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.