Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Exercise Preserves Physical Fitness During Aging Through AMPK and Mitochondrial Dynamics.
• Lifespan Extension in Female Mice by Early, Transient Exposure to Adult Female Olfactory Cues.
• Past History of Obesity Triggers Persistent Epigenetic Changes in Innate Immunity and Exacerbates Neuroinflammation.
• Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Reveals What Triggers Our Brains to Overeat.
• Study: CRTC1 Deficiency, Specifically in Melanocortin-4 Receptor-Expressing Cells, Induces Hyperphagia, Obesity, and Insulin Resistance... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Contrary to our a priori hypotheses, children enrolled in intervention programs demonstrated a small, yet statistically significant, mean increase in BMIz and modified BMIz per year beyond that experienced by children enrolled at control programs, after controlling for key confounders..."
• RCT: "For infants born through cesarean delivery, vaginal seeding has no significant impacts on the gut microbiota, growth, or allergy risks during the first 2 years of life."
• Thermoneutral Housing and Preexisting Obesity Do Not Abolish the Sexually Dimorphic Effects of Olanzapine on Weight Gain in Mice.
• Acute Hypoxia Does Not Alter Mitochondrial Abundance in Naked Mole-Rats.
• RCT: Resistance Training Volume Does Not Influence Lean Mass Preservation During Energy Restriction in Trained Males.
• RCT: Personalized Dietary Advice to Increase Protein Intake in Older Adults Does Not Affect the Gut Microbiota, Appetite or Central Processing of Food Stimuli in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
• Muscle Fiber Type Grouping Does Not Change in Response to Prolonged Resistance Exercise Training in Healthy Older Men.
• "Contrary to our assumption, a history of abuse was not associated with the absence of recovery of EDBE [eating disorders with episodes of binge eating] at 1 year."

Basic

• Profiling Mouse Brown and White Adipocytes to Identify Metabolically Relevant Small ORFs and Functional Microproteins.
• Increased Adipose Catecholamine Levels and Protection from Obesity with Loss of Allograft Inflammatory Factor-1.
• Inhibition of the Endocannabinoid System Reverses Obese Phenotype in Aged Mice and Partly Restores Skeletal Muscle Function.
• Inflammation Biomarkers and Inflammatory Genes Expression in Metabolically Healthy Patients with Obesity.
• Hepatocyte PPARγ Contributes to the Progression of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis in Male and Female Obese Mice.
• Exosomal MiR-27b-3p Secreted by Visceral Adipocytes Contributes to Endothelial Inflammation and Atherogenesis.
• MiRNAs as Cornerstones in Adipogenesis and Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effect of Behavioral Activation on Time and Frequency Domain Heart Rate Variability in Older Adults with Subthreshold Depression: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Thailand.
• Letter: Only One Cluster Per Condition Is an Invalid Design for a Cluster Randomized Trial and Should Be Re‑labeled a Quasi‑experimental Study. Response To: “Effect of Behavioral Activation on Time and Frequency Domain Heart Rate Variability in Older Adults with Subthreshold Depression: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Thailand”.

Clinical

• Medical Nutrition Therapy Interventions Provided by Dietitians for Adult Overweight and Obesity Management: An Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence-Based Practice Guideline.
• Biochemical and Molecular Biomarkers: Unraveling Their Role in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• Imaging Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis to Guide Lipid Management, are We There Yet?
• Meta-Analysis: What Is the Impact of Vitamin D Supplementation on Glycemic Control in People with Type-2 Diabetes.
• Feasibility Study: The Gestational Diabetes Future Diabetes Prevention Study (GODDESS).

Children and Adolescents

• American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• The Association between Perinatal Factors and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of a Novel Infant Formula on Weight Gain, Body Composition, Safety and Tolerability to Infants: The INNOVA 2020 Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Cord Blood Epigenome-Wide in Six European-Based Child Cohorts Identifies Signatures Linked to Rapid Weight Growth.
• Catch-Up Growth as a Risk Factor for Rapid Weight Gain, Earlier Menarche and Earlier Pubertal Growth Spurt in Girls Born Small for Gestational Age (SGA).

Surgery

• Identifying Barriers to Shared Decision-Making About Bariatric Surgery in Two Large Health Systems.
• Change in Medial Frontal Cerebral Metabolite Concentrations Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Self-Worth and Developmental Outcomes in Young Adults After Pediatric Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• RCT: Effects of Initial Combinations of Gemigliptin Plus Metformin Compared with Glimepiride Plus Metformin on Gut Microbiota and Glucose Regulation in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of SGLT-2 Inhibitors on Body Composition in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: Effect of β2-Agonist Treatment on Insulin-Stimulated Peripheral Glucose Disposal in Healthy Men.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effect of a Plant-Based vs Omnivorous Soul Food Diet on Weight and Lipid Levels Among African American Adults.
• Update on Anti-Inflammatory Molecular Mechanisms Induced by Oleic Acid.
• RCT: A Real-World Efficacy Trial Testing Carbohydrate Restriction on Body Weight and Glycemic Control in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Effect of Alternate Day Fasting Combined with Aerobic Exercise on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Trans-10, Cis-12 Conjugated Linoleic Acid- and Caloric Restriction-Mediated Upregulation of CNDP2 Expression in White Adipose Tissue in Rodents, with Implications in Feeding and Obesity.
• Intrinsic Cardiorespiratory Fitness Modulates Clinical and Molecular Response to Caloric Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Effect of Interactions between BMI and Sustained Depressive Symptoms on Knee Osteoarthritis over 4 Years: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative.
• Trends in Means and Distributional Characteristics of Cardiorespiratory Endurance Performance for Italian Children (1984–2010).
• The Impact of Physical Exercise on Obesity in a Cohort of Southern Italian Children with Obesity: Improvement in Cardiovascular Risk and Immune System Biomarkers.
• Acute Effects of a Single Moderate-Intensity Exercise Bout Performed in Fast or Fed States on Cell Metabolism and Signaling: Comparison between Lean and Obese Rats.
• RCT: Assessment of Oxidative Stress Indices and Total Phenolics Concentrations in Adult Women with Obesity—The Effect of Training with Supplemental Oxygen.

