Featured

• RCT: Effectiveness of Lactation Cookies on Human Milk Production Rates.
• RCT: Does Frequency or Duration of Standing Breaks Drive Changes in Glycemic Response?
• A Wearable Platform for Closed-Loop Stimulation and Recording of Single-Neuron and Local Field Potential Activity in Freely Moving Humans.
• Increased Alcohol Dehydrogenase 1 Activity Promotes Longevity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Researchers Reveal How Nearby Food Stores Affect Patients After Weight-Loss Surgery.
• Press Release: Nearby Food Stores Affect Results After Weight-Loss Surgery.
• Study: Presence of Food Stores Within 5 or 10 Minutes Walking Distance Were Significantly Associated with Weight Loss After Surgery in Some Subgroups of Patients. Shopping at or Consuming Foods from Stores Not Measured. Causation Not Established.
• Additional Publication on Same Study: Presence of 'Low' Food Selection Diversity Food Stores Within 5 or 10 Minutes Walk Significantly Associated with Less Weight Loss After Surgery; Pooled 'Medium/High' Diversity Was Not Significant. Shopping at or Consuming Foods from Stores Not Measured. Causation Not Established.
• Critique: Food Stores “Drive” Bariatric Surgery Outcomes?

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Despite widespread discussion of weight gain in association with the COVID-19 Shutdown, study data showed no evidence of adverse effects of Shutdown on body weight, BMI, HbA1C, or blood glucose in a large sample of adults with T2DM."
• RCT: "Supplementation with 6,000 IU vitamin D daily during 12 weeks in children and adolescents with obesity and hypovitaminosis D [had no discernable] positive effects on weight loss, insulin resistance, lipid patterns, or blood pressure were observed."
• "Surprisingly, we find that variation in the slope of individual scaling relationships primarily results from variation in nutritionally-induced plasticity of body size, not leg or wing size."
• "Unexpectedly, our results show that the SFL [Sustainability Facts Label] increased the likelihood of organic purchases."
• RCT: "Abundance and Scarcity conditions do not affect average switching directly, but they influence the behavior of high-income subjects and cause the income effect to vanish by reverting the consumption behavior of high-income subjects to the behavior of low-income subjects."
• Metformin Exposure in Utero Not Linked to Higher BMI for Children of Women with Diabetes.
• RCT: Engaging Fathers Through Nutrition Behavior Communication Change Does Not Increase Child Dietary Diversity in Rural Ethiopia.
• "Despite receiving frequent DCNS [Dietary counseling and nutritional support], patients continued to lose body weight during and 1 year after treatment."

Basic

• Lipidomic Analysis of Adipose-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Reveals Specific EV Lipid Sorting Informative of the Obesity Metabolic State.
• Limiting Mrs2-Dependent Mitochondrial Mg2+ Uptake Induces Metabolic Programming in Prolonged Dietary Stress.
• Gpr75-Deficient Mice are Protected from High-Fat Diet–Induced Obesity.
• Lack of Adipocyte IP3R1 Reduces Diet-Induced Obesity and Greatly Improves Whole-Body Glucose Homeostasis.
• PEPITEM Modulates Leukocyte Trafficking to Reduce Obesity-Induced Inflammation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Impact of a Montessori-Based Nutrition Program on Children's Knowledge and Eating Behaviors.
• Letter: Ignoring Clustering and Nesting Effects are Invalid Analysis Choices in a Trial with Clustered Data in Trials Testing Causal Effects. Re: “Impact of a Montessori-Based Nutrition Program on Children's Knowledge and Eating Behaviors”.
• Letter: Individually Randomized Trial Mislabeled as a Cluster Randomized Trial. Comment On: “Effectiveness of Wearable Technology to Optimize Youth Soccer Players’ Off-Training Behaviour and Training Responses: A Cluster-Randomized Trial”.
• Perspective: Misinformation and Disinformation in Food Science and Nutrition: Impact on Practice.
• Editorial: AI Did Not Write This Manuscript, or Did It? Can We Trick the AI Text Detector Into Generated Texts? The Potential Future of ChatGPT and AI in Sports & Exercise Medicine Manuscript Generation.
• The Bias for Statistical Significance in Sport and Exercise Medicine.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Omega-3 Supplementation on Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Patients with Gestational Diabetes.
• RCT: The Effects of Prebiotics on Gastrointestinal Side Effects of Metformin in Youth.
• RCT: Testing the Effectiveness of Two Technology-Enhanced Diabetes Prevention Programs in Primary Care: The DiaBEAT-It Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Meeting Abstract: The Case for Investing in the Prevention and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity Among Children and Adolescents in Three Middle-Income Countries.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Blameless in Parenting: A Thematic Analysis of Discussions of Childhood Obesity on an Internet Forum.
• Association of High Normal Body Weight in Youths with Risk of Hypertension.
• Have States Reduced Obesity by Legislating More Physical Activity in Elementary School?
• RCT: Effectiveness and Co-Benefits of a Telephone-Based Intervention in Reducing Obesity Risk of Children Aged 2–4 Years.

Surgery

• RCT: Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Versus Intensive Non-Surgical Treatment for Adolescents with Severe Obesity (AMOS2).
• The Association of Surgical Weight Loss and Diabetes Complications in Individuals with Class II/III Obesity.

