08/26/22
Featured
- Predicting Energy Intake in Adults Who are Dieting and Exercising.
- The Cost of Chewing: The Energetics and Evolutionary Significance of Mastication in Humans.
- Adiposity May Confound the Association between Vitamin D and Disease Risk – a Lifecourse Mendelian Randomization Study.
- Research and Policy for the Food-Delivery Revolution.
Headline vs Study
- Headline: Can You Pass the 10-Second Balance Test? This Simple, Often Neglected Skill Can Pay Huge Dividends Later in Life.
- Study: Successful 10-Second One-Legged Stance Performance Predicts (but Does Not Necessarily Causally Affect) Survival in Middle-Aged and Older Individuals.
Contrary or Null Findings
- Preprint: RCT: Null Effects of Treatment Assignment in Food-Related Computerised Attention Training Versus Mindfulness Training and Waiting-List Control for Adults with Overweight or Obesity. (PDF)
- RCT: No Significant Meal-Recall Effect, Wherein Remembering a Recent Meal Reduces Subsequent Snack Intake.
- Meta-Analysis: "SGLT-2 inhibitor treatment in patients with T2DM does not seem to provide any significant beneficial effect on CAN indices."
- Differences Reported in the Lifespan and Aging of Male Wistar Rats Maintained on Diets Containing Fat with Different Fatty Acid Profiles (virgin Olive, Sunflower or Fish Oils) are Not Reflected by Histopathological Lesions Found at Death in Central Nervous and Endocrine Systems.
- RCT: "Supplementation resulted in a significant increase in the level of 25(OH) D in the intervention group but did not affect the anthropometric profile of the subjects."
- Initiation of New Glucose-Lowering Therapies May Act to Reduce Physical Activity Levels: Pooled Analysis from Three RCTs.
- Preprint: RCT: No Significant Effect of Lipid Metabolism Modulation with Fenofibrate for Acute Coronavirus Disease 2019.
- "These data indicate that nutrient restriction did not alter mammary hemodynamics nor endocrine profile throughout gestation" in pregnant cows.
Basic
- Effects of Food Availability Cycles on Phase and Period of Activity-Rest Rhythm in Drosophila melanogaster.
- Macrophage Polarization Mediated by Mitochondrial Dysfunction Induces Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Obesity.
- TBK1-MTOR Signaling Attenuates Obesity-Linked Hyperglycemia and Insulin Resistance.
- Post-Translational Control of Beige Fat Biogenesis by PRDM16 Stabilization.
- MANF in POMC Neurons Promotes Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- Comment on “Effectiveness of Smartphone Application-Based Self-Management Interventions in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials”.
- Who Cares About Publication Integrity?
Clinical
- Circulating Free Triiodothyronine Concentration Is Positively Associated with β-Cell Function in Euthyroid Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
- RCT: Effect of Circuit Training with Low-Carbohydrate Diet on Body Composition, Cardiometabolic Indices, and Exercise Capacity in Adults with Mild to Moderate Obesity in Saudi Arabia.
- RCT: "Efficacy of a Commercial Weight Management Program Compared With a Do-It-Yourself Approach."
- Physical Activity and Fitness vs Adiposity and Weight Loss for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Mortality.
- Overweight and Obesity are Not Associated with Worse Clinical Outcomes in COVID-19 Patients Treated with Fixed-Dose 6 mg Dexamethasone.
- Association of BMI Trajectories with Cardiometabolic Risk Among Low-Income Mexican American Children.
- Heart Failure-Type Symptom Scores in Chronic Kidney Disease: The Importance of BMI.
Children and Adolescents
- Dietary Inflammatory Index and Cardiometabolic Risk in Ecuadorian School-Age Children.
- Early-Life Exposure to Tobacco and Childhood Adiposity: Identifying Windows of Susceptibility.
- Childhood Obesity, Is Fast Food Exposure a Factor?
