Featured

• RCT: Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drink Consumption Acutely Modifies Cardiovascular Control in Healthy Adults.
• Low-Energy Sweeteners and Body Weight: A Citation Network Analysis. (pdf)
• Characteristics and Quality of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Observational Nutritional Epidemiology: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• RCT: Lesser Mealworm- Appears Equally Effective as Milk-Derived Protein … During Recovery from Exercise in Vivo in Humans.

Headline vs Study

• Press Release: Study Helps Latino Children Manage Obesity over Two Years.
• Study: The Community-Based, Multi-Level, Multi-Setting, Multi-Component Systems Intervention Did Not Reduce BMI Trajectory over Three Years Versus Health Education, the Primary Outcome.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Fast food, supermarkets, other aspects of built environments don’t play expected role in weight gain."
• RCT: No Effect of Resveratrol in Patients with Mitochondrial Myopathy.
• RCT: Short-Term Protein Supplementation Does Not Alter Energy Intake, Macronutrient Intake and Appetite in 50–75 Year Old Adults.
• Pre-Pregnancy BMI Does Not Impact Live Birth Rate After Frozen-Thawed Euploid Embryo Transfer: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Short Term Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Therapy Does Not Influence Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Loss of Female Sex Hormones Does Not Induce a Mechanistic Switch for Development of Hypertension in Obese Female Mice.
• RCT: Exercise Intervention Iatrogenically Increased Symptom Burden in Adult Patients with Acute Leukemia.
• RCT: No Significant Effect on BMI of Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Intervention in Pregnancy for Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Very Low-Carbohydrate Vs. High-Carbohydrate Weight Loss Diets on Psychological Health in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Basic

• Mice Lacking Endogenous TRPV1 Express Reduced Levels of Thermogenic Proteins and are Susceptible to Diet-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Peripheral-Specific Y1 Receptor Antagonism Increases Thermogenesis and Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity.
• On the Potential Role of Globins in Brown Adipose Tissue: A Novel Conceptual Model and Studies in Myoglobin Knockout Mice.
• Myosin 1c; A Novel Regulator of Glucose Uptake in Brown Adipocytes.
• Preconceptional Smoking Alters Spermatozoal MiRNAs of Murine Fathers and Affects Offspring’s Body Weight.
• Aging Reduces Insulin Clearance in Mice.
• Gut Microbiome Contributions to Altered Metabolism in a Pig Model of Undernutrition.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Preprint: Evidence of Misuse of Nonparametric Tests in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity Within Obesity Research.
• Article: Individuals with Obesity and COVID-19: A Global Perspective on the Epidemiology and Biological Relationships.
• Letter: Impact of Obesity on COVID-19-related Mortality: A Comment on Estimates in Popkin et al. 2020.
• Response: To Critique of “Impact of Obesity on COVID-19 Related Mortality: A Comment on Estimates in Popkin et al. (2020)”.
• Letter: COVID-19 and Misinformation: How an Infodemic Fuelled the Prominence of Vitamin D.

Clinical

• RCT: Pharmacokinetics of Orally Administered 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 and Vitamin D3 in Healthy Adults with Differing BMI and in Adults with Intestinal Malabsorption.
• Adipose Tissue Insulin Resistance Is Longitudinally Associated with Adipose Tissue Dysfunction, Circulating Lipids, and Dysglycemia.
• RCT: Effects of Diet and Sodium Reduction on Cardiac Injury, Strain, and Inflammation.
• RCT: Effects of Very Low-Carbohydrate Vs. High-Carbohydrate Weight Loss Diets on Psychological Health in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-Analysis: Associations between BMI and Height During Childhood and Adolescence and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Adulthood.
• European Childhood Obesity Risk Evaluation (CORE) Index Based on Perinatal Factors and Maternal Sociodemographic Characteristics.
• Eating Habits and Lifestyle in Children with Obesity During the COVID19 Lockdown: A Survey in an Italian Center.
• Intention to Lose Weight and Use of Electronic Cigarettes Among Adolescents.
• The “Fat but Fit” Paradigm from a Children's Health-Related Quality of Life Perspective.
• Examination of Weight-Loss Motivators and Family Factors in Relation to Weight Management Strategies and Dietary Behaviors Among Adolescents with Obesity.
• Agent-Oriented Goal Models in Developing Information Systems Supporting Physical Activity Among Adolescents: Literature Review and Expert Interviews.

