Obesity and Energetics Offerings

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.

Featured

• RCT: "Impact of isoenergetic intake of irregular meal patterns on thermogenesis, glucose metabolism and appetite."
• RCT: DNA Methylation- Based Biomarkers of Aging Were Slowed Down in a Two- Year Diet and Physical Activity Intervention Trial.
• Systematic Review: Identifying Effective Intervention Strategies to Reduce Children’s Screen Time.
• RCT: Maternal FADS2 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Modified the Impact of Prenatal Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) Supplementation on Child Neurodevelopment at 5 Years.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Weight Loss Can Reverse Cardiovascular Risk of Obesity.
• Press-Release: Major Weight Loss May Reverse Heart Disease Risks Associated with Obesity, US Study Finds.
• Meeting Presentation: Cardiovascular risk of former obesity in healthy-weight Americans (#84). "The authors acknowledge that their findings show observational associations rather than cause and effect."

Contrary or Null Findings

• "The results show that despite the introduction of supermarkets across space and time, including the proximity of residents to them and the length of time they have been established, has not improved food security for low-income residents of Accra."
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Daily Physical Activity Intervention on Physical Fitness in Preschool Children by the Primary Outcome Variable.
• RCT: "In adults with elevated FPG, peanuts as a nighttime snack (28 g/d) did not affect FPG vs. an isocaloric LFHC snack after 6-weeks."
• "Our data do not support the hypothesis of a beneficial short-term effect of lifestyle intervention on EUR and CLBR after IVF in women with obesity..."
• Systematic Review: With Time-Restricted Eating, "Pooled results showed that subjects on TRE regimen (> 4 weeks) achieved a significant weight loss in comparison with unrestricted time regimen ...however, weight loss was mainly attributed to the loss of lean mass rather than fat mass."
• RCT: "An individualised, daily targeted step count intervention and usual care did not confer additional benefits in reducing the length of stay in the ward compared to usual care alone for patients undergoing gastrointestinal cancer surgery."
• RCT: "CIT [cold induced thermogenesis] does not appear to show morning/evening variation in young healthy adults, with the current study design and methodology. BAT 18F-FDG uptake appears not to change across the day either..."
• RCT: "...we detected no significant differences in the primary outcome in the interaction effect (time*group) between the study groups...in a low-threshold intervention to increase physical activity and reduce physical inactivity in a group of healthy elderly people in Germany…"

Basic

• Exposure to Food Insecurity Increases Energy Storage and Reduces Somatic Maintenance in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).
• Hyperactive HRAS Dysregulates Energetic Metabolism in Fibroblasts from Patients with Costello Syndrome Via Enhanced Production of Reactive Oxidizing Species.
• Breastfeeding Undernutrition Changes IBAT-Involved Thermogenesis Protein Expression and Leads to a Lean Phenotype in Adult Rat Offspring.
• Reduced Liver-Specific PGC1a Increases Susceptibility for Short-Term Diet-Induced Weight Gain in Male Mice.
• Dietary Intervention, When Not Associated with Exercise, Upregulates Irisin/FNDC5 While Reducing Visceral Adiposity Markers in Obese Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Some Methodological Issues in Validating a New Predictive Equation for Fat-Free Mass.
• Response To: 'Some Methodological Issues in Validating a New Predictive Equation for Fat-Free Mass.'.

Clinical

• New AHA Guidance on Managing Obesity-Related Hypertension.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a Weight-Loss Intervention in Preventing Frailty and Functional Decline in Community-Dwelling Older People with Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Incorporating Yoga into a Pediatric Weight Management Program: A Pilot Study.
• Longitudinal Trends in BMI Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Persons Aged 2–19 Years — United States, 2018–2020.
• RCT: Three Healthy Eating Patterns and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Markers in 9 to 18 Year Olds with BMI >95%.
• Family Factors Affecting the Transition of Children from Normal Weight to Obesity in Mexico.
• Age- and Weight Group-Specific Weight Gain Patterns in Children and Adolescents During the 15 Years Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Parenting Stress, Child Weight-Related Behaviors, and Child Weight Status.
• Therapeutic Radiation Exposure of the Abdomen During Childhood Induces Chronic Adipose Tissue Dysfunction.
• The Role of Childhood Asthma in Obesity Development.

