Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Eat Well El Paso!: Lessons Learned from a Community-Level Restaurant Initiative to Increase Availability of Healthy Options While Celebrating Local Cuisine.
• Obligate Cross-Feeding Expands the Metabolic Niche of Bacteria.
• Surviving Winter on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Pikas Suppress Energy Demands and Exploit Yak Feces to Survive Winter.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Why Weight Lifting May Be Key to Avoiding Obesity.
• Study: Associations between (not Necessarily Causal Effects Of) Self-Reported Resistance Exercise, Alone and in Combination with Aerobic Exercise, and Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No significant effect on primary outcomes in study of "Impact of Tailored Feedback on the Purchase of Healthier Foods from Primary School Online Canteens."
• RCT: "Results showed that there were no effects found for the effect of the Nutri- Score label on consumers’ attitudes, taste perception and purchase intention."
• Central Regulation of Food Intake Is Not Affected by Inclusion of Defatted Tenebrio Molitor Larvae Meal in Diets for European Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus Labrax).
• "However, contrary to our assumption, dietary iron overloading did not intensify, but rather diminished the atherosclerotic lesion area by 65.3%..."
• "In conclusion, our study demonstrated no association between obesity and immune-mediated toxicities, kinetics of B-cell aplasia, CAR T efficacy, or survival."
• RCT: "Metabolic improvement with short-term glucagon like peptide-1 receptor agonist treatment does not improve cardiac diastolic dysfunction in patients type 2 diabetes."
• RCT: "Leucine Supplementation Does Not Improve Muscle Recovery from Resistance Exercise in Young Adults."
• Meta-Analysis: Lifestyle Interventions in Pregnant Women with Overweight or Obesity Have No Discernable Effect on Neonatal Adiposity.

Basic

• Novel Insights on the Role of Spexin as a Biomarker of Obesity and Related Cardiometabolic Disease.
• Metabolomics of the Tryptophan–kynurenine Degradation Pathway and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure: Potential Modification Effect of Mediterranean Diet.
• Adipocytes and Stromal Cells Regulate Brown Adipogenesis Through Secretory Factors During the Postnatal White-To-Brown Conversion of Adipose Tissue in Syrian Hamsters.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction: Role of Hepatic Neuropeptide Y-Y1 Receptors in a Methionine- Cholinedeficient Model of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis.
• The Confounding Effects of Sub-Thermoneutral Housing Temperatures on Aerobic Exercise-Induced Adaptations in Mouse Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue.
• Assessment of the Methods Used to Develop Vitamin D and Calcium Recommendations—A Systematic Review of Bone Health Guidelines.
• Reconciling Contrasting Guideline Recommendations on Red and Processed Meat for Health Outcomes.
• Systematic Review: A Guide for Authors and Readers of the American Society for Nutrition Journals on the Proper Use of P Values and Strategies That Promote Transparency and Improve Research Reproducibility.

Clinical

• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Anthropometric and Metabolic Characteristics in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Impact of a Ketogenic Diet Intervention During Radiotherapy on Body Composition: IV. Final Results of the KETOCOMP Study for Rectal Cancer Patients.
• Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Metabolic Function and Insulin Sensitivity in People with Obesity.
• Metabolic and Cardiovascular Adaptations to an 8-Week Lifestyle Weight Loss Intervention in Younger and Older Men with Obesity.
• Does NAFLD Mediate the Relationship between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Risk?
• A Review of Telemedicine Interventions for Weight Loss.
• Effect of Glycemic Gap upon Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with Diabetes.
• Diabetes, Obesity, COVID-19, Insulin, and Other Antidiabetes Drugs.

Children and Adolescents

• Examination of Sleep and Obesity in Children and Adolescents in the United States.
• Later Sleep Timing Predicts Accelerated Summer Weight Gain Among Elementary School Children: A Prospective Observational Study.
• Association of Dietary Intake, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behaviours with Overweight and Obesity Among 282,213 Adolescents in 89 Low and Middle Income to High-Income Countries.
• Changes in Weight and Height Among Chinese Preschool Children During COVID-19 School Closures.
• Body Fat, Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Brain Structure in School-Age Children.
• Sleep Duration and Eating Behaviours are Associated with Body Composition in 5-Year-Old Children: Findings from the ROLO Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study.
• Loneliness and Cravings for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Among Adolescents.
• Psychosocial, Eating Behavior, and Lifestyle Factors Influencing Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents.
• Changes in Adiposity Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1999–2006 to 2011–2018.

Surgery

• Obesity and Revision Surgery, Mortality, and Patient-Reported Outcomes After Primary Knee Replacement Surgery in the National Joint Registry: A UK Cohort Study.
• Review: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: Current Status and Future Perspectives.
• Protective Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Kidney Functions by Inhibiting Oxidative Stress Responses Through Activating PPARα in Rats with Diabetes.
• Review: Potential Gut-Brain Mechanisms Behind Adverse Mental Health Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery.
• Obesity, Race, and Perioperative Complications.

Drugs

• Association of Early Antibiotic Exposure with Childhood BMI Trajectory Milestones.
• RCT: Metformin Affects Gut Microbiome Composition and Function and Circulating Short-Chain Fatty Acids.