Surgery

• The Effect of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass on Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal, Nondiabetic Women.
• Review: Place Work on a Scale: What Do We Know About the Association between Employment Status and Weight Loss Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery?
• A BAFF/APRIL Axis Regulates Obesogenic Diet-Driven Weight Gain.

Drugs

• RCT: Metformin Affects Gut Microbiome Composition and Function and Circulating Short-Chain Fatty Acids.
• Future Directions in Obesity Pharmacotherapy.
• An Update on Pharmacotherapeutic Strategies for Obesity.
• N-Acetylcysteine Reduces Addiction-Like Behaviour Towards High-Fat High-Sugar Food in Diet-Induced Obese Rats.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Does Rearranging Meal Times at Night Improve Cardiovascular Risk Factors? A Trial in Australian Night Shift Workers.
• Diet Supplementation with Fish-Derived Extracts Suppresses Diabetes and Modulates Intestinal Microbiome in a Murine Model of Diet-Induced Obesity.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Mulberry Twig Alkaloids Tablet for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Curcumin Alleviates High-Fat Diet-Induced Hepatic Steatosis and Obesity in Association with Modulation of Gut Microbiota in Mice.
• Population Protein Intakes and Food Sustainability Indices: The Metrics Matter.
• Review: Obesity-Induced Taste Dysfunction, and Its Implications for Dietary Intake.
• Effects of Consumption of Acerola, Cashew and Guava By-Products on Adiposity and Redox Homeostasis of Adipose Tissue in Obese Rats.
• Reduction of Cardio-Metabolic Risk and Body Weight Through a Multiphasic Very-Low Calorie Ketogenic Diet Program in Women with Overweight/Obesity: A Study in a Real-World Setting.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effects of Caloric Restriction on Human Physiological, Psychological, and Behavioral Outcomes.
• Taurine Improves Lipid Metabolism and Increases Resistance to Oxidative Stress.
• Caloric Restriction Creates a Metabolic Pattern of Chronological Aging Delay That in Budding Yeast Differs from the Metabolic Design Established by Two Other Geroprotectors.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Resistance Training with and Without Caloric Restriction on Visceral Fat.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Scoping Review: Sedentary Behaviour Research in Adults.
• RCT: Effect of Elastic Band Resistance Training with Green Coffee Extract Supplementation on Adiposity Indices and TyG-Related Indicators in Women with Obesity.
• Joint Association between Accelerometry-Measured Daily Combination of Time Spent in Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep and All-Cause Mortality.

Economics & Sociology

• Daily Associations between Positive Emotion and Obesity-Related Behaviors and Their Interconnections Within Adolescent–Caregiver Dyads.
• Meta-Analysis: Preventing Weight Gain in Adults.
• In Press: A Retrospective Cohort Study Investigating the Impact of Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI on Paediatric Health Service Utilization.

Epidemiology

• Does Weight Loss Reduce the Incidence of Total Knee and Hip Replacement for Osteoarthritis?—A Prospective Cohort Study Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Association of Weight Fluctuation with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Adults Initially with Obesity.
• Systematic Review: The Role of the FTO Gene in the Relationship between Depression and Obesity.
• Leveraging a Founder Population to Identify Novel Rare-Population Genetic Determinants of Lipidome.
• Review: The Triple Health Threat of Diabetes, Obesity, and Cancer—Epidemiology, Disparities, Mechanisms, and Interventions.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Exercise Training on Psychological Outcomes in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• The Relative Reinforcing Value of Cookies Is Higher Among Head Start Preschoolers with Obesity.
• The Relationship between Dietary Fat Intake, Impulsive Choice, and Metabolic Health.
• Do Sleep Quality and Caffeine Consumption Mediate the Relationship between Late Chronotype and BMI?
• Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Initial Weight Loss in a Digital Weight Management Program: A Natural Experiment.
• Extending Expectancy Theory to Food Intake: Effect of a Simulated Fast-Food Restaurant on Highly and Minimally Processed Food Expectancies.

