03/12/21
Featured
- Psychological Resilience, Experimentally Manipulated Social Status, and Dietary Intake Among Adolescents.
- It "appeared that being presented with the choice itself led to increased sugar consumption and reduced longevity" in flies.
- RCT: Effect of Subcutaneous Semaglutide vs Placebo as an Adjunct to Intensive Behavioral Therapy on Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
- Greater Loss of Central Adiposity from Low-Carbohydrate Versus Low-Fat Diet in Middle-Aged Adults with Overweight and Obesity [in Non-randomized Trial].
Headline vs Study
- Headline: Feinstein Institutes and GE Research Demonstrate Ultrasound Stimulation Reduces Obesity.
- Study: Targeted Peripheral Focused Ultrasound Stimulation Attenuates Obesity-Induced Metabolic and Inflammatory Dysfunctions... In Mice.
Contrary or Null Findings
- RCT: "A structured counselling-based physical activity intervention did not significantly impact the level of vigorous physical activity behaviour in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors."
- "non-nutritive sweeteners when consumed together with a balanced diet did not cause a greater body mass gain" in rats.
- RCT: Little to No Effect on Primary Outcomes in Trial of Scaling Up Patient-Centered Interdisciplinary Care for Multimorbidity. (pdf)
- Meta-Analysis: No Significant Association of BMI with Survival and Serious Adverse Events in Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Bevacizumab.
- RCT: "higher protein intake above moderate amounts does not potentiate resistance training adaptations in previously untrained middle-aged adults."
- RCT: A High-protein Diet Does Not Mitigate Suppression of Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1) and Leptin Secondary to Low Energy Availability (LEA) May Contribute to Adverse Effects on Bone Health.
- RCT: Efforts on Changing Lifestyle Behaviors May Not Be Enough to Improve Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adolescents.
- RCT: "Interesterification did not modify fat digestion, postprandial lipemia, or lipid metabolism measured by stable isotope and DGM analysis."
Basic
- MicroRNA-33 Maintains Adaptive Thermogenesis Via Enhanced Sympathetic Nerve Activity.
- High-fat Feeding Disrupts Daily Eating Behavior Rhythms in Obesity-prone but Not in Obesity-resistant Male Inbred Mouse Strains.
- Chronic Caffeine Ingestion Down-Regulates Liver and Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammatory Gene Expression in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity.
- Very-low-protein Diets Lead to Reduced Food Intake and Weight Loss, Linked to Inhibition of Hypothalamic MTOR Signaling, in Mice.
- Testosterone Reduces Body Fat in Male Mice by Stimulation of Physical Activity Via Extrahypothalamic ERα Signaling.
- Hypothalamic Hormone-Sensitive Lipase Regulates Appetite and Energy Homeostasis.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- Commentary: Do Retractions Shake the Cult of Vitamin D?
- Letter: Methodological Flaws in Meta-Analysis of Phytosterol Supplementation and Plasma Lipoprotein(a) and Free Fatty Acid (FFA) Concentrations.
Clinical
- Obesity Among Postmenopausal Women: What Is the Best Anthropometric Index to Assess Adiposity and Success of Weight-loss Intervention?
- Very-Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet as a Safe and Valuable Tool for Long-Term Glycemic Management in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
- Mood, Sleepiness, and Weight Gain After Three Years on CPAP Therapy for Sleep Apnoea.
- The H2020 “NoHoW Project”: A Position Statement on Behavioural Approaches to Longer-Term Weight Management.
- Validity of Body-Composition Methods Across Racial and Ethnic Populations.
- RCT: A Novel Approach to Increasing Community Capacity for Weight Management a Volunteer-delivered Programme (ActWELL) Initiated Within Breast Screening Clinics.
Children and Adolescents
- Associations between Fruit Juice and Milk Consumption and Change in BMI in a Large Prospective Cohort of U.S. Adolescents and Preadolescents.
- Family Resilience and Childhood Obesity Among Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences in a National Survey.
- The Impact of Reducing the Frequency of Night Feeding on Infant BMI.
- Identifying Key Determinants of Childhood Obesity: A Narrative Review of Machine Learning Studies.
- Factors Affecting Obesity in Urban and Rural Adolescents: Demographic, Socioeconomic Characteristics, Health Behavior and Health Education.
- The Risk of Metabolic Derangements Is Higher in Children and Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity Born Small for Gestational Age.
- Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention Preferences of Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity.
- Intersections of Adolescent Well-Being: School, Work, and Weight Status in Brazil.
Surgery
- Long-Term Improvement of Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation After Bariatric Surgery.
