Featured

• Intermittent Time-Restricted Feeding "enhanced circadian-regulated transcription and that iTRF-mediated lifespan extension required both circadian regulation and autophagy, a conserved longevity pathway" in flies.
• Microbial Composition and Genes for Key Metabolic Attributes in the Gut Digesta of Sea Urchins Lytechinus variegatus and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Using Shotgun Metagenomics.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a Lifestyle Weight-Loss Intervention Targeting Inactive Former Elite Athletes: The Champ4Life.
• RCTs: "Stimulated Insulin Secretion Predicts Changes in Body Composition Following Weight Loss in Adults with High BMI."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study: Fitness, Physical Activity Appear Superior to Weight Loss for Reducing Risks of Obesity.
• Review: "We propose a weight-neutral strategy for obesity treatment." No study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "We hypothesized that participants consuming a daily meal with an avocado would exhibit greater declines in VAT, VS Ratio..." - The opposite was found.
• RCT: "...healthy postmenopausal women were not impacted by supplemental watermelon juice."
• RCT: "No mean differences were detected between the groups...[in] Maintenance of physical activity level, functioning and health after non-pharmacological treatment of pelvic girdle pain with either transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation or acupuncture."
• RCT: No Effect of High-Intensity Interval Training Versus Progressive High-Intensity Circuit Resistance Training on Endothelial Function, the RCT's Primary Outcome.
• RCT: "In-person group exercise and education are not superior to written education and neurologist-initiated interventions for preventing falls in PwMS [People with multiple sclerosis]."
• RCT: "Once-daily omeprazole does not markedly increase appetite in cats with CKD and should not be used as a first-line treatment in the absence of evidence of gastrointestinal ulceration."
• RCT: "We observed no effect of inulin-type fructans on appetite hormones, subjective feeling of appetite or energy intake in patients with type 2 diabetes."
• RCT: "Curcumin supplementation did not elicit significant changes in anthropometric indices in this study."

Basic

• Tribbles Homolog 3 Mediates the Development and Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy.
• Long-Term Diet-Induced Obesity Does Not Lead to Learning and Memory Impairment in Adult Mice.
• Hepatocyte-Specific Phgdh-Deficient Mice Culminate in Mild Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Enhanced Vulnerability to Protein Starvation.
• Long-Term Chronic Exposure to Di-(2-Ethylhexyl)-Phthalate Induces Obesity Via Disruption of Host Lipid Metabolism and Gut Microbiota in Mice.
• Prenatal Stress Promotes Insulin Resistance Without Inflammation or Obesity in C57BL/6J Male Mice.
• Adipose Expression of CREB3L3 Modulates Body Weight During Obesity.
• Sex Hormones Regulate Meta-Inflammation in Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice.
• Combined Supplementation with Vitamin B-6 and Curcumin Is Superior to Either Agent Alone in Suppressing Obesity-Promoted Colorectal Tumorigenesis in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Healthy Eating: Statistical Significance That’s Insignificant.
• Our Unnatural Fascination with All Things Natural.
• A Reproduction of the Results of Onyike et al. (2003) [of a Reported Association between Obesity and Major Depression].
• NUQUEST—NUtrition QUality Evaluation Strengthening Tools: Development of Tools for the Evaluation of Risk of Bias in Nutrition Studies.

Clinical

• RCT: Changes in Ghrelin and Glucagon Following a Low Glycemic Load Diet in Women with PCOS.
• Kidney Outcomes Associated with SGLT2 Inhibitors Versus Other Glucose-Lowering Drugs in Real-World Clinical Practice: The Japan Chronic Kidney Disease Database.
• Association of Statin Therapy Initiation with Diabetes Progression.

Children and Adolescents

• Editorial: The Urgency of Expanding Access to Effective Treatment for Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic Review: The Effect of Growth Rate During Infancy on the Risk of Developing Obesity in Childhood.
• Unfavorable Progression of Obesity in Children and Adolescents Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A School-Based Survey in China.
• Use of a Mobile Lifestyle Intervention App as an Early Intervention for Adolescents with Obesity: Single-Cohort Study.
• Comparison of the Key Modifiable Factors in the First 1000 Days Predicting Subsequent Overweight and Obesity in Pre-School Children in Tehran: A Case Control Study.
• cRCT: Impact of an Obesity Prevention Intervention on Child Care Center Nutrition and Physical Activity Environment over Two Years.

Surgery

• Evaluation of the Effect of Donor Weight on Adipose Stromal/stem Cell Characteristics by Using Weight-Discordant Monozygotic Twin Pairs.
• Evaluation of the Impact of Gastric Bypass Surgery on Eating Behaviour Using Objective Methodologies Under Residential Conditions: Rationale and Study Protocol.
• Eating Disorder Symptomatology Among Adolescents Presenting for Bariatric Surgery Candidacy: Examining Differences by Sex and Racial Minority Status.
• RCT: Putting ATM to BED: How Adipose Tissue Macrophages are Affected by Bariatric Surgery, Exercise, and Dietary Fatty Acids.

