Featured

• Eat Well El Paso!: Lessons Learned from a Community-Level Restaurant Initiative to Increase Availability of Healthy Options While Celebrating Local Cuisine.
• Obligate Cross-Feeding Expands the Metabolic Niche of Bacteria.
• Surviving Winter on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Pikas Suppress Energy Demands and Exploit Yak Feces to Survive Winter.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Why Weight Lifting May Be Key to Avoiding Obesity.
• Study: Associations between (not Necessarily Causal Effects Of) Self-Reported Resistance Exercise, Alone and in Combination with Aerobic Exercise, and Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No significant effect on primary outcomes in study of "Impact of Tailored Feedback on the Purchase of Healthier Foods from Primary School Online Canteens."
• RCT: "Results showed that there were no effects found for the effect of the Nutri- Score label on consumers’ attitudes, taste perception and purchase intention."
• Central Regulation of Food Intake Is Not Affected by Inclusion of Defatted Tenebrio Molitor Larvae Meal in Diets for European Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus Labrax).
• "However, contrary to our assumption, dietary iron overloading did not intensify, but rather diminished the atherosclerotic lesion area by 65.3%..."
• "In conclusion, our study demonstrated no association between obesity and immune-mediated toxicities, kinetics of B-cell aplasia, CAR T efficacy, or survival."
• RCT: "Metabolic improvement with short-term glucagon like peptide-1 receptor agonist treatment does not improve cardiac diastolic dysfunction in patients type 2 diabetes."
• RCT: "Leucine Supplementation Does Not Improve Muscle Recovery from Resistance Exercise in Young Adults."
• Meta-Analysis: Lifestyle Interventions in Pregnant Women with Overweight or Obesity Have No Discernable Effect on Neonatal Adiposity.

Basic

• Novel Insights on the Role of Spexin as a Biomarker of Obesity and Related Cardiometabolic Disease.
• Metabolomics of the Tryptophan–kynurenine Degradation Pathway and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure: Potential Modification Effect of Mediterranean Diet.
• Adipocytes and Stromal Cells Regulate Brown Adipogenesis Through Secretory Factors During the Postnatal White-To-Brown Conversion of Adipose Tissue in Syrian Hamsters.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Role of Hepatic Neuropeptide Y-Y1 Receptors in a Methionine- Cholinedeficient Model of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis.
• The Confounding Effects of Sub-Thermoneutral Housing Temperatures on Aerobic Exercise-Induced Adaptations in Mouse Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue.
• Assessment of the Methods Used to Develop Vitamin D and Calcium Recommendations—A Systematic Review of Bone Health Guidelines.
• Reconciling Contrasting Guideline Recommendations on Red and Processed Meat for Health Outcomes.
• Systematic Review: A Guide for Authors and Readers of the American Society for Nutrition Journals on the Proper Use of P Values and Strategies That Promote Transparency and Improve Research Reproducibility.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Anthropometric and Metabolic Characteristics in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Impact of a Ketogenic Diet Intervention During Radiotherapy on Body Composition: IV. Final Results of the KETOCOMP Study for Rectal Cancer Patients.
• Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Metabolic Function and Insulin Sensitivity in People with Obesity.
• Metabolic and Cardiovascular Adaptations to an 8-Week Lifestyle Weight Loss Intervention in Younger and Older Men with Obesity.
• Does NAFLD Mediate the Relationship between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Risk?
• A Review of Telemedicine Interventions for Weight Loss.
• Effect of Glycemic Gap upon Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with Diabetes.
• Diabetes, Obesity, COVID-19, Insulin, and Other Antidiabetes Drugs.

Children and Adolescents

• Examination of Sleep and Obesity in Children and Adolescents in the United States.
• Later Sleep Timing Predicts Accelerated Summer Weight Gain Among Elementary School Children: A Prospective Observational Study.
• Association of Dietary Intake, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behaviours with Overweight and Obesity Among 282,213 Adolescents in 89 Low and Middle Income to High-Income Countries.
• Changes in Weight and Height Among Chinese Preschool Children During COVID-19 School Closures.
• Body Fat, Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Brain Structure in School-Age Children.
• Sleep Duration and Eating Behaviours are Associated with Body Composition in 5-Year-Old Children: Findings from the ROLO Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study.
• Loneliness and Cravings for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Among Adolescents.
• Psychosocial, Eating Behavior, and Lifestyle Factors Influencing Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents.
• Changes in Adiposity Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1999–2006 to 2011–2018.

