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Featured

• A Dietary Ketone Ester Mitigates Histological Outcomes of NAFLD and Markers of Fibrosis in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice.
• RCT: Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drink Consumption Acutely Decreases Spontaneous Baroreflex Sensitivity and Heart Rate Variability.
• Factors Associated with Weight Loss Maintenance and Weight Regain Among African American and White Adults Initially Successful at Weight Loss.
• GFRAL-Expressing Neurons Suppress Food Intake Via Aversive Pathways.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Obesity Now Kills More People Than SMOKING: Weight Problems Account for More Deaths Than Tobacco as Junk Food Grows More Popular Than Cigarettes, Study Reveals.
• Study: Changes over 15 years in the Contribution of Adiposity and Smoking to Deaths in England and Scotland. No Junk Food. No Popularity.
• Headline Critique: Obesity Kills! Hype and Bullying Don’t Help, Either.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Ayurvedic Herbal Preparation Supplementation Does Not Improve Metabolic Health in Impaired Glucose Tolerance Subjects.
• "Contrary to prediction, increased fat load did not increase a male’s probability of winning a contest possibly because fights in field crickets are too short to invoke stamina."
• "Contrary to the hypothesis, after controlling for baseline score and sex there were no significant differences between weight groups with regards to ...[pain scores] at discharge."
• "Contrary to expectations, the RMR and Ucrit of gravid females was equal to that of non-gravid females and males, once the significant effects of body mass on these traits was accounted for."
• "Contrary to the results from the Harlem Trial, no indications of deleterious effects [of high protein diet] on fetal growth or perinatal mortality were observed."
• The Appraisal of Body Content (ABC) Trial: Increased Male or Female Adiposity Does Not Significantly Impact in Vitro Fertilization Laboratory or Clinical Outcomes.
• Blood Flow Restriction During the Resting Periods of High Intensity Resistance Training Does Not Alter Performance but Decreases MIR-1 and MIR-133a Levels in Human Skeletal Muscle.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Kefir in Mixed Meals on Appetite and Food Intake.

Basic

• Mitochondrial Uncoupler SHC517 Reverses Obesity in Mice Without Affecting Food Intake.
• Retinal Damage in a New Model of Hyperglycemia Induced by High-Sucrose Diets in Flies.
• Visceral Adipose Tissue-Directed FGF21 Gene Therapy Improves Metabolic and Immune Health in BTBR Mice.
• Histone H3 Methyltransferase Ezh2 Promotes White Adipocytes but Inhibits Brown and Beige Adipocyte Differentiation in Mice.
• IRF3 Reduces Adipose Thermogenesis Via ISG15-Mediated Reprogramming of Glycolysis.
• Choline and Folic Acid in Diets Consumed During Pregnancy Interact to Program Food Intake and Metabolic Regulation of Male Wistar Rat Offspring.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• PubPeer Comment On: Effectiveness of Electroacupuncture for Simple Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
• Eleven Papers Corrected After Nutrition Prof Fails to Disclose Patent, Company Ties.
• Misguided Attempts to PURE-ify Nutritional Epidemiology.
• Retraction Notice: Obesity and Mortality of COVID-19. Meta-analysis [Obesity Research & Clinical Practice 14/4 (2020) 295-300].
• PubPeer Comments On: Calcifediol Treatment and COVID-19-Related Outcomes.
• MP Cites Vitamin D Study as Proof of COVID Efficacy Much to Academics’ Despair.

Clinical

• RCT: Acute Nutritional Ketosis and Its Implications for Plasma Glucose and Glucoregulatory Peptides in Adults with Prediabetes.
• RCT: Branched-Chain Amino Acid Supplementation Does Not Preserve Lean Mass or Affect Metabolic Profile in Adults with Overweight or Obesity in Weight Loss Intervention.
• RCT: Effects of a Single Oral Megadose of Vitamin D3 on Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Markers in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Dissertation: Childhood Obesity: How are Hospitals Utilizing Childhood Obesity Programs?

Children and Adolescents

• Cilia Signaling and Obesity.
• Mediation of the Association between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Overweight/Obesity and Childhood Overweight/Obesity by Birth Anthropometry.
• Sex Differences in the Relation between BMI Trajectories and Adolescent Social Adjustment.
• Looking Backwards and Forwards: Tracking and Persistence of Weight Status between Early Childhood and Adolescence.
• Meta-Analysis: Impact of Childhood Obesity on the Body Posture.

Surgery

• Toward a Medical Gastric Bypass: Chronic Feeding Studies with Liraglutide + PYY 3-36 Combination Therapy in Diet-Induced Obese Rats.
• Evaluation of the Trends, Characteristics, and Outcomes in North American Youth Undergoing Elective Bariatric Surgery.
• Reward-Related Gustatory and Psychometric Predictors of Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery: A Multicenter Cohort Study.

Drugs

• The Effects of Anti-Obesity Pharmacotherapy Interventions on Psychosocial Factors Among Adolescents with Obesity: A Scoping Review.
• Establishing Serum Reference Ranges for Antihypertensive Drugs.
• RCT: Testosterone Treatment to Prevent or Revert Type 2 Diabetes in Men Enrolled in a Lifestyle Programme (T4DM).

