Featured

• Relationship between Trait Suggestibility and Eating-related Behaviors in Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Long-term Dietary Intervention Reveals Resilience of the Gut Microbiota Despite Changes in Diet and Weight.
• High Fructose Corn Syrup Sweetened Soft Drink Consumption Increases Vascular Resistance in the Kidneys at Rest and During Sympathetic Activation.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Eating Oranges and Tangerines Can Help Reduce Risk of Obesity, Heart Disease, and Diabetes.
• Press-release: Molecule Found in Oranges Could Reduce Obesity and Prevent Heart Disease and Diabetes.
• Study: The Citrus Flavonoid Nobiletin Confers Protection From Metabolic Dysregulation in High-fat-fed Mice Independent of AMPK.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Weekly administration of FMT [fecal microbiota transplantation] capsules in adults with obesity results in gut microbiota engraftment in most recipients for at least 12 weeks. Despite engraftment, we did not observe clinically significant metabolic effects during the study."
• "Contrary to the initial hypotheses, it was found that only the written group demonstrated the meal-recall effect, whereas the verbal group did not."
• The hypothesis "that grit scores would be higher in CrossFit participants compared to those who do not participate in CrossFit...was not supported."
• RCT: "Energy balance, health markers, and appetite did not respond differently to 3 weeks of high‐ or low‐sugar breakfasts."
• Neither Autophagy nor Exercise Training Mode Affect Exercise-induced Beneficial Adaptations in High Fat-fed Mice.
• Exercise Training in Obese Rats Does Not Induce Browning at Thermoneutrality and Induces a Muscle-Like Signature in Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Meta-analysis: "There were no significant changes in anthropometric measures after zinc supplementation in the overall analysis."

Basic

• Determining the Bioenergetic Capacity for Fatty Acid Oxidation in the Mammalian Nervous System.
• Functional Traits of the Gut Microbiome Correlated with Host Lipid Content in a Natural Population of Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Insulin Resistance Drives Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• FGF6 and FGF9 Regulate UCP1 Expression Independent of Brown Adipogenesis.
• Grasp55−/− Mice Display Impaired Fat Absorption and Resistance to High-fat Diet-induced Obesity.
• Combined Effect of Cromolyn Sodium and Chlorpheniramine Maleate in High Fat Diet Induced Obesity.
• Endoplasmic Reticulum–Associated Degradation Regulates Mitochondrial Dynamics in Brown Adipocytes.
• Sugar-Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance are Uncoupled From Shortened Survival in Drosophila.
• Mulberry Fruit Extract Ameliorates Adipogenesis Via Increasing AMPK Activity and Downregulating MicroRNA-21/143 in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes.
• Physalis Alkekengi Exhibits Antiobesity Effects in Mice with Potential of Inducing White Adipose Tissue Browning.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Acupuncture Versus Sham Acupuncture for Simple Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Letter: Letter to the Editor Regarding a Recently Published Meta-analysis on Acupuncture for Obesity.
• Enhancing Reproducibility in Biomedical Research Through Harmonization of Guidelines for Transparent Reporting: A Workshop.

Clinical

• RCT: Matched Weight Loss Through Intermittent or Continuous Energy Restriction Does Not Lead to Compensatory Increases in Appetite and Eating Behavior in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Cold‐Activated Brown Adipose Tissue Is Associated with Less Cardiometabolic Dysfunction in Young Adults with Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Association of Cesarean Birth with BMI Trajectories in Adolescence.
• Can Following Formula-Feeding Recommendations Still Result in Infants Who are Overweight or Have Obesity?
• Acceptability of Hospital-Based Pediatric Weight Management Services Among Patients and Families: A Narrative Synthesis.
• The Relationship between Social Media Use and Disordered Eating in Young Adolescents.
• Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents with Obesity: A Nationwide Study in Sweden.
• Obesity Treatment Among Adolescents a Review of Current Evidence and Future Directions.
• Editorial: Ideas for Next-Generation Treatments of Adolescent Obesity.
• Association of Breastfeeding Duration, Birth Weight, and Current Weight Status with the Risk of Elevated Blood Pressure in Preschoolers.
• Trends in Diet Quality Among Youth in the United States, 1999-2016.
• Prediabetes Among School-Aged Children with Overweight and Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Obesity Treatment Among Adolescents: A Review of Current Evidence and Future Directions.