Surgery

• Obesity and Revision Surgery, Mortality, and Patient-Reported Outcomes After Primary Knee Replacement Surgery in the National Joint Registry: A UK Cohort Study.
• Review: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: Current Status and Future Perspectives.
• Protective Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Kidney Functions by Inhibiting Oxidative Stress Responses Through Activating PPARα in Rats with Diabetes.
• Review: Potential Gut-Brain Mechanisms Behind Adverse Mental Health Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery.
• Obesity, Race, and Perioperative Complications.

Drugs

• Association of Early Antibiotic Exposure with Childhood BMI Trajectory Milestones.
• RCT: Metformin Affects Gut Microbiome Composition and Function and Circulating Short-Chain Fatty Acids.

Food & Diet

• Junk Food Intake Among Adults in the United States.
• Exploring Tourists’ Slow Food Experience: Perspectives from Slow Tourism.
• Ketogenic Diets, Physical Activity, and Body Composition: A Review.
• Dietary Supplements and Alternative Therapies for Obesity: A Perspective from the Obesity Society’s Clinical Committee.
• Introduction to the Special Section: New Directions in Obesity and Eating Research.
• Meta-Analysis: Effectiveness of Multimodal Nutrition Interventions During Pregnancy to Achieve 2009 Institute of Medicine Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines.
• Systematic Review: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Dietary Patterns on Cardiometabolic Health in Adults Aged 65 Years or Older.
• Effects of Oil Tea on Obesity and Dyslipidemia: A Cross-Sectional Study in China.
• Review: Dietary Fiber-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids: A Potential Therapeutic Target to Alleviate Obesity-Related Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Effect of Obesity on Gastrointestinal Transit, Pressure and PH Using a Wireless Motility Capsule.
• Systematic Review: Activation of Brown Adipose Tissue and Promotion of White Adipose Tissue Browning by Plant-Based Dietary Components in Rodents.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction and Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Promote White Adipose Tissue Browning in Mice.
• Moderate Caloric Restriction Partially Improved Oxidative Stress Markers in Humans with Obesity.
• Caloric Restriction and Hypothalamic Leptin Gene Therapy Have Differential Effects on Energy Partitioning in Adult Female Rats.
• Continuous Versus Intermittent Dieting for Fat Loss and Fat-Free Mass Retention in Resistance-Trained Adults: The ICECAP Trial.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Opportunities and Obstacles of Translating Elite Sport Research to Public Health.
• Mechanical and Structural Remodeling of Cardiac Muscle After Aerobic and Resistance Exercise Training in Rats.
• Mechanical Overload-Induced Muscle-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Promote Adipose Tissue Lipolysis.

Economics & Sociology

• Effect of Socioeconomic Characteristics and Lifestyle on BMI Distribution in the Chinese Population: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.
• Socioeconomic Status Impact on Diet Quality and BMI in Eight Latin American Countries: ELANS Study Results.
• Personal Social Networks and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Feasibility Study.
• Exploring Potential Mediation Pathways on the Relationship between Acculturation and BMI (BMI) Among Latino Adolescent.

Epidemiology

• COVID-19 Self-Quarantine and Weight Gain Risk Factors in Adults.
• The Natural History of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with Normal BMI: A Population-Based Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Examining the Association between Adiposity and DNA Methylation.
• Non-Linear Associations between the Built Environment and the Physical Activity of Children.
• Biomarker-Based Visceral Adiposity Score and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in the Multiethnic Cohort.
• Historical HbA1c Values May Explain the Type 2 Diabetes Legacy Effect: UKPDS 88.
• Association between Business Travel, Health-Related Behaviors, and Adiposity.
• Structural Brain Changes Associated with Overweight and Obesity.
• Adipose Tissue Insulin Resistance Is Longitudinally Associated with Adipose Tissue Dysfunction, Circulating Lipids, and Dysglycemia.
• Differences in Body Composition Convey a Similar Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Different Ethnic Groups with Disparate Cardiometabolic Risk.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Association between Visceral Fat and Brain Cortical Thickness in the Elderly: A Neuroimaging Study.
• A High-Fat Diet Exacerbates the Alzheimer's Disease Pathology in the Hippocampus of the AppNL−F/NL−F Knock-In Mouse Model.
• Binge-Eating Disorder Is Associated with an Unfavorable Body Mass Composition in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Long-Term High Fat Diet Consumption Reversibly Alters Feeding Behavior Via a Dopamine-Associated Mechanism in Mice.
• Association of Increased Abdominal Adiposity at Birth with Altered Ventral Caudate Microstructure.

