic/Latino Youth.
• Exploring the Association between Measures of Obesity and Measures of Trip-Induced Fall Risk Among Older Adults.
• Association between Food Intake and Obesity in Pregnant Women Living with and Without HIV in Cape Town, South Africa: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Targeting Executive Function for Weight Loss in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• The Impact of Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Dietary Weight Loss Interventions on Neurobehavioral Factors Related to Body Weight Control: The Gaps and Challenges.
• The Response to Prolonged Fasting in Hypothalamic Serotonin Transporter Availability Is Blunted in Obesity.
• RCT: Who Loses Weight in a Weight Gain Prevention Program? A Comparison of Weight Losers and Weight Maintainers at 3 Years.
• The Social Facilitation of Eating: Why Does the Mere Presence of Others Cause an Increase in Energy Intake?
• Neural Network Modelling Reveals Changes in Directional Connectivity between Cortical and Hypothalamic Regions with Increased BMI.
• Alpha Oscillations and Event-Related Potentials Reflect Distinct Dynamics of Attribute Construction and Evidence Accumulation in Dietary Decision Making.

Equity and Disparities

• Exposure to Anti-Black Lives Matter Movement and Obesity of the Black Population.
• Implicit Ethnic–Racial Self-Stereotyping’s Relation to Children’s BMI and Diet: The Moderating Role of Self-Esteem.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Abdominal Obesity Among Peruvian Adults.
• Universal School Meals in the US: What Can We Learn from the Community Eligibility Provision?
• Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Sales of Unhealthy Products: Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Snack Food.

Stigma

• Motivational Processes of the Relationship between Weight Stigma and Physical Activity: A Comparison between France and Mexico.
• Adolescents’ Exposure to and Experiences of Weight Stigma During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Policy Related

• Systematic Review: Access to Fruit and Vegetable Markets and Childhood Obesity.
• Equitable Approaches to Reducing the Prevalence of Pediatric Obesity: School Nutrition Policies and Beyond.
• Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health (WHO Guidance).

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Nutrition and Developmental Programming of Male Progeny.
• Ex-Vivo Placental Lipid Metabolism of Women with Normal Weight, Overweight, and Diabetes: A Preliminary Study.
• Twelve-Month Outcomes of the First 1000 Days Program on Infant Weight Status.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Mystery of Energy Compensation.
• How Ancient People Fell in Love with Bread, Beer and Other Carbs.

Methods

• Evaluating Concordance of Bodies of Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials, Dietary Intake and Biomarkers of Intake in Cohort Studies: A Meta-Epidemiological Study.
• A New Method for Testing Reproducibility in Systematic Reviews Was Developed, but Needs More Testing.
• Methodological Challenges in Estimating the Lifetime Medical Care Cost Externality of Obesity.

Commentary

• Ready, Fire, Aim: Fat and Happy.
• Perspective: Defining Carbohydrate Quality for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability.
• Is Obesity a Lack of Will, a Poor Lifestyle Choice, or a Disease?
• Intermittent Fasting: An RCT Says ‘Meh’.
• "...how blood and lymphatic vessels in fat tissue can support or hinder adipose tissue function."
• Profile of John R. Speakman.
• Bariatric Interventions in Craniopharyngioma Patients – Best Choice or Last Option for Treatment of Hypothalamic Obesity?
• Changing Our Minds About Nutrition and Obesity.

General

• Rethinking Trust in Tourism Apps: The Moderating Effect of Age.
• Why Science Needs a New Reward and Recognition System.
• Revisiting the Guidelines for Ending Isolation for COVID-19 Patients. (pdf)
• Reuniting the Body “Neck Up and Neck Down” to Understand Cognitive Aging: The Nexus of Geroscience and Neuroscience.
• The Incredible Fig.
• Audio: Why Sweat Is a Human Superpower.
• CRISPR-Cas9 Breaches Barrier, Reveals Route to Marsupial Models.
• How Ethane-Consuming Archaea Pick Up Their Favorite Dish.

Announcements

• Elect Officer & Member Positions: American Diabetes Association - National Board of Directors.
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: September 10th to October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/ Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Abstract Submissions: Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (April 6–9, 2022).
• Obesity Forum® 2021 - Multi-Accredited Webinar Series (August 7 & 14, 2021).
• MyPlate Launches USDA’s First Alexa Skill.
• Back-To-School Support Kit (USDA).

Featured

• Review: Errors in the Implementation, Analysis, and Reporting of Randomization Within Obesity and Nutrition Research: A Guide to Their Avoidance.
• Reconciling Contrasting Guideline Recommendations on Red and Processed Meat for Health Outcomes.
• Transcriptional Regulation of N6-Methyladenosine Orchestrates Sex-Dimorphic Metabolic Traits.
• Meta-Analysis: Examining the Association between Adiposity and DNA Methylation.
• Obesity doesn’t always mean ill health. Here’s what scientists are learning.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: A Daily Dose of Coffee May Protect You from COVID-19.
• Study: Self-Reported Dietary Behaviors and Incident COVID-19 in the UK Biobank.
• Headline: Too Much Coffee Can Cause Your Brain to Shrink, Raise Risk of Dementia by 53 Percent, Study Finds.
• Study: Associations Among High Coffee Consumption, Brain Volume and Risk of Dementia and Stroke in UK Biobank.
• Headline: Your Morning Cup of Coffee May Lower Your Risk of Liver Disease.
• Study: All Coffee Types are Associated with Lower Risk of Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Chronic Liver Disease: A UK Biobank Study.
• Headline: Coffee Drinking Won't Harm Your Health, New Study Reveals Caffeine Lowers Arrhythmia Risk.
• Study: Coffee Consumption and Incident Tachyarrhythmias with Mendelian Randomization for Caffeine Metabolism in the UK Biobank.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "No significant effect of gamification was found for body mass index z-score."
• "Evidence was insufficient to determine the relation between the duration of any human milk consumption, among infants fed human milk, and overweight and/or obesity at age 2 y and older."
• "We found no significant benefit of INT (intensive glycemic control) during the original trial period in eye-related procedures, such as various procedures for DR, or during the 17 years of follow-up in cataract surgery."
• "This Mendelian randomization study showed limited evidence that coffee consumption affects the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, suggesting that previous observational studies may have been confounded."
• Dietary Quercetin Supplementation Is Not Ergogenic in Untrained Men.
• "Supplements such as caffeine and nitrates do not enhance endurance performance in the heat, with caffeine also increasing core temperature responses."
• "Adenotonsillectomy may not be an independent risk factor for undesirable weight gain in children."
• Oral Anserine Supplementation Does Not Attenuate Type-2 Diabetes or Diabetic Nephropathy in BTBR Ob/ob Mice.
• "The results do not support the hypotheses that low [salivary-amylase activity], cooling, and common genetic variations in starch-digesting enzymes affect the glycemic index or in vivo carbohydrate digestibility of cooked polished rice."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Association of Fecundity with Changes in Adult Female Weight.
• Accurate Measurement of Nutrients and Nonnutritive Dietary Ingredients from Dietary Supplements Is Critical in the Precision Nutrition Era.
• Review: Evaluation of Spin in the Abstracts of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Focused on the Treatment of Obesity.
• Commentary: Spin in the Abstracts of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: How Big Is the Problem in Obesity?

Basic

• Di(2-Ethylhexyl)phthalate Exposure Exacerbates Metabolic Disorders in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Non-Hematopoietic IL-4Rα Expression Contributes to Fructose-Driven Obesity and Metabolic Sequelae.
• Intramuscular Injection of MiR-1 Reduces Insulin Resistance in Obese Mice.
• Linking the FTO Obesity Rs1421085 Variant Circuitry to Cellular, Metabolic, and Organismal Phenotypes in Vivo.

Clinical

• Developing a Culturally Responsive Lifestyle Intervention for U.S. Mexicans with Overweight/Obesity.
• Review: Health Effects of Weight Loss Focused Lifestyle Interventions in Adults with Overweight/Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Review: Personalized Approach to Childhood Obesity: Lessons from Gut Microbiota and Omics Studies. Insights from the 29th European Childhood Obesity Congress.
• Age Patterns in Overweight and Wasting Prevalence of Under 5-Year-Old Children from Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Adherence to Index-Based Dietary Patterns in Childhood and BMI Trajectory During the Transition to Adolescence.

Surgery

• The Effect of Social Determinants and Socioeconomic Status on Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass for Weight Loss: An Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample.
• Review: The Role of Positron Emission Tomography in Bariatric Surgery Research.
• Effects of Severe Obesity and Sleeve Gastrectomy on Cortical Thickness in Adolescents.

Drugs

• Regeneron, AstraZeneca Team Up on Targeted Drugs for Obesity.
• Targeting Energy Expenditure-Drugs for Obesity Treatment.
• Diets and Drugs for Weight Loss and Health in Obesity - an Update.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Impact of Low-Fat and Full-Fat Dairy Foods on Fasting Lipid Profile and Blood Pressure.
• The Role of Western Diets and Obesity in Peripheral Immune Cell Recruitment and Inflammation in the Central Nervous System.
• Gut-Microbiota-Targeted Diets Modulate Human Immune Status.
• Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During Pregnancy Is Associated with Lower Odds of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Postpartum Weight Retention: Results of the MISC Cohort.
• Higher Habitual Flavonoid Intakes are Associated with a Lower Incidence of Diabetes.
• RCT: Temporal and Mediation Relations of Weight Loss, and Changes in Insulin Resistance and Blood Pressure in Response to 2-Year Weight-Loss Diet Interventions: The POUNDS Lost Trial.
• "There was a significant negative correlation between dairy consumption and BMI, waist circumference, and waist/height ratio in [adolescent] girls."
• RCT: Oils Rich in α-Linolenic Acid or Docosahexaenoic Acid Have Distinct Effects on Plasma Oxylipin and Adiponectin Concentrations and on Monocyte Bioenergetics in Women with Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Inhibits Renal Artery Ageing by Reducing Endothelin-1 Expression.
• Leptin Treatment Prevents Impaired Hypoglycemic Counterregulation Induced by Exposure to Severe Caloric Restriction or Exposure to Recurrent Hypoglycemia.
• Single-Oocyte Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Aging-Associated Effects Influenced by Life Stage and Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Dissertation: Modulation of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Exercise.
• Review: Smartphone-Based Interventions for Physical Activity Promotion: Evidence over the Last 10 Years.
• Independent Associations of Sleep Timing, Duration and Quality with Adiposity and Weight Status in a National Sample of Adolescents: The UK Millennium Cohort Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Association between Socioeconomic Status and Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Adults.
• Body Weight and Premature Retirement: Population-Based Evidence from Finland.