Surgery
- Fecal Metabolome and Bacterial Composition in Severe Obesity: Impact of Diet and Bariatric Surgery.
- Comparison of Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Intensive Lifestyle Modification in Patients with a BMI of 30 to Less Than 35.
- Long-Term Survival After Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Gastric Bypass in a Binational Cohort Study.
- RCT: Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty for Treatment of Class 1 and 2 Obesity (MERIT).
- Mechanism and Prevention of Hair Loss After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
Drugs
- RCT: Metformin, Testosterone, or Both in Men with Obesity and Low Testosterone.
- Adipocyte-Based High Throughput Screening for Anti-Obesity Drug Discovery: Current Status and Future Perspectives.
- Investigating the Role of Obesity in Prostate Cancer and Identifying Biomarkers for Drug Discovery: Systems Biology and Deep Learning Approaches.
Food & Diet
- Short-Term Hyper-Caloric High-Fat Feeding on a Ketogenic Diet Can Lower Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol: The Cholesterol Drop Experiment.
- The Relationship between Low-Carbohydrate Diet Score, Dietary Insulin Index and Load with Obesity in Healthy Adults.
- Matcha Green Tea Targets the Gut–liver Axis to Alleviate Obesity and Metabolic Disorders Induced by a High-Fat Diet.
- Risk of Hip Fracture in Meat-Eaters, Pescatarians, and Vegetarians: Results from the UK Women’s Cohort Study.
- Cameras in the Hands of Indigenous Youth: Participation, Films, and Nutrition in India.
Caloric and Dietary Restriction
- Epigenome-Wide Association Study Analysis of Calorie Restriction in Humans, CALERIE Trial Analysis.
- A Comparison of the Impact of Restrictive Diets on the Gastrointestinal Tract of Mice.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Relations between Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Body Fat from Childhood to Adolescence: Do They Differ by Sex?
- RCT: Effectiveness of a Complex Intervention of Group-Based Nutrition and Physical Activity to Prevent Frailty in Pre-Frail Older Adults.
- Exercise Training Enhances Muscle Mitochondrial Metabolism in Diet-Resistant Obesity.
Economics & Sociology
- Differential Associations between Changes in Food Environment and Changes in BMI Among Adults Living in Urban, Low-Income Communities.
- Neighbourhood Socio-Economic Environment Predicts Adiposity and Obesity Risk in Children Under Two.
- Systematic Review: Mediators of Socioeconomic Differences in Overweight and Obesity Among Youth in Ireland and the UK (2011–2021).
Epidemiology
- Systematic Review: Preventing Obesity in Midlife Women.
- Spatial Extent of Amyloid-β Levels and Associations with Tau-PET and Cognition.
- Targeting Structures, Communications, and Beliefs to Advance Practical Strategies for Obesity Solutions.
- Characterization of Interactions of Dietary Cholesterol with the Murine and Human Gut Microbiome.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Childhood Sexual Abuse and Food Addiction Severity in a Clinical Sample of Individuals with Overweight or Obesity.
- The Relationship between Big Five Personality Traits, Eating Habits, Physical Activity, and Obesity in Indonesia Based on Analysis of the 5th Wave Indonesia Family Life Survey (2014).
Equity and Disparities
- Thirty Obesity Myths, Misunderstandings, And/Or Oversimplifications: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) 2022.
- Systematic Review: Psychosocial and Energetic Factors on Human Female Pubertal Timing.
- Relationships of Tobacco Use and Kava Consumption to Sex-Associated Variation in Body Composition and Obesity Risk in Melanesian Adults from Vanuatu.
- Hospitals That Serve Many Black Patients Have Lower Revenues and Profits: Structural Racism in Hospital Financing.
Stigma
- Ready to Treat Patients with Obesity?: Evaluation of Undergraduate Students’ Body Image, Disordered Eating Attitudes & Behaviors, and Anti-Fat Attitudes.
- Exploring Weight Bias Internalization in Pregnancy.
