Featured

• Junk Food Is Bad for You. Is It Bad for Raccoons?
• Cold Acclimation and Pioglitazone Combined Increase Thermogenic Capacity of BAT and WAT but This Does Not Translate Into Higher Energy Expenditure [in Mice].
• Parametric and Semiparametric Approaches to Analyzing Device-Based Measures of Energy Expenditure in Zucker Diabetic Fatty Rats.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Most Important Meal of the Day: Skipping Breakfast May Compromise Immune System.
• Study: Monocytes Re-Enter the Bone Marrow During Fasting and Alter the Host Response to Infection... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Milk Protein Ingestion Does Not Enhance Recovery from Muscle-Damaging Resistance Exercise in Untrained Males and Females.
• RCT: "Multiple imputation analysis showed no significant difference in mean BMI between the groups"in Effectiveness and co-benefits of a telephone-based intervention in reducing obesity risk of children aged 2–4 years: findings from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.
• RCT: No Significant Efficacy of Vitamin D Supplementation in Reducing BMI in Healthy Young Adults in Colombia.
• Early Postnatal Weight Loss Does Not Affect [is Not Associated With] the Two-Year Neurodevelopment in Preterm Infants of Less Than 32 weeks.
• RCT: Tripeptide Gut Hormone Infusion Does Not Alter Food Preferences or Sweet Taste Function in Volunteers with Obesity and Pre-Diabetes/diabetes but Promotes Restraint Eating.
• The Glucagon Receptor Antagonist DesHis1Pro4Glu9-Glucagon (Lys12PAL) Alters Alpha-Cell Turnover and Lineage in Mice, but Does Not Cause Alpha-Cell Hyperplasia.
• A Reduction of Skeletal Muscle DHA Content Does Not Result in Impaired Whole Body Glucose Tolerance or Skeletal Muscle Basal Insulin Signaling in Otherwise Healthy Mice.
• "Analysis of tubby mutant worms with altered fat storage showed that, contrary to our hypothesis, increased adiposity did not sensitize to stressor-induced neurodegeneration."

Basic

• Metabolic Profiling of MRI-Measured Liver Fat in the UK Biobank.
• Signaling Pathways That Regulate Adaptive β-Cell Proliferation for the Treatment of Diabetes.
• Thermogenic Adipocyte-Derived Zinc Promotes Sympathetic Innervation in Male Mice.
• An Insight Into Brown/Beige Adipose Tissue Whitening, a Metabolic Complication of Obesity with the Multifactorial Origin.
• Adipose Tissue Aging Is Regulated by an Altered Immune System.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: The Artificial Sweetener Erythritol and Cardiovascular Event Risk.
• Commentary: More Hype Than Substance: Erythritol and Cardiovascular Risk.
• Commentary: Erythritol, and the More Artful Avoidance of Excess Sugar.
• Commentary: The Alchemy of Metabolomics: Erythritol.
• In the News: Do Artificial Sweeteners Increase the Risk of Heart Attacks and Stroke?
• Estimated Micronutrient Shortfalls of the EAT–Lancet Planetary Health Diet.

Clinical

• RCT: Effect of Exercise Training with Laser Phototherapy on Homeostasis Balance Resistant to Hypercoagulability in Seniors with Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of a School-Based Lifestyle Intervention on Ideal Cardiovascular Health in Chinese Children and Adolescents.
• RCT: The Effect of a Moderately Restricted Carbohydrate Diet on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Women with Overweight or Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Results of DUET: A Web-Based Weight Loss Feasibility Trial Among Cancer Survivors and Their Chosen Partners.
• Obesity Puts People at Higher Risk of Diabetes and Hypertension Than Dyslipidemia, Especially Women.

Children and Adolescents

• Longitudinal Dietary Trajectories from Pregnancy to 3 Years Post Delivery in Women with Obesity: Relationships with Adiposity.
• The Effect of Different Intensity Physical Activity on Cardiovascular Metabolic Health in Children and Adolescents with Obesity: An Isotemporal Substitution Model.
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Monozygotic Twins: Report of the First Case.
• Trends in Incidence of Youth-Onset Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in the USA, 2002–18: Results from the Population-Based SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study.
• Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Polygenic Risk for High BMI Magnify Obesity Risk Across Childhood.
• Mapping Intervention Components from a RCTs to Scale-Up of an Early Life Nutrition and Movement Intervention.

