Featured

• RCT: The Effects of Experimentally Manipulated Social Status and Subjective Social Status on Physical Activity Among Hispanic Adolescents.
• RCT: Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science.
• Dietary Protein Intake Is Positively Associated with Appendicular Lean Mass and Handgrip Strength Among Middle-Aged US Adults.
• Exercise Plasma Boosts Memory and Dampens Brain Inflammation Via Clusterin.

Headline vs Study

• Book: Obesity in The News - Language and Representation in The Press.
• Headline: Synthetic Food Additive Causes Detrimental Effects on the Gut Microbiota.
• Study: Primary Preregistered Outcome (Bacterial-Epithelial Distance) Not Statistically Different between 0 and 15 Grams of Carboxymethylcellulose Per Day.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: 5 Years of Exercise Intervention Did Not Benefit Cognition Compared to the Physical Activity Guidelines in Older Adults.
• RCT: Prenatal Supplementation with Multiple Micronutrient Supplements or Medium-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Has Limited Effects on Child Growth Up to 24 Months in Rural Niger.
• "No association was found between whole egg consumption and cognitive functioning among US older adults."
• Type 2 Diabetes Risk Not Associated with Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy, Study Shows.
• "Fructose does not enhance stress effects on hepatic lipid and glucose metabolism but attenuates its effects on hepatic lipid accumulation and inflammation" in rats.
• "Contrary to hypotheses, the influence of implicit theories and risk perceptions [of obesity and weight] were primarily independent..."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, MCAv [middle cerebral artery blood velocity] remained above baseline during HIIT."
• Growth Hormone Treatment Does Not to Lead to Insulin Resistance nor Excessive Rise in IGF-1 Levels, While Improving Height in Patients Small for Gestational Age a Long-Term Observational Study.

Basic

• The Multifunctional Protein E4F1 Links P53 to Lipid Metabolism in Adipocytes.
• β3-Adrenergic Receptor Downregulation Leads to Adipocyte Catecholamine Resistance in Obesity.
• Wt1 Haploinsufficiency Induces Browning of Epididymal Fat and Alleviates Metabolic Dysfunction in Mice on High-Fat Diet.
• Acetoacetate Protects Macrophages from Lactic Acidosis-Induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction by Metabolic Reprograming.
• Obesity-Induced Inflammation Cooperates with Loss of DNA Methyltransferase 3A to Develop Early-Onset of Leukemia.
• Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 Infects Human Adipose Tissue and Elicits an Inflammatory Response Consistent with Severe COVID-19.
• Review: Sex Differences in White Adipose Tissue Expansion: Emerging Molecular Mechanisms.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Does SARS-CoV-2 Target and Exploit Fat Tissue?
• SSB [Sugar Sweetened Beverage] Taxes: Ineffective, but Better Than Nothing.
• Retraction: Vitamin a Deficiency and Sleep Disturbances Related to Autism Symptoms in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Clinical

• Ketogenic Diet in Glut 1 Deficiency Through the Life Cycle: Pregnancy to Neonate to Preschooler.
• Optimizing a Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention to Improve Dietary Adherence in Behavioral Obesity Treatment.

Children and Adolescents

• Pediatric Weight Management Interventions Improve Prevalence of Overeating Behaviors.
• Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Dietary Nutrient Profiles Associated with Obesity: A Multicountry Study of Children and Adolescents.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effectiveness of Fundamental Movement Skill Interventions on Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity Levels in 5- to 11-Year-Old Children.

Surgery

• High-Throughput Mediation Analysis of Human Proteome and Metabolome Identifies Mediators of Post-Bariatric Surgical Diabetes Control.
• Prospective Cohort Study: Bariatric Surgery Leads to a Reduction in Antibodies to Apolipoprotein A-1.
• Review: Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in Mechanism of Energy and Glucose Regulation Post Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Elucidating Drug-Like Compounds and Potential Mechanisms of Corn Silk (Stigma maydis) Against Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Pharmacotherapy for Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Review: Melanocortin-4 Receptor Complexity in Energy Homeostasis/obesity and Drug Development Strategies.

Food & Diet

• Implementing the 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans: Recommendations for a Path Forward.
• USDA's FoodData Central: What Is It? And Why Is It Needed Today?
• Dietary Supplements Consumption and Its Association with Socioeconomic Factors, Obesity and Main Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases in the North of Iran.
• Role of the Rs10401670 Variant in the Resistin Gene on the Metabolic Response After Weight Loss Secondary to a High-Fat Hypocaloric Diet with a Mediterranean Pattern.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effects of Caloric Restriction and Aerobic Exercise on Circulating Cell-Free Mitochondrial DNA in Patients with Moderate-To-Severe Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Post-Ischemic Protein Restriction Induces Sustained Neuroprotection, Neurological Recovery, Brain Remodeling, and Gut Microbiota Rebalancing.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Short and Long-Term Effects of High-Intensity Interval Training Applied Alone or with Whole-Body Cryostimulation on Glucose Homeostasis and Myokine Levels in Subjects with Overweight to Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Does Exercise Beneficially Affect Sex Hormones When Added to Hypo-Caloric Diets in Adults with Overweight or Obesity?