Food & Diet

• Junk Food Intake Among Adults in the United States.
• Exploring Tourists’ Slow Food Experience: Perspectives from Slow Tourism.
• Ketogenic Diets, Physical Activity, and Body Composition: A Review.
• Dietary Supplements and Alternative Therapies for Obesity: A Perspective from the Obesity Society’s Clinical Committee.
• Introduction to the Special Section: New Directions in Obesity and Eating Research.
• Meta-Analysis: Effectiveness of Multimodal Nutrition Interventions During Pregnancy to Achieve 2009 Institute of Medicine Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines.
• Systematic Review: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Dietary Patterns on Cardiometabolic Health in Adults Aged 65 Years or Older.
• Effects of Oil Tea on Obesity and Dyslipidemia: A Cross-Sectional Study in China.
• Review: Dietary Fiber-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids: A Potential Therapeutic Target to Alleviate Obesity-Related Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Effect of Obesity on Gastrointestinal Transit, Pressure and PH Using a Wireless Motility Capsule.
• Systematic Review: Activation of Brown Adipose Tissue and Promotion of White Adipose Tissue Browning by Plant-Based Dietary Components in Rodents.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction and Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Promote White Adipose Tissue Browning in Mice.
• Moderate Caloric Restriction Partially Improved Oxidative Stress Markers in Humans with Obesity.
• Caloric Restriction and Hypothalamic Leptin Gene Therapy Have Differential Effects on Energy Partitioning in Adult Female Rats.
• Continuous Versus Intermittent Dieting for Fat Loss and Fat-Free Mass Retention in Resistance-Trained Adults: The ICECAP Trial.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Opportunities and Obstacles of Translating Elite Sport Research to Public Health.
• Mechanical and Structural Remodeling of Cardiac Muscle After Aerobic and Resistance Exercise Training in Rats.
• Mechanical Overload-Induced Muscle-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Promote Adipose Tissue Lipolysis.

Economics & Sociology

• Effect of Socioeconomic Characteristics and Lifestyle on BMI Distribution in the Chinese Population: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.
• Socioeconomic Status Impact on Diet Quality and BMI in Eight Latin American Countries: ELANS Study Results.
• Personal Social Networks and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Feasibility Study.
• Exploring Potential Mediation Pathways on the Relationship between Acculturation and BMI (BMI) Among Latino Adolescent.

Epidemiology

• COVID-19 Self-Quarantine and Weight Gain Risk Factors in Adults.
• The Natural History of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with Normal BMI: A Population-Based Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Examining the Association between Adiposity and DNA Methylation.
• Non-Linear Associations between the Built Environment and the Physical Activity of Children.
• Biomarker-Based Visceral Adiposity Score and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in the Multiethnic Cohort.
• Historical HbA1c Values May Explain the Type 2 Diabetes Legacy Effect: UKPDS 88.
• Association between Business Travel, Health-Related Behaviors, and Adiposity.
• Structural Brain Changes Associated with Overweight and Obesity.
• Adipose Tissue Insulin Resistance Is Longitudinally Associated with Adipose Tissue Dysfunction, Circulating Lipids, and Dysglycemia.
• Differences in Body Composition Convey a Similar Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Different Ethnic Groups with Disparate Cardiometabolic Risk.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Association between Visceral Fat and Brain Cortical Thickness in the Elderly: A Neuroimaging Study.
• A High-Fat Diet Exacerbates the Alzheimer's Disease Pathology in the Hippocampus of the AppNL−F/NL−F Knock-In Mouse Model.
• Binge-Eating Disorder Is Associated with an Unfavorable Body Mass Composition in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Long-Term High Fat Diet Consumption Reversibly Alters Feeding Behavior Via a Dopamine-Associated Mechanism in Mice.
• Association of Increased Abdominal Adiposity at Birth with Altered Ventral Caudate Microstructure.

Equity and Disparities

• Perceptions of Arguments in Support of Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption Among Low-Income White, Black and Latinx Parents of Young Children.
• Neighborhood-Level Asian American Populations, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Outcomes in 500 US Cities.

Stigma

• Weight Bias Reduction Among First-Year Medical Students: A Quasi-Randomized, Controlled Trial.
• ‘Lose Weight, Save the NHS’: Obesity in Press Coverage of COVID-19.
• Dissertation: Reducing Weight Bias: Creating an Anti-Weight Stigma Educational Simulation for Nurse Practitioner Students.
• Predictors of Weight Bias in Exercise Science Students and Fitness Professionals: A Scoping Review.

Policy Related

• Epidemiological Influences and Requirements of Global Childhood Obesity Research.
• Male Sex, Severe Obesity, Older Age, and Chronic Kidney Disease are Associated with COVID-19 Severity and Mortality in New York City.
• School Nutrition Laws in the US: Do They Influence Obesity Among Youth in a Racially/Ethnically Diverse State?

Intergenerational Effects

• Parental Dietary Sucrose Affects Metabolic and Antioxidant Enzyme Activities in Drosophila.
• Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Physical Activity and Type 1 Diabetes in the Offspring.
• Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Vascular Phenotype Associations in Mothers with Obesity and Their Six-Year-Old Children.
• Prenatal Antibiotic Exposure and Birth Weight.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Preferences for Nutrients and Sensory Food Qualities Identify Biological Sources of Economic Values in Monkeys.
• How 'Real Life Pikachus' Survive Winters Without Hibernation: Adorable Pikas Feast on YAK FAECES to Keep Their Energy Levels Up in Harsh Climates, Study Finds.

Methods

• Latent Class Trajectory Analysis of Risk Factors Uncovers Progression to Type 2 Diabetes.
• An Agent-Based Simulation Model for Testing Novel Obesity Interventions in School Environment Design.
• Dissertation: Ehealth Interventions to Promote Physical Activity and Well-Being Actions in Adults with Obesity.
• Study of Blood Glucose and Insulin Infusion Rate in Real-Time in Diabetic Rats Using an Artificial Pancreas System.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Review: Computational Strategies for the Discovery of Biological Functions of Health Foods, Nutraceuticals and Cosmeceuticals.
• Modeling Excess Weight in Spain by Using Deterministic and Random Differential Equations.

Commentary

• Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy: A Protective Mechanism?
• Double Burden of Malnutrition in Thin Children and Adolescents: Low Weight Does Not Protect Against Cardiometabolic Risk.
• Methodological Challenges of Large-Scale Breastfeeding Studies.
• The Food We Depend upon for Life and Pleasure.
• The Obesity Research That Blew Up.
• Are Energy Drinks Really That Bad?
• Seeking a Pot of Gold with Integrated Behavior Therapy and Research to Improve Health Equity: Insights from the RAINBOW Trial for Obesity and Depression.
• Academic Bullying Doesn’t Belong in Public Health.
• Pandemic Weight Gain? Not So Fast.