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effect of a Transtheoretical Model-Based Intervention on Fruit and Vegetable Intake According to Perception of Intake Adequacy.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Food Variety on Intake of a Meal.
• Effects of Diet on Body Weight, Body Composition, Metabolic Status, and Physical Activity Levels of Adult Female Dogs After Spay Surgery.
• Review: Sweet Taste and Obesity.
• Common Variants in the CD36 Gene are Associated with Dietary Fat Intake, High-Fat Food Consumption and Serum Triglycerides in a Cohort of Quebec Adults.
• RCT: Effects of Two Personalized Dietary Strategies During a 2-Year Intervention in Subjects with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery in Zucker Rats Induces Bacterial and Systemic Metabolic Changes Independent of Caloric Restriction-Induced Weight Loss.
• The Age-Sensitive Efficacy of Calorie Restriction on Mitochondrial Biogenesis and MtDNA Damage in Rat Liver.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Aerobic, Resistance, and Combination Training on Health-Related Quality of Life.
• Hydration and Cooling in Elite Athletes: Relationship with Performance, Body Mass Loss and Body Temperatures During the Doha 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships.
• RCT: Walking Initiated 20 Minutes Before the Time of Individual Postprandial Glucose Peak Reduces the Glucose Response in Young Men with Overweight or Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Dissertation: Examining Gender Differences in the Effect of Parenthood on Engagement in Physical Activity.
• Socioeconomic and Behavioral Factors Associated with Obesity Across Sex and Age in Honiara, Solomon Islands.
• A Secondary Analysis of the Childhood Obesity Prevention Cochrane Review Through a Wider Determinants of Health Lens: Implications for Research Funders, Researchers, Policymakers and Practitioners.
• Does Parental Socioeconomic Background Influence Body Image and Attachment Style Among University Students? Evidence from a European Cross-Sectional Study.
• Effects of Gene-Environment Interaction on Obesity Among Chinese Adults Born in the Early 1960s.

Epidemiology

• Body Fat Indices as Effective Predictors of Insulin Resistance in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study.
• Factors Associated with Self-Efficacy in Patients with Hypertension: A Cross-sectional Study from Palestine.
• Meta-Analysis: Alcohol, Calories, and Obesity: Consumer Knowledge, Support, and Behavioral Effects of Energy Labeling on Alcoholic Drinks.
• PSA and Obesity Among Men with Localized Prostate Cancer: Results of the ANDROCAN Study.
• Obesity and Risk of Catheter-Related Infections in the ICU. A Post Hoc Analysis of Four Large RCTs.
• Serum Spexin Concentration, Body Condition Score and Markers of Obesity in Dogs.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Systematic Review: Neural Correlates of Dysregulated Eating Associated with Obesity Risk in Youth.
• Episodic Memory for Food and Non-Food Cues in Females with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Gender Disparities in Childhood Obesity and Household Food Insecurity.
• Child Obesity Moderates the Association between Poverty and Academic Achievement.
• The Association between Sleep Duration and Excess Body Weight of the American Adult Population: A Cross-Sectional Study of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015–2016.
• Systematic Review: Nutrition Interventions in Low-Income Rural and Urban Retail Environments.

Stigma

• Meta-Analysis: Bidirectional Relationships between Weight Stigma and Pediatric Obesity.
• Communicating About Weight in Dietetics Practice: Recommendations for Reduction of Weight Bias and Stigma.

Policy Related

• When Industrial Policies Conflict with Population Health: Potential Impact of Removing Food Subsidies on Obesity Rates.
• Dissertation: Evaluation of the Usefulness of the United States Federal Policy of Menu-Labeling in Fast Food and Chain Restaurants Based on Chronic Disease Diagnosis and Obesity.
• Framing Obesity in Public Discourse: Representation Through Metaphor Across Text Type.

Intergenerational Effects

• Rationale and Design of a Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Intervention for At-Risk Mothers and Children at a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center: EPIC El Rio Families Study Protocol.
• RCT: Effect of Omega-3 Supplementation in Pregnant Women with Obesity on Newborn Body Composition, Growth and Length of Gestation.
• Benefit of Insufficient Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Obesity and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• Child’s BMI and Mother’s Obesity: The Moderating Role of Physical Fitness.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Balancing Energy Expenditure and Storage with Growth and Biosynthesis During Drosophila Development.
• Accounting for Body Mass Effects in the Estimation of Field Metabolic Rates from Body Acceleration.

Methods

• Separating Algorithms from Questions and Causal Inference with Unmeasured Exposures: An Application to Birth Cohort Studies of Early BMI Rebound.
• A Comparative Study Using Dual-energy X-Ray Absorptiometry, Air Displacement Plethysmography, and Skinfolds to Assess Fat Mass in Preterms at Term Equivalent Age.

Commentary

• The Homeoviscous Adaptation to Dietary Lipids (HADL) Model Explains Controversies over Saturated Fat, Cholesterol, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
• The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Rewards the Persistent Vision of a World Without Hunger, Famine, or Malnutrition.
• Lost in the Absurdity of Life’s Simple 7.
• Taste for Sweetness Predicts Bariatric Surgery Results?
• Egg, Cholesterol Consumption Linked to Higher Mortality from CVD, Cancer.
• Recognizing Systemic Racism in Obesity Care.
• Resistance to Obesity Is Not Futile.
• COVID-19, Obesity, and Children: From Risk to Reality.

General

• The Effect of Spokesperson Attribution on Public Health Message Sharing During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Quest for a Summary Measure of Biological Age: The Health and Retirement Study.
• Life Course Socioeconomic Position, Intergenerational Social Mobility, and Hypertension Incidence in ELSA-Brasil.
• Missing Family During the Pandemic? Celebrate Your Ancestry with Recipes.
• Machine Learning Analysis: Association between Coffee Intake and Incident Heart Failure Risk.
• Preprint: Can a COVID-19 Vaccination Program Guarantee the Return to a Pre-pandemic 2 Lifestyle? (pdf)
• RCT: Effect of Zinc and Ascorbic Acid on Symptom Length Among Patients with SARS-CoV-2.
• RCT: Effect of a Single High Dose of Vitamin D3 in Patients with Moderate to Severe COVID-19.

Video & Audio

• Video: Dean David Allison Invited Lecture at NIH on Rigor in Nutrition and Obesity Research.
• Podcast: 2020 AJCN Year in Review with Christopher Duggan and Deirdre Tobias.

