Featured

• Body Composition from Birth to 2 years.
• RCT: Impact of Chronic Physical Activity on Individuals’ Creativity.
• GIPR/GLP-1R Dual Agonist Therapies for Diabetes and Weight Loss—chemistry, Physiology, and Clinical Applications. (pdf)

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Tropical Plant Extract Native to China May Have Anti-Obesity Effects.
• Study: The Suppression of the Differentiation of Adipocytes with Mallotus Furetianus Is Regulated Through the Posttranslational Modifications of C/EBPβ... In Cell Culture and Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Overall, the tested school-based health promotion strategies in this randomized clinical trial had a neutral [i.e., null] effect on the CVH of the adolescents."
• RCT: No Effect of a Low Dose of Omega-3 on the Lipid Profile of Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• RCT: No Effect of Multi-Strain Probiotic Supplementation on Metabolic and Inflammatory Markers and Newborn Body Composition in Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• Meta-analysis of RCTs: Medicinal cannabis for management of pain, sleep, and fatigue in cancer survivors "...had no effect ... appetite loss, weight loss..."
• "...contrary to our expectations, we observed weight loss during the lockdown."
• "These results suggest that, in mice, exercise has differential effects on aortic calcification, cardiac function, and skeletal bone mineral density."
• "Contrary to research on nondisabled children, we found that greater parental use of controlling dietary strategies was associated with lower BMI percentile in Latino children with IDD."
• "There was no difference in MVPA in overweight or obese (53.8%) vs. healthy weight (44.2%) adolescents (45.0 minutes [SD 16.6] vs. 43.1 minutes [SD 18.8])" in Type 1 diabetes.
• RCT: Changes in Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids During Treatment of Malnourished Children May Be Insufficient to Reach Required Essential Fatty Acid Levels.
• "In this sample of Victorian canteen menus, there was no evidence of associations of healthiness and pricing by school characteristics except for regional centres having the highest proportion of ‘black’ (banned) items compared with all other remoteness categories examined."

Basic

• TNIK Is a Conserved Regulator of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Obesity.
• Identification of Extracellular WNT Inhibitors for Novel Synergistic Anabolic Action on the Skeleton.
• Keeping It in the Family: Consanguinity Reveals P4HTM as a Novel Syndromic Obesity Gene.
• WKYMVm Ameliorates Obesity by Improving Lipid Metabolism and Leptin Signalling.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Poultry Science Manuscript Revision.
• Correcting Calculation and Data Errors Reveals That the Original Conclusions Were Incorrect in “The Best Drug Supplement for Obesity Treatment: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis”.
• Primary Occurrence of Cardiovascular Events After Adding Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors or Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Compared with Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitors: A Cohort Study in Veterans with Diabetes.
• Editorial: Comparative Effectiveness of Diabetes Drugs: The Use and Misuse of Observational Research.

Clinical

• Approach to the Patient with Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes.
• Physiologic Hormone Administration Improves HbA1C in Native Americans with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Modelling Population-Level and Targeted Interventions of Weight Loss on Chronic Disease Prevention in the Canadian Population.
• NASH Drug Treatment Development: Challenges and Lessons.
• Systematic Review: The Prospect of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adult Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.

Children and Adolescents

• Diets of Under 5s in the UK: Any New National Food Strategy Must Consider Socioeconomic Factors.
• RCT: Gene-Exercise Interaction on Brain Health in Children with Overweight/obesity.
• Pilot: Effect of Metformin Therapy on Prevention of Double Diabetes in Indian Adolescents with Type-1 Diabetes. (pdf)
• A Focus on Emerging Non-Pharmacologic Treatment Strategies in Pediatric Obesity and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Altered Insulin Secretion Dynamics Relate to Oxidative Stress and Inflammasome Activation in Children with Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Reference Ranges for Body Composition Indices by Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry from Bone Mineral Density.
• RCT: Influences of Parenting Education on Development of Obesity Among Young Children.
• Extended Brief Interventions for Weight Management and Obesity Prevention in Children.

Surgery

• RCT: Long-Term Follow-Up 15 Years After Duodenal Switch or Gastric Bypass for Super Obesity.
• Anaesthesia for Obesity Surgery.
• Prevention of Surgical Site Infection and Sepsis in Pregnant Women with Obesity.