General

• How Kindness Can Be Contagious in Healthcare.
• Do College Students Feel Confident to Consent to Sex After Consuming Alcohol?
• The Economic Value of Targeting Aging.
• Lactoferrin for Mental Health: Neuro-Redox Regulation and Neuroprotective Effects Across the Blood-Brain Barrier with Special Reference to Neuro-COVID-19.
• Differences in Urinary Bacterial Anti-Adhesion Activity After Intake of Cranberry Dietary Supplements with Soluble Versus Insoluble Proanthocyanidins.
• Beware Performative Reproducibility.
• How Much Scientific Research Is Actually Fraudulent?
• A “Gut Feeling” to Create a 10th Hallmark of Aging.

Announcements

• Nutrition Science Infographic Competitions: Precision Nutrition Submissions Due September 17.
• Applications Open: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.

Featured

• "Evolutionary history of the human oral microbiome shows that Neanderthals and ancient humans adapted to eating starch-rich foods as far back as 100,000 years ago, … earlier than previously thought."
• Genetic Risk Score Prediction of Leg Fat and Insulin Sensitivity Differs by Race/Ethnicity in Early Pubertal Children.
• Sam68 Promotes Hepatic Gluconeogenesis Via CRTC2.
• Ketogenic Diet Restrains Aging-Induced Exacerbation of Coronavirus Infection in Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Impulsiveness Tied to Faster Eating in Children, Can Lead to Obesity: Study.
• Press-Release: Impulsiveness Tied to Faster Eating in Children, Can Lead to Obesity.
• Study: Temperament and Eating Self-Regulation in Young Children with or at Risk for Obesity: An Exploratory Report with No Obesity Results Reported.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: On Primary Outcome of BMI, No Compelling Evidence for Differential Effects of a Novel Mobile Health Intervention Compared to a Multi-Component Behaviour Changing Program in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Dissertation: "Contrary to hypotheses, this study found no evidence that weight suppression predicted 6 month change in BMI, percent body fat, or onset of overweight/obesity among emerging adults enrolled in a weight gain prevention program."
• "...contrary to our expectations, the specialist egg-eaters evolved to possess significantly smaller heads relative to body size than their competitors."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, we found more pronounced effects of wolf (cursorial) compared with lynx (ambush)..." on foraging behavior of red deer.
• "Contrary to what some teachers claim, the results highlighted a positive ratio between the available sports facilities and the needs of PE classes, opposing the idea that public schools do not have enough sports facilities for their PE classes." (pdf)
• Preprint: Fatty Liver Does Not Increase the Risk of Postoperative Liver Damage Following Hepatectomy. (pdf)
• Maternal Caffeine Administration to Ewes Does Not Affect Perinatal Lamb Survival.
• Rapid Refeeding Does Not Worsen Anxiety in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa.

Basic

• Metformin Alleviates Monoamine Oxidase-Related Vascular Oxidative Stress and Endothelial Dysfunction in Rats with Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Diet-Dependent Natriuretic Peptide Receptor C Expression in Adipose Tissue Is Mediated by PPARγ Via Long-Range Distal Enhancers.
• Mutation of the 5' Untranslated Region Stem-Loop MRNA Structure Reduces Type I Collagen Deposition and Arterial Stiffness in Male Obese Mice.
• Early Overnutrition in Male Mice Negates Metabolic Benefits of a Diet High in Monounsaturated and Omega-3 Fats.
• The Mediator Subunit MED20 Organizes the Early Adipogenic Complex to Promote Development of Adipose Tissues and Diet-Induced Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Exhaled Aerosol Increases with COVID-19 Infection, Age, and Obesity.
• Letter: Does Exhaled Aerosol Increase with COVID-19 Infection Correlate with Body Mass Index-Years?
• Response: Reply to Stohner: On the Significance of BMI-Age Dependence of Exhaled Aerosol.
• Correction: For Edwards et al., Exhaled Aerosol Increases with COVID-19 Infection, Age, and Obesity.
• PubPeer Comment On: Promoting Physical Activity in Older People in General Practice: ProAct65+ Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial.
• Article: Effect of Reducing Ultraprocessed Food Consumption on Obesity Among US Children and Adolescents Aged 7–18 Years: Evidence from a Simulation Model.
• Comment: Erroneous Assumptions Invalidate the Calculated Effects of Reducing Ultra-Processed Food Consumption on Child and Adolescent Obesity.

Clinical

• Mild Intermittent Hypoxia Exposure Induces Metabolic and Molecular Adaptations in Men with Obesity.
• The Obesity Paradox May Not Lead to Functional Gains in Stroke Patients Undergoing Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation.
• RCT: Effect of Almond Consumption on Metabolic Risk Factors-Glucose Metabolism, Hyperinsulinemia in Adolescents and Young Adults.
• Associations between Ghrelin and Leptin and Neural Food Cue Reactivity in a Fasted and Sated State.

Children and Adolescents

• Is the Physical Activity Environment Surrounding Primary Schools Associated with Students’ Weight Status, Physical Activity or Active Transport, in Regional Areas of Victoria, Australia? A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption, Perceptions, and Disparities in Children and Adolescents.
• Early-Life Gut Microbiota and Its Connection to Metabolic Health in Children: Perspective on Ecological Drivers and Need for Quantitative Approach.
• The Nutritional Status of Healthy Children Using Bioelectrical Impedance and Anthropometric Measurement.
• Preprint: Factors Affecting the Overweight and Obesity of Students Aged 11 to 17 in Low and Middle-Income Countries Based on GSHS Questionnaire Data.
• Dietary Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Primary School Students in Shenyang.