Announcements

• Indiana University Virtual Event: The Fiftieth Anniversary of Diet for a Small Planet: A Conversation with Frances Moore Lappé.
• American Society for Nutrition Names Gletsu-Miller Obesity RIS Chair-Elect.
• Dr. Molly Rosenberg Leads IU Researchers Studying the Role of Social and Economic Exposures on People Developing Dementia with New NIH Funding.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.

Featured

• An Isocaloric Moderately High-fat Diet Extends Lifespan in Male Rats and Drosophila.
• How to Make a Fitbit for an Elephant.
• Systematic Review: Effects of Whole Grain Intake, Compared with Refined Grain, on Appetite and Energy Intake.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: How Protein Bolsters COVID-19 Recovery.
• Study: A couple reviews, an expert guidance article, and this "retrospective, non-controlled, non-blinded, cross-sectional study" on l-glutamine.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Shorter Distances to Physical Activity Facilities Associated with Greater Risk of Childhood Overweight/obesity. (pdf)
• RCT: "Although this study may have been underpowered, patients with stroke NIHSS 7-42 did not benefit from in-bed cycle exercise in addition to usual care after acute stroke."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of an Eating Control and Eating Behavior Modification Treatment to Reduce Abdominal Obesity.
• RCT: Photobiomodulation 30 Min or 6 H Prior to Cycling Does Not Alter Resting Blood Flow Velocity, Exercise-Induced Physiological Responses or Time to Exhaustion in Healthy Men. (pdf)
• RCT: Branched-Chain Amino Acid Supplementation Does Not Preserve Lean Mass or Affect Metabolic Profile in Adults with Overweight or Obesity in a Weight Loss Intervention.
• High-fructose Feeding Does Not Induce Steatosis or Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Pigs.
• NLRP3 Deficiency Did Not Attenuate NASH Development Under High Fat Calorie Diet Plus High Fructose and Glucose in Drinking Water in Mice.
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Two Types on Yoga in Weight Loss.

Basic

• Recurrent Non-severe Hypoglycemia Aggravates Cognitive Decline in Diabetes and Induces Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Cultured Astrocytes.
• Presence of Adenovirus-36 DNA in Adipose Tissue of Women: Relationship with Adipocyte Morphology and the Expression of C/EBPβ and HIF-1α.
• Dietary Alpha- and Gamma-Tocopherol (1:5 Ratio) Supplementation Attenuates Adipose Tissue Expansion, Hepatic Steatosis, and Expression of Inflammatory Markers in a High-Fat-Diet–Fed Murine Model.
• Hypothalamic Hormone-Sensitive Lipase Regulates Appetite and Energy Homeostasis.
• Adipose Tissue Lipolysis Is Regulated by PAQR11 Via Altering Protein Stability of Phosphodiesterase 4D.
• Tumor Metabolic Reprogramming by Adipokines as a Critical Driver of Obesity-Associated Cancer Progression.
• Domeless Receptor Loss in Fat Body Tissue Reverts Insulin Resistance Induced by a High-sugar Diet in Drosophila Melanogaster.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction Note: Chemopreventive Potential of Resveratrol in Mouse Skin Tumors Through Regulation of Mitochondrial and PI3K/AKT Signaling Pathways.
• Perspective: US Documentation and Regulation of Human Nutrition Randomized Controlled Trials.

Clinical

• Sex Differences in Hemoglobin A1c Levels Related to the Comorbidity of Obesity and Depression.
• Systematic Review: Methodological Issues in Assessing Change in Dietary Intake and Appetite Following Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Intermittent Fasting: Is There a Role in the Treatment of Diabetes? A Review of the Literature and Guide for Primary Care Physicians.
• A Practical Approach to Obesity Prevention Healthy Home Habits.
• Time Restricted Eating as a Weight Loss Intervention in Adults with Obesity.
• Scoping Review: Non-Surgical Interventions for Hospitalized Adults with Class II or Class III Obesity.
• Risk of Progression to Diabetes Among Older Adults with Prediabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Early Childhood Factors Associated with Obesity at Age 8 in Vietnamese Children.
• Human Milk Hormone Intake in the First Month of Life and Physical Growth Outcomes in Preterm Infants.
• The Association between Executive Functions and Body Weight/BMI in Children and Adolescents with ADHD.
• Meta-Analysis: How Many US Children and Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity Could Improve Their Percent Body Fat by Exercising?
• Meta-Analysis: Relationship between Formula Milk and the Incidence Obesity in Children Under Five.
• Meta-Analysis: Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in Brazil.
• Maternal Obesity Influences Birth Weight More Than Gestational Diabetes.

Surgery

• Review: Weight Regain and Insufficient Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery: Definitions, Prevalence, Mechanisms, Predictors, Prevention and Management Strategies, and Knowledge Gaps.
• Scoping Review: Weight Regain and Insufficient Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery: Definitions, Prevalence, Mechanisms, Predictors, Prevention and Management Strategies, and Knowledge Gaps.
• DSM 5 Lifetime Psychiatric Diagnoses in Two Bariatric Surgery Programs.

