Nutritional Management of Adults with Obesity
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Endocrinology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 486
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutrition; human nutrition; nutrition assessment; nutritional and metabolic diseases; obesity; cancer nutrition
Interests: obesity; body composition; anthropometry; human nutrition; clinical nutrition; cancer nutrition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past, obesity did not have a specific and unanimous definition. For a long time, it was considered a condition and not a real pathology. Many things have changed in the last decade, as obesity has finally been recognized as a real pathology. Obesity is now defined as a heterogeneous, complex, multifactorial, genetically predetermined, progressive, and relapsing chronic disease caused by an abnormal or excessive deposit and accumulation of body fat, in relation to lean mass to such an extent that it adversely affects the state of health, with significant medical, psychological, and social consequences. Epidemiological and clinical evidence has shown that obesity is a condition that can promote (or exacerbate) the onset of various complications and/or disabilities and increase the risk of premature mortality for cardiovascular diseases and all causes.
Since 1975, the WHO has noted a worrying increase in the prevalence of obesity in all countries of the world. In 1997, the WHO issued a warning, stating that obesity could take on the connotations of a global epidemic (Globesity). According to the latest data from the WHO, in 2022, 43% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight, and 16% were living with obesity.
Clinical obesity management is quite complex. A multidimensional approach should ideally be adopted that involves a combination of various therapeutic approaches, including lifestyle modification, dietary intervention, the promotion of physical activity and exercise, behavioral modifications, pharmacotherapy, and bariatric procedures (nonsurgical and/or surgical procedures). Dietary intervention has always been one of the fundamental pillars of obesity treatment.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to discuss matters associated with obesity and its management, with a particular focus on the nutritional management of adults with obesity.
The scope of this Special Issue is deliberately broad to encourage the coverage of a wide range of topics and perspectives related to the nutritional management of adults with obesity. Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of a wide range of original research and review articles focusing on the nutritional management of adults with obesity.
We would like to invite you to submit papers thematically connected to the scope of this Special Issue.
Dr. Alessandro Laviano
Guest Editor
Dr. Salvatore Vaccaro
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- obesity
- metabolic phenotype of obesity
- nutritional management
- nutritional intervention
- nutritional educational program
- precision nutrition
- food compounds
- dietary patterns
- medical nutrition therapy (MNT)
- lifestyle intervention
- physical activity program
- traditional and innovative diets
- therapeutic innovations
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