Surgery

• The Correlation between Weight Regain and Postoperative Time Depends on the Food Restriction Behavior and Physical Activity After Bariatric Surgery.
• Association of Bariatric Surgery with Vascular Outcomes.
• Concomitant Versus Delayed Cholecystectomy in Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• The Long-Acting Amylin/Calcitonin Receptor Agonist ZP5461 Suppresses Food Intake and Body Weight in Male Rats.
• SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Established and Emerging Indications.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Supplementation with Bifidobacterium breve BR03 and B632 Strains Improved Insulin Sensitivity in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Brown Rice Inhibits Development of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Obese Zucker (fa/fa) Rats by Increasing Lipid Oxidation Via Activation of Retinoic Acid Synthesis.
• Interactions between Caveolin-1 (rs3807992) Polymorphism and Major Dietary Patterns on Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors Among Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Conference Abstract: A Test of Social Cognitive Theory on Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Indiana High School Students.
• RCT: Fecal Microbial Transplantation and Fiber Supplementation in Patients with Severe Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• Effect of Soybean Insoluble Dietary Fiber on Prevention of Obesity in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice Via Regulation of the Gut Microbiota.
• Review: Ketogenic Diets, Physical Activity, and Body Composition.
• Systematic Review: International Tables of Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Values 2021.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Strain-Specific Metabolic Responses to Long-Term Caloric Restriction in Female ILSXISS Recombinant Inbred Mice.
• Caloric Restriction Prevents Metabolic Dysfunction and the Changes in Hypothalamic Neuropeptides Associated with Obesity Independently of Dietary Fat Content in Rats.
• Time-Restricted Feeding in Commercial Layer Chickens Improves Egg Quality in Old Age and Points to Lack of Adipostat Activity in Chickens.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Effects of Creatine and Caffeine Supplementation During Resistance Training on Body Composition, Strength, Endurance, Rating of Perceived Exertion and Fatigue in Trained Young Adults.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Exercise Training Interventions on Energy Intake and Appetite Control in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Income in Relation to Obesity Measures in an East German Adult Population.
• Socio-Economic Position as a Moderator of Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Patients Receiving Psychotropic Treatment Associated with Weight Gain.
• The Impact of Lifestyle and Socioeconomic Parameters on Body Fat Level in Early Childhood.
• Socioeconomic Disparities in Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Sleep Patterns Among 6- to 9-Year-Old Children from 24 Countries in the WHO European Region.
• Socioeconomic Differences in Food Habits Among 6- to 9-Year-Old Children from 23 Countries—WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI 2015/2017).

Epidemiology

• Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Breast Cancer Mortality by Metabolic Syndrome Components: A Secondary Analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative RCT.
• Dissertation: Neighborhood-Level Influence of the Fast-Food Environment and Adult Obesity in NYC.
• Food Insecurity and Its Impact on Body Weight, Type 2 Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Mental Health.
• "After more than a decade of progress from 1999 to the early 2010s, glycemic and blood-pressure control declined in adult NHANES participants with diabetes, while lipid control leveled off."
• Obesity Is Associated with Increased Risk of Crohn's Disease, but Not Ulcerative Colitis: A Pooled Analysis of Five Prospective Cohort Studies.
• Longitudinal Weight and Body-Composition Changes in Polish Undergraduate Students of Health Faculty.
• Association of BMI, Comorbidities and All-Cause Mortality by Using a Baseline Mortality Risk Model.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Role of BMI, Body Fat Mass and Visceral Fat in Executive Function in Individuals with Overweight and Obesity.
• Food Reinforcement and Habituation to Food are Processes Related to Initiation and Cessation of Eating.
• Energy Status Differentially Modifies Feeding Behavior and POMC(ARC) Neuron Activity After Acute Treadmill Exercise in Untrained Mice.
• Nucleus Accumbens Microstructure Mediates the Relationship between Obesity and Eating Behavior in Adults.
• Metabolic Syndrome Is Associated with Poor Cognition: A Population-Based Study of 70-Year-Olds Without Dementia.
• Weight Loss by Low-Calorie Diet Versus Gastric Bypass Surgery in People with Diabetes Results in Divergent Brain Activation Patterns: A Functional MRI Study.
• Testing the Discrepancy between Actual and Ideal Body Image with the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP).

Equity and Disparities

• Review of Telehealth Interventions for Childhood Obesity in Minority, Low-Income or Underserved Populations: Opportunity for Pharmacists.
• Family History of Obesity and the Influence on Physical Activity and Dietary Adherence After Bariatric Surgery.

Stigma

• Examining the Impact of Perceived Weight Discrimination on Reported Eating and Exercise Among White and Latino/a Adults.
• Understanding Obesity: A Messaging Framework Featuring Accessible and Unbiased Information About the Harms of Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• Systematic Review: Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages as a Policy to Reduce Overweight and Obesity in Countries of Different Income Classifications.
• The Impact of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic on Childhood Obesity and Vitamin D Status.
• Barriers and Opportunities to Restricting Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages to Children in Nepal: A Policy Analysis.

Intergenerational Effects

• Effect of Maternal Overnutrition on Predisposition to Insulin Resistance in the Foal: Foal Skeletal Muscle Development and Insulin Signaling.
• Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Women with Disorders of Lipid Metabolism.
• Maternal Diet Patterns During Early Pregnancy in Relation to Neonatal Outcomes.
• Epigenetic Regulation of Pediatric and Neonatal Immune Responses.
• Associations of Maternal Diet and Nutritional Status with Offspring Hepatic Steatosis in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.
• Meta-Analysis: Language Abilities in Children Born to Mothers Diagnosed with Diabetes.
• Associations between KCNQ1 and ITIH4 Gene Polymorphisms and Infant Weight Gain in Early Life.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Endothermy Makes Fishes Faster but Does Not Expand Their Thermal Niche.
• N-Carbamoylglutamate Improves Lipid Metabolism, Inflammation, and Apoptosis Responses in Visceral Adipocytes of Japanese Seabass (Lateolabrax japonicus), in Vivo and in Vitro.
• Skeletal Muscle Thermogenesis Enables Aquatic Life in the Smallest Marine Mammal.

Methods

• A Guide for Authors and Readers of the ASN Journals on the Proper Use of P Values and Strategies That Promote Transparency and Improve Research Reproducibility.
• Perspective: Planning and Conducting Statistical Analyses for Human Nutrition RCTs: Ensuring Data Quality and Integrity.

Commentary

• The Ease of Selling Bunk for Weight Loss.
• Let's Fix the Government's Nutrition Guidance.
• Treating the Pregnant Woman with Pernicious Vomiting. Evolution in Our Thinking About Symptoms During Pregnancy.
• A Tale of Two New Drugs and Health Insurance.
• No Lives at Steak, IDTechEx Predicts How Food Will Be Made in the Future.
• How the Brain Responds to Bariatric Surgery.
• Obesity, Fiber, and Microbes in the Gut.
• Can Obesity, Hunger, and Weight Stigma Coexist?