Drugs

• RCT: Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Oral Semaglutide on Energy Intake, Food Preference, Appetite, Control of Eating and Body Weight in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Food After the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Case for Change Posed by Alternative Food: A Case Study of the American Midwest. (pdf)
• Rice Bran Oil Attenuates Chronic Inflammation by Inducing M2 Macrophage Switching in High-Fat Diet-Fed Obese Mice.
• Association of Some Dietary Ingredients, Vitamin D, Estrogen, and Obesity Polymorphic Receptor Genes with Bone Mineral Density in a Sample of Egyptian Women with Obesity.
• Review: Health Benefits of Plant-Based Nutrition: Focus on Beans in Cardiometabolic Diseases.
• RCT: A Mediterranean Diet and Low-Fat Vegan Diet to Improve Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.
• Consumption of Foods with Higher Energy Intake Rates Is Associated with Greater Energy Intake, Adiposity, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adults.
• Causal Relationship between Dietary Macronutrient Composition and Anthropometric Measures: A Bidirectional Two-sample Mendelian Randomization Analysis.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Dietary GABA and Its Combination with Vigabatrin Mimic Calorie Restriction and Induce Antiobesity-like Effects in Lean Mice.
• Caloric Restriction Following Early-Life High Fat-Diet Feeding Represses Skeletal Muscle TNF in Male Rats.
• Two-Meal Caloric Restriction Induces 12-Hour Rhythms and Improves Glucose Homeostasis.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Movement Is Improvement: The Therapeutic Effects of Exercise and General Physical Activity on Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Added Body Mass Alters Plantar Shear Stresses, Postural Control, and Gait Kinetics: Implications for Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• What Is the Causal Effect of Income Gains on Youth Obesity? Leveraging the Economic Boom Created by the Marcellus Shale Development.
• Association of Long-Term Trajectories of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status with Weight Change in Older Adults.
• Systematic Review: The Association between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Childhood Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Associations between the Built Environment and Obesity: An Umbrella Review.
• Impact of Waist Circumference on the Risk of Vertebral Fracture: A Nationwide Cohort Study in South Korea.
• Weight Change and Mental Health According to Obesity in Relatively Healthy Middle-aged Korean Women.
• BMI Trajectories and the Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease Among Older Adults.
• Causal Effects of Relative Fat, Protein, and Carbohydrate Intake on Chronic Kidney Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Gender Differences in Obesity-Related Cancers.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effect of Behavioral Therapy with In-Clinic or Telephone Group Visits vs In-Clinic Individual Visits on Weight Loss Among Patients with Obesity in Rural Clinical Practice.
• Meta-Analysis: Executive Functions in Predicting Weight Loss and Obesity Indicators.
• Variants in Circadian Rhythm Gene Cry1 Interacts with Healthy Dietary Pattern for Serum Leptin Levels: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Alterations in Reward Network Functional Connectivity are Associated with Increased Food Addiction in Individuals with Obesity.
• Review: Hypothalamic Inflammation as a Potential Pathophysiologic Basis for the Heterogeneity of Clinical, Hormonal, and Metabolic Presentation in PCOS.
• Serotonin, Food Intake, and Obesity.
• Obesity and Brain Vulnerability in Normal and Abnormal Aging: A Multimodal MRI Study.
• The Concept of “Food Addiction” Helps Inform the Understanding of Overeating and Obesity: Debate Consensus.

Equity and Disparities

• Substance Use, Mental Health and Weight-Related Behaviours During the COVID-19 Pandemic in People with Obesity.
• Does Inequality Have a Silver Lining? Municipal Income Inequality and Obesity in Mexico.

Stigma

• Associations between Experience of Early Childhood Trauma and Impact on Obesity Status, Health, as Well as Perceptions of Obesity-Related Health Care.
• Obesity and the Receipt of Prescription Pain Medications in the US.

Policy Related

• The Obesity Paradigm and the Role of Health Services in Obesity Prevention: A Grounded Theory Approach.
• Trends in Total and Out-of-pocket Payments for Noninsulin Glucose-Lowering Drugs Among U.S. Adults with Large-Employer Private Health Insurance from 2005 to 2018.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity Increases the Risk of Fetal Cardiac Dysfunction Via Visceral Adipose Tissue Derived Exosomes.
• Adiposity Associated DNA Methylation Signatures in Adolescents are Related to Leptin and Perinatal Factors.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Cardiorespiratory Adjustments to Chronic Environmental Warming Improve Hypoxia Tolerance in European Perch (Perca Fluviatilis).
• Dramatic Changes in Mitochondrial Substrate Use at Critically High Temperatures: A Comparative Study Using Drosophila.

Methods

• Protocol: 'Tracking Together’—Simultaneous Use of Human and Dog Activity Trackers: Protocol for a Factorial, Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.
• Systematic Review: Use of the Healthy Eating Index in Intervention Studies for Cardiometabolic Risk Conditions.

Commentary

• All Food Processes Have a Residual Risk, Some are Small, Some Very Small and Some are Extremely Small: Zero Risk Does Not Exist.
• Food Choice and Personal and Global Health.
• Metabolic Strategies for Inhibiting Cancer Development.
• Ultraprocessed Foods and Cardiovascular Health: It's Not Just About the Nutrients.
• Don't Feed the Ghosts in Your Metabolic Machine.
• Lawsuit Challenging FDA Approval of Novel Genetically Engineered Color Additive that Makes Impossible Burger "Bleed" Moves Forward.
• NIH's ‘Precision Nutrition’ Bet Aims for Individualized Diets.
• Cast in Amber: Before and After Weight Loss.

General

• “Important Conversations” are Needed to Explain the Nocebo Effect.
• Aging-US: Sulforaphane Promotes C. Elegans Longevity and Healthspan.
• Maternal Care According to Offspring Sex and Maternal Physical Condition in Mantled Howler Monkeys (Alouatta Palliata). (pdf)
• Sexual Size Dimorphism and Its Allometry in Chinese Lizards. (pdf)
• National Institute on Aging Workshop Repurposing Drugs or Dietary Supplements for Their Senolytic or Senomorphic Effects: Considerations for Clinical Trials.
• RCT: Recovery of the Decline in Activities of Daily Living After Hospitalization Through an Individualized Exercise Programme.
• Cognitive Scientists are Going to the Dogs Unleashing a New Breed of Research into Co-evolution and the Aging Brain.
• The Goal of Geroscience Is Life Extension.

Announcements

• Seven New Members Add Extraordinary Talent to IUB SPH Dean's Advisory Board.
• Promising Mid-career Researchers Preselected for Their Pioneering and Collaborative Approach on Alimentation.
• Symposium of the Midwest Aging Consortium--February 18.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.

Featured

• Cold-Induced Hyperphagia Requires AgRP Neuron Activation in Mice.
• Adiposity, Reproductive and Metabolic Health, and Activity Levels in Zoo Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus).

