Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• RCT: Weight Loss in Underserved Patients — a Cluster-Randomized Trial.
• RCT: In Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Two Days of Iso-energetic Replacement of Dietary Carbohydrates by Protein and Fat Reduced All Indices of Glycemic Variability.
• Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue Function — Is Space a Constraint?

Headline vs Study

• Headline: REM Sleep Affects Our Eating Habits.
• Study: REM Sleep Stabilizes Hypothalamic Representation of Feeding Behavior... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Correction from our (OEO’s) erroneous listing last week: Quasi-Experiment: In Jump-Rope study, between-groups: body weight, BMI, abdominal circumference, body fat content and percentage, weight, and BMI were statistically different; lipocalin-2, waist-to-hip ratio, and lean body mass were not.
• Systematic review: "The majority of null results across studies suggest that a high-fat, ketogenic diet does not have a positive or negative impact on physical performance."
• RCT: Supplementation-Induced Increase in Circulating Omega-3 Serum Levels Is Not Associated with a Reduction in Depressive Symptoms.
• RCT: Hyperglycemia Does Not Inhibit Insulin's Effects on Microvascular Perfusion in Healthy Humans.
• Meta-analysis: "Overall, results suggest that interventions with walnut intake does not alter BW, BMI, FM, and WC. To date, there is no discernible evidence to support walnut intake for improving anthropometric indicators of weight loss."
• Meta-analysis: "These results do not support the use of vitamin D supplementation for improving cardiometabolic health in childhood."
• Dietary Intake of Nε-carboxymethyl-lysine, a Major Advanced Glycation End Product, Is Not Associated with Increased Risk of Mortality in Japanese Adults in the Takayama Study.
• The Addition of Partial or Circumferential Liposuction to Abdominoplasty Is Not Associated with a Higher Risk of Skin Necrosis.
• Access to Fueling Stations Is Not Associated with Diet Quality in Division I Athletes.

Basic

• Circulating Cell Adhesion Molecules in Metabolically Healthy Obesity.
• Feasibility of Quantifying Change in Immune White Cells in Abdominal Adipose Tissue in Response to an Immune Modulator in Clinical Obesity.
• LncRNA TUG1 Reduces Inflammation and Enhances Insulin Sensitivity in White Adipose Tissue by Regulating MiR-204/SIRT1 Axis in Obesity Mice.
• Corneal Dysfunction Precedes the Onset of Hyperglycemia in a Mouse Model of Diet-induced Obesity.
• Lipocalin-2 Deficiency May Predispose to the Progression of Spontaneous Age-related Adiposity in Mice.
• Gut Microbial Changes in Diabetic Db/db Mice and Recovery of Microbial Diversity upon Pirfenidone Treatment.
• Distinct Effects of Milk-Derived and Fermented Dairy Protein on Gut Microbiota and Cardiometabolic Markers in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Identification of a TMEM182 Rs141764639 Polymorphism Associated with Central Obesity by Regulating Tumor Necrosis Factor-α.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections.
• Letter: Overstated Claims of Efficacy and Safety. Comment On: “Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections”. Nutrients 2020, 12, 1181.
• Response: Reply to “Overstated Claims of Efficacy and Safety. Comment On: Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections. Nutrients 2020, 12, 1181”.
• High Impact Nutrition and Dietetics Journals’ Use of Publication Procedures to Increase Research Transparency.
• Commentary: Randomized Controlled Trials: When the Gold Standard Leaves You with Fool’s Gold.

Clinical

• RCT: Efficacy of a Multi-component M-Health Weight-loss Intervention in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Prospective cohort: The Obesity Paradox for Mid- and Long-term Mortality in Older Cancer Patients.
• Development and Verification of a Body Weight–Directed Disease Trial Model for Glucose Homeostasis.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Prenatal and Pediatric Primary Care–Based Child Obesity Prevention Program.
• Developmental Trajectories of BMI, WC, and Aerobic Fitness in Youth: Implications for Physical Activity Guideline Recommendations.
• Breastfeeding History, Preschool Children’s Sleep, and Obesity.
• Childhood BMI and Fasting Glucose and Insulin Predict Adult Type 2 Diabetes.
• Childhood Obesity Is Associated with Poor Academic Skills and Coping Mechanisms.

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: Safety of Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
• Conversion of Adjustable Gastric Banding to Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in One or Two Steps: What Is the Best Approach? Analysis of a Multicenter Database Concerning 832 Patients.
• Association of Bariatric Surgery with Rates of Kidney Function Decline Using Multiple Filtration Markers.

Drugs

• Hypercoagulopathy and Adipose Tissue Exacerbated Inflammation May Explain Higher Mortality in COVID-19 Patients with Obesity.
• Increased Fractalkine and Vascular Dysfunction in Obesity and in Type 2 Diabetes. Effects of Oral Antidiabetic Treatment.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: Egg Consumption and Cardiovascular Risk.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Macronutrient Intake in Obesity: Low-carbohydrate and Low-fat Diets on Markers of the Metabolic Syndrome.
• Three Weeks Daily Intake of Matcha Green Tea Powder Affects Substrate Oxidation During Moderate-Intensity Exercise in Females.
• No-meat Eaters are Less Likely to Have Overweight or Obesity, but Take Dietary Supplements More Often.
• Effects of Sweet-Liking on Body Composition Depend on Age and Lifestyle: A Challenge to the Simple Sweet-Liking—Obesity Hypothesis.
• The Yellow Mealworm (Tenebrio Molitor) Genome: A Resource for the Emerging Insects as Food and Feed Industry.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting as a Nutrition Approach Against Obesity and Metabolic Disease.
• An Exploratory Investigation of the Impact of "Fast" and "Feed" Days During Intermittent Energy Restriction on Free-Living Energy Balance Behaviours and Subjective States in Women with Overweight/Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Review: Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Positive Effects of Physical Activity on Coping with COVID-19.
• Acute Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in University Students and Employees.
• Ventilatory Response to Exercise Is Preserved in Patients with Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome.
• Dissertation: Baseline Predictors of Early Weight Loss During a Standard Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention.
• Dissertation: “Do Not Play” Outdoor Advisories: Examining the Impact of Soil Lead Contamination in Urban Communities.
• Dissertation: Preliminary Efficacy of a Gamified, Behavior Change Techniques-Based Mobile Application Puzzlewalk on Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Anxiety in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Economics & Sociology

• "The Botswana traditional food pattern, characterized by a high carbohydrate intake, was found to be associated with a high risk of obesity."
• Using Citizen Science to Understand the Prerequisites for Physical Activity Among Adolescents in Low Socioeconomic Status Neighborhoods.
• Variation in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Obesity by Ethnicity.
• Dissertation: Association between Obesity, Socioeconomics, Mental Illness, and Education in Native American Communities.
• Dissertation: Real Men Don’t Get Lipos: Gender, Political Economy, and Biomedicine in Colombia’s Male Beauty Industry.
• Thesis: Food Gentrification: An Examination of Food and Culture as It Relates to Food Security.

