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• RCT: "Interestingly, weight, length, and ponderal index greatly increased in omega 3-treated neonates compared to the control group."
• RCT: The Impact of Altering Restaurant and Menu Option Position on Food Selected from an Experimental Food Delivery Platform.
• Hypoxia Promotes White Adipose Tissues Browning in Rats Under Simulated Environment at Altitude of 5000 M.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners. (Article heading: "Deadly long-term consequences").
• WHO Meta-Analysis: "While results of randomized controlled trials have generally suggested non-sugar sweeteners may have little impact on glucose metabolism and result in lower body weight when coupled with energy restriction in the short-term, there is no clear consensus on whether non-sugar sweeteners are effective for long-term weight loss or maintenance, or if they are linked to other long-term health effects at intakes within the ADI."
• Critique: “Deadly Long-Term Consequences” of Sweeteners?

Contrary or Null Findings

• Meta-Analysis: "...increasing the consumption of vegetable, including all vegetable (RR = 0.95, 95% CI = 0.87-1.03), starchy vegetable (RR = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.82-1.26), and fruit juice (RR = 0.97, 95% CI = 0.91-1.04) was not associated with a reduction in the risk of GDM."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on Growth of Late Preterm Infants Fed Nutrient-Enriched Formula to 120 Days Corrected Age.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Effect of Green-Lipped Mussel (Perna canaliculus) Supplementation on Faecal Microbiota, Body Composition and Iron Status Markers in Postmenopausal Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: A Single Dose of Aged Garlic Extract Did Not Change Cerebral Oxygenation and Blood Volume in Older Adults at Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
• RCT: High-Intensity Exercise Does Not Protect Against Orthostatic Intolerance Following Bedrest in 55- to 65-Yr-Old Men and Women.
• Preprint: RCT: No Significant Effect on Weight in Primary Care Delivery of Behavioral Weight Loss Services for Adults with Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
• Phenological Overlap of Terrestrial and Marine Food Resources Did Not Reduce Salmon Consumption by Kodiak Brown Bears.
• Constitutive Immune Function Is Not Associated with Fuel Stores in Spring Migrating Passerine Birds.

Basic

• Differential Remodeling of Subcutaneous White and Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue by Long-Term Exercise Training in Aged Obese Female Mice.
• Betaine–Homocysteine Methyltransferase Promotes Adipocyte Commitment and Insulin Resistance Via P38 MAPK/Smad Signaling.
• 5-Heptadecylresorcinol Alleviated High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance by Activating Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Circadian PER1 Controls Daily Fat Absorption with the Regulation of PER1-PKA on Phosphorylation of Bile Acid Synthetase.
• Effect of High-Refined Carbohydrate Diet on Intestinal Integrity.
• Dissertation: Investigating the Regulation of Aerobic Glycolysis in Drosophila melanogaster.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Video: "Nutrition science is entirely unreliable"
• PubPeer Comment On: Splenda Alters Gut Microflora and Increases Intestinal P-Glycoprotein and Cytochrome P-450 in Male Rats.
• Critique of a Study on the Cognitive Effects of Wine and Cheese.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Motivational Interviewing in Pediatric Obesity.
• RCT: Effect of High Intensity Interval Training on Arterial Stiffness in Women with Obesity and Hypertension.
• RCT: A Nurse-Led Intervention in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Investigating the Efficacy and Feasibility of Using a Whole-Of-Diet Approach to Lower Circulating Levels of C-Reactive Protein in Postmenopausal Women: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Behavior Change Techniques That Prevent or Decrease Obesity in Youth with a Low Socioeconomic Status.
• RCT: A High Protein Diet Is Associated with Improved Glycemic Control Following Exercise Among Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes.
• The Effect of Prepregnancy Obesity on Breast Milk Fatty Acids and the Relationship of Breast Milk Fatty Acids with Maternal Diet and Infant Growth.
• Maternal Predictors of Breast Milk Plasmalogens and Associations with Infant Body Composition and Neurodevelopment.
• Neonatal Birthweight, Infant Feeding, and Childhood Metabolic Markers.
• Exposure to Gestational Diabetes and BMI Trajectories Through Adolescence: Exploring Perinatal Outcomes in Children Study.
• Reducing BMI Below the Obesity Threshold in Adolescents Treated with Once-Weekly Subcutaneous Semaglutide 2.4 mg.
• Comparison of Nutrition Profiling Models for Food Marketing Regulation.
• Review: Child and Adolescent Obesity.

Surgery

• Neural Correlates of Decreased Impulsivity During Delay Discounting Task After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Preprint: Calorie Restriction Outperforms Bariatric Surgery in a Murine Model of Obesity and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

Drugs

• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Oral Small Molecule Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist Danuglipron for Glycemic Control Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association of High BMI with Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Young, First-Episode and Drug-Naïve Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: A Large-Scale Cross-Sectional Study.
• The Role of Chitosan-Based Nanoparticles to Reduce Obesity: A Glimpse.
• A Review of Antiobesity Drug Therapy.
• Liraglutide Versus Semaglutide for Weight Reduction—A Cost Needed to Treat Analysis.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Comparing Very Low-Carbohydrate vs DASH Diets for Adults with Hypertension, Overweight or Obesity, and Prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes.
• A South Asian Mediterranean-Style Diet Is Associated with Favorable Adiposity Measures and Lower Diabetes Risk: The MASALA Cohort.
• International Food Information Council's 2023 Food and Health Survey Results. (PDF)
• The Association of Obesity-Related Dietary Patterns and Main Food Groups Derived by Reduced-Rank Regression with Cardiovascular Diseases Incidence and All-Cause Mortality: Findings from 116,711 Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• The African Killifish: A Short-Lived Vertebrate Model to Study the Biology of Sarcopenia and Longevity.
• Sleeve Gastrectomy Causes Weight-Loss Independent Improvements in Hepatic Steatosis.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: High-Intensity Interval Training and Cardiometabolic Health in the General Population.
• Acute Effects of Intense Interval Versus Aerobic Exercise on Children's Behavioral and Neuroelectric Measures of Inhibitory Control.
• Dissertation: Supporting Dog Physical Activity by Social Comparison of Objective Dog Walking Behavior.
• Hyperoxia-Induced Stepwise Reduction in Blood Flow Through Intrapulmonary, but not Intracardiac, Shunt During Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Paternal Life Course Effects on Son’s Heights Outcomes in the Netherlands 1820-1960.
• The Impact of Retirement on BMI in China: An Empirical Study Based on Regression Discontinuity Design.