Headline vs Study

• Headline: The Best Time of Day to Exercise.
• Study: "The study was not designed to investigate the effect of the timing of exercise and the reason for subjects performing exercise in the morning or evening was depending on the scheduling possibilities and personal preferences."
• Critique: When Is the Best Time for Exercise?

Contrary or Null Findings

• High-dose Saccharin Supplementation Does Not Induce Gut Microbiota Changes or Glucose Intolerance in Healthy Humans and Mice.
• RCT: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Repeated Sprint Ability.
• RCT: "The proposed proprioceptive training did not lead to improvements in postural control in patients with type 2 diabetes..."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, we found zero significant differences in either cross-sectional or longitudinal comparisons and no significant relationships with clinical variables" in BDNF and Eating Disorders Study.
• "Firstly, it is shown that the glucose effectiveness parameter is, contrary to previous results, structurally globally identifiable."
• Maternal Effects Shape Offspring Physiological Condition but Do Not Senesce in a Wild Mammal.
• "Contrary to expectations, urban ants exhibited a higher metabolic rate compared with rural ants when tested at 25°C, suggesting a potentially maladaptive evolutionary response to urbanization."
• "Contrary to expectations, owners perceived no body system or disorder to be at particular risk when feeding a plant-based diet to cats."

Basic

• Anti-Obesity Effects of DHA and EPA in High Fat-Induced Insulin Resistant Mice.
• GRIM19 Impedes Obesity by Regulating Inflammatory White Fat Browning and Promoting Th17/Treg Balance.
• Kdm2a Deficiency in Macrophages Enhances Thermogenesis to Protect Mice Against HFD-Induced Obesity by Enhancing H3K36me2 at the Pparg Locus.
• β-Carotene Oxygenase 2 Deficiency-Triggered Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress Promotes Low-Grade Inflammation and Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Phospho-ablation of Cardiac Sodium Channel Nav1.5 Mitigates Susceptibility to Atrial Fibrillation and Improves Glucose Homeostasis Under Conditions of Diet-induced Obesity.
• SLC6A14 Deficiency Is Linked to Obesity, Fatty Liver, and Metabolic Syndrome but Only Under Conditions of a High-fat Diet.
• Obesity-Like Metabolic Effects of High-Carbohydrate or High-Fat Diets Consumption in Metabolic and Renal Functions.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Data Thugs, Pajamas, and Ultra-Processed Food.
• “Instead of What,” and Repeated 4-year Interval Change Regarding Red Meat and T2D: Increasing Causal Inference in Nutritional Epidemiology Through Methodological Advances.
• Evaluating and Strengthening the Evidence for Nutritional Bone Research: Ready to Break New Ground?
• Letter to the Editor on “Comparing the Effects of Docosahexaenoic and Eicosapentaenoic Acids on Inflammation Markers Using Pairwise and Network Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials”.
• Reply to J Morze and L Schwingshackl.
• Letter: Low-Calorie Sweeteners with Carbohydrate Do Not Impair Insulin Sensitivity in Humans: Re-analysis Highlighting the Importance of the Comparator.
• Reply: Further Evidence That Habitual Consumption of Sucralose With, but Not Without, Carbohydrate Alters Glucose Metabolism.

Clinical

• Heterogeneity in Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Uptake Among Different Muscle Groups in Healthy Lean People and People with Obesity.
• Supplemental Vitamins and Minerals for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Treatment: JACC Focus Seminar.

Children and Adolescents

• Prenatal Stress and Early Childhood BMI.
• Systematic Review: The Association between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Childhood Obesity.
• Does Obesity Persist from Childhood to Adolescence?
• The Association of Actigraphic Sleep Measures and Physical Activity with Excess Weight and Adiposity in Kindergarteners.
• Mothers’ Nonstandard Work Schedules and Adolescent Obesity.
• Systematic Review: The Association between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Childhood Obesity.
• Circuit Training or a Nutritional Intervention on BMI and Other Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Children and Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity.
• Prediction Model Study of Overweight and Obesity in Preschool Children with Allergic Diseases from an Ecological Perspective.
• Obesity and Waist Circumference in Children: Indicators of Cardiometabolic Risk.

Surgery

• Visual, Verbal and Everyday Memory 2 Years After Bariatric Surgery: Poorer Memory Performance at 1-Year Follow-Up.
• The IFSO Worldwide One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass Survey: Techniques and Outcomes?
• Bariatric Surgery Leads to an Improvement in Small Nerve Fibre Damage in Subjects with Obesity.
• Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Induces Distinctive Transcriptomic Responses in Liver, Fat and Muscle.
• Obesity Is Not a Risk Factor for Either Mortality or Complications After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Cholecystitis.

Drugs

• RCT: Olanzapine Combined with Samidorphan on Weight Gain in Schizophrenia.
• Discovery and Preclinical Efficacy of HSG4112, a Synthetic Structural Analog of Glabridin, for the Treatment of Obesity.
• Pharmacotherapeutic Options for Prediabetes.
• Improvement of Obesity-Associated Disorders by a Small-Molecule Drug Targeting Mitochondria of Adipose Tissue Macrophages.

Food & Diet

• Perspective: Knowledge Gaps in Understanding the Metabolic and Clinical Effects of Excess Folic Acid.
• Review: Functional Ingredients Present in Whole-grain Foods as Therapeutic Tools to Counteract Obesity.
• Review: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids as Modulators of Fat Mass and Lean Mass in Human Body Composition Regulation and Cardiometabolic Health.
• Association between Ultraprocessed Food Intake and Cardiovascular Health in US Adults.
• Mediterranean Diet May Reduce Risk for Prostate Cancer Progression.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Meta-analysis: The Impact of Exercise Training Versus Caloric Restriction on Inflammation Markers.
• Moderate Sleep Restriction During 8-Week Calorie Restriction on Lipoprotein Particles and Glucose Metabolism.
• Meta-analysis: Associations between Maternal Dietary Patterns and Perinatal Outcomes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Joint Association of Physical Activity and BMI with Cardiovascular Risk.
• Do Sex Differences in Physiology Confer a Female Advantage in Ultra-Endurance Sport?
• Being Fat Linked with Worse Heart Health Even in People Who Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• The Increase in Child Obesity in Switzerland Is Mainly Due to Migration from Southern Europe.
• Meta-analysis: Obesity and Overweight Prevalence in Immigration.
• Chapter 11 - The Interplay of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Obesity and Metabolic Diseases in Later Life.

