Featured

• RCT: Diet Quality Following Total Meal Replacement Compared with Food-Based Weight-Loss Diets in Postmenopausal Women with Obesity.
• Body Size and Digestive System Shape Resource Selection by Ungulates: A Cross-Taxa Test of the Forage Maturation Hypothesis.
• Deletion of the Feeding-Induced Hepatokine TSK Ameliorates the Melanocortin Obesity Syndrome.
• Exposure to Food Insecurity Increases Energy Storage and Reduces Somatic Maintenance in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).
• Energy Compensation and Adiposity in Humans.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Wait, What? Overeating Is Not the Primary Cause for Obesity - Study Reveals.
• Perspective: The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: A Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic. Not a Study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No significant "effects of a bicycle distribution program on 6 to 12-year-old children’s BMI."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, carbohydrate intake showed no positive association with weight regain after weight loss, and no interaction with baseline fasting glucose concentration was found."
• "Contrary to expectations, a systematic review showed that liking and wanting decreased after different weight management interventions."
• "Food supplementation increased males’ reproductive success, but, contrary to my prediction, it did not affect the reproductive success of tactics differently."
• RCT: "There was no effect of UCP2 45-bp I/D variance on the response to training in woman with obesity."
• RCT: "No significant differences between participants randomized to EC versus UC were observed with regards to GWG [gestational weight gain] less than or equal to 9.1 kgs, total GWG, or the proportion who gained less than, within or greater than the IOM recommendations. There were also no significant group differences for pregnancy or neonatal outcomes."
• RCT: "We have failed to demonstrate the statistically significant differences between the IHHT and sham patient groups receiving their respective treatments."
• A Culturally Informed Weight-Loss Competition for New Zealand Indigenous and Pacific Peoples Was Not Associated with Significantly Greater Weight Loss in Intervention Group in Quasi-Experimental Trial.

Basic

• Orexin, Serotonin, and Energy Balance.
• Review: AgRP Neurons: Regulators of Feeding, Energy Expenditure, and Behavior.
• Rhythmic Neuronal Activities of the Rat Nucleus of the Solitary Tract are Impaired by High-Fat Diet – Implications for Daily Control of Satiety.
• Mitophagy-Mediated Adipose Inflammation Contributes to Type 2 Diabetes with Hepatic Insulin Resistance.
• Cardiac PANK1 Deletion Exacerbates Ventricular Dysfunction During Pressure Overload.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Looking Through the Lens of Good Science, by Professor David Allison MAE.
• Preprint: The Devil Is in the Details: Reporting and Transparent Research Practices in Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Clinical Trials.
• Point: Is It Time to Rethink Aerobic Exercise Prescription Methods?
• Rebuttal: Is It Time to Rethink Aerobic Exercise Prescription Methods?
• Dietary Saturated Fats and Health: Are the U.S. Guidelines Evidence-Based?
• PubPeer Comment On: Angiotensin-(1-7) Participates in Enhanced Skeletal Muscle Insulin Sensitivity After a Bout of Exercise.

Clinical

• Free-Living Energy Balance Behaviors are Associated with Greater Weight Loss During a Weight Loss Program.
• Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Sexual Dysfunctions in Adults with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes: Results from Diabetes MILES - Flanders.
• RCT: Effect of Omega-3 and Vitamin D Co-Supplementation on Psychological Distress in Reproductive-Aged Women with Pre-Diabetes and Hypovitaminosis D.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Partial Meal Replacement Preconception Weight Loss Program for Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in Children with and without Obesity and Control Children.
• Physical Activity in Out of School Hours Care: An Observational Study.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a Gamification Strategy to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Schools.

Surgery

• Minimum Threshold of Bariatric Surgical Weight Loss for Initial Diabetes Remission.
• Ventricular Conduction Improvement After Pericardial Fat Reduction Triggered by Rapid Weight Loss in Subjects with Obesity Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity: Comparison of Gastric Bypass, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Usual Care.
• Long-Term Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Gut Microbiota Composition and Faecal Metabolome Related to Obesity Remission.

Drugs

• Liraglutide May Affect Visceral Fat Accumulation in Diabetic Rats Via Changes in FTO, AMPK, and AKT Expression.
• What Do Next-Generation Anti-Obesity Medications Setmelanotide, Semaglutide, Tirzepatide and Bimagrumab Mean for Clinical Practice?
• Gastrointestinal Tolerability of Once-Weekly Semaglutide 2.4 Mg in Adults with Overweight or Obesity, and the Relationship between Gastrointestinal Adverse Events and Weight Loss.

Food & Diet

• The Relationship between Mindful Eating and BMI and Body Compositions in Adults.
• Prospective Association between a Mediterranean-Style Dietary Score in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Young Adults from the ALSPAC Birth Cohort.
• Interactions between Caveolin 1 Polymorphism and the Mediterranean and Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay Diet (MIND) Diet on Metabolic Dyslipidemia in Adult Women with Overweight and Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Lutein Supplementation Combined with a Low-Calorie Diet in Middle-Aged Individuals with Obesity: Effects on Anthropometric Indices, Body Composition and Metabolic Parameters.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction Modulates Neuro-Immune System Differently in Young and Aged Rats.
• Systematic Review: Intermittent Fasting and the Possible Benefits in Obesity, Diabetes, and Multiple Sclerosis.
• Sequential Diets and Weight Loss: Including a Low-Carbohydrate High-Fat Diet with and Without Time-Restricted Feeding.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Association of Physical Activity Intensity and Bout Length with Mortality: An Observational Study of 79,503 UK Biobank Participants.
• Moderate-To-Vigorous Intensity Physical Activity from Young Adulthood to Middle Age and Metabolic Disease: A 30-Year Population-Based Cohort Study.
• RCT: Weight Loss and Exercise Differentially Affect Insulin Sensitivity, Body Composition, Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Muscle Strength in Older Adults with Obesity.
• A Single Bout of Exercise Improves Vascular Insulin Sensitivity in Adults with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• “That Chart Ain’t for Us”: How Black Women Understand “Obesity,” Health, and Physical Activity.
• Rurality, Gender, and Obesity: An Intersectionality Perspective on Rural Men’s Health.
• The Association of BMI with Quality of Life and Working Ability: A Finnish Population-Based Study.