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis: Weight Change From Childhood to Adulthood and Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Outcomes in Adulthood.
• Systematic review: Prevalence and Social Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents in Saudi Arabia.
• Prospective cohort: Handgrip Strength Improves Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes.
• "Central obesity is a useful predictor for high disease severity in ankylosing spondylitis."
• Competing Interplay between Systemic and Periodontal Inflammation: Obesity Overrides the Impact of Oral Periphery.
• Identifying Factors Associated with Obesity Traits in Undergraduate Students: A Scoping Review.
• Individuals with Obesity and COVID-19: A Global Perspective on the Epidemiology and Biological Relationships.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Does Episodic Future Thinking Repair Immediacy Bias at Home and in the Laboratory in Patients with Prediabetes?
• Relationship of Estrogen Synthesis Capacity in the Brain with Obesity and Self-control in Men and Women.
• Effects of Coparenting Quality, Stress, and Sleep Parenting on Sleep and Obesity Among Latinx Children.
• "In Chilean young adults, cognitive restraint and emotional eating scores were associated with higher BMI, elevated BF, and greater central obesity."
• Circulating Exosomal MiRNAs Signal Circadian Misalignment to Peripheral Metabolic Tissues.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic review: Neighborhood Food Environment and Health Outcomes in U.S. Low-Socioeconomic Status, Racial/Ethnic Minority, and Rural Populations.
• Household Food Security and Infant Adiposity.
• Dissertation: Relationships Among Race, Hispanic Acculturation, and Weight-related Characteristics of the Home Environment of Mothers of Young Children.
• Poster presentation: P55 Racial Discrimination Predicts Body Weight Gain in Black Individuals in Four Years Follow-up.

Stigma

• Reductions in Weight Bias Internalization Did Not Differ between a Cognitive Behavioral Intervention Combined with Behavioral Weight Loss and Behavioral Weight Loss Alone at 6-month Follow-up.
• Comparing and Predicting Public Attitudes Toward Stuttering, Obesity, and Mental Illness.

Policy Related

• "Unhealthier diets defined using the Food Standards Agency-Nutrient Profiling System and related systems were associated with weight gain and overweight risk"
• Benchmarking Food and Beverage Companies on Obesity Prevention and Nutrition Policies.
• "Amongst households that regularly purchase beverages, those that mainly purchased high volumes of sugar-sweetened or diet beverages were at greater risk of obesity and tended to purchase less healthy foods."
• Obesity Metaphors: How Beliefs About the Causes of Obesity Affect Support for Public Policy.
• Commentary: Addressing the Consequences of School Closure Due to COVID-19 on Children's Physical and Mental Well-Being.
• Commentary: Nearly a Decade on — Trends, Risk Factors and Policy Implications in Global Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational cohort study: Grand-maternal Lifestyle During Pregnancy and BMI in Adolescence and Young Adulthood.
• Prospective cohort: Pre-Pregnancy BMI, Gestational Diabetes and Different Indicators of Childhood Obesity at the Age of Four.
• Developmental Programming of Peripheral Diseases in Offspring Exposed to Maternal Obesity During Pregnancy.
• "Excessive gestational weight gain may be a risk factor for childhood allergic diseases."
• Off the Charts: Identifying and Visualizing BMI Trajectories of Rural, Poor Youth.
• Longitudinal Associations of Maternal Stress and Child Stress with Child BMI Trajectory.
• Maternal Pre-pregnancy and Current Nutritional Status and Infant Sex Interact to Affect Human Milk Composition.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Systematic review: Natural Environment and Childhood Obesity.
• Large Lemurs: Ecological, Demographic and Environmental Risk Factors for Weight Gain in Captivity.
• Continuous Growth Through Winter Correlates with Increased Resting Metabolic Rate but Does Not Affect Daily Energy Budgets Due to Torpor Use.
• Energy Gap between Doubly Labeled Water-Based Energy Expenditure and Calculated Energy Intake From Recipes and Plate Waste, and Subsequent Weight Changes in Elderly Residents in Japanese Long-Term Care Facilities.

Methods

• Systematic review: Existing Observational Tools to Measure the Food and Physical Activity Environment in Schools.
• A Tutorial on Methodological Studies: The What, When, How and Why.
• A Body Shape Index Achieves Better Mortality Risk Stratification Than Alternative Indices of Abdominal Obesity.
• Perspective: Protein Intake and Human Health: Implications of Units of Protein Intake.

Commentary

• Alexa, Am I Too Fat? Amazon Wants to Help.
• What’s the Effect of Cutting Sugar-Sweetened Drinks?
• Rethinking Fatness, Rethinking Diabetes.
• Antibiotic Therapy and Its Effect on Gut Microbiome in Obesity and Weight Loss.
• Controlled Obesity Status: A Rarely Used Concept, but with Particular Importance in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond.
• The Dawn of the Food Packaging Value Chain.
• A Bogus Obesity Strategy: Personal Responsibility.
• Obesity and Weight Management: What Can We Do as Gastroenterologists?

General

• Towards a General Theory of the Major Cooperative Evolutionary Transitions.
• What’s the Risk: Differentiating Risk Ratios, Odds Ratios, and Hazard Ratios?
• Why a Simple Act of Kindness Is Not as Simple as It Seems: Underestimating the Positive Impact of Our Compliments on Others.
• Body Size Impacts Critical Thermal Maximum Measurements in Lizards.
• Preprint: Geometric and Statistical Techniques for Projective Mapping of Chocolate Chip Cookies with a Large Number of Consumers.
• Preprint: A Framework for Clinical and Translational Research in the Era of Rigor and Reproducibility.
• Commentary: When It Comes to Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward.
• Thesis: Exploring Inverse Probability Weighted Per-protocol Estimates to Adjust for Non-adherence Using Post-randomization Co-variates.

Video & Audio

• Working Out as a Way to Accelerate the Benefits of a Fast [Peter Attia].