Surgery

• Invited Commentary: The Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Breastfeeding.
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Insurance Requirements for Supervised Weight Loss Prior to Bariatric Surgery.
• Changes in Total Homocysteine and Glutathione Levels After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Children with Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease.
• RCT: Surgery for Obesity and Weight-Related Diseases Changes the Inflammatory Profile in Women with Severe Obesity.

Drugs

• Metformin Alleviates Stress-Induced Cellular Senescence of Aging Human Adipose Stromal Cells and the Ensuing Adipocyte Dysfunction.
• Anti-Obesity Medication Use in Children and Adolescents with Prader–Willi Syndrome: Case Review and Literature Search.

Food & Diet

• Advances in Antiobesity Mechanisms of Capsaicin.
• Breakfast Cereals Carrying Fibre-Related Claims: Do They Have a Better Nutritional Composition Than Those Without Such Claims? Results from the Food Labelling of Italian Products (FLIP) Study.
• RCT: Effects of a Low-Carbohydrate Diet on Insulin-Resistant Dyslipoproteinemia.
• Acute Carbohydrate Overfeeding: A Redox Model of Insulin Action and Its Impact on Metabolic Dysfunction in Humans.
• The Role of Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet in Sympathetic Activation Through Cortisol Secretion in Male Population with Obesity.
• A Pro-Inflammatory Diet Is Associated with Increased Odds of Frailty After 12-Year Follow-Up in a Cohort of Adults.
• cRCT: Portion Size Can Be Used Strategically to Increase Intake of Vegetables and Fruits in Young Children over Multiple Days.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Two Sexes Respond Equally to Food Restriction in a Sexually Dimorphic but Not Body Mass Dimorphic Jumping Spider.
• Bone Mineral Density Changes During Weight Regain Following Weight Loss with and Without Exercise.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• What Is Moderate to Vigorous Exercise Intensity?
• The Role of Weather Conditions on Time Spent Outdoors and in Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity Among Norwegian Preschoolers.

Economics & Sociology

• The Effect of Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors on Obesity: A Spatial Regression Analysis.
• Program for Reducing Obesity (PRO): An Institutional Review of an Insurance-Based Weight Loss Program Utilizing Shared Medical Appointments.
• Public Understanding of Childhood Obesity: Qualitative Analysis of News Articles and Comments on Facebook Health Communication.

Epidemiology

• RCT: CYP1A2 Polymorphisms Modify the Association of Habitual Coffee Consumption with Appetite, Macronutrient Intake, and BMI: Results from an Observational Cohort and a Cross-Over RCT.
• Alcohol Drinking in One's Thirties and Forties Is Associated with BMI in Men, but Not in Women: A Longitudinal Analysis of the 1970 British Cohort Study.
• Resolving Early Obesity Leads to a Cardiometabolic Profile Within Normal Ranges at 23 Years Old in a Two-Decade Prospective Follow-Up Study.
• Long-Term Diet Quality and Its Change in Relation to Late-Life Subjective Cognitive Decline.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Eating Behavior as a New Frontier in Memory Research.
• Relationship between Impulsivity, Uncontrolled Eating and BMI: A Hierarchical Model.
• Review: Genetics of Sleep and Insights into Its Relationship with Obesity.
• RCT: Obesity and Sex-Related Associations with Differential Effects of Sucralose vs Sucrose on Appetite and Reward Processing.
• Genetic Ancestry and General Cognitive Ability in a Sample of American Youths.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities Influencing Obesity Amongst Middle-Aged Women.
• Biological Normalcy and Body Fat: Investigating Relationships between Obesity Prevalence, Fat Stigma, and Allostatic Load.
• A Cross-Sectional Study of Student Pharmacists' Attitudes and Self-Awareness Towards Obesity and Weight.
• Sexual Orientation–Based Disparities in Food Security Among Adults in the United States: Results from the 2003–2016 NHANES.

Stigma

• Degrading Bodies in Pandemic Times: Politicizing Cruelty During the COVID-19 and Obesity Crises.
• Feminist Identification, Social Dominance Orientation, and Weight Bias in Men.

