Featured

• Assessment of Clinical Measures of Total and Regional Body Composition from Commercial 3-Dimensional Optical Body Scanner.
• Greasy Hair Against Obesity.
• Productivity, Obesity, and Human Capital: Panel Data Evidence.
• Gene Expression Signature of Exercise and Change of Diet on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: The Secret to a Sharper Mind Could Be in Your Garden.
• Press Release: A Diet Rich in Plant-Based Products Reduces the Risk of Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly: Metabolomics to Study the Impact of Diet on Health.
• Study: Food and Microbiota Metabolites Associate with (Not Necessarily Cause Change In) Cognitive Decline in Older Subjects. Not Your Garden (Unless You Grow Cocoa, Coffee, Mushrooms, and Red Wine).

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of a High-Intensity Interval Games Intervention on Body Composition in Schoolchildren.
• RCT: "Overall, the brief 14-days action control intervention was not effective in improving target person's physical activity, body measures and physical fitness in the long-term. Moreover, no long-term benefits for partners emerged."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Tailored, Daily Feedback with Lifestyle Self-Monitoring on Weight Loss.
• RCT: A High Single Oral Dose of Turmeric Extract (Curcuma longa l.) Does Not Improve Skeletal Muscle Microvascular Reactivity in Older Subjects.
• RCT: "No significant epigenetic aging associations were observed by intervention arms" with metformin.
• RCT: Resveratrol Treatment Does Not Reduce Arterial Inflammation in Males at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: "Dose-rising [whey] protein beverage ...did not suppress postprandial appetite (treatment*time, p > 0.05) or EI (ANOVA, p = 0.799)."
• RCT: Null Results in Comparison of Insulin Glargine and Detemir Effects on Hormones of Appetite and Metabolic Control in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes.

Basic

• Microbial Metabolite Delta-Valerobetaine Is a Diet-Dependent Obesogen.
• CNS GNPDA2 Does Not Control Appetite, but Regulates Glucose Homeostasis.
• Acetate Supplementation Restores Testicular Function by Modulating Nrf2/PPAR-γ in High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity in Wistar Rats.
• The Plasminogen Receptor Plg-RKT Regulates Adipose Function and Metabolic Homeostasis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Meta-Analysis: Poor Quality of Dietary Assessment in RCTs of Nutritional Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes May Affect Outcome Conclusions.
• Article: Açaí (Euterpe oleracea mart.) and Juçara (Euterpe edulis mart.) Juices Improved HDL-C Levels and Antioxidant Defense of Healthy Adults in a 4-Week Randomized Cross-Over Study.
• Letter: Methodological Issues on Above Article.
• Reply: Letter to the Editor on Above Article.
• Retraction: Influence of Adding Single-Joint Exercise to a Multijoint Resistance Training Program in Untrained Young Women Retraction.
• RetractionWatch: Exercise Researcher Earns More Retractions as Investigations Mount.

Clinical

• RCT: Intermittent vs Continuous Energy Restriction During Chemotherapy for Early Breast Cancer.
• RCT: Effect of Acupuncture and Metformin on Insulin Sensitivity in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Insulin Resistance.
• Nutrition Challenges of Cancer Cachexia.
• Comparing Video-Based, Telehealth-Delivered Exercise and Weight Loss Programs with Online Education on Outcomes of Knee Osteoarthritis.

Children and Adolescents

• Review: Childhood Obesity and Adverse Cardiometabolic Risk in Large for Gestational Age Infants and Potential Early Preventive Strategies.
• Perceived Stress, Eating Behavior, and Overweight and Obesity Among Urban Adolescents.
• Diet Quality Scores Associated with Improved Cardiometabolic Measures Among African American Adolescents.
• Postnatal Exposure to PM2.5 and Weight Trajectories in Early Childhood.

Surgery

• Hunger Mediates the Relationship between Food Insecurity and Binge Eating Among Bariatric Surgery Candidates.
• 30-Day Morbidity and Mortality of Sleeve Gastrectomy, Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass and One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of the GENEVA Data.
• Effect of Sleeve Gastrectomy, Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass, and Ileal Transposition on Myocardial Ischaemia-Reperfusion Injury in Non-Obese Non-Diabetic Rats.

Drugs

• Multi-Center Retrospective Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Apixaban Versus Warfarin for Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Severe Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Once-Weekly Semaglutide for Obesity or Overweight.

