03/04/22
Featured
- RCT: Effects of Lean Pork on Microbiota and Microbial-Metabolite Trimethylamine-N-Oxide: Non-Inferiority Feeding Trial Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
- Reassessing Human Adipose Tissue.
- Adenovirus 36 Infection and Obesity Risk: Current Understanding and Future Therapeutic Strategies.
Headline vs Study
- Headline: Supportive Parenting Reduces Children’s Risk for Obesity, Study Finds.
- Study: Associations Among Family Psychosocial Assets, Child Behavioral Regulation, and Obesity Trajectories. Causal Effects of Supportive Parenting Not Established.
Contrary or Null Findings
- RCT: Overall, Cocoa Flavanols Did Not Improve Visual Working Memory Recall Performance During Maintenance, nor Did It Improve Recall Accuracy After Memory Updating.
- RCT: “...cocoa had no significant effects on serum and fecal metabolites and that its consumption had little impact on the metabolome after a bout of physical exercise."
- RCT: "Clinical Intervention to Reduce Dietary Sugar does not Impact Liver Fat in Latino Youth, Regardless of PNPLA3 Genotype."
- RCT: No Significant Effect of Dietary Glycemic Index on β-Cell Function in Prediabetes.
- RCT: No Statistically Significant Effect of Nutrition and Exercise Intervention from Early Pregnancy to Achieve Recommended Gestational Weight Gain.
- RCT: No Significant Effect of Aerobic Exercise Intensity on Health-Related Quality of Life in Severe Obesity.
- RCT: No Effect of Combined Tele-Exercises and Nutritional Coaching on Anthropometric, Body Composition or Exercise Capacity Outcomes in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
- "There is probably little to no difference in weight reduction and changes in cardiovascular risk factors up to two years' follow-up, when [participants with overweight and obesity] without and with T2DM are randomised to either low-carbohydrate or balanced-carbohydrate weight-reducing diets."
Basic
- Moderate L-Lactate Administration Suppresses Adipose Tissue Macrophage M1 Polarization to Alleviate Obesity-Associated Insulin Resistance.
- Whole Body Ip6k1 Deletion Protects Mice from Age-Induced Weight Gain, Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Dysfunction.
- Latexin Deficiency Attenuates Adipocyte Differentiation and Protects Mice Against Obesity and Metabolic Disorders Induced by High-Fat Diet.
- Matrine Counteracts Obesity in Mice Via Inducing Adipose Thermogenesis by Activating HSF1/PGC-1α Axis.
- Early Time-Restricted Feeding Amends Circadian Clock Function and Improves Metabolic Health in Male and Female Nile Grass Rats.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- Nutritional Epidemiology: Abolition vs Defending the Status Quo.
- Article: Nutrition Self-Efficacy Assessment: Designing and Psychometric Evaluation in a Community-Dwelling Elderly Population.
- Letter: Concerns Regarding the Validity of Nutrition Self-Efficacy Questionnaire Among Iranian Elderly Population.
- PubPeer Comment: Statistical Problems in the Vitamin C Trial with PCI Patients by Shafaei-Bajestani Et Al. (2019).
- PubPeer Comment: Statistical Problems in the Vitamin C Trial with CABG Patients by Moludi Et Al. (2020).
- PubPeer Comment On: Vitamin D Supplementation to Prevent Acute Respiratory Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Aggregate Data from Randomised Controlled Trials.
- Preprint: Vitamin D and Acute Respiratory Infection: Secondary Analysis of a Previous Randomised Controlled Trial and Updated Meta-Analyses.
- 36-Fold Higher Estimate of Deaths Attributable to Red Meat Intake in Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019: Is This Reliable?
Clinical
- RCT: Family-Based Treatment of Children with Severe Obesity in a Public Healthcare Setting.
- Clinical Use of the Edmonton Obesity Staging System for the Assessment of Weight Management Outcomes in People with Class 3 Obesity.
Children and Adolescents
- Systematic Review: Social Media and Children's and Adolescents’ Diets.
- Review: Understanding Sex Differences in Childhood Undernutrition.
Surgery
- RCT: The Impact of Telephone-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Mental Health Distress and Disordered Eating Among Bariatric Surgery Patients During COVID-19.
- Review: Effect of Obesity Surgery on Taste.
- Medications Activating Tubular Fatty Acid Oxidation Enhance the Protective Effects of Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery in a Rat Model of Early Diabetic Kidney Disease.
Drugs
- Meta-Analysis: Efficacy and Safety of SGLT-2i in Individuals with Overweight/Obesity but not Diabetes.
- Insulin Delivery and Glucose Variability Throughout the Menstrual Cycle on Closed Loop Control for Women with Type 1 Diabetes.
- Development of in Vitro Three-Dimensional Drug Screening System for Obesity-Related Metabolic Syndrome.
- Impact of Obesity on Brexpiprazole Pharmacokinetics: Proposal for Improved Initiation of Treatment.
- Camptothecin Effectively Treats Obesity in Mice Through GDF15 Induction.
Food & Diet
- RCT: Consumption of Caffeinated and Decaffeinated Coffee Enriched with Cocoa and Fructo-Oligosaccharides Among Persons without Diabetes.
- Meta-Analysis: Effects of Dietary Patterns on Biomarkers of Inflammation and Immune Responses.
- Review: Effects of Alpha Lipoic Acid on Metabolic Syndrome.
- Review: Fruit Juice and Childhood Obesity.
- "Greater consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with higher all-cause mortality in this health-conscious Adventist population with many vegetarians"
- Nutrient Pattern Analysis of Mineral Based, Simple Sugar Based, and Fat Based Diets and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome.
- Characterisation, Procedures and Heritability of Acute Dietary Intake.