Drugs

• Gut Hormone Co-Agonists for the Treatment of Obesity: From Bench to Bedside.
• Diagnosis and Non-Invasive Treatment of Obesity in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Review of Guidelines.
• Network Meta-Analysis: Efficacy of Anti-Obesity Drugs and Metabolic Surgeries as Add-On to Lifestyle Intervention in Obesity with Metabolic Complications.
• RCT: Liraglutide Restores Impaired Associative Learning in Individuals with Obesity.
• Treatment with Gut-Specific Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Attenuates Metabolic Inflammation but Not Body Mass in Fattening Ground Squirrels.
• Editorial: Triple G Agonists - a Home Run for Obesity?
• We Know Where New Weight Loss Drugs Came From, but Not Why They Work.
• Recent Advancements in Pharmacological Strategies to Modulate Energy Balance for Combating Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Can Chocolate Be Classified as an Ultra-Processed Food? A Short Review on Processing and Health Aspects to Help Answer This Question.
• The Relationship between Whole-Milk Dairy Foods and Metabolic Health Highlights an Opportunity for Dietary Fat Recommendations to Evolve with the State of the Science.
• RCT: Protein Supplementation Changes Gut Microbial Diversity and Derived Metabolites in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes.
• cRCT: Effect of a Nutrition Intervention on Mediterranean Diet Adherence Among Firefighters.
• Changes in Structural, Rheological, and Gel Properties of Egg White Protein Induced by Preheating in the Dry State.
• Differences in the Food Consumption Between Kidney Stone Formers and Nonformers in the Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effect of 12-Week Intermittent Calorie Restriction Compared to Standard of Care in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Dietary Regulation of Hepatic Triacylglycerol Content – the Role of Eucaloric Carbohydrate Restriction with Fat or Protein Replacement.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Roundtable Statement from the American College of Sports Medicine.
• Systematic Review and Meta-Regression: Exercise Guidelines for Optimizing Fat Oxidation During Exercise in Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Analysing the Impact of Idiosyncratic and Covariate Shocks on Households’ Food and Non-Food Consumption: Empirical Evidence from Benazir Income Support Program.
• Development of Body Dissatisfaction in Women and Men at Different Educational Levels During the Life Course.
• Upstream Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in Europe.
• Association of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes with Labor Market Outcomes.
• Cost Effectiveness Review of Text Messaging, Smartphone Application, and Website Interventions Targeting T2DM or Hypertension.
• Why New Zealand's Golden Kiwis are So Expensive.

Epidemiology

• Endothelial Dysfunction and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Mexican American Adults.
• Temporal Trends in Obesity Defined by the Relative Fat Mass (RFM) Index Among Adults in the United States from 1999 to 2020.
• Differences in Spinal Posture and Mobility between Adults with Obesity and Normal Weight Individuals.
• Antiretroviral Drug Exposure and Response in Obese and Morbidly Obese People with HIV: A Study Combining Modelling and Swiss HIV Cohort Data.
• Review: Connecting the Dots in the Associations between Diet, Obesity, Cancer, and MicroRNAs.
• Prevalence of Different Stages of Periodontal Diseases Among a Sample of Young Adult Egyptian Patients with Obesity: A Hospital Based Cross-Sectional Study over 1 Year.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• How Images of Food Become Cravingly Salient in Obesity.
• The Neural Model of Front-Of-Package Label Processing.

Equity and Disparities

• Within-Store Fast Food Marketing: The Association between Food Swamps and Unhealthy Advertisement.
• Vital Signs: Maternity Care Experiences — United States, April 2023.

Ethics

• Fat Norms and the AMA.
• Overreliance on BMI and Delayed Care for Patients with Higher BMI and Disordered Eating.

Stigma

• Scoping Review: The Experience of Living with Obesity for Adults in Asian Countries.
• Longitudinal Associations of Binge Eating with Internalized Weight Stigma and Eating Self-Efficacy.

Policy Related

• Examining the Connection between Health Outcomes, State Political Ideology, and Food Access in the United States.
• Editorial: One Size Does Not Fit All: On the Need for Categorical Stratification in Nutrition Science, Practice and Policy.
• Commentary: Implementing Evidence-Based Obesity Management Guidelines Requires Development of Medical Competencies: A Commentary Outlining Future Directions in Obesity Education in Canada.
• Changes in Policy Supports for Healthy Food Retailers, Farmers Markets, and Breastfeeding Among US Municipalities, 2014–2021.