Epidemiology

• Is Obesity Associated with Lower Mini Mental Test Scores Among Elderly? A Cross Sectional Study.
• Neighborhood Profiles and BMI Trajectory in Female Adolescents and Young Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Rethinking Emotional Eating: Retrospective and Momentary Indices of Emotional Eating Represent Distinct Constructs.
• Making Large Changes or Small Changes to Prevent Weight Gain in Young Adulthood: Which Is Preferred and by Whom?
• Social Isolation and Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Weight.
• Food-Related Inhibitory Control Training Reduces Food Liking but Not Snacking Frequency or Weight in a Large Healthy Adult Sample.
• Meta-Analysis: White Matter Integrity Differences in Obesity.
• Lower Synaptic Density Is Associated with Psychiatric and Cognitive Alterations in Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Disparities in Elevated BMI in Youth Receiving Care at Community Health Centers.
• Adherence to Index-Based Dietary Patterns in Childhood and BMI Trajectory During the Transition to Adolescence: The EPOCH Study.

Ethics

• Considerations for Cardiovascular Genetic and Genomic Research with Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Groups and Indigenous Peoples: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.
• Methods, Ethics, and Cross-Language Considerations in Research with Ethnic Minority Children.

Stigma

• Simply Too Much: The Extent to Which Weight Bias Internalization Results in a Higher Risk of Eating Disorders and Psychosocial Problems.
• The Relationship between Internalized Weight Stigma During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: A Prospective Longitudinal Study.
• Weight-Related Teasing Is Associated with Body Concerns, Disordered Eating, and Health Diagnoses in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Young Men.
• Leading When Overweight: The Influence of Supervisor Body Weight on Subordinates’ Perceptions and Citizenship Behaviors.

Policy Related

• An Ensemble-Based Feature Selection Framework to Select Risk Factors of Childhood Obesity for Policy Decision Making.
• Health System Barriers to Accessing Care for Children with Weight Issues in New Zealand: An Interview-Based Study.
• Identifying Subgroups of Age and Cohort Effects in Obesity Prevalence.

Intergenerational Effects

• Sex Differences in the Impact of Parental Obesity on Offspring Cardiac SIRT3 Expression, Mitochondrial Efficiency and Diastolic Function Early in Life.
• Review: The WOMBS Framework: A New Theoretical Model for Investigating Pregnancy-Related Weight Stigma and Its Intergenerational Implications.
• Systematic Review: Breastfeeding and Risk of Overweight in Childhood and Beyond with Emphasis on Sibling-Pair and Intervention Studies.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Call Rate in Common Cuckoos Does Not Predict Body Size and Responses to Conspecific Playbacks.
• Sex-Specific Costs of Rearing a Nestling and Its Implications in the Brood Sex Ratio of Magellanic Penguins.

Methods

• Review: Existing Models to Predict Reductions in Neural Tube Defects Due to Folic Acid Fortification and Model Results Using Data from Cameroon.
• "Due to its accuracy and greater operational simplicity, [waist circumference] was the most adequate predictor for identifying Afro-descendant women at greatest risk for CVD."

Commentary

• The Ugly Politics of (Im)passivity, or Why Conrad's Anarchists are Fat.
• Does Business Travel Bring More Obesity Risk?
• Why a Meat-Free Diet Boosts Health: Protein Levels Might Hit the Spot.
• Study Highlights the Importance of Eating Breakfast.
• Meat: Less Is More.
• Unintended Consequences: Nutritional Impact and Potential Pitfalls of Switching from Animal- to Plant-Based Foods.
• Making Blue Foods Central to Global Food Systems.
• Legislation Would Make Obesity Medications More Widely Available and Help Reduce Inequities in Care.
• Shame Gets a Failing Grade for Health Promotion.

General

• Some Problems in the Dataset of a Large Study of Ivermectin for the Treatment of Covid-19.
• Confronting Health Misinformation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Healthy Information Environment. (pdf)
• Studies on the Dietary Intake of Fluoride and the Concentration of Fluoride in Urine over the Course of Pregnancy.
• If You Build It, Will They Come? Social, Economic, and Psychological Determinants of COVID-19 Testing Decisions.
• Large Survey Finds Questionable Research Practices are Common.
• "In field trials, transgenic expression of FTO in rice and potato caused ~50% increases in yield and biomass."
• New Biomarkers May Detect Early Eye Changes That Can Lead to Diabetes-Related Blindness.
• Citrus Consumption and Risk of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer in the UK Biobank.

Announcements

• New Book: Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science - by Alan Levinovitz.
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.