Policy Related

• Report: State of Obesity 2021: Better Policies for a Healthier America.
• Childhood Obesity on the Rise During COVID-19: A Request for Global Leaders to Change the Trajectory.
• Scoping Review: Tackling the Challenge of Treating Obesity Using Design Research Methods.
• The Politics of Ultra-Processed Foods and Beverages Regulatory Policy in Upper-Middle-Income Countries: Industry and Civil Society in Mexico and Brazil.
• Obesity, SDGs and ROOTS: A Framework for Impact.

Intergenerational Effects

• Future Risks for Children Born to Mothers with Gestational Diabetes: Elucidation Using the Cell Model Approach.
• Does Weight Management After Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis Improve Pregnancy Outcomes? A Multi-Ethnic Cohort Study.
• Early Childhood BMI Trajectory and Overweight/obesity Risk Differed by Maternal Weight Status.
• Cost Effectiveness of a Controlled Lifestyle Intervention for Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• Maternal Fructose Diet-Induced Developmental Programming.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Allometry in Desert Ant Locomotion (Cataglyphis albicans and Cataglyphis bicolor) – Does Body Size Matter?
• Relatedness Modulates Density-Dependent Cannibalism Rates in Drosophila.

Methods

• Review: Assessing the Quality of Agent-Based Models for Obesity.
• Review: What Is a “High” Prevalence of Obesity?
• Intelligent System for Predicting the State of the Human Body.

Commentary

• T Cell Immunosenescence in Aging, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease.
• Multiple Leptin Signalling Pathways in the Control of Metabolism and Fertility: A Means to Different Ends?
• Cattle Feeding Strategies Get a Top-To-Bottom Review.
• Food Addiction: Adding to Obesity Stigma?
• Serious Questions About Saturated Fat Guidance.
• Obesity’s Link to Depression Tied to Both Physical and Social Factors.
• Lifestyle Intervention Failed to Sustain BMI Reductions for Children with Obesity.
• Common Sense Health: Talking About Weight Should Not Be Taboo.

General

• Does Tourism Really Cause Stress? A Natural Experiment Utilizing ArcGIS Survey123.
• Thinking Within-Persons: Using Unit Fixed-Effects Models to Describe Causal Mechanisms.
• Challenges Facing Counterfactual Accounts of Explanation in Mathematics.
• One-Two Punch Therapy for the Treatment of T-Cell Malignancies Involving P53-Dependent Cellular Senescence.
• Gonadal Hormones and Sex Chromosome Complement Differentially Contribute to Ethanol Intake, Preference, and Relapse-Like Behavior in Four Core Genotypes Mice.
• Stable Isotopes Used to Infer Trophic Position of Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) from Dry Tortugas National Park, Gulf of Mexico, United States.
• The Lesson of Ivermectin: Meta-Analyses Based on Summary Data Alone are Inherently Unreliable.

Announcements

• 2022 SNEB Annual Conference Program Submission: Ends on October 8, 2021.
• American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2021 (An Interactive Virtual Event): November 13–15, 2021.
• 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.

Featured

• RCT: Diet Quality Following Total Meal Replacement Compared with Food-Based Weight-Loss Diets in Postmenopausal Women with Obesity.
• Body Size and Digestive System Shape Resource Selection by Ungulates: A Cross-Taxa Test of the Forage Maturation Hypothesis.
• Deletion of the Feeding-Induced Hepatokine TSK Ameliorates the Melanocortin Obesity Syndrome.
• Exposure to Food Insecurity Increases Energy Storage and Reduces Somatic Maintenance in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).
• Energy Compensation and Adiposity in Humans.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Wait, What? Overeating Is Not the Primary Cause for Obesity - Study Reveals.
• Perspective: The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: A Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic. Not a Study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No significant "effects of a bicycle distribution program on 6 to 12-year-old children’s BMI."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, carbohydrate intake showed no positive association with weight regain after weight loss, and no interaction with baseline fasting glucose concentration was found."
• "Contrary to expectations, a systematic review showed that liking and wanting decreased after different weight management interventions."
• "Food supplementation increased males’ reproductive success, but, contrary to my prediction, it did not affect the reproductive success of tactics differently."
• RCT: "There was no effect of UCP2 45-bp I/D variance on the response to training in woman with obesity."
• RCT: "No significant differences between participants randomized to EC versus UC were observed with regards to GWG [gestational weight gain] less than or equal to 9.1 kgs, total GWG, or the proportion who gained less than, within or greater than the IOM recommendations. There were also no significant group differences for pregnancy or neonatal outcomes."
• RCT: "We have failed to demonstrate the statistically significant differences between the IHHT and sham patient groups receiving their respective treatments."
• A Culturally Informed Weight-Loss Competition for New Zealand Indigenous and Pacific Peoples Was Not Associated with Significantly Greater Weight Loss in Intervention Group in Quasi-Experimental Trial.

