Featured

• "SGLT2 inhibitor use was associated with significantly reduced mortality risk after adjusting for potential confounders..."
• RCT: Comparison of the Effects of Six-Week Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss, Body Composition, and Visceral Fat in Overweight Older Men and Women.
• 13C-Metabolic Flux Analysis of 3T3-L1 Adipocytes Illuminates Its Core Metabolism Under Hypoxia.
• Early-Life Dietary Restriction and Diet Type Affect Juvenile Brain Morphology in Spadefoot Toads (Spea bombifrons).

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Dietary Changes and Probiotics Prove Effective in Tackling Obesity, Study Suggests.
• Study: Multi-Omics Analysis of the Effects of Dietary Changes and Probiotics on Diet-Induced Obesity... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "In conclusion, although all groups achieved improvements in glucose tolerance, no superior effect was observed with the LCHF [Low Carbohydrate: High Fat] diet, neither with nor without exercise."
• RCT: "a reduction in self-efficacy was observed in the intervention group at 3 and 9 months as compared with the control group. This unexpected finding requires further investigation."
• RCT: No Apparent Efficacy of Technology-Based Personalised Feedback on Diet Quality in Young Australian Adults: Results for the Advice, Ideas and Motivation for My Eating (Aim4Me).
• Meta-Analysis: No Obvious Sex Differences in Response to Lifestyle Intervention Among Children and Adolescents.
• RCT: "...participation in the REACH-HF home-based cardiac rehabilitation intervention did not increase overall weekly activity..."
• RCT: "In healthy male and female participants administered ASA [aspirin] for 14 days, obesity is not associated with increased basal platelet activation or ASA resistance."
• Meta-Analysis: No Association of Maternal BMI with Risk of Postpartum Hemorrhage.
• RCT: "Lifestyle intervention produced significant pre-pregnancy weight loss but did not significantly affect gestational diabetes mellitus rates." (pdf)

Basic

• A Transdermal Treatment with MC903 Ameliorates Diet-Induced Obesity by Reducing Visceral Fat and Increasing Myofiber Thickness and Energy Consumption in Mice.
• Creatine Ameliorates High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity by Regulation of Lipolysis and Lipophagy in Brown Adipose Tissue and Liver.
• Elevated Adipose Differentiation-Related Protein Level in Ovariectomized Mice Correlates with Tissue-Specific Regulation of Estrogen.
• Hypolipidemic Mechanism of Pleurotus eryngii Polysaccharides in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice Based on Metabolomics.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Watching TV Cooking Programs: Effects on Actual Food Intake Among Children.
• Letter: "Our correction to the statistical analysis invalidates the original conclusions about TV cooking program effectiveness. The 2 research groups collegially discussed the issue and decided to publish the reanalysis results jointly."
• Corrigendum: Additional Corrections from the Authors.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: The Efficacy of Genotype-Based Dietary or Physical Activity Advice in Changing Behavior to Reduce the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Type II Diabetes Mellitus or Obesity.
• Contemporary Medical, Device, and Surgical Therapies for Obesity in Adults.
• RCT: Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease with a Diet or Orlistat.
• RCT: Fish Oil Supplementation During Pregnancy and Postpartum in Mothers with Overweight and Obesity to Improve Body Composition and Metabolic Health During Infancy.
• RCT: Pre-Pregnancy Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Recurrence of Gestational Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Gestational Age at Birth and Body Size from Infancy Through Adolescence.
• Epigenome-Wide Meta-Analysis of BMI in Nine Cohorts: Examining the Utility of Epigenetically Predicted BMI.
• Meta-Analysis: Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Metabolic Risk in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• A Metabolomics-Based Investigation of the Effects of a Short-Term Body Weight Reduction Program in a Cohort of Adolescents with Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of a Novel Infant Formula on the Fecal Microbiota in the First Six Months of Life: The INNOVA 2020 Study.
• Maternal Tobacco Smoking and Childhood Obesity in South Africa: A Cohort Study.
• Meteorin-Like Protein and Asprosin Levels in Children and Adolescents with Obesity and Their Relationship with Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome.
• Comparison of the Ability of HOMA-IR, VAI, and TyG Indexes to Predict Metabolic Syndrome in Children with Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Surgery

• Future of Bariatric Surgery Beyond Simple Weight Loss: Metabolic Surgery.
• Obesity and Diabetes: The Final Frontier.