Food & Diet

• Highly Processed Food Intake and Immediate and Future Emotions in Everyday Life.
• Intermittent Fasting and Obesity-Related Health Outcomes: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses of RCTs.
• RCT: Greater Reducing Effects of Milk vs Pistachio Snacks on Anthropometric Indices in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Saturated Fat Ingestion Stimulates Proatherogenic Inflammation in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Oat Fiber Modulates Hepatic Circadian Clock Via Promoting Gut Microbiota-Derived Short Chain Fatty Acids.
• Beneficial Effects of Eicosapentaenoic Acid on the Metabolic Profile of Obese Female Mice Entails Upregulation of HEPEs and Increased Abundance of Enteric Akkermansia muciniphila.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Changing the Dietary Composition Improves Inflammation but Not Adipocyte Thermogenesis in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Nutritional Reprogramming of Mouse Liver Proteome Is Dampened by Metformin, Resveratrol, and Rapamycin.
• Preprint RCT: A Six-Month Periodic Fasting Reduces Microalbuminuria and Improves Metabolic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Nephropathy.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Exercise in the Park or Gym? The Physiological and Mental Responses of People with Obesity Walking in Different Settings at Different Speeds.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effect of Pre-Operative Exercise Intervention on Patient Outcomes Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Book Review: ThighMasters, Jazzercise, Yoga and Other Chapters in the History of Women and Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• Risk Assessment of Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence Involving Sedentary Occupations and Socioeconomic Status.
• Chapter: How Body Size Became a Disease.
• Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Physical Activity and Obesity Outcomes Among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Individuals.

Epidemiology

• Association of Anthropometric Measures of Obesity and Physical Activity with Cardio-Vascular Diseases Among Older Adults: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Survey, 2017–18.
• Weight Change Pattern Among Breastfeeding Mothers: One-Year Follow-Up.
• Deciphering the Irregular Risk of Stroke Increased by Obesity Classes: A Stratified Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Obesity and Kidney Function: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis Reveals Causal Effects of Plasma Proteome on Body Composition Traits.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Impulsivity and Compulsivity as Parallel Mediators of Emotion Dysregulation in Eating-Related Addictive-Like Behaviors, Alcohol Use, and Compulsive Exercise.
• Neural Activity in Self-Related Brain Regions in Response to Tailored Nutritional Messages Predicts Dietary Change.
• Review: Memory and Eating: A Bidirectional Relationship Implicated in Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• The Preventive Efforts of the Spanish Autonomous Regions and Socio-Economic Inequality in Childhood Obesity or Overweight.
• Differences in Dietary Quality by Sexual Orientation and Sex in the US: NHANES 2011-2016.

Stigma

• Adverse Childhood Experiences and Weight Stigma: Co-Occurrence and Associations with Psychological Well-Being.
• Attitudes Towards Appearance and Body-Related Stigma Among Young Women with Obesity and Psoriasis.

Policy Related

• Chapter: The Ethics of Obesity Policy.
• The Association between Obesity-Related Legislation in the United States and Adolescents’ Weight.

Intergenerational Effects

• Longitudinal Dietary Trajectories from Preconception to Mid-Childhood in Women and Children in the Southampton Women's Survey and Their Relation to Offspring Adiposity: A Group-Based Trajectory Modelling Approach.
• Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Overweight and Neonatal Gut Bacterial Colonization are Associated with Cognitive Development and Gut Microbiota Composition in Pre-School-Age Offspring.
• Infant Intakes of Human Milk Branched Chain Amino Acids are Negatively Associated with Infant Growth and Influenced by Maternal BMI.
• Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Relationship between Obesity and Male Infertility.
• RCT: INSIGHT Responsive Parenting Educational Intervention for Firstborns Is Associated with Growth of Second-Born Siblings.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Phenotypic Plasticity in the Energy Metabolism of a Small Andean Rodent: Effect of Short-Term Thermal Acclimation and Developmental Conditions.
• Review: The Evolutionary Significance of Human Brown Adipose Tissue: Integrating the Timescales of Adaptation.

Methods

• Review: Artificial Intelligence in Nutrition Research: Perspectives on Current and Future Applications.
• Perspective: Emerging Trends of Technology-Based Dietary Assessment.

Commentary

• Wegovy: Disrupting Obesity Care and Supply Chains.
• VTE Prevention in Bariatric Surgery: From Where Have We Come, and How Did We Get Here?
• The Ten Biggest Stories of 2021 in Obesity and Health.
• Editorial: Mitochondria at the Crossroads of Immunity and Inflammatory Tissue Damage.
• The Shameful Power of a Theory of Change.
• Can Exercise Training Help Redress Sexual Dimorphism in Type II Diabetes Outcomes?
• Adding Liraglutide to Diet and Exercise to Maintain Weight Loss - Is It Worth It?
• Super Mega High Quality Data on Intermittent Fasting?

General

• Dissertation: Customer Identity and Dysfunctional Behaviors: The Case of Impoliteness.
• Effort to Repeat Key Cancer Biology Experiments Reveals Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Replicability.
• Podcast with Steve Austad: Why Do Women Age Better and Live Longer Than Men?
• Is Lack of Curiosity an Age-Related Condition?
• Grandmaternal Microchimerism: Interesting Curiosity or Clinically Relevant Phenomenon?
• Increasing Utility of Google Trends in Monitoring Cardiovascular Disease.
• Diverse Mating Phenotypes Impact the Spread of Wtf Meiotic Drivers in Schizosaccharomyces Pombe.
• Neighborhood Structural Disadvantage and Biological Aging in a Sample of Black Middle Age and Young Adults.
• How Bad Research Clouded Our Understanding of Covid-19.
• Scoping Review: Associations between Indicators of Socioeconomic Position and DNA Methylation.

Announcements

• 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.