Featured

• "What might have allowed ichthyosaurs to repeatedly and rapidly evolve enormous sizes is still an open question."
• RCT: "Impact of mothers' distress and emotional eating on calories served to themselves and their young children: An experimental study."
• RCT: The Effect of Personal Relative Deprivation on Food Choice.
• Genomic Loci Mispositioning in Tmem120a Knockout Mice Yields Latent Lipodystrophy.
• Histone Deacetylase 6 Inhibition Restores Leptin Sensitivity and Reduces Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Dried Goji Berries May Provide Protection Against Age-Related Vision Loss.
• Study: Pilot RCT of Goji Berry and Macular Pigment Optical Density in Healthy Adults. Vision Loss Not Tested. Differences Against Control Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Overall, supplementing women with micronutrient-rich foods from before pregnancy until delivery did not alter the body composition or cardiometabolic risk markers in the children."
• RCT: "No significant differences were found between treatment arms in BMI … triglycerides … HDL and glycemic control" in "lifestyle intervention on cardiometabolic risk factors in mental health rehabilitation hostel residents at-risk".
• Preprint: Time from Diagnosis Does Not Improve Diabetes Care Knowledge for Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Unlike Glycerophosphocholine or Choline Chloride, Dietary Phosphatidylcholine Does Not Increase Plasma Trimethylamine-N-Oxide Levels in Sprague-Dawley Rats.
• Vitamin B12 Does Not Protect Against the Damage Induced by Hydrogen Peroxide in Mouse Kidney Proximal Tubular Cells and Brain Endothelial Cells.
• Restricting Feeding to Dark Phase Fails to Entrain Circadian Activity and Energy Expenditure Oscillations in Pitx3-Mutant Aphakia Mice.
• Muscle Volume Vs. Anatomical Cross-Sectional Area: Different Muscle Assessment Does Not Affect the Muscle Size-Strength Relationship.
• "However, contrary to what was expected the greater efficiency for CR than PU cows was associated to an increased hepatic oxidative damage, which would probably reflect a greater metabolic activity of this organ in CR cows."
• In Bighorn Sheep, "no evidence that variance in multiple resource acquisition behaviours originates from a single axis of variation among individuals."

Basic

• Intestinal HIF-2α Regulates GLP-1 Secretion Via Lipid Sensing in L-Cells.
• Tangeretin Prevents Obesity by Modulating Systemic Inflammation, Fat Browning, and Gut Microbiota in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice.
• CREG1 Improves Diet-Induced Obesity Via Uncoupling Protein 1-Dependent Manner in Mice.
• Compromised Hepatic Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation and Reduced Markers of Mitochondrial Turnover in Human NAFLD.
• Leptin Resistance Before and After Obesity: Evidence That Tissue Glucose Uptake Underlies Adipocyte Enlargement and Liver Steatosis/steatohepatitis in Zucker Rats from Early-Life Stages.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Designing, Conducting, and Documenting Human Nutrition Plant-Derived Intervention Trials.
• A Systematic Review and Recommendations around Frameworks for Evaluating Scientific Validity in Nutritional Genomics.
• Strengthening Nutrition Education and Behavior Research for Academicians and Practitioners.
• Traffic Light Diets for Childhood Obesity: Disambiguation of Terms and Critical Review of Application, Food Categorization, and Strength of Evidence.

Clinical

• RCT: An Implicit Priming Intervention Alters Brain and Behavioral Responses to High-Calorie Foods.
• Review: Associations between Body Composition, Fat Distribution and Metabolic Consequences of Excess Adiposity with Severe COVID-19 Outcomes: Observational Study and Mendelian Randomisation Analysis.
• Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Health Across the Menopause Transition.

Children and Adolescents

• The Impact of Neonatal Morbidities on Child Growth and Developmental Outcomes in Very Low Birth Weight Infants: A Nationwide Cohort Study.
• Park and Neighbourhood Environmental Characteristics Associated with Park-Based Physical Activity Among Children in a High-Density City.
• Relationship of Sleep Quality with Screen-Based Sedentary Time and Physical Activity in Adolescents — the Moderating Effect of BMI.
• "[Nutrition-related claims on fruit drinks] made parents more likely to incorrectly believe that the fruit drinks contained no added sugar and were 100% juice compared to the control"

Surgery

• Weight Loss Is Associated with Reduced Risk of Knee and Hip Replacement, Regardless of BMI.
• Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Increases Duodenal Lactobacillus Spp. Richness Associated with Activation of Intestinal HIF2α Signaling and Metabolic Benefits.
• Gut HIF2α Signaling Is Increased After VSG, and Gut Activation of HIF2α Decreases Weight, Improves Glucose, and Increases GLP-1 Secretion.
• Systematic Review: Seventy Years of Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Lipogenesis Inhibitors: Therapeutic Opportunities and Challenges.
• Difference in Gastrointestinal Risk Associated with Use of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: A Real-World Pharmacovigilance Study.
• Iron Chelation Increases Beige Fat Differentiation and Metabolic Activity, Preventing and Treating Obesity.
• Dosing Therapeutic Radiopharmaceuticals in Patients with Obesity.
• In Silico Analysis of Glucosinolates as Pancreatic Lipase Inhibitor to Develop Anti-Obesity Drug.