Surgery

• Changes in Bariatric Patients’ Physical Activity Levels and Health-Related Quality of Life Following a Postoperative Motivational Physical Activity Intervention.
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Improves Brain Connectivity in Patients with Obesity.
• Predicting 10-Year Risk of End-Organ Complications of Type 2 Diabetes with and Without Metabolic Surgery: A Machine Learning Approach.
• Hepatic Function and Fibrosis Assessment Via 2D-Shear Wave Elastography and Related Biochemical Markers Pre- and Post-Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Long-term Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Nationwide Nested Cohort Study.

Drugs

• Effects of Semaglutide Versus Dulaglutide on Epicardial Fat Thickness in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Impact of Liraglutide on Microcirculation in Experimental Diabetic Cardiomyopathy.
• Phytocannabinoids: Useful Drugs for the Treatment of Obesity? Special Focus on Cannabidiol.

Food & Diet

• Potentially Harmful Mineral Profiles of Weight Loss Related Foods Marketed in Spain.
• Effects of 12-week Avocado Consumption on Cognitive Function Among Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Long-term Dietary Intervention Reveals Resilience of the Gut Microbiota Despite Changes in Diet and Weight.
• Systematic Review: Dietary Potassium Intake and Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Predialysis Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Dietary Supplementation with New Zealand Blackcurrant Extract Enhances Fat Oxidation During Submaximal Exercise in the Heat.
• Dairy Foods and Dairy Fats: New Perspectives on Pathways Implicated in Cardiometabolic Health.
• Systematic Review: Dried Fruit Intake and Cancer.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Meta-analysis: Beneficial Impact of Exercise on Bone Mass in Individuals Under Calorie Restriction.
• Polyphenols as Caloric Restriction Mimetics Regulating Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Mitophagy.
• Sex‐specific Metabolic Responses to 6 Hours Fasting During the Active Phase in Young Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Built Environment Correlates of Physical Activity in Low- and Middle-income Countries.
• Systematic Review: Utility of Ketone Supplementation to Enhance Physical Performance.
• Effects of Step Count on BP May Be Mediated By Obesity.
• Association of Daily Step Count and Step Intensity with Mortality Among US Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Diabetes Prevalence and Its Relationship with Education, Wealth, and BMI in 29 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Recent Changes in the Dutch Foodscape: Socioeconomic and Urban-rural Differences.

Epidemiology

• Insights Into the Multifactorial Causation of Obesity By Integrated Genetic and Epigenetic Analysis.
• Time Trends and Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents in Spain.
• Association of Childhood Obesity with Risk of Early All-cause and Cause-specific Mortality: A Swedish Prospective Cohort Study.
• Vitamin D, Magnesium, Calcium, and Their Interaction in Relation to Colorectal Cancer Recurrence and All-cause Mortality.
• Epigenetic Link between Statin Therapy and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Tracking of Obesity in Childhood Into Adulthood: Effects on BMI and Fat Mass Index at Age 50.
• The Association between Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Bladder Cancer Risk Among Postmenopausal Women.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Do Differences Between Individuals Who are Healthy Weight or Overweight on Self-report Measures of Disinhibited Eating and Restrained Eating Reflect Reality or Item "Bias"?
• Integrative Review of Dietary Choice Revealed By FMRI: Considerations for Obesity Prevention and Weight‐Loss Education.
• High/Low Cortisol Reactivity and Food Intake in People with Obesity and Healthy Weight.

Equity and Disparities

• Elucidating the Role of Overweight and Obesity in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cesarean Delivery Risk.
• The Unequal Effect of Income on Risk of Overweight/Obesity of Whites and Blacks with Knee Osteoarthritis: The Osteoarthritis Initiative.