Epidemiology

• Sleep, Food Insecurity, and Weight Status: Findings from the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating Study.
• Understanding the Genetic Architecture of the Metabolically Unhealthy Normal Weight and Metabolically Healthy Obese Phenotypes in a Korean Population.
• Obesity and Oxidative Stress in Older Adults at Risk for Dementia.
• Sex Differences in the Incidence of Obesity-Related Gastrointestinal Cancer.
• RCT: Correlation of Obesity Indices with Heart Rate Variability in Young Male Adults.
• The Circulating Levels of CTRP1 and CTRP5 are Associated with Obesity Indices and Carotid Intima-media Thickness (cIMT) Value in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association between Folate Status and Insulin Resistance in Obesity.
• Triglyceride-To-High-Density-Lipoprotein-Cholesterol Ratio as a Predictor for Metabolic Syndrome According to Obesity Onset in Women with Severe Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Do Food Odors Differently Influence Cerebral Activity Depending on Weight Status? An Electroencephalography Study of Implicit Olfactory Priming Effects on the Processing of Food Pictures.
• Sustaining Weight Loss Among Adults with Obesity Using a Digital Meal Planning and Food Purchasing Platform for 12, 24, and 36 Months.
• Inter-Individual Differences in Food Addiction and Other Forms of Addictive-Like Eating Behavior.
• Measurement of the Influences of Social Processes in Appetite Using Ecological Momentary Assessment.
• Evaluation of the Sleep Profile in Women with Severe Obesity.
• Evidence of a Role for the Hippocampus in Food-Cue Processing and the Association with Body Weight and Dietary Added Sugar.
• The Relationships between Prolonged Sedentary Time, Physical Activity, Cognitive Control, and P3 in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Debate: The Concept of “Food Addiction” Helps Inform the Understanding of Overeating and Obesity: YES.
• Debate: The Concept of “Food Addiction” Helps Inform the Understanding of Overeating and Obesity: NO.

Equity and Disparities

• Telomere Length as a Biomarker for Race-Related Health Disparities.
• COVID-19, Obesity, and Structural Racism: Understanding the Past and Identifying Solutions for the Future.
• Commentary: Weight Bias: Making People with Obesity Invisible.

Policy Related

• Identifying Novel Predictors of State Legislative Action to Address Obesity.
• Childhood Obesity and COVID-19 Lockdown.

Intergenerational Effects

• Children with Severe Obesity in Family-Based Obesity Treatment Compared with Other Participants.
• Calorie Restriction During Gestation Affects Ovarian Reserve in Offspring in the Mouse.
• Supplemental Berberine in a High-Fat Diet Reduces Adiposity and Cardiac Dysfunction in Offspring of Mouse Dams with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Thermogenesis and Aging.
• Flexibility in Thermal Physiology and Behaviour Allows Body Mass Maintenance in Hibernating Hazel Dormice.
• What Is Winter? Modelling Spatial Variation in Bat Host Traits and Hibernation and Their Implications for Overwintering Energetics.(pdf)

Methods

• The Human Factor in Automated Image-Based Nutrition Apps: Analysis of Common Mistakes Using the GoFOOD Lite App.
• Persistent Confusion in Nutrition and Obesity Research About the Validity of Classic Nonparametric Tests in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity.
• Simulating the Fiscal Impact of Anti-Obesity Medications as an Obesity Reduction Strategy.
• Meta-analysis: Salivary Testosterone and Cortisol as Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Sarcopenia and Sarcopenic Obesity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

Commentary

• Fast Food Restaurant Proximity Likely Doesn't Affect Children's Weight: Study.
• Obesity and Co-Morbidities Review: Inseparable Associations.(pdf)
• The Intriguing Intersection of Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity-Related Insulin Resistance, and Osteoarthritis.
• Adverse Childhood Experiences and Development of Obesity and Diabetes in Adulthood.
• Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Obesity and T2D.
• Casual Misinformation on COVID Vaccines and Obesity.
• Multidimensional Perspective of Obesity; Prevention to Treatment.
• COVID-19 Vaccination and Obesity: Optimism and Challenges.
• Fat in the Fifties: America's First Obesity Crisis by Nicholas Rasmussen (review).
• Does Energy Imbalance (Calories in > Out) Cause Obesity?

General

• Thesis: Examining the Robustness of the Latent Growth Curve Model to Violations of Longitudinal Measurement Equivalence.
• Do Truth-telling Oaths Improve Honesty in Crowd-working?
• Wealth Distribution and Imperfect Factor Markets: A Classroom Experiment.
• "Adolescents in all demographic groups consume too few fruits and vegetables, consistent with previous findings."
• Impaired Cognitive Flexibility and Heightened Urgency are Associated with Increased Alcohol Consumption in Rodent Models of Excessive Drinking.
• Avoiding Reactions Outside the Home: Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities to Enhance Dining Out Experiences of People with Food Hypersensitivities. (pdf)
• The Colleges That Took the Pandemic Seriously.

Announcements

• ASN Meeting Abstracts Due February 8.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Job Opportunity: Program Management Specialist for the Aegis COVID-19 Immunity Study.
• Send Us Some Outstanding Biostatistics PhD Applicants for Our New PhD Program! Help Us Increase Diversity in the Biostatistics Field. (pdf)
• Dean Allison Delivers JHU APL Colloquium - Reproducibility and Replicability in Science.
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• IU Opens New Health Sciences Building.