Announcements

• Webinar: Food Policy at a Time of Crisis: What Should the Future Look Like? [when: October 16].
• Webinar: ASA24 Dietary Assessment Tool: Recent Updates and Future Enhancements [when: September 14].
• Virtual Meeting: USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service Host Public Meeting on the Future of Consumer Food Safety Education [when: October 6].
• Webinar: Roundtable on Obesity Solutions - Using Systems Applications to Inform Obesity [when: September 16].
• Virtual Workshop: NORC Initiative to Advance the Careers of Researchers From Groups Underrepresented in Academia (URiA) [when: September 11 - October 30].
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair for a Newly Conceived Department, Health and Wellness Design.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency and/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.

Featured

• Metabolic Adaptation Is an Illusion, Only Present When Participants are in Negative Energy Balance.
• Metabolic Rate Through the Life-course: From the Organism to the Organelle.
• Preprint: Unpalatable Food for Thought: Let Marketing Research Guide Effective Public Obesity Interventions.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: BMI Is a More Powerful Risk Factor for Diabetes Than Genetics – Losing Weight Could Prevent or Even Reverse Diabetes.
• Meeting presentation: Associations between Polygenic Risk Score or BMI on Diabetes Incidence.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to our hypothesis, consuming 3.3 servings per day of low-fat dairy or an equivalent amount of full-fat dairy, did not improve glucose tolerance in men and women with the metabolic syndrome."
• Quasi-Experiment: In Jump-Rope study, "Concerning anthropometric variables, within-group assessments revealed no significant change in weight (P = 0.261), BMI (P = 0.257), WHR (P = 0.226), abdominal circumference (P = 0.917), body fat content (P = 0.430) and percentage (P = 0.375), and LBM (P = 0.867) in control group." (pdf)
• "...contrary to what was hypothesized; male participants who endorsed more visually-oriented social network site use reported more positive body image."
• Obesity Does Not Significantly Impact Gamete Production in Infertile Men and Women.
• Abstract: Hyperinsulinemia Does Not Reduce Plasma Sex Hormone-binding Globulin Levels in Obesity.
• Achieving Energy Balance with a High-fat Meal Does Not Enhance Skeletal Muscle Adaptation and Impairs Glycemic Response in a Sleep-low Training Model.
• Dietary Nitrate Supplementation Does Not Influence Thermoregulatory or Cardiovascular Strain in Older Individuals During Severe Ambient Heat Stress.
• Individual, Family, and Contextual Level Variables Do Not Explain the Protective Effect of Parental Nativity Status on Changes in 3-15-year-old Children’s BMI.
• Preprint: "No intervention effect for the primary outcome BMIz or overweight or obesity was observed for intervention communities compared to control communities over the four years of the trial."

Basic

• Difference in Housing Temperature-Induced Energy Expenditure Elicits Sex-Specific Diet-Induced Metabolic Adaptations in Mice.
• Secreted Factors From Adipose Tissue Reprogram Tumor Lipid Metabolism and Induce Motility By Modulating PPARα/ANGPTL4 and FAK.
• TET1 Is a Beige Adipocyte-Selective Epigenetic Suppressor of Thermogenesis.
• Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase Deficiency Protects Mice From Diet-Induced Obesity By Increasing Energy Expenditure Through Neuroendocrine Axis.
• Peripancreatic Adipose Tissue Protects Against High-Fat-Diet-Induced Hepatic Steatosis and Insulin Resistance in Mice.
• CRISPR-engineered Human Brown-like Adipocytes Prevent Diet-induced Obesity and Ameliorate Metabolic Syndrome in Mice. (pdf)
• Impact of Weight Loss and Partial Weight Regain on Immune Cell and Inflammatory Markers in Adipose Tissue in Male Mice.
• Effect of a Weight Loss Program on Biochemical and Immunological Profile, Serum Leptin Levels, and Cardiovascular Parameters in Dogs with Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• PubPeer Comments On: The Impact of a Ketogenic Dietary Intervention on the Quality of Life of Stage II and III Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial in the Caribbean.
• The Obligation to Retract an Unethical Paper.
• Room Indirect Calorimetry Operating and Reporting Standards (RICORS 1.0): A Guide to Conducting and Reporting Human Whole-Room Calorimeter Studies.

Clinical

• Obesity Doubles Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 in Paris Hospitals, France: A Cohort Study on 5795 Patients.
• Intensive Weight Loss Intervention and Cancer Risk in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Analysis of the Look AHEAD Trial.
• Review: Obesity: A Critical Risk Factor in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Children and Adolescents

• Review: Communication Tools Used in Childhood Obesity Discussions.
• Bone Mass and Density in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, and Healthy Weight.
• Systematic Review: Parent Involvement in Adolescent Obesity Treatment.
• Childhood BMI and Fasting Glucose and Insulin Predict Adult Type 2 Diabetes: The International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium.
• Relationship between Retail Food Outlets Near Public Schools and Adolescent Obesity in New York City.
• What's a Normal Weight? – Origin and Receiving Country Influences on Weight-status Assessment Among 1.5 and 2nd Generation Immigrant Adolescents in Europe.
• The Diets of Children: Overview of Available Data for Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Ventilatory Response at Rest and During Maximal Exercise Testing in Patients with Severe Obesity Before and After Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Obesity and Ventricular Assist Devices.
• Cardiovascular Risk Factors Following Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy in Black Americans Compared with White Americans.
• Early Post-operative Weight Change After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Predicts Weight Loss at 12-Month Follow-up.
• Three-Year Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Obesity and Hypertension.

Drugs

• Review: The Other Obesity Epidemic-Of Drugs and Bugs.
• Risk of Anemia with Metformin Use in Type 2 Diabetes: A MASTERMIND Study.

Food & Diet

• Preprint : Effects of Diet-Modulated Autologous Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on Weight Regain.
• Daily Eating Frequency in US Adults in NHANES: Associations with Low-Calorie Sweeteners, BMI, and Nutrient Intake.
• Ultra-processed Food Intake in Association with BMI Change and Risk of Overweight and Obesity: A Prospective Analysis of the French NutriNet-Santé Cohort.
• Effect [association] of Removing Chocolate Milk on Milk and Nutrient Intake Among Urban Secondary School Students. (pdf)
• Modeling the Replacement of Red and Processed Meat with Other Food Sources of Protein and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in European Populations: The EPIC-InterAct Study.
• RCT: Changes in Dietary Inflammatory Index Patterns with Weight Loss in Women.
• Calcium Intake Is Inversely Associated with Body Fat in Postmenopausal Women.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Review: The Effect of Fasting or Calorie Restriction on Mitophagy Induction.
• The Effect of Royal Jelly and Tocotrienol-rich Fraction Along with Calorie Restriction on Hypothalamic Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Diet-induced Obese Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Why are Physical Activity Breaks More Effective Than a Single Session of Isoenergetic Exercise in Reducing Postprandial Glucose?
• Meta-Analysis: The Association of the ACTN3 R577X and ACE I/D Polymorphisms with Athlete Status in Football.

