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Featured

• Report: Engineering Food Systems to Enable Precision Nutrition.
• Partial Depletion of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Decreases Subcutaneous Fat Cell Hypertrophy and Liver Cholesterol in High-Fat-Fed Female Mice.
• High-Fat Diet Exposure, Internal State, and Reward Value Influence Decision Making During Motivational Conflict.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: The Diet That Lets You Eat More - and Beats Weight Watchers in the Long Term: Study.
• (Better) Headline: Popular Diet May Not Help for Weight, but Trial Points to Another Benefit.
• Press Release: UNC Study Finds Mediterranean-Style Eating Supports Weight Loss and Improves Diet Quality.
• Study: "...there was no statistically significant difference in percentage of body weight loss at the 24-month follow-up [the registered primary outcome] between participants receiving the Mediterranean-style or control intervention."

Contrary or Null Findings

• Mega-Analysis of RCTs: “When Calorie Labels Were Present (versus Absent) Energy Purchased Per Transaction for Main Meals Increased …There Was No Evidence of Differences in Energy Purchased Per Transaction from Discretionary Foods…or Drinks …there Was No Clear Evidence That Labels Reduced Energy Purchased in Any of the Categories.”
• RCT: "In this randomized clinical trial comparing a Mediterranean-style weight loss intervention to a control intervention, there was no material difference in percentage change in body weight at the 24-month follow-up visit between participants in these programs."
• Pre-print RCT: "...the lack of significant differences in the other fall risk metrics may be indicative of insufficient duration and/or intensity of the intervention."
• Full-Fat Dairy Shows Benefits Without Raising Body Fat or Cholesterol, Study Finds.
• RCT: "the primary outcome did not reach statistical significance" in "Strength training during pregnancy for the prevention of gestational diabetes...in women with overweight or obesity.”
• RCT: "There were no significant differences between groups in growth and morbidity outcomes" in "Donor human milk for maternal milk shortfall in preterm infants."
• RCT: "the structured protocol did not demonstrate superiority over the minimal active physiotherapy comparator for fatigue, quality of life, muscle strength, or functional capacity" in "Therapeutic Exercise Protocol During Hospitalization in Pediatric Oncohematological Patients".
• RCT: "These findings suggest that TRE may be a safe approach for reducing HbA1c levels in T1D, although not more effective for weight loss compared with CR or a control group."

Basic

• Interleukin-19 Regulates Adipose Tissue Dysfunction in Obesity: Interplay between Inflammation and Vascularization.
• Broussoflavonol F Alleviates Obesity-Associated Metabolic Syndrome in Obese Mice by Modulating Gut Microbiota.
• Loss of Mitochondrial Co-Chaperone GRPEL2 Protects Mice from Age- and Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Multi-Organ Proteomic Atlas of Obesity Regression in Male Mice.
• Sphingosine Kinase 2 Regulates Adipocyte Browning and Whole-Body Metabolism.
• Intestinal CGAS-STING-IFN Signalling Promotes Obesity by Downregulating Microbiota-Derived IAA in Male Mice.
• Depot-Dependent Biology of Human Adipose Tissues and Metabolic Health.
• Mechanistic Drivers of Thermogenic Adipose Tissue Dysfunction in Aging and Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Challenges of Performing Controlled Trials of Diet Therapies in Gastroenterology.
• Blog Post: What Contributions Can Academic Statisticians Make to Sports Analytics? (A Discussion Related to the Launch of the New Open-Access Journal of Statistics and Data Science in Sports).
• Retraction: Meta-Analysis of the Association between the Dietary Inflammatory Index and Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease.

Clinical

• Challenging the Obesity Paradox: A Multicenter Study of BMI and Mortality in Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.
• LTE: Beyond Body Mass Index: Redefining Obesity Prevalence in an Italian Cohort of People Living with HIV According to the New Lancet Commission’s Excess Adiposity Criteria.
• Comparing the Diagnostic Characteristics of Neuropathy Questionnaires in Adults with Obesity.
• Review: Does the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model Explain Obesity? Evidence from Mechanistic and Clinical Studies.

Children and Adolescents

• Linking Pediatric Obesity to Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes.
• Can Weight Status in the First Year of Life Predict Well-Being in the First Years of School?
• A Pilot Study of Acceptance-Based Behavioral Weight Loss for Adolescents with Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Involvement of Fathers in Pediatric Obesity Treatment and Prevention Trials.
• Centiles for Energy Costs of Tissue Deposition in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence: Calculations Based on Reanalysis of UK Body Composition Reference Data.

Surgery

• Cohort Study: Associations of Bariatric Surgery with Apolipoprotein A1, Apolipoprotein B, and Apolipoprotein B/Apolipoprotein A1 Ratio.
• The Role of Bariatric Surgery in Kidney Disease: Evidence, Controversies, and Future.
• Propensity Matched Analysis: Associations of Bariatric Surgery with Dementia in Patients with Diabetes and Obesity.
• Meta-Analysis: Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Adults with Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus.

Drugs

• A Multi-Functional Oral Small Molecule Targeting Energy and Lipid Metabolism to Treat Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Mazdutide in Adults with Obesity or Overweight.
• Meta-Analysis: Cardiometabolic Effects of Dual GLP-1 and Glucagon Receptor Agonists.
• The Glucagon Renaissance in Obesity Therapeutics.

Food & Diet

• Association of Healthy Plant-Based Diet-Lifestyle Score with Obesity-Related Cancer Incidence and Mortality.
• Nutritional Strategies for Targeting Biological Age.
• A Series of N-Of-1 Dietary Intervention Studies with Whole-Grain Foods and Nuts Reveals Individual Predictors of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Suppresses Colorectal Tumors and Melanoma Through CD8 T Cells in Aged Mice.
• Intermittent Fasting Alleviates Neuropathic Pain and Cognitive Deficits Via an Alistipes Finegoldii-Hippuric Acid-STING Neuroimmune Axis.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Associations of Dietary Patterns and Physical Activity with Body Composition in Healthcare Workers with Abdominal Obesity.
• Associations of Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity with Obesity and Low Muscle Mass Among Postmenopausal Chinese Women: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• Increasing Skeletal Muscle Mass and Strength During Incretin-Based Weight Loss.

