09/03/21
Featured
- Another Look at the Extinction of Conditioned Flavor Preferences: Amount of Training and Tests for Spontaneous Recovery.
- Effect of Disclosed Information on Product Liking, Emotional Profile, and Purchase Intent: A Case of Chocolate Brownies Containing Edible-Cricket Protein.
- "Determining the causality of the relationship between energy compensation and adiposity will be key to improving public health strategies regarding obesity."
Headline vs Study
- Headline: Consuming Millets Can Reduce Risk of Developing Cardiovascular Disease.
- Study: Meta-Analysis That Predominantly Includes Pre-Post Studies on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors. Causation Not Established.
Contrary or Null Findings
- RCT: "no significant effects were observed for the primary outcome of weight or average steps per day" in Mobile health assisted self-monitoring is acceptable for supporting weight loss in rural men.
- RCT: "This intervention [a family-based multidisciplinary program for children with obesity], with high engagement from those most affected by obesity, did not achieve long-term efficacy of the primary outcome."
- No Ego-Depletion Effect Without a Good Control Task.
- "Thus, in the type of subjects studied here, borage oil, a source of GLA, did not show promise as a weight control aid..."
- Overall Lack of Genotoxic Activity Among Five Common Low- and No-Calorie Sweeteners: A Contemporary Review of the Collective Evidence.
- RCT: Introducing Dietary Self-Monitoring to Undergraduate Women Via a Calorie Counting App Has No Effect on Mental Health or Health Behaviors.
- "We found no evidence suggesting that loss-framed incentives perform better than gain-framed incentives in children and isolated studies from healthy food choice experiments support the use of immediate, small incentives versus delayed, larger incentives."
- RCT: "Neither intervention yielded significant improvements in child BMI z-score or parent BMI, yet both were delivered with high fidelity."
Basic
- A Pyrexic Effect of FGF21 Independent of Energy Expenditure and UCP1.
- Systemic Versus Local Adipokine Expression Differs in a Combined Obesity and Osteoarthritis Mouse Model.
- JAZF1 Heterozygous Knockout Mice Show Altered Adipose Development and Metabolism.
- IL-20 Is Involved in Obesity by Modulation of Adipogenesis and Macrophage Dysregulation.
- Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Mutation Exacerbated High-Fat-Diet-Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with Gut Microbiota Remodeling in Male Mice.
Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue
- Toward a More Stable Understanding of Pregnancy Micronutrient Metabolism.
- Tortured Logic About Obesity Prevention.
Clinical
- RCT: Impact of Preconception Weight Loss on Fasting Glucose and Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Obesity.
- Brief Report: Neurological Considerations for the Care of Patients with Severe Obesity.
Children and Adolescents
- Parental Feeding Practices and Child-Related Factors are Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- Longitudinal Outcomes in Adolescents After Referral for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
Surgery
- Improvement in Muscle Strength and Metabolic Parameters Despite Muscle Mass Loss in the Initial Six Months After Bariatric Surgery.
- Evaluation of Resting Energy Expenditure in Subjects with Severe Obesity and Its Evolution After Bariatric Surgery.
- A Longitudinal Study of the Antilipolytic Effect of Insulin in Women Following Bariatric Surgery.
Drugs
- Baicalin Attenuates Diet-Induced Obesity Partially Through Promoting Thermogenesis in Adipose Tissue.
- Systematic Review: Clinical Outcomes Associated with Anti-Obesity Medications in Real-World Practice.
Food & Diet
- Thesis: Assessing Biomarkers of Magnesium in the Diet and for Nutritional Status.
- The Mediterranean Diet and Physical Activity: Better Together Than Apart for the Prevention of Premature Mortality.
- Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Effect of Weight-Loss Diets Prior to Elective Surgery on Postoperative Outcomes in Obesity.
- Salmon Peptides Limit Obesity-Associated Metabolic Disorders by Modulating a Gut-Liver Axis in Vitamin D-Deficient Mice.
Caloric and Dietary Restriction
- Short- and Long-Term Effects of Body Weight Loss Following Calorie Restriction and Gastric Bypass on CYP3A-Activity – a Non-Randomized Three-Armed Controlled Trial.
- Systematic Review: Metabolomic Biomarkers for the Intake of Sugar-Sweetened and Low-Calorie Sweetened Beverages.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Scoping Review: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) as a Potential Countermeasure for Phenotypic Characteristics of Sarcopenia.
- Validation of Ambulatory Monitoring Devices to Measure Energy Expenditure and Heart Rate in a Military Setting.
- Physical Activity Intensity, Perceived Exertion, and Enjoyment During Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality Games.
- Eight-Week Exercise Training in Humans with Obesity: Marked Improvements in Insulin Sensitivity and Modest Changes in Gut Microbiome.
Economics & Sociology
- Regional and Sociodemographic Differences in Average BMI Among US Children in the ECHO Program.
- Uncorrected proof: Long-Term Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions for Obesity: A Mendelian Randomisation Study.