General

• Pigmentation: Watching Hair Turn Grey.
• “The Gatekeepers in Prevention”: Community Pharmacist Perceptions of Their Role in the Opioid Epidemic.
• Walking the Talk on Multi-Level Interventions: The Power of Parsimony.
• Systematic Review: What Predicts the Physical Activity Intention–Behavior Gap.
• How Health Consciousness and Health Literacy Influence Evaluative Responses to Nutrient-Content Claimed Messaging for an Unhealthy Food.
• Effect of Informed Conditions on Sensory Expectations and Actual Perceptions: A Case of Chocolate Brownies Containing Edible-Cricket Protein.
• A Model for Evolutionary Structural Plasticity and Synchronization of a Network of Neurons.
• The Elusive Nature of Truth in Scientific Studies and the Importance of Peer Review.
• Study Reveals Contributing Factor to Inconsistent Results in Clinical Trials for COVID-19 Drugs.

Announcements

• Dean David Allison to Co-Chair New Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust Established by National Academy of Sciences to Support the Health of the Research Enterprise.
• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington to Host and Honor Dr. Anthony Fauci on December 6, 2021.
• Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition: A Workshop.
• Short Course: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research: Friday, July 23rd to Friday, August 13th, 2021.
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.

Featured

• Determinants of Heart Rate in Svalbard Reindeer Reveal Mechanisms of Seasonal Energy Management.
• Doublesex Mediates Species-, Sex-, Environment- and Trait-Specific Exaggeration of Size and Shape.
• Addressing Bias Toward Overweight Patients: A Training Program for First-Year Medical Students.
• COVID-19 Vaccines are Effective in People with Obesity: A Position Statement from the Obesity Society.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Keto diet may help brain tumor patients recover, study finds.
• Study: Uncontrolled study of 21 glioma patients in which the “primary outcome was dietary adherence by food records”.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness of a Multiple Health Behaviour Change Intervention in People Aged between 45 and 75 years.
• RCT: "This study offers no evidence of increased PA level following resistance training in older adults with home care."
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Acute Effects of Whey, Rice and Potato Protein Isolate Intake on Markers of Glycaemic Regulation and Appetite in Healthy Males.
• RCT: "An increase in daily dietary cholesterol intake to levels substantially above the previous 300 mg upper limit was not associated with a negative impact on lipid profiles in the setting of a healthy, low-carbohydrate weight loss diet."
• RCT: "There was no evidence of an intervention effect on the children’s physical activity time..."
• RCT: "A high F&V [fruit and vegetable] diet did not affect asthma exacerbations over the 6-month intervention..."
• RCT: "There was no evidence of a difference in energy intake from EAH [Eating in the absence of hunger] between sleep restriction and extension conditions when analyzed as a crossover design."
• RCT: "The PeerFIT group lifestyle intervention was not superior to one-on-one mHealth coaching in achieving clinically significant changes in weight, CRF, and CVD risk reduction."

Basic

• Alteration of Unfolded Protein Responses and Autophagy Signaling Represented the Molecular Basis Underlying Saccharin Toxicity to Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae).
• Intermittent Cold Exposure Improves Glucose Homeostasis Despite Exacerbating Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice Housed at Thermoneutrality.
• The Transcriptional Co-Regulator LDB1 Is Required for Brown Adipose Function.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Errors in Meta-Analysis Should Be Corrected in “Critical Appraisal for Low-Carbohydrate Diet in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Review and Meta-Analyses”.
• Morning Chocolate Miracles? Not Quite.

Clinical

• Early Onset of SARS-COV-2 Antibodies After First Dose of BNT162b2: Correlation with Age, Gender and BMI.
• Avocado Consumption, Abdominal Adiposity, and Oral Glucose Tolerance Among Persons with Overweight and Obesity.
• COVID-19 Vaccines are Effective in People with Obesity: A Position Statement from the Obesity Society.
• Reduced Adaptive Thermogenesis During Acute Protein-Imbalanced Overfeeding Is a Metabolic Hallmark of the Human Thrifty Phenotype.

Children and Adolescents

• A National Call to Action for a Feasible Equitable Approach to Childhood Obesity.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Status and Its Association with Childhood Obesity Among Chinese Children Aged 6–17 Years.
• An Index Measuring Adherence to New Zealand Infant Feeding Guidelines Has Convergent Validity with Maternal Socio-Demographic and Health Behaviours and with Children's Body Size.

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery in the Middle East and North Africa: Narrative Review with Focus on Culture-Specific Considerations.
• The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients with Obesity Undergoing Bariatric Care.
• Zinc Absorption and Zinc Status are Reduced After Either Sleeve Gastrectomy or Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass in Premenopausal Women with Severe Obesity Studied Prospectively over 24 Postoperative Months.
• Effect of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Pandemic and Lockdown on Body Weight, Maladaptive Eating Habits, Anxiety, and Depression in a Bariatric Surgery Waiting List Cohort.

Drugs

• In Search of an Ideal Drug for Safer Treatment of Obesity: The False Promise of Pseudoephedrine.
• Clinical Management and Treatment of Obesity in China.
• Review: Patient Initiation and Maintenance of GLP-1 RAs for Treatment of Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Moderate Consumption of Beer (with and Without Ethanol) Alleviates Menopausal Symptoms.
• RCT: Beneficial Effects of a Specially Designed Home Meal Replacement on Cardiometabolic Parameters in Individuals with Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of 6 Months of Soy-Enriched High Protein Compared to Eucaloric Low Protein Snack Replacement on Appetite, Dietary Intake, and Body Composition in Women with Normal-Weight Obesity.
• RCT: Effect of Flaxseed Consumption on Central Obesity, Serum Lipids, and Adiponectin Level in Women with Overweight or Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Adipocyte Iron Levels Impinge on a Fat-Gut Crosstalk to Regulate Intestinal Lipid Absorption and Mediate Protection from Obesity.
• Characterization and Mechanisms of Action of Avocado Extract Enriched in Mannoheptulose as a Candidate Calorie Restriction Mimetic.
• Time-Restricted Feeding Rescues High-Fat-Diet-Induced Hippocampal Impairment.
• Diet Composition, Glucose Homeostasis, and Weight Regain in the YoYo Study.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: The Impact of Body Fat on Thermoregulation During Exercise in the Heat.
• Difference in Total Workload During Sprint Interval Training for Adults Living with or Without Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Exercise Alone or in Combination with High-Protein Diet on Muscle Function, Aerobic Capacity, and Physical Function in Middle-Aged Adults with Obesity.
• RCT: Couple-Based Physical Activity Planning for New Parents.

