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• Chow Diet in Mouse Aging Studies: Nothing Regular About It.
• Ambient and Substrate Energy Influence Decomposer Diversity Differentially Across Trophic Levels.
• Obesity Wars: May the Smell Be with You.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Ear Acupuncture Using Tiny Beads May Help Overweight People Easily Lose Weight.
• Meeting Abstract: Metal beads were placed on six points of the outer ear... plus "Participants were also asked to halve their total food intake during the three-month treatment period and keep a record of their meals in food diaries." No control group mentioned.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to expectations, higher nudge acceptance resulted in more calories purchased."
• RCT: "At 66 months, no significant treatment effects were observed on BMI..." in NET-Works paediatric obesity prevention trial: 66 month outcomes.
• "Unexpectedly, 8 weeks after colonisation, we observed opposing liver phenotypes dependent on the housing environment of mice. ...These phenotypic differences were associated with housing-specific profiles of colonising bacterial in the gut and of faecal metabolites."
• "Surprisingly, in spite of the general endothelial dysfunction in T2DM, the endothelial NOS-mediated vasorelaxant effect of SMase was markedly enhanced" in mice.
• "…upon activation of ß-adrenergic receptors in vivo, ATGLAdpKO mice unexpectedly exhibited significantly higher levels of circulating FABP4 as compared to ATGLfl/fl controls, despite no corresponding induction of lipolysis.”
• "The lack of difference in RMRmin and MMR between long- and short-distance migrants during this stage of migration suggests that the attributes favouring the greater aerobic endurance of long-distance migrants did not come at the expense of increased maintenance costs or require greater aerobic capacity" in birds.
• "Contrary to most previous findings, we observed that overweight status (including obesity) has more detrimental effects on reading achievement in boys than in girls..." (pdf)
• RCT: "Comparing the obesity prevalence rate among White Americans to that of Black Americans increased support for policies to reduce racial health disparities, but also made Black respondents less likely to cut calories."
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Consuming Almonds or Biscuits on Body Weight in Habitual Snackers After One Year.

Basic

• How Do Engineered Yarrowia lipolytica Strains Secrete Free Fatty Acids: Hints from Comparative Transcriptomics.
• Differential Alternative Polyadenylation Response to High-Fat Diet between Polygenic Obese and Healthy Lean Mice.
• Genetically Prolonged Beige Fat in Male Mice Confers Long-Lasting Metabolic Health.
• N-Carbamoyl Aspartate Reduced Body Weight by Stimulating the Thermogenesis of IBAT.
• Effects of Thermoneutrality on Food Intake, Body Weight, and Body Composition in a Prader-Willi Syndrome Mouse Model.
• The Effect of 8 Weak HIIT Training on Adiponectin Gene Expression in Obese Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "...more rigorous multicenter prospective studies with large samples are needed to explore the optimal ratios for specific dietary programs, especially macronutrients, to achieve satisfactory nutritional support and improve patient prognosis" for treating burn patients.
• Assumptions of Quasi-Experimental and Simulation Modelling Methods in Policy Evaluations Should Be Credible, Rigorously Tested and Transparently Communicated.

Clinical

• Changes in Prediabetes Status Among Adults During a Six-Month RCT with Nutrition and Lifestyle Counselling and Six-Month Follow-Up. (pdf)
• Association between ß-Hydroxybutyrate Plasma Concentrations After Hypocaloric Ketogenic Diets and Changes in Body Composition.
• RCT: Macadamia Nut Effects on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Calorie Restriction in Comparison to Usual Diet or Usual Care on Remission of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Therapy in People with Obesity Restores Natural Killer Cell Metabolism and Effector Function.

Children and Adolescents

• Child Bodyweight, Cognitive Abilities, and Well-Being: Evidence from West Bank Schools.
• RCT: Effects of a Theory-Based, Multicomponent EHealth Intervention for Obesity Prevention in Young Children from Low-Income Families.

Surgery

• Meta-Analysis: Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Risk.
• Global Trends in BMS Research Using Publication as a Surrogate Marker: A 30 Year Review.
• RCT: Long Biliopancreatic Limb Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Versus One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass.
• Safety and Effect of Bariatric Metabolic Surgeries for Psychiatric Patients with Obesity: A Retrospective Matched Case–Control Trial.
• Mid-Term Outcomes After Single Anastomosis Sleeve Ileal (SASI) Bypass in Treatment of Morbid Obesity.

Drugs

• Lacticaseibacillus paracasei AO356 Ameliorates Obesity by Regulating Adipogenesis and Thermogenesis in C57BL/6J Male Mice.
• Liraglutide in Combination with Insulin Has a Superior Therapeutic Effect to Either Alone on Fracture Healing in Diabetic Rats.
• Video: Obesity Treatment Could Offer Dramatic Weight Loss Without Surgery or Nausea.
• After Weight Loss, Alzheimer's May Be Next Frontier for Drugs Like Ozempic.
• RCT: Feasibility of High-Dose Tadalafil and Effects on Insulin Resistance in Well-Controlled Patients with Type 2 Diabetes (MAKROTAD).