Epidemiology

• Influence of Changes in Body Fat on Clinical Outcomes in a General Population: A 12-Year Follow-Up Report on the Ansan-Ansung Cohort in the Korean Genome Environment Study.
• The Relationship between BMI and In-Hospital Mortality in the Contemporary Era of an Acute Myocardial Infarction Management.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Physical Activity Is Associated with Lower Long-Term Incidence of Anxiety in a Population-Based, Large-Scale Study.
• Sleep Disturbances, Obesity, and Cognitive Function in Childhood: A Mediation Analysis.
• Meta-Analysis: Body Size Estimation in Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Uplifting the Voices of Rural American Indian Older Adults to Improve Understanding of Physical Activity Behavior.
• Seeking a Pot of Gold with Integrated Behavior Therapy and Research to Improve Health Equity: Insights from the RAINBOW Trial for Obesity and Depression.

Stigma

• Adverse Childhood Experiences and Weight Stigma: Co-Occurrence and Associations with Psychological Well-Being.
• Evidence of Weight Bias in the College Classroom: A Call for Inclusive Teaching Practices for Students of All Sizes.
• Eliminating the "Morbid" in Obesity: A Step Toward More Sensitive Documentation in the Era of Open Notes.
• Age and Gender Differences in the Relationship between Obesity and Disability with Self-Perceived Employment Discrimination: Results from a Retrospective Study of an Australian National Sample.

Policy Related

• Blue Food.
• Systematic Review: Weight Stigma and Obesity-Related Policies.
• When Pandemics Collide: The Impact of COVID-19 on Childhood Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Pregestational Diabetes Mediates the Association between Maternal Obesity and the Risk of Congenital Heart Defects.
• Postnatal Exercise Protects Offspring from High-Fat Diet-Induced Reductions in Subcutaneous Adipocyte Beiging in C57Bl6/J Mice.
• The Influence of Maternal Obesity on Cell-Free Fetal DNA and Blood Pressure Regulation in Pregnancies with Hypertensive Disorders.
• Paternal Weight Prior to Conception and Infant Birthweight: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Periconceptional Maternal Diet Characterized by High Glycemic Loading Is Associated with Offspring Behavior in NEST.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Review: AMPK: Restoring Metabolic Homeostasis over Space and Time.
• Mitochondria-Localized AMPK Responds to Local Energetics and Contributes to Exercise and Energetic Stress-Induced Mitophagy.
• Acylcarnitine Profile in Alaskan Sled Dogs During Submaximal Multiday Exercise Points Out Metabolic Flexibility and Liver Role in Energy Metabolism.
• Burrowing Star-Nosed Moles (Condylura cristata) are Not Hypoxia-Tolerant.

Methods

• Perspective: Opportunities and Challenges of Technology Tools in Dietary and Activity Assessment.
• Concordance of Bodies of Evidence from RCTs, Dietary Intake, and Biomarkers of Intake in Cohort Studies: A Meta-Epidemiological Study.

Commentary

• "'Conceptually' walking while 'actually' remaining fixed to our couches would fail to stem pandemic sedentariness."
• Caloric Restriction Reverses Aging: One Cell at a Time.
• Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitor (SGLT2i) as a Primary Preventative Agent in the Healthy Individual: A Need of a Future RCT?
• A Muscle-Centric View of Time-Restricted Feeding for Older Adults.
• Mixed Trends on Poverty and Food Insecurity in 2020.
• Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in the 21st Century: A Report from the 22nd Annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium.
• Can Plant-Based Diet Really Reduce COVID-19 Risk?
• More Obesity in the Pandemic? Kids Yes, Adults Iffy.

General

• Ancient Viral Integrations in Marsupials: A Potential Antiviral Defense.
• Why the Cognitive “Fountain of Youth” May Be Upstream: Pathways to Dementia Risk and Resilience Through Social Connectedness.
• Black Holes Flicker When They Eat, Revealing Their Size.
• Ebola Vaccine Good News: Clinical Trial Shows Strong Immune Response.
• Social Media Use, Physical Activity, and Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescence: Cross-Sectional Analysis.
• Faculty Engagement with Learning Analytics: Advancing a Student Success Culture in Higher Education.
• Phylogeographic Reconstruction of the Marbled Crayfish Origin.
• Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Promotion, and Tenure.
• The Food Wars.

Video & Audio

• Do I Really Need 10,000 Steps a Day? Scientists Say 7,000 Is Fine.
• Podcast: The Importance of Muscle Mass, Strength, and Cardiorespiratory Fitness for Longevity.

Announcements

• Building Data Power: New Initiative Aims to Connect Central Indiana’s Data-Sciences Talent, Resources.
• IU Makes $30 Million Investment in Faculty Diversity Hiring.
• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University, Bloomington, Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.
• Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health — Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.