Economics & Sociology

• Being a Tough Person in a Tight World: Cultural Tightness Leads to a Desire for Muscularity.
• Childhood Socioeconomic Status, Adulthood Obesity and Health: The Role of Parental Permanent and Transitory Income.
• Obesity 2021: Rejecting Old Misconceptions and Embracing a New Paradigm to Improve Outcomes.

Epidemiology

• Relationship between Dairy Consumption and Abdominal Obesity.
• The Influence of Maternal Obesity on Selected Obstetric Parameters.
• Prevalence and Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Kenya.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Testing a Tailored Weight Management Program for Veterans with PTSD.
• Prevalence and Course of Anxiety and Depression Among Patients Selected for Bariatric Surgery. (pdf)
• Meta-Analysis: The Outcomes of Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder.
• Impact of Income and Perceived Stress on Engagement and Weight Loss Outcomes in an Online Behavioral Weight Loss Program.
• Meta-Analysis: Does Self-Monitoring Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors Using Digital Technology Support Adults with Obesity or Overweight to Lose Weight?

Equity and Disparities

• Gender Differences in Weight Gain During Lockdown Due to COVID-19 Pandemic in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Race, Ethnicity, Poverty and the Social Determinants of the Coronavirus Divide: U.S. County-Level Disparities and Risk Factors.
• Ethnic, Social and Multimorbidity Disparities in Therapeutic Inertia: A UK Primary Care Observational Study in Patients Newly Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Social Media Accounts of Food and Beverage Brands Have Disproportionately More Black and Hispanic Followers Than White Followers.

Ethics

• Ethics of Implementing US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations for Childhood Obesity.
• Educating Trainees to Manage Pregnant Women with Obesity: A Primer.

Stigma

• Racial and Weight Discrimination Associations with Pain Intensity and Pain Interference in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Adults with Obesity.
• Internalized Weight Stigma, Psychological Well-Being, and Sleep in Women.
• Systematic Review: Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of Self-Reported Weight Stigma Measures.

Policy Related

• The Policy Implications of ‘thinking Problematically’: Problematizing Big Food’s Role in Obesity Policymaking.
• Promoting Physical Activity Through Policy at a Single Safety-Net Clinic: A Pilot Study.

Intergenerational Effects

• Interplay between Prepregnancy BMI, Early Childhood Negative Temperament, and Slowness in Eating on Early Childhood Rapid Weight Gain.
• The Effect of Heavy Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Adolescent BMI and Waist-To-Height Ratio at 12–13 Years.
• Factors Affecting the Growth of Children Till the Age of Three Years with Overweight Whose Mothers Have Diabetes Mellitus: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Seasonal Regulation of Metabolism: The Effect of Wintertime Fasting and Autumnal Fattening on Key Central Regulators of Metabolism and the Metabolic Profile of the Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes Procyonoides).
• A Drastic Shift in the Energetic Landscape of Toothed Whale Sperm Cells.
• Total Energy Expenditure of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) of Different Ages.

Methods

• Methodological Aspects of Diet Quality Indicators in Childhood: A Mapping Review.
• Deciphering CT Texture Features of Human Visceral Fat to Evaluate Metabolic Disorders and Surgery-Induced Weight Loss Effects.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• HANA: A Healthy Artificial Nutrition Analysis Model During COVID-19 Pandemic.

Commentary

• Respiratory Risk, Not Death, Increased for Adults with Obesity in ICU with COVID-19.
• Is It Ethical to Screen Children and Adolescents for Obesity?
• Does Sleep Restriction Increase Eating in the Absence of Hunger? Maybe!
• Addictive-Like Eating: Interindividual Differences Matter.
• Dependence, Independence, and Offering Care.
• We’re Not Really Ready to Talk About Obesity.
• A National Call to Action for a Feasible Equitable Approach to Childhood Obesity.
• Genetic Sequences to Protect from Obesity.

General

• The Lifeguard Rescue Reporting System: Survey Results from a Collaborative Data Collection Method.
• Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Tick Image Recognition – a Preliminary Exploration.
• Study Evaluates Online Resources for Improving Women's Sexual Health.
• Cybercriminals Target Internet-Connected Medical Devices.
• Large-Scale Epidemiological Monitoring of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Tokyo.
• How Do Most Lobsters Stay Cancer-Free? Newly Sequenced Genome Could Reveal Their Secrets.
• Small Retinal Arteriole Remodeling in Diabetes and Hypertension Measured by AOSLO.
• Prenatal Exposure to THC, CBD Affects Offspring's Responsiveness to Fluoxetine.
• How Long Does COVID-19 Immunity Last?

Announcements

• Two-Day Course: Best Practices for Human Nutrition RCTs, July 13 and 20, 2021.
• Live Event - July 13, 2021: Eating Like the World Depends on It - An Interview with Dr. David Katz.
• Short Course: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research: Friday, July 23rd to Friday, August 13th, 2021.
• Short Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.

