Changes in Diet, Physical Activity, and Anthropometric Parameters During Aging: What to Focus On?
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Geriatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 8 December 2025 | Viewed by 153
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aging; gerontology; physical activity; old adults; lifestyle; nutrition; sarcopenia
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aging is a natural process driven by unmodifiable (i.e., genetics) and modifiable (i.e., diet, physical activity, smoking) factors. In this context, eating, physical activity and nutritional characteristics play an important role in the prevention of age-related diseases and disabling conditions. Eating is an important habit related to several demographic, social, economic, psychological and health conditions, whereas physical activity is also highly impacted by environmental aspects and public policies. Nutritional status, body composition, fat distribution, and anthropometric measurements, in general, are strongly influenced by both diet and physical activity. Older adults have their food and physical activity habits influenced by conditions inherent to aging such as dysphagia, xerostomia, edentulism, use of multiple medicines, multimorbidity, physical disability for basic or instrumental activities of daily living and several others, which in turn are related to nutritional and body composition modifications during the aging process. Thus, this Special Issue of Nutrients is dedicated to focusing on how these different parameters impact health during aging and on the understanding of the influence of different conditions on their age-related changes.
Prof. Dr. Renata Moraes Bielemann
Prof. Dr. Eleonora D'Orsi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- physical activity
- diet
- nutrition
- body composition
- older adults
- aging
- anthropometric parameters
- sarcopenia
- malnutrition
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