Economics & Sociology

• The Changing Food Environment and Neighborhood Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Associations between the Food Environment and Food and Drink Purchasing Using Large-Scale Commercial Purchasing Data.
• Glucagon Prescribing and Costs Among U.S. Adults with Diabetes, 2011–2021.

Epidemiology

• BMI and Cognition: Associations Across Mid- to Late-Life and Gender Differences.
• Risk of Esophageal and Gastric Cancer After Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-Analysis: Weight Variability and Cardiovascular Outcomes.
• A Comprehensive Review on Prevalence, Pathogenesis, Clinical Outcomes, and Treatment of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Individuals with and without Obesity.
• Prevalence of At-Risk NASH and Its Association with Metabolic Syndrome in US Adults with NAFLD, 2017–2018.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Childhood Environment and Adulthood Food Addiction: Testing the Multiple Mediations of Life History Strategies and Attitudes Toward Self.
• The Impact of Psychological Distress on Weight Regain in Post-Bariatric Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Latent Profile Analysis.
• Association of BMI and Dietary Intake with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Association of Obesity, Suicide Behaviors, and Psychosocial Wellness Among Adolescents in the United States.

Equity and Disparities

• Neighborhood Deprivation and Residential Property Values Do Not Affect Weight Loss at 1 or 3 years After Bariatric Surgery.
• The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Obesity and Diabetes Disparities Among Latino Communities in Southern California.
• Perinatal Outcomes of Young Adolescent Pregnancies in an Urban Inner-City.
• Racial Disparities in Methylation of NRF1, FTO, and LEPR Gene in Childhood Obesity.
• A Prospective, Longitudinal Analysis of Household Income, Cortisol, and Obesity During Early Childhood.

Ethics

• Ethics of Bariatric Surgery in Adolescence and Its Implications for Clinical Practice.

Stigma

• School Nurses’ Experience of Communicating Growth Data and Weight Development to Parents of Children 8 and 10 Years of Age.
• The Prevalence and Practice Impact of Weight Bias Among New Zealand Registered Dietitians.

Policy Related

• Unhealthy Food and Beverage Marketing to Children on Digital Platforms in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
• Using Social Media to Collect Dietary Information for Public Health Policy.
• Food Insecurity in the Rural United States: An Examination of Struggles and Coping Mechanisms to Feed a Family Among Households with a Low-Income.
• Are Sub-Saharan African National Food and Agriculture Policies Nutrition-Sensitive? A Case Study of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, and South Africa.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-Analysis: Gestational Weight Gain and Small for Gestational Age in Women with Obesity.
• Pre-Pregnancy BMI Has Greater Influence on Newborn Weight and Perinatal Outcome Than Weight Control During Pregnancy in Women with Obesity.
• Prevalence and Predictors of Breastfeeding Duration of 24 or More Months.
• Does Maternal Low-Dose Cadmium Exposure Increase the Risk of Offspring to Develop Metabolic Syndrome and/or Type 2 Diabetes?
• Defining Poor Growth and Stillbirth Risk in Pregnancy for Infants of Mothers with Overweight and Obesity. (pdf)
• Breastfeeding and Post-Perinatal Infant Deaths in the United States, a National Prospective Cohort Analysis.
• Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Family Meals Frequency and Children's Overweight/Obesity in Families at High Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Central Adiponectin Signaling – a Metabolic Regulator in Support of Brain Plasticity.
• Role of Mitochondria-Associated Endoplasmic Reticulum Membranes in Insulin Sensitivity, Energy Metabolism, and Contraction of Skeletal Muscle.

Methods

• Methodological Advancements in Organ-Specific Ectopic Lipid Quantitative Characterization: Effects of High Fat Diet on Muscle and Liver Intracellular Lipids.
• A Mixed-Methods Analysis of a WIC and Primary Care Partnership to Promote Responsive Feeding for Infants in Group Well-Child Care.
• Real-Time Versus Retrospective Self-Report Assessment of Loss-Of-Control Eating in Adults Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Validation of Diet ID in Predicting Nutrient Intake Compared to Dietary Recalls, Skin Carotenoid Scores, and Plasma Carotenoids in University Students.

Commentary

• Reducing Negative Self-Talk with Dietary Folate.
• Obesity Guideline for Youth Draws Global Interest.
• The Obesity-Industrial Complex, in a Communal Blind Spot.
• New Guidelines for Treating Childhood Obesity Include Medications and Surgery for First Time.
• Obesity Confers Macrophage Memory.
• An Update on Peptide-Based Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Obesity, Cancer, and Health Equity.
• Management of Obesity Across Women's Life Course: FIGO Best Practice Advice.

General

• "Scientists like Barzilai are on a quest to further increase not just lifespan but also healthspan..."
• The Hoarder - Living amidst a spectacle of untidiness.
• In-Person Classroom Instruction and Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Undergraduates at Indiana University, Fall 2020.
• Is Mobile Gaming a New Pillar of Esports? Exploring Players' In-Game Purchases in PC and Mobile Platforms by Using Flow and Clutch.
• Canine Model of Human Frailty: Adaptation of a Frailty Phenotype in Older Dogs.
• Gene Therapy Mediated Partial Reprogramming Extends Lifespan and Reverses Age-Related Changes in Aged Mice.
• Burmese Pythons in Florida: A Synthesis of Biology, Impacts, and Management Tools.
• Non-Caffeine Components of Coffee and Their Effects on Neurodegenerative Diseases.
• Reproducibility and Scientific Integrity of Big Data Research in Urban Public Health and Digital Epidemiology: A Call to Action.

