02/25/22
Featured
- Mitochondrial and Metabolic Dysfunction in Ageing and Age-Related Diseases.
- RCT: French-Fried Potatoes Consumption and Energy Balance.
- Systematic Review: Retail Food Outlets and Metabolic Syndrome.
- A Practical Decision Tree to Support Editorial Adjudication of Submitted Parallel Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials.
Headline vs Study
- Headline: First Controlled Human Trial Shows Cutting Calories Improves Health, Longevity.
- Study: Caloric Restriction in Humans Reveals Immunometabolic Regulators That Overlap with and Generate Effects in Mice, but Health Span and Longevity Not Tested in Humans.
Contrary or Null Findings
- RCT: No Significant Effects in an Experimental Study Evaluating the Influence of Front-Of-Package Warning Labels on Adolescent's Purchase Intention of Processed Food Products.
- Meta-Analysis: Bariatric Surgery Does Not Improve Semen Quality.
- RCT: No Effect of Oral Ketone Ester Supplementation on Exercise Capacity in Patients with McArdle Disease and Healthy Controls.
- RCT: No Significant Effect of Imagery Rescripting for Reducing Body Image Dissatisfaction.
- RCT: "No differences were observed between the study groups in the incidence of maternal and perinatal outcomes" with "a Step Counter Smartband and Midwife Counseling Intervention on Gestational Weight Gain and Physical Activity in Pregnant Women With Obesity..."
- RCT: A Poultry Value Chain Intervention Promoting Diversified Diets Has Limited Impact on Maternal and Child Diet Adequacy During the Lean Season.
- RCT: "Although higher dietary energy intake increased weight, body fat and menstrual frequency, bone mineral density was not improved, compared to the control group."
- RCT: "In this large-scale, multicenter trial, active implementation of an evidence-based feeding guideline ... did not translate to a reduction in mortality from critical illness."
Basic
- Sleep Is Increased by Weight Gain and Decreased by Weight Loss in Mice.
- ACSS3 in Brown Fat Drives Propionate Catabolism and Its Deficiency Leads to Autophagy and Systemic Metabolic Dysfunction.
- High-Fat Diet Rapidly Modifies Trafficking, Phenotype, and Function of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Adipose Tissue.
- MicroRNA-29 Ameliorates Fibro-Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in HIF1α-Deficient Obese Adipose Tissue by Inhibiting Endotrophin Generation.
- Differences in the Composition and Predicted Functions of the Intestinal Microbiome of Obese and Normal Weight Adult Dogs.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- Article: A Guide for Authors and Readers of the American Society for Nutrition Journals on the Proper Use of P Values and Strategies That Promote Transparency and Improve Research Reproducibility.
- Letter: ASN Guidelines on P Values.
- Response: Reply to Verhoef et al.
- Article: The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: A Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic.
- Letter: Physics and Physiology of Obesity: Higher Rate of Energy Input Than Output. Comment on “The Carbohydrate–insulin Model: A Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic”.
- Letter: The Refined Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity.
- Letter: The Carbohydrate–insulin Model of Obesity.
- Letter: Misleading or Factually Incorrect Statements in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Perspectives Article by Ludwig et al.
- Response: Reply to A Drewnowski et al, O Devinsky, D a Booth and E L Gibson, and D J Millward.
Clinical
- RCT: Effectiveness of Clinical Pharmacist-Led Smartphone Application on Medication Adherence, Insulin Injection Technique and Glycemic Control for Women with Gestational Diabetes Receiving Multiple Daily Insulin Injection.
- Importance of Metabolic State on Metabolic Phenotype Assessment and the Energy Cost of Sitting and Standing.
Children and Adolescents
- Meta-Analysis: Digital Health Interventions for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents.
- Adolescents’ Perspectives on the Drivers of Obesity Using a Group Model Building Approach: A South African Perspective.
Surgery
- Maternal Nutritional Status and Pregnancy Outcomes Post-Bariatric Surgery.
- Changes in the Composition of Oral and Intestinal Microbiota After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass and Their Impact on Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery.
- Estimated Cost-Effectiveness of Medical Therapy, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastric Bypass in Patients with Severe Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
Drugs
- RCT: Metabolic Changes Induced by Dapagliflozin, an SGLT2 Inhibitor, in Japanese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Treated by Oral Anti-Diabetic Agents.
- Implications of Obesity for Drug Administration and Absorption from Subcutaneous and Intramuscular Injections: A Primer.
- Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Fish Oil and Fenofibrate on Plasma Metabolomic Profiles in Individuals with Overweight and Obesity.
- RCT: Effect of Standardized Hydrangea serrata (Thunb.) Ser. Leaves Extract on Body Weight and Body Fat Reduction in Humans with Overweight or Obesity.
Food & Diet
- RCT: Effectiveness of Partially Hydrolyzed Guar Gum in Reducing Constipation in Long Term Care Facility Residents.
- Meta-Analysis: Mediterranean Diet and Metformin Effects on Gestational Diabetes.
- RCT: Time-Restricted Eating in Healthy Volunteers Without Obesity.
