Featured

• Overflowing Tables: Changes in the Energy Intake and the Social Context of Thanksgiving in the United States.
• Preprint: Functional Status, Mood State, and Physical Activity Among Women with Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome. (pdf)
• Robust, Wireless Gastric Optogenetic Implants for the Study of Peripheral Pathways and Applications in Obesity.
• Traffic Light Diets for Childhood Obesity: Disambiguation of Terms and Critical Review of Application, Food Categorization, and Strength of Evidence.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Red Wine Wards Off Coronavirus... But Beer Does Not, According to New Research.
• Study: Association of Self-Reported Alcohol Consumption Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic with COVID-19 Risk and Mortality, Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Marijuana Use Does Not Affect Weight Loss or Complication Rate After Bariatric Surgery.
• "Intriguingly, contrary to previous reports on a positive effect on neurons, we found that rapamycin, an autophagy activator, and chloroquine, an autophagy and lysosome inhibitor, both exacerbated autophagic damage."
• RCT: A 12-Week Cardiac Telerehabilitation Programme Does Not Prevent Relapse of Physical Activity Levels: Long Term Results of the FIT@Home Trial.
• A Specific High-Protein Weight Loss Program Does Not Impair Renal Function in Patients Who have Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Daily Intake of Up to Two Eggs for 11 Weeks Does Not Affect the Cholesterol Balance of Chinese Young Adults.
• RCT: Fasting-Mimicking-Diet Does Not Reduce Skeletal Muscle Function in Healthy Young Adults.
• Less Impact Than Suspected: Dietary Exposure of Three-Spined Sticklebacks to Microplastic Fibers Does Not Affect Their Body Condition and Immune Parameters.
• RCT: "A preconception intensive lifestyle intervention for weight loss did not improve fertility or birth outcomes compared to an exercise intervention without targeted weight loss."

Basic

• Adipocyte-Specific Nos2 Deletion Improves Insulin Resistance and Dyslipidemia Through Brown Fat Activation in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Meta-Analysis: Dietary Branched-Chain Amino Acids Linked to Metabolic Health in Rodents.
• Olfactomedin 2 Deficiency Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity.
• The Transcription Factor Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4A Acts in the Intestine to Promote White Adipose Tissue Energy Storage.
• In Situ Spatial Glycomic Imaging of Mouse and Human Alzheimer's Disease Brains.
• Meta-Analysis: The Association of Weight Loss with Changes in the Gut Microbiota Diversity, Composition, and Intestinal Permeability.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Courage and Correction: How Editors Handle – and Mishandle – Errors in Their Journals.
• Randomisation Can Do Many Things – but It Cannot “Fail”.

Clinical

• USPSTF Draft Recommendation Statement: Behavioral Counseling to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.
• USPSTF Draft Evidence Review: Behavioral Counseling to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.

Children and Adolescents

• Tryptophan Metabolism Is Associated with BMI and Adipose Tissue Mass and Linked to Metabolic Disease in Pediatric Obesity.
• Association of Night-Time Screen-Viewing with Adolescents’ Diet, Sleep, Weight Status, and Adiposity.
• Trends of Overweight and Obesity in Male Adolescents: Prevalence, Socioeconomic Status, and Impact on Cardiovascular Risk in a Central European Country.
• Position Statement: Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity: Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Based on an Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews.

Surgery

• Does Long-Term Post-Bariatric Weight Change Differ Across Antidepressants?
• The US Prevalence of Metabolic Surgery in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Has Not Increased Despite Recommendations from the American Diabetes Association.
• Patients’ Experiences of Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Preprint: Efficacy of Liraglutide 3.0 Mg Treatment on Weight-Loss in Patients with Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery.
• Clinical Failure of Dalbavancin for MRSA Bacteremia in Patient with Severe Obesity and History of IVDU.
• Effectiveness and Safety of Liraglutide in Managing Inadequate Weight Loss and Weight Regain After Primary and Revisional Bariatric Surgery: Anthropometric and Cardiometabolic Outcomes.
• The Endocannabinoid System, an Underexploited and Promising Niche for the Pharmacological Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic Diseases.
• Evaluation of Antioxidant and Pancreatic Lipase Inhibitory Potential of Polygala Glaucoides L. And Polygala Erioptera DC. (pdf)
• Medical Management of Obesity as It Affects Reflux.
• A Mechanistic Review of Anti-Obesity Drugs.
• RCT: Semaglutide’s Weight-Loss Benefits Were Sustained in a 2-Year Study.

Food & Diet

• Dietary Mediators of the Genetic Susceptibility to Obesity—Results from the Quebec Family Study.
• RCT: Snack Package Size and Variety Differentially Influence Energy Intake and Food Choices in Healthy Adults.
• RCT: The Impact of a High-Carbohydrate/Low Fat Vs. Low-Carbohydrate Diet on Performance and Body Composition in Physically Active Adults.
• Rhubarb Hydroxyanthraquinones Act as Antiobesity Agents to Inhibit Adipogenesis and Enhance Lipolysis.
• Personalized Gene-Diet Study of Rs2239670 Gene Variants and Dietary Patterns Among Adults with Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Dietary Tryptophan, Tyrosine, and Phenylalanine Depletion Induce Reduced Food Intake and Behavioral Alterations in Mice.
• Weight Loss and Cystic Disease Progression in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.
• RCT: Intermittent Fasting in Weight Loss and Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• BMI and Cognitive Decline Among Community-Living Older Adults: The Modifying Effect of Physical Activity.
• The Effect of a Low Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet with or Without Exercise on Postpartum Weight Retention, Metabolic Profile and Physical Activity Performance in Postpartum Mice.

