07/30/21
Featured
- Review: Errors in the Implementation, Analysis, and Reporting of Randomization Within Obesity and Nutrition Research: A Guide to Their Avoidance.
- Reconciling Contrasting Guideline Recommendations on Red and Processed Meat for Health Outcomes.
- Transcriptional Regulation of N6-Methyladenosine Orchestrates Sex-Dimorphic Metabolic Traits.
- Meta-Analysis: Examining the Association between Adiposity and DNA Methylation.
- Obesity doesn’t always mean ill health. Here’s what scientists are learning.
Headline vs Study
- Headline: A Daily Dose of Coffee May Protect You from COVID-19.
- Study: Self-Reported Dietary Behaviors and Incident COVID-19 in the UK Biobank.
- Headline: Too Much Coffee Can Cause Your Brain to Shrink, Raise Risk of Dementia by 53 Percent, Study Finds.
- Study: Associations Among High Coffee Consumption, Brain Volume and Risk of Dementia and Stroke in UK Biobank.
- Headline: Your Morning Cup of Coffee May Lower Your Risk of Liver Disease.
- Study: All Coffee Types are Associated with Lower Risk of Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Chronic Liver Disease: A UK Biobank Study.
- Headline: Coffee Drinking Won't Harm Your Health, New Study Reveals Caffeine Lowers Arrhythmia Risk.
- Study: Coffee Consumption and Incident Tachyarrhythmias with Mendelian Randomization for Caffeine Metabolism in the UK Biobank.
Contrary or Null Findings
- "No significant effect of gamification was found for body mass index z-score."
- "Evidence was insufficient to determine the relation between the duration of any human milk consumption, among infants fed human milk, and overweight and/or obesity at age 2 y and older."
- "We found no significant benefit of INT (intensive glycemic control) during the original trial period in eye-related procedures, such as various procedures for DR, or during the 17 years of follow-up in cataract surgery."
- "This Mendelian randomization study showed limited evidence that coffee consumption affects the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, suggesting that previous observational studies may have been confounded."
- Dietary Quercetin Supplementation Is Not Ergogenic in Untrained Men.
- "Supplements such as caffeine and nitrates do not enhance endurance performance in the heat, with caffeine also increasing core temperature responses."
- "Adenotonsillectomy may not be an independent risk factor for undesirable weight gain in children."
- Oral Anserine Supplementation Does Not Attenuate Type-2 Diabetes or Diabetic Nephropathy in BTBR Ob/ob Mice.
- "The results do not support the hypotheses that low [salivary-amylase activity], cooling, and common genetic variations in starch-digesting enzymes affect the glycemic index or in vivo carbohydrate digestibility of cooked polished rice."
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- Retraction: Association of Fecundity with Changes in Adult Female Weight.
- Accurate Measurement of Nutrients and Nonnutritive Dietary Ingredients from Dietary Supplements Is Critical in the Precision Nutrition Era.
- Review: Evaluation of Spin in the Abstracts of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Focused on the Treatment of Obesity.
- Commentary: Spin in the Abstracts of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: How Big Is the Problem in Obesity?
Basic
- Di(2-Ethylhexyl)phthalate Exposure Exacerbates Metabolic Disorders in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
- Non-Hematopoietic IL-4Rα Expression Contributes to Fructose-Driven Obesity and Metabolic Sequelae.
- Intramuscular Injection of MiR-1 Reduces Insulin Resistance in Obese Mice.
- Linking the FTO Obesity Rs1421085 Variant Circuitry to Cellular, Metabolic, and Organismal Phenotypes in Vivo.
Clinical
- Developing a Culturally Responsive Lifestyle Intervention for U.S. Mexicans with Overweight/Obesity.
- Review: Health Effects of Weight Loss Focused Lifestyle Interventions in Adults with Overweight/Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
Children and Adolescents
- Review: Personalized Approach to Childhood Obesity: Lessons from Gut Microbiota and Omics Studies. Insights from the 29th European Childhood Obesity Congress.
- Age Patterns in Overweight and Wasting Prevalence of Under 5-Year-Old Children from Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
- Adherence to Index-Based Dietary Patterns in Childhood and BMI Trajectory During the Transition to Adolescence.
Surgery
- The Effect of Social Determinants and Socioeconomic Status on Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass for Weight Loss: An Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample.
- Review: The Role of Positron Emission Tomography in Bariatric Surgery Research.
- Effects of Severe Obesity and Sleeve Gastrectomy on Cortical Thickness in Adolescents.
Drugs
- Regeneron, AstraZeneca Team Up on Targeted Drugs for Obesity.
- Targeting Energy Expenditure-Drugs for Obesity Treatment.
- Diets and Drugs for Weight Loss and Health in Obesity - an Update.
Food & Diet
- RCT: Impact of Low-Fat and Full-Fat Dairy Foods on Fasting Lipid Profile and Blood Pressure.
- The Role of Western Diets and Obesity in Peripheral Immune Cell Recruitment and Inflammation in the Central Nervous System.
- Gut-Microbiota-Targeted Diets Modulate Human Immune Status.
- Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During Pregnancy Is Associated with Lower Odds of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Postpartum Weight Retention: Results of the MISC Cohort.
- Higher Habitual Flavonoid Intakes are Associated with a Lower Incidence of Diabetes.
- RCT: Temporal and Mediation Relations of Weight Loss, and Changes in Insulin Resistance and Blood Pressure in Response to 2-Year Weight-Loss Diet Interventions: The POUNDS Lost Trial.
- "There was a significant negative correlation between dairy consumption and BMI, waist circumference, and waist/height ratio in [adolescent] girls."