Drugs

• Liraglutide Changes Body Composition and Lowers Added Sugar Intake in Overweight Persons with Insulin Pump-Treated Type 1 Diabetes.
• Combination of TRP Channel Dietary Agonists Induces Energy Expending and Glucose Utilizing Phenotype in HFD-Fed Mice.
• Reply: Semaglutide vs Placebo as an Adjunct to Intensive Behavioral Therapy and Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: The Effects of Soy Products on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Effect of Different Patterns of Consumption of Coffee and a Cocoa-Based Product Containing Coffee on the Nutrikinetics and Urinary Excretion of Phenolic Compounds.
• RCT: Efficacy of Krill Oil Versus Fish Oil on Obesity-Related Parameters and Lipid Gene Expression in Rats.
• Personalized Diet Study of Dietary Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) and Fatty Acid Desaturase 2 (FADS2) Genotypes in Obesity.
• Dietary Mediators of the Genetic Susceptibility to Obesity.
• The Relationship between Modified Nordic Diet and Resting Metabolic Rate Among Women with Overweight and Obesity in Tehran, Iran: A Cross Sectional Study.
• Carrot Consumption Frequency Associated with Reduced BMI and Obesity Through the SNP Intermediary Rs4445711.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Meta-Analysis: Improving the Dietary Intake of Healthcare Workers Through Workplace Dietary Interventions.
• RCT: A Lifestyle Intervention with an Energy-Restricted Mediterranean Diet and Physical Activity Enhances HDL Function.
• The Informal Governance of Public-Private Partnerships in UK Obesity Policy: Collaborating on Calorie Reduction or Reducing Effectiveness?

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Vigorous Physical Activity Is Important in Maintaining a Favourable Health Trajectory in Active Children.
• The Implementation Facilitation of the “11 for Health in Denmark” – a Case Study in a Danish 5th-Grade Class.
• Opinion: Is Running an Appropriate Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity for Children with Overweight or Obesity?
• Impact of Exercise and Detraining During Childhood on Brown Adipose Tissue Whitening in Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Cardiometabolic Health: A Test of the John Henryism Hypothesis in African American Elders.
• Do Intersecting Identities Structure Social Contexts to Influence Life Course Health? The Case of School Peer Economic Disadvantage and Obesity.
• Packaging and Scaling the Stanford Pediatric Weight Control Program: A Family-Based, Group, Behavioral Weight Management Program for Children with Obesity and Their Families: Background, Rationale, and Design of the Stanford CORD 3.0 Project.
• Setting the Stage for Reimbursable Pediatric Healthy Weight Programs.
• Moving Pediatric Healthy Weight Interventions into Real-World Settings, Using Implementation Science to Address Access, Flexibility, and Sustainability.

Epidemiology

• Association between Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease in Elderly Patients with Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• In Utero and Childhood Exposure to the Great Chinese Famine and Risk of Cancer in Adulthood.
• Body Composition of Adults with a History of Severe Acute Malnutrition During Childhood Using the Deuterium Dilution Method in Eastern DR Congo.
• Genetic Risk for Obesity and the Effectiveness of the ChooseWell 365 Workplace Intervention to Prevent Weight Gain and Improve Dietary Choices.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Review: Obesity as a Condition Determined by Food Addiction: Should Brain Endocannabinoid System Alterations Be the Cause and Its Modulation the Solution?
• Metformin in the Management of Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain in Adults with Psychosis: Development of the First Evidence-Based Guideline Using GRADE Methodology.
• Altered Theta Rhythm and Hippocampal-Cortical Interactions Underlie Working Memory Deficits in a Hyperglycemia Risk Factor Model of Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Neural Underpinnings of Food Choice and Consumption in Obesity.
• Decoding Explicit and Implicit Representations of Health and Taste Attributes of Foods in the Human Brain.
• DHA/EPA Supplementation Decreases Anxiety-Like Behavior, but It Does Not Ameliorate Metabolic Profile in Obese Male Rats.

Equity and Disparities

• Disparate Healthcare Experiences of People Living with Overweight or Obesity in England.
• Biological and Psychological Stress Correlates are Linked to Glucose Metabolism, Obesity, and Gender Roles in Women.
• Multimorbidity and Obesity in Older Adults from Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Stigma

• The Cyberball Task in People After Obesity Surgery: Preliminary Evaluation of Cognitive Effects of Social Inclusion and Exclusion with a Laboratory Task.
• Sexual Orientation and Obesity: What Do We Know?
• Perceived Social Stigma, Food Insecurity, and Food Assistance Use Among College Students.
• RCT: Weight Stigma by Association Among Parents of Children with Obesity.