Featured

• From the Obesity Society: "Health care providers should be aware of the lack of evidence and deficiencies in regulatory oversight of dietary supplements marketed for weight loss."
• Systematic Review: Dietary Supplements and Alternative Therapies for Weight Loss.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: Effect of Meal Replacement on Weight Loss According to Calorie-Restriction Type and Proportion of Energy Intake.
• Bringing Disgust in Through the Backdoor in Healthy Food Promotion: A Phenomenological Perspective.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: A Milk Chocolate a Day Can Keep Those Extra Kilos at Bay.
• Headline: SWEET! Eating CHOCOLATE for Breakfast Can Supercharge Your Weight Loss, Scientists Discover.
• Study: Postmenopausal Caucasian Women Did Not Gain Significant Body Weight over Two Weeks During No Chocolate, Morning Chocolate, or Evening Chocolate Periods in a Randomized Cross-Over Study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Meta-Analysis: "Nurse-led interventions to prevent juvenile obesity are feasible but have not yet determined effectiveness."
• Short Term HIIT Does Not Promote Oxidative Stress or Muscle Damage [in Rats].
• With COVID-19 Lockdown "There was no significant relationship between change in use of fast-food restaurants and full-service restaurants and the change in BMI, either alone or in combination..."
• "Our results show that TTA can be used to manipulate body lipid levels in juvenile Chinook salmon but provide no support for a major role of fall body lipid levels in regulating precocious maturation in juvenile male spring Chinook salmon under hatchery conditions."
• RCT: "The consumption of 25g of yacon flour associated with energy-restricted diet did not increase the concentrations of glycation markers."
• Thesis: RCT-No differential effect of "Gain- and Loss-Framed Messages on Intent to Exercise in Adults Over 40 years."
• RCT: "no significant differences in anthropometry or body composition were observed until 2 years of age between infants fed mLP and CTRL formula, despite the significantly lower protein intake in the mLP group during the intervention period."
• Meta-Analysis: "It is not clear whether interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour are effective at reducing sedentary time in community-dwelling older adults."

Basic

• Phosphorylation of STAT3 in Hypothalamic Nuclei Is Stimulated by Lower Doses of Leptin Than are Needed to Inhibit Food Intake.
• Deciphering an AgRP-Serotoninergic Neural Circuit in Distinct Control of Energy Metabolism from Feeding.
• PKM1 Exerts Critical Roles in Cardiac Remodeling Under Pressure Overload in the Heart.
• Sleeve Gastrectomy Attenuates the Severity of Cerulein-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in Obese Rats.
• Cognitive Impairment in Obese Rat Model: Role of Glial Cells.
• Bioactive Compounds from Prosthechea Karwinskii Decrease Obesity, Insulin Resistance, Pro-Inflammatory Status, and Cardiovascular Risk in Wistar Rats with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Immune Checkpoint Blockade Reprograms Systemic Immune Landscape and Tumor Microenvironment in Obesity-Associated Breast Cancer.
• Obesity Accelerates Hair Thinning by Stem Cell-Centric Converging Mechanisms.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Podcast: #167 – Gary Taubes: Bad Science and Challenging the Conventional Wisdom of Obesity.
• Retraction: Myeloperoxidase Deletion Prevents High-Fat Diet–Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance.

Clinical

• ADA Meeting Coverage: Hospitalization Rates for New-Onset Type 2 Diabetes in Kids Took Off During Pandemic.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effects of Low-Fat, High-Carbohydrate Diets Vs. Low-Carbohydrate, High-Fat Diets on Weight, Blood Pressure, Serum Liquids and Blood Glucose.
• Leg Fidgeting During Prolonged Sitting Improves Postprandial Glycemic Control in People with Obesity.
• Six-Year Changes in N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Changes in Weight and Risk of Obesity.
• Differences in Adolescent Cerebral Perfusion as a Function of Obesity.
• Benchmarking of Provider Competencies and Current Training for Prevention and Management of Obesity Among Family Medicine Residency Programs: A Cross-Sectional Survey.
• Ironing Out the Effects of Overweight and Obesity on Hepcidin Production During Pregnancy.

Children and Adolescents

• Evaluation of Full-Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy in the Treatment of Adolescents with Obesity and Lumbar Disc Herniation: A Retrospective Study.
• Trends in Metabolic Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents in France: A Nationwide Analysis on an 11- Year Period.
• Trajectories of Adiposity Indicators and Association with Asthma and Lung Function in Urban Minority Children.
• Neck Fat and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Effect of Preschool Childcare on School-Aged Children’s Adiposity in Quebec, Canada.
• COVID-19 Leads to Accelerated Increases in Children's BMI Z-Score Gain: An Interrupted Time-Series Study.
• AHA Conference Presentation: Breast Milk-Dependent Associations of Infant Gut Microbiota with Childhood BMI Z Score.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effects of Motivational Interviewing on Children's BMI and Fat Distributions.

Surgery

• Letter: Pre-Transplant Bariatric Surgery Is Not Associated with an Increased Risk of Infection After Kidney Transplant.
• Identification of the Source Events for Aerosol Generation During Oesophago-Gastro-Duodenoscopy.
• Constraints of Weight Loss as a Marker of Bariatric Surgery Success: An Exploratory Study.
• Circulating Bacterial Signature Is Linked to Metabolic Disease and Shifts with Metabolic Alleviation After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• The Impact of BMI on Efficacy and Safety in the Tofacitinib OCTAVE Ulcerative Colitis Clinical Programme.
• Viewpoint: Progress in Pharmacotherapy for Obesity.
• Scoping Review: Signaling Targets Related to Antiobesity Effects of Capsaicin.

Food & Diet

• The Relationship between Dietary Patterns and Overweight and Obesity Among Adult in Jiangsu Province of China: A Structural Equation Model.
• The Mediatory Role of Inflammatory Markers on the Relationship between Dietary Energy Density and Body Composition Among Adult Women with Overweight or Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Does Self-Monitoring Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors Using Digital Technology Support Adults with Obesity or Overweight to Lose Weight?

