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Personalized Nutritional Approaches for Weight Management

A Special Issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643) belonging to the section "Nutrition and Obesity".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2026) | Viewed by 719

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Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI 54601, USA
Interests: obesity and inflammation; insulin signaling; fat metabolism; dietary interventions; inflammation and hormones
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Nutrients, titled “Personalized Nutritional Approaches for Weight Management”, highlights cutting-edge research and reviews focused on evidence-based dietary strategies to prevent and treat overweight and obesity. It emphasizes the impact of optimized nutritional patterns—including tailored macronutrient distributions, personalized dietary interventions, and medical nutrition therapy—on successful weight loss and long-term weight control. Contributions explore how different dietary compositions, nutrigenomic insights, and behavioral and individual factors can influence energy balance, metabolic health, and weight maintenance efforts. This issue also considers personalized nutrition approaches that account for age, sex, and metabolic differences, alongside broader nutritional strategies to improve adherence and the sustainability of weight management plans. By gathering original research and comprehensive reviews, this collection aims to deepen the understanding of how nutrition can be strategically used to support effective weight control, reduce obesity-related metabolic risk, and inform practical clinical and public health recommendations.

Dr. Maria Morgan-Bathke
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Keywords

  • weight management
  • weight loss interventions
  • dietary patterns
  • macronutrient composition
  • energy balance
  • personalized nutrition
  • metabolic health
  • body composition
  • appetite regulation
  • satiety and hunger control
  • behavioral nutrition
  • lifestyle interventions
  • long-term weight maintenance
  • diet adherence
  • cardiometabolic risk

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Is Nutritional–Behavioral Intervention Effective in the Fight Against Obesity?
by Agnieszka Momora, Izabela Sałacińska, Andrea Sollárová and Paweł Więch
Nutrients 2026, 18(17), 2814; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu18172814 - 27 Aug 2026
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Background/Objectives: Obesity is a complex systemic condition driven by interactions between biological mechanisms and environmental factors. This retrospective, uncontrolled, completer study aimed to evaluate changes in body composition and long-term weight maintenance, as well as the impact of comorbidities, in adult patients undergoing [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Obesity is a complex systemic condition driven by interactions between biological mechanisms and environmental factors. This retrospective, uncontrolled, completer study aimed to evaluate changes in body composition and long-term weight maintenance, as well as the impact of comorbidities, in adult patients undergoing personalised dietary and behavioural interventions. Methods: A retrospective analysis of outpatient medical records (2018–2024) was conducted. Of the 1416 patients analysed, 267 overweight or obese adults completed the active treatment phase and a one-year post-intervention follow-up period. The primary endpoints were absolute changes in body weight, BMI, and body fat mass (BFM), as measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), as well as the maintenance of ≥10% weight loss after one year. The intervention consisted of a personalised diet based on a food-exchange system, combined with psychodietetic support. Results: Participants achieved a mean weight loss of 10.45 ± 7.56 kg, which was associated with significant decreases in BMI and BFM. The average loss of fat-free mass and skeletal muscle mass was 1.72 ± 2.20 kg and 1.11 ± 1.36 kg, respectively. Weight maintenance, defined as maintaining a weight loss of at least 10% of baseline body weight after a one-year follow-up period, was achieved by 23.2% of participants who completed the study. Conclusions: Participants experienced significant reductions in body weight and body fat while preserving lean body mass to a moderate extent. However, long-term maintenance of weight loss was achieved by less than a quarter of participants after one year, highlighting the ongoing challenge of weight regain. Full article
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