Video & Audio

• Optimizing Health from the Inside Out: How Daily Stress Impacts Patients Struggling with Weight.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Seeks Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU 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.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Is Recruiting for Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department!

Featured

• Optogenetic Rejuvenation of Mitochondrial Membrane Potential Extends C. elegans Lifespan.
• FTC States: "As a general matter, substantiation of health-related benefits will need to be in the form of randomized, controlled human clinical testing to meet the competent and reliable scientific standard."
• 2023 Fitness Trends from around the Globe. (pdf)
• The ‘Breakthrough’ Obesity Drugs That Have Stunned Researchers.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Shows Gardening May Help Reduce Cancer Risk, Boost Mental Health.
• Study: RCT: Two of Seven Registered Primary Outcomes (Zero of 14 Registered Timepoint Comparisons) Reported as Statistically Significant in Study of Gardening versus Wait-List Control. Cancer Risk Was Not an Outcome. Mental Health Measures Were Secondary Outcomes.
• Study Registration: Community Activation for Prevention (CAPs): A Study of Community Gardening (CAPs).

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "We found no significant time-by-intervention interactions for combined fruit and vegetable intake, Healthy Eating Index …, sedentary time, BMI, and waist circumference (all p>0·04)...[in] Effects of a community gardening intervention on diet, physical activity, and anthropometry outcomes in the USA..."
• RCT: "We found no significant improvement in body mass index, cognition, psychopathology, antipsychotic adverse effects, or oxidative stress and inflammation in the experimental group compared with placebo...[in]...α-Lipoic Acid as Adjunctive Treatment for Schizophrenia."
• RCT: "We did not show evidence of the benefit of metformin for children of women with overweight or obesity during pregnancy".
• RCT: "In school-aged children in this study with low baseline vitamin D status, oral vitamin D3 supplementation at a dose of 14 000 IU per week for 3 years was effective in elevating 25(OH)D concentrations but did not influence growth, body composition, or pubertal development."
• RCT: "Descriptive quantity and frequency norms did not result in a stronger intention to consume healthy snacks in the upcoming week, but they did result in lower-calorie snack choices when people were asked to select three snacks that they planned to eat on the following day."
• RCT: "contrary to prior results in LLD, lean muscle mass was not associated with depression severity or outcome."
• Stress Does Not Lead to Loss of Self-Control in Eating Disorders.
• "Metabolic disturbances of patients with PCOS without hyperandrogenism (OA+PCO; group 3) were similar to the classical PCOS groups contrary to the expectations."

Basic

• Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors-Alpha and Gamma Synergism Modulate the Gut-Adipose Tissue Axis and Mitigate Obesity.
• Obesity Triggers Tumoral Senescence and Renders Poorly Immunogenic Malignancies Amenable to Senolysis.
• Knockout of TSC2 in Nav1.8+ Neurons Predisposes to the Onset of Normal Weight Obesity.
• A Novel Rat Model of Sarcopenic Obesity Based on Aging and High-Fat Diet Consumption.
• Fibroblast Growth Factor 6 Promotes Adipocyte Progenitor Cell Proliferation for Adipose Tissue Homeostasis.
• Depot-Dependent Impact of Time-Restricted Feeding on Adipose Tissue Metabolism in High Fat Diet-Induced Obese Male Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• PubPeer Comment On: Cardiometabolic Health Improvements upon Dietary Intervention are Driven by Tissue-Specific Insulin Resistance Phenotype: A Precision Nutrition Trial.
• Evidence for the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model in a Reanalysis of the DIETFITS Trial.
• FTC Asks for RCTs, Not Vague Health Claims.
• Caution Against Rejecting All Dietary Supplements for LDL Cholesterol Reduction.

Clinical

• Pre–post Intervention Exploring Cognitive Function and Relationships with Weight Loss, Intervention Adherence and Dropout.
• RCT: Gender-Specific Effects of Capsiate Supplementation on Body Weight and Bone Mineral Density.
• RCT: Nut-Enriched Energy Restricted Diet Has Potential to Decrease Hunger in Women at Cardiometabolic Risk.
• Early- or Adult-Onset Obesity Has a Similar Cardiometabolic Profile and Weight Loss Response to Clinical Treatment in Adulthood.
• An Examination of Whether Diabetes Control and Treatments are Associated with Change in Frailty Index Across 8 Years: An Ancillary Exploratory Study from the Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD) Trial.
• The Lived Experience of Patients with Obesity at a Metropolitan Public Health Setting.

Children and Adolescents

• Secular Trend of Self-Concept in the Context of Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Policy, System, and Environmental Interventions Addressing Obesity and Diet-Related Outcomes in Early Childhood Education Settings.
• Scoping Review: Risk Factors, Cutoff Points, and Definition of Metabolically Healthy/Unhealthy Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• A Preconception Lifestyle Intervention in Women with Obesity and Cardiovascular Health in Their Children.
• Systematic Review: The Effects of Food Environment on Obesity in Children.
• Nutrient Patterns in Relation to Metabolic Health Status in Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity.
• Did the Increase in Sitting Time Due to COVID-19 Lead to Obesity in Adolescents?