Drugs

• Role of Herbal Medicine and Gut Microbiota in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity.
• Pathophysiology of Obesity and Its Associated Diseases.
• RCT: "Anthropometrics were similar in children exposed and those not exposed to metformin in utero; hence, overall, data are reassuring with regard to the use of metformin during pregnancy in women with type 2 diabetes and the long-term health of their children."
• "Alfia Weight Loss Capsules by iSlim: Public Notification - Due to Hidden Drug Ingredient."

Food & Diet

• Fermented Foods in the Management of Obesity: Mechanisms of Action and Future Challenges.
• Diet, Physical Activity and Obesity Incidence in Adolescents with Disabilities.
• Association of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption with Mild Cognitive Impairment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Targeting Negative Energy Balance with Calorie Restriction and Mitochondrial Uncoupling in db/db Mice.
• RCT: Caloric Restriction (CR) Plus High-Nitrate Beetroot Juice Does Not Amplify CR-Induced Metabolic Adaptation and Improves Vascular and Cognitive Functions in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: Effects of a Dulaglutide Plus Calorie-Restricted Diet Versus a Calorie-Restricted Diet on Visceral Fat and Metabolic Profiles in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• A Physiological Comparison of the New over 70 Years of Age Marathon Record Holder and His Predecessor: A Case Report.
• Editorial: Methods and Applications in Metabolic Physiology.
• Indicators of Physical Activity and Nutritional Status Among Children and Adolescents in Zimbabwe: Findings from Three Global Matrix Initiatives.
• Meta-Analysis: Sonographic Markers are Useful for Detection of Early Vascular Deterioration in Children with Overweight/Obesity: Effect of a 1-Year Combined Nutritional Education and Physical Exercise Program.
• A Multi-Component Educational Intervention for Addressing Levels of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors of Schoolchildren.

Economics & Sociology

• Discrimination Exposure and Polygenic Risk for Obesity in Adulthood: Testing Gene-Environment Correlations and Interactions.
• A Study of Personality and Body Esteem of Adolescents with Normal Weight, Overweight, and Obesity.
• Preprint: Associations between Socioeconomic Status and White Matter Microstructure in Children: Indirect Effects Via Obesity and Cognition.

Epidemiology

• Association between Weight Status and Rate of Cognitive Decline: China Health and Nutrition Survey 1997-2018.
• Longitudinal Body Weight Dynamics in Relation to Cognitive Decline over Two Decades: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Prevalence and Management of Obesity in U.S. Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• I Don’t Want to Be Thin! Fear of Weight Change Is Not Just a Fear of Obesity: Research on the Body Mass Anxiety Scale.
• Post-Bariatric Changes in Ingestive Behavior: Shift in Macronutrient Preferences in Rats and Dynamic Adaptation of the Within-Meal Microstructure in Humans.
• Human Nutritional Intelligence Underestimated? Exposing Sensitivities to Food Composition in Everyday Dietary Decisions.
• Contextualizing Adolescent Female Physical Activity Behavior: A Descriptive Study.
• Relationship between the Executive Function of Children and the Duration of Physical Activity with the Mediating Role of Alpha, Beta and Theta Brainwaves.

Equity and Disparities

• Obesity, Cancer, and Health Equity.
• Spatial Inequality and Explaining the Urban-Rural Gap in Obesity in India: Evidence from 2015–16 Population-Based Survey.

Stigma

• Food Insecurity, Weight-Based Discrimination, Weight Self-Stigma, and Mental Health in Post-Bariatric Surgery Patients.
• Associations Among Self-Compassion, Weight Bias Internalization, and Self-Reported Psychological and Physical Health.

