Featured

• How Long Do People Stick to a Diet Resolution? A Digital Epidemiological Estimation of Weight Loss Diet Persistence.
• Genetic Studies of Leptin Concentrations Implicate Leptin in the Regulation of Early Adiposity.
• Adenovirus 36 Infection and Daycare Starting Age are Associated with Adiposity in Children and Adolescents.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: More Sleep Can Prevent Childhood Obesity, Study Says.
• 2016 Study: Effect of Experimental Change in Children's Sleep Duration on Television Viewing and Physical Activity. No Obesity Measured.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Preprint: Uncontrolled Eating in Healthy Women Has Limited Influence on Food Reward Sensitivity and Food-Related Inhibitory Control.
• No Significant Associations between Social Jetlag and Emerging Adults’ Performance in a Behavioral Weight Loss Trial.
• "Findings suggest that the effectiveness of SSB taxes in discouraging SSB consumption may be limited in fast-food restaurants in Oakland, California..."
• RCT: "A combined and supervised physical training program, with or without load progression, was not able to promote changes in the sedentary behavior and physical activity levels of obese adults..."
• RCT: "In older, obese hypogonadal men, adding testosterone for six months to lifestyle therapy does not further improve overall physical function."
• "being overweight with a high WC was correlated with higher frequencies of vegetables and fruits intake..."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Exercise for the Prevention of Weight Regain.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Daily Raspberry Consumption on Metabolic Health in Subjects at Risk of Metabolic Syndrome.

Basic

• The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in Energy Balance: The Road from Dioxin-Induced Wasting Syndrome to Combating Obesity with Ahr Ligands.
• Does MicroRNA Perturbation Control the Mechanisms Linking Obesity and Diabetes? Implications for Cardiovascular Risk.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• A Tale of Two Retractions – It’s Complicated.
• Rapid Responses: Effect of Exercise Training for Five Years on All Cause Mortality in Older Adults—the Generation 100 Study: Randomised Controlled Trial.
• Article: Traditional Brazilian Diet and Extra Virgin Olive Oil Reduce Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Individuals with Severe Obesity: Randomized Clinical Trial.
• Letter: Inadequate Statistical Inferences in the Randomized Clinical Trial by Canheta et al.

Clinical

• A Dieting Facilitator on the Fridge Door: Can Dieters Deliberately Apply Environmental Dieting Cues to Lose Weight?
• A Weight Loss Intervention Augmented by a Wearable Device in Rural Older Adults with Obesity: A Feasibility Study.
• Impact of Sarcopenia, BMI, and Inflammatory Biomarkers on Survival in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Anti-PD-1 Antibody.
• RCT: Effect of a Culturally Adapted Behavioral Intervention for Latino Adults on Weight Loss over 2 Years.
• Glycogenosis Is Common in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Is Independently Associated with Ballooning, but Lower Steatosis and Lower Fibrosis.
• RCT: Effects of a Tailored Text Messaging Intervention Among Diverse Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• The Impact of Physical Activity on the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence and Lessons Learned from the Diabetes Prevention Program, a Long-Standing Clinical Trial Incorporating Subjective and Objective Activity Measures.
• Systematic review: Dietary Interventions for Weight Loss in Adults in the Middle East and North Africa Region.

Children and Adolescents

• Individual Physical Activity Behaviour and Group Composition as Determinants of the Effectiveness of a Childhood Obesity Intervention Program.
• Physical Activity, Screen Time, and Sleep Duration of Children Aged 6-9 Years in 25 Countries: An Analysis Within the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) 2015-2017.
• Associations between Fetal Growth Trajectories and the Development of Myopia by 20 Years of Age.
• Review: Caring for US Children: Barriers to Effective Treatment in Children with the Disease of Obesity.
• The Relation of Adiposity Rebound to Subsequent BMI in a Large Electronic Health Record Database.
• A Comparative Study of Clinical Profile and Symptom Control in Overweight and Normal Weight School-age Children with Mild Persistent Asthma.
• Obesity and Eating Disorder Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.