Epidemiology

• The Prevalence and Determinant of Overweight and Obesity Among Residents Aged 40–69 Years in High-Risk Regions for Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer in Southeast China.
• Adiposity Is Associated with Widespread Transcriptional Changes and Downregulation of Longevity Pathways in Aged Skeletal Muscle.
• Review: The Epidemiology of Obesity: A Big Picture.
• Difference of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism Abnormalities and Body Fat between the Chinese and USA Teenagers.
• AI-Based CT Body Composition Identifies Myosteatosis as Key Mortality Predictor in Asymptomatic Adults.
• Genetic Associations between Modifiable Risk Factors and Alzheimer Disease.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity Is a Misnomer: Components of the Metabolic Syndrome Linearly Increase with BMI as a Function of Age and Gender.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Psychological Support Strategies for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in a Very Low–Carbohydrate Web-Based Program.
• Hypothalamic and Brainstem Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor Neurons Employ Distinct Mechanisms to Affect Feeding.
• Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods Is Associated with Depression, Mesocorticolimbic Volume, and Inflammation.

Equity and Disparities

• Growing Up Unequal: Disparities of Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Indonesia’s 514 Districts.
• Inequality, Stress, and Obesity: Socioeconomic Disparities in the Short- and Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Thesis: Nuevamexicanas and Food Insecurity: A Case Study of Northeastern New Mexico.
• Novel Differentially Methylated Regions Identified by Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Analyses Contribute to Racial Disparities in Childhood Obesity.

Stigma

• RCT: Long-Term Effects of an Internalized Weight Stigma Intervention.
• The Research on the Construction of Obesity Stigmatization Issues in the British Paper Media in the Context of Frame Theory. (PDF)
• Perspective: Fatima Cody Stanford: Changing the Narrative on Obesity.

Policy Related

• Effects of Race-Specific Prevalence and Racial Disparity Information About Obesity and Diabetes.
• Awareness, Use and Understanding of Nutrition Labels Among Children and Youth from Six Countries: Findings from the 2019 – 2020 International Food Policy Study.
• Towards Healthy Food Retail: An Assessment of Public Health Nutrition Workforce Capacity to Work with Stores.
• Multisectoral Strategies Needed to Establish Healthy Portion Size Norms That Disincentivize Hyperpalatable, Energy-Dense Foods and Sugary Beverages in Food Environments Linked to Obesity and Diet-Related Chronic Diseases in the United States.

Intergenerational Effects

• Infant Obesity Prevention Programs for Underrepresented Mothers in a Home Visiting Program: A Qualitative and Community-Engaged Needs Assessment.
• Metabolic Effects of Early Life Stress and Pre-Pregnancy Obesity are Long-Lasting and Sex-Specific in Mice.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Social Determinants of Health and Survival in Humans and Other Animals.
• Obesity: An Evolutionary View. (PDF)
• Does the Temperature–Size Rule Apply to Marine Protozoans?

Methods

• Key Considerations for Designing, Conducting and Analysing a Cluster Randomized Trial.
• Tutorial: Estimating Intra-Cluster Correlation Coefficients for Planning Longitudinal Cluster Randomized Trials.

Commentary

• How Much of a Role Does Genetics Play in Obesity?.
• Hibernating Bears Could Hold a Clue to Treating Diabetes.
• The Weird Truth About Calories and Why Food Labels Get Them So Wrong.
• Obesity and Gastrointestinal Cancer: A Life Course Perspective.
• ECO2023: Ready for a Rethink of Prevention?
• Preprint: Guidelines for Prevention and the Contrast of Overweight and Obesity: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.
• Obesity and Prostate Cancer — Microenvironmental Roles of Adipose Tissue.

General

• Is Spending Nights Away from Home Associated with Participation and Life Satisfaction After Spinal Cord Injury? A Longitudinal Perspective.
• Meowing Dogs: Can Dogs Recognize Cats in a Cross-Modal Violation of Expectancy Task (Canis familiaris)?
• Labour's Pain: Strenuous Subsistence Work, Mechanical Wear-And-Tear and Musculoskeletal Pain in a Non-Industrialized Population.
• Sibling Competition, Dispersal and Fitness Outcomes in Humans.
• Enhancing Trust in Science and Democracy in an Age of Misinformation.
• Dissertation: Brand Mark Comprehension: The Influence of Athlete Logo Understanding on Consumer Evaluations of Athlete Brands.
• Association of Pork (All Pork, Fresh Pork and Processed Pork) Consumption with Nutrient Intakes and Adequacy in US Children (Age 2–18 Years) and Adults (Age 19+ Years): NHANES 2011–2018 Analysis.
• The Health Care Dangers of a Debt Default.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Latest Therapeutics in CVD, APOE’s Role in Alzheimer’s Disease and CVD, Familial Hypercholesterolemia, and More.

Announcements

• Webinar: Data Management and Sharing: New NIH Policies and How They Can Benefit Your Aging-Related Research Wednesday, June 21 from 11am-12pm ET.
• 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.