Surgery

• RCT: Changes in Dietary Intake, Food Tolerance, Hedonic Hunger, Binge Eating Problems, and Gastrointestinal Symptoms After Sleeve Gastrectomy Compared with After Gastric Bypass After One Year.
• Bariatric Surgery: Targeting Pancreatic β Cells to Treat Type II Diabetes.
• Self-Organized Metabotyping Individuals with Obesity Identifies Clusters Responding Differently to Bariatric Surgery.
• Parental Obesity Predisposition and Age of Onset Associate with Poor Response to Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery.
• Financial Impact of Metabolic Surgery on Prescription Diabetes Medications in Michigan.

Drugs

• Semaglutide in Obesity: Unmet Needs in Men.
• Protective Effects of Rifampicin and Its Analog Rifampicin Quinone in a Mouse Model of Obesity-Induced Type 2 Diabetes.
• Chemotherapy and Anticancer Drugs Adjustment in Obesity: A Narrative Review.
• Stroke Prevention and Treatment in People with Type 2 Diabetes: Is There a Role for GLP-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1) Analogues?

Food & Diet

• Fat Intake Modifies the Association between Restricted Carbohydrate Diets and Prevalent Cardiometabolic Diseases Among Adults in the United States.
• No Fry Bread: Bringing Indigenous and Homesteader Foodways Into the Contemporary Kitchen.
• The Nature and Extent of Food Marketing on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube Posts in Mexico.
• RCT: Probiotics Intervention in Preventing Conversion of Impaired Glucose Tolerance to Diabetes.
• Variability of Oral/Taste Sensitivity to Fat: An Investigation of Attribution from Detection Threshold Methods with Repeated Measurements.
• RCT: Cardiovascular and Lipid-Lowering Effects of a Marine Lipoprotein Extract in a High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Mouse Model.
• RCT: Enhancing Efficacy of a Brief Obesity and Eating Disorder Prevention Program: Long-Term Results from an Experimental Therapeutics Trial.
• The Role of Animal Breeding in Productivity Growth: Evidence from Wisconsin Dairy Farms.
• Enhancing the Comparability of Research on Ultraprocessed Foods.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Changes in Body Composition and Homeostatic Control of Resting Energy Expenditure During Dietary Weight Loss.
• An Intervention of Four Weeks of Time-Restricted Eating (16/8) in Male Long-Distance Runners Does Not Affect Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.
• Fasting Protocols Do Not Improve Intestinal Architecture and Immune Parameters in C57BL/6 Male Mice Fed a High Fat Diet.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Evolution of Public Health Physical Activity Applications of Accelerometers: A Personal Perspective.
• Relationship between Body Composition and Upper Limb Physical Fitness Among Chinese Students: 4-Year Longitudinal Follow-Up and Experimental Study.
• An Integrative Profiling of Metabolome and Transcriptome in the Plasma and Skeletal Muscle Following an Exercise Intervention in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Effects of Weight Loss and Feeding Specially Formulated Diets on the Body Composition, Blood Metabolite Profiles, Voluntary Physical Activity, and Fecal Metabolites and Microbiota of Obese Dogs.

Economics & Sociology

• Associations between Socioeconomic Status and Risk of Obesity and Overweight Among Chinese Children and Adolescents.
• Systematic Review: Relationship between BMI and Health and Occupational Performance Among Law Enforcement Officers, Firefighters, and Military Personnel.

Epidemiology

• Current Pubertal Development in Chinese Children and the Impact of Overnutrition, Lifestyle and Perinatal Factors.
• Severe Maternal Morbidity Trends over 20 Years in a Tertiary Referral Stand-Alone Maternity Unit.
• Eating Speed and Abdominal Adiposity in Middle-Aged Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study in Vietnam.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Behaviour Change Techniques Used in Mediterranean Diet Interventions for Older Adults.
• Exploring Effectiveness of CBT in Patients with Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder: Personality Functioning Is Associated with Clinically Significant Change.
• Effect of Health-Care Professionals’ Weight Status on Patient Satisfaction and Recalled Advice: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Habituation or Sensitization of Brain Response to Food Cues: Temporal Dynamic Analysis in an Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Obesity Inequality and Well-Being in Germany.
• Addressing Inequalities and Improving Maternal and Infant Outcomes: The Potential Power of Nutritional Interventions Across the Reproductive Cycle.
• RCT: An Obesity Prevention Program for High-Risk Infants in Primary Care.