Economics & Sociology

• Measuring Structural Racism and Its Association with BMI.
• How Do Early-life Adverse Childhood Experiences Mediate the Relationship between Childhood Socioeconomic Conditions and Adolescent Health Outcomes in the UK?

Epidemiology

• Nutritional Status and Survival of 8247 Cancer Patients with or Without Diabetes Mellitus—results From a Prospective Cohort Study.
• Association of Sex or Race with the Effect of Weight Loss on Physical Function: A Secondary Analysis of 8 RCTs.
• BMI and Height in Relation to Brain Tumor Risk in a Japanese Population.
• Metabolic Syndrome and COVID-19 Mortality Among Adult Black Patients in New Orleans.
• Meta-Analysis: Association between Shift Work and Obesity Among Nurses.
• The Effect of Boarding on Obesity Among Middle School Students: Evidence From China.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Psychological Adaptive Difficulties and Their Management During COVID-19 Pandemic in People with Diabetes Mellitus.
• Abstract: College Students’ Interpretation of Terminology Commonly Used in Describing Food.
• Longitudinal Analysis of Psychosocial Stressors and BMI in Middle-aged and Older Adults in the United States.
• Review: Brain–gut–microbiome Interactions in Obesity and Food Addiction.
• Loss of Control Eating in a Sample of Young Racially/ethnically Diverse Men.
• Meta-Analysis: Perceived Stress and Diet Quality in Women of Reproductive Age.
• Higher BMI Is Associated with Smaller Regional Brain Volume in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.

Equity and Disparities

• Black and White Females' Perceptions of Ideal Body Size and Social Norms.
• Is BMI Sensitively Related to Socio-economic Status and to Economic Adjustment? A Case Study From the Congo.
• Systematic Review: Stress-Induced Eating Among Racial/Ethnic Groups in the United States.
• Future Trends in Social Inequalities in Obesity in England, Wales and Scotland.
• Creating Healthy Food, Building Healthy Families: An Evaluation of a Healthy Cooking Healthy Lifestyle Programme in New Zealand.
• USDA Research Combats Childhood Obesity: A Collection of Projects That Integrate Research, Education, and Extension Targeting Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Children and Families.

Stigma

• Adolescents Exposed to Discrimination: Are They More Prone to Excessive Internet Use?
• Abstract: Minimizing Weight Bias in Health Professional Students Through Reflective Journaling.
• Abstract: The Association of Weight Bias with Health at Every Size® Alignment and Weight Bias Training in a Nationally Representative Sample of Registered Dietitians.
• Book Chapter: Bias and Stigma Related to Patients with Obesity. In: Treating Obesity in Primary Care.
• Pregnant and Postpartum Women’s Experiences of Weight Stigma in Healthcare.
• Intrapersonal Predictors of Weight Bias Internalization Among Elementary School Children.
• New Research at ECOICO: Progress in Reducing Weight Bias?

Policy Related

• Dietary and Physical Activity Behaviors Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019.
• COVID-19 and Morbid Obesity: Associations and Consequences for Policy and Practice.
• Evaluating Sustainability in the Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Project: The Model and Process.
• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education Improves Food Security Independent of Food Assistance and Program Characteristics.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association between Breastfeeding and Obesity in Preschool Children.
• Gestational Weight Gain, Birthweight and Early-childhood Obesity: Between- and Within-family Comparisons.
• Maternal Adiposity Alters the Human Milk Metabolome: Associations between Nonglucose Monosaccharides and Infant Adiposity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Animal Body Size Distribution Influences the Ratios of Nutrients Supplied to Plants.
• Longevity, Body Dimension and Reproductive Mode Drive Differences in Aquatic Versus Terrestrial Life-history Strategies.

Methods

• Methodological Considerations for Assessing Immune Defense in Reproductive Females.
• RCT: Glucose as the Fifth Vital Sign: Continuous Glucose Monitoring in a Non-ICU Hospital Setting.

Commentary

• An Ancient, Dolphinlike Reptile Called an Ichthyosaur May Have Died From Overeating.
• BPA: Would You Like a Receipt for Mortality Risk?
• Comparing Apples & Scalpels in the NEJM.
• Anorexia Often Stunts Girls' Growth, Study Finds.
• Individuals with Obesity and COVID-19: A Global Perspective on the Epidemiology and Biological Relationships.
• COVID-19-Era Isolation Is Making Dangerous Eating Disorders Worse.
• Imagined COVID Vaccine Study, Real Obesity Clickbait.
• When Two Pandemics Meet: Why Is Obesity Associated with Increased COVID-19 Mortality?

General

• Systematic Review: Mindfulness and Meditation Can Worsen Depression and Anxiety - Adverse Events in Meditation Practices and Meditation-based Therapies.
• FactCheck.org’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson on the Golden Age of Misinformation.
• Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Success of Male Polar Bears.
• A New Semi-Quantitative Method for Coding Carnivore Chewing Damage with an Application to Modern African Lion-Damaged Bones.
• A Measurement of Positronium’s Energy Levels Confounds Scientists.
• Meta-Analysis: Validity of Image-based Dietary Assessment Methods.
• An Online Paper Authoring Tool (PAT) to Improve Reporting Of, and Synthesis of Evidence From, Trials in Behavioral Sciences.
• Infection Fatality Ratios for COVID-19 Among Noninstitutionalized Persons 12 and Older: Results of a Random-Sample Prevalence Study.

Announcements

• IUB SPH Professor Antonio Williams Discusses "NBA and WNBA postpone games as players protest Jacob Blake shooting."
• EPA Awards $1.6M for IU Research on Synthetic Chemical Exposure in Rural Drinking Water.
• Using the same pool that is in the lobby of the IU-Bloomington School of Public Health today, "50 years ago, IU swimming assembled the greatest team ever — in any sport."
• Healthy People 2030 Objectives Released.
• National Science Foundation and National Institute of Food and Agriculture Establish and Fund a Nationwide Network of Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes.
• European and International Congress on Obesity 2020 Focuses on Two Pandemics – Obesity and COVID-19.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair for a Newly Conceived Department, Health and Wellness Design.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency and/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.