Equity and Disparities

• Perceptions of Arguments in Support of Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption Among Low-Income White, Black and Latinx Parents of Young Children.
• Neighborhood-Level Asian American Populations, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Outcomes in 500 US Cities.

Stigma

• Weight Bias Reduction Among First-Year Medical Students: A Quasi-Randomized, Controlled Trial.
• ‘Lose Weight, Save the NHS’: Obesity in Press Coverage of COVID-19.
• Dissertation: Reducing Weight Bias: Creating an Anti-Weight Stigma Educational Simulation for Nurse Practitioner Students.
• Predictors of Weight Bias in Exercise Science Students and Fitness Professionals: A Scoping Review.

Policy Related

• Epidemiological Influences and Requirements of Global Childhood Obesity Research.
• Male Sex, Severe Obesity, Older Age, and Chronic Kidney Disease are Associated with COVID-19 Severity and Mortality in New York City.
• School Nutrition Laws in the US: Do They Influence Obesity Among Youth in a Racially/Ethnically Diverse State?

Intergenerational Effects

• Parental Dietary Sucrose Affects Metabolic and Antioxidant Enzyme Activities in Drosophila.
• Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Physical Activity and Type 1 Diabetes in the Offspring.
• Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Vascular Phenotype Associations in Mothers with Obesity and Their Six-Year-Old Children.
• Prenatal Antibiotic Exposure and Birth Weight.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Preferences for Nutrients and Sensory Food Qualities Identify Biological Sources of Economic Values in Monkeys.
• How 'Real Life Pikachus' Survive Winters Without Hibernation: Adorable Pikas Feast on YAK FAECES to Keep Their Energy Levels Up in Harsh Climates, Study Finds.

Methods

• Latent Class Trajectory Analysis of Risk Factors Uncovers Progression to Type 2 Diabetes.
• An Agent-Based Simulation Model for Testing Novel Obesity Interventions in School Environment Design.
• Dissertation: Ehealth Interventions to Promote Physical Activity and Well-Being Actions in Adults with Obesity.
• Study of Blood Glucose and Insulin Infusion Rate in Real-Time in Diabetic Rats Using an Artificial Pancreas System.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Review: Computational Strategies for the Discovery of Biological Functions of Health Foods, Nutraceuticals and Cosmeceuticals.
• Modeling Excess Weight in Spain by Using Deterministic and Random Differential Equations.

Commentary

• Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy: A Protective Mechanism?
• Double Burden of Malnutrition in Thin Children and Adolescents: Low Weight Does Not Protect Against Cardiometabolic Risk.
• Methodological Challenges of Large-Scale Breastfeeding Studies.
• The Food We Depend upon for Life and Pleasure.
• The Obesity Research That Blew Up.
• Are Energy Drinks Really That Bad?
• Seeking a Pot of Gold with Integrated Behavior Therapy and Research to Improve Health Equity: Insights from the RAINBOW Trial for Obesity and Depression.
• Academic Bullying Doesn’t Belong in Public Health.
• Pandemic Weight Gain? Not So Fast.

General

• How Kindness Can Be Contagious in Healthcare.
• Do College Students Feel Confident to Consent to Sex After Consuming Alcohol?
• The Economic Value of Targeting Aging.
• Lactoferrin for Mental Health: Neuro-Redox Regulation and Neuroprotective Effects Across the Blood-Brain Barrier with Special Reference to Neuro-COVID-19.
• Differences in Urinary Bacterial Anti-Adhesion Activity After Intake of Cranberry Dietary Supplements with Soluble Versus Insoluble Proanthocyanidins.
• Beware Performative Reproducibility.
• How Much Scientific Research Is Actually Fraudulent?
• A “Gut Feeling” to Create a 10th Hallmark of Aging.

Announcements

• Nutrition Science Infographic Competitions: Precision Nutrition Submissions Due September 17.
• Applications Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.