Featured

• Eat Well El Paso!: Lessons Learned from a Community-Level Restaurant Initiative to Increase Availability of Healthy Options While Celebrating Local Cuisine.
• Obligate Cross-Feeding Expands the Metabolic Niche of Bacteria.
• Surviving Winter on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Pikas Suppress Energy Demands and Exploit Yak Feces to Survive Winter.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Why Weight Lifting May Be Key to Avoiding Obesity.
• Study: Associations between (not Necessarily Causal Effects Of) Self-Reported Resistance Exercise, Alone and in Combination with Aerobic Exercise, and Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No significant effect on primary outcomes in study of "Impact of Tailored Feedback on the Purchase of Healthier Foods from Primary School Online Canteens."
• RCT: "Results showed that there were no effects found for the effect of the Nutri- Score label on consumers’ attitudes, taste perception and purchase intention."
• Central Regulation of Food Intake Is Not Affected by Inclusion of Defatted Tenebrio Molitor Larvae Meal in Diets for European Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus Labrax).
• "However, contrary to our assumption, dietary iron overloading did not intensify, but rather diminished the atherosclerotic lesion area by 65.3%..."
• "In conclusion, our study demonstrated no association between obesity and immune-mediated toxicities, kinetics of B-cell aplasia, CAR T efficacy, or survival."
• RCT: "Metabolic improvement with short-term glucagon like peptide-1 receptor agonist treatment does not improve cardiac diastolic dysfunction in patients type 2 diabetes."
• RCT: "Leucine Supplementation Does Not Improve Muscle Recovery from Resistance Exercise in Young Adults."
• Meta-Analysis: Lifestyle Interventions in Pregnant Women with Overweight or Obesity Have No Discernable Effect on Neonatal Adiposity.

Basic

• Novel Insights on the Role of Spexin as a Biomarker of Obesity and Related Cardiometabolic Disease.
• Metabolomics of the Tryptophan–kynurenine Degradation Pathway and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure: Potential Modification Effect of Mediterranean Diet.
• Adipocytes and Stromal Cells Regulate Brown Adipogenesis Through Secretory Factors During the Postnatal White-To-Brown Conversion of Adipose Tissue in Syrian Hamsters.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Role of Hepatic Neuropeptide Y-Y1 Receptors in a Methionine- Cholinedeficient Model of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis.
• The Confounding Effects of Sub-Thermoneutral Housing Temperatures on Aerobic Exercise-Induced Adaptations in Mouse Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue.
• Assessment of the Methods Used to Develop Vitamin D and Calcium Recommendations—A Systematic Review of Bone Health Guidelines.
• Reconciling Contrasting Guideline Recommendations on Red and Processed Meat for Health Outcomes.
• Systematic Review: A Guide for Authors and Readers of the American Society for Nutrition Journals on the Proper Use of P Values and Strategies That Promote Transparency and Improve Research Reproducibility.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Anthropometric and Metabolic Characteristics in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Impact of a Ketogenic Diet Intervention During Radiotherapy on Body Composition: IV. Final Results of the KETOCOMP Study for Rectal Cancer Patients.
• Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Metabolic Function and Insulin Sensitivity in People with Obesity.
• Metabolic and Cardiovascular Adaptations to an 8-Week Lifestyle Weight Loss Intervention in Younger and Older Men with Obesity.
• Does NAFLD Mediate the Relationship between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Risk?
• A Review of Telemedicine Interventions for Weight Loss.
• Effect of Glycemic Gap upon Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with Diabetes.
• Diabetes, Obesity, COVID-19, Insulin, and Other Antidiabetes Drugs.

Children and Adolescents

• Examination of Sleep and Obesity in Children and Adolescents in the United States.
• Later Sleep Timing Predicts Accelerated Summer Weight Gain Among Elementary School Children: A Prospective Observational Study.
• Association of Dietary Intake, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behaviours with Overweight and Obesity Among 282,213 Adolescents in 89 Low and Middle Income to High-Income Countries.
• Changes in Weight and Height Among Chinese Preschool Children During COVID-19 School Closures.
• Body Fat, Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Brain Structure in School-Age Children.
• Sleep Duration and Eating Behaviours are Associated with Body Composition in 5-Year-Old Children: Findings from the ROLO Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study.
• Loneliness and Cravings for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Among Adolescents.
• Psychosocial, Eating Behavior, and Lifestyle Factors Influencing Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents.
• Changes in Adiposity Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1999–2006 to 2011–2018.

Surgery

• Obesity and Revision Surgery, Mortality, and Patient-Reported Outcomes After Primary Knee Replacement Surgery in the National Joint Registry: A UK Cohort Study.
• Review: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: Current Status and Future Perspectives.
• Protective Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Kidney Functions by Inhibiting Oxidative Stress Responses Through Activating PPARα in Rats with Diabetes.
• Review: Potential Gut-Brain Mechanisms Behind Adverse Mental Health Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery.
• Obesity, Race, and Perioperative Complications.

Drugs

• Association of Early Antibiotic Exposure with Childhood BMI Trajectory Milestones.
• RCT: Metformin Affects Gut Microbiome Composition and Function and Circulating Short-Chain Fatty Acids.