Economics & Sociology

• Prospective Annual Evaluation of Sports Motor Performance, BMI and Social Index in Swiss First Graders over a Period of 12 Years.
• Multidimensional Assessment of Women’s Nutritional Status and Empowerment in Peri-Urban Bengaluru.
• Adult Temporal Mobility (2002-2010) in Material Wealth and Physical Health, Self-Perceived Health, Sociality, and Use of Addictive Substances.

Epidemiology

• Transition from Preclinical Obesity to Clinical Obesity Among US Adults: Incidences and Risk Factors.
• Sex- and Age-Specific Associations between Body Composition Markers and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate - Results of a Population-Based Study.
• Modeling Pre-Pregnancy BMI as a Continuous Exposure for Obstetric and Neonatal Outcomes: A Population-Based Analysis of 3.4 Million Births.
• Time-Varying BMI, Waist Circumference and All-Cause Mortality in US Adults Aged 65 or Older.
• Temporal Association between Body Weight and Type 2 Diabetes at the Population Level.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Influence of Glucose Intake and Psychosocial Stress on Food Craving in Healthy Adults.
• Brain-Wide Activity Mapping Reveals the Somatosensory Cortex as a Sex-Specific Regulator of Hedonic Feeding.
• Does Flavor-Nutrient Learning Promote or Protect Against Diet-Induced Obesity? Individual Differences in Conditionability Predict Resistance to Weight Gain in Rats.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• Variation in Obesity Burden, Multimorbidity, and Healthcare Costs Across Obesity Class, Sex, and Race/Ethnicity in the United States.
• Waist Circumference, Relative Fat Mass Index, and BMI as Classifiers of Diabetes Status: A Comparative, Cross-Sectional Analysis in 82 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Ethnic Cardiovascular Disparities and Lipidomic Signatures in Chinese Children: Insights from a Historical National Survey and a Contemporary Regional Cohort.
• Ethnic Disparities in Cardiometabolic Health in Albania: Divergent Burdens Across Minority Groups.

Stigma

• Review: Beyond Weight: A Stigma-Free, Integrated Approach to Obesity in Patients Affected by Cancer.
• RCT: Compounding Stigma: Comparing Perceptions of an Individual Using Ozempic, Bariatric Surgery, or Behavior Modification.
• Weight Discrimination and Metabolic Syndrome: Examining Discrimination Attributions and Frequency Across Settings.

Policy Related

• Food Systems Performance Evaluated Against Targets and Benchmarks Reveals Urgent Gaps and a Path to 2050.
• Retrofitting Fiscal Policies to Reduce the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Peru.
• Rethinking Global Obesity Guidelines: Integrating Evidence, Equity and Precision (2014-2026).
• Ultra-Processed Food (UPF) Consumption and Diet Quality Among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participating Adults.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association between Relative Cord Hyperleptinemia and Offspring Outcomes in Pregnant Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Postpartum Glucose Follow-Up After Gestational Diabetes in China: Provider and Institutional Determinants in a Multicenter Survey Across Urban Public Hospitals.
• Multiple Generation Distinct Toxicant Exposures and Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Sex‑specific Outcross Impacts on Sperm Epigenetics and Obesity Pathology.
• A Placental and Fetal Liver TGFβ Signaling Axis Drives Fetal Immunosuppression in Maternal Obesity.
• Parental Obesity and Offspring Risk for Cardiorenal Diseases.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• A Bacterial Enzyme Enhances Both Energy Metabolism and Health Across the Life Span of C. Elegans and Mice.
• Effects of Time-Restricted Feeding on Health Outcomes: Lessons from Model Organisms.

Methods

• Ameliorative Effect of Rhus verniciflua Stokes on High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Advanced Analysis with Machine Learning and Deep Learning-Based Network Pharmacology.
• Discrepancies between Caliper and Portable A-Mode Ultrasound Estimates of Subcutaneous Fat in Older Adults.

Commentary

• Gut Microbe Metabolite May Aid Malnutrition-Related Gut Damage.
• New Science on Early Life Biologic Markers for Obesity.
• Podcast: GLP-1s - From Gut Hormone Discovery to a Public Health Revolution a Healthy Dialogue with Jens Juul Holst and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen.
• Why Do People Eat Fad Diets?

General

• Survey: Regulatory Processes to Protect Researchers and Data.
• Measuring the Effects of Pharmacological Compounds on Mitochondrial Morphology in Mouse Aging Models.
• Review: A Conceptual and Methodological Exploration of Spin and Related Reporting Distortions in Dental Research.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: The Biggest Myth About Mitochondrial Health.
• Podcast: What Do People Eat? Plant and Animal DNA in Sewage Provide Clues.
• Podcast: Comparative Effectiveness of Global Well-Being Interventions.
• Podcast: Sleep, Hypertrophy, and Creatine.
• Podcast: Molecular Mechanisms of Colorectal Cancer Development.
• Podcast: Ancestry & Genetic Diversity in Human Fat Metabolism: Seed Oils & Omega Fats.
• Podcast: How Does Taste Work?
• Podcast: Do Microplastics in the Body Affect Pregnancy?

Announcements

• Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center at U of A Awarded $11.2M Funding Round.
• The 5th Annual Kohlberg Johnson Family Human Milk Institute Symposium Is Closer Than You Think! March 9-11, 2027.
• Webinar: How Well Is the World Taxing Alcohol? Country Findings from the Inaugural Alcohol Tax Scorecard Date & Time Sep 3, 2026 08:00 AM in Central Time (US and Canada).