Economics & Sociology

• Behavioral Economic Cigarette Demand Among Individuals Who Smoke with and Without Obesity.
• Cost and Cost Effectiveness of a Pilot M-Health Intervention Targeting Parents of School-Aged Children to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Foods Packed in the Lunchbox.
• Productivity, Obesity, and Human Capital: Panel Data Evidence.
• Commentary: Accelerating Evaluation of Financial Incentives for Fruits and Vegetables: A Case for Shared Measures.

Epidemiology

• The Interaction between Genetic Polymorphisms in FTO, MC4R and MTHFR Genes and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Relation to Obesity.
• Muscle-To-Fat Ratio Identifies Functional Impairments and Cardiometabolic Risk and Predicts Outcomes: Biomarkers of Sarcopenic Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Changes in Temporal Discounting, Hedonic Hunger, and Food Addiction During Recovery from Substance Misuse.
• Psychophysiological Regulation and Classroom Climate Influence First and Second Graders’ Well-Being: The Role of BMI.
• The Relationship between Acute Stress and Neurophysiological and Behavioral Measures of Food-Related Inhibitory Control.
• High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Leads to Depressive and Anxiety-Like Behaviors in Mice Via AMPK/mTOR-Mediated Autophagy.

Equity and Disparities

• Addressing Hispanic Obesity Disparities Using a Community Health Worker Model Grounded in Motivational Interviewing.
• Scoping Review: Family-Based Interventions for Preventing Overweight or Obesity Among Preschoolers from Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups.

Stigma

• Do Media Portrayals and Social Consensus Information Impact Anti-Fat Attitudes and Support for Anti-Weight Discrimination Laws and Policies?
• Ambivalence and Moral Dilemmas in Women’s Lived Experiences of Obesity and Pregnancy: Qualitative Insights for Maternal Lifestyle Interventions.
• Review: Weight Stigma and Social Media: Evidence and Public Health Solutions.

Policy Related

• Monitoring Changes in Community Support for Policies on Obesity Prevention.
• Uncovering the Roots of Obesity-Based Wage Discrimination: The Role of Job Characteristics.
• Survey: Knowledge, Understanding and Use of Front-Of-Pack Labeling in Food and Beverage Decisions: Insights From Shoppers in the U.S.

Intergenerational Effects

• RCT: Mediterranean Diet or Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Prevention of Small-For-Gestational Age Birth Weights in Newborns Born to At-Risk Pregnant Individuals.
• Lipid Endocannabinoids in Energy Metabolism, Stress and Developmental Programming.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Acclimations to Cold and Warm Conditions Differently Affect the Energy Metabolism of Diapausing Larvae of the European Corn Borer Ostrinia nubilalis.
• Reconstruction of Evolutionary Changes in Fat and Toxin Consumption Reveals Associations with Gene Losses in Mammals.
• You are More Than What You Eat: Potentially Adaptive Enrichment of Microbiome Functions Across Bat Dietary Niches.
• Book Chapter: Influence of the Basal Metabolic Profile on the Evolution of the Pediatric Patient with Obesity.

Methods

• Collaborative Platform: Research Ideas Catalogue – Knowledge & Impact.
• "... a universal method to measure and report adherence to exercise interventions."

Commentary

• Scoping Review: Social Entrepreneurship in Obesity Prevention.
• The Fuzzy Relationship between Income and Obesity.
• The Imperatives of Diet Now: Is “Should” on the Menu?
• Fitness Trackers Can Give Early Warning of COVID-19, Study Finds.
• Machine Learning for Food Security: Principles for Transparency and Usability.
• Investigating Contrasting Results in REDUCE-IT and STRENGTH: Partial Answers but Questions Remain.
• New Insights in Diagnosing and Treatment of Glucose Disorders and Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• Pharmacotherapy of Obesity in Complex Diseases.

General

• Lead, Mercury, Other Pollutants Could Affect Birth Ratios of Boys to Girls.
• "Using the mouse as a model, we develop a synthetic lethal, bicomponent CRISPR-Cas9 strategy that produces male- or female-only litters with one hundred percent efficiency."
• The Importance of Trustworthiness: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Investigating the Replicability of Preclinical Cancer Biology.
• Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition.
• Muscle Rejuvenating Factor Uncovered in Circulating Extracellular Vesicles.
• Symmetry's Infinite Discords Asymmetry Reflects Transience and Precariousness in Life.
• The Perils of Flawed Research and the Ivermectin Debacle.

Announcements

• "U.S. News & World Report listed IU Health Bloomington and IU Health Paoli on its inaugural ranking of Best Hospitals for Maternity in Indiana."
• Webinar: Jan 8 - What You Eat Matters: Diet and Its Long-Term Effect on Cognitive Function.
• Sustainable Nutrition for Growth: New Special Collection from the American Society for Nutrition (Freely Available Until Jan 31).
• The Indiana University 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.
• 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.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track Search: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track Search: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor.