Determinants of Human Weight: Studying the Role of Nutrition and Physical Activity Without Undue Commercial Biases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Obesity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2025 | Viewed by 82
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The obesity pandemic remains one of the most important public health issues in this century. Nowadays, there is a very high prevalence of either overweight and obesity in both sexes, in different age groups, and in most geographical areas in the world. Although controversies about the main drivers of the obesity pandemic may reflect genuine scientific uncertainty, today it is well established that previous opposite views about risk factors of obesity were shaped by undisclosed conflicts of interest. In fact, today there is strong experimental evidence in humans that unhealthy diets are the main driver of rapid body weight changes, and therefore, too much emphasis on physical activity as the most influential obesogenic factor is biased by commercial reasons supported by the ultra-processed food and beverage industry.
Nonetheless, commercial actors are still generating doubts about the causes of obesity among the public and the scientific community in order to maintain their profitable industries. In this Special Issue, we call for original or review articles where authors may provide evidence (in their thematic analyses) of current commercial influences on nutritional research that are biasing the scientific literature of the causes of obesity.
Dr. Rey-Lopez Juan Pablo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- commercial determinants of health
- bias
- obesity
- exercise
- energy balance
- ultra-processed food
- body weight
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