Equity and Disparities

• Dissertation: Cell Phone Use and Adolescent Weight Problems.
• Wealth Index and Other Behavioral and Sociodemographic Characteristics Associated with BMI in Ethiopia.
• Factors Associated with Obesity and Abdominal Obesity Among Malaysian Older Adults.

Ethics

• Equity-Specific Effects of Interventions to Promote Physical Activity Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Results from Applying a Novel Equity-Specific Re-Analysis Strategy.
• The Ups and Downs of Lifestyle Modification: An Existential Journey Among Persons with Severe Obesity.

Stigma

• Dissertation: The Influence of Maternal Body-Shaming Comments and Bodily Shame on Portion Size.
• Comparison of Obstetrician-Gynecologists and Family Physicians Regarding Weight-Related Attitudes, Communication, and Bias.
• Eating and Exercise-Related Correlates of Weight Stigma: A Multinational Investigation.

Policy Related

• Developing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Labels for Young Adults.
• LiveWell in Early Childhood: Results from a Two-Year Pilot Intervention to Improve Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies, Systems and Environments Among Early Childhood Education Programs in South Carolina.
• The Push for Earlier Bariatric Surgery for Adolescents with Severe Obesity.
• California and Federal School Nutrition Policies and Obesity Among Children of Pacific Islander, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Filipino Origins: Interrupted Time Series Analysis.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Does Diet Map with Mortality? Ecological Association of Dietary Patterns with Chronic Disease Mortality.
• The Energetic Function of the Human Foot and Its Muscles During Accelerations and Decelerations.
• Short-Term Responses to a Human-Altered Landscape Do Not Affect Fat Dynamics of a Migratory Ungulate.
• Ancient Human Faeces Reveal Gut Microbes of the Past.

Methods

• The Carbon Isotope Ratios of Nonessential Amino Acids Identify Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Consumers in a 12-Wk Inpatient Feeding Study of 32 Men with Varying SSB and Meat Exposures.
• Are Foods ‘Healthy’ or ‘Healthier’? Front-of-Pack Labelling and the Concept of Healthiness Applied to Foods.
• Image-Based Nutrient Estimation for Chinese Dishes Using Deep Learning.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Measuring and Modeling Energy and Power Consumption in Living Microbial Cells with a Synthetic ATP Reporter.
• New Recommendations for Statistical Reporting in Cardiovascular Medicine (AHA Scientific Publishing Committee Statistics Task Force).

Commentary

• After the Pandemic: New Approaches to Obesity Management?
• "In an effort to encourage more sustainable cooking, we won’t be publishing new beef recipes on Epicurious."
• Reversing Policy Neglect in U.S. Physical Education: A Policy-Focused Primer.
• Public Health Decisions are Made at the Tails of the Distribution: A Novel Tool to Estimate Usual Intake Distributions from Short-Term Dietary Assessment Methods.
• "No, obesity did not reduce the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in clinical trials."
• Five Myths About Obesity.
• Prospects for Pairing Endoscopy with Semaglutide.
• Normal Weight Obesity and Unaddressed Cardiometabolic Health Risk—a Narrative Review.

General

• Breast Milk MSCs Upregulated β-Cells PDX1, Ngn3, and PCNA Expression Via Remodeling ER Stress /Inflammatory /Apoptotic Signaling Pathways in Type 1 Diabetic Rats.
• An Independent Experiment Does Not Support Stress-Mediated Kin Discrimination Through Red Squirrel Vocalizations.
• Perceived Fatigue Does Not Alter Effort-Based Decision Making, but Does Undermine Confidence in the Ability to Perform Physical Actions.
• Natural Reproductive Performance Is Associated with Captive Management in Adult Male Giant Pandas.
• Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras are Living Proof.
• "Watch Dr. Jane Goodall's Beautiful Reflection on the 'Spiritual Power' of the Rainforest."
• Robotic Hand Augmentation Drives Changes in Neural Body Representation.
• Shining a Light on the Impacts of Our Innovations.

Video & Audio

• Methodology Matters — a Podcast on Evidence-Based Nutrition.

Announcements

• Short Course: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research Dates: Friday, July 23rd to Friday, August 13th, 2021. Priority Application for Scholarships: June 6th.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior: 2021 Annual Conference - Raising Reliance and Resilience.