Featured

• Using Consumption and Reward Simulations to Increase the Appeal of Plant-based Foods.
• Diurnal, Metabolic and Thermogenic Alterations in a Murine Model of Accelerated Aging.
• RCT: Effects of Weight Loss During a Very Low Carbohydrate Diet on Specific Adipose Tissue Depots and Insulin Sensitivity in Older Adults with Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: More Research Suggests a Plant-Based Diet Is Best for Healthy Aging—But the Blue Zones Have Known That for Years.
• Study: Perspective Article on Plant-Based Diets for Healthy Aging. Not More Research.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "no effect was observed on child BMI...[in] Parenting support to prevent overweight during regular well-child visits in 0-3 year old children (BBOFT+ program)..."
• RCT: "The antenatal lifestyle intervention embedded in routine care did not substantially influence infant anthropometrics and is thus unlikely to impact future development."
• We Found No Significant Association between Adv36 Seropositivity and Different BMI Categories, or Glucose Tolerance Status.
• "A behavioral intervention that focused on overall maternal health delivered in the time around pregnancy did not result in a "spill-over effect" on healthy gestational weight gain or healthy infant growth during the first year of life."
• "This review demonstrates limited evidence for the use of oral nutrition supplements to increase intake and positively influence weight in patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal cancer."
• RCT: Compared to Placebo, Empagliflozin Did Not Result in Changes in Autonomic Tone Among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes and Stable Coronary Artery Disease.
• RCT: "In conclusion, the present study provided evidence that muscle fatigue caused by knee extensions cannot be attenuated by EPA and DHA supplementation in healthy subjects."
• RCT: "The results of this investigation do not support claims made by probiotic products manufacturers, that they aid weight loss."
• RCT: "Participation in the pre-pregnancy weight loss intervention had no effect on women's likelihood of exceeding gestational weight gain guidelines." (pdf)

Basic

• Nervous System Deletion of Mammalian INDY in Mice Mimics Dietary Restriction-induced Memory Enhancement.
• Exacerbated Obesogenic Response in Female Mice Exposed to Early Life Stress Is Linked to Fat Depot-Specific Upregulation of Leptin Protein Expression.
• TRAF3IP2 (TRAF3 Interacting Protein 2) Mediates Obesity-Associated Vascular Insulin Resistance and Dysfunction in Male Mice.
• Early Overnutrition Sensitizes the Growth Hormone Axis to the Impact of Diet-induced Obesity Via Sex-divergent Mechanisms.
• Inhibition of GSK-3β Restores Delayed Gastric Emptying in Obesity-induced Diabetic Female Mice.
• NKX2-2 Mutation Causes Congenital Diabetes and Infantile Obesity with Paradoxical Glucose Induced Ghrelin Secretion.
• The Paradoxical Lean Phenotype of Hypothyroid Mice Is Marked by Increased Adaptive Thermogenesis in the Skeletal Muscle.
• Manipulation of Dietary Amino Acids Prevents and Reverses Obesity in Mice Through Multiple Mechanisms That Modulate Energy Homeostasis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Call to Increase Statistical Collaboration in Sports Science, Sport and Exercise Medicine and Sports Physiotherapy.
• Clarifying the Meaning of Statistical Collaboration.
• Springer Nature ‘continuing to Investigate the Concerns Raised’ About Paper Linking Obesity and Lying.
• Perspective: Time to Resolve Confusion on Folate Amounts, Units, and Forms in Prenatal Supplements.
• Article: Association of Healthy Lifestyle with Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases.
• Letter: Weight Management and Healthy Lifestyles.
• Response: Weight Management and Healthy Lifestyles—Reply.
• Commentary: A Lifestyle Free of Obesity, Which Is Not a Lifestyle.

Clinical

• Effects of Diet Versus Gastric Bypass on Metabolic Function in Diabetes.
• The Role of the Mediterranean Diet on Weight Loss and Obesity-related Diseases.
• RCT: Effects of Sugar-weetened, Artificially Sweetened, and Unsweetened Beverages on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Body Composition, and Sweet Taste Preference.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-analysis: Effects of Physical Activity Interventions on Cognitive Outcomes and Academic Performance in Adolescents and Young Adults.
• Socio-ecological Predictors of Non-Organized Physical Activity Participation and Decline between Childhood and Adolescence.

Surgery

• Commentary: Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: DSS Recommendations for Management of Surgical Candidates and Postoperative Patients and Prioritisation of Access to Surgery.
• Association between Bariatric Surgery and All-Cause Mortality: A Population-Based Matched Cohort Study in a Universal Health Care System.
• Commentary: Bariatric Surgery and Restoration of Insulin Sensitivity — It’s Weight Loss.
• Effects of Sleeve Gastrectomy on Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue in Adolescents and Young Adults with Obesity.

Drugs

• Effects of Antidiabetic Drugs That Cause Glucose Excretion Directly from the Body on Mortality.
• Effects of Lixisenatide Versus Liraglutide (Short- and Long-Acting GLP-1 Receptor Agonists) on Esophageal and Gastric Function in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Metabolic Effects of an SGLT2 Inhibitor (Dapagliflozin) During a Period of Acute Insulin Withdrawal and Development of Ketoacidosis in People with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Meta-analysis: Efficacy and Safety of Short- and Long-Acting Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists on a Background of Basal Insulin in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Stronger Anti-obesity Effect of White Ginseng over Red Ginseng and the Potential Mechanisms Involving Chemically Structural/compositional Specificity to Gut Microbiota.
• Nondigestible Oligosaccharides with Anti-Obesity Effects.
• Drugs to Treat Overweight and Obesity.
• Lipidomic Analysis Reveals Therapeutic Effects of Yijin-Tang on High-fat/high-cholesterol Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• The Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicology of Cinnamomi Ramulus: A Review.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effects of Weight Loss During a Very Low Carbohydrate Diet on Specific Adipose Tissue Depots and Insulin Sensitivity in Older Adults with Obesity.
• "The findings of this updated review suggest that reducing saturated fat intake for at least two years causes a potentially important reduction in combined cardiovascular events."
• Consumption of Ultra-processed Foods and Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Epidemiological Studies.
• Diet Pattern and Prodromal Features of Parkinson's Disease.
• Review: Protein, Amino Acids and Obesity Treatment.
• A Combination of Apple Vinegar Drink with Bacillus Coagulans Ameliorates High Fat Diet-Induced Body Weight Gain, Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis.
• A Shift Toward a Plant-Centered Diet from Young to Middle Adulthood and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Weight Gain: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Methionine Restriction Regulates Cognitive Function in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice: Roles of Diurnal Rhythms of SCFAs Producing- and Inflammation-Related Microbes.
• Hypermethioninemia Leads to Fatal Bleeding and Increased Mortality in a Transgenic I278T Mouse Model of Homocystinuria.
• Caloric Restriction Recovers Impaired β-cell-β-cell Gap Junction Coupling, Calcium Oscillation Coordination and Insulin Secretion in Prediabetic Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Association of Physical Activity with Risk of Hepatobiliary Diseases in China: A Prospective Cohort Study of 0.5 Million People.
• Towards a Better Understanding of the ‘Physical Activity Paradox’: The Need for a Research Agenda.
• Meta-analysis: The Effect of Aerobic and Resistance Training and Combined Exercise Modalities on Subcutaneous Abdominal Fat.
• Physical Activity Throughout Adolescence and Peak Hip Strength in Young Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Preprint: Day-to-Day Pattern of Work and Leisure Time Physical Behaviours: Are Low Socioeconomic Status Adults Couch Potatoes or Work Warriors?
• Commentary: Fears Grow of Nutritional Crisis in Lockdown UK.