Featured

• Age- and Sex-Dependent Modulation of Exogenous Ketone Supplement-Evoked Effects on Blood Glucose and Ketone Body Levels in Wistar Albino Glaxo Rijswijk Rats.
• A Cell-nonautonomous Mechanism of Yeast Chronological Aging Regulated by Caloric Restriction and One-carbon Metabolism.
• Ecology of Cooperation: The Influence of Fasting and Satiety on Interpersonal Trust.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: These Foods May Make the COVID-19 Vaccine Less Effective, Says New Study.
• Preprint of Narrative Review: Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Vaccine Efficacy for Other Viruses.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: School-based Gardening, Cooking and Nutrition Intervention Increased [self-reported] Vegetable Intake but Did Not Reduce BMI: Texas Sprouts.
• Childhood Daily Energy Expenditure Does Not Decrease with Market Integration and Is Not Related to Adiposity in Amazonia.
• The Results Showed That More Affluent Consumers in Bloemfontein Were (i) Willing to Pay for Additional External Fat (this Was Contrary to Expectations).
• Unlike Dietary Restriction, Rapamycin Fails to Extend Lifespan and Reduce Transcription Stress in Progeroid DNA Repair-deficient Mice.
• Birth Weight Does Not Associate with Gestational Physical Activity Profile: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Dietary Sodium Intake Does Not Alter Renal Potassium Handling and Blood Pressure in Healthy Young Males.
• Nicotinamide Riboside Supplementation Does Not Alter Whole-body or Skeletal Muscle Metabolic Responses to a Single Bout of Endurance Exercise.
• RCT: A Short, Attribution Theory-based Video Intervention Does Not Reduce Weight Bias in a Nationally Representative Sample of Registered Dietitians.
• RCT: Fasted Exercise Does Not Improve Postprandial Lipemia Responses to Different Meals in Lean and Obese Subjects.

Basic

• Chronic Hindbrain Administration of Oxytocin Elicits Weight Loss in Male Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Journal Pre-proof: Oleic Acid Restores the Rhythmicity of the Disrupted Circadian Rhythm Found in Gastrointestinal Explants from Patients with Morbid Obesity.
• A Genome-wide Transcriptomic Analysis of Embryos Fathered by Obese Males in a Murine Model of Diet-induced Obesity.
• The Association between Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms and Tissue-specific Insulin Resistance in Human Obesity.
• Fish Oil Suppresses Obesity More Potently in Lean Mice Than in Diet-induced Obese Mice but Ameliorates Steatosis in Such Obese Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Randomized Controlled Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake.
• Blog Post: Investigation: Ultra-Processed Diets by Hall et al. (2019).
• Sleuths Scrutinize High-profile Study of Ultra-processed Foods and Weight Gain.
• Author Response. (pdf)
• "I Believe That These Responses Adequately Address All of the Points That I Made in the Original Post."

Clinical

• Reduced Brown Adipose Tissue Activity During Cold Exposure Is a Metabolic Feature of the Human Thrifty Phenotype.
• Differential Response to a 6-month Energy-restricted Treatment Depending on SH2B1 Rs7359397 Variant in NAFLD Subjects: Fatty Liver in Obesity (FLiO) Study.
• Global Pandemics Interconnected - Obesity, Impaired Metabolic Health and COVID-19.

Children and Adolescents

• Improving the School Food Environment for the Prevention of Childhood Obesity: What Works and What Doesn't.
• Application of Antibiotics Before 3 Years of Age Increases the Risk of Childhood Overweight and Obesity.
• Do Children with Overweight Respond Faster to Food-related Words?

Surgery

• Degree of Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Normalization in Individuals Receiving Bariatric Surgery.
• RCT: Metabolic Surgery Versus Conventional Medical Therapy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: 10-Year Follow-Up.
• Review: SARS-CoV-2 and Obesity: CoVesity—a Pandemic Within a Pandemic.
• Decreased Serum Betatrophin May Correlate with the Improvement of Obstructive Sleep Apnea After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.

Drugs

• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Glucagon-like Peptide-1/glucagon Receptor Co-agonist JNJ-64565111 in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity.
• RCT: Polymethoxyflavone Purified from Kaempferia Parviflora Reduces Visceral Fat in Japanese Overweight Individuals.
• Metabolic Analysis of the Illegal Analogues of Anti-obesity Drugs Using LC-Q-TOF-MS/MS.
• Understanding the Possible Role of Endocannabinoid System in Obesity.
• Effect of Lipophilicity on Drug Distribution and Elimination: Influence of Obesity.
• Repurposing of Existing FDA Approved Drugs for Neprilysin Inhibition: An In-silico Study.