Intergenerational Effects

• District-Level Heterogeneity in Overweight or Obesity Among Women of Reproductive Age.
• Gestational Weight Gain Among Pregnant Women in Ibadan, Nigeria: Pattern, Predictors and Pregnancy Outcomes.
• Diabetes in Pregnancy for Mothers and Offspring: Reflection on 30 Years of Clinical and Translational Research: The 2022 Norbert Freinkel Award Lecture.
• Paternal High-Fat Diet Altered SETD2 Gene Methylation in Sperm of F0 and F1 Mice.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Effects of Diel-Cycling Hypoxia and Salinity on Lipid Metabolism and Fatty Acid Composition of the Oyster Crassostrea hongkongensis.
• New Frontiers in the Measurement of Energy Metabolism.
• Mitochondrial Metabolism and Oxidative Stress in Tropical Cockroach Under Fluctuating Thermal Regimes.

Methods

• Methods of Isolation and Purification of Extracellular Vesicles from Different Biological Matrixes: Special Issue at a Glance.
• A Collection of Novel Techniques to Study Diabetes and Obesity.

Commentary

• "Carcinogenicity: Oh No! Obesogenicity: Meh."
• Comment on "A Model-Based Approach to Predict Individual Weight Loss With Semaglutide in People With Overweight or Obesity."
• High U.S. Drug Prices, High Obesity Rates, Twisted Economics.
• How Does Aging Increase Risk of Dehydration?
• Implementing Evidence-Based Obesity Management Guidelines Requires Development of Medical Competencies: A Commentary Outlining Future Directions in Obesity Education in Canada.
• "Anti-obesity medications" or "medications to treat obesity" instead of "weight loss drugs" - why language matters - an official statement of the Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome (ABESO) and the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (SBEM).
• The Growing Implications of Obesity for Prostate Cancer Risk and Mortality: Where Do We Go from Here?
• Gastronomic Landscapes and Biosphere Stewardship: Can Landscapes Be Revitalized Through the Daily Art of Choosing, Cooking, and Eating Food?

General

• Gene Therapy Dramatically Reduces Alcohol Use in Heavy Drinking Nonhuman Primates.
• Regional, Circuit and Network Heterogeneity of Brain Abnormalities in Psychiatric Disorders.
• Triboelectric-Electromagnetic Hybrid Generator Based Self-Powered Flexible Wireless Sensing for Food Monitoring.
• Long-Term Spatial Memory Across Large Spatial Scales in Heliconius Butterflies.
• RCT: Random App of Kindness: Evaluating the Potential of a Smartphone Intervention to Impact Adolescents’ Empathy, Prosocial Behavior, and Aggression.
• For Your Own Good? History, Concept, and Ethics of Paternalism.
• How Important Is Temperature for Strike Success of Ectotherms? Thermal Effects on Predator–prey Interactions of Free-Ranging Pit Vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii).
• Personalized Kitchen Air Supply for Reducing Individual Thermal Discomfort and Cooking Pollution Intake.
• The Top Causes of Death Among Doctors in 2023.

Announcements

• Sixth Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition - Sept 10-12.
• Prof Sage & IU Program Makes History in Athletic Training.
• Webinar: Using Ossabaw Miniature Swine Models to Mimic Human Disease.
• Registration Is Open for the NIDDK Central Repository 20th Anniversary Workshop: Promoting Secondary Research to Accelerate Medical Breakthroughs and Innovation.
• Endocrine Society Honors Endocrinology Field’s Leaders with 2024 Laureate Awards.
• NIH Obesity Research Task Force Symposium: Medications to Treat Obesity: Past, Present, and Future - Sept 8, 2023.
• TOS Grand Rounds: Weight Stigma with Dr. Rebecca Puhl, Sept. 20 and Obesity Genes with Dr. Sadaf Farooqi Nov. 15.
• Course: Consumer Brands Food & Beverage Labeling.
• Registration for YWM2023 (Your Weight Matters)-Engage is Now Open.