Surgery

• Thromboembolic Complications After Bariatric Surgery: Is the High Risk Real?
• Telomere Length Dynamics Measured by Flow-FISH in Patients with Obesity Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• The Effect of Xuezhikang Capsule on Gene Expression Profile in Brown Adipose Tissue of Obese Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats.
• Effect of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist on Insulin Secretion Index and Serum Wnt5a Protein in Patients with New-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Sitagliptin Treatment in Older Adults with Moderately Controlled Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Association between Coffee Consumption, Caffeine Intake, and Metabolic Syndrome Severity in Patients with Self-Reported Rheumatoid Arthritis: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003–2018.
• Dietary Energy Density, Metabolic Parameters, and Blood Pressure in a Sample of Adults with Obesity.
• Distinct Effects of α-Linolenic Acid and Docosahexaenoic Acid on the Expression of Genes Related to Cholesterol Metabolism and the Response to Infection in THP-1 Monocytes and Immune Cells of Humans with Obesity.
• Mechanisms Mediating the Impact of Maternal Obesity on Offspring Hypothalamic Development and Later Function.
• Effect of Diets Varying in Iron and Saturated Fat on the Gut Microbiota and Intestinal Inflammation: A Crossover Feeding Study Among Older Females with Obesity.
• Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and the Incidence of Obesity in Two Cohorts of Latin-American Young Children.
• Differences in the Gut Microbiota of Women According to Ultra-Processed Food Consumption.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Diurnal Transcriptome Landscape of a Multi-Tissue Response to Time-Restricted Feeding in Mammals.
• RCT: Effects of the Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin on Substrate Metabolism in Prediabetic Insulin Resistant Individuals
• Susceptibility of Human Plasma N-Glycome to Low-Calorie and Different Weight-Maintenance Diets.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Editorial: Black Box Warning: When Exercise Is Not Medicine.
• Scoping Review: Public Health Guidelines for Physical Activity During Pregnancy from around the World.
• Twelve Weeks of a Diet and Exercise Intervention Alters the Acute Bone Response to Exercise in Adolescent Females with Overweight/Obesity.
• RCT: Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity Attenuates Premature Senescence of Immune Cells in Sedentary Adults with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• The Message Matters: Advertisement Framing and College Women’s Beliefs Toward Exercise.
• Re-Examining the Reversal Hypothesis: A Nationwide Population-Based Study of the Association between Socioeconomic Status, and NCDs and Risk Factors in China.

Epidemiology

• Thesis: The Association between Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Coronary Heart Disease Among Regards Study Participants.
• Incidence of Obesity Across Adulthood in the United States, 2001–2017—a National Prospective Analysis.
• Explaining Obesity Disparities by Urbanicity, 2006 to 2016: A Decomposition Analysis.
• Prevalence and Severity of Chronic Conditions Among Adolescents with Obesity.
• Fatty Acid Transfer from Blood to Milk Is Disrupted in Mothers with Low Milk Production, Obesity, and Inflammation.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Review: Binge Eating, Overeating and Food Addiction: Approaches for Examining Food Overconsumption in Laboratory Rodents.
• Prenatal Cafeteria Diet Primes Anxiety-Like Behavior Associated to Defects in Volume and Diffusion in the Fimbria-Fornix of Mice Offspring.

Equity and Disparities

• Neighborhood Walkability, Historical Redlining, and Childhood Obesity in Denver, Colorado.
• Preprint: Transportation Noise Exposure, Insulin Resistance and Diabetes: The Role of Sleep and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in San Diego County.

Stigma

• Do These Jeans Make Me Feel Fat? Exploring Subjective Fatness, Its Workplace Outcomes, and Rethinking the Role of Subjectivity in the Stigmatization Process.
• The Concept of Healthy Behaviours in Obesity May Have Unintended Consequences.

Policy Related

• Review: Environmental Sustainability in National Food-Based Dietary Guidelines: A Global Review.
• MyPlate and Urban Low-Income Asian Americans in the United States: A Study to Improve Nutrition Education.
• Diet Quality and Nutrition Behavior of Federal Nutrition Education Program Participants Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Scoping Review: Measuring Adherence to Sustainable Healthy Diets.
• The Health and Economic Impact of Using a Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax to Fund Fruit and Vegetable Subsidies in New York City: A Modeling Study.
• Is the Effect of Menu Energy Labelling on Consumer Behaviour Equitable? A Pooled Analysis of Twelve RCTs.
• The Earned Income Tax Credit and Food Insecurity.

Intergenerational Effects

• National, Longitudinal NASCITA Birth Cohort Study: Prevalence of Overweight at 12 Months of Age in Children Born Healthy.
• Intergenerational Pathways between Parental Experiences of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Child Weight: Implications for Intervention.
• Maternal Obesity Damages the Median Eminence Blood-Brain Barrier Structure and Function in the Progeny: The Beneficial Impact of Cross-Fostering by Lean Mothers [in Mice].

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Review: Photoperiodic Remodeling of Adiposity and Energy Metabolism in Non-Human Mammals.
• Individual Response in Body Mass and Basal Metabolism to the Risks of Predation and Starvation.

Methods

• Reliability and Validity of Assigning Ultraprocessed Food Categories to 24-H Dietary Recall Data.
• Review: Assessment of Human Milk in the Era of Precision Health.
• Overview: 2022 CDC Extended BMI-For-Age Growth Charts for Children and Adolescents with Severe Obesity.
• Report: Evaluation of Alternative BMI Metrics to Monitor Weight Status in Children and Adolescents with Extremely High BMI Using CDC BMI-For-Age Growth Charts. (pdf)

Commentary

• 7 Exercise Myths Debunked.
• How Fats, Sweets Change Your Brain.
• Development of an Approach for Identifying Overnutrition Among Older Adults in Community Health Care Settings: - an Opinion Paper.
• Scientists Raise Alarm About Threats to the Human Microbiome in New Documentary 'The Invisible Extinction'.
• Time-Restricted Eating Reshapes Gene Expression.
• Mechanisms in Aging Process Illuminated by Light-Powered Mitochondria.
• Protein: Magic Ingredient for Intermittent Fasting?
• Telehealth Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Improves HbA1c, Type 2 Diabetes Distress.

