Featured

• The Sting of Sizeism in the Scientific Workplace.
• Sex Differences in the Relationships between Body Composition, Fat Distribution, and Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism: A Pilot Study.
• Dietary Oleamide Attenuates Obesity Induced by Housing Mice in Small Cages.
• Anopheles stephensi Feeding, Flight Behavior, and Infection with Malaria Parasites are Altered by Ingestion of Serotonin.
• Serotonin and Dopamine Modulate Aging in Response to Food Odor and Availability.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: To Lose Weight and Keep It Off, Study Finds Lifestyle Changes and Medications Can Be Crucial.
• Meeting Abstract: Abstract OR10 - A "retrospective observational study of adults 18-75 years treated for overweight/obesity at a tertiary academic weight management center". Causation (and "Cruciality") Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Meta-Analysis: "when compared with in-person interventions, technology-based interventions were found to lead in significantly higher weight regain".
• Consumption of Low Dose Fucoxanthin Does Not Prevent Hepatic and Adipose Inflammation and Fibrosis in Mouse Models of Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Addition of Prebiotics to the Ketogenic Diet Improves Metabolic Profile but Does Not Affect Seizures in a Rodent Model of Infantile Spasms Syndrome.
• RCT: Weight-Loss Induced by Carbohydrate Restriction Does Not Negatively Affect Health-Related Quality of Life and Cognition in People with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Neuropeptide Neuromedin B Does Not Alter Body Weight and Glucose Homeostasis nor Does It Act as an Insulin-Releasing Peptide [in Mice].
• Living Alone Is Not Associated with Cardiovascular Events and Hypoglycemia in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Treatment of Hyperglycemia Not Associated with NAFLD Improvement in Children with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: Omega-3 Index Is Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors but Is Not Improved by Walnut Intake in Free Living Elderly.

Basic

• SARS-CoV-2 Infection Impairs the Insulin/IGF Signaling Pathway in the Lung, Liver, Adipose Tissue, and Pancreatic Cells Via IRF1.
• Emerging Central and Peripheral Actions of Spexin in Feeding Behavior, Leptin Resistance and Obesity.
• Hypothalamic NPY-Y1R Interacts with Gonadal Hormones in Protecting Female Mice Against Obesity and Neuroinflammation.
• An Exercise-Inducible Metabolite That Suppresses Feeding and Obesity.
• Functional and Morphologic Dysfunctions in the Airways of Rats Submitted to an Experimental Model of Obesity-Exacerbated Asthma.
• Intermittent Sucrose Solution Intake and Its Schedule of Access Modulate Energy Intake and Weight Gain in Response to Chronic Variable Stress in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Energy Balance Model Vs. The Carbohydrate Insulin Model.
• Letter: Leaving Energy Balance Behind.
• Letter: Clarification on Our Critique of the Energy Balance Hypothesis of Obesity.
• Response: Reply to Taubes, Friedman, and Torres-Carot et al.
• Perspective: Does the Concept of “Ultra-Processed Foods” Help Inform Dietary Guidelines, Beyond Conventional Classification Systems? YES.
• Perspective: Does the Concept of “Ultra-Processed Foods” Help Inform Dietary Guidelines, Beyond Conventional Classification Systems? NO.
• Letter Preprint: Effects of Being Overweight on Mortality are Unclear Given Multiple Methodological Problems.

Clinical

• RCT: Increased Weight Loading Reduces Body Weight and Body Fat in Subjects with Obesity.
• The Feasibility and User-Experience of a Digital Health Intervention Designed to Prevent Weight Gain in New Kidney Transplant Recipients.
• Meta-Analysis: Effectiveness of Prone Position in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Moderating Factors of Obesity Class and Treatment Durations for COVID-19 Patients.
• Intermittent Fasting Two Days Versus One Day Per Week, Matched for Total Energy Intake and Expenditure, Increases Weight Loss in Men and Women with Overweight/Obesity.
• An Atypical Form of Diabetes Among Individuals with Low BMI.
• Exercise and Nutrition Strategies for Combating Sarcopenia and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Older Adults.

Children and Adolescents

• Obesity in Adolescents Associated with Vascular Aging – a Study Using Ultra-High-Resolution Ultrasound.
• The Mediating Effect of Sleep Duration on the Association between Food Insecurity and Childhood Obesity.
• Impacts of an Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program in Mexico.

Surgery

• Rhabdomyolysis as a Rare Complication of Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Physical Exercise on Muscle Strength in Adults Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Association of Bariatric Surgery with Cancer Risk and Mortality in Adults with Obesity.
• Review: Differences between the 2016 and 2022 Editions of the Enhanced Recovery After Bariatric Surgery (ERABS) Guidelines.
• Obesity Pillars Roundtable: Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Children and Adolescents.

Drugs

• Medical Nutritional Therapy on Schizophrenic Patient with Grade 2 Obesity and Continued Antipsychotic Drug Use.
• A GLP-1/Glucagon (GCG)/CCK2 Receptors Tri-Agonist Provides New Therapy for Obesity and Diabetes.
• Meta-Analysis: Efficacy and Safety of Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Untapped Pharmaceutical Potential of 4,5,4′-Trihydroxy-3,3′-Dimethoxybibenzyl for Regulating Obesity: A Cell-Based Study with a Focus on Terminal Differentiation in Adipogenesis.
• Long-term Weight Loss Maintenance with Obesity Pharmacotherapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: A Single High-Fat Meal Adversely Affects Postprandial Endothelial Function.
• Systematic Review: Nutri-Epigenetic Effects of Phenolic Compounds from Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
• Contributing Factors of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake in the Latinx Population: A Narrative Review Using the Social-Ecological Model.
• Consumption of Takeaway and Delivery Meals Is Associated with Increased BMI and Percent Fat Among UK Biobank Participants.
• Systematic Review: Factors Influencing Independent Older Adults (Un)healthy Food Choices:.
• Meta-Analysis: Consumption of Whole Grains and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Avocado Consumption for 12 Weeks and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors in Adults with Overweight or Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Vegan Diets on Cardiometabolic Health.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Dietary Restriction Ameliorates TBI-Induced Phenotypes in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Longitudinal Effects of Growth Restriction on the Murine Gut Microbiome and Metabolome.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Effects of Reconditioning Exercises Following Prolonged Bed Rest on Lumbopelvic Muscle Volume and Accumulation of Paraspinal Muscle Fat.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Protein Supplementation Associated with Resistance Training on Body Composition and Muscle Strength in Older Adults.
• Examining the State, Quality and Strength of the Evidence in the Research on Built Environments and Physical Activity Among Children and Youth: An Overview of Reviews from High Income Countries.