Food & Diet

• Large-Scale Diet Tracking Data Reveal Disparate Associations between Food Environment and Diet.
• Healthy Dietary Patterns and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease in Less-Developed Ethnic Minority Regions: A Large Cross-Sectional Study.
• Dietary Patterns, Skeletal Muscle Mass Loss, and Cardiovascular Risk Among Elderly Men: A Preliminary Cross-Sectional Study in Sichuan Province.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Evaluation of a Blood-Based Geroscience Biomarker Index in a Randomized Trial of Caloric Restriction and Exercise in Older Adults with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
• Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass and Caloric Restriction but Not Gut Hormone-Based Treatments Profoundly Impact the Hypothalamic Transcriptome in Obese Rats.
• Real World Adherence to a Severely Energy Restricted Meal Replacement Diet in Participants with Class II and III Obesity.
• Reduced Calorie Diet Combined with NNMT Inhibition Establishes a Distinct Microbiome in DIO Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Atlas of Exercise Metabolism Reveals Time-Dependent Signatures of Metabolic Homeostasis.
• RCT: Effects of a Home-Based Physical Training and Activity Promotion Program in Community-Dwelling Older Persons with Cognitive Impairment After Discharge from Rehabilitation.
• Systematic Review: Muscular Fitness and Cardiometabolic Variables in Children and Adolescents.
• Meta-Analysis: Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Mortality from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer.

Economics & Sociology

• Subjective Social Status and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Young Adults.
• Socioeconomic Status Predicts Children's Moral Judgments of Novel Resource [Skittles] Distributions.

Epidemiology

• Association between Life-Course Cigarette Smoking and Metabolic Syndrome: A Discovery-Replication Strategy.
• Thesis: The Relationship between Food Environments and Obesity Rates in the United States; Measured by the Modified Retail Food Environment Index.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Effect of Personal Relative Deprivation on Food Choice: An Experimental Approach.
• Which Emotion-Regulation Strategies Explain the Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Eating to Cope?
• Patient-Centered Care for Obesity: How Healthcare Providers Can Treat Obesity While Actively Addressing Weight Stigma and Eating Disorder Risk.
• Meta-Analysis: Disentangling Binge Eating Disorder and Food Addiction.

Equity and Disparities

• Scoping Review: Nutrition Interventions Addressing Structural Racism.
• Systematic Review: Attrition and Retention in Multidisciplinary Weight Management Interventions for Adults with Obesity.
• Obesity Pillars Roundtable: Obesity and Diversity.

Stigma

• Demystifying ‘Diet Culture’: Exploring the Meaning of Diet Culture in Online ‘Anti-Diet’ Feminist, Fat Activist, and Health Professional Communities.
• Reporting Obesity Responsibly–a Review of English-Language Media Guidelines. (pdf)

Policy Related

• The Association between Patient Activation, Self-Management Behaviours and Clinical Outcomes in Adults with Diabetes or Related Metabolic.
• Scoping Review: Sedentarism and Chronic Disease Risk in COVID 19 Lockdown.
• Linking a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax with Fruit and Vegetable Subsidies: A Simulation Analysis of the Impact on the Poor.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal High-Fat Diet Programs White and Brown Adipose Tissue Lipidome and Transcriptome in Offspring in a Sex- and Tissue-Dependent Manner in Mice.
• Maternal Diet Quality During Pregnancy and Child Cognition and Behavior in a US Cohort.
• Trends of Central Obesity and Associations with Nutrients Intake and Daily Behaviors Among Women of Childbearing Age in China.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Do Honey Bees Modulate Dance Following According to Foraging Distance?
• Tissue Expression of Leptin Genes in Trachinotus blochii and Responses to Fasting and Refeeding.
• Emergence of Size-Structured Dominance Hierarchies Through Size-Dependent Feedback.

Methods

• Comparison of Growth Curves in Very Low Birth Weight Preterm Infants After Hospital Discharge.
• Total Energy Expenditure Is Repeatable in Adults but Not Associated with Short-Term Changes in Body Composition.
• Well-Defined Interventions for Nutritional Studies: From Target Trials to Nutritional Modeling.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Emergence of the Obesity Epidemic: Six Decade Visualization with Humanoid Avatars.

Commentary

• Sugar Detox? Cutting Carbs? A Doctor Explains Why You Should Keep Fruit on the Menu.
• Exercising After COVID-19: What Doctors Need to Know.
• Well-Defined Interventions for Nutritional Studies: From Target Trials to Nutritional Modeling.
• 4 Metabolism Myths, Busted.
• Obesity Harms Brain Health Throughout Life, Yet Scientists Don't Know Why.
• Breakthrough Using CRISPR to Target Fat Cells in Genetic Study of Obesity.
• Recognizing Obesity as a Disease, Not a Choice, Is a Step Toward Health Equity.
• Stress Hormone Levels May Predict Risk of Binge Eating Following Weight Restoration in Anorexia Nervosa.
• Why are We Failing on Diabetes Health Risks?
• Stamp Out Fake Clinical Data by Working Together.

General

• Dynamic Genetic Differentiation Drives the Widespread Structural and Functional Convergent Evolution of Snake Venom Proteinaceous Toxins.
• Meeting Assumptions in the Estimation of Reliability.
• Deceived, but Not Betrayed: Static Allometry Suggests Female Ornaments in the Long-Tailed Dance Fly (Rhamphomyia longicauda) Exaggerate Condition to Males.
• Medieval Warhorses Were Actually Quite Small, Study Finds.
• Crossover Effects of Education on Health Within Married Couples.
• Prevalence and Comparisons of Alcohol, Candy, Energy Drink, Snack, Soda, and Restaurant Brand and Product Marketing on Twitch, Facebook Gaming and YouTube Gaming.
• Leveraging Historical Data to Optimize the Number of Covariates and Their Explained Variance in the Analysis of RCTs.
• The Impact of Methodology on the Reproducibility and Rigor of DNA Methylation Data.

Video & Audio

• What Is Nutrition Science | Stats + Stories Episode 214 /January 13, 2022.

Announcements

• Seeking Applications: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research at UAB.
• NASEM: Roundtable on Mentorship, Well-Being, and Creativity in Scientific Research.
• Call for Papers: Time-Restricted Eating.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.