Nutrition and Exercise Synergy in Non-Communicable Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Sports Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editors
Interests: skeletal muscle; diet; metabolism; sarcopenia; sex-dependent modifications; calorie restriction; resveratrol
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Interests: skeletal muscle fibres; muscle contractility; neuromuscular junction; sarcopenia; exercise; disuse; resveratrol
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent years have shown an increasing interest in maintaining an overall healthy condition, characterized by an improved life-span and health-span. This trend has motivated a large effort to investigate the mechanisms underlying the maintenance of an adequate physical fitness, and the search for measures to improve the quality of life. The most investigated strategies envisage the control of physical exercise and diet, which promote the maintenance of healthy conditions exploiting both common and distinct mechanisms. Regular physical activity has been demonstrated to produce significant physical and mental health benefits, playing a fundamental role in the prevention and management of noncommunicable diseases. In parallel, a balanced diet helps to maintain a healthy condition. Interestingly, recent data stress the presence of a fundamental connection between exercise and nutrition, because several nutrients (see antioxidants, supplements and others) exploit some common pathways with physical exercise. However, one strategy cannot completely replace the other, but instead they can exert synergistic effects resulting in a more powerful impact on health.
The present Special Issue aims to collect reviews, regular research papers and short communications, providing novel insights on the synergy of nutrition and exercise in human or animal studies that have relevance to human health.
Dr. Emiliana Giacomello
Dr. Luana Toniolo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- exercise
- diet
- life-span
- health-span
- metabolism
- aging
- sex-dependent modifications
- calorie restriction
- skeletal muscle
- exercise mimetics
- calorie restriction mimetics
- exercise protocols
- myofiber metabolism
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