Surgery

• Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery in Patients with Obesity: Can the Bigger Afford the Smaller?
• Connectome-Based Prediction of Optimal Weight Loss Six Months After Bariatric Surgery.
• Psychosocial Predictors of Work Ability in Patients with Greater than Class I Obesity: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in the Context of Bariatric Surgery.
• Hepatic Steatosis Is Associated with Elevated Serum Iron in Patients with Obesity and Improves After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• The Association between Combined Oral Contraceptive Use and Overweight/obesity: A Secondary Data Analysis of the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey.
• Ketogenesis and SIRT1 as a Tool in Managing Obesity.

Food & Diet

• "A high sucrose diet improved the catabolism and liver function of cirrhotic rat."
• Snacking May Improve Dietary Fiber Density and Is Associated with a Lower BMI in Postmenopausal Women.
• Screening of Weight-Loss Herbal Products for Synthetic Anti-Obesity Adulterants: A Target-Oriented Analysis by Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry.
• Effect of Raspberry Ketone on Normal, Obese and Health-Compromised Obese Mice: A Preliminary Study.
• Impact of Ultra-processed Food Consumption on Metabolic Health.
• RCT: The Effect of Nigella Sativa on Appetite, Anthropometric and Body Composition Indices Among Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Metabolic Phenotypes in Relation to Biomarker-calibrated Estimates of Energy and Protein Intakes: An Investigation from the Women's Health Initiative.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Testing Evolutionary Explanations for the Lifespan Benefit of Dietary Restriction in Fruit Flies (Drosophila Melanogaster).
• The Effect of Caloric Restriction and Aerobic Exercise on Serum FGF-23 in Patients with Moderate to Severe CKD.
• Preprint: Caloric Restriction, Physical Exercise, and CB1 Receptor Blockade as an Efficient Combined 2 Strategy for Bodyweight Control and Cardiometabolic Status Improvement.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Do Smartphone Applications and Activity Trackers Increase Physical Activity in Adults?
• Low Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Obesity for ADHD in Childhood and Adolescence: A 6-year Cohort Study.
• High Intensity Resistance Exercise Training Vs. High Intensity (Endurance) Interval Training to Fight Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Overweight Men 30–50 Years Old.
• Systematic Review: Green Space Exposure Association with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Physical Activity, and Obesity.
• Acute Effects of Leg Heat Therapy on Walking Performance and Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Responses to Exercise in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease.

Economics & Sociology

• Thesis: The Causal Relationship between Subjective Social Status and Different Health Outcomes [including Obesity].
• Weight Status and BMI-Related Traits in Adolescent Friendship Groups and Role of Sociodemographic Factors.
• Intergenerational Social Mobility and BMI Trajectories.

Epidemiology

• The Relationship between Body-mass Index and Overall Survival in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer by Sex, Smoking Status, and Race: A Pooled Analysis of 20,937 International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO) Patients.
• Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Clinically Meaningful Weight Loss Among Adults with Overweight or Obesity: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
• Serum Levels of ACE2 are Higher in Patients with Obesity and Diabetes.
• High Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental Problems in Adolescents Eligible for Bariatric Surgery for Severe Obesity.
• Central Adiposity and Subsequent Risk of Breast Cancer by Menopause Status.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Gender Discrepancies in Perceptions of the Bodies of Female Fashion Models.
• Does Self-compassion Help to Deal with Dietary Lapses Among Adults with Overweight and Obesity Who Pursue Weight-loss Goals?
• Modulation of Neural FMRI Responses to Visual Food Cues by Overeating and Fasting Interventions: A Preliminary Study.
• Evidence of FNIRS-Based Prefrontal Cortex Hypoactivity in Obesity and Binge-Eating Disorder.
• Review: from Obesity to Hippocampal Neurodegeneration: Pathogenesis and Non-Pharmacological Interventions.
• Cyclin-dependent Kinase 4/6 Inhibitors Require an Arcuate to Paraventricular Hypothalamus Melanocortin Circuit to Treat Diet-induced Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Schools and Adolescents’ Risk of Being Overweight.
• Obesity-related Behaviors of Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Students at Non- Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Stigma

• Internalized Weight Bias, Teasing, and Self-Esteem in Children with Overweight or Obesity.
• “This Is What You’re Supposed to Do”: Weight Stigma in Dietetics Education.
• Weight and Gender Bias in Observer Perceptions of Organizational Leadership: Effects of Perceived Leader Prototypicality and Unit Performance.
• The Value of Normal Body Weight: Evidence from Iceland.
• Reception of Health Messages: Effects of Stigmatization and Forcefulness.
• Physical Education Teachers and Competing Obesity Discourses: An Examination of Emerging Professional Identities.