Food & Diet

• Junk Food Intake Among Adults in the United States.
• Exploring Tourists’ Slow Food Experience: Perspectives from Slow Tourism.
• Ketogenic Diets, Physical Activity, and Body Composition: A Review.
• Dietary Supplements and Alternative Therapies for Obesity: A Perspective from the Obesity Society’s Clinical Committee.
• Introduction to the Special Section: New Directions in Obesity and Eating Research.
• Meta-Analysis: Effectiveness of Multimodal Nutrition Interventions During Pregnancy to Achieve 2009 Institute of Medicine Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines.
• Systematic Review: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Dietary Patterns on Cardiometabolic Health in Adults Aged 65 Years or Older.
• Effects of Oil Tea on Obesity and Dyslipidemia: A Cross-Sectional Study in China.
• Review: Dietary Fiber-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids: A Potential Therapeutic Target to Alleviate Obesity-Related Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Effect of Obesity on Gastrointestinal Transit, Pressure and PH Using a Wireless Motility Capsule.
• Systematic Review: Activation of Brown Adipose Tissue and Promotion of White Adipose Tissue Browning by Plant-Based Dietary Components in Rodents.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction and Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Promote White Adipose Tissue Browning in Mice.
• Moderate Caloric Restriction Partially Improved Oxidative Stress Markers in Humans with Obesity.
• Caloric Restriction and Hypothalamic Leptin Gene Therapy Have Differential Effects on Energy Partitioning in Adult Female Rats.
• Continuous Versus Intermittent Dieting for Fat Loss and Fat-Free Mass Retention in Resistance-Trained Adults: The ICECAP Trial.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Opportunities and Obstacles of Translating Elite Sport Research to Public Health.
• Mechanical and Structural Remodeling of Cardiac Muscle After Aerobic and Resistance Exercise Training in Rats.
• Mechanical Overload-Induced Muscle-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Promote Adipose Tissue Lipolysis.

Economics & Sociology

• Effect of Socioeconomic Characteristics and Lifestyle on BMI Distribution in the Chinese Population: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.
• Socioeconomic Status Impact on Diet Quality and BMI in Eight Latin American Countries: ELANS Study Results.
• Personal Social Networks and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Feasibility Study.
• Exploring Potential Mediation Pathways on the Relationship between Acculturation and BMI (BMI) Among Latino Adolescent.

Epidemiology

• COVID-19 Self-Quarantine and Weight Gain Risk Factors in Adults.
• The Natural History of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with Normal BMI: A Population-Based Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Examining the Association between Adiposity and DNA Methylation.
• Non-Linear Associations between the Built Environment and the Physical Activity of Children.
• Biomarker-Based Visceral Adiposity Score and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in the Multiethnic Cohort.
• Historical HbA1c Values May Explain the Type 2 Diabetes Legacy Effect: UKPDS 88.
• Association between Business Travel, Health-Related Behaviors, and Adiposity.
• Structural Brain Changes Associated with Overweight and Obesity.
• Adipose Tissue Insulin Resistance Is Longitudinally Associated with Adipose Tissue Dysfunction, Circulating Lipids, and Dysglycemia.
• Differences in Body Composition Convey a Similar Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Different Ethnic Groups with Disparate Cardiometabolic Risk.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Association between Visceral Fat and Brain Cortical Thickness in the Elderly: A Neuroimaging Study.
• A High-Fat Diet Exacerbates the Alzheimer's Disease Pathology in the Hippocampus of the AppNL−F/NL−F Knock-In Mouse Model.
• Binge-Eating Disorder Is Associated with an Unfavorable Body Mass Composition in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Long-Term High Fat Diet Consumption Reversibly Alters Feeding Behavior Via a Dopamine-Associated Mechanism in Mice.
• Association of Increased Abdominal Adiposity at Birth with Altered Ventral Caudate Microstructure.

Equity and Disparities

• Perceptions of Arguments in Support of Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption Among Low-Income White, Black and Latinx Parents of Young Children.
• Neighborhood-Level Asian American Populations, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Outcomes in 500 US Cities.

Stigma

• Weight Bias Reduction Among First-Year Medical Students: A Quasi-Randomized, Controlled Trial.
• ‘Lose Weight, Save the NHS’: Obesity in Press Coverage of COVID-19.
• Dissertation: Reducing Weight Bias: Creating an Anti-Weight Stigma Educational Simulation for Nurse Practitioner Students.
• Predictors of Weight Bias in Exercise Science Students and Fitness Professionals: A Scoping Review.

Policy Related

• Epidemiological Influences and Requirements of Global Childhood Obesity Research.
• Male Sex, Severe Obesity, Older Age, and Chronic Kidney Disease are Associated with COVID-19 Severity and Mortality in New York City.
• School Nutrition Laws in the US: Do They Influence Obesity Among Youth in a Racially/Ethnically Diverse State?

Intergenerational Effects

• Parental Dietary Sucrose Affects Metabolic and Antioxidant Enzyme Activities in Drosophila.
• Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Physical Activity and Type 1 Diabetes in the Offspring.
• Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Vascular Phenotype Associations in Mothers with Obesity and Their Six-Year-Old Children.
• Prenatal Antibiotic Exposure and Birth Weight.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Preferences for Nutrients and Sensory Food Qualities Identify Biological Sources of Economic Values in Monkeys.
• How 'Real Life Pikachus' Survive Winters Without Hibernation: Adorable Pikas Feast on YAK FAECES to Keep Their Energy Levels Up in Harsh Climates, Study Finds.