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effect of 2-Year Caloric Restriction on Organ and Tissue Size in 21- to 50-Year-Old Adults without Obesity in an RCT.
• Meta-Analysis: Effect of Carbohydrate-Restricted Dietary Interventions on LDL Particle Size and Number in Adults in the Context of Weight Loss or Weight Maintenance.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Scoping Review of Systematic Reviews: EHealth Interventions Targeting Nutrition, Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, or Obesity in Adults.
• Improving Lifestyle Obesity Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: New Challenges for Weight Management.
• Fear-Related Barriers to Physical Activity Among Adults with Overweight and Obesity: A Narrative Synthesis Scoping Review.
• Systematic Review: Physical Activity Motives, Barriers, and Preferences in People with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Household Composition, Income, and BMI Among Adults by Race/Ethnicity and Sex.
• Interaction of Genetic and Environmental Factors for Body Fat Mass Control: Observational Study for Lifestyle Modification and Genotyping.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Overweight and Obesity Among 6- to 9-Year-Old Children in 24 Countries from the World Health Organization European Region.
• BMI and Dissatisfaction with Life: Contextual Factors and Socioemotional Costs of Obesity.
• Impact of Cuts to Local Government Spending on Sure Start Children’s Centres on Childhood Obesity in England: A Longitudinal Ecological Study.
• Price Promotions Offered by Quick Service Restaurants in Australia: Analysis from an Obesity Prevention Perspective.
• The Effect of Beverage Taxes on Youth Consumption and BMI: Evidence from Mauritius.
• Association of Funding and Meal Preparation Time with Nutritional Quality of Meals of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program Recipients.

Epidemiology

• The Ergonomic Impact of Patient BMI on Surgeon Posture During Simulated Laparoscopy.
• Dietary Exposure to Parabens and BMI in an Adolescent Spanish Population.
• The Inverse Association of BMI with Lung Cancer: Exploring Residual Confounding, Metabolic Aberrations and Within-Person Variability in Smoking.
• The Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Women in Jordan: A Risk Factor for Developing Chronic Diseases.
• Timing and Length of Nocturnal Sleep and Daytime Napping and Associations with Obesity Types in High-, Middle-, and Low-Income Countries.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Review: Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Role of Fructose in Overfeeding.
• Competing Influences on Healthy Food Choices: Mindsetting Versus Contextual Food Cues.
• Reduction of Impulsivity in Patients Receiving Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment for Obesity.
• Review: Obesity and Dietary Fat Influence Dopamine Neurotransmission: Exploring the Convergence of Metabolic State, Physiological Stress, and Inflammation on Dopaminergic Control of Food Intake.
• Reassessing Relationships between Appetite and Adiposity in People at Risk of Obesity: A Twin Study Using FMRI.

Equity and Disparities

• Race, Ethnicity, and COVID-19: The Persistence of Black–White Disparities in the United States.
• Disparities in Obesity Prevalence in Iranian Adults: Cross-Sectional Study Using Data from the 2016 STEPS Survey.
• Educational Inequalities in Obesity: A Multilevel Analysis of Survey Data from Cities in Latin America.

Stigma

• Associations between Weight Status, Body Satisfaction, Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem in Oceanian Adolescents.
• Perspective: Weight Stigma Study in the U.S. And 5 Other Nations Shows the Worldwide Problem of Such Prejudice.

Policy Related

• Improving Obesity Treatment Through Telemedicine: Increasing Access to Bariatric Surgery.
• Rising to the Challenge: Introducing Protocols to Monitor Food Marketing to Children from the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.
• Effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and the Policy Response on Childhood Obesity Risk Factors: Gender and Sex Differences and Recommendations for Research.
• Renewed Call for Lifestyle Interventions to Address Obesity Among Individuals with Serious Mental Illness in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond.

Intergenerational Effects

• Early Onset of Overweight Among Children from Low-Income Families: The Role of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Maternal Intake of Ultra-Processed Food.
• Are Body Roundness Index and a Body Shape Index in the First Trimester Related to Foetal Macrosomia?
• Food Parenting Practices and Eating Behaviors in Childhood: A Cross-Lagged Approach Within the Generation XXI Cohort.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Dietary Restriction Induces a Stable Metabolic Obesity Phenotype in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Scientific Evaluation of Anti-Obesity Potential of Methanolic Leaves Extract of Ocimum Sanctum (Linn.) in Monosodium Glutamate - High Fat Diet Induced Obese Mice. (pdf)

Methods

• A Distribution-Centered Approach for Analyzing Human Adipocyte Size Estimates and Their Association with Obesity-Related Traits and Mitochondrial Function.
• "Weight loss maintainers underreported energy intake in both absolute and relative terms to a greater extent than controls of normal body weight but not controls with overweight/obesity"

Commentary

• Are Continuous Glucose Monitors a Waste of Time for People Without Diabetes?
• Waiting for Godot and for SSB Taxes to Work.
• The Protein Content of Baloney, and Vice Versa.
• Threatening People with Starvation to Make Them Work.
• No Good Evidence Weight Loss Supplements Work: Study.
• Tirzepatide and Semaglutide Begin to Compete.
• IU Study Finds Obesity Increases Breast Cancer Risk in Black Women.
• Public Health Policy That Harms More Than Helps.

General

• Thesis: Thesis: Males of the Wolf Spider Rabidosa Rabida Use Two Mechanisms to Stun Females During Copulation.
• When South African Bees Reproduce Asexually, They Make Near-Perfect Clones of Themselves.
• Quantifying Frequency Content in Cross-Sectional Retinal Scans of Individuals with Diabetes vs. Controls.
• Loss of P21-Activated Kinase Mbt/PAK4 Causes Parkinson-Like Phenotypes in Drosophila.
• A Novel Theory of Asian Elephant High-Frequency Squeak Production.
• Worker Ants Promote Outbreeding by Transporting Young Queens to Alien Nests.
• The Effects of Repetition Frequency on the Illusory Truth Effect.
• Using Systems Applications to Inform Obesity Solutions.

Video & Audio

• Best Practices for Using Animals in Aging Research Wednesday, June 23, 2021 | 2-3pm Eastern (11am-12pm Pacific) View the Webinar Recording Here.

Announcements

• Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Researchers Co-Author Mayo Clinic COVID-19 Drug Study.
• Join TOS's Spokesperson Network.
• TOS Call for Late-Breaking Abstracts.
• Applications Open: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research: Friday, July 23rd to Friday, August 13th, 2021.
• Priority Deadline Extended: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research: Friday, September 10th to Friday, October 1st, 2021.
• Nutrition Science Tenure/Tenure-Track: Full/Associate/Assistant Professor Search.
• Nutrition Science Non-Tenure-Track: Clinical Full/Associate/Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Search.