Policy Related

• Analyzing the Association between Student Weight Status and School Meal Participation: Evidence from the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study.
• No Evidence of Food or Alcohol Substitution in Response to a Sweetened Beverage Tax.
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025.
• Effects of Pairing Health Warning Labels with Energy-dense Snack Foods on Food Choice and Attitudes: Online Experimental Study.
• New Federal Dietary Guidelines Sidestep Science on Sugar Intake.
• Commentary: Gains and Gaps in Guidelines for Eating Circa 2020.

Intergenerational Effects

• Influence of Maternal Aerobic Exercise During Pregnancy on Fetal Cardiac Function and Outflow.
• Feeding Style Profiles are Associated with Maternal and Infant Characteristics and Infant Feeding Practices and Weight Outcomes in African American Mothers and Infants.
• Are There Birth Cohort Effects in Disparities in Child Obesity by Maternal Education?

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Gregariousness, Foraging Effort, and Affiliative Interactions in Lactating Bonobos and Chimpanzees.
• Thesis: A Top Predator in Hot Water: Effects of a Marine Heatwave on Foraging and Reproduction in the Northern Elephant Seal.
• Acclimation of Intestinal Morphology and Function in Djungarian Hamsters (Phodopus Sungorus) Related to Seasonal and Acute Energy Balance.
• Physiology and Behavior Under Food Limitation Support an Escape, Not Preparative, Response in the Nomadic Pine Siskin (Spinus Pinus).

Methods

• Dataset for the Estimation of a New Body Fat Measurement Method.
• Using Metrics of Kilograms (or Pounds) Overweight or Kilograms (or Pounds) Obese to Help Interpret and Communicate Magnitudes of Excess BMI.
• Food Processing Needs, Advantages and Misconceptions.

Commentary

• Deep Dive: Sugar and Sugar Substitutes.
• Our All Too Human Gullibility.
• Present and Future of Digital Health in Diabetes and Metabolic Disease.
• Benchmarking as a Public Health Strategy for Creating Healthy Food Environments: An Evaluation of the INFORMAS Initiative (2012–2020).
• Placental Impact of Dietary Supplements: More Than Micronutrients.
• Physical Exercise and Atrial Fibrillation in Athletes and Heart Failure Patients: Is It Favorable or Harmful?
• Soda Taxes: Feel Great, Less Fulfilling.
• Perspective: Characterization of Dietary Supplements Containing Calcium and Magnesium and Their Respective Ratio—Is a Rising Ratio a Cause for Concern?

General

• Harvard Data Science Review Explores Reproducibility and Replicability in Science.
• Reporting of Methodological Studies in Health Research: A Protocol for the Development of the Methodological Study Reporting Checklist (MISTIC).
• Influence of Zinc on the Acute Changes in Erythropoietin and Proinflammatory Cytokines with Hypoxia.
• ACT Out! Social Issue Theater: A Cluster Randomized Trial with Short-term Outcomes.
• Outwitting the Grim Reaper.
• Functional Decline Common, Persistent Among Older Adults Hospitalized with Influenza.
• Why Should I Trust the Coronavirus Vaccine When It Was Developed So Fast? A Doctor Answers That and Other Reader Questions.
• Demographic Consequences of Changing Body Size in a Terrestrial Salamander.

Announcements

• IU Study Suggests Food Insecurity, Isolation Is Connected Among Seniors.
• Bald Eagle Conservation Reaches New Milestone in Indiana.
• Exercise Physiology and Its Role in the Treating Patients with Morbid Obesity (January 14, Online).
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• School of Public Health-Bloomington to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.