Food & Diet

• About Time: Eating Timing Is a Complex Risk Factor for Obesity.
• Rind from Purple Mangosteen (Garcinia Mangostana) Attenuates Diet-Induced Physiological and Metabolic Changes in Obese Rats.
• High-protein Vs. Standard-protein Diets in Overweight and Obese Patients with Heart Failure and Diabetes Mellitus: Findings of the Pro-HEART Trial.
• A Comparison Study of the Influence of Milk Protein Versus Whey Protein in High-protein Diets on Adiposity in Rats.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Virtual RCT: Effect of Time Restricted Eating on Body Weight and Fasting Glucose in Participants with Obesity.
• Glucosamine Displays a Potent Caloric Restriction Mimetic Effect in Senescent Rats by Activating Mitohormesis.
• A Dietary Sterol Trade-off Determines Lifespan Responses to Dietary Restriction in Drosophila Melanogaster Females.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Effect of 6 Weeks of Very Low-volume High-intensity Interval Training on Oral Glucose-stimulated Incretin Hormone Response.
• Self-rated Physical Fitness and Measured Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Muscular Strength, and Body Composition.
• Should Leisure Time Sedentary Behaviour Be Replaced with Sleep or Physical Activity for Prevention of Diabetes?
• RCT: Effect of Aerobic Exercise Intensity on Energy Expenditure and Weight Loss in Severe Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighborhood Child Opportunity Index and Adolescent Cardiometabolic Risk.
• Direct Medical Costs of Obesity in the United States and the Most Populous States.
• Effectiveness of Different Types of Mental Simulation in the Weight Loss Process Based on a Perseverance Study Among People with Different BMI.
• Press Release: Weight Loss and Obesity Management Market Share Expand to US$ 294.2 Billion by 2027.
• Comparative Costs of a Parent-only and Parent and Child Treatment for Children with Overweight or Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Life-long BMI Trajectories and Mortality in Two Generations.
• Sex Differences in the Association between Obesity and Hypertension.
• Associations between Self-reported Weight History and Sarcopenic Obesity in Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis.
• Evidence of a Role for the Hippocampus in Food-cue Processing and the Association with Body Weight and Dietary Added Sugar.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Systematic Review: Perspectives into the Experience of Successful, Substantial Long-term Weight-loss Maintenance.
• Biological and Psychological Stress Correlates are Linked to Glucose Metabolism, Obesity and Gender Roles in Women.
• The Concept of Food Addiction Helps Inform the Understanding of Overeating and Obesity: Debate Consensus.
• Evidence of Association between Obesity and Lower Cerebral Myelin Content in Cognitively Unimpaired Adults.
• Bridging Executive Function and Disinhibited Eating Among Youth: A Network Analysis.

Equity and Disparities

• Rural–Urban Health Disparities Among Older Adults in South Africa.
• A Hidden Side of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Children: The Double Burden of Undernutrition and Overnutrition.

Stigma

• Letter: Ending Obesity, and Its Stigma.
• News article: There’s No Easy Fix for Children’s Weight Gain.

Policy Related

• The Effects of the Chilean Food Policy Package on Aggregate Employment and Real Wages.
• Is Obesity Policy in England Fit for Purpose? Analysis of Government Strategies and Policies, 1992–2020.
• Systematic Review: City Interventions to Address Obesity.
• Understanding the Dynamics of Obesity Prevention Policy Decision-making Using a Systems Perspective: A Case Study of Healthy Together Victoria.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-analysis: Lifestyle Interventions for Reducing Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Effects of Exogenous Adiponectin Supplementation in Early Pregnant PCOS Mice on the Metabolic Syndrome of Adult Female Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Human Obese White Adipose Tissue Sheds Depot-specific Extracellular Vesicles and Reveals Candidate Biomarkers for Monitoring Obesity and Its Comorbidities.
• Diet-induced Obesity Promotes Infection by Impairment of the Innate Antimicrobial Defense Function of Dermal Adipocyte Progenitors.
• Reduced Metabolic Efficiency in Sedentary Eucaloric Conditions Predicts Greater Weight Regain in Adults with Obesity Following Sustained Weight Loss.
• Metabolic Cost of Holding Nuptial Food Gifts for Male Spiders.
• Different Amplitudes of Temperature Fluctuation Induce Distinct Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Responses in the Dung Beetle Phanaeus Vindex.
• Adiposity, Reproductive and Metabolic Health, and Activity Levels in Zoo Asian Elephant (Elephas Maximus).

Methods

• Postpartum Weight Retention: A Retrospective Data Analysis Measuring Weight Loss and Program Engagement with a Mobile Health Program.
• The Metabolic Equivalent BMI in Patients with Familial Partial Lipodystrophy (FPLD) Compared with Those with Severe Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Diabetes Risk Score for Qatar Utilizing a Novel Mathematical Modeling Approach to Identify Individuals at High Risk for Diabetes.
• Modeling Dynamics of Fast Food and Obesity for Evaluating the Peer Pressure Effect and Workout Impact.

Commentary

• The Timely Urgency of Diet (In Spite of It All...).
• Five Myths of Emotional Eating.
• The Olfactory Landscape: Smell Is Our Most Under-appreciated Sense.
• Healthy Aging and Food: It’s Personal.
• Fat but Healthy? New Research Suggests Fitness Doesn’t Cancel Obesity’s Negative Health Effect.
• Genetic Risk Factors for Obesity Seen to Differ between Children and Adults.
• Metformin Use Reduces Risk of Death for Patients with COVID-19 and Diabetes, Study Finds.
• Not Obese After All: Captive Asian Elephants are Actually Less Fat Than the Average Human.

General

• Misinformation About COVID-19: Evidence for Differential Latent Profiles and Association with Trust in Science.
• Advancing the WHO-INTEGRATE Framework as a Tool for Evidence-Informed, Deliberative Decision-Making Processes: Exploring the Views of Developers and Users of WHO Guidelines. (pdf)
• Organophosphate Esters and Their Metabolites in Breast Milk from the United States: Breastfeeding Is an Important Exposure Pathway for Infants.
• A Skellam Regression Model for Quantifying Positional Value in Soccer.
• Understanding the Ethics of Natural Experiments in a Pandemic.
• A Nation-wide Swedish Study of Opioid Analgesic Prescribing Patterns During Pregnancy and Associated Pre-existing Mental Health Conditions.
• Pearl Lecture: Biological Normalcy: A New Framework for Biocultural Analysis of Human Population Variation.
• Ecological and Reproductive Drivers of Fission-fusion Dynamics in Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes Schweinfurthii) Inhabiting a Montane Forest.

Announcements

• Biden Taps IU Law Professor Janet McCabe for No.2 EPA Post.
• IU Law Professor Joins President Biden's Justice Department.
• Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full-Associate-Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer or Lecturer Search.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full Professor/Associate-Assistant Professor Search.
• ASN’s annual video competition "Understanding Nutritional Science" submissions due February 26.
• The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B) Invites Applications to Join the Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
• School of Public Health-Bloomington to Offer New Advanced Degrees in Biostatistics in Next Academic Year.
• Winter Food Conference Begins Next Week.
• Dr. Richard J. Holden to Head Department of Health & Wellness Design.