Epidemiology

• Overweight, Obesity, and Risk of Hospitalization for COVID-19: A Community-based Cohort Study of Adults in the United Kingdom.
• Are Cape Peninsula Baboons Raiding Their Way to Obesity and Type II Diabetes? - a Comparative Study.
• Meta-analysis: Effects of Dietary Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load on Cardiometabolic and Reproductive Profiles in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Observations Did the COVID-19 Lockdown Affect the Incidence of Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes in Germany?
• Body Weight Variability and the Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes and Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Nationwide Cohort Study.
• Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow as a Function of Obesity in Adults.
• Association of Weight Loss between Early Adulthood and Midlife with All-Cause Mortality Risk in the US.
• Impact of Road Traffic Noise on Obesity Measures: Observational Study of Three European Cohorts.
• Nutritional Status and Survival of 8247 Cancer Patients with or Without Diabetes Mellitus—results from a Prospective Cohort Study.
• The Influence of Age and Obesity-Altered Muscle Tissue Composition on Muscular Dimensional Changes: Impact on Strength and Function.
• Environment-Wide Association Study on Childhood Obesity in the U.S.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Preference for Lower Caloric Density Versus Smaller Quantities Among Restrained and Unrestrained Eaters.
• Predictors of Attrition from a Weight Loss Program. A Study of Adult Patients with Obesity in a Community Setting.
• Hindbrain Double-Negative Feedback Mediates Palatability-Guided Food and Water Consumption.
• Effect of Obesity on Cognitive Impairment in Vascular Dementia Rat Model Via BDNF-ERK-CREB Pathway.
• ‘Liking’ and ‘wanting’ in Eating and Food Reward: Brain Mechanisms and Clinical Implications.

Equity and Disparities

• Exploring Black Girls’ Recommendations for Healthy Lifestyle Interventions to Address Obesity.
• RCT: Differential Effects of a School-based Obesity Prevention Program.

Stigma

• What's Mom and Dad Got to Do with It? Factors Related between Mothers’, Fathers’, and Young Children’s Weight Bias.
• Attitudes and Treatment Practice of General Practitioners Towards Patients with Obesity in Primary Care.
• Diabetes Stigma and Weight Stigma in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Weight Bias, Shame, and Self-Compassion: Risk/Protective Mechanisms of Depression and Anxiety in Prebariatic Surgery Patients.

Policy Related

• Obesity in Mexico: Rapid Epidemiological Transition and Food Industry Interference in Health Policies.
• Systematic Review: Effects of Food Policy Actions on Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition-related Outcomes.
• Implementation of a Statewide Policy Mandating School-Based Fitness Assessment Screening, Georgia: 2018.
• The Application of an Evidence Framework for Obesity Prevention at the Population-Level.

Intergenerational Effects

• Rate of Gestational Weight Gain Trajectory Is Associated with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes.
• The Impact of Maternal Obesity and Breast Milk Inflammation on Developmental Programming of Infant Growth.
• Preprint: A Potential Role for Insulin Treatment During Pregnancy in Reducing Postpartum Psychological Distress in Maternal Obesity: An Administrative Population Health Study.
• Systematic Review: COVID-19 and Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Mortality.
• Associations between a Maternal Healthy Lifestyle Score and Adverse Offspring Birth Outcomes and Childhood Obesity in the Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study.
• Mild Maternal Sleep-disordered Breathing During Pregnancy and Offspring Growth and Adiposity in the First 3 Years of Life.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Dissertation: The Evolution and Ecology of Energy-Limited Microbial Populations.
• Fluctuating Environments During Early Development Can Limit Adult Phenotypic Flexibility: Insights from an Amphibious Fish.

Methods

• Real-time Continuous Glucose Monitoring During a Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemic Clamp Significantly Underestimates the Degree of Hypoglycemia.
• Objective Biomarkers for Total Added Sugar Intake – are We on a Wild Goose Chase?

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Machine Learning Models to Predict Childhood and Adolescent Obesity: A Review.
• The Measurement of Insulin Clearance.
• A Computational Approach for Defining a Signature of β-Cell Golgi Stress in Diabetes Mellitus.

Commentary

• Statins, Obesity, and the Microbiome: A Potential Mechanism for the Pleiotropic Effects of Statin Therapy.
• Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Normal Weight and Obesity.
• Obesity, Inflammation and COVID-19.
• Long-lasting Effects of Obesity on Appetite Neurons.
• Is Growth Hormone Insufficiency the Missing Link between Obesity, Male Gender, Age and COVID-19 Severity?
• Same Metabolic Benefits Gained from Major Weight Loss – Whether from Diet or Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Diet and COVID, Where Vital Meets Urgent.
• How Radical Innovation Will Shape the Future of Food.

General

• A Gene’s-eye View of Sexual Antagonism.
• Subconcussive Head Impact Exposure between Drill Intensities in U.S. High School Football.
• Network Meta-analysis: Comparing the Effects of Docosahexaenoic and Eicosapentaenoic Acids on Inflammation Markers Using Pairwise and Network Meta-Analyses of RCTs.
• Study Finds Clues to Aging in 'Junk' DNA.
• Life History Effects on Neutral Diversity Levels of Autosomes and Sex Chromosomes.
• New Pen-and-Ink Method Draws Health Sensors Directly on Skin.
• Albert C. Barnes, MD: The Physician Who Spun Silver into Gold.
• Normative Errors and Surgisphere.