General

• Evolution: How (Some) Mammals Lost Their Hair.
• Perceived Status Threat and Health Among White Americans: A Scoping Review.
• How Might Climate Change Affect Adaptive Responses of Polar Arthropods?
• (Not) Far from Home: No Sex Bias in Dispersal, but Limited Genetic Patch Size, in an Endangered Species, the Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata).
• Do You Think That the Home Delivery Is Good for Retailing?
• Distributions of Baseline Categorical Variables Were Different from the Expected Distributions in RCTs with Integrity Concerns. (pdf)
• RCT: Does Receiving a SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Test Result Change COVID-19 Protective Behaviors? Testing Risk Compensation in Undergraduate Students.
• Over-Optimism in Unsupervised Microbiome Analysis: Insights from Network Learning and Clustering.
• Mistakes Happen in Research Papers. But Corrections Often Don't.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Seeks Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU 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.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Is Recruiting for Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department!

Featured

• RCT: Intermittent Fasting and Protein Pacing are Superior to Caloric Restriction for Weight and Visceral Fat Loss.
• Parvalbumin Basket Cell Myelination Accumulates Axonal Mitochondria to Internodes.
• The Competitive Interaction between Food Cravings and Unhealthy Snacking: An Application of the Predator-Prey Model in Psychology.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Beef Burger or Fish Sandwich? These Menu Labels Encourage People to Eat Less Red Meat, Study Shows.
• Study: "The online experiment measured one-time, hypothetical selections rather than actual food purchases and consumption from an in-person fast food restaurant setting."
• Commentary: Saving the Planet with Fast Food Menu Labels.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Children were not less physically active when mildly sleep deprived. ...These findings suggest that decreased physical activity seems unlikely to explain the association between short sleep and obesity in children."
• Mirabegron-Induced Brown Fat Activation Does Not Exacerbate Atherosclerosis in Mice with a Functional Hepatic ApoE-LDLR Pathway.
• Adding High-Intensity Interval Training to Classical Resistance Training Does Not Impede the Recovery from Inactivity-Induced Leg Muscle Weakness.
• Thesis: "Surprisingly, maternal intake of iron supplements during pregnancy was negatively associated with infant FM, %FM and FMI at 3 months and FM/FFMp at 6 months..."
• RCT: No Significantly Differential Effects of a 12-Week Intervention Comparing the Healthy US, Mediterranean, and Vegetarian Dietary Patterns of the US Dietary Guidelines for Changes in Body Weight, Hemoglobin A1c, Blood Pressure, and Dietary Quality Among African American Adults.
• RCT: "...liposomal bupivacaine did not significantly decrease postoperative opioid use either before implementation of ERAS or as part of an enhanced recovery after surgery program for minimally invasive bariatric surgery procedures."
• Dissertation: "Contrary to expectations, the highest activity of GPDH [glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase] was detectable in cells grown at a low physiological insulin concentration of 25 pM and in those cultured at the highest magnesium concentration of 3 mM" in cattle.
• RCT: "No statistically significant changes were observed in the immune markers examined in ....a diet based on the dietary guidelines for Americans on inflammation markers in women at risk for cardiometabolic disease."

Basic

• DNA Methylation and Gene Expression Analysis in Adipose Tissue to Identify New Loci Associated with T2D Development in Obesity.
• Obesity Triggers Tumoral Senescence and Renders Poorly Immunogenic Malignancies Amenable to Senolysis.
• Combined Effects of High Fat Diet and Exercise on Autophagy in White Adipose Tissue of Mice.
• CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Inactivation of the Phosphatase Activity of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Prevents Obesity and Cardiac Ischemic Injury.
• The Tetraspanin Transmembrane Protein CD53 Mediates Dyslipidemia and Integrates Inflammatory and Metabolic Signaling in Hepatocytes.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction Watch: That [Sport Science] Paper with the ‘T’ Error Bars Was Just Retracted.
• Protocol: Meta-Research Study of Protocols for Diet or Nutrition-Related Trials Published in Indexed Journals: General Aspects of Study Design, Rationale and Reporting Limitations.
• Blog Post: Challenge of Expressing Uncertainty in Scientific Claims (Exercise and Lifespan Edition).
• THE Gene That Causes Obesity? Nope!

Clinical

• The Antioxidant Potential of the Mediterranean Diet as a Predictor of Weight Loss After a Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet (VLCKD) in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: Impact of Early Time-Restricted Eating on Diet Quality, Meal Frequency, Appetite, and Eating Behaviors.
• RCT: The Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Body Composition in Nursing Mothers with Overweight or Obesity.
• Relationship between Diet-Related Inflammation and Bone Health Under Different Levels of BMI.

Children and Adolescents

• Protocol: The Effect of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Risperidone and Aripiprazole on Weight Gain in Children and Adolescents.
• Twenty-Four-Hour Movement Guidelines During Adolescence and Its Association with Obesity at Adulthood: Results from a Nationally Representative Study.
• Semaglutide Treatment for Obesity in Teenagers: A Plain Language Summary of the STEP TEENS Research Study.
• Association of Socioeconomic Position and Childhood Obesity in Finland: A Registry-Based Study.

Surgery

• Dynamics of Adipose Tissue Macrophage Populations After Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Gastrointestinal Hormones and Appetite Ratings After Weight Loss Induced by Diet or Bariatric Surgery.
• Systematic Review: The Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Cognition in Patients with Obesity.

Drugs

• Marked Weight Loss on Liraglutide 3.0 Mg: Real-Life Experience of a Swiss Cohort with Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Ibuprofen Efficacy, Tolerability and Safety in Children with Obesity.
• Endocannabinoid Metabolism and Transport as Drug Targets.
• Glimepiride Use Is Associated with Reduced Cardiovascular Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Heart Failure: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Food & Diet

• U.S. FDA Weighs Regulating Cannabis Compound CBD in Food, Supplements.
• RCT: Effects of a Grocery Shopping Intervention Designed to Improve Diet Adherence in Diabetes.
• Systematic Review: "The evidence for the efficacy of behavioral weight loss interventions for improving diet quality among adults with overweight and obesity is limited."