Featured

• Podcast: Barry Sears - Why You Need Higher Doses of Omega-3s Than You Think.
• AgRP Neurons are Required for the Weight-Lowering Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Female Mice.
• Lineage Tracing Reveals a Shared Cellular Origin for Supraclavicular Brown and Inguinal Beige Adipocytes.
• Patient-Provider Communication Quality: Impact of Patients' Weight, Race and Ethnicity.
• Microbiota-Derived Isovalerate Ameliorates Sex-Specific Gut Barrier Dysfunction in Malnutrition.
• RCT: Apitegromab for Lean Mass Preservation During Tirzepatide-Induced Weight Loss.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Obesity Weakens Anti-Tumor Immune Response in Lung Cancer - but Exercise May Restore It.
• Study: Exercise Modulates Adiposity-Induced Immune Dysfunction in NSCLC and Non-Tumor-Bearing Lungs... In Mice Implanted with Mouse Lung Cancer.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "After 4 weeks of herb and spice exposure, postprandial [Flow-Mediated Dilation], lipemia, and glycemia did not differ with acute intake of culinary doses of herbs and spices as part of a higher-carbohydrate, high-saturated-fat meal."
• Ketogenic Diet Mediates Intestinal Tumorigenesis Through Lipids Not Ketones.
• "Contrary to the classic paradigm of unimodal diversity-productivity relationships observed in riverine systems, total phosphorus (TP) positively correlated with biodiversity (edf = 1.00, p = 0.028), while phytoplankton biomass (Chl-a) exerted a negative effect (edf = 1.00, p < 0.001), indicating a decoupling between resource supply and community evenness in riverine ecosystems."
• "Contrary to expectations, cold acclimation induced little to no change in flight muscle structure, mitochondrial density and abundance across all species."
• "The results of this study do not support the hypothesis that dietary iron supplementation increases infection intensity in M. sexta."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, exposure to these nanoparticles enhanced glucose transport across the placenta."
• RCT: "...exercise in the heat elicited significant thermal strain, fatigue, and inflammation, independent of hydration strategy. Electrolyte composition did not significantly alter responses when fluid intake was controlled..."
• RCT: "Early total enteral feeding did not improve the time to achieve full enteral feeding compared with CEF [conventional enteral feeding]."

Basic

• Transcriptomic Analysis of Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue Reveals Enrichment in Lipid Transport in Response to Western Diet.
• A Novel Solid Beverage RLMCR Prevents Obesity-Related Metabolic Disorders Through the Gut-Adipose Axis.
• An N-Salicyloyl Tryptamine Derivative (Compound 18) Improves Spermatogenic Impairment in Obese Mice Via Regulating Insulin Resistance and Enhancing Sertoli Cell Glycolysis.
• Adipose TGFβ-Asprosin Memory Promotes Obesity Relapse and Offspring Obesity Susceptibility.
• Comparative Effects of Orlistat and PEG-SPIONs on Fasting Glucose, Insulin, and Leptin in Obese Male Mice.
• Obesity-Related Kidney Disease and the Role of Aquaporins: An Overview of Potential Molecular Mechanisms.
• ZRSR1 Protects Against Obesity-Associated Hepatic Lipogenesis Independent of Minor Intron Splicing.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Meta-Analyses of Dietary Exposures Must Consider Energy Adjustment: Recommendations from a Meta-Scientific Review.
• Commentary: Public Health and the Plague of Certainty.

Clinical

• Food Noise as a Missing Piece in Obesity Treatment: Toward an Integrated Intervention Framework.
• RCT: The Effects of Full-Fat and Low-Fat Fermented Dairy Foods on Markers of Cardiometabolic Health in Adults with Overweight or Obesity and Elevated Fasting Triglycerides.
• High Resolution Lipoprotein Subfraction Profiling Identifies Obesity Associated Distributional Changes in LDL and HDL Subfractions and Particle Ratios.
• RCT: The Effect of Reduced Carbohydrate Diet on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Gut Microbiota in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Review: Digital Interventions Preventing Childhood Obesity Among Culturally Diverse Families.
• Applying Artificial Intelligence to Childhood Obesity: T2DM and MASLD Risk Predictive Models.
• Meal Time and Meal Regularity: Is It Associated with Pediatric Obesity?
• Systematic Review: Family Matters? A Systematic Review of Interventions Addressing Family-Level Mechanisms in the Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity.

Surgery

• Association of Age and Gender with the Efficacy of Metabolic Surgery in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Comparison of Preoperative and Postoperative Intraperitoneal Nebulised Ropivacaine in Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass.
• The Value of Adding Obesity Medications After Bariatric Surgery.
• Association of Obesity with Clinical, Physiologic, and Durability Outcomes After Antireflux Surgery in a 2388-Patient Cohort.
• Systematic Review: Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Pathology.

Drugs

• RCT: Elecoglipron, an Oral Small Molecule GLP-1 Receptor Agonist in Adults with Obesity or Overweight (VISTA).
• RCT: Orforglipron for Maintenance of Body Weight Reduction.

Food & Diet

• RCT: High Animal Protein and High Plant Protein Meals Differentially Alter Postprandial Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations but Not Glucose Homeostasis in People with Overweight/Obesity in a Single-Meal Study.
• Choline and Metabolic Health, a Missing Link in a Critical Chain.
• Vegan Diets and Dietary Energy Density a Secondary Analysis of a RCT.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Six- and Twelve-Month Changes in Body Composition and 24-H Energy Expenditure After a Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet.
• Meta-Analysis: Do Ketogenic Diets Produce Greater Weight Loss Than Higher-Carbohydrate Diets Under Comparable Prescribed Energy Conditions?

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Acute Effects of Interrupting Prolonged Sitting with Short Bouts of Physical Activity on Postprandial Metabolism in Sedentary Adults.
• The Combined Associations of Physical Activity and BMI on the Prevalence of Functional Difficulties Among 29,343 Individuals Living with Subjective Cognitive Decline: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Negotiating Body Self-Concept in Iranian Women Living with Obesity: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study.
• Healthcare Cost Impacts of Telehealth-Delivered Nutrition Therapy Among US Adults with Type 2 Diabetes or Obesity: A Matched Difference-In-Differences Analysis.