Announcements

• IU Epidemiologist Bento Named to WHO Panel on Reopening Schools.
• Meals to You: Addressing Child Hunger in the Age of COVID-19.
• Obesity Webinar Series 2020.
• "IU's ability to accurately test for the COVID-19 virus, understand the presence of the virus in its campus communities and keep Hoosiers safe from the pandemic is led by top scientists, researchers and clinicians at the IU School of Medicine, IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI and IU School of Public Health-Bloomington."
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair for a Newly Conceived Department, Health and Wellness Design.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.

Featured

• Alterations of Lipid Metabolism with Age and Weight in Companion Dogs.
• Murine Genetic Models of Obesity: Type I Error Rates and the Power of Commonly Used Analyses Assessed by Plasmode-based Simulation.
• RCT: Energy Requirement Is Higher During Weight Loss Maintenance in Adults Consuming a Low- Compared with High-Carbohydrate Diet.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Gut Bug May Help Prevent Heart Disease and Promote Longevity.
• Study: Enzymes in a gut microbe might disrupt the creation of trimethylamine, associated with cardiovascular disease. “It’s too soon to say whether this bacterium could have therapeutic value" - Author.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Preprint: RCT: "Both FBCO treatment interventions were delivered with high fidelity; yet neither yielded significant improvements in child or parent BMI..[in] High intensity versus low intensity family-based childhood obesity treatment programs..." (pdf)
• RCT: No Significant Effects of School-based Physical Activity Interventions on Mental Health in Adolescents in Total Sample.
• "Contrary to expectation, the response at the supra-MLSS work rates had not two, but three, distinct phases: the primary phase and the slow component, plus a “delayed” third phase, which emerged after ~15 minutes. ...These results challenge commonly held beliefs about definitions and descriptions of exercise intensity domains."
• Hsd17b13 Deficiency Does Not Protect Mice from Obesogenic Diet Injury.
• RCT: A High Protein Meal Does Not Improve Blood Pressure or Vasoactive Biomarker Responses to Acute Exercise in Humans.
• DaPeCa5 – Obesity at the Time of Diagnosis Does Not Predict Poor Cancer-specific Survival in Patients with Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
• RCT: “The Aim of This Study Was to Evaluate the Effect of Probiotic Supplementation on Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) in Patients After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB)….The Prevalence of SIBO Was Similar Among Times, and the Mean Score of GSRS Responses Did Not Differ between Groups at Any Time.”. (pdf)
• RCT: "The interventions did not affect body mass on average, but promoted weight loss among the leaner participants."
• RCT: "In patients with septic shock, the combination of ascorbic acid, corticosteroids, and thiamine, compared with placebo, did not result in a statistically significant reduction in SOFA score during the first 72 hours after enrollment."

Basic

• Flux Through Mitochondrial Redox Circuits Linked to Nicotinamide Nucleotide Transhydrogenase Generates Counterbalance Changes in Energy Expenditure.
• Loss of APJ Mediated β-arrestin Signalling Improves High-fat Diet Induced Metabolic Dysfunction but Does Not Alter Cardiac Function in Mice.
• Collagen 24 α1 Is Increased in Insulin-Resistant Skeletal Muscle and Adipose Tissue.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Effects of a Long-term Lifestyle Intervention on Metabolically Healthy Women with Obesity: Metabolite Profiles According to Weight Loss Response.
• Letter: Lifestyle Interventions on Weight Loss Among Metabolically Healthy Obese Women.
• Response: Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Lifestyle Interventions on Weight Loss Among Metabolically Healthy Obese Women.
• Editor's note on: Dishonesty Is More Affected by BMI Status Than by Short-term Changes in Glucose.
• PubPeer Comment on: Dishonesty Is More Affected by BMI Status Than by Short-term Changes in Glucose.
• PubPeer Comment on: Zinc Supplementation Reduces Common Cold Duration Among Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials with Micronutrients Supplementation.

Clinical

• COVID-19: Underlying Adipokine Storm and Angiotensin 1-7 Umbrella.
• Obesity and COVID-19: Immunological Perturbations, Therapeutic Challenges, and Opportunities in Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Comparing the Effects of Docosahexaenoic and Eicosapentaenoic Acids on Inflammation Markers.
• Bariatric Surgery for the Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-analysis: The Effect of School Intervention Programs on the BMI of Adolescents.
• Neonatal Adiposity and Childhood Obesity.
• Bridging Obstetrics and Pediatrics to Close the Life Span Gap in Child Obesity Research.
• Perceived Barriers/facilitators to a Healthy Lifestyle Among Diverse Adolescents with Overweight/obesity: A Qualitative Study.
• Systematic Review: Layperson-Led vs Professional-Led Behavioral Interventions for Weight Loss in Pediatric Obesity.

Surgery

• Pathophysiology, Prevention, and Treatment of Beriberi After Gastric Surgery.
• Thyroid Hormone Changes After Sleeve Gastrectomy with and Without Antral Preservation.
• Iron Deficiency Following Bariatric Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Drugs

• Phentermine.
• The Safety and Effectiveness of Commonly-marketed Natural Supplements for Weight Loss in Populations with Obesity: A Critical Review of the Literature from 2006 to 2016.
• GDF15 Mediates the Effects of Metformin on Body Weight and Energy Balance.

Food & Diet

• The Khmer Did Not Live by Rice Alone: Archaeobotanical Investigations at Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm.
• Seasoned Socialism: Gender & Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life.
• Anti-obesity Activity of Anthocyanin and Carotenoid Extracts from Color-fleshed Sweet Potatoes.
• Systematic Review: Ultra-processed Food and the Risk of Overweight and Obesity.
• Association of Organic Food Consumption with Obesity in a Nationally Representative Sample.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Effect of 2 Years of Calorie Restriction on Liver Biomarkers.
• Systematic Review: The Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Glycemic Control and Body Composition in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Editorial: Fat Mobilization Without Weight Loss Is a Potentially Rapid Response to Nicotinamide Riboside in Obese People: It's Time to Test with Exercise.
• Perceived Change in Physical Activity Levels and Mental Health During Covid-19: Findings Among Adult Twin Pairs.
• Preprint: Effects of Stretching Exercises on Human Gait: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Obesity: A Review of Literature from the Past Decade to Inform Intervention Research.
• Dissertation: Acculturative Stress, Discrimination, Ethnic Identity, and Binge Eating Among Latina College Students.

