01/21/22
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
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
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.