Epidemiology

• New Obesity Definition and Clinical Obesity Prevalence for Global Metabolic Bariatric Surgery.
• Operational Approach to the Lancet 2025 Obesity Framework in Mexican Adults: Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics.
• The Association between Obesity Class and Cause-Specific Mortality by Age and Sex in US Adults.
• The Weight of Risk: Epidemiological Trends in Mortality Involving Cardiac Arrest and Obesity in the United States (1999-2023).

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Mental Health in Individuals Who Have Undergone Metabolic Bariatric Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis.
• Obesity Is Associated with Greater Variability of Reward Signals in the Nucleus Accumbens.
• Ventral Tegmental Area Sync State Incorporates Gastrointestinal Feedback and Reflects an Active Interoceptive Learning State in Mice.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• Review: Climate Change and Cardiovascular Diseases: Systemic Challenges, Policies, and Management Strategies.
• Perspective: Cardiovascular Risk Prediction in Africa: Why Global Tools Fail and What We Must Do.
• Trends in Publicly Subsidized and Private Access to GLP-1 Medicines Indicated for Type 2 Diabetes in Australia, 2020-2025.
• Preprint: Culturally Adapted Collaborative Care for Asian Americans with Type 2 Diabetes: Cardiometabolic Outcomes, Effect Modification, and Return on Investment.

Stigma

• Commentary: Weight Stigma Internalization in the Medical School Curriculum.
• Review: GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and the Emergence of Treatment-Related Stigma: A Call for Conceptual Clarity.
• Compounding Stigma: An Experimental Study Comparing Perceptions of an Individual Using Ozempic, Bariatric Surgery, or Behavior Modification.

Policy Related

• Review: State-Level Promotion of Plant-Based School Meals in the United States.
• Knowledge and Intake of Sugary Drinks: A Cross-Sectional Study from the International Food Policy Study.
• Reimagining School Meals from a Systems Thinking Perspective: A Case Study of School Meal Supply Chain Collaboration in California.
• SNAP Disruption During a Government Shutdown and Implications for Chronic Disease Self-Management: A Qualitative Study.

Intergenerational Effects

• Parental BMI and Offspring Childhood Body Size and Eating Behaviour.
• The Association of Prenatal Adiposity Characteristics with Early Childhood Overweight and Obesity.

Methods

• Review: Artificial Intelligence, Wearable Technologies, and Virtual Reality in Precision Nutrition and Obesity Management.
• Review: Methodological Standards for Body Composition Assessment - An Expert-Endorsed Guide for Research and Clinical Applications.

Commentary

• Podcast: Are "Everyday Toxins" Really Making You Sick? Dr. Joe Zagorski Separates Fact from Fiction.
• Podcast:  Science VS Weight Cycling.
• Podcast: MOT-C Explained by USC Gerontology Professor Dr. Changhan David Lee.
• Podcast: Creatine Supplementation in Women Across the Lifespan.
• Podcast: You've Got Rhythm - Coffee, Caffeine, and Your Body - Dr. Thomas Merritt.
• Sugar Tax Has Failed to Reverse Obesity.
• Podcast: Resistance Training and Cardiovascular Health in Postmenopausal Women.
• What If Inflammation Is Not Exactly What We Thought?

General

• Genomic Data Describe Population Structure but Struggle to Estimate Directed Connectivity Networks.
• Podcast: "Dismissing pseudoscience is too easy. Understanding why it spreads so quickly is harder. It can teach us why real science works and how to spot the difference between the two."
• Podcast: PHYSICS WORLD - Motivation Is Key to the Public’s Trust in Science, Study Reveals.
• A Cluster Randomized Trial of HEPA Filters Is Strikingly Negative.
• Podcast: 14 Million Deaths or Zero Deaths? The Impact of the USAID Cuts.
• Meeting Report - a National Institute on Aging Workshop on Sex Differences in Health Across the Lifespan.
• Fetal Microchimeric Cells: Today’s Enemies, Tomorrow’s Friends.

Announcements

• NIDDK-Sponsored: Registration for the 18th Annual Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research Course Is Still Open! This Week-Long Course (Oct. 19 - 23) on the Theory and Practice of Stable and Radioactive Isotopic Tracers for the Study of Metabolism in Human, Animal, and Cell Models Will Take Place in Nashville, TN.
• "Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a drug called CS18 that disrupts the ability of cancer cells to survive therapy."

Featured

• Menopausal Duration and Relative Skeletal Muscle Index Predict Metabolic Inflexibility During Walking in Postmenopausal Women with Overweight/Obesity.
• A Central Role for Dietary Sugars in Human Evolution.
• Cannabinoid Modulation of Intestinal and Neuroimmune Dysregulation in Diet-Induced Obesity.
• The Hallmarks of Protein and Amino Acid Restriction in Aging and Longevity.
• Podcast: The New Science of Food Noise and Its Impact on Weight Loss.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Brain Protein May Be Key Link between Obesity, Aging & Memory Loss.
• Study: Announcement About a Funded Grant to Study Obesity and Brain Aging... In Rats. No Study (Yet).

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Adherence to healthful PBDs [Plant-Based Diets] is associated with more favourable health outcomes irrespective of UPF content, suggesting that overall PBD quality may be more important than processing level for chronic disease prevention."
• RCT: "There were no significant between-group differences in microbiome health ranks of significantly changing species (increasing or decreasing)" in “Does a diverse whole-food plant-based dietary intervention improve gut microbiome composition, gut symptoms, energy and hunger in healthy adults?”
• Home-Delivered Diet Meal Service Combined with Dietary Counseling Not Statistically Significantly Better Than Dietary Counseling Alone.
• "Contrary to our initial predictions, our meta-regression models revealed no significant effects of host size (body mass) or temperature on the [Body Condition Index]-infection relationship after accounting for other drivers, such as parasite taxa and types of [Body Condition Index] measures used."
• Mixotrophy: An Updated View of Glucose Pathways in Cyanobacteria: Contrary to Previous Belief, the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis Lacks the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway for Glucose Metabolism.
• "Contrary to expectations, pregnant women without children (n=30) demonstrated greater knowledge about the minimum recommended duration of exclusive breastfeeding (87%) compared to pregnant women who were already mothers (n=22) (59%)."
• RCT: "In this trial, long-term aLA [α-lactalbumin] supplementation did not improve overall menstruation-related symptoms as assessed by the primary outcome."
• RCT: "Full-fat dairy shows benefits without raising body fat or cholesterol."