- A Prospective 5-year Study on the Use of Transient Elastography to Monitor the Improvement of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Following Bariatric Surgery.
- RCT: Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in the Elderly.
Drugs
- An International Multicenter Observational Non-interventional Prospective Study of the Efficacy of Azilsartan Medoxomil in Patients with Overweight or Obesity and Arterial Hypertension.
- Pharmacotherapy for Obesity-Trends Using a Population Level National Database.
- Behavioural and Neurochemical Mechanisms Underpinning the Feeding-suppressive Effect of GLP-1/CCK Combinatorial Therapy.
Food & Diet
- Navy Bean Supplementation in Established High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Attenuates the Severity of the Obese Inflammatory Phenotype.
- Optimizing Adult Protein Intake During Catabolic Health Conditions.
- RCT: Sixteen Weeks of Supplementation with a Nutritional Quantity of a Diversity of Polyphenols from Foodstuff Extracts Improves the Health-Related Quality of Life of Volunteers with Overweight and Obesity.
- Circulating Inflammatory Markers May Mediate the Relationship between Low Carbohydrate Diet and Circadian Rhythm in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
- Carob Pod Polyphenols Suppress the Differentiation of Adipocytes Through Posttranscriptional Regulation of C/EBPβ.
- Role of Dietary Fat on Obesity-related Postmenopausal Breast Cancer: Insights from Mouse Models and Methodological Considerations.
- RCT: Fructose- and Sucrose- but Not Glucose-Sweetened Beverages Promote Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis.
Caloric and Dietary Restriction
- Proteomics Analysis of Adipose Depots After Intermittent Fasting Reveals Visceral Fat Preservation Mechanisms.
- Vitamin D Status, Vitamin D Intake, and Sunlight Exposure in Adults Adhering or Not to Periodic Religious Fasting for Decades.
- Long-Term Shaping of Corticostriatal Synaptic Activity by Acute Fasting.
- Changes in Subjective Measures of Appetite During 6 Months of Alternate Day Fasting with a Low Carbohydrate Diet.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- A Study of Leisure Walking Intensity Levels on Mental Health and Health Perception of Older Adults.
- Halo Effect of a Mediterranean-Lifestyle Weight-loss Intervention on Untreated Family Members' Weight and Physical Activity: A Prospective Study.
- RCT: Exercise Training and Burdock Root (Arctium Lappa L.) Extract Independently Improve Abdominal Obesity and Sex Hormones in Elderly Women with Metabolic Syndrome.
- Associations between Indicators of Energy Intake and Expenditure with Excess Weight and Obesity Among Women in Sedentary and Less-sedentary Jobs.
Economics & Sociology
- Potential Impact of the Nonessential Energy-Dense Foods Tax on the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children: A Modeling Study.
- Preprint: Analyzing the Reversal Hypothesis of Obesity with Education: A Cross-Sectional Study of Adult Females in 34 Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries.
- Association between Interpersonal Violence with Inadequate Nutritional Status Among Brazilian Adolescents.
Epidemiology
- Combined Analysis of Gestational Diabetes and Maternal Weight Status from Pre-pregnancy Through Post-delivery in Future Development of Type 2 Diabetes.
- Urban–rural Differences in Overweight and Obesity Among 25–64 Years Old Myanmar Residents.
- Association between Mid-Life Obesity, Its Metabolic Consequences, Cerebrovascular Disease and Cognitive Decline.
- Interaction of Obesity and Hypertension on Cardiac Metabolic Remodeling and Survival Following Myocardial Infarction.
- Independent and Combined Associations between Fast-Food Outlet Exposure and Genetic Risk for Obesity: A Population-based, Cross-sectional Study in the UK.
- Dissertation: The Combined Impact of Race and Education on Obesity Among U.S. Adults.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- RCT: Psychological Resilience, Experimentally Manipulated Social Status, and Dietary Intake Among Adolescents.
- Correlates of Neural Adaptation to Food Cues and Taste: The Role of Obesity Risk Factors.
- Relationship between BMI and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: Evidence and Inflammatory Correlates.
- Dissertation: Financial Scarcity, Eating Self-Regulation, and Obesity: A Proposed Model.
Equity and Disparities
- On the Joint Role of Non-Hispanic Black Race/ethnicity and Weight Status in Predicting Postmenopausal Weight Gain.
- Socioeconomic Inequalities in Children’s Weight, Height and BMI Trajectories in Norway.
- Temporal Trend of Overweight and Obesity Prevalence Among Brazilian Adults, According to Sociodemographic Characteristics, 2006-2019.
- Socioeconomic Inequality in Food Intake and Adult Obesity in Portugal.
