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• "None of the included studies reported on ...body weight/BMI/obesity...outcomes" in systematic review of the effect of policies to restrict the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to which children are exposed.
• Applying Mendelian Randomization to Appraise Causality in Relationships between Nutrition and Cancer.
• BSCL2/Seipin Deficiency in Hearts Causes Cardiac Energy Deficit and Dysfunction Via Inducing Excessive Lipid Catabolism.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Spouse’s Diet Affects Health of Pregnant Women and Future Children: Study.
• Headline: Expectant Dads' Diet During Pregnancy Has Lasting Impact on Future Health of Unborn Child, Study Finds.
• Study: No Associations Were Even Tested (Let Alone Effects Established) between Self-Reported Partner Diets 22 Weeks Into Gestation and Mother or Child Health.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of Experiential Healthy Meal Preparation on Weight Status Among Children.
• Leptin Does Not Influence TSH Levels in Obese Short Children.
• RCT: "Significant increases in TMV [total muscle volume] with ACE-083 versus placebo did not result in consistent functional or PRO improvements with up to 12 months' treatment."
• Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies: "Our results suggest that higher egg consumption is associated with a lower probability of having MetS in the adult population."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Web-Based, Guided Self-Help Intervention Based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) That Aims to Support Adults with Overweight and Obesity on Weight Gain.
• No Significant Effects of Social Pressure on Implicit and Explicit Measures of Food Experience.
• Meta-Analysis: "The results showed that different protocols of exercise intervention or diets were not effective to reduce body weight in patients with SLE [lupus]."

Basic

• Deletion of LDLRAP1 Induces Atherosclerotic Plaque Formation, Insulin Resistance, and Dysregulated Insulin Response in Adipose Tissue.
• Genistein Alleviates High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity by Inhibiting the Process of Gluconeogenesis in Mice.
• Independent and Interactive Effects of Genetic Background and Sex on Tissue Metabolomes of Adipose, Skeletal Muscle, and Liver in Mice.
• FKBP5/FKBP51 on Weight Watch: Central FKBP5 Links Regulatory WIPI Protein Networks to Autophagy and Metabolic Control.
• Changes in Gut Microbiota, Metabolite SCFAs, and GPR43 Expression in Obese Diabetic Mice After Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• The Role of Circulating MiRNAs in Leptin Resistance in Children with Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Impact of Daily High Dose Oral Vitamin D Therapy on the Inflammatory Markers in Patients with COVID 19 Disease.
• Retraction Watch: COVID-19-Vitamin D Paper Retracted by Springer Nature Journal.

Clinical

• Obesity-Related Gastrointestinal Disorders.
• Clinical Evaluation, Lifestyle, and Pharmacological Management of Obesity.
• Obesity, Diabetes, and Cancer: The Role of the Insulin/IGF Axis; Mechanisms and Clinical Implications.
• Revisiting the Principles of [Organ] Preservation in an Era of Pandemic Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Heterogeneity in Place Effects on Health: The Case of Time Preferences and Adolescent Obesity.
• RCT: The Effect of an Active Video Game Intervention Combined with Multicomponent Exercise on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children with Overweight and Obesity.
• Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Childhood Obesity: The Role of School Segregation.
• Meta-Analysis: Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Intake and the Risk of Obesity in Children: An Updated Systematic Review and Dose–response Meta-Analysis.
• Dissertation: Low Income African American Parents Experiences Managing Obese Young Children Weight Loss.
• Longitudinal Association between the Timing of Adiposity Peak and Rebound and Overweight at Seven Years of Age.
• The Prospective Relation between Eating Behaviors and BMI from Middle Childhood to Adolescence: A 5-Wave Community Study.
• Prenatal and Childhood Exposure to Chlordecone and Adiposity of Seven-Year-Old Children.
• Systems Biology Approach Identifies Key Genes and Related Pathways in Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Sex Differences in Response to Lifestyle Intervention Among Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Appetite Changes in Weight Regain and Weight Maintenance After Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Long-Term Comparative Effectiveness of Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy on Use of Antireflux Medication: A Difference-In-Differences Analysis.
• Longitudinal Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Retinal Microcirculation and Target Organ Damage.
• Alteration of Ileal LncRNAs After Duodenal–Jejunal Bypass Is Associated with Regulation of Lipid and Amino Acid Metabolism.
• National Trends and Outcomes in Adolescents Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Highlights of Mechanisms and Treatment of Obesity-Related Hypertension.
• Towards Mesoporous Silica as a Pharmaceutical Treatment for Obesity - Impact on Lipid Digestion and Absorption.
• Weight Regain and Cardiometabolic Effects After Withdrawal of Semaglutide: The STEP 1 Trial Extension.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Association between Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: An Updated Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.
• RCT: Early Time-Restricted Eating Compared with Daily Caloric Restriction in Adults with Obesity.
• Interactions between Red and Processed Meat Consumption and APOA5 Gene Variants Associated with the Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Adults.
• Review: The Effect of Plant-Based Diets on Meta-Inflammation and Associated Cardiometabolic Disorders.
• Effect of Red Beetroot Juice on Oxidative Status and Islet Insulin Release in Adult Male Rats.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Caloric Restriction on Hypertension.
• RCT: Calorie Restriction with or Without Time-Restricted Eating in Weight Loss.
• Calorie Restriction-Regulated Molecular Pathways and Its Impact on Various Age Groups: An Overview.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Latin Dancing to Increase Physical Activity in Spanish-Speaking Older Latinos.
• Editorial: Strength and Conditioning in Schools: A Strategy to Optimise Health, Fitness and Physical Activity in Youths.
• Maintenance of Exercise Habit and Its Impact on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Previously Sedentary People: A 7-Year Follow-Up.
• Dose-Response Association between Step Count and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Markers in Middle-Aged Adults.
• Meta-Analysis: Interventions for Health-Related Physical Fitness and Overweight and Obesity in Children with Intellectual Disability.