Methods

• Latent Class Trajectory Analysis of Risk Factors Uncovers Progression to Type 2 Diabetes.
• An Agent-Based Simulation Model for Testing Novel Obesity Interventions in School Environment Design.
• Dissertation: Ehealth Interventions to Promote Physical Activity and Well-Being Actions in Adults with Obesity.
• Study of Blood Glucose and Insulin Infusion Rate in Real-Time in Diabetic Rats Using an Artificial Pancreas System.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Review: Computational Strategies for the Discovery of Biological Functions of Health Foods, Nutraceuticals and Cosmeceuticals.
• Modeling Excess Weight in Spain by Using Deterministic and Random Differential Equations.

Commentary

• Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy: A Protective Mechanism?
• Double Burden of Malnutrition in Thin Children and Adolescents: Low Weight Does Not Protect Against Cardiometabolic Risk.
• Methodological Challenges of Large-Scale Breastfeeding Studies.
• The Food We Depend upon for Life and Pleasure.
• The Obesity Research That Blew Up.
• Are Energy Drinks Really That Bad?
• Seeking a Pot of Gold with Integrated Behavior Therapy and Research to Improve Health Equity: Insights from the RAINBOW Trial for Obesity and Depression.
• Academic Bullying Doesn’t Belong in Public Health.
• Pandemic Weight Gain? Not So Fast.

General

• How Kindness Can Be Contagious in Healthcare.
• Do College Students Feel Confident to Consent to Sex After Consuming Alcohol?
• The Economic Value of Targeting Aging.
• Lactoferrin for Mental Health: Neuro-Redox Regulation and Neuroprotective Effects Across the Blood-Brain Barrier with Special Reference to Neuro-COVID-19.
• Differences in Urinary Bacterial Anti-Adhesion Activity After Intake of Cranberry Dietary Supplements with Soluble Versus Insoluble Proanthocyanidins.
• Beware Performative Reproducibility.
• How Much Scientific Research Is Actually Fraudulent?
• A “Gut Feeling” to Create a 10th Hallmark of Aging.

Announcements

• Nutrition Science Infographic Competitions: Precision Nutrition Submissions Due September 17.
• Applications Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.

Featured

• "Evolutionary history of the human oral microbiome shows that Neanderthals and ancient humans adapted to eating starch-rich foods as far back as 100,000 years ago, … earlier than previously thought."
• Genetic Risk Score Prediction of Leg Fat and Insulin Sensitivity Differs by Race/Ethnicity in Early Pubertal Children.
• Sam68 Promotes Hepatic Gluconeogenesis Via CRTC2.
• Ketogenic Diet Restrains Aging-Induced Exacerbation of Coronavirus Infection in Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Impulsiveness Tied to Faster Eating in Children, Can Lead to Obesity: Study.
• Press-Release: Impulsiveness Tied to Faster Eating in Children, Can Lead to Obesity.
• Study: Temperament and Eating Self-Regulation in Young Children with or at Risk for Obesity: An Exploratory Report with No Obesity Results Reported.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: On Primary Outcome of BMI, No Compelling Evidence for Differential Effects of a Novel Mobile Health Intervention Compared to a Multi-Component Behaviour Changing Program in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Dissertation: "Contrary to hypotheses, this study found no evidence that weight suppression predicted 6 month change in BMI, percent body fat, or onset of overweight/obesity among emerging adults enrolled in a weight gain prevention program."
• "...contrary to our expectations, the specialist egg-eaters evolved to possess significantly smaller heads relative to body size than their competitors."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, we found more pronounced effects of wolf (cursorial) compared with lynx (ambush)..." on foraging behavior of red deer.
• "Contrary to what some teachers claim, the results highlighted a positive ratio between the available sports facilities and the needs of PE classes, opposing the idea that public schools do not have enough sports facilities for their PE classes." (pdf)
• Preprint: Fatty Liver Does Not Increase the Risk of Postoperative Liver Damage Following Hepatectomy. (pdf)
• Maternal Caffeine Administration to Ewes Does Not Affect Perinatal Lamb Survival.
• Rapid Refeeding Does Not Worsen Anxiety in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa.

