Exercise and Obesity Beyond Caloric Expenditure: Insights from Clinical and Tactical Populations
A special issue of Obesities (ISSN 2673-4168).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2026 | Viewed by 70
Special Issue Editors
Interests: obesities; physical exercise; military performance and health; law enforcement; tactical athletes; nutrition; physical exercise program; protein metabolism; health promotion
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Interests: insulin resistance; adipose tissue metabolism; cell signaling; mitochondrial function; dietary supplements; physical exercise
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Interests: physical therapy; rehabilitation; nutrition; nutritional supplements; cancer; physical exercise training; human performance
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Interests: obesity; maternal obesity; developmental programming; insulin resistance; physical exercise and health; nutrition physiology; protein metabolism; insulin signaling
Interests: cardiovascular disease; cancer; exercise; skeletal muscle; stem cells; non-coding RNAs; angiogenesis; redox signaling
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Interests: exercise training; cardiac hyperprophy; skeletal muscle metabolism; cardiovascular disease; cardio-oncology; non-coding RNAs and epigenetics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Physical exercise is an essential tool for the prevention and management of obesity and its associated comorbidities. Although it is traditionally linked to caloric expenditure, recent studies have shown that obesity’s effects go far beyond energy balance, involving inflammatory