Basic

• Orexin, Serotonin, and Energy Balance.
• Review: AgRP Neurons: Regulators of Feeding, Energy Expenditure, and Behavior.
• Rhythmic Neuronal Activities of the Rat Nucleus of the Solitary Tract are Impaired by High-Fat Diet – Implications for Daily Control of Satiety.
• Mitophagy-Mediated Adipose Inflammation Contributes to Type 2 Diabetes with Hepatic Insulin Resistance.
• Cardiac PANK1 Deletion Exacerbates Ventricular Dysfunction During Pressure Overload.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Looking Through the Lens of Good Science, by Professor David Allison MAE.
• Preprint: The Devil Is in the Details: Reporting and Transparent Research Practices in Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Clinical Trials.
• Point: Is It Time to Rethink Aerobic Exercise Prescription Methods?
• Rebuttal: Is It Time to Rethink Aerobic Exercise Prescription Methods?
• Dietary Saturated Fats and Health: Are the U.S. Guidelines Evidence-Based?
• PubPeer Comment On: Angiotensin-(1-7) Participates in Enhanced Skeletal Muscle Insulin Sensitivity After a Bout of Exercise.

Clinical

• Free-Living Energy Balance Behaviors are Associated with Greater Weight Loss During a Weight Loss Program.
• Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Sexual Dysfunctions in Adults with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes: Results from Diabetes MILES - Flanders.
• RCT: Effect of Omega-3 and Vitamin D Co-Supplementation on Psychological Distress in Reproductive-Aged Women with Pre-Diabetes and Hypovitaminosis D.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Partial Meal Replacement Preconception Weight Loss Program for Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in Children with and without Obesity and Control Children.
• Physical Activity in Out of School Hours Care: An Observational Study.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a Gamification Strategy to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Schools.

Surgery

• Minimum Threshold of Bariatric Surgical Weight Loss for Initial Diabetes Remission.
• Ventricular Conduction Improvement After Pericardial Fat Reduction Triggered by Rapid Weight Loss in Subjects with Obesity Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity: Comparison of Gastric Bypass, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Usual Care.
• Long-Term Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Gut Microbiota Composition and Faecal Metabolome Related to Obesity Remission.

Drugs

• Liraglutide May Affect Visceral Fat Accumulation in Diabetic Rats Via Changes in FTO, AMPK, and AKT Expression.
• What Do Next-Generation Anti-Obesity Medications Setmelanotide, Semaglutide, Tirzepatide and Bimagrumab Mean for Clinical Practice?
• Gastrointestinal Tolerability of Once-Weekly Semaglutide 2.4 Mg in Adults with Overweight or Obesity, and the Relationship between Gastrointestinal Adverse Events and Weight Loss.

Food & Diet

• The Relationship between Mindful Eating and BMI and Body Compositions in Adults.
• Prospective Association between a Mediterranean-Style Dietary Score in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Young Adults from the ALSPAC Birth Cohort.
• Interactions between Caveolin 1 Polymorphism and the Mediterranean and Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay Diet (MIND) Diet on Metabolic Dyslipidemia in Adult Women with Overweight and Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Lutein Supplementation Combined with a Low-Calorie Diet in Middle-Aged Individuals with Obesity: Effects on Anthropometric Indices, Body Composition and Metabolic Parameters.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction Modulates Neuro-Immune System Differently in Young and Aged Rats.
• Systematic Review: Intermittent Fasting and the Possible Benefits in Obesity, Diabetes, and Multiple Sclerosis.
• Sequential Diets and Weight Loss: Including a Low-Carbohydrate High-Fat Diet with and Without Time-Restricted Feeding.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Association of Physical Activity Intensity and Bout Length with Mortality: An Observational Study of 79,503 UK Biobank Participants.
• Moderate-To-Vigorous Intensity Physical Activity from Young Adulthood to Middle Age and Metabolic Disease: A 30-Year Population-Based Cohort Study.
• RCT: Weight Loss and Exercise Differentially Affect Insulin Sensitivity, Body Composition, Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Muscle Strength in Older Adults with Obesity.
• A Single Bout of Exercise Improves Vascular Insulin Sensitivity in Adults with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• “That Chart Ain’t for Us”: How Black Women Understand “Obesity,” Health, and Physical Activity.
• Rurality, Gender, and Obesity: An Intersectionality Perspective on Rural Men’s Health.
• The Association of BMI with Quality of Life and Working Ability: A Finnish Population-Based Study.