- From Clinic to Community: Adapting Evidence-Based Weight Management for Overweight Latinx Children to Better Address Social Determinants.
- Socioeconomic Inequalities in BMI in Barcelona 1986-2016: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach.
Ethics
- ‘Let Them Choose Not to Eat Cake...’: Public Health Ethics, Effectiveness, and Equity in Government Obesity Strategy.
- An Ethical Investigation into the Microbiome: The Intersection of Agriculture, Genetics, and the Obesity Epidemic.
Stigma
- Commentary: In Obesity Research, Fatphobia Is Always the X Factor.
- Meta-Analysis: Bidirectional Relationships between Weight Stigma and Pediatric Obesity.
- Preprint: Psychosocial and Diet-Related Lifestyle Clusters in Overweight and Obesity.
Policy Related
- Healthcare Professional Training Regarding Gestational Weight Gain: Recommendations and Future Directions.
- When Pandemics Collide: The Impact of COVID-19 on Childhood Obesity.
Intergenerational Effects
- Pregnancy Weight Gain in Twin Gestations and Maternal and Child Health Outcomes at 5 Years.
- The Fetal Origins of Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study on the Association of Preeclampsia and Childhood Obesity.
- BMI Trajectories in the First 5 Years and Associated Antenatal Factors.
- Systematic Review: Maternal BMI Is Positively Associated with Human Milk Fat.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- Scarcity Signaling in Sales Promotion: An Evolutionary Perspective of Food Choice and Weight Status.
- Major Oscillations in Spontaneous Home-Cage Activity in C57BL/6 Mice Housed Under Constant Conditions.
- Preprint: A Long Post-reproductive Lifespan Is a Shared Trait Among Genetically Distinct Killer Whale Populations. (pdf)
- Book Chapter: Epigenetic and Developmental Basis of Risk of Obesity and Metabolic Disease.
Methods
- Food Substitution Models for Nutritional Epidemiology.
- Meta-Analysis: Investigating Sex Differences in the Accuracy of Dietary Assessment Methods to Measure Energy Intake in Adults.
Mathematical and Quantitative
- Potential Impact of Gradual Reduction of Fat Content in Manufactured and Out-of-Home Food on Obesity in the United Kingdom: A Modeling Study.
- A Quasi-equilibrium Reduced Model of Pancreatic Insulin Secretion.
- Preprint: The Mass Balance Model Perfectly Fits Both Hall et al. Underfeeding Data and Horton et al. Overfeeding Data.
Commentary
- Intermittent Fasting and Why When You Eat Makes a Difference.
- A New Way to Treat Severe Obesity.
- OCW2021: Turning Up the Volume on Solutions.
- For National Nutrition Month, Please Don’t Eat the Malarkey (i.e., Renounce Death by Dietary Boondoggle).
- Then and Now: Body Mass.
- ‘Prudent’ Diet May Counteract Detrimental Effect of Sitting on Glucose Levels.
- Pancreas Transplantation Would Be Easy If the Recipients Were Not Diabetic: A Practical Guide to Post-Operative Management of Diabetic Complications in Pancreas Transplant Recipients.
- Parents and Caregivers are Focused on Their Kids’ Nutrition, but Obstacles to Healthy Eating are Common.
General
- Macrophages of the Human Eye Come into Focus.
- Neanderthal Ears Were Tuned to Hear Speech Just Like Modern Humans.
- Lipid Analysis of Pottery from the Early Bronze Age II Burials at Ayia Triada Cave, Southern Euboea, Greece: Evidence for Ritualized Consumption?
- Social and Physical Context Moderates Older Adults’ Affective Responses to Sedentary Behavior: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.
- Preprint: The Socioeconomic Gradient in Epigenetic Aging Clocks: Evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and the Health and Retirement Study.
- Biological Age Measured Precisely by Gene Expression.
- High-Resolution Ocean Model Provides Insight into Sea Turtles’ Lost Years.
- Resilience as a Mediator between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Prescription Opioid Misuse Among U.S. Adults.
Announcements
- Upcoming Webinars: Conversations in Nutrition & Obesity Research: A Webinar Series of ASN’s Obesity Research Interest Section.
- ASN’s annual video competition "Understanding Nutritional Science" submissions due April 9.
- New Department Chair Named for Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.
- Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
- Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.
- Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington's Dr. Keisuke Kawata Receives 2020–2021 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
- Steven Austad, Nir Barzilai, and James Kirkland Discuss How the TAME Trial, Senolytics, and Gerotherapeutics Can Increase Healthspan in the Washington Post.