Basic

• Review: Mechanisms of Obesity-Related Kidney Disease: From Adipose Depot Biology to the Chymase-Aldosterone and Ghrelin-Leptin Axes.
• Nr4a3 Deficiency Disrupts MEK1-ERK1/2-Drp1 Signaling, Driving Adiposity and Glucose Intolerance in Male Mice.
• Attenuation of Diet-Induced Obesity and Impaired Glucose Homeostasis by IL-2/Anti-IL-2 Complex and Hyperbaric Oxygen.
• Duration-Dependent Gut Microbiota Disruption Drives Opposing Effects on Adipose Thermogenesis in Obese Mice.
• Ultrafiltered Mulberry (Morus alba L.) Leaf Albumin-Type Protein Attenuates High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice by Remodeling Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Homeostasis.
• Obestatin and Its Fragment Analog Nt8U Influence Levels of Satiety Peptides in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Authoring and Management of Transparent Research Integrity Assessments of RCT Publications Using LLM-Assisted Tools and Provenance Knowledge Graphs.
• Purified Diets Enable Experimental Rigor Through Compositional Control in Animal Research.

Clinical

• RCT: Intentional Weight Loss Before Endometrial Cancer Surgery to Support Postoperative Recovery.
• Unpacking Adiposity: A Narrative Critical Appraisal of Diverse Obesity Definitions.
• Hypothalamic Syndrome and Acquired Hypothalamic Obesity: From Fragmented Care to Integrated Multidisciplinary Management.
• Lipid Accumulation Product (LAP): A Key Indicator for Metabolic Dysregulation and Inflammatory Status in Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Eating Behavior Latent Profiles and Their Associations with Body Composition in Early Childhood: The CORALS Cohort.
• A Home-Based Progressive-Ratio Task for Assessing Food Reinforcement in Infancy: Developmental Sensitivity at 9 and 12 Months.

Surgery

• Association of Prior Metabolic Surgery with Outcomes After Hospitalization for Acute COPD Exacerbation.
• Experiences and Needs of Self-Health Management Among Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• One-Year Weight Loss and Metabolic Outcomes After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Adolescents Compared with Young Adults.
• Comparison of 90-Day Complications between Direct Anterior and Postero-Lateral Total Hip Arthroplasty in Patients with Obesity.
• Predictivity of Preoperative Weight Loss on Comorbidity Resolution in Bariatric Patients.
• Systematic Review: Efficacy of Bariatric Techniques in the Management of Pediatric and Adolescent Obesity.

Drugs

• Is Mandatory Lifestyle Intervention Before Pharmacological Obesity Management Needed?
• Meta-Analysis: Efficacy and Safety of High-Dose Retatrutide in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Cardiovascular Prevention and the Implementation Gap in GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Therapies: After the Trials.

Food & Diet

• Review: Transitioning Towards Sustainable Diets: Pulses, Their Role in Modulating Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Health.
• Review: Molecular Mechanisms of Food Bioactive Constituents in the Management of Obesity and Hypertension.
• Review: High-Protein Diet: Biochemical Mechanisms, Metabolic Effects and Clinical Implications.
• Fibroblast Growth Factor 21: Possible Role in Growth and Metabolic Development During Early Life, Nutritional Interactions and Biological Actions.
• Vegan Diets and Dietary Energy Density.
• High Animal Protein and High Plant Protein Meals Differentially Alter Postprandial Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations but Not Glucose Homeostasis in People with Overweight/Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Methionine-Supplemented Longevity Diet Increases Growth Hormone, GLP-1, and FGF21; Reduces Frailty; And Promotes Healthspan.
• Reduced Food Availability Amplifies Behavioral Depression and Impairs Locomotor Performance After Immune Challenge in Xenopus laevis.
• Atlas of Lysosomal Aging Reveals a Metabolite Signature Shared with Lysosomal Storage Disorders.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Beyond MVPA Minutes: Physical Activity Phenotypes are Associated with Metabolic Profiles in Children with Obesity.
• RCT: Resistance Training and Its Cessation: Hormonal Responses, Muscle Thickness, Strength, and Muscular Endurance Adaptations to High- and Low-Load Protocols in Male Runners.
• Differential Neuromuscular Adaptations Following Multi-Joint vs Single-Joint Resistance Exercise Training.
• Relationships between Plasma Volume, Fluid Regulatory Hormones, and Maximal Oxygen Uptake Following Fixed-Workload Heat Acclimation in Men and Women.
• Effects of Exercise in a Fed or Fasted State on Mitochondrial Dynamics Regulators in the Skeletal Muscle of Recreationally Active Males.
• Acute Effects of Greek Yogurt Consumption on Bone Status Indices Following High-Intensity Interval Exercise in Premenopausal Females with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighborhood, Race, and Cardiometabolic Health: A Legal Epidemiological Analysis of Greenville County, South Carolina.
• Socioeconomic Position, Genetic Susceptibility, and Epigenetic Profiles in Obesity Across the Life Course.
• Sociodemographic Correlates of BMI Among Adults with Obesity in Urban Lahore.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence, Comorbidities, and Mortality of Obesity Classes 4 and 5 in Adults.
• The Clinical Outcomes of Preclinical and Clinical Obesity Across Multiple Cohorts.
• Trends in Obesity Prevalence During Early Pregnancy in Gran Canaria, Spain, 1993 to 2022.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Antipsychotic-Induced Obesity: A Literature Review of Pathophysiology, Genetics, and Management Strategies.
• Systematic Review: Brain Structural and Functional Changes in Childhood and Adolescent Obesity: A Systematic Review of MRI Studies.
• Meta-Analysis: Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Psychological Distress, Hyperandrogenism, and Metabolic Profile in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Systematic Review: Digital Mental Health Interventions in Obesity Management.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• Global Trends, Projections, and Inequalities in Overweight and Obesity Among Children and Adolescents from 1990 to 2040: A Modelling Study.
• Obesity in Migrant Populations: Epidemiology, Determinants, and Public Health Implications.
• Program and Family Predictors of Retention and Weight Loss Among Black Youth in a Pediatric Weight Management Program.
• Bridging the Gaps: A Critical Review of National Dietary and Lifestyle Guidelines for Pregnant Women in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
• Real-World Experiences with Obesity Medication in the Netherlands: A Mixed Methods Study Among Patients and Professionals.