Epidemiology

• Influence of Changes in Body Fat on Clinical Outcomes in a General Population: A 12-Year Follow-Up Report on the Ansan-Ansung Cohort in the Korean Genome Environment Study.
• The Relationship between BMI and In-Hospital Mortality in the Contemporary Era of an Acute Myocardial Infarction Management.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Physical Activity Is Associated with Lower Long-Term Incidence of Anxiety in a Population-Based, Large-Scale Study.
• Sleep Disturbances, Obesity, and Cognitive Function in Childhood: A Mediation Analysis.
• Meta-Analysis: Body Size Estimation in Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Uplifting the Voices of Rural American Indian Older Adults to Improve Understanding of Physical Activity Behavior.
• Seeking a Pot of Gold with Integrated Behavior Therapy and Research to Improve Health Equity: Insights from the RAINBOW Trial for Obesity and Depression.

Stigma

• Adverse Childhood Experiences and Weight Stigma: Co-Occurrence and Associations with Psychological Well-Being.
• Evidence of Weight Bias in the College Classroom: A Call for Inclusive Teaching Practices for Students of All Sizes.
• Eliminating the "Morbid" in Obesity: A Step Toward More Sensitive Documentation in the Era of Open Notes.
• Age and Gender Differences in the Relationship between Obesity and Disability with Self-Perceived Employment Discrimination: Results from a Retrospective Study of an Australian National Sample.

Policy Related

• Blue Food.
• Systematic Review: Weight Stigma and Obesity-Related Policies.
• When Pandemics Collide: The Impact of COVID-19 on Childhood Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Pregestational Diabetes Mediates the Association between Maternal Obesity and the Risk of Congenital Heart Defects.
• Postnatal Exercise Protects Offspring from High-Fat Diet-Induced Reductions in Subcutaneous Adipocyte Beiging in C57Bl6/J Mice.
• The Influence of Maternal Obesity on Cell-Free Fetal DNA and Blood Pressure Regulation in Pregnancies with Hypertensive Disorders.
• Paternal Weight Prior to Conception and Infant Birthweight: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Periconceptional Maternal Diet Characterized by High Glycemic Loading Is Associated with Offspring Behavior in NEST.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Review: AMPK: Restoring Metabolic Homeostasis over Space and Time.
• Mitochondria-Localized AMPK Responds to Local Energetics and Contributes to Exercise and Energetic Stress-Induced Mitophagy.
• Acylcarnitine Profile in Alaskan Sled Dogs During Submaximal Multiday Exercise Points Out Metabolic Flexibility and Liver Role in Energy Metabolism.
• Burrowing Star-Nosed Moles (Condylura cristata) are Not Hypoxia-Tolerant.

Methods

• Perspective: Opportunities and Challenges of Technology Tools in Dietary and Activity Assessment.
• Concordance of Bodies of Evidence from RCTs, Dietary Intake, and Biomarkers of Intake in Cohort Studies: A Meta-Epidemiological Study.

Commentary

• "'Conceptually' walking while 'actually' remaining fixed to our couches would fail to stem pandemic sedentariness."
• Caloric Restriction Reverses Aging: One Cell at a Time.
• Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitor (SGLT2i) as a Primary Preventative Agent in the Healthy Individual: A Need of a Future RCT?
• A Muscle-Centric View of Time-Restricted Feeding for Older Adults.
• Mixed Trends on Poverty and Food Insecurity in 2020.
• Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in the 21st Century: A Report from the 22nd Annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium.
• Can Plant-Based Diet Really Reduce COVID-19 Risk?
• More Obesity in the Pandemic? Kids Yes, Adults Iffy.