Drugs

• The Role of Chitosan-Based Nanoparticles to Reduce Obesity: A Glimpse.
• Use of GLP-1 Analogs in the Treatment of Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: No Significant Salt or Sweet Taste Preference or Sensitivity Differences Following Ad Libitum Consumption of Ultra-Processed and Unprocessed Diets.
• Systematic Review: Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Adult Obesity Risk.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Impact of Caloric Restriction on the Gut Microbiota.
• Caloric Restriction for the Immunometabolic Control of Human Health.
• Transcriptomics Dissection of Calorie Restriction and Exercise Training in Brown Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Time of the Day of Exercise Impact on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Adults.
• Narrative Review: Direct and Indirect Impact of Low Energy Availability on Sports Performance.
• The Effects of an Acute Bout of Aerobic or Resistance Exercise on Nonexercise Physical Activity.
• Mediators of Physical Activity Maintenance During a 12-Month RCT Among Breast Cancer Survivors.

Economics & Sociology

• RCT: Effect of Financial Incentives and Default Options on Food Choices of Adults with Low Income in Online Retail Settings.
• Dissertation: Exploring the Impact of Multilevel Environments Influencing the Adoption of Health Practices in Adults with Obesity in the United Kingdom.

Epidemiology

• Trends in the Prevalence of Metabolically Healthy Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2018.
• Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: An Executive Document on Pathophysiological and Clinical Links Promoted by the Italian Society of Cardiovascular Prevention (SIPREC).
• Obesity- and Lipid-Related Indices as a Predictor of Obesity Metabolic Syndrome in a National Cohort Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Environmental Determinants of Childhood Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Impact of Digital Meditation on Work Stress and Health Outcomes Among Adults with Overweight.
• Association between Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods and Cognitive Decline.
• Is Intuitive Eating a Privileged Approach? Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Food Insecurity and Intuitive Eating. (pdf)
• Comparing the Effects of Inhibitory Control Training and Evaluative Conditioning for Unhealthy Food Behaviours.
• Weight Status of Working Adults: The Effects of Eating Misalignment, Chronotype, and Eating Jetlag During Mandatory Confinement.

Equity and Disparities

• Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Obesity Among Korean Adolescents: The Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey (KYRBS) 2006 to 2020. (pdf)
• Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Fields of Nutrition and Obesity: A Roadmap to Equity in Academia.

Stigma

• Can Family and Parenting Factors Modify the Impact of Weight Stigma on Disordered Eating in Young People? A Population-Based Longitudinal Study.
• Changing Perspectives Among Pre-Health Undergraduates Through a Brief Weight Bias Pedagogical Intervention.

Policy Related

• Development of the Menu Assessment Scoring Tool (MAST) to Assess the Nutritional Quality of Food Service Menus.
• Public Support for Nutrition-Related Actions by Food Companies in Australia: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Findings from the 2020 International Food Policy Study.
• An Evaluation of the Implementation of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers Market Nutrition Program at Four Chicago WIC Sites.
• A Policy Study on Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labeling in the Americas: Emerging Developments and Outcomes.
• Students' Consumption of High and Low Nutrition Foods and Reduced Plate Waste by Schools' Wellness-Related Policies and Garden Program Participation.
• Review: Strengthening Global Legislative Actions to Protect Children from the Harmful Impacts of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Marketing.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Gut Microbiota Mediate Intergenerational Effects of High-Fat Diet on Descendant Social Behavior.
• Inherited Epigenetic Hallmarks of Childhood Obesity Derived from Prenatal Exposure to Obesogens.
• Father's Weight Could Contribute to Large Babies in Mothers with Overweight and Obesity with and Without Gestational Diabetes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Review: Adenosine and P1 Receptors: Key Targets in the Regulation of Sleep, Torpor, and Hibernation.
• Physiological Responses to Hypoxia are Constrained by Environmental Temperature in Heterothermic Tenrecs.

Methods

• Machine Learning-Based Obesity Classification Considering 3D Body Scanner Measurements.
• Five Machine Learning Supervised Algorithms for the Analysis and the Prediction of Obesity. (pdf)
• RCT: Economic and Health Impacts of the Change4Life Food Scanner App.

Commentary

• New Obesity Guidance for Pediatrics: Medicalizing Obesity or Acquiescing to Our Obesogenic Culture?.
• World Obesity Day: Perspectives and Evidence.
• Surging Diabetes and Obesity in Young Persons.
• A Recent Metformin Study Casts Doubts on Longevity Indications.
• “Fake” Sugar, Speculation, and Health Reporting.
• Three Threads in Public Discourse on Obesity.
• Might Semaglutide Prompt Less Alcohol Use?
• Brendan Fraser Wins an Oscar for the Whale.

General

• Association of Physical Activity, 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.
• Market Structure and Resilience of Food Supply Chains Under Extreme Events.
• Elevated Serum HsCRP May Be Associated with Increased Risk of Preterm Twin Deliveries.
• When It Comes to Cheese, Consumers are Thinking Small—and That Can Yield Big Wins for Grocers That Adapt to Americans’ Changing Cheese-Buying Habits.
• Nutrition and Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus: Does What You Eat Help You Remember?
• First Longevity Clinical Study Design Fetches FDA Approval.

Video & Audio

• Video: Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer David Allison: “The Myriad Contributors to Obesity: Exploring the Roads Less Traveled”.
• Video: Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer David Allison: “Living Large: The Effects of Obesity, Body Fat, Food Intake, and Changes Therein on Aging and Longevity”.

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 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 every rank in every department. Come Join Us!