Ethics

• Reframing GLP-1 Therapies as Cardiometabolic Health Drugs: Beyond the Race to Weight Loss.

Stigma

• Association of Internalised Weight Stigma and Physical Activity of Patients with Diabesity in a Primary Care Clinic in Hong Kong.
• Sleep Quality, Not Sleep Duration, Is Independently Associated with Internalized Weight Bias.
• Systematic Review: Seeing Size: A Systematic Review on Responses to Plus-Size Representation in Contemporary Media.

Policy Related

• Parents’ Reactions to a Social Media Marketing Campaign Promoting Universal School Meals Among Elementary-Aged US Children: A Content Analysis.
• Perspective: Shrinking Appetites: Will GLP-1 Adoption in High-Income Countries Accelerate Big Food’s Push Into Low- and Middle-Income Countries?
• Review: A Practical Perspective on Confronting the Obesity Epidemic: Public-Health Strategies.

Intergenerational Effects

• Review: Unhealthy Diets, Unhealthy Futures: How Modern Eating Patterns Endanger Maternal and Offspring Health.
• Optimizing the Postpartum Period to Support Lifelong Health for Women with Obesity.
• Neuroepigenetic Programming by the Maternal Environment.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Podcast: The Evolutionary Science Behind Why You Can’t Lose Weight and How to Avoid 5 Modern Food Mistakes | Prof Daniel Lieberman.
• The Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on the Behaviour, Physiology, and Life History of the Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Macropus giganteus, with Implications for Kangaroo Management.

Methods

• Lancet Definition vs Other Criteria for Obesity Diagnosis in Adults.
• Genome-Scale Modeling of the Influence of Microbiota-Derived Butyrate on the Regulation of Human Metabolism by the Histone Deacetylase SIRT1.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Uncovering Food Purchase Behaviors and Their Shifts Using Hidden Markov Modeling.

Commentary

• Podcast: How Much Weaker are You When Fasting?
• Podcast: Carbs Vs. Keto: Fueling Optimal Performance with Louise Burke, Ph.D.
• Podcast: How Much Does Cardio Hurt Weightlifting Power? With Emidio Pistilli.
• Podcast: Overrated/Underrated: Fat Loss Edition.
• Could an Ultra-Processed Food for Special Dietary Use Advance Personalized Medicine in Diabetic Nephropathy?
• Without Sugar, We Might Not Exist.
• Expert Reaction to Reports of Numbers of Deaths After Use of Obesity Drugs, as First Reported in the Times.
• Ultraprocessed Foods and Public Policy: The Argument for Use-Case Consideration.

General

• Podcast: "You've probably worried that the glyphosate on your bread is slowly harming you. The evidence points somewhere far less obvious and far more fixable."
• Podcast: AHA Special Edition: Hypertension Part I - Overview and Management.
• Podcast: The Joy of (Y): How Does Touch Lead to Pain or Pleasure?
• Podcast: "The FDA Voted for 6 Peptides. Its Own Scientists Said No."
• Podcast: Debunking Cochrane's 'Nurses Can Replace Hospital Physicians' Study.
• Cell-Specific Y-Box-Binding Protein-1 Drives Liver-Kidney Injury in Cholestasis.
• Sitting All Day Is Terrible for Us. Moving a Little Can Help.

Announcements

• Webinar: When the Provider is the Patient: An Obesity Specialist with Obesity Battles Bias and Stigma, Thomas George, Jr., Mon., August 24, 2026, 1-2 pm ET.
• Virtual Workshop: The planning committee on Community Engaged Research to Improve Diet, Nutrition, and Health will host a two-day, virtual workshop on September 3rd and 4th, 2026, from 11:00AM - 3:30PM ET each day.

Featured

• Scientists Solve Mystery Behind Contradictory Behaviours of New Weight-Loss Drugs.
• Physiological Markers in Females and Males After Multiple Bouts of Caloric Deprivation During Arduous Military Training.
• Pulmonary Cold Sensing Through Club Cells Triggers Adipose Thermogenesis to Ameliorate Obesity.
• Secretary Kennedy Launches the Real Food Show to Inspire Americans to Cook Healthy, Affordable Meals at Home.
• The Central Amygdala Gates Exogenous Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Signals.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Ketogenic Diets May Increase Cancer Risk in the Small Intestine.
• Headline: The Hidden Cancer Risk of Ketogenic Diets.
• Study: One Particular Diet that is Ketogenic (Not Necessarily All Diets That are Ketogenic) Mediates Intestinal Tumorigenesis Through Lipids Not Ketones... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• The Increase in Fat-Free Mass During Weight Loss Does Not Prevent Greater Than Predicted Reductions in Resting Energy Expenditure in Recreational Athletes.
• RCT: Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy with Duodenal Food Challenge Does Not Predict Triggering Food Items in Eosinophilic Esophagitis.
• Acute 1,3-Butanediol Co-Ingestion with Carbohydrate Does Not Improve Endurance Performance in Chronically Ketogenic Male Athletes.
• No Effect of Body Fat on Fat Oxidation Rates in Lean and Overweight Females When Aerobic Fitness Is Controlled and Muscle Mass Is Similar.
• "Contrary to dogma, both [Geniculate Ganglion] and [Trigeminal Ganglion] fibers innervate filiform papillae, extragemmal fungiform regions, and taste buds."
• "A. artaxerxes females, contrary to the preference-performance hypothesis, preferred ovipositing on G. sylvaticum, even though larvae feeding on G. sylvaticum were slightly smaller than those feeding on G. sanguineum."
• "Contrary to the vulnerability-stress hypothesis, self-esteem did not moderate the social media-body concern relationship."
• "Compared with placebo, GLP-1 receptor agonists showed no significant effect on smoking cessation..."