- Motivations for Engaging in or Avoiding Conversations About Weight: Adolescent and Parent Perspectives.
Policy Related
- Malnutrition-Related Conditions and Interventions in US State/Territorial Older Americans Act Aging Plans.
- Effect of the Reevaluated Thrifty Food Plan and Emergency Allotments on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits and Poverty. (PDF)
- Medicaid Expansion and Health Care Access for Individuals with Obesity in the United States.
- Competing Public Narratives in Nutrition Policy: Insights Into the Ideational Barriers of Public Support for Regulatory Nutrition Measures.
- New Mexico Sponsors Identify Time and Money as Factors Affecting Home-Based Provider Child and Adult Care Food Program Engagement.
Intergenerational Effects
- Effects of Maternal High-Fat Diet on the Hypothalamic Components Related to Food Intake and Energy Expenditure in Mice Offspring.
- Home Quarantine: A Double-Edged Sword During COVID-19 Pandemic for Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and the Related Complications.
- Perinatal Exposure to Environmental Endocrine Disruptor Bisphenol A Aggravates the Onset of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) in Weanling F1 Offspring of Obese Rats.
- Intake of Mother's Milk by Very Low Birth Weight Infants and Variation in DNA Methylation of Genes Involved in Neurodevelopment at 5.5 Years.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- Earliest Evidence for Fruit Consumption and Potential Seed Dispersal by Birds.
- Energetic Constraints on Body-Size Niches in a Resource-Limited Marine Environment.
- Information Content of Brain States Is Explained by Structural Constraints on State Energetics.
- An Amphibian High Fat Diet Model Confirms That Endocrine Disruptors Can Induce a Metabolic Syndrome in Wild Green Frogs (Pelophylax Spp. Complex).
- State Dependence of Arousal from Torpor in Brown Long-Eared Bats (Plecotus auritus).
Methods
- Predicting Energy Intake in Adults Who are Dieting and Exercising.
- Determining the Stability of Genome-Wide Factors in BMI between Ages 40 to 69 Years.
- Evaluating How Clear the Questions Being Investigated in Randomised Trials Are: Systematic Review of Estimands.
Commentary
- A Guide to the White House Food Conference.
- Making Sense of the “Do Nudges Work?” Debate.
- CDC Reorganizes, Science and Policy Rumble.
- Obesity, Cancer Risk, and Time-Restricted Eating.
- Rising Obesity: The Third Half of the Root Cause.
- Environmental Drivers of Obesity: Individual Willpower Versus Societal Responsibility.
- Type 2 Diabetes Therapeutics: Weight Loss and Other Strategies.
- Pregnant Women Need Local References for Gestational Weight Gain – an Editorial.
- UK Drought: Why We Need to Get Used to Wonky Vegetables.
General
- A Biochemist’s View of Life’s Origin Reframes Cancer and Aging.
- Preoperative Prediction of BMI of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes at 1 Year After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: Cross-Sectional Study.
- B Cell Contribution to Immunometabolic Dysfunction and Impaired Immune Responses in Obesity.
- Cooler Temps and Northern Climes Associated with Increased Diabetes Diagnoses in Dogs.
- Melatonin: A Potential Disease-Deferring Hormone.
- What Happened When We Tried to Get a Paper Claiming ‘Billions of Lives are Potentially at Risk’ from COVID-19 Vaccines Retracted.
- Cellular Senescence: The Villain of Metabolic Disease?
- Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease are Associated with Physical Functioning Outcomes Among Cognitively Normal Adults in the Multi-Ethnic HABS-HD Cohort.
Announcements
- IU Professor John E. Bates Named as the 2022 Recipient of the Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award from Division 1 of the American Psychological Association.
- Nutrition 2022: Recent Advances in the Treatment of Obesity.
- IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Strong Data Analytic and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency and/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity, Nutrition, or Aging Research Domains.
- Scientific Meeting: Causes of Obesity: Theories, Conjectures and Evidence.