Food & Diet

• RCT: Beetroot Juice Ingestion Does Not Improve Neuromuscular Performance and Match-Play Demands in Elite Female Hockey Players.
• Review: Effect of Fermentation on the Nutritional Quality of the Selected Vegetables and Legumes and Their Health Effects.
• Healthiness and Environmental Impact of Dinner Recipes Vary Widely Across Developed Countries.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Dairy Intake on Markers of Cardiometabolic Health in Adults.
• Meta-Analysis: Soluble Fiber Supplementation and Serum Lipid Profile.
• Perilla, Sunflower, and Tea Seed Oils as Potential Dietary Supplements with Anti-Obesity Effects by Modulating the Gut Microbiota Composition in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Dietary Protein Requirements and Recommendations for Healthy Older Adults: A Critical Narrative Review of the Scientific Evidence.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction Mitigates Metabolic, Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Cafeteria Diet in Aged Male Rats.
• Western Diet Unmasks Transient Low-Level Vinyl Chloride-Induced Tumorigenesis; Potential Role of the (epi-)transcriptome.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training Versus Moderate-Intensity Interval Training: Effects on Cardiometabolic Factors in Spanish Adults with Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Reducing Sedentary Behavior on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.

Economics & Sociology

• Processed Foods, Socio-Economic Status, and Peri-Urban Obesity in India.
• Systematic Review: Impact of Front-Of-Pack Nutrition Labelling in Consumer Understanding and Use Across Socio-Economic Status.
• Thesis: Do Longitudinal Trends in Caloric Intake Vary by Income, Education, or Race?

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in South Asia: A Narrative Review.
• Body Weight and Fat Trajectories of Black and White Women in the First Postpartum Year.
• Association between Different Metabolic Phenotypes of Obesity and Thyroid Disorders Among Chinese Adults: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study.
• Associations of Multiple Sleep Dimensions with Overall and Abdominal Obesity Among Children and Adolescents: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.
• Total Energy Expenditure as Assessed by Doubly Labeled Water and All-Cause Mortality in a Cohort of Postmenopausal Women.
• Life Course BMI Trajectories from Childhood to Mid-Adulthood are Differentially Associated with Anxiety and Depression Outcomes in Middle Age.
• Epidemiology of Diabetes and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Among Asian American Adults: Implications, Management, and Future Directions: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.
• Heterogeneity in the Effect of Marked Weight Loss on Metabolic Function in Women with Obesity.
• The Association of Impulsivity with Effects of the ChooseWell 365 Workplace Nudge Intervention on Diet and Weight.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Preprint Meta-Analysis: Effects of Episodic Future Thinking in Health Behaviour for Weight Loss.
• Scoping Review: The Relationship of Ketogenic Diet with Neurodegenerative and Psychiatric Diseases.
• Preprint: The Role of Child Abuse on the Risk for Major Depression Conferred by BMI in Adulthood.

Equity and Disparities

• Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, and Adiposity.
• Geographic Differences in the Magnitude of Black-White Disparities in Having Obesity.

Ethics

• Abstract: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Paediatric Bariatric Surgery.
• Exploring the Potential of Chat GPT in Personalized Obesity Treatment.

Stigma

• Family-Based Weight Stigma and Psychosocial Health: A Multinational Comparison.
• Prejudice Associated with Weight Images in Health Communication in the Social Networks.

Policy Related

• Improvements in School Food Offerings over Time: Variation by School Characteristics.
• Population-Level Policy Recommendations for the Prevention of Disordered Weight Control Behaviors: A Scoping Review.
• RCT: Effects of Sugary Beverage Text and Pictorial Warnings.
• “A Growing Relationship”: Cultivating Organizational Readiness to Influence Implementation of Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) Change Programming in SNAP-Ed Funded School-Community Partnerships.
• Toward a New Definition of “Healthy” Food: Issues and Challenges.
• Influence of the Food Industry: The Food Environment and Nutrition Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Cardiovascular Disorders Before and During Pregnancy and Offspring Cardiovascular Risk Across the Life Course.
• Systematic Review: The Relationship between Parent Anxiety Symptomatology and Feeding Behaviors.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Warmer and More Acidic Conditions Enhance Performance of an Endemic Low Shore Gastropod.
• What Made These Prehistoric ‘Thunder Beasts’ So Big?

Methods

• Novel Approaches to Examining Weight Changes in Pregnancies Affected by Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Brown Fat Detection by Infrared Thermography—An Invaluable Research Methodology with Noteworthy Uncertainties Confirmed by a Mathematical Proof.
• A Mathematical Analysis on the Obesity and Diabetes Model.

Commentary

• Cheers for Banning Weight Discrimination in NYC.
• The Metabolic Syndrome in Subjects with and without Obesity: A Reappraisal of the Syndrome X of Reaven.
• Preoccupation with Food Overshadows Sleep.
• Design of Novel Therapeutics Targeting the Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor (GIPR) to Aid Weight Loss.
• Hammerhead Sharks Hold Their Breath When Diving to Regulate Body Temperature.
• Editorial: Natural Polyphenols and Metabolic Syndrome.
• "Insurance plans that impose mandated supervised weight management programs on patients for a specific time before the performance of metabolic surgery do not provide any additional benefit for patients....[and]...disproportionately affect Black patients..."
• The Complex Interplay between Imbalanced Mitochondrial Dynamics and Metabolic Disorders in Type 2 Diabetes.

General

• SpaceX Explosion Damages Environment around Launch Site.
• Are Phages a New Page in Medicine?
• Hospitalization for Infection Linked to Higher Dementia Risk.
• Exercise Science and the Singing Voice.
• Preprint: Data Is [are] Not Available upon Request.
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is the Idea That Incompetent People are the Last to Realize It. Now We’re Realizing That Could Be Wrong.
• Taking the Long View: The Role of Replication in Research.
• Development and Validation of a Model for Measuring Alcohol Consumption from Transdermal Alcohol Content Data Among College Students.

Announcements

• First Graduate of Food Studies Master’s Program Reveals Scale of Food Waste.
• Professor Heather Eicher-Miller Won the 2023 Danone International Prize for Alimentation.
• Registration Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, June 26th to June 30th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Registration Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, July 31st to August 4th in Person at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.