Stigma

• ‘A Radical Operation’ – a Thematic Analysis of Newspaper Framing of Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents.
• Most US Adults with Diabetes Report Social Stigma.

Policy Related

• Evaluation of Short-Run Changes in Fast-Food Restaurant Online Kids' Meal Beverage Offerings Following a State-Level Healthy Beverage Default Policy.
• Systematic Review: The Implementation and Effectiveness of Outlet-Level Healthy Food and Beverage Accreditation Schemes.
• The Value of the Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network in Advancing the Evidence Base for Effective Nutrition and Obesity Policy: Assessment Using the Consolidated Framework for Collaborative Research.
• The Impact of SNAP-Ed Interventions on California Students’ Diet and Physical Activity During COVID-19.
• Development and Evaluation of the Food Bank Health and Nutrition Assessment.
• Sweetener Purchases in Chile Before and After Implementing a Policy for Food Labeling, Marketing, and Sales in Schools.
• Participatory Evaluation of Municipal Obesity Prevention Clubs in Tehran City: Strengths, Challenges, and Future Direction.

Intergenerational Effects

• Increased Fetal Microchimerism in Immune and Stem Cell Subsets in Preeclampsia.
• Breastfeeding and Infant Growth in Offspring of Mothers with Hyperglycaemia in Pregnancy.
• Maternal Obesity Can Affect Fetal Development.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Preprint: Evolutionary Analysis of the MTOR Pathway Provide Insights Into Lifespan Extension Across Mammals.
• Transcriptomic Changes Associated with Maternal Care in the Brain of Mouthbrooding Cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni Reflect Adaptation to Self-Induced Metabolic Stress.

Methods

• Conditioning on Parental Mating Types Can Reduce Necessary Assumptions for Mendelian Randomization.
• Algorithm-Based Mapping of Products in a Branded Canadian Food and Beverage Database to Their Equivalents in Health Canada’s Canadian Nutrient File.

Commentary

• Are Home-Packed Lunches Nutritionally Inferior to In-School Lunches?
• Comfortable Opinions, Uncomfortable Thinking.
• New Obesity Guidance for Pediatrics: Medicalizing Obesity or Acquiescing to Our Obesogenic Culture?
• Novel Human Organoid Models of Fatty Liver Disease Developed.
• Role of Food Processing on Human Health and Current Limitations.
• Defining Obesity, Fooled by Appearances.
• Mediterranean Diet or Keto: Which Is Better?
• The End of Obesity? Not Exactly.

General

• Intergenerational Transmission of the Effects of Maternal Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment in the USA: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Black/White Differences in the Relationship between Debt and Risk of Heart Attack Across Cohorts.
• "Overall, our data seem to suggest a role for FCM in the protection towards the SARS-CoV-2 infection with a possible positive impact on clinical outcome."
• The Presence of a Guard Vicariously Drives Split Sex Ratios in a Facultatively Social Bee.
• "Our findings thus question whether horses recognise real-life objects from digital images."
• Screening for Pesticide Residues in Cocoa (Theobroma Cacao L.) by Portable Infrared Spectroscopy.
• Drug Cost-Effectiveness Assessments Require Standards for Rigor and Inclusion.
• Effects of Physical Activity on Physical Fitness and Functional Ability in Older Adults.
• Bone Marrow Chimerism Breaks the Barrier to Pancreatic Islet Transplantation.
• RCT: Long-Term (180-Day) Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19.

Announcements

• Save the Date: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Save the Date: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• IU Wheelchair Basketball Club Shoots for Inclusivity on Campus.
• AAAS Book Award: It Takes Guts: How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel (and Poop), by Dr. Jennifer Gardy. Illustrated by Belle Wuthrich. Greystone Kids, 2021.
• 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.
• IU Bloomington’s School of Public Health is Recruiting Tenure-Track Faculty at ever rank in every department. Come Join Us!