- Overweight/obesity Relationship with Travel Patterns, Socioeconomic Characteristics, and Built Environment.
- Thesis: Influencing Consumer Choice for Healthy Foods at the Point of Purchase: The Role of Marketing Communication and Food Pricing Strategies.
Epidemiology
- Meta-analysis: Effect of Long-Term Weight Gain on the Risk of Breast Cancer Across Women’s Whole Adulthood as Well as Hormone-Changed Menopause Stages.
- COVID-19 Pandemic and Stay-At-Home Mandates Promote Weight Gain in US Adults.
- Reconciling the Obesity Paradox: Patients With Obesity Suffer the Highest Critical Illness Associated Mortality Rates.
- Association between Obesity and Hospital Mortality in Critical COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
- Comparison of Anthro-Metabolic Indicators for Predicting the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in the Elderly Population: Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) Program.
- BMI and Associated Factors Among Refugees Living in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: A Cross-Sectional Study.
- Obesity and Breast Cancer Risk in Men: A National Case-Control Study in England and Wales.
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Review: Addressing Psychosocial Health in the Treatment and Care of Adolescents with Obesity.
- Interleukin-6 Actions in the Hypothalamus Protects Against Obesity and Is Involved in the Regulation of Neurogenesis.
- Adult Attention-Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder Among Alcohol Use Disorder Inpatients Is Associated with Food Addiction and Binge Eating, but Not BMI.
- Thesis: Understanding the Biological Pathways between Depression and Obesity.
Equity and Disparities
- Differential Associations of the Built Environment on Weight Gain by Sex and Race/ethnicity but Not Age.
- Trends in Prepregnancy Obesity and Association with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in the United States, 2013 to 2018.
- Ethnic Group Differences in Obesity in Asian Americans in California, 2013–2014.
Stigma
- Discrimination Associated with Metabolic Syndrome Among African Americans from the Jackson Heart Study. (pdf)
- Experiences of Weight Stigma in Adolescents with Severe Obesity and Their Families.
Policy Related
- Literature Review: The Elusive Link between Income and Obesity.
- Policy Instruments for Health Promotion: A Comparison of WHO Policy Guidance for Tobacco, Alcohol, Nutrition and Physical Activity. (pdf)
- Obesity and Gut Microbiome: Review of Potential Role of Probiotics.
Intergenerational Effects
- Maternal Total Fat, Saturated Fat, and Added Sugar Intakes During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Associated with Infant Body Fat.
- Diet Quality of Norwegian Children at 3 and 7 Years: Changes, Predictors and Longitudinal Association with Weight.
- Review: Metabolic Conditions Including Obesity, Diabetes, and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Implications for Breastfeeding and Breastmilk Composition.
Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics
- The Reproductive Phenology of Blackbuck: Influence of Seasonal Nutritional Resources and Flexible Lactation as an Adaptive Strategy.
- Gudgeon Fish with and Without Genetically Determined Countershading Coexist in Heterogeneous Littoral Environments of an Ancient Lake.
Methods
- Evaluation of a Suggested Novel Method to Adjust BMI Calculated from Self-Reported Weight and Height for Measurement Error.
- A Novel Model of Obesity Prediction: Neurobehaviors as Targets for Treatment.
Mathematical and Quantitative
- Equitability of Individual and Population Interventions to Reduce Obesity: A Modeling Study in Mexico.
- Weight and Body Composition Changes Affect Resting Energy Expenditure Predictive Equations During a 12-Month Weight-Loss Intervention.
Commentary
- ""These data in the abstract are interesting," said Eckel, but are not definitive proof that drinking more water is protective of cardiovascular health."
- FDA Releases PFAS Testing Results from First Survey of Nationally Distributed Processed Foods.
- Seriously? 1 Hot Dog = 36 Minutes Less of Healthy Life?
- Science-Based Policy: Targeted Nutrition for All Ages and the Role of Bioactives.
- Obesity, Weight Gain, and Weight Management.
- Narrative Review: ‘Joining the Dots’: Individual, Sociocultural and Environmental Links between Alcohol Consumption, Dietary Intake and Body Weight.
- Global High Blood Pressure, Obesity, and Poverty.
General
- Community Service Learning in the Teen Outreach Program in Non-Metropolitan Florida High Schools.
- Expanding the Curriculum in a School of Public Health.
- Does Choice Change Preferences? An Incentivized Test of the Mere Choice Effect.
- Webinar: "Science is Self-Correcting- But the Record is Not": Marcia McNutt, David Allison, Brian Nosek, Patti Brennan, and Jeffrey Peters, -the experts discuss the challenges.
- Free Electronic Book: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency: Seventh Edition (2021).
- Aging: What We Can Learn from Elephants.
- RCT: Effect of Salt Substitution on Cardiovascular Events and Death.
- Exercise Load Monitoring: Integrated Approaches to Advance the Individualisation of Exercise Oncology.