Featured

• RCT: Sugar-Free Dark Chocolate Consumption Results in Lower Blood Glucose in Adults with Diabetes.
• Feed Intake as an Estimation of Attractability in Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei.
• Caloric Restriction Has a New Player.
• Caloric Restriction in Humans Reveals Immunometabolic Regulators of Health Span.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Changing Your Diet Could Add 13 Years to Your Life, According to a New Study.
• Study: Modeling Study Using Summaries of Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies on Associations between Self-Reported Food Intake and Mortality Risk. Changing Diet Not Studied; Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: A Wheat Aleurone-Rich Diet Improves Oxidative Stress but Does Not Influence Glucose Metabolism in Individuals with Overweight/Obesity.
• Treatment with Fenfluramine in Patients with Dravet Syndrome Has No Long-Term Effects on Weight and Growth.
• RCT: "Contrary to predictions, an independent-samples t-test revealed that participants who experienced social threat consumed significantly less wine than those who were socially accepted..."
• "In some instances, [calorie] labelling may actually increase intake among those less motivated by health and weight concerns, but further research is needed to substantiate this concern."
• "Contrary to both predictions, we found little evidence that human food flavours were preferred compared with control flavours at any site." [in Darwin's finches].
• Standard Metabolic Rate Does Not Associate with Age-At-Maturity Genotype in Juvenile Atlantic Salmon.
• Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Does Not Alter Bacterial Translocation and Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Individuals with Obesity.
• RCT: Provision of Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Does Not Improve Intestinal Health Among Rural Malawian Children.

Basic

• Small Molecule SWELL1 Complex Induction Improves Glycemic Control and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Murine Type 2 Diabetes.
• REEP6 Knockout Leads to Defective β-Adrenergic Signaling in Adipocytes and Promotes Obesity-Related Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Specific Adipose Tissue Lbp Gene Knockdown Prevents Diet-Induced Body Weight Gain, Impacting Fat Accretion-Related Gene and Protein Expression.
• Tea Polyphenols Attenuate Inflammation Via Reducing Lipopolysaccharides Level and Inhibiting TLR4/NF-κB Pathway in Obese Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Invalid Design and Analyses in “School Physical Education-Based Reinforced Program Through Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity Improves and Maintains School Children’s Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial” Render Results and Conclusions Unsubstantiated.
• Article: School Physical Education-Based Reinforced Program Through Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity Improves and Maintains Schoolchildren's Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Perspective: Opportunities and Challenges of Technology Tools in Dietary and Activity Assessment: Bridging Stakeholder Viewpoints.
• Article: Stimulated Insulin Secretion Predicts Changes in Body Composition Following Weight Loss in Adults with High BMI.
• Commentary: Suppressed Insulin Secretion and Fat Content of Weight Loss: Association and Causal Direction.
• Response: Reply to DA Booth.
• Food Marketing: The Blinding Distraction of Healthy Food.

Clinical

• Weight Gain, Weight Management and Medical Care for Individuals Living with Overweight and Obesity During the COVID-19 Pandemic (EPOCH Study).
• Rapid Conversion to Virtual Obesity Care in COVID-19: Impact on Patient Care, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, and Training.

Children and Adolescents

• An Ecological Model of Weight Gain Among School-Age Children.
• Associations between Frequency of Dairy Intake with Body Composition and Excess Adiposity in Preschool Children from Poland.
• Increased Adiposity and Low Height-For-Age in Early Childhood are Associated with Later Metabolic Risk in American Indian Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Review: Hypoglycemia and Dysautonomia After Bariatric Surgery.
• Review: Changes in Antihypertensive Medication Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Can We Benefit from the Preoperative Psychometric Test with Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) to Predict Weight Loss After Sleeve Gastrectomy?
• Liver Decompensation After Bariatric Surgery in the Absence of Cirrhosis.
• Estimated Cost-Effectiveness of Medical Therapy, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastric Bypass in Patients with Severe Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Drugs

• Histone Deacetylase 6 Inhibition Restores Leptin Sensitivity and Reduces Obesity.
• Brain GLP-1 and the Regulation of Food Intake: GLP-1 Action in the Brain and Its Implications for GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Obesity Treatment.
• RCT: Effect of Weekly Semaglutide vs Daily Liraglutide on Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity Without Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Animal-Based Food Choice and Associations with Long-Term Weight Maintenance and Metabolic Health After a Large and Rapid Weight Loss: The PREVIEW Study.
• Animal Board Invited Review: Animal Source Foods in Healthy, Sustainable, and Ethical Diets – an Argument Against Drastic Limitation of Livestock in the Food System.
• Review: Impact of Alpha-Linolenic Acid, the Vegetable Omega-3 Fatty Acid, on Cardiovascular Disease and Cognition.
• Systematic Review: How Does the Food Environment Influence People Engaged in Weight Management?

