Nutrition

Time to Eat - A Personalized Circadian Eating Schedule Leads to Weight Loss Without Imposing Calorie Restriction: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

1. Isabell Wilming
2. Jana Tuschewski
3. Jessie M Osterhaus
4. Theresa JG Bringmann
5. Anisja Hühne-Landgraf
6. Dominic Landgraf

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  eLife Assessment

  This study investigates a dietary intervention that employs a smartphone app to promote meal regularity, findings that have theoretical or practical implications for a subfield and may be clinically useful. The intervention to entice participants to adhere to specific meal times represents a restrictive diet (even though it does not ask to limit caloric intake) similar to a time-restricted feeding diet, while the control subjects are not experiencing or adhering to dietary restrictions. The authors report significant weight loss but did not rigorously assess caloric intake which remains a weakness of this study as food diaries are notoriously unreliable. While the concept is very interesting, the study is considered incomplete, and the rigor of the results should be strengthened in follow-up studies to add more stringent methods to assess caloric intake. Additionally, the study hypothesizes that the intervention resets the circadian clock. However, the study needs an objective method for assessing circadian rhythms, such as actigraphy, in addition to a subjective questionnaire.

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Serum metabolome indicators of early childhood development in the Brazilian National Survey on Child Nutrition (ENANI-2019)

1. Marina Padilha
2. Victor Nahuel Keller
3. Paula Normando
4. Raquel M Schincaglia
5. Nathalia C Freitas-Costa
6. Samary SR Freire
7. Felipe M Delpino
8. Inês RR de Castro
9. Elisa MA Lacerda
10. Dayana R Farias
11. Zachary Kroezen
12. Meera Shanmuganathan
13. Philip Britz-Mckibbin
14. Gilberto Kac

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  eLife Assessment

  This important work advances our understanding of factors influencing early childhood development. The large sample size and methodology applied make the findings of this study convincing; however, support for some of the claims made by the authors is incomplete. The work will be of interest to researchers in developmental science and early childhood pediatrics.

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Oxidative Status of Ultra-Processed Foods in the Western Diet

1. Lisaura Maldonado-Pereira
2. Carlo Barnaba
3. Ilce Gabriela Medina-Meza

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Effect of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on nutrition, health and lifestyle patterns among adults in Zimbabwe

1. Tonderayi Mathew Matsungo
2. Prosper Chopera

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Self-reported food choices before and during COVID-19 lockdown

1. E. Siobhan Mitchell
2. Qiuchen Yang
3. Heather Behr
4. Laura Deluca
5. Paul Schaffer

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Predictors of households at risk for food insecurity in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

1. Brianna N Lauren
2. Elisabeth R Silver
3. Adam S Faye
4. Alexandra M Rogers
5. Jennifer A Woo-Baidal
6. Elissa M Ozanne
7. Chin Hur

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Self-reported Changes in Energy Balance Behaviors during COVID-19-related Home Confinement: A Cross-sectional Study

1. Surabhi Bhutani
2. Jamie A. Cooper
3. Michelle R. vanDellen

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Implications of the reverse associations between obesity prevalence and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases and related deaths in the United States

1. Ning Zhang
2. Lorraine S. Cordeiro
3. Zhenhua Liu

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Diet and physical activity during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown (March–May 2020): results from the French NutriNet-Santé cohort study

1. Mélanie Deschasaux-Tanguy
2. Nathalie Druesne-Pecollo
3. Younes Esseddik
4. Fabien Szabo de Edelenyi
5. Benjamin Allès
6. Valentina A Andreeva
7. Julia Baudry
8. Hélène Charreire
9. Valérie Deschamps
10. Manon Egnell
11. Leopold K Fezeu
12. Pilar Galan
13. Chantal Julia
14. Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot
15. Paule Latino-Martel
16. Jean-Michel Oppert
17. Sandrine Péneau
18. Charlotte Verdot
19. Serge Hercberg
20. Mathilde Touvier

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The Impact of Isolation Measures Due to COVID-19 on Energy Intake and Physical Activity Levels in Australian University Students

1. Linda A. Gallo
2. Tania F. Gallo
3. Sophia L. Young
4. Karen M. Moritz
5. Lisa K. Akison

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