Economics & Sociology

• Effects of Social Control on Eating and Relational Behaviors in Romantic Relationships.
• Preprint: Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Factors Moderate the Mitigating Role of Physical Activity in the Relative Age Effect.
• Thesis: Potential Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Complications Associated with Obesity in Adult Women in the United States.
• Individual and Neighborhood Influences on the Relationship between Waist Circumference and Coronary Heart Disease in the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Study.
• Spatial Distribution of Sedentary Behavior and Unhealthy Eating Habits in Belo Horizonte, Brazil: The Role of the Neighborhood Environment.
• Dissertation: Acculturation and Emotional Eating Among Arabic Middle Eastern Women in the United States.

Epidemiology

• The Relationship between Lower Extremity Amputation and BMI.
• Lifestyle, High BMI, and Markers of Socioeconomic Conditions Associated with Multimorbidity in Women.
• Optimal Cut-Off Points of Fat Mass Index and Visceral Adiposity Index Associated with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Abdominal Obesity-Related Lipid Metabolites May Mediate the Association between Obesity and Glucose Dysregulation.
• Relationship between Gestational BMI Change and the Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Community-Based Retrospective Study of 41,845 Pregnant Women.
• The Effect of Maternal United States Nativity on Racial/Ethnic Differences in Fetal Growth.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Review: Metabolic Factors in the Regulation of Hypothalamic Innate Immune Responses in Obesity.
• Review: Developmental Programming of Hypothalamic Melanocortin Circuits.

Equity and Disparities

• Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Consumption of Minimally Processed and Ultra-Processed Foods in Brazilian Adolescents.
• Evaluating the Relationships between Sexual Orientation, Weight-Related Teasing, Weight Bias Internalization, and Binge Eating.
• Race, Ethnicity, and Age Differences in Social Relationships and Obesity: Findings from the National Survey of American Life.

Stigma

• Change in Weight-Based Bias over a Decade: A Longitudinal Nationally Representative Survey.
• Pervasiveness, Impact and Implications of Weight Stigma.

Policy Related

• Associations between College/University Physical Activity Requirements and Student Physical Activity.
• Perspective: Early Life Nutrition Research Supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health from 2018-2020.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal High-Fat Diet Consumption During Pregnancy and Lactation Predisposes Offspring to Renal and Metabolic Injury Later in Life: Comparative Study of Diets with Different Lipid Contents.
• Maternal High-Fructose Intake Activates Myogenic Program in Fetal Brown Fat and Predisposes Offspring to Diet-Induced Metabolic Dysfunctions in Adulthood.
• Prenatal Exposure to Multiple Organochlorine Compounds and Childhood BMI.
• Maternal Obesity During Pregnancy Leads to Derangements in One-Carbon Metabolism and the Gut Microbiota: Implications for Fetal Development and Offspring Wellbeing.
• Maternal Lipid Profile in Pregnancy and Embryonic Size.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Metabolic Cost of Thermoregulation Decreases After the Molt in Developing Weddell Seal Pups.
• Thesis: The Oestrus Cycle Does Not Affect Meal Patterning in Wistar Rats in High and Low-Fat Diets.

Methods

• Feasibility and Measurement Error in Using Food Supply Data to Estimate Diet Costs in Canada.
• The Impact of Measurement Errors on Dietary Pattern Analysis: A Simulation Study Based on Dietary Data from the China Multi-Ethnic Cohort (CMEC) Study.

Commentary

• How Deadly Is Type 2 Diabetes?
• Obesity in Older Adults: Lifespan and Healthspan.
• Can a Father’s Metformin Cause Birth Defects in His Sons?
• Webcast: What Causes Heart Disease?
• Energy Saving Saves Cells.
• A Monthly Consumer Survey Tracks Trends in Food Demand, Satisfaction, Food Security and Other Food Sustainability Behaviors.
• What Is Obesity?
• Intermittent Fasting Strikes Out Again.
• Calorie and Time Restriction in Weight Loss.
• How Much Obesity Do Pesticides Cause?
• Obesity – an Unexplained Epidemic.

General

• Mirror Image Stimulation Could Reverse Social-Isolation-Induced Aggressiveness in the High-Level Subsocial Lactating Spider.
• Reformulation of Trivers–Willard Hypothesis for Parental Investment.
• What Can 200-Year-Old DNA Tell Us About a Murdered French Revolutionary?
• Epigenetic Clock: A Novel Tool for Nutrition Studies of Healthy Ageing.
• The Phenotype of Aging in the Dog: How Aging Impacts the Health and Well-Being of Dogs and Their Caregivers.
• Circadian Disruption of Hippocampus in an Early Senescence Male Mouse Model.
• Milk Consumption in Modern China: Politics of Science, Dietary Health Knowledge, and Identity Building.
• Preprint: Inference for Cluster Randomized Experiments with Non-Ignorable Cluster Sizes.
• A General Pattern of Health Erosion in the United States? An Examination of Self-Reported Health Status from 1997 - 2018.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Improving Muscle Endurance to Age Better.
• Podcast: Why Is Inflammation a Dangerous Necessity?

Announcements

• Dr. Mike Saag Reflects on His UAB Career.
• Applications Open: 2022 Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research Short Course. Priority Application by May 17.
• Applications Open: 2022 Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research Short Course. Priority Application by June 17.
• The Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Invites Applications to Its Inaugural Mentored Editorship Program.