General

• Ancient Viral Integrations in Marsupials: A Potential Antiviral Defense.
• Why the Cognitive “Fountain of Youth” May Be Upstream: Pathways to Dementia Risk and Resilience Through Social Connectedness.
• Black Holes Flicker When They Eat, Revealing Their Size.
• Ebola Vaccine Good News: Clinical Trial Shows Strong Immune Response.
• Social Media Use, Physical Activity, and Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescence: Cross-Sectional Analysis.
• Faculty Engagement with Learning Analytics: Advancing a Student Success Culture in Higher Education.
• Phylogeographic Reconstruction of the Marbled Crayfish Origin.
• Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Promotion, and Tenure.
• The Food Wars.

Video & Audio

• Do I Really Need 10,000 Steps a Day? Scientists Say 7,000 Is Fine.
• Podcast: The Importance of Muscle Mass, Strength, and Cardiorespiratory Fitness for Longevity.

Announcements

• Building Data Power: New Initiative Aims to Connect Central Indiana’s Data-Sciences Talent, Resources.
• IU Makes $30 Million Investment in Faculty Diversity Hiring.
• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University, Bloomington, Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.
• Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health — Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.

Featured

• Evolution of the Primate Glutamate Taste Sensor from a Nucleotide Sensor.
• Association between Gestational PFAS Exposure and Children's Adiposity in a Diverse Population.
• Fasting Blood Glucose as a Predictor of Mortality: Lost in Translation.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Children Should Start Drinking Tea Aged Four to Combat Obesity and Stress, Study Finds.
• Narrative Review: No Apparent Research Identified Looking at Tea and Obesity or Stress in Children.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "This 2-year intervention, including self-monitoring of steps with or without counselling, prevented a decrease in PA but did not provide evidence for improved metabolic control and cardiometabolic risk factors in a population with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes."
• RCT: "This study found no evidence for an association between the volume of moderate-to-vigorous-intensity exercise and weight regain across 12 months following clinically relevant WL. Further, results suggest that exercise volumes lower than those currently recommended for WL maintenance, when completed in conjunction with a behavioral weight-maintenance intervention, may minimize weight regain over 12 months."
• "RCTs presented no adverse effect of nuts on body weight...."
• RCT: "...those who received financial incentives, environmental change, or the combined intervention did not lose significantly more weight than those in the usual care group."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, no mediating effects of body appreciation were observed, and no moderation of indirect effects by gender were observed."
• "Contrary to this assumption, whole-room indirect calorimetry with improved time resolution revealed that RQ re-ascended prior to awakening, and nadir of RQ in non-obese young adults occurred earlier in women than men after bedtime."
• "Contrary to our expectations, non-nursing thel rats were resistant to the effects of stress in all dependent measures. Our data indicate that even in chronic adverse conditions, nursing is not required for maintaining stable care to offspring or active coping responses in an acutely stressful task."
• RCT: "There was a statistically significant, but not clinically meaningful, intervention effect on ... parental self-efficacy" in childhood obesity study.

Basic

• Deficiency of Intestinal Bmal1 Prevents Obesity Induced by High-Fat Feeding.
• Genes in Human Obesity Loci are Causal Obesity Genes in C. Elegans.
• Exploring the Obesity Paradox in a Murine Model of Sepsis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Response to: ‘Misleading Arguments About Blinding in Vitamin C and Zinc Lozenge Trials’.
• Twitter Thread On: "Prebiotic effect on mood in obese patients is determined by the initial gut microbiota composition: A randomized, controlled trial".
• Article: The Obesity Wars and the Education of a Researcher: A Personal Account.
• Letter: Evidence Does Not Support Benefit of Being Overweight on Mortality.
• Response: Fairness in Scientific Debate.

Clinical

• Impact of Overlapping Risks of Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity on Coronavirus Disease Severity in the United States.
• Effects of Weight Change on All Causes, Digestive System and Other Causes Mortality in Southern Italy: A Competing Risk Approach.

