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A Comment on Scherr et al "A Multicomponent, School-Based Intervention, the Shaping Healthy Choices Program, Improves Nutrition-Related Outcomes".

scientific article published in March 2018

Addendum: hypercaloric diets with high meal frequency, but not increased meal size, increase intrahepatic triglycerides: A randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

An Unjustified Conclusion from Self-report-based Estimates of Energy Intake

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Analysis of the time and workers needed to conduct systematic reviews of medical interventions using data from the PROSPERO registry

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Belief beyond the evidence: using the proposed effect of breakfast on obesity to show 2 practices that distort scientific evidence

scientific article

Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: designing, analyzing, and reporting cluster randomized controlled trials.

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Calculation and data errors require correcting. Comment on "The effect of green coffee extract supplementation on anthropometric measures in adults: A comprehensive systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials"

scientific article published on 16 February 2021

Change in study randomization allocation needs to be included in statistical analysis: comment on 'Randomized controlled trial of weight loss versus usual care on telomere length in women with breast cancer: the lifestyle, exercise, and nutrition (L

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Childhood obesity intervention studies: A narrative review and guide for investigators, authors, editors, reviewers, journalists, and readers to guard against exaggerated effectiveness claims

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Comment on "Intervention Effects of a School-Based Health Promotion Programme on Obesity Related Behavioural Outcomes".

scientific article published on 25 May 2015

Comment on "School-Based Obesity Prevention Intervention in Chilean Children: Effective in Controlling, but not Reducing Obesity".

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Common scientific and statistical errors in obesity research.

scientific article published on April 2016

Communication of randomized controlled trial results must match the study focus

scientific article published on May 2015

Comparisons of Within-Group Instead of Between-Group Affect the Conclusions. Comment on: "Changes in Weight and Substrate Oxidation in Overweight Adults Following Isomaltulose Intake during a 12-Week Weight Loss Intervention: A Randomized, Double-Bl

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Concerning Sichieri R, Cunha DB: Obes Facts 2014;7:221–232. The Assertion that Controlling for Baseline (Pre-Randomization) Covariates in Randomized Controlled Trials Leads to Bias is False

scientific article published on January 2015

Conditioning on "study" is essential for valid inference when combining individual data from multiple randomized controlled trials: a comment on Reesor et al's School-based weight management program curbs summer weight gain among low-income Hispanic

scientific article published on 03 May 2019

Contrary to the Conclusions Stated in the Paper, Only Dry Fat-Free Mass Was Different between Groups upon Reanalysis. Comment on: "Intermittent Energy Restriction Attenuates the Loss of Fat-Free Mass in Resistance Trained Individuals. A Randomized C

publication published on 20 November 2020

Diet-Induced Alterations of Host Cholesterol Metabolism Are Likely To Affect the Gut Microbiota Composition in Hamsters

scientific article published on November 2, 2012

Diets high in conjugated linoleic acid from pasture-fed cattle did not alter markers of health in young women

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Differences in Nominal Significance (DINS) Error leads to invalid conclusions: Letter regarding, "Diet enriched with fresh coconut decreases blood glucose levels and body weight in normal adults"

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Does exclusion of extreme reporters of energy intake (the "Goldberg cutoffs") reliably reduce or eliminate bias in nutrition studies? Analysis with illustrative associations of energy intake with health outcomes

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Does host cholesterol metabolism impact the gut microbiota and why does it matter?

scientific article published in May 2013

Double sampling with multiple imputation to answer large sample meta-research questions: introduction and illustration by evaluating adherence to two simple CONSORT guidelines.

scientific article published on 9 March 2015

Dropout rates of in-person psychosocial substance use disorder treatments: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Endocannabinoids, metabolic regulation, and the role of diet.

scientific article published on October 2008

Errors in the implementation, analysis, and reporting of randomization within obesity and nutrition research: a guide to their avoidance

publication published on 29 July 2021

High Intensity Interval- vs Moderate Intensity- Training for Improving Cardiometabolic Health in Overweight or Obese Males: A Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Improving open and rigorous science: ten key future research opportunities related to rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in scientific research

publication published on 14 October 2020

Incorrect analyses were used in "Different enteral nutrition formulas have no effect on glucose homeostasis but on diet-induced thermogenesis in critically ill medical patients: a randomized controlled trial" and corrected analyses are requested

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Increased fruit and vegetable intake has no discernible effect on weight loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Issues with data and analyses: Errors, underlying themes, and potential solutions

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Letter to the Editor And response Letter to the Editor and Author Response of Assessment of a Health Promotion Model on Obese Turkish Children. The Journal of Nursing Research, 25(6), 436-446

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Linear Extrapolation Results in Erroneous Overestimation of Plausible Stressor-Related Yearly Weight Changes

scientific article published on 8 December 2014

Murine genetic models of obesity: type I error rates and the power of commonly used analyses as assessed by plasmode-based simulation

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Myths, presumptions, and facts about obesity

scientific article

Nutritional epidemiology in practice: learning from data or promulgating beliefs?

scientific article published on 5 December 2012

Order of magnitude misestimation of weight effects of children's meal policy proposals

scientific article published on December 2014

Overstated Claims of Efficacy and Safety. Comment On: "Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections". Nutrients 2020, 12, 1181

scientific article published on 03 September 2020

Phytosterol ester constituents affect micellar cholesterol solubility in model bile

scientific article published on 13 August 2010

Plant sterol and stanol substrate specificity of pancreatic cholesterol esterase.

scientific article published on 16 July 2009

Randomization to randomization probability: Estimating treatment effects under actual conditions of use

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

Re: "Annurca Apple Nutraceutical Formulation Enhances Keratin Expression in a Human Model of Skin and Promotes Hair Growth and Tropism in a Randomized Clinical Trial" by Tenore et al. (J Med Food 2018;21:90-103)

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Reducing Calories to Lose Weight

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Reply to RA Mekary and E Giovannucci

scientific article published in January 2014

Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors.

scientific article published on February 2016

Science dialogue mapping of knowledge and knowledge gaps related to the effects of dairy intake on human cardiovascular health and disease

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Short-term consumption of sucralose, a nonnutritive sweetener, is similar to water with regard to select markers of hunger signaling and short-term glucose homeostasis in women

scientific article published in December 2011

Spin in the abstract in "Impact of motivational interviewing on outcomes of an adolescent obesity treatment: Results from the MI Values randomized controlled pilot trial"

scientific article published on 04 August 2019

The Implementation of Randomization Requires Corrected Analyses. Comment on “Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder—A Randomized, Controlled 12-Month Trial, Nutrients Nutrients 2018, 10, 369”

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

The importance of prediction model validation and assessment in obesity and nutrition research.

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

The stated conclusions are contradicted by the data, based on inappropriate statistics, and should be corrected: comment on ‘intervention for childhood obesity based on parents only or parents and child compared with follow-up alone’

scientific article published on 09 August 2018

Toward fulfilling the aspirational goal of science as self-correcting: A call for editorial courage and diligence for error correction

scientific article published on 18 January 2020

Traffic Light Diets for Childhood Obesity: Disambiguation of Terms and Critical Review of Application, Food Categorization, and Strength of Evidence

publication published on 19 January 2022

Unintended consequences of obesity-targeted health policy

scientific article published in April 2013

Unscientific beliefs about scientific topics in nutrition

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Using crowdsourcing to evaluate published scientific literature: methods and example

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We Agree That Self-Reported Energy Intake Should Not Be Used as a Basis for Conclusions about Energy Intake in Scientific Research

scientific article published on May 2016

Weighing the Evidence of Common Beliefs in Obesity Research

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