Basic

• Metformin Alleviates Monoamine Oxidase-Related Vascular Oxidative Stress and Endothelial Dysfunction in Rats with Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Diet-Dependent Natriuretic Peptide Receptor C Expression in Adipose Tissue Is Mediated by PPARγ Via Long-Range Distal Enhancers.
• Mutation of the 5' Untranslated Region Stem-Loop MRNA Structure Reduces Type I Collagen Deposition and Arterial Stiffness in Male Obese Mice.
• Early Overnutrition in Male Mice Negates Metabolic Benefits of a Diet High in Monounsaturated and Omega-3 Fats.
• The Mediator Subunit MED20 Organizes the Early Adipogenic Complex to Promote Development of Adipose Tissues and Diet-Induced Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Exhaled Aerosol Increases with COVID-19 Infection, Age, and Obesity.
• Letter: Does Exhaled Aerosol Increase with COVID-19 Infection Correlate with Body Mass Index-Years?
• Response: Reply to Stohner: On the Significance of BMI-Age Dependence of Exhaled Aerosol.
• Correction: For Edwards et al., Exhaled Aerosol Increases with COVID-19 Infection, Age, and Obesity.
• PubPeer Comment On: Promoting Physical Activity in Older People in General Practice: ProAct65+ Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial.
• Article: Effect of Reducing Ultraprocessed Food Consumption on Obesity Among US Children and Adolescents Aged 7–18 Years: Evidence from a Simulation Model.
• Comment: Erroneous Assumptions Invalidate the Calculated Effects of Reducing Ultra-Processed Food Consumption on Child and Adolescent Obesity.

Clinical

• Mild Intermittent Hypoxia Exposure Induces Metabolic and Molecular Adaptations in Men with Obesity.
• The Obesity Paradox May Not Lead to Functional Gains in Stroke Patients Undergoing Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation.
• RCT: Effect of Almond Consumption on Metabolic Risk Factors-Glucose Metabolism, Hyperinsulinemia in Adolescents and Young Adults.
• Associations between Ghrelin and Leptin and Neural Food Cue Reactivity in a Fasted and Sated State.

Children and Adolescents

• Is the Physical Activity Environment Surrounding Primary Schools Associated with Students’ Weight Status, Physical Activity or Active Transport, in Regional Areas of Victoria, Australia? A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption, Perceptions, and Disparities in Children and Adolescents.
• Early-Life Gut Microbiota and Its Connection to Metabolic Health in Children: Perspective on Ecological Drivers and Need for Quantitative Approach.
• The Nutritional Status of Healthy Children Using Bioelectrical Impedance and Anthropometric Measurement.
• Preprint: Factors Affecting the Overweight and Obesity of Students Aged 11 to 17 in Low and Middle-Income Countries Based on GSHS Questionnaire Data.
• Dietary Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Primary School Students in Shenyang.

Surgery

• The Correlation between Weight Regain and Postoperative Time Depends on the Food Restriction Behavior and Physical Activity After Bariatric Surgery.
• Association of Bariatric Surgery with Vascular Outcomes.
• Concomitant Versus Delayed Cholecystectomy in Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• The Long-Acting Amylin/Calcitonin Receptor Agonist ZP5461 Suppresses Food Intake and Body Weight in Male Rats.
• SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Established and Emerging Indications.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Supplementation with Bifidobacterium breve BR03 and B632 Strains Improved Insulin Sensitivity in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Brown Rice Inhibits Development of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Obese Zucker (fa/fa) Rats by Increasing Lipid Oxidation Via Activation of Retinoic Acid Synthesis.
• Interactions between Caveolin-1 (rs3807992) Polymorphism and Major Dietary Patterns on Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors Among Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Conference Abstract: A Test of Social Cognitive Theory on Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Indiana High School Students.
• RCT: Fecal Microbial Transplantation and Fiber Supplementation in Patients with Severe Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• Effect of Soybean Insoluble Dietary Fiber on Prevention of Obesity in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice Via Regulation of the Gut Microbiota.
• Review: Ketogenic Diets, Physical Activity, and Body Composition.
• Systematic Review: International Tables of Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Values 2021.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Strain-Specific Metabolic Responses to Long-Term Caloric Restriction in Female ILSXISS Recombinant Inbred Mice.
• Caloric Restriction Prevents Metabolic Dysfunction and the Changes in Hypothalamic Neuropeptides Associated with Obesity Independently of Dietary Fat Content in Rats.
• Time-Restricted Feeding in Commercial Layer Chickens Improves Egg Quality in Old Age and Points to Lack of Adipostat Activity in Chickens.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Effects of Creatine and Caffeine Supplementation During Resistance Training on Body Composition, Strength, Endurance, Rating of Perceived Exertion and Fatigue in Trained Young Adults.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Exercise Training Interventions on Energy Intake and Appetite Control in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Income in Relation to Obesity Measures in an East German Adult Population.
• Socio-Economic Position as a Moderator of Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Patients Receiving Psychotropic Treatment Associated with Weight Gain.
• The Impact of Lifestyle and Socioeconomic Parameters on Body Fat Level in Early Childhood.
• Socioeconomic Disparities in Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Sleep Patterns Among 6- to 9-Year-Old Children from 24 Countries in the WHO European Region.
• Socioeconomic Differences in Food Habits Among 6- to 9-Year-Old Children from 23 Countries—WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI 2015/2017).