Policy Related

• Systematic Review: Community-Based Participatory Interventions to Improve Food Security.
• The Influence of Chile’s Food Labeling and Advertising Law and Other Factors on Dietary and Physical Activity Behavior of Elementary Students in a Peripheral Region: A Qualitative Study.
• Knowledge and Perceptions of Nutrition Assistance Programmes Among Young Adult Students.
• Factors Impacting Implementation of Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies in Rural Schools.
• The Health and Economic Burden Associated with Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Trinidad and Tobago.

Intergenerational Effects

• Epigenetic Regulation Mediated by Diets.
• RCT: Dietary Outcomes of a Multilevel, Multicomponent, Cluster Randomized Obesity Intervention in Six Native American Communities in the Upper Midwest and Southwest United States.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Preprint: Keep Your Cool: Overwintering Physiology in Response to Urbanization in the Acorn Ant, Temnothorax curvispinosus (PDF).
• Review: Circadian Rhythms Disrupted by Light at Night and Mistimed Food Intake Alter Hormonal Rhythms and Metabolism.

Methods

• Editorial: Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability Studies and Their Importance in the Evaluation of Health-Promoting Properties of Bioactive Compounds.
• Monitoring Metrics over Time: Why Clinical Trialists Need to Systematically Collect Site Performance Metrics.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• The Correlation between Physical Inactivity and Students’ Health Based on Data Mining and Related Influencing Factors.

Commentary

• Calories and the PACE Versus the Pace of Aging.
• Innovating in the Field of Weight Loss.
• Truth and Fiction from Health at Every Size.
• Introduction to Senior Hunger Special Issue.
• Examine: Paleolithic Diet.
• [Corrected Link] Expert Reaction to Study Looking at Long-Term Caloric Restriction on DNA Methylation Measures of Biological Aging in Healthy Adults.
• New Mouse Study Shows Genes Aren’t Only Way to Pass Obesity to Next Generation.
• Study Finds Obesity-Related Neurodegeneration Mimics Alzheimer's Disease.

General

• Reaffirming the Loma Mountains National Park in Sierra Leone as a Critical Site for the Conservation of West African Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).
• Artificial Lighting Affects the Landscape of Fear in a Widely Distributed Shorebird.
• Study: Psychology Researchers Often Disregard Scientific Evidence Due to Lack of Statistical Knowledge.
• Data Processing Choices Can Affect Findings in Differential Methylation Analyses: An Investigation Using Data from the LIMIT RCT.
• "Heat stress exposure increased abdominal adipose deposition, which related to increase in hepatic de novo lipogenesis, and promoted preadipocytes differentiation in abdominal adipose."
• Human Zygotic Genome Activation Is Initiated from Paternal Genome.
• Blending Mathematics Teaching with Kindness.
• Predation Risk in Tree Squirrels: Implications of the Presence of Free-Ranging Dogs.

Video & Audio

• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Alum Dr. Mickey Rubin, Ph.D. Featured in Podcast: Clearing Up the Confusion About Eggs & Cholesterol.

Announcements

• The American Society for Nutrition’s Annual Meeting, NUTRITION 2023, Held July 22-25, 2023, in Boston, MA, Invites You to Join Submit Abstracts Through March 1 as an Opportunity to Reconnect with Your Peers, Expand Your Network, and Meet New Collaborators.
• IU Bloomington a Top Producer for Fulbright U.S. Student and Scholar Programs for 2022-23.
• Daniel Drucker Awarded 2023 Wolf Prize in Medicine.
• KUDOS to Mercedes Carnethon, PhD for Being Deservedly Awarded the Paula H. Stern Award for Outstanding Women in Science and Medicine by the Northwestern Medical Women Faculty Organization.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Collaborative Skills to Join an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Focused on Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Analyses, Model Organism Studies, and Meta-Research, All in the Context of Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research, with an Emphasis on Promotion of Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Research Associate with Strong Collaborative Skills to Join an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Focused on Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Analyses, Model Organism Studies, and Meta-Research, All in the Context of Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research, with an Emphasis on Promotion of Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency.