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• "Here we demonstrate that miRNAs possess sorting sequences that determine their secretion in sEVs (EXOmotifs) or cellular retention (CELLmotifs) and that different cell types, including white and brown adipocytes..."
• Preventing Childhood Obesity in Primary Schools: A Realist Review from UK Perspective.
• Endogenous Cannabinoids are Required for MC4R-Mediated Control of Energy Homeostasis.
• Assessment of Baseline Rates of Functional and Absolute Iron Deficiency in Bariatric Surgery Candidates: A Retrospective Study.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: "Move More, Sit Less" Messaging Effective Approach for Weight Loss in Obesity.
• Press-Release: Study: Move More Often Supports Better Long-Term Weight Loss for Older Adults.
• Study: RCT: Among Assignment to Dietary Weight Loss Plus Aerobic Exercise, Sit Less Daylong Movement Program, or Both, There Was No Significant Group Difference in Adjusted Body Weight at 18 Months (The Primary Outcome).

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative Does Not Improve Attendance or Standardized Test Scores Among Urban Students.
• Contrary to Our Hypotheses, Genetically Inferred Caffeine Sensitivity Was More Strongly Associated with Coffee Taste Preferences Than with Genetically Inferred Bitter Taste Perception.
• High-Fat Meals Do Not Affect Thrombin Formation and Fibrin Clot Lysis in Individuals with Obesity During Intentional Weight Loss.
• RCT: "Despite promoting greater treatment engagement and initial weight loss, financial incentives as offered in this study did not promote better extended weight control."
• Partial-Body Cryotherapy Exposure 2 Hours Prior to a Shuttle Run Does Not Enhance Running Performance.
• Nine Years of Experimental Warming Did Not Influence the Thermal Sensitivity of Metabolic Rate in the Medaka Fish Oryzias latipes.
• RCT: Liraglutide Treatment Does Not Induce Changes in the Peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy.
• RCT: Resveratrol Treatment Does Not Reduce Arterial Inflammation in Males at Risk of Type-2 Diabetes.
• No Evidence of Association between Habitual Physical Activity and ECG Traits: Insights from the Electronic Framingham Heart Study.

Basic

• Defective Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and Impaired Glucose Metabolism in Mice Lacking Letmd1.
• Ablation of ORMDL3 Impairs Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and Insulin Sensitivity by Increasing Ceramide Generation.
• NPC1L1 Deficiency Suppresses Ileal Fibroblast Growth Factor 15 Expression and Increases Bile Acid Pool Size in High-Fat-Diet-Fed Mice.
• Targeting PLD2 in Adipocytes Augments Adaptive Thermogenesis by Improving Mitochondrial Quality and Quantity in Mice.
• Review: Genetic Variation in Satiety Signaling and Hypothalamic Inflammation: Merging Fields for the Study of Obesity.
• Apolipoprotein CIII Reduction Protects White Adipose Tissues Against Obesity-Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in Mice.
• Current Understanding of the Role of MicroRNAs from Adipose-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Preprint: Mixed Random and Nonrandom Allocation, and Group Randomization Have Been Mislabeled and Misanalysed, Necessitating Reanalysis. Comment On: “KiwiC for Vitality: Results of a Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial Testing the Effects of Kiwifruit or Vitamin C Tablets on Vitality in Adults with Low Vitamin C Levels”.
• Editor’s Note On: The Best Drug Supplement for Obesity Treatment: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.
• Perspective: USDA Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review Methodology: Grading the Strength of Evidence in Diet-And-Health-Related Systematic Reviews.
• Are Systematic Reviews Addressing Nutrition for Cancer Prevention Trustworthy? A Systematic Survey of Quality and Risk of Bias.
• Article: Attempting to Separate Placebo Effects from Exercise in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Comment: On: “Attempting to Separate Placebo Effects from Exercise in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta‑analysis”. (pdf)
• Response: To Comment On: “Attempting to Separate Placebo Effects from Exercise in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta‑Analysis”. (pdf)
• Podcast: How to Read and Understand Scientific Studies.
• Methodological Quality and Reporting Standards in Systematic Reviews with Meta-Analysis of Physical Activity Studies: A Report from the Strengthening the Evidence in Exercise Sciences Initiative (SEES Initiative).

Clinical

• RCT: Financial Incentives During Weight-Loss Induction and Maintenance in Online Group Weight Control.
• Mechanisms of Action in a Behavioral Weight-Management Program: Latent Growth Curve Analysis.
• Systematic Review: Stem Cells as a Potential Therapy in Managing Various Disorders of Metabolic Syndrome.
• Adequacy of Prescribed Caloric and Protein Intake and Reduction of Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with BMI Less Than 30 Kg/m2.

Children and Adolescents

• Use of Person-Centred Language Among Scientific Research Focused on Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Resting Energy Expenditure Prediction Equations in the Pediatric Population.
• Childhood Obesity Within the Lens of Racism.
• Growth During Times of Fear and Emotional Stress.
• Obesogens in Children—An Uncharted Territory.

Surgery

• Review: Personalized Approach for Patients with Obesity Undergoing Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty.
• Brain Imaging of the GLP-1 Receptor in Obesity Using 68Ga-NODAGA-Exendin-4 PET.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Circulating Levels of Oxidized Low-Density Lipoproteins Is Apparently Independent of Changes in BMI.
• Outcomes of Heart Transplant Recipients with Class II Obesity: A United Network for Organ Sharing Database Analysis.

Drugs

• RCT: Metformin for Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain in Patients with First-Episode Psychosis: A Pilot Study.
• The Omentum in Obesity-Associated Cancer: A Hindrance to Effective Natural Killer Cell Migration Towards Tumour Which Can Be Overcome by CX3CR1 Antagonism.
• Semaglutide for the Treatment of Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: SGLT Inhibitors on Weight and Body Mass.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Well-Balanced Lunch Reduces Risk of Lifestyle-Related Diseases in Middle-Aged Japanese Working Men.
• Association between Egg Consumption and Metabolic Syndrome in Chinese Population: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Distinct Nutrient Intake Style in Inhabitants of Ultra-High-Altitude Areas in North of Tibet, China.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Proteomic Analysis of Dietary Restriction in Yeast Reveals a Role for Hsp26 in Replicative Lifespan Extension.
• A Hypercaloric Diet Induces Early Podocyte Damage in Aged, Non-Diabetic Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Relationships between University Students’ Gender and Physical Activity (PA) and Their Exercise Self-Schemas, Processing of PA-Related Information, and PA Decision-Making.
• Dose–response Association between Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Incident Morbidity and Mortality for Individuals with a Different Cardiovascular Health Status.
• Sarcopenia: Molecular Pathways and Potential Benefits of Exercise Training.
• Systematic Review: What Predicts the Physical Activity Intention–Behavior Gap?

Economics & Sociology

• The Sociocultural Mechanism of Obesity: The Influence of Gender Role Attitudes on Obesity and the Gender Gap.
• Grandparental Care and Childhood Obesity in China.
• "Obesity in the City" – urbanization, health risks and rising obesity rates from the viewpoint of human biology and public health.
• A Market Basket Assessment: Prices and Availability of Healthy Foods Across SNAP-Authorized Food Outlets in Counties with High Obesity Rates in Mississippi.
• Is Overweight Still a Problem of Rich in Sub-Saharan Africa? Insights Based on Female-Oriented Demographic and Health Surveys.
• Healthy Eating Determinants and Food Security Resource Opportunities: Urban-Dwelling American Indian and Alaska Native Older Adults Perspectives.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Abdominal Obesity in Chinese Middle-Aged and Older Adults with a Normal BMI and Its Association with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Adiposity, Related Biomarkers, and Type 2 Diabetes After Gestational Diabetes.
• Genetic Variation in Satiety Signaling and Hypothalamic Inflammation: Merging Fields for the Study of Obesity.
• Early-Life Exposure to Famine and the Risk of General and Abdominal Obesity in Adulthood.
• Associations between BMI and Bladder Cancer Survival: Is the Obesity Paradox Short-Lived?
• Associations between DNA Methylation and BMI Vary by Metabolic Health Status: A Potential Link to Disparate Cardiovascular Outcomes.
• BMI, Diabetes, and Risk of Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Systematic Review: Cat and/or Dog Ownership, Cardiovascular Disease, and Obesity.
• Geographic Variation in Obesity at the State Level in the All of Us Research Program.
• The Links between Sleep Duration, Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Conscientiousness and Cardiometabolic Risk: A Test of the Health Behavior Model of Personality Using Structural Equation Modeling.
• Is Obesity in the Brain? Parent Perceptions of Brain Influences on Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Sociodemographic Disparities and Contextual Factors in Obesity: Updated Evidence from a National Survey of Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases.
• Everyday Discrimination as a Predictor of Maladaptive and Adaptive Eating.
• Weight-Based Stereotype Threat in the Workplace: Consequences for Employees with Overweight or Obesity.
• Regional Adolescent Obesity and Overweight Status in Korea from 2018–2019: Comparison between Two Data Sources.
• Microsimulation Projections of Obesity Interventions on Cardiometabolic Health Disparities in the United States.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma, Policy Initiatives, and Harnessing Social Media to Elevate Activism.
• An Intervention for Women with Weight Bias Internalization.