Caloric and Dietary Restriction
- RCT: Time-Restricted Eating in Healthy Volunteers Without Obesity.
- Review: Is Calorie Restriction Beneficial for Normal-Weight Individuals?
- Satiety Associated with Calorie Restriction and Time-Restricted Feeding: Peripheral Hormones.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Meta-Analysis: The Effect of Exercise Interventions on Irisin Level.
- Case Study: Bicycle Touring 480 Km in Seven Days: Effects on Body Composition and Physical Fitness.
- Trends in Gross Body Coordination and Cardiorespiratory Fitness from 35,000 2nd Graders.
- Exercise in People with Cancer: A Spotlight on Energy Regulation and Cachexia.
- Acute Aerobic Exercise Reveals Fatty Acid Esters of Hydroxy Fatty Acids Distinguish the Metabolomes of Overweight and Normal Weight Runners.
Economics & Sociology
- Marketing of Sugar-Sweetened Children's Drinks and Parents' Misperceptions About Benefits for Young Children.
- Potentially Modifiable Mediators for Socioeconomic Disparities in Childhood Obesity in the United States.
Epidemiology
- Age at Childbirth and Change in BMI Across the Life-Course.
- Association of Weight at Different Ages and All-Cause Mortality Among Older Adults in the US.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Relations of Metabolic Health and Obesity to Brain Aging in Young to Middle-Aged Adults.
- Novel Clinical Algorithm for Hypothalamic Obesity in Youth with Brain Tumours and Factors Associated with Excess Weight Gain.
- Regional Gray Matter Abnormalities in Pre-Adolescent Binge Eating Disorder.
Equity and Disparities
- Responding to Health Disparities in Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions and COVID-19 in Black Adults: Recommendations for Health Equity.
- Metabolic Syndrome in Childhood Cancer Survivors: Delta BMI a Risk Factor in Lower-Middle-Income Countries.
- Food Insecurity and Ultra-Processed Food Consumption: The Modifying Role of Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Stigma
- The Impact of Curvy Fitspiration and Fitspiration on Body Dissatisfaction, Negative Mood, and Weight Bias in Women.
- Weight-Normative Versus Weight-Inclusive Narratives in Weight-Related Public Health Campaigns: Effects on Anti-Fat Attitudes, Stigma, Motivation, and Self-Efficacy.
Policy Related
- Scoping Review: Barriers, Frameworks, and Mitigating Strategies Influencing the Dissemination and Implementation of Health Promotion Interventions in Indigenous Communities.
- Review: The Benefit of Telemedicine in Obesity Care.
- Review: How Can We Act to Mitigate the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change?
Intergenerational Effects
- Review: Gestational Obesity: An Unconventional Endocrine Disruptor for the Fetus.
- Effect of Nutritional Variance of Energy and Crude Protein on Sex Ratio and Development of W-36 Parent Offspring.
- Maternal Diet and Obesity Shape Offspring Central and Peripheral Inflammatory Outcomes in Juvenile Non-Human Primates.
- Maternal Postnatal Early Overfeeding Induces Sex-Related Cardiac Dysfunction and Alters Sexually Hormones Levels in Young Offspring.
- Smoking During Pregnancy Is Associated with Child Overweight Independent of Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Genetic Predisposition to Adiposity.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- PodCast: The Amphibian Omnivore's Dilemma: Plasticity-Led Evolution in Spadefoot Tadpoles.
- The Possible Role of Body Temperature in Modulating Brain and Body Sizes in Hominin Evolution.
Methods
- Meta-Epidemiological Study: Evaluating Concordance of Bodies of Evidence from RCTs, Dietary Intake, and Biomarkers of Intake in Cohort Studies.
- Consensus Statement: Definition and Diagnostic Criteria for Sarcopenic Obesity.
Mathematical and Quantitative
- Body Fat Prediction Through Feature Extraction Based on Anthropometric and Laboratory Measurements.
- Exploring an Algorithm to Harmonize International Obesity Task Force and World Health Organization Child Overweight and Obesity Prevalence Rates.
Commentary
- Diet Culture Comes for Pets.
- Another Effective and Ineffective Anti-Obesity Policy.
- Bariatric Surgery to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk?
- The Longevity Diet According to Science: How to Eat to Live Longer and Better.
- Weight-Loss Shot May Reduce Obesity, Overweight.
- Perspective: Opportunities and Challenges of Technology Tools in Dietary and Activity Assessment: Bridging Stakeholder Viewpoints.
- The Potential Impact of Climate Change on the Micronutrient-Rich Food Supply.
- Is Calorie Restriction the Key to Longevity?
General
- RCT: Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees.
- Preprint: The Drosophila melanogaster Enzyme Glycerol-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase 1 Is Required for 7 Oogenesis, Embryonic Development, and Amino Acid Homeostasis.
- A Simple Eye Test Can Identify the Risk of Alzheimer’s.
- Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of a Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Program for HIV Prevention for Men Who Have Sex with Men in Japan.
- Population Analysis of Retrotransposons in Giraffe Genomes Supports RTE Decline and Widespread LINE1 Activity in Giraffidae.
- Recognition of Observer Effect Is Required for Rigor and Reproducibility of Preclinical Animal Studies.
- A Call for More Rigor in Science and Health Communication.
- Testing Use of the First Multi-Partner Cognitive Enrichment Devices by a Group of Male Bottlenose Dolphins.
Video & Audio
Announcements
- “Lloyd J. Kolbe, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Applied Health Science at the Indiana University School of Public Health Bloomington Will Receive SOPHE's Highest Honor, the Distinguished Fellow Award.
- IU Bloomington a Top Producer for Fulbright U.S. Student Program for 2021-22.
- Department Chair and Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Kinesiology Sought at IU.
- 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.