Policy Related

• RCT: Gaps in Nutrition Policy Implementation in Childcare Centres in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region: A Cross-Sectional Survey.
• Systematic Review: Setting-Based Interventions for Preventing Childhood Obesity.
• International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE): Contributions to Understanding the Global Obesity Epidemic.
• Changes in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Policies and Diabetes Prevalence: Analysis of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data from 2004 to 2014.
• Who Influences Nutrition Policy Space Using International Trade and Investment Agreements? A Global Stakeholder Analysis.

Intergenerational Effects

• Associations between Adverse Home Environments and Appetite Hormones, Adipokines, and Adiposity Among Chilean Adolescents.
• Influence of Parental Physical Activity on Offspring’s Nutritional Status: An Intergenerational Study.
• Maturation of the Visceral (Gut-Adipose-Liver) Network in Response to the Weaning Reaction Versus Adult Age and Impact of Maternal High-Fat Diet.
• Maternal Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy and Offspring Early-Onset Cardiovascular Disease in Childhood, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood: A National Population-Based Cohort Study.
• Maternal Vitamin D Intake and BMI During Pregnancy in Relation to Child’s Growth and Weight Status from Birth to 8 Years: A Large National Cohort Study.
• Maternal Dietary Fatty Acid Composition and Newborn Epigenetic Aging—A Geometric Framework Approach.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Preprint: A Population Dynamics Tipping Point for Aging as a Cause of Adult Death.
• Guidelines for Reporting Methods to Estimate Metabolic Rates by Aquatic Intermittent-Flow Respirometry.
• Cross-Sectional Association of Toxoplasma Gondii Exposure with BMI and Diet in US Adults.

Methods

• Introducing an Integrated Model of Adults’ Wearable Activity Tracker Use and Obesity Information–Seeking Behaviors from a National Quota Sample Survey.
• Preprint: Analysis of Error-Prone Electronic Health Records with Multi-Wave Validation Sampling: Association of Maternal Weight Gain During Pregnancy with Childhood Outcomes.
• Translating Family-Based Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Obesity into a User-Friendly Digital Package for Delivery to Low-Income Families Through Primary Care Partnerships.
• Preference, Expected Burden, and Willingness to Use Digital and Traditional Methods to Assess Food and Alcohol Intake.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Comparison Among Three Maximal Mathematical Models of the Glucose-Insulin System.
• Guidelines on Design, Measurement and Statistics for Appetite.

Commentary

• Hungry or Full: It Comes Down to the Atomic Details.
• Nope, Nutrition Can’t Replace a COVID Vaccine.
• Intermittent Fasting Extends Healthspan Through Circadian Autophagy.
• Obesity and Stigma: The War Inside Your Head.
• Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Presents New Data from Phase 2 and 3 Trials Evaluating Setmelanotide in Multiple Rare Genetic Diseases of Obesity at the 59th Annual ESPE Meeting.
• The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act Is Essential for Compassionate, Evidence-Based Obesity Treatment.
• A Spark of New Life for Bimagrumab in Obesity.
• Higher Mortality for Men After Bariatric Surgery?
• Tying Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Closer Together.
• How Does Obesity Affect Mental Health?

General

• Exploration of the Hereditary Cause of Sex Ratio Distortion in Horses.
• Attitudes Toward Fetal Development-Based Abortion Bans in the United States.
• SARS-CoV-2 Causes Senescence in Human Cells and Exacerbates the Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype Through TLR-3.
• A New Approach to a Legacy Concern: Evaluating Machine-Learned Bayesian Networks to Predict Childhood Lead Exposure Risk from Community Water Systems.
• Circulating Levels of the Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan Syndecan-4 Positively Associate with Blood Pressure in Healthy Premenopausal Women.
• Preprint: RCT: Intervening on Trust in Science to Reduce Belief in COVID-19 Misinformation and Increase COVID-19 Preventive Behavioral Intentions.
• A Peripheral CB2 Cannabinoid Receptor Mechanism Suppresses Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Evidence from a CB2 Reporter Mouse.
• Remembrances of a Honey Bee Biologist.
• How White Scholars are Colonizing Research on Health Disparities.
• Letter: Cross-Talk between Skeletal Muscle and Placenta During Pregnancy: Possible Effects of Exercise Training.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Is Recruiting Tenure Track Faculty in Every Department! A Sampling of Opportunities Is Here, but Even Departments Not Yet Listed are Recruiting.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure-Track/Tenure: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health- Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University Bloomington Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.
• Webinar: Science from the Obesity Society.