(Im)precision Medicine

• Alas, More Papers Conflating Outcome with Response: Obesity Phenotype Predicts Tirzepatide Super Responders.
• Alas, More Papers Conflating Outcome with Response: Cardiometabolic Effects of Semaglutide in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes in the United Arab Emirates: Real-World 12-Month Outcomes and Predictors of Response.
• Alas, More Papers Conflating Outcome with Response: Decoding the Hallmarks of GLP-1RA Weight-Loss Super-Responders.
• Alas, More Papers Conflating Outcome with Response: Tirzepatide Efficacy and Tolerability According to Early Weight Response: A Post Hoc Analysis of the SURMOUNT-1 and SURMOUNT-2 Trials.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Expert Reaction to Review Paper Looking at Protein Intake and Health and Lifespan in Humans, Rodents and Insects.
• Comment on “The Long-Term Cardiovascular Benefits of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Versus Pharmacological Therapies in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”.

Basic

• Integrated Myocardial and Plasma Lipidome Across the Human Obesity-Heart Failure Spectrum.
• Maternal Obesity in Rats Results in Male-Specific Increases in Genome-Wide DNA Methylation in Postnatal Offspring Liver.
• Fat Depot-Specific Accumulation of Benzo(a)pyrene Metabolites in Rats Fed with Western Diet and Its Implications for Colon Cancer.
• A Cell-Free Browning Strategy: Exosomal MiR-21a-5p from ADSCs Targets PDCD4 to Reshape Adipose Metabolism.
• Transgenic Conversion of Omega-6 to Omega-3 Fatty Acids Via Fat-1 Reduces Obesity-Related Intervertebral Disc Degeneration.
• Pregnancy-Associated Immune Features in COVID-19 Link Fetal Protection to Heightened Maternal Viral Risk.

Clinical

• Cohort Study: Identification of an Obesity Subphenotype with Reduced Intestinal GLP-1 Expression and Heightened Response to Tirzepatide.
• Association of Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity with Early Complications After Surgical Tracheostomy in Critically Ill ICU Patients.
• Effect of Testosterone Addition to Nutrition and Exercise on Muscle Mass in Men with Cirrhosis: The Next Trial.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Family-Centered Child Obesity Treatment.
• Home and Neighborhood Food Environment Measures and Weight-For-Age Z-Scores Among Children Aged 1-5 Years: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Analysis.
• Association of Weight Status and Quality of Life Through Childhood and Adolescence: Australian Longitudinal Cohort Analysis.
• Narrative Review: Current and Forthcoming Pharmacotherapies for Adolescent Obesity.
• Quality Improvement Initiative to Implement a Hybrid Intensive Health Behavior and Lifestyle Treatment Program in Pediatric Primary Care.
• Parent-Adolescent Communication About Physical Activity, Weight, and Emotional Responses in Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity and Asthma.

Surgery

• MicroRNAs and Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery: Biomarkers, Mediators of Metabolic Remission, or Both?
• Cross-Sectional Study: Association between Anthropometric Measures and Abdominal Wall Thickness in Patients with Obesity: A Cross-Sectional CT Study.
• Retrospective Study: Analysis of Risk Factors for Delayed Extubation After Surgical Anesthesia in Patients with Obesity Undergoing Abdominal Laparoscopic Surgery for Gastrointestinal Diseases.
• Prospective Cohort Study: Lipoprotein Quality and Increased Epicardial Fat Volume in Non-Diabetic Normolipidemic Individuals with Obesity Normalize After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Review: Pharmacologic and Non-Pharmacologic Interventions for Hypothalamic Obesity.
• Eating Disorder Risk and Screening in Patients Using GLP-1RAs: Lessons Learned from Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

Food & Diet

• Perspectives on the Protein Recommendations in the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
• Review: The Hallmarks of Protein and Amino Acid Restriction in Aging and Longevity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction and Skin Aging.
• Protocol: Rationale and Design of Traditional and Adaptive Calorie Restriction and Time-Restricted Eating Interventions Used in the Dietary Approaches to Longevity and Health (DiAL Health) Pilot Trial.
• Lifespan-Extending Effects of Prunus mahaleb L. Extracts in a Yeast Model: Comparison with Extreme-Caloric Restriction.
• Is Obesity a Reversible Disorder of Hippocampal Neuroplasticity? A Hypothesis Linking Caloric Restriction to Restoration of Memory Function.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physiological Markers in Females and Males After Multiple Bouts of Caloric Deprivation During Arduous Military Training.
• RCT: Dietary Nitrate Supplementation Reduces Performance Decline During Repeated Sprint Exercise Independent of Sex.
• Meta-analysis: Effects of Caffeine Intake on Swimming Performance.

Economics & Sociology

• Understanding the Association between Neighborhood Type, Built Environment, and Overweight in China: Evidence from Hebei Province.
• Social Determinants of Hypertension and the Role of Obesity Among Adults in India.
• How Low Could Semaglutide Prices Fall? An Analysis of Production Cost and Implications for Global Access.