- The Healthy/Unhealthy Dietary Pattern Is Associated with Resting Metabolic Rate Status Among Women with Overweight/Obesity.
- Dietary Patterns are Associated with Improved Ovarian Reserve in Women with Overweight and Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Lifestyle and Ovarian Reserve (LORe) Cohort.
Caloric and Dietary Restriction
- Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) Surgery During High Liquid Sucrose Diet Leads to Gut Microbiota-Related Systematic Alterations.
- Low Energy Status Under Methionine Restriction Is Essentially Independent of Proliferation or Cell Contact Inhibition.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Preprint: Effect of Taurine Supplement on Aerobic and Anaerobic Outcomes: Meta-Analysis.
- RCT: Effects of Regular Exercise During Pregnancy on Early Childhood Neurodevelopment: The Physical Activity for Mothers Enrolled in Longitudinal Analysis.
- Review: If Exercise Is Medicine, Why Don’t We Know the Dose?
- Meta-Analysis: Effects of Exercise Training on Bone Health Parameters in Individuals with Obesity.
Economics & Sociology
- Preprint: Worldwide, Economic Affluence Was in Significantly Stronger Correlation to Obesity Prevalence Rate in Males Than in Females.
- Review: Obesity, Poverty and Public Policy.
Epidemiology
- Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity and Central Obesity and Factors Associated with BMI in Indigenous Yaqui People.
- Weight Trajectory Since Birth, Current Body Composition, Dietary Intake, and Glucose Tolerance in Young Underweight Japanese Women.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Longitudinal Patterns of Comorbidity between Anxiety, Depression and Binge Eating Symptoms Among Patients with Obesity: A Path Analysis.
- RCT: Effect of MIND Diet Intervention on Cognitive Performance and Brain Structure in Healthy Women with Obesity.
Equity and Disparities
- Food Insecurity Influences Weight Trajectory in Children with Obesity.
- Chronic Diseases and Associated Risk Factors Among Adults in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria.
- Understanding Racially Diverse Community Member Views of Obesity Stigma and Bariatric Surgery.
Stigma
- Anti-Fat Attitudes of Nutrition Undergraduates in Brazil Toward Individuals with Obesity.
- Respectful Language and Putting the Person First with Obesity.
- Patient-Centered Care for Obesity: How Health Care Providers Can Treat Obesity While Actively Addressing Weight Stigma and Eating Disorder Risk.
Policy Related
- Hunger, Obesity, Public Policies, and Food-Based Dietary Guidelines: A Reflection Considering the Socio-Environmental World Context.
- Prevalence and Correlates of Insufficient Physical Activity Among Adults Aged 18–69 Years in India: Findings from the National Noncommunicable Disease Monitoring Survey.
Intergenerational Effects
- Review: Chrononutrition and Human Milk.
- Breastfeeding and Infant Growth in Offspring of Mothers with Hyperglycaemia in Pregnancy: The Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia Study.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- Short-Term and Long-Term Consequences of Regeneration on the Reproductive Investment of a Multivoltine Lizard.
- Thesis: Energetics in Seasonal Environments: Reindeer as a Case Study.
Methods
- The Niche of N-Of-1 Trials in Precision Medicine for Weight Loss and Obesity Treatment: Back to the Future.
- Calibrating Validation Samples When Accounting for Measurement Error in Intervention Studies.
Commentary
- New Research Finds That with Obesity, the Problem Isn’t an Excess of Fat but Its Loss of Function.
- Countering Obesity with Eosinophils and Sympathetic Fat.
- The Seed, the Tree, the Fruit, the Juice.
- Wrangling a Hot Mess That Magnifies Obesity.
- Blueberries and Blood: Aging Research Goes from Great Science to Snake Oil.
- The Pandemic Rise in Eating Disorders.
- Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief.
- The Calorie Counter: Evolutionary Anthropologist Herman Pontzer Busts Myths About How Humans Burn Calories—and Why.
General
- RCT: The Life History Theory of the Lord of the Rings: Using Fact Versus Fiction to Teach Life History Theory.
- Meta-Analysis Reveals an Extreme “Decline Effect” in the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Fish Behavior.
- Is Earth a Perfect Square? Repetition Increases the Perceived Truth of Highly Implausible Statements.
- RCT: The Influence of Message Framing on Nocebo Headaches.
- RCT: The Effects of Designing an Educational Animation Movie in Virtual Reality on Preoperative Fear and Postoperative Pain in Pediatric Patients.
- Ethical and Epistemic Issues in the Design and Conduct of Pragmatic Stepped-Wedge Cluster RCTs.
- Systematic Review: Association between Social Network and Obesity Among Adult Population.
- On Local Projection Based Inference.
Announcements
- IU Partners with Native American Tribe to Expand COVID-19 Study.
- Sugar: Commodity And Confection in Art - Museum Exhibit, Indianapolis.
- Webinar: Intermittent Fasting: Does the Evidence Support the Hype?
- Dr. Gerald Shulman Wins Manpei Suzuki International Prize for Diabetes Research.
- LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Department Chair and Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Kinesiology.
- 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.