Ethics

• The Cannibali That We Are: For a Bioethics of Food.

Stigma

• The Case for Body Positivity on Social Media: Perspectives on Current Advances and Future Directions.
• Fighting Weight Bias and Obesity Stigma: A Call for Action.

Policy Related

• Commentary: "Boosting the cost of sodas and sugary drinks might not equal better health, say experts."
• Fighting Obesity at the Local Level: An Analysis of Predictors of Local Health Departments' Policy Involvement.
• Implementing Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Through Community Coalitions and Extension Partnerships to Address Obesity in Rural Louisiana.

Intergenerational Effects

• Paternal BMI and Offspring DNA Methylation: Findings From the PACE Consortium.
• Effects of Maternal, Gestational, and Perinatal Variables on Neonatal Line Width Observed in a Modern UK Birth Cohort.
• Are Environmental Area Characteristics at Birth Associated with Overweight and Obesity in School-Aged Children.
• Meta-analysis: Association of Exposure to Antibiotics During Pregnancy and Infancy and Childhood Obesity.
• Association of Fish Consumption and Mercury Exposure During Pregnancy with Metabolic Health and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Children.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Offspring Diet Supersedes the Transgenerational Effects of Parental Diet in a Specialist Herbivore Neolema abbreviata Under Manipulated Foliar Nitrogen Variability.
• Food Restriction Delays Seasonal Sexual Maturation but Does Not Increase Torpor Use in Male Bats.
• Skeletal Muscle Thermogenesis Induction By Exposure to Predator Odor.
• From Individuals to Populations: How Intraspecific Competition Shapes Thermal Reaction Norms.

Methods

• A Need for the Use of a Standard Protocol for Waist Circumference Measurement Across Studies.
• Skin Test Using Sterile Tape Uncovers Food Sensitivity.
• Perspective: Dietary Biomarkers of Intake and Exposure—Exploration with Omics Approaches.
• Systematic Review: Computerized Decision Support and Machine Learning Applications for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
• Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Heart Rate Variability During Continuous Incremental Exercise Test in Subjects with Obesity.

Commentary

• Muscle or Nothing! Where Is the Excess Protein Going in Men with High Protein Intakes Engaged in Strength Training?
• Maintaining It After Losing It: Advantage Protein!
• Microbial Signatures in Metabolic Tissues: A Novel Paradigm for Obesity and Diabetes?
• Homework: A Natural Experiment in Lifestyle Changes.
• Keep Your Powder Dry!
• The Geography of Loneliness. Part I: Our Human Need for Relationships with Others—some Definitions.
• The Biology of Loneliness Part 2: The Physical and Psychological Consequences of Loneliness and Isolation.
• COVID-19 and the Patient with Obesity – the Editors Speak Out.

General

• Factors Influencing Infant Sex Ratio in Howler Monkeys (Alouatta Spp.): A Literature Review and Analysis.
• Predictors of Tick Exposure Risk-Reduction Behavior in Indiana.
• RCT: "Badges did not noticeably motivate researchers who published in BMJ Open to share their data."
• Striking 20-year Grasshopper Declines Tied to Quality of Prairie Grasses.
• Sleep Across Early Childhood: Implications for Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, Socioemotional Skills, and Cognitive and Academic Abilities in Preschool.
• Seven Sound Strategies for Taming Coronavirus Anxiety.
• Statistical Review of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin as a Treatment of COVID-19: Results of an Open-label Non-randomized Clinical Trial.
• Some Recommendations for Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials, with Application to Coronavirus.
• When Science Needs Self-Correcting.
• How the Pandemic Will End.

Announcements

• Webinar March 27: COVID-19 Meets Metabesity: Nexus between Pandemics and Age-Related Diseases.
• To Be Rescheduled: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 8-12, 2020 in Chicago, IL.
• UAB's NORC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical 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 and Nutrition Research Domain.