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Plasma FGF21 Levels are Not Associated with Weight Loss or Improvements in Metabolic Health Markers upon 12 Weeks of Energy Restriction: Secondary Analysis of an RCT.
• The Effects of Dietary Interventions on Brain Aging and Neurological Diseases.
• Manipulation of Amino Acid Levels with Artificial Diets Induces a Marked Anticancer Activity in Mice with Renal Cell Carcinoma.
• Synergetic Effects of Concurrent Chronic Exposure to a Mixture of OCPs and High-Fat Diets on Type 2 Diabetes and Beneficial Effects of Caloric Restriction in Female Zebrafish.
• Impact of Calorie-Restricted Cafeteria Diet and Treadmill Exercise on Sweet Taste in Diet-Induced Obese Female and Male Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Resistance Exercise in Already Active Individuals with Diabetes.
• Dietary- but Not Exercise-Induced Acute Iso-Energetic Deficit Result in Short-Term Appetitive Compensatory Responses in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Breaking Up Sitting with Short Frequent or Long Infrequent Physical Activity Breaks Does Not Lead to Compensatory Changes in Appetite, Appetite-Regulating Hormones or Energy Intake.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighborhood Socioeconomic Differences in BMI: The Role of Fast-Food Outlets and Physical Activity Facilities.
• Disparities in Childhood Obesity Prevalence and Spatial Clustering Related to Socioeconomic Factors in Isaan, Thailand.

Epidemiology

• Smoking Cessation and Obesity-Related Morbidities and Mortality in a 20-Year Follow-Up Study.
• Body Fat Distribution, Fasting Insulin Levels and Insulin Secretion: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Trends and Disparities in Diabetes and Prediabetes Among Adults in the United States, 1999–2018.
• An Empirically Derived “Prudent” Dietary Pattern Is Associated with Lower Obesity Occurrence: Modeling and Mapping from a National Nutrition Survey.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Impact of Early Time-Restricted Eating on Diet Quality, Meal Frequency, Appetite, and Eating Behaviors.
• Body Weight Regulation Via MT1-MMP-Mediated Cleavage of GFRAL.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic Review: Participant Diversity in Clinical Trials—Have We Made Progress for the Management of Obesity and Its Metabolic Sequelae in Diet, Drug, and Surgical Trials.
• Is the Cost-Effectiveness of an Early-Childhood Sleep Intervention to Prevent Obesity Affected by Socioeconomic Position?

Stigma

• Characterizing the Prevalence of Obesity Misinformation, Factual Content, Stigma, and Positivity on the Social Media Platform Reddit between 2011 and 2019: Infodemiology Study.
• Women's Perceptions of Weight Stigma and Experiences of Weight-Neutral Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder: A Qualitative Study.

Policy Related

• Thesis: The Makings of Health in Small Island Developing States: Exploring the Persistence of Obesity in the Bahamas.
• The Neglected Potential of Red and Processed Meat Replacement with Alternative Protein Sources: Simulation Modelling and Systematic Review.
• Caregivers’ Perceived Impact of WIC’s Temporary Cash-Value Benefit (CVB) Increases on Fruit and Vegetable Purchasing, Consumption, and Access in Massachusetts.
• Review: Encouraging Healthier Food and Beverage Purchasing and Consumption: A Review of Interventions Within Grocery Retail Settings.
• Factors That “Nudge People Towards the Healthier” Snacks—A Qualitative Study with Student, Faculty, and Staff Leaders and Decision Makers.
• Nurturing Children's Development Through Healthy Eating and Active Living: Time for Policies to Support Effective Interventions in the Context of Responsive Emotional Support and Early Learning.
• Systematic Review: Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) in Community Food Environmental Research.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Circadian Disruption Before Pregnancy Impairs the Ovarian Function of Female Offspring in Mice.
• Re-Examination of the Estimated Average Requirement for Carbohydrate Intake During Pregnancy: Addition of Placental Glucose Consumption.
• Independent and Joint Associations of Age, Pre-Pregnancy BMI, and Gestational Weight Gain with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• Mechanisms Mediating the Impact of Maternal Obesity on Offspring Hypothalamic Development and Later Function.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Effect of Temperature on Haemoglobin-Oxygen Binding Affinity in Regionally Endothermic and Ectothermic Sharks.
• Phenotypic Plasticity in Desiccation Physiology of Closely Related, Range Restricted and Broadly Distributed Fruit Fly Species.

Methods

• A Multi-Scale in Silico Mouse Model for Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance.
• Deriving Neighborhood-Level Diet and Physical Activity Measurements from Anonymized Mobile Phone Location Data for Enhancing Obesity Estimation.
• Bi-Objective Goal Programming for Balancing Costs Vs. Nutritional Adequacy.

Commentary

• How Even Super-Short Workouts Can Improve Your Health.
• Throwing People with Obesity Under the Bus.
• Scientists Find Key Reason Why Loss of Smell Occurs in Long COVID-19.
• Market Paternalism: Do People Really Want to Be Nudged Towards Consumption?
• The Health Benefits of Resistance Exercise: Beyond Hypertrophy and Big Weights.
• Five Trends to Define 2023 in Obesity and Health.
• Stealth FDA Approval: Semaglutide for Teens.
• 60 Minutes: Obesity Care in a Broken System.

