2026 June-2 - 200 articles
Background: Obesity is a chronic endocrine–metabolic disorder. The risk of comorbidities increases with a higher body mass index (BMI), particularly when BMI ≥ 35.0 kg/m2. Common complications include insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, dys...
Background/Objectives: Eating disorders (EDs) are among the most severe psychiatric conditions affecting young people, with increasing prevalence in the post-pandemic period. This study assessed the prevalence of ED risk and dysfunctional eating beha...
Background: Chronic pain and early cognitive vulnerability frequently co-occur in older women and may share inflammatory mechanisms. Objective: We examined whether dietary inflammatory load, assessed using the dietary inflammatory index (DII), and Me...
Background/Objectives: Obesity-related insulin resistance is accompanied by chronic low-grade inflammation, but the extent to which weight loss modifies circulating cytokines in a sex-specific manner remains insufficiently understood. The aim of this...
Background: Micronutrient deficiencies and physical inactivity can adversely affect child growth and development. This study assessed the effects of school-based physical activity and multi-micronutrient supplementation on micronutrient status among...
Background/Objectives: Anhedonia, the inability to derive pleasure from typically enjoyable activities, is prevalent in psychiatric and neurological disorders, and is linked to conditions such as obesity and eating disorders. Simultaneously, characte...
Background/Objectives: Linear growth in children reflects cumulative influences of nutrition, health, and skeletal development. Vitamin K2, particularly menaquinone-7 (MK-7), plays an important role in bone mineralization, yet evidence regarding its...
Background/Objectives: Due to the rise in chronic disease in the United States, several policies, guidelines, and programs have focused on promoting healthy eating. This includes those aimed at service members, who may struggle to find nutritious foo...
Background/Objectives: Early enteral nutrition (EN) initiation and progressive EN advancement are critical components of nutritional care in critically ill patients; however, not all patients achieve successful early EN advancement in real-world inte...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition characterized by persistent kidney abnormalities with systemic consequences. Beyond its metabolic and cardiovascular complications, CKD has been associated with structural and functional brain a...
Background: Inter-individual variability in lipid response to dietary interventions complicates cardiometabolic prevention in overweight and obese women. Although several dietary strategies improve lipid profiles on average, predictors of comprehensi...
Background: The transition to university life is characterized by substantial changes in eating behaviors, sleep–wake organization, and lifestyle patterns. Chrononutrition-related behaviors, including meal timing and caloric distribution across...
South Asians appear to be particularly susceptible to diabetes. India hosts 18 percent of the world’s population but more than 25 percent of the world’s diabetics, and individuals of South Asian descent carry this presumed increased risk...
Background/Objectives: Exercise is increasingly recognized as a modulator of host–microbiome interactions, yet its role in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) remains poorly characterized. Methods: In this prospective, single-arm, before-and-after i...
Background/Objectives: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major microvascular complication of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and a leading cause of visual impairment. The relationships among Mediterranean diet adherence, dietary components, DR, and vision-related...
Background and Objectives: The role of diet in the risk and clinical course of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) is an area of ongoing research, in which prospective evidence regarding the degree of food processing is limited. We prospect...
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), as one of the most common metabolic disorders occurring during pregnancy, represents a significant public health concern due to its rising prevalence and the numerous complications that can affect both the mother...
Background/Objectives: This review aimed to provide an updated synthesis of the evidence on the effects(s) of grapes, blueberries, and their constituent bioactives on cardiovascular health. Cardiovascular disease remains one of the most prevalent non...
Background/Objectives: Gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is associated with clinically relevant changes in body composition, energy metabolism, and functional capacity in transgender and gender-diverse individuals. The nutritional implications...
Lipids and lipoproteins are essential for human physiology, functioning not only as structural and energetic components but also as dynamic regulators of metabolic homeostasis and inter-organ communication [...]
Background/Objectives: Malnutrition and diabetes mellitus (DM) have been linked to gut microbial perturbations, yet data are scarce for the aging population, especially in a nursing-home setting. As this group is generally at risk for malnutrition, w...
Background: The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity highlights the need for practical and sustainable dietary strategies for weight management. Although dietary fibre intake is associated with improved satiety and metabolic health, achiev...
This Special Issue on the “Association Between Lipid Metabolism and Obesity” includes studies that focus on lipid metabolic pathways and their relationship with obesity [...]
Background/Objectives: Caffeinated chewing gum is a practical, rapidly absorbed ergogenic aid increasingly used in team sports, yet its interaction with different small-sided soccer game (SSG) formats in young male players remains unclear. This study...
Background/Objectives: Higher energy and carbohydrate intakes have been hypothesized to enhance resistance training adaptations, yet empirical evidence remains mixed. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether supplemental carbohydrate&ndas...