Epidemiology

• Cross-Sectional Study: Obesity-Related Patterns of Multimorbidity and Their Association with Health-Related Quality of Life in Iranian Adults.
• Cross-Sectional Study: Pathways Linking to Behavioural and Biological Risk Factors on Diabetes and Overweight/Obesity Among Adults in Urban Slums from Western India.
• Retrospective Study: Maternal BMI and Risk of Post-Partum Haemorrhage: A Population-Based Study in Primiparous Women.
• Cohort Study: What Is the Contribution of Maternal BMI to the Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes?
• Hyperandrogenism in Combination with Obesity Associated with Increased Risk of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy After Frozen Embryo Transfer.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Opinion: Body and Mind: How Obesity Triggers Neuropsychiatric and Neurodegenerative Disorders.
• Associations between Weight Status, Peer Victimization, and Mental Health in Clinically Referred Children.
• Postoperative Evolution of the Addictive Pattern in Patients with Obesity Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Exploring the Relationship between Social Media Use, Eating Behaviors, and Depression in Young Women.

Differential Population Circumstances, Exposures, Outcomes, and Effects

• Water Intake Mediates Cross-Sectional Associations between Urinary Kidney Injury Biomarkers and Race in Emerging Adults.
• Prospective Study: Racial Disparity in Immune Response: Prospective Study in Obesity-Associated Lupus Patients.
• GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Primary Care: Readiness, Equity, and the Risk of a Two-Tiered Obesity Treatment Landscape.
• Report: Health and Dietary Disparities in the North of England. (pdf)
• Systematic Review: Geographical Disparities and Temporal Trends of End Stage Kidney Disease Incidence.
• Cross-Sectional Study: Socioeconomic Inequalities in Women's Malnutrition Across 70 Low and Middle-Income Countries.

Stigma

• Rethinking Weight-Centric Models: Advancing Weight-Inclusive Care for Black Women.
• Weight Bias Internalization and Thinness-Oriented Body Dissatisfaction Explain the Link between Experienced Weight Stigma and Thinness-Oriented Disordered Eating.
• Review: School-Focused Interventions for Weight-Based Victimization in Youth.

Policy Related

• Evaluation of Planning Policy to Regulate Takeaway Food Outlets for Improved Health in England: Synopsis.
• Ten-Year Impact of a Summer Meals Collaborative Model: An Innovative Approach to Enhancing the Reach and Efficiency of the Summer Food Service Program.
• When School Meals are No Longer Free: A Qualitative Exploration of Elementary School Teachers’ Experiences and Perceptions.
• The WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity: A Joint WHO/UNICEF Operational Model for Designing and Implementing the Response.
• Systematic Review: One Diet, Many Indices: Heterogeneity in Measuring Adherence to the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet.
• Stakeholder Perspectives on the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Bangladesh: Policy Architecture and Implementation Challenges.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Exercise Is Associated with Enhanced Systolic Reserve and Altered Mitochondrial Respiration in Adult Female Offspring.
• Preprint: Maternal Obesity and Offspring Adiposity Trajectories During Early Childhood.
• Prospective Cohort Study: The Association of Maternal Obesity and Gestational Diabetes During Pregnancy with Offspring Adiposity and Dysmetabolism.
• Maternal Myo-Inositol Supplementation During Lactation in Rats Improves Offspring Metabolic and Cognitive Health and Mitigates Impairments Induced by Maternal and Adult Exposure to an Obesogenic Diet.
• Human Breast Milk as an Early-Life Functional Food: Metabolomic Perspectives on Growth and Stunting.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Targeted Behavioural and Microclimate Data Collection Substantially Improves Biophysical Model Predictions of Energy Expenditure in Wild Birds.
• Dynamics of Resting Metabolic Rate and Innate Immune Response in Malaria-Infected Eurasian Siskins.
• Dissertation: Captivity and Its Implications for Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Nutrition, Physiology, and Cardiovascular Health.
• The Energetic Costs of Escaping Predation in Wild, Schooling White Mullet (Mugil curema).

Methods

• Podcast: Is Ultrasound Lying About Your Gains?
• Evaluating a Large Language Model for Identifying Key Comorbidities in Discharge Summaries of Patients with Obesity: A Comparative Validation Study Against ICD Codes Using MIMIC-IV.
• Microfluidic Chips in Obesity Research: A Review on Natural Products and Invertebrate Models for Obesity Management.
• CD36-Mediated Metabolic Changes in Tbet+CD11c+ B Cell During Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Subgroup-Specific Cardiovascular Associations of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention: A Causal Forest Analysis in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes and Overweight/Obesity.

Commentary

• Time-Restricted Eating Preserves Cognitive Function in Adults.
• Podcast: Did Low-Fat Diets Drive the Obesity Epidemic? | Dr. Arne Astrup & Mike Haney.
• Podcast: Digging Into Food Insecurity with William Nall, Global Food Strategist.
• Protein Restriction Improves Metabolism and Longevity.
• Podcast: BrainStuff Classics: Is Canned Food Really Worse Than Fresh or Frozen?
• Podcast: "If you made everyone give you the raw information of epidemiology papers, I suspect 60%, 70% or 80% would be found to be false, fraudulent or worse, or maybe slightly better, but probably worse. There'll be something really problematic with this data."
• 'We Have No Freaking Clue' What Weight-Loss Drugs are Doing to Your Brain, Warns Cambridge Professor.
• Karl-Anthony Towns, Food Noise, and Why GLP-1 Drugs Quiet the Brain.

General

• New Approach Helps Scientists Uncover Disease-Linked Genes That Traditional Methods Can Miss.
• Rare Contagious Cancer Discovered in Wild Catfish.
• Podcast: Statins - Time to Stop the Worry!
• No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments.
• Is It OK to Eat the Same Things Every Day?
• FDA Expert Panel Backs Compounding of Six Peptides.
• Is Interdisciplinary Science Worth It?
• A Closer Look at Brain Tissue Vulnerability in Neurological Disease.

Video & Audio

• Research on Weight Gain and Obesity.

Announcements

• NIH Selects Dr Courtney Aklin as Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research.
• CME Online: Sept 16-19 2026 - Mental Health and Metabolic Health: The Science and Art of Integrated Care.
• John Speakman, Aberdeen Academic Recognised by Polish Academy of Sciences for Outstanding Contribution to Science.
• Medical Research Council and British Heart Foundation Fund £72 Million Research Institute to Tackle UK Obesity.