Epidemiology

• Is Obesity the Missing Link between COVID-19 Severity and Air Pollution?
• Associations of Dietary Habits and Sleep in Older Adults: A 9-year Follow-up Cohort Study.
• COVID-19 and Obesity.
• Association between the Phytochemical Index and Lower Prevalence of Obesity/Abdominal Obesity in Korean Adults.
• COVID-19 and Morbid Obesity: Associations and Consequences for Policy and Practice.
• Neonatal Outcome by Planned Mode of Delivery in Women with a BMI of 35 or More: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Diabetes, Weight Change, and Pancreatic Cancer Risk.
• BMI and Total Symptom Burden in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Discovery of a U-shaped Association.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Meta-analysis: Is Obesity Related to Enhanced Neural Reactivity to Visual Food Cues?
• Reduced Neural Satiety Responses in Women Affected by Obesity.
• Restrained Eaters’ Consumption of Dietary Forbidden and Permitted Foods After Exposure to Incidental Fitness Cues.
• RCT: Effects of Food-related Behavioral Activation Therapy on Eating Styles, Diet Quality and Body Weight Change.
• Associations of Sleep with Gray Matter Volume and Their Implications for Academic Achievement, Executive Function and Intelligence in Children with Overweight/obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Weight-Based Discrimination in the Italian Labor Market: An Analysis of the Interaction with Gender and Ethnicity.
• Health Promotion Programs to Reduce Noncommunicable Diseases: A Call for Action in Kuwait.
• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in 3-to-10-year-old Children: Assessment of Different Cut-off Criteria WHO-IOTF.
• Dissertation: Association between Household/Housing Characteristics and Childhood Overweight/Obesity Among African American Children Aged 6 to 11.
• Obesity and Mortality Among Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19: Results from an Integrated Health Care Organization.
• Preprint: Income Inequality in Obesity Among US Adults 1999-2016: Does Sex Matter?

Stigma

• Associations between Weight Perception, Unhealthy Weight Control Behavior, and Suicidal Ideation and Planning Among Korean Adolescents.
• Associations between Husbands’ Weight Bias and Related Concerns and Husbands’ and Wives’ Psychological and Relationship Outcomes.
• Thesis: Does Presenting Obesity as a Disease or Food Addiction Reduce Stigma and Increase Support for Approaches Addressing Obesity Amongst Fitness Practitioners?

Policy Related

• Forging the Future of Food and Nutrition Education.
• Falsehoods and Facts About Dietary Sugars: A Call for Evidence-based Policy.
• Text Mining of United States Obesity-Related Public Policies: Systematic Document Search.
• Young Adolescents' Experiences and Views on Eating and Food.
• An Accountability Evaluation for the Responsible Use of Celebrity Endorsement by the Food and Beverage Industry to Promote Healthy Food Environments for Young Americans: A Narrative Review to Inform Obesity Prevention Policy.
• Simple Is Better for Local Beverage Tax Policy Diffusion.

Intergenerational Effects

• Sex-dependent Associations of Maternal Androgen Levels with Offspring BMI and Weight Trajectory from Birth to Early Childhood.
• Maternal Plant-based Diet During Gestation and Pregnancy Outcomes.
• Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls Exposure on Physical Growth from Birth to Childhood and Adolescence.
• Maternal Thyroid Disease and Adiposity in Mother and Child.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Microbes Make the Meal: Oligolectic Bees Require Microbes Within Their Host Pollen to Thrive.
• On the Comparative Biology of Mammalian Telomeres: Telomere Length Co-evolves with Body Mass, Lifespan and Cancer Risk (PDF). (pdf)
• Discrimination of Small Sugar Concentration Differences Helps the Nectar-feeding Bat Leptonycteris Yerbabuenae Cover Energetic Demands.

Methods

• Understanding Time Series Patterns of Weight and Meal History Reports in Mobile Weight Loss Intervention Programs: Data-Driven Analysis.
• Association Does Not Imply Prediction: The Accuracy of Birthweight in Predicting Child Mortality and Anthropometric Failure.
• Effects of Social Network Diversity in the Disablement Process: A Comparison of Causal Inference Methods and an Outcome-wide Approach to the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, 2007–2015.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Assessing Inequalities and Regional Disparities in Child Nutrition Outcomes in India Using MANUSH – a More Sensitive Yardstick.
• Systematic Review: The Range of Non-traditional Anthropometric Parameters to Define Obesity and Obesity-related Disease in Children.

Commentary

• Tsk Tsk: Obesity and COVID-19 Mortality.
• Mouse Study Reveals Previously Unknown Taste Cell That Detects Nearly All Flavours.
• Food System Workers are the Unexpected but Under Protected COVID Heroes.
• A New Concept in DR [dietary Restriction] Is Cleaning Up!
• How a Libertarian Is Tackling Obesity and Why Big Food Should Worry.
• Guidelines: Sugar, Alcohol, and Red Meat – Oh My!
• The Commonly Overlooked Factor. Commentary On: “Environmental Obesogens and Their Impact on Susceptibility to Obesity”.
• Is Objective Dialogue About Sugar Even Possible?

General

• Book: Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth.
• RCT: Effect of Long-term Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs Placebo on Risk of Depression or Clinically Relevant Depressive Symptoms and on Change in Mood Scores.
• Young Adults' Risks from First-time Opioid Prescriptions May Not Be as High as Previously Thought.
• Black Artists, Racial Equality, and Dr. Albert C. Barnes.
• Self-Reported Sexual Behavioral Similarities and Differences Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men with Childhood Sexual Abuse Histories: A Qualitative Exploratory Study.
• Adolescents' Discussion of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Topics with Providers: Findings from a Nationally Representative Probability Sample of U.S. Adolescents.
• Impacts of the Season and Reproductive Status on Fecal Reproductive and Adrenocortical Steroid Metabolites in Zoo Cuban Crocodiles (Crocodylus Rhombifer).
• Communicating Science in the Time of a Pandemic.

Video & Audio

• Audio: A New Fitness Routine -- Plus How Business Can Adapt to Pandemic-driven Consumer Changes.

Announcements

• IU Surpasses $1 Billion in Research and Philanthropic Funding.
• New Book: Sugarproof.
• "The Indiana University Board of Trustees has approved IU's 2021-23 legislative capital request....Renovation of the School of Public Health-Bloomington, including the attached Bill Garrett Fieldhouse, at $65 million."
• NORC Initiative to Advance the Careers of Researchers from Groups Underrepresented in Academia (URiA) Schedule.
• IU Public Health Expert Joins World Health Organization Group as Advisor on COVID-19 and Schools.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair for a Newly Conceived Department, Health and Wellness Design.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical & Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency And/or Statistical & Data Analytic Research in the Obesity & Nutrition Research Domain.