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Satiety Associated with Calorie Restriction and Time-Restricted Feeding: Central Neuroendocrine Integration.
• Comparison of the Effects of Different Dietary Regimens on Susceptibility to Experimental Acute Kidney Injury: The Roles of SIRT1 and TGF-β1.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Does Regular Physical Activity Mitigate the Age-Associated Decline in Pulmonary Function?
• Meta-Analysis: The Acute Effects of Interrupting Prolonged Sitting Time in Adults with Standing and Light-Intensity Walking on Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Health in Adults.
• Daily Motivational Text Messages to Promote Physical Activity in University Students: Results from a Microrandomized Trial.

Economics & Sociology

• Menu Labeling Utilization and Socioeconomic Status in West Virginia and Mississippi.
• Obesity Burden by Socioeconomic Measures between 2000 and 2018 Among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys.

Epidemiology

• Novel Insights into the Consequences of Obesity: A Phenotype-Wide Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Preprint: Causal Associations between Body Fat Accumulation and COVID-19 Severity: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Correlates of Psychological Distress Among Adults with Obesity During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Enhanced Capacity to Switch but Not to Maintain: The Basis of Attentional Bias to High Calorie Foods in Restrained Eaters.
• Preprint: A Community-Based Feasibility RCT to Test Food-Specific Inhibitory Control Training in People with Disinhibited Eating During COVID-19 in Italy.
• Effect of Disrupted Episodic Memory on Food Consumption: No Impact of Neuronal Loss of Endophilin A1 on Food Intake and Energy Balance.
• Meta-Analysis: Obesogenic Diets Induce Anxiety in Rodents.
• Exercise Increases Attentional Bias Towards Food Cues in Individuals Classified with Overweight to Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Disparities in Reasons for Mortality Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Race and Obesity Disparities Among Adults Living in Gentrifying Neighborhoods.
• Review: Anesthetic Implications of Morbid Obesity During Pregnancy.
• Risk Behavioral Contexts in Adolescence of Adults with Obesity.

Stigma

• The Effects of Nursing Students’ Beliefs Towards Individuals with Obesity on Their Stigmatisation Tendencies.
• The Weight of Words: Discursive Constructions of Health in Weight-Neutral Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles.

Policy Related

• Public Health Considerations Regarding Obesity.
• How Have Media Campaigns Been Used to Promote and Discourage Healthy and Unhealthy Beverages in the United States? A Systematic Scoping Review to Inform Future Research to Reduce Sugary Beverage Health Risks.

Intergenerational Effects

• Diet and Maternal Obesity are Associated with Increased Oxidative Stress in Newborns: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Breastfeeding May Benefit Cardiometabolic Health of Children Exposed to Increased Gestational Glycemia in Utero.
• Associations between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Neonatal Neurobehavior in Infants Born Before 30 Weeks Gestation.
• Influence of Exclusive Breastfeeding on Hippocampal Structure, Satiety Responsiveness, and Weight Status.
• Impact of Zinc Deficiency During Prenatal And/or Postnatal Life on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases: Experimental and Clinical Evidence.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Biological and Economic Responses to Increasing Nitrogen Rates in Mombaça Guinea Grass Pastures.
• Flight Rapidly Modulates Body Temperature in Freely Behaving Bats.

Methods

• Modelling Changes in Fat-Free Mass in Response to Severe Energy Restriction.
• Systematic Review: Use of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for Recruiting Healthy Participants in Nutrition-, Physical Activity–, or Obesity-Related Studies.
• Measurement Error Affecting Web- and Paper-Based Dietary Assessment Instruments: Insights from the Multi-Cohort Eating and Activity Study for Understanding Reporting Error.

Commentary

• The Turmoil of Menopause The potential metabolic consequences during "The Change." (pdf)
• Diving Into a Culture of Trauma.
• One Size Does Not Fit All: An Historian's Perspective on Precision Diabetes Medicine.
• Scientists Discover How Caffeine Protects Against Cardiovascular Disease.
• Weight Loss May Take Longer Than Expected Due to Metabolic Adaptation.
• Weighing the Rituals of Body Weight.
• Continuous Glucose Monitors for One and All?
• Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy: A Woman's Dilemma. (pdf)

General

• Thesis: Presence and Physiological Effects of Phytoestrogens in the Diet of Ugandan Red Colobus Monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles).
• How a Trained Dog’s Sense of Smell Can Prevent a Pandemic.
• Application of Insects to Wounds of Self and Others by Chimpanzees in the Wild.
• The Costs and Benefits of Primary Prevention of Zoonotic Pandemics.
• Relationship between High-Risk Alcohol Consumption and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Seroconversion: A Prospective Seroepidemiologic Cohort Study Among American College Students.
• Why RCTs Matter and the Procedures That Strengthen Them.
• The Joke of Self-Correcting Science: The Andero Lab and Nature Communications | Introduction to the New Statistics.
• NIH Issues a Seismic Mandate: Share Data Publicly.

Announcements

• Registration Open: 2022 IU Obesity Symposium, April 29. CME Available.
• New Book: Nutrition in Clinical Practice.
• 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.