Children and Adolescents

• Growth Trajectory of Preterm Small-For-Gestational-Age Neonates.
• Preprint: Proper Protein Intake, Adequate Sleep and Short Screen Time Can Promote [i.e., are associated with] Physical Growth and Reduce the Incidence of Obesity in Children.
• Making Sense of Adolescent-Targeted Social Media Food Marketing: A Qualitative Study of Expert Views on Key Definitions, Priorities and Challenges.

Surgery

• Protocol: Evaluation of the Impact of Gastric Bypass Surgery on Eating Behaviour Using Objective Methodologies Under Residential Conditions.
• Meta-analysis: The Impact of Bariatric Surgery Versus Non-Surgical Treatment on Blood Pressure.
• Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Triggers Fast β-Cell Recovery upon Overt Diabetes.

Drugs

• An Evidence-Based Review of OLZ/SAM for Treatment of Adults with Schizophrenia or Bipolar I Disorder.
• Effects of Liraglutide on Visceral and Ectopic Fat in Adults with Overweight and Obesity at High Cardiovascular Risk.
• RCT: Danuglipron (PF-06882961) in Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Perspective: The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: A Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic.
• Flavonoids from Rosa Davurica Pall. Fruits Prevent High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Liver Injury Via Modulation of the Gut Microbiota in Mice.
• Dietary Whey and Egg Proteins Interact with Inulin Fiber to Modulate Energy Balance and Gut Microbiota in Obese Rats.
• RCT: Impact of Decreasing the Proportion of Higher Energy Foods and Reducing Portion Sizes on Food Purchased in Worksite Cafeterias.
• Diet Quality Following Total Meal Replacement Compared with Food-Based Weight-Loss Diets in Postmenopausal Women with Obesity.
• The Association between the Dietary Pattern in Abdominal Obesity Based on Visceral Fat Index and Dyslipidemia in the Henan Rural Cohort Study.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Chitosan Displays a Potent Caloric Restriction Mimetic Effect in Senescent Rats.
• Fatty Acid Metabolism and Colon Cancer Protection by Dietary Methyl Donor Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Body Muscle Gain and Markers of Cardiovascular Disease Susceptibility in Young Adulthood: A Cohort Study.
• Meta-analysis: The Effect of Resistance Training on Body Composition During and After Cancer Treatment.
• Effect of Very Large Body Mass Loss on Energetics, Mechanics and Efficiency of Walking in Adults with Obesity: Mass-Driven vs Behavioural Adaptations.
• Physiological and Perceptual Responses During Walking at Set and Preferred Pace in Normal and Overweight Adults.
• The Therapeutic Effects of Mild to Moderate Intensity Aerobic Exercise on Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Meta-Analysis of RCTs.

Economics & Sociology

• Examining the Impacts of Neighborhood Poverty on Bodyweight Across the BMI Distribution: A Quantile and MSM Modeling Approach.
• Individual and Family Characteristics Associated with Health Indicators at Entry into Multidisciplinary Pediatric Weight Management.
• Outcomes of a Culturally Informed Weight-Loss Competition for New Zealand Indigenous and Pacific Peoples: A Quasi-Experimental Trial.
• Social Isolation but Not Deprivation Involved in Employment Status After Bariatric Surgery.
• Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: The Effectiveness of Text Message Delivered Interventions for Weight Loss in Developing Countries.
• Systematic Scoping Review: Mapping the Digital Food Environment.

Epidemiology

• New Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps.
• Serum Metabolite Profile Associated with Sex-Dependent Visceral Adiposity Index and Low Bone Mineral Density in a Mexican Population.
• Waistline to the Gumline: Relationship between Obesity and Periodontal Disease-Biological and Management Considerations.
• Screening of Central Obesity Among Normal-Weight Children and Adolescents in Shandong, China.
• Identifying Adults at High-Risk for Change in Weight and BMI in England: A Longitudinal, Large-Scale, Population-Based Cohort Study Using Electronic Health Records.
• BMI Trend and Variability in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Meta-Analysis: Relationship between Eating Restraint, Impaired Cognitive Control and Cognitive Bias to Food in Non-Clinical Samples.
• Does Overweight and Obesity Play a Role on Inhibitory Control of Patients Under Treatment for Substance Use Disorder?
• Momentary Affective Response to Bouts of Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity Predicts Changes in Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior During Behavioral Weight Loss.
• Mood States Moderate Implicit Approach Vs. Avoidance Tendencies Toward Food Cues in Patients with Obesity and Active Binge Eating Disorder.
• Trait Self-Control and Disinhibited Eating in COVID-19: The Mediating Role of Perceived Mortality Threat and Negative Affect.
• Food Addiction Symptoms are Related to Neuroaffective Responses to Preferred Binge Food and Erotic Cues.
• Review: The Role of Glia in the Physiology and Pharmacology of GLP-1: Implications for Obesity, Diabetes, and Neurodegenerative Processes Including Glaucoma.
• Triacylglycerol Rich in Docosahexaenoic Acid Regulated Appetite Via the Mediation of Leptin and Intestinal Epithelial Functions in High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet-Fed Mice.