Objectives: We aimed to examine the association between bubble tea consumption and anxiety symptoms among adolescents in Eastern China and to explore the potential role of sleep disturbance in the observed association between bubble tea consumption a...
Background/Objectives: South Korea has experienced a rapid transition from widespread food insecurity and undernutrition to a comprehensive and institutionalized nutrition policy system. This study aimed to examine the historical evolution of Korean...
Background: Exercise training is known to improve metabolic health in individuals with obesity; however, its role in facilitating transitions between metabolically unhealthy obesity (MUO) and metabolically healthy obesity (MHO), as well as the associ...
The gut microbiota is increasingly examined as a therapeutic target because it contributes to epithelial barrier integrity, microbial metabolite production, bile acid transformation, immune regulation, and communication between the gut and distant or...
Dietary fibre (DF) and bioactive compounds (BCs) are essential components of a healthy diet and are abundant in plant-rich dietary patterns. Increasing evidence demonstrates that their combined and synergistic actions significantly influence human he...
Neurodegenerative disorders and epilepsy remain major clinical challenges, due to complex etiologies involving protein misfolding, excitotoxicity, metabolic dysregulation, and impaired cellular resilience. These unmet medical needs have stimulated in...
Background: Prolonged intermittent fasting is associated with metabolic and immune adaptation; however, the extent to which transcriptional immune responses translate into systemic inflammatory changes, and how these processes relate to autophagy, se...
Background/Objectives: More than half of all pregnant women in the United States exceed gestational weight gain (GWG) recommendations, which is associated with negative maternal and child health outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine the rela...
Background/Objectives: Italy is among the countries with the highest life expectancy and extreme longevity worldwide, yet marked regional disparities persist. This nationwide ecological study examined temporal trends in population aging and extreme l...
Background/Objectives: Ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption has been linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) incidence, but its association with glycemic control in individuals already living with T2DM remains less well characterized. We evaluate...
Background/Objectives: Ketogenic diets induce profound metabolic reprogramming; however, their impact on systemic metabolism in patients with hepatic fibrosis remains insufficiently characterized. This study aimed to investigate serum metabolic chang...
Background/Objectives: Childhood obesity is a complex, multifactorial condition that requires comprehensive and sustained interventions. Despite the central role of dietary modification in obesity management, current approaches to dietary counselling...
Background: Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS) is recognized as the most prevalent endocrine disorder among women of reproductive age, with an estimated prevalence of approximately 18% according to current Rotterdam diagnostic criteria....
Sleep and dietary behavior are deeply conserved biological processes that co-evolved under ecological pressures shaping human anatomy, metabolism, immunity, cognition, and life history strategies. Major transitions in human dietary ecology, including...
Background/Objectives: The microbiota–gut–brain axis (MGBA) plays a pivotal role in cognitive function, making psychobiotics a promising strategy for managing neurodegenerative diseases. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from traditional ferment...
Hypertension remains the primary modifiable driver of global cardiovascular morbidity, yet the long-standing paradigm of universal sodium restriction is increasingly challenged by the intricate biological heterogeneity of salt sensitivity. This revie...
Background: Vitamin D (25(OH)D) deficiency affects over one billion people globally and is associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiometabolic diseases. However, causal relationships remain unclear, as vitamin D supplementation has shown limite...
Background: Critical illness leads to profound metabolic, neuroendocrine and immune disorders that affect the prognosis of patients treated in intensive care units (ICUs). The ketogenic diet, a high-fat and low-carbohydrate eating model, is gaining i...
Background/Objectives: Although current research suggests beneficial effects of dietary supplements on female infertility, existing evidence is often inconsistent and of limited certainty. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to investigate...
Background/Objectives Coffee is widely consumed worldwide and is rich in bioactive compounds with potential metabolic benefits. Recently, lipid-enriched coffee formulations have gained popularity; however, their biological effects and underlying mech...
Background: Depressive symptoms are a growing public health concern among aging populations. However, whether the association between vegetable and fruit intake and depressive symptoms varies by central adiposity and sex remains unclear. Objectives:...
Oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) is traditionally managed as a mechanical swallowing impairment. This narrative review proposes a conceptual model that reframes chronic, severe OD as a high-risk clinical condition driving systemic malnutrition and progre...
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Background/Objectives: There has been a growing concern about excessive caffeine consumption among heavy green tea drinkers on health outcomes, such as cardiovascular diseases or cancer. We evaluated the association between green tea consumption and...
Background/Objectives: Body mass index (BMI) does not distinguish fat mass from lean mass. Gallagher et al. proposed percentage body fat (%BF) ranges at NIH/WHO BMI cutoffs, but no study has derived %BF ranges for the full set of Asian-specific BMI c...
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