Overweight and Exercise Nutrition

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will focus on research in exercise nutrition, with particular emphasis on body composition and/or performance with an eye to rehabilitation. This Special Issue aims to attract papers that address the roles of physical activity/exercise and nutrition in preventing excess visceral fat accumulation and consequent inflammaging in current social conditions characterized by a sedentary lifestyle, especially after the lockdowns experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The extensive range of topics addressed by this Special Issue includes body composition, human performance, dietary habits, functional food, supplements, and best practice in obesity management. It also encompasses the pathophysiology of overweight and any spontaneously occurring or experimental conditions increasing the risk of visceral fat accumulation like physical inactivity or muscle unloading (e.g., microgravity and other extreme environments involving isolation/confinement), and rehabilitation intended in a broad sense (i.e., psychological, cognitive-behavioral, and physical countermeasures). Further suggested topics are the abovementioned ones when dealt with in their relation to age (pediatric obesity, obesity of adults and older adults, age-related sarcopenic obesity, etc.). Authors are invited to submit original research papers, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews.

Dr. Felix Strollo
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

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• obesity
• visceral adiposity
• physical activity
• exercise
• nutrition
• functional food
• supplement
• bioenergetics
• microgravity, chronic diseases
• inflammaging
• rehabilitation