Economics & Sociology

• Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in the Elderly in Central Spain: Association with Socioeconomic Status, Educational Level, and Other Risk Factors.
• Low Socioeconomic Status Is Associated with a Greater Neural Response to Both Rewards and Losses.
• Fat Is All My Fault: Globalized Metathemes of Body Self-Blame.

Epidemiology

• Association of Waist-Calf Circumference Ratio with Incident Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults.
• Muscular Strength Measured Across the Life-Course and the Metabolic Syndrome.
• Comparison of Grip Strength, Gait Speed, and Quality of Life Among Older Adults with and without Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Eating Behavior Modulates the Sensitivity to the Central Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Treatment: A Secondary Analysis.
• Nutrition, Anxiety and Hormones. Why Sex Differences Matter in the Link between Obesity and Behavior.
• Gender Differences in the Relation between Interpersonal Stress and Momentary Shape and Weight Concerns in Youth with Overweight/Obesity.
• (Mouse Cursor)-Tracking Food Decisions in Binge Eating Disorder Reveals Preference for High-Energy Foods and a Role of BMI.
• The Effects of Frequency-Specific, Non-Invasive, Median Nerve Stimulation on Food-Related Attention and Appetite.
• Associations of Sleep with Food Cravings and Loss-Of-Control Eating in Youth: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Equity and Disparities

• The Role of Material and Psychosocial Resources in Explaining Socioeconomic Inequalities in Diet: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach.
• The Role of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in the Global Epidemics of Obesity and Chronic Diseases.

Stigma

• Links between Obesity, Weight Stigma and Learning in Adolescence: A Qualitative Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Associations between Weight Bias Internalization and Conceptually-Related Correlates: A Step Towards Improving Construct Validity.
• Effect of Weight Self-Stigma and Self-Esteem on Aerobic Exercise Capacity in Adult Women with Different Body Compositions.

Policy Related

• The Lancet Commission on Diabetes: Using Data to Transform Diabetes Care and Patient Lives.
• RCT: An Experimental Study Evaluating the Influence of Front-Of-Package Warning Labels on Adolescent’s Purchase Intention of Processed Food Products.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic Review: Maternal Overnutrition Elevates Offspring's Blood Pressure.
• Maternal Fructose Intake Causes Developmental Reprogramming of Hepatic Mitochondrial Catalytic Activity and Lipid Metabolism in Weanling and Young Adult Offspring.
• Intergenerational Determinants of Weight Status Concordance and Discordance in Parent/Adolescent Dyads from the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating Study.
• Bioactive Compounds in Mothers Milk Affecting Offspring Outcomes: A Narrative Review.
• Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV Inhibition Delays Developmental Programming of Obesity and Metabolic Disease in Male Offspring of Mothers with Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Zebrafish Model System for Dyslipidemia and Atherosclerosis Research: Focus on Environmental/exposome Factors and Genetic Mechanisms.
• Behavioural and Physiological Plasticity in Social Hierarchies.
• Anatomical Mechanism for Protecting the Airway in the Largest Animals on Earth.
• Activity, Heart Rate, and Energy Expenditure of a Cold-Climate Mesocarnivore, the Canada Lynx.

Methods

• Optimization of Measurement of Mitochondrial Electron Transport Activity in Postmortem Human Brain Samples and Measurement of Susceptibility to Rotenone and 4-Hydroxynonenal Inhibition.
• Metabolomics Meets Nutritional Epidemiology: Harnessing the Potential in Metabolomics Data.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• An Enhanced Machine Learning Classification System to Investigate the Status of Micronutrients in Rural Women.
• Mathematical Modeling to Inform the Development of National Guidelines on Infant Feeding in Thailand.
• A Bayesian Approach to Combining Multiple Information Sources: Estimating and Forecasting Childhood Obesity in Thailand.

Commentary

• Eating Breakfast Is Associated with Weight Loss During an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention for Overweight/Obesity.
• Enteral Feeding, Even When the Gut Does Not Feel Very Good?
• The Adolescent with Obesity: What Perspectives for Treatment?
• The Rise and Fall of the Mediterranean Diet and Related Nutrients in Preventing Diabetes.
• Video Commentary On: The Impact of Obesity on Plastic Surgery Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Ideal Body Weight: A Commentary.
• What to Feed or What Not to Feed-That Is Still the Question.
• Obesity: Gut Signals, Fat Tissue, and Bariatric Surgery.

General

• The Statistical Riddle of Induction.
• For Neither Heat nor Water Conservation: Body Size Variation in Atlantic Forest Frogs Does Not Follow a General Mechanism.
• Does Diversity of Social Ties Really Matter More for Health and Leisure Activity Than Number of Social Ties? Evidence from Later Adulthood.
• On the Evolution of Distinctive Natal Coat Coloration in Primates.
• The Effect of the Crowd on Home Bias: Evidence from NBA Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Profile-Likelihood Bayesian Model Averaging for Two-Sample Summary Data Mendelian Randomization in the Presence of Horizontal Pleiotropy.
• RCT: Effects of Chocolate on Older Patients with Cancer in Palliative Care.
• Cooking at Home, Fast Food, Meat Consumption, and Dietary Carbon Footprint Among US Adults.

Announcements

• ExpertScape Announces List of Experts in Weight Loss.
• Dr. David Allison, 2022 Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor Lectures at McMaster University - March 8 and 9, 2022.
• 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.
• Seeking Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research at UAB.
• Call for Papers (Obesity): Time-Restricted Eating.
• 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 and Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.