Policy Related

• Nutrition-Related Health Taxes: Setting Expectations.
• The European Food Regulatory Environment Index: A Tool to Monitor Progress in Implementing Food Environment Policies.
• What Opportunities Exist for Making the Food Supply Nutrition Friendly? A Policy Space Analysis in Mexico.
• Associations of a National Tax on Non-Essential High Calorie Foods with Changes in Consumer Prices.

Intergenerational Effects

• First Trimester Waist-Hip Ratio and Adverse Metabolic Outcomes in Pregnancy.
• Offspring from Trained Male Mice Inherit Improved Muscle Mitochondrial Function Through PPAR Co-Repressor Modulation.
• Birthweight Associations with Parental Obesity: Retrospective Analysis of 1,778 Singleton Term Births Following Assisted Reproductive Treatment.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Relation between Obesity, Kisspeptin, Leptin, and Male Fertility.
• Weather Permitting: Increased Seasonal Efficiency of Nonshivering Thermogenesis Through Brown Adipose Tissue Activation in the Winter.
• Test of Theory of Foraging Mode: Goldcrests, Regulus, Forage by High-Yield, Energy-Expensive Hovering Flight When Food Is Abundant but Use Low-Yield, Low-Cost Methods When Food Is Scarce.
• Energetic Costs of Ectoparasite Infection in Atlantic Salmon.

Methods

• From Model Organisms to Humans, the Opportunity for More Rigor in Methodologic and Statistical Analysis, Design, and Interpretation of Aging and Senescence Research.
• Computational Approaches to Predicting Treatment Response to Obesity Using Neuroimaging.

Commentary

• A Century of Exercise Physiology: Key Concepts in ….
• Rethinking a Study of the Biggest Loser.
• Too Many Positive Studies in Kinesiology?
• Eating in the Age of Smartphones: The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral.
• A Critique of the English National Policy from a Social Determinants of Health Perspective Using a Realist and Problem Representation Approach: The 'Childhood Obesity: A Plan for Action' (2016, 2018, 2019).
• The Ongoing Impact of Colonisation on Childhood Obesity Prevention: A First Nations’ Perspective.
• Obesity/ies: Bodies, Foods and Inequalities.
• Obesogens in Children—An Uncharted Territory.
• A Healthy Diet Is Too Costly for Three Billion People.

General

• Tanycyte Specific Ablation of Diacylglycerol Lipase Alpha Stimulates the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis by Decreasing the Endocannabinoid Mediated Inhibition of TRH Release.
• Applying Crowd Risk Mitigation Technologies in Urban Sport Events.
• Street Food around the World: A Review of the Literature.
• The 12 Most Intriguing Animal Discoveries of 2021.
• Improving the Reliability of Citizen Science Data.
• Bland–Altman Limits of Agreement from a Bayesian and Frequentist Perspective.
• The Unequal Burden of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Capturing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in US Cause-Specific Mortality.
• Edward O. Wilson, Harvard Naturalist Often Cited as Heir to Darwin, Dies at 92.

Announcements

• IU Researchers: Food Insecurity in Southern Indiana Linked to Transportation.
• 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.