General

• The Truth Behind Melatonin and Why It May Not Help You Sleep.
• Self-Esteem Trajectories over Three Decades Predict Opposition to Social Equality in Midlife.
• ‘I Know the Tiger by His Paw’: A Non-Invasive Footprint Identification Technique for Monitoring Individual Amur Tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) in Snow.
• RCT: Effect of Chocolate Milk Consumption on Muscle Damage Enzymes of Men Professional Football Players.
• Thesis: Snacking Interventions Differentially Influence Saliva, Salivary Alpha Amylase Activity, and Sensation.
• Improving the Rigor of Mechanistic Behavioral Science: The Introduction of the Checklist for Investigating Mechanisms in Behavior-Change Research (CLIMBR).
• Thesis: Establishing Methods for the Detection of Fetal Microchimerism.
• Subjective Vs. Objective Memory Predictors of AD Biomarkers and Future Cognitive, Clinical, and Functional Decline.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington’s Department of Kinesiology Ranked #3 in Nation.
• Register: CEI Perspectives presents "Food Insecurity: A Community Perspective"
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Seeks Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU 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.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Is Recruiting for Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department!

Featured

• A Neuromarker for Drug and Food Craving Distinguishes Drug Users from Non-Users.
• Low subjective social status is associated with daily selection of fewer healthy foods and more high-fat/high sugar foods.
• Randomization, Design and Analysis for Interdependency in Aging Research: No Person or Mouse Is an Island.
• Endosomal Lipid Signaling Reshapes the Endoplasmic Reticulum to Control Mitochondrial Function.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: What Causes Childhood Obesity? New Study Says a Single Gene Could Be Responsible.
• Study: Aberrant Expression of Agouti Signaling Protein (ASIP) as a Cause of Monogenic Severe Childhood Obesity... In 5 of 1,746 Children with Overweight or Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Urbanization Does Not Endanger Food Security: Evidence from China's Loess Plateau.
• RCT: Early Nutritional Intervention Does Not Prevent Long-Term Adverse Events in Women with Breast Cancer.
• Recapitulation of Anti-Aging Phenotypes by Global, but Not by Muscle-Specific, Deletion of PAPP-A in Mice.
• "We found inconsistent evidence that a child’s BMI affected their depressive and ADHD symptoms, and little evidence that a child’s BMI affected their anxiety symptoms."
• Iron Supplementation Does Not Aggravate Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Sugar Overload-Induced Genotoxicity in Rats.
• Muscle-Specific Ablation of Glucose Transporter 1 (GLUT1) Does Not Impair Basal or Overload-Stimulated Skeletal Muscle Glucose Uptake.
• RCT: Eight-Hour Time-Restricted Eating Does Not Lower Daily Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis Rates.
• RCT: Acute Pre-Exercise Hydrogen Rich Water Intake Does Not Improve Running Performance at Maximal Aerobic Speed in Trained Track and Field Runners.
• RCTs: Imagined Eating & Satiety - "Priming appeared to be specific to the taste of the exposed stimulus, and satiation, contrary to prior literature, appeared to be more general. Neither colour nor flavour variety reliably moderated any of the responses."

Basic

• Review: Novel Importance of MiR-143 in Obesity Regulation.
• Angiotensin(1–7) Attenuates Visceral Adipose Tissue Expansion and Lipogenesis by Suppression of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Via Mas Receptor.
• Brevibacillus laterosporus BL1, a Promising Probiotic, Prevents Obesity and Modulates Gut Microbiota in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Empagliflozin Protects Mice Against Diet-Induced Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Hepatic Steatosis.
• L-Arginine Supplementation Regulates Energy-Substrate Metabolism in Skeletal Muscle and Adipose Tissue of Diet-Induced Obese Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Big Claims, Vexing Flaws of an Intermittent Fasting Study.
• Article: Coffee and Green Tea Consumption and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Among People with and Without Hypertension.
• Comments: Expert Reaction to Study Looking at Coffee and Green Tea Consumption and Heart Deaths in People with Severe High Blood Pressure.

Clinical

• RCT: Comparison of an Online Versus Conventional Multidisciplinary Collaborative Weight Loss Programme in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Review: Intermuscular Adipose Tissue in Metabolic Disease.
• Detailed Versus Simplified Dietary Self-Monitoring in a Digital Weight Loss Intervention Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Adults.
• RCT: Effects of a Web-Based Weight Loss Program on the Healthy Eating Index-NVS in Adults with Overweight or Obesity and the Association with Dietary, Anthropometric and Cardiometabolic Variables.
• RCT: Body Fat Reduction Effect of Bifidobacterium Breve B-3.

Children and Adolescents

• Trends in U.S. Adolescent Physical Activity and Obesity: A 20-Year Age-Period-Cohort Analysis.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Nutritional Intervention Strategies in the Primary Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in School Settings.
• Obesity, Overweight and Hyperglycemia Among Primary School Children in a Low-Middle Income Country with a Multiethnic Population.
• Fat Content in Infant Mesenchymal Stem Cells Prospectively Associates with Childhood Adiposity and Fasting Glucose.

Surgery

• Gut Adaptation After Gastric Bypass in Humans Reveals Metabolically Significant Shift in Fuel Metabolism.
• Systematic Review: The Efficacy of GLP-1RAs for the Management of Postprandial Hypoglycemia Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Protein Supplementation with Short Peptides Prevents Early Muscle Mass Loss After Roux-En-Y-Gastric Bypass.

Drugs

• Meta-Analysis: Reducing Craving and Consumption in Individuals with Drug Addiction, Obesity or Overeating Through Neuromodulation Intervention.
• Review: Drug Dosing in Hospitalized Patients with Obesity and COVID-19.
• Effectiveness and Persistence of Anti-Obesity Medications (Liraglutide 3 Mg, Lorcaserin, and Orlistat) in a Real-World Primary Care Setting.
• Effects of Jowiseungki-Tang on High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice and Functional Analysis on Network Pharmacology and Metabolomics Analysis.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Combined Effects of Aspartame and Acesulfame-K Blends on Appetite.
• Perspective: Multi-Sectoral Strategies Needed to Establish Healthy Portion Size Norms That Disincentivize Hyperpalatable, Energy-Dense Foods and Sugary Beverages in Food Environments Linked to Obesity and Diet-Related Chronic Diseases in the United States.
• Multi-Omics Gut Microbiome Signatures in Women with Obesity: Role of Diet and Uncontrolled Eating Behavior.
• Effect of D-β-Hydroxybutyrate-(R)-1,3 Butanediol on Appetite Regulation in People with Prediabetes.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effect of an Intermittent Calorie-Restricted Diet on Type 2 Diabetes Remission.
• Effects of Dietary Methionine Restriction on Age-Related Changes in Perivascular and Beiging Adipose Tissues in the Mouse.
• Review: Energy Intake at the Intersection of the Clock and Ageing.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Association of Longitudinal Activity Measures and Diabetes Risk: An Analysis from the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program.
• Review: Myokine, a Key Cytokine for Physical Exercise to Alleviate Sarcopenic Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Preprint: Associations of Socioeconomic Status and Obesity with Hypertension in Tibetan Adults in a Chinese Plateau Area.
• G7 Food Security Working Group: Financial Report on Food Security and Nutrition 2020. (pdf)
• Associations of Neighborhood Opportunity and Social Vulnerability with Trajectories of Childhood BMI and Obesity Among US Children.

Epidemiology

• Weight Change Across Adulthood and Accelerated Biological Aging in Middle-Aged and Older Adults.
• Whole Genome Sequence Association Analysis of Fasting Glucose and Fasting Insulin Levels in Diverse Cohorts from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Imaginal Retraining Reduces Craving for High-Calorie Food.
• The Concept of “Metabolic Jet Lag” in the Pathophysiology of Bipolar Disorder: Implications for Research and Clinical Care.

Equity and Disparities

• Socioeconomic Disparities in Diabetes Prevalence and Management Among the Adult Population in Bangladesh.
• Neighborhood Disadvantage Is Associated with Decreased Ovarian Reserve in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Trends in School-Neighbourhood Inequalities and Youth Obesity: Repeated Cross-Sectional Analyses of the Public Schools in the State of California.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma Among Adolescents in Three Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Intuitive Eating Buffers the Link between Internalized Weight Stigma and BMI in Stressed Adults.

Policy Related

• A Scientific Transition to Support the 21st Century Dietary Transition.
• Person-First Treatment Strategies: Weight Bias and Impact on Mental Health of People Living with Obesity.
• Series of Rapid Reviews: Breakfast Consumption by School-Aged Children and Adolescents and School Performance, Weight-Related Outcomes, and Health & U.S. School Breakfast Program Best Practices, Including Models of Student Costs and Breakfast Delivery.
• A Novel Approach to Characterize State-Level Food Environment and Predict Obesity Rate Using Social Media Data: Correlational Study.

Intergenerational Effects

• Egg Introduction During Infancy Is Associated with Lower Fat Mass Index in Females at Early Adolescence.
• RCT: Maternal Well-Being and Stage of Behaviour Change During Pregnancy.
• Maternal BMI in the Preconception Period, and Association with Child zBMI Growth Rates.
• Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Mothers and Offspring 4–10 Years After a Pregnancy Complicated by Gestational Diabetes and Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Review: Finding Balance: Understanding the Energetics of Time-Restricted Feeding in Mice.
• Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia During Sleep Causes Browning of Interscapular Adipose Tissue Accompanied by Local Insulin Resistance in Mice.
• Preprint: Age but Not Menopausal Status Is Linked to Lower Resting Energy Expenditure.

Methods

• A Conductive Hydrogel Microneedle-Based Assay Integrating PEDOT:PSS and Ag-Pt Nanoparticles for Real-Time, Enzyme-Less, and Electrochemical Sensing of Glucose.
• Machine Learning in Nutrition Research.
• Letter: The A, B, C, D's of Dietary Trials.
• Reply to H Staudacher et al.

Commentary

• The Marketing of Plant-Based Protein - the Beyond Meat Case: Making Food Alternatives Appealing to Multiple Groups of Consumers.
• Sugar May Become Healthier Through Wyss, Kraft Heinz Collaboration.
• Starvation Triggers Metabolic Rewiring Crucial for Cellular Survival.
• Tiny Patch Could Give Diabetics Painless Glucose Monitoring.
• A Metabolic Gift for Gaining Weight and Hibernating.
• Common Food Dye Can Trigger Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Say Researchers.
• Blood-Based Metabolic Signature Outperforms Standard Method for Predicting Diet, Disease Risk: The Study Found That Machine Learning Techniques Improved Diet Prediction by 10-20%.
• Obesity Researchers Discover New Gene Mutation in Children.

General

• Collecting: A Demonic Passion. (pdf)
• WEBINAR | Considerations in the Study of Sex as a Biological Variable in Aging Research February 2, 2023 from 4-5pm ET.
• The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being.
• Towards a New Paradigm for ‘Journal Quality’ Criteria: A Scoping Review.
• Neurons Responsible for Maintaining Body Temperature: Study.
• The Musicality of Birds: From Charles Darwin to Hermeto Pascoal.
• Twin Research for Everyone. (pdf)
• Improving the Rigor of Mechanistic Behavioral Science: The Introduction of the Checklist for Investigating Mechanisms in Behavior-Change Research (CLIMBR).
• NIH Plans Grant-Review Overhaul to Reduce Bias.
• Glassfrogs Conceal Blood in Their Liver to Maintain Transparency.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Seeks Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU 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.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Is Recruiting for Tenure-Track Faculty in Every Department!