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Effects of Exercise and Diet on Health

A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Sports Nutrition".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2025) | Viewed by 738

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Interests: health related fitness (exercise physiology, molecular biology, body composition); health related lifestyle, including nutrition, recreation; dietary habits and health, physical activity/health/diet and age groups
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Dear Colleagues,

In societies, which are changing almost daily, wellbeing, health, and a healthy lifestyle are crucial. Wellbeing is correlated to many positive changes in the economic status of populations, which then lead to an increase in food consumption as well. To counteract the negative effects from increased food consumption, education is more important than ever. How should we lead our lives, what is healthy for consumption, and how much should one exercise? How can we change our lifestyle from a sedentary one into a more physically active one, thus increasing our health? Physical activity and a well-balanced diet are very important health strategies, but they are only effective in a combined, complex manner. Much scientific data have been presented already, but there is a need to collate them, and this Special Issue is one such avenue for this purpose. This issue seeks to increase individuals’ motivation to lead an active, healthy lifestyle, while showing the latest data from interventions and professional programs.

Prof. Dr. Márta Wilhelm
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Keywords

  • physical activity
  • healthy diet
  • metabolism
  • adaptation
  • education

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Eating Attitudes, Body Appreciation, Perfectionism, and the Risk of Exercise Addiction in Physically Active Adults: A Cluster Analysis
by Bettina F. Piko, Tamás L. Berki, Orsolya Kun and David Mellor
Nutrients 2025, 17(13), 2063; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17132063 - 20 Jun 2025
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Background/Objectives: Although regular physical exercise is protective for health, excessive engagement can contribute to the development of addiction. Further, the co-occurrence of exercise addiction (EA) and disordered eating (DE) is very frequent among athletes with several common risk factors. Our study focused [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Although regular physical exercise is protective for health, excessive engagement can contribute to the development of addiction. Further, the co-occurrence of exercise addiction (EA) and disordered eating (DE) is very frequent among athletes with several common risk factors. Our study focused on the associations between exercise addiction, eating attitudes, body appreciation, and perfectionism in a sample of physically active adults. Methods: Using a sample of Hungarian adults who were regular exercisers (n = 205, aged 18–70 years, mean age = 30.59 years; 77.1% females), cluster analysis was applied to identify participants’ profile according to their level of EA, DE attitudes, body appreciation, and dimensions of perfectionism. Results: Healthy exercisers had the second lowest level of EA and highest level of body appreciation, and they were not prone to DE (31.22%). Another cluster had a relatively low risk of EA but were potentially prone to DE, with poor body appreciation and a medium level of socially prescribed and other-oriented perfectionism (29.8%). Third, a group of exercisers was characterized by the highest risk of both EA and DE, who also reported relatively high levels of personal standards and organization (25.36%). Finally, those with the second highest risk of EA with a high tendency for dieting and bulimia and poor body appreciation were prone to socially prescribed and other-related perfectionism (13.66%). Conclusions: Symptoms of exercise addiction are not necessarily pathological, but they can serve as signals for the overuse of sports and undue achievement orientation, particularly when being associated with disordered eating attitudes. Full article
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