Epidemiology

• Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Breast Cancer Mortality by Metabolic Syndrome Components: A Secondary Analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative RCT.
• Dissertation: Neighborhood-Level Influence of the Fast-Food Environment and Adult Obesity in NYC.
• Food Insecurity and Its Impact on Body Weight, Type 2 Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Mental Health.
• "After more than a decade of progress from 1999 to the early 2010s, glycemic and blood-pressure control declined in adult NHANES participants with diabetes, while lipid control leveled off."
• Obesity Is Associated with Increased Risk of Crohn's Disease, but Not Ulcerative Colitis: A Pooled Analysis of Five Prospective Cohort Studies.
• Longitudinal Weight and Body-Composition Changes in Polish Undergraduate Students of Health Faculty.
• Association of BMI, Comorbidities and All-Cause Mortality by Using a Baseline Mortality Risk Model.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Role of BMI, Body Fat Mass and Visceral Fat in Executive Function in Individuals with Overweight and Obesity.
• Food Reinforcement and Habituation to Food are Processes Related to Initiation and Cessation of Eating.
• Energy Status Differentially Modifies Feeding Behavior and POMC(ARC) Neuron Activity After Acute Treadmill Exercise in Untrained Mice.
• Nucleus Accumbens Microstructure Mediates the Relationship between Obesity and Eating Behavior in Adults.
• Metabolic Syndrome Is Associated with Poor Cognition: A Population-Based Study of 70-Year-Olds Without Dementia.
• Weight Loss by Low-Calorie Diet Versus Gastric Bypass Surgery in People with Diabetes Results in Divergent Brain Activation Patterns: A Functional MRI Study.
• Testing the Discrepancy between Actual and Ideal Body Image with the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP).

Equity and Disparities

• Review of Telehealth Interventions for Childhood Obesity in Minority, Low-Income or Underserved Populations: Opportunity for Pharmacists.
• Family History of Obesity and the Influence on Physical Activity and Dietary Adherence After Bariatric Surgery.

Stigma

• Examining the Impact of Perceived Weight Discrimination on Reported Eating and Exercise Among White and Latino/a Adults.
• Understanding Obesity: A Messaging Framework Featuring Accessible and Unbiased Information About the Harms of Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• Systematic Review: Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages as a Policy to Reduce Overweight and Obesity in Countries of Different Income Classifications.
• The Impact of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic on Childhood Obesity and Vitamin D Status.
• Barriers and Opportunities to Restricting Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages to Children in Nepal: A Policy Analysis.

Intergenerational Effects

• Effect of Maternal Overnutrition on Predisposition to Insulin Resistance in the Foal: Foal Skeletal Muscle Development and Insulin Signaling.
• Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Women with Disorders of Lipid Metabolism.
• Maternal Diet Patterns During Early Pregnancy in Relation to Neonatal Outcomes.
• Epigenetic Regulation of Pediatric and Neonatal Immune Responses.
• Associations of Maternal Diet and Nutritional Status with Offspring Hepatic Steatosis in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.
• Meta-Analysis: Language Abilities in Children Born to Mothers Diagnosed with Diabetes.
• Associations between KCNQ1 and ITIH4 Gene Polymorphisms and Infant Weight Gain in Early Life.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Endothermy Makes Fishes Faster but Does Not Expand Their Thermal Niche.
• N-Carbamoylglutamate Improves Lipid Metabolism, Inflammation, and Apoptosis Responses in Visceral Adipocytes of Japanese Seabass (Lateolabrax japonicus), in Vivo and in Vitro.
• Skeletal Muscle Thermogenesis Enables Aquatic Life in the Smallest Marine Mammal.

Methods

• A Guide for Authors and Readers of the ASN Journals on the Proper Use of P Values and Strategies That Promote Transparency and Improve Research Reproducibility.
• Perspective: Planning and Conducting Statistical Analyses for Human Nutrition RCTs: Ensuring Data Quality and Integrity.

Commentary

• The Ease of Selling Bunk for Weight Loss.
• Let's Fix the Government's Nutrition Guidance.
• Treating the Pregnant Woman with Pernicious Vomiting. Evolution in Our Thinking About Symptoms During Pregnancy.
• A Tale of Two New Drugs and Health Insurance.
• No Lives at Steak, IDTechEx Predicts How Food Will Be Made in the Future.
• How the Brain Responds to Bariatric Surgery.
• Obesity, Fiber, and Microbes in the Gut.
• Can Obesity, Hunger, and Weight Stigma Coexist?

General

• Pigmentation: Watching Hair Turn Grey.
• “The Gatekeepers in Prevention”: Community Pharmacist Perceptions of Their Role in the Opioid Epidemic.
• Walking the Talk on Multi-Level Interventions: The Power of Parsimony.
• Systematic Review: What Predicts the Physical Activity Intention–Behavior Gap.
• How Health Consciousness and Health Literacy Influence Evaluative Responses to Nutrient-Content Claimed Messaging for an Unhealthy Food.
• Effect of Informed Conditions on Sensory Expectations and Actual Perceptions: A Case of Chocolate Brownies Containing Edible-Cricket Protein.
• A Model for Evolutionary Structural Plasticity and Synchronization of a Network of Neurons.
• The Elusive Nature of Truth in Scientific Studies and the Importance of Peer Review.
• Study Reveals Contributing Factor to Inconsistent Results in Clinical Trials for COVID-19 Drugs.

Announcements

• Dean David Allison to Co-Chair New Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust Established by National Academy of Sciences to Support the Health of the Research Enterprise.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington to Host and Honor Dr. Anthony Fauci on December 6, 2021.
• Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition: A Workshop.
• Short Course: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research: Friday, July 23rd to Friday, August 13th, 2021.
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.