Economics & Sociology

• The Relationships between Socioeconomic Status, Dietary Knowledge and Patterns, and Physical Activity with Adiposity in Urban South African Women.
• Community Food Security: The Multi-Level Association between Social Capital, Economic Capital, and Diet Quality.
• Revisiting the Obesity Paradox in Health Care Expenditures Among Adults with Diabetes.

Epidemiology

• Meta-Analysis: The Association between Workplace Built Environment and Metabolic Health.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Inflammatory Biomarkers and Adipokines in Elderly Population.
• A Lifecourse Mendelian Randomization Study Highlights the Long-Term Influence of Childhood Body Size on Later Life Heart Structure.
• Robust Variation in Infant Gut Microbiome Assembly Across a Spectrum of Lifestyles.
• Sibling Group Size and BMI over the Life Course: Evidence from Four British Cohort Studies.
• Meta-Analysis: Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Nigeria.
• Changes in Anthropometric Indicators and Gait Speed in Older Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Pathophysiological Mechanisms Explaining the Association between Low Skeletal Muscle Mass and Cognitive Function.
• Chronic Experience with Unpredictable Food Availability Promotes Food Reward, Overeating, and Weight Gain in a Novel Animal Model of Food Insecurity.
• White Matter Fiber-Specific Degeneration in Older Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Long Term High Fat Diet Induces Metabolic Disorders and Aggravates Behavioral Disorders and Cognitive Deficits in MAPT P301L Transgenic Mice.

Equity and Disparities

• Trends and Disparities in Adult BMI Across the 47 Prefectures of Japan, 1975–2018.
• Using Syndemic Theory to Understand Food Insecurity and Diet-Related Chronic Diseases.

Stigma

• Does Obesity Rule Out Happiness? Preschool Children’s Perceptions of Beauty-Related Happiness.
• Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say: The Importance of Language in the Treatment of Obesity.

Policy Related

• Obesity Prevention Across the US: A Review of State-Level Policies from 2009-2019.
• The Nutrition Transition, Food Retail Transformations, and Policy Responses to Overnutrition in the East Asia Region: A Descriptive Review.
• Nutrition Policies in Germany: A Systematic Assessment with the Food Environment Policy Index.
• Benchmarking for Accountability on Obesity Prevention: Evaluation of the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) in Australia (2016–2020).

Intergenerational Effects

• Normalization of Maternal Adiponectin in Obese Pregnant Mice Prevents Programming of Impaired Glucose Metabolism in Adult Offspring.
• Eating Competence Among Caregivers of Toddlers: Associations with Caregiver and Child Overweight/Obesity.
• Associations of Cord Blood Lipids with Childhood Adiposity at the Age of Three Years.
• Effect of a Maternal High Fat Diet with Vegetable Substitution on Fetal Brain Transcriptome.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Darwinian Applications to Nutrition: The Value of Evolutionary Insights to Teachers and Students.
• Skeletal Muscle Plasticity and Thermogenesis: Insights from Sea Otters.

Methods

• Agreement and Precision of Deuterium Dilution for Total Body Water and Multicompartment Body Composition Assessment in Collegiate Athletes.
• Estimating National and Subnational Nutrient Intake Distributions of Global Diets.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Theoretical Analysis of a Model for Diabesity Dynamics. (pdf)
• A comprehensive dynamic model of the adipocyte.

Commentary

• A Darkened Neck Could Be a Sign for Type 2 Diabetes. But Texas Screenings Have Slowed.
• Diabetes Drug Helps Patients Lose Never-Before-Seen Amounts of Weight, New Study Shows.
• Obesity: Policy and Practice Recommendations for High-Risk Populations Influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Changes are Coming to School Meals Nationwide – an Expert in Food Policy Explains.
• Weight Loss Tied to a Dramatic Drop in Cancer Risk, New Study Shows.
• 5 Nutrition and Food Safety Pregnancy Myths.
• Muddled Thinking and Silly Arguments About BMI.
• Are Ultra-Processed Foods Harmful? Experts Weigh the Evidence.

General

• Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics: Comment.
• Trait Energy and Fatigue May Be Connected to Gut Bacteria Among Young Physically Active Adults: An Exploratory Study.
• Importance of Treating Smoking in Conjunction with Mental Health.
• The Replication Crisis and the Problem with Basic Science.
• Palatal Morphology Predicts the Paleobiology of Early Salamanders.
• Dissertation: Investigating the Performance of Survival Regression Models Under Multiple, Simultaneous Assumption Violations.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Sugar Consumption and Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality According to Anatomic Subsite.
• Is the Future of Peer Review Automated?

Announcements

• WORKSHOP SERIES: The Role of Plant Agricultural Practices on Development of Antimicrobial Resistant Fungi Affecting Human Health.
• 8th Annual Diabetes Symposium - August 5, 2022.
• Applications Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research Short Course 2022.