- RCT: Oils Rich in α-Linolenic Acid or Docosahexaenoic Acid Have Distinct Effects on Plasma Oxylipin and Adiponectin Concentrations and on Monocyte Bioenergetics in Women with Obesity.
Caloric and Dietary Restriction
- Caloric Restriction Inhibits Renal Artery Ageing by Reducing Endothelin-1 Expression.
- Leptin Treatment Prevents Impaired Hypoglycemic Counterregulation Induced by Exposure to Severe Caloric Restriction or Exposure to Recurrent Hypoglycemia.
- Single-Oocyte Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Aging-Associated Effects Influenced by Life Stage and Calorie Restriction.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Dissertation: Modulation of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Exercise.
- Review: Smartphone-Based Interventions for Physical Activity Promotion: Evidence over the Last 10 Years.
- Independent Associations of Sleep Timing, Duration and Quality with Adiposity and Weight Status in a National Sample of Adolescents: The UK Millennium Cohort Study.
Economics & Sociology
- Association between Socioeconomic Status and Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Adults.
- Body Weight and Premature Retirement: Population-Based Evidence from Finland.
Epidemiology
- Is Obesity Associated with Lower Mini Mental Test Scores Among Elderly? A Cross Sectional Study.
- Neighborhood Profiles and BMI Trajectory in Female Adolescents and Young Adults.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Rethinking Emotional Eating: Retrospective and Momentary Indices of Emotional Eating Represent Distinct Constructs.
- Making Large Changes or Small Changes to Prevent Weight Gain in Young Adulthood: Which Is Preferred and by Whom?
- Social Isolation and Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Weight.
- Food-Related Inhibitory Control Training Reduces Food Liking but Not Snacking Frequency or Weight in a Large Healthy Adult Sample.
- Meta-Analysis: White Matter Integrity Differences in Obesity.
- Lower Synaptic Density Is Associated with Psychiatric and Cognitive Alterations in Obesity.
Equity and Disparities
- Disparities in Elevated BMI in Youth Receiving Care at Community Health Centers.
- Adherence to Index-Based Dietary Patterns in Childhood and BMI Trajectory During the Transition to Adolescence: The EPOCH Study.
Ethics
- Considerations for Cardiovascular Genetic and Genomic Research with Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Groups and Indigenous Peoples: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association.
- Methods, Ethics, and Cross-Language Considerations in Research with Ethnic Minority Children.
Stigma
- Simply Too Much: The Extent to Which Weight Bias Internalization Results in a Higher Risk of Eating Disorders and Psychosocial Problems.
- The Relationship between Internalized Weight Stigma During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: A Prospective Longitudinal Study.
- Weight-Related Teasing Is Associated with Body Concerns, Disordered Eating, and Health Diagnoses in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Young Men.
- Leading When Overweight: The Influence of Supervisor Body Weight on Subordinates’ Perceptions and Citizenship Behaviors.
Policy Related
- An Ensemble-Based Feature Selection Framework to Select Risk Factors of Childhood Obesity for Policy Decision Making.
- Health System Barriers to Accessing Care for Children with Weight Issues in New Zealand: An Interview-Based Study.
- Identifying Subgroups of Age and Cohort Effects in Obesity Prevalence.
Intergenerational Effects
- Sex Differences in the Impact of Parental Obesity on Offspring Cardiac SIRT3 Expression, Mitochondrial Efficiency and Diastolic Function Early in Life.
- Review: The WOMBS Framework: A New Theoretical Model for Investigating Pregnancy-Related Weight Stigma and Its Intergenerational Implications.
- Systematic Review: Breastfeeding and Risk of Overweight in Childhood and Beyond with Emphasis on Sibling-Pair and Intervention Studies.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- Call Rate in Common Cuckoos Does Not Predict Body Size and Responses to Conspecific Playbacks.
- Sex-Specific Costs of Rearing a Nestling and Its Implications in the Brood Sex Ratio of Magellanic Penguins.
Methods
- Review: Existing Models to Predict Reductions in Neural Tube Defects Due to Folic Acid Fortification and Model Results Using Data from Cameroon.
- "Due to its accuracy and greater operational simplicity, [waist circumference] was the most adequate predictor for identifying Afro-descendant women at greatest risk for CVD."
Commentary
- The Ugly Politics of (Im)passivity, or Why Conrad's Anarchists are Fat.
- Does Business Travel Bring More Obesity Risk?
- Why a Meat-Free Diet Boosts Health: Protein Levels Might Hit the Spot.
- Study Highlights the Importance of Eating Breakfast.
- Meat: Less Is More.
- Unintended Consequences: Nutritional Impact and Potential Pitfalls of Switching from Animal- to Plant-Based Foods.
- Making Blue Foods Central to Global Food Systems.
- Legislation Would Make Obesity Medications More Widely Available and Help Reduce Inequities in Care.
- Shame Gets a Failing Grade for Health Promotion.
General
- Some Problems in the Dataset of a Large Study of Ivermectin for the Treatment of Covid-19.
- Confronting Health Misinformation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Healthy Information Environment. (pdf)
- Studies on the Dietary Intake of Fluoride and the Concentration of Fluoride in Urine over the Course of Pregnancy.
- If You Build It, Will They Come? Social, Economic, and Psychological Determinants of COVID-19 Testing Decisions.
- Large Survey Finds Questionable Research Practices are Common.
- "In field trials, transgenic expression of FTO in rice and potato caused ~50% increases in yield and biomass."
- New Biomarkers May Detect Early Eye Changes That Can Lead to Diabetes-Related Blindness.
- Citrus Consumption and Risk of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer in the UK Biobank.
Announcements
- New Book: Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science - by Alan Levinovitz.
- Short Course: 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.