Equity and Disparities

• Addressing Structural Racism Is Critical for Ameliorating the Childhood Obesity Epidemic in Black Youth.
• Income and Neighbourhood Deprivation in Relation to Obesity in Urban Dwelling Children 0–12 Years of Age.
• Social Inequalities in Obesity and Overweight: Secular Changes in Poland between 1983 and 2020.
• The Built and Social Neighborhood Environment and Child Obesity: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies.

Stigma

• Systematic Review: Weight Stigma and Obesity-Related Policies.
• RCT: Effects of Obesity Framing on Weight Stigma.

Policy Related

• Corporate Political Activity in the Context of Unhealthy Food Advertising Restrictions Across Transport for London: A Qualitative Case Study.
• Financial Literacy and Exercise Behavior in the United States.
• Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Obesity Risk: A Review of Recommendations for Obesity Prevention Policies.

Intergenerational Effects

• RCT: Maternal PCOS Status and Metformin in Pregnancy: Steroid Hormones in 5–10 Years Old Children.
• Effects of Maternal Controlled Exercise on Offspring Adiposity and Glucose Tolerance.
• The Link between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptoms and Obesity-Related Traits: Genetic and Prenatal Explanations.
• Maternal Education Level but Not Physical Activity in Pregnancy Was Associated with Fitness and Fatness in Childhood.
• Infant Metabolome in Relation to Prenatal DHA Supplementation and Maternal Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Rs174602: Secondary Analysis of RCT in Mexico.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Effects of Dietary Protein Levels on Growth and Feed Utilization in Non-Transgenic and Growth-Hormone-Gene Transgenic Common Carp (Cyprinus Carpio L.).
• RCT: Insects are a Viable Protein Source for Human Consumption: From Insect Protein Digestion to Postprandial Muscle Protein Synthesis in Vivo in Humans.
• Energy Expenditure Across Immune Challenge Severities in a Lizard: Consequences for Innate Immunity, Locomotor Performance and Oxidative Status.

Methods

• Sample Sizes for Cluster-RCTs with Continuous Outcomes: Accounting for Uncertainty in a Single Intra-Cluster Correlation Estimate.
• Bioelectric Impedance Analysis for Body Composition Measurement and Other Potential Clinical Applications in Critical Illness.

Commentary

• Umami Taste Receptor Evolved with Primates’ Diets.
• Rapamycin Risks?
• The Great Failure of Experts in a Bubble.
• Fighting Misinformation with Caustic Misinformation.
• Are We Eating More Junk Food?
• Opinion: How a 'tragically Flawed' Paradigm Has Derailed the Science of Obesity.
• Setting the Bar Too High at 10,000 Steps Daily?
• The Future of Weight Loss.
• Obesity: Chasing a Simple Answer in Carbs and Insulin.

General

• Updated Guidance on the Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals.
• Association of Food Insecurity with Dietary Intakes and Nutritional Biomarkers Among US Children, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
• Age and Sex: Impact on Adipose Tissue Metabolism and Inflammation.
• Survey Fatigue During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Neurosurgery Survey Response Rates.
• The Gendered Nature of Authorship.
• Getting to the Core of a More Nutritious Apple.
• How the Pandemic Is Changing the Norms of Science.
• Panel Discussion: Public Health in the Time of COVID-19.
• The Universal Visitation Law of Human Mobility.

Announcements

• The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University, Bloomington, Invites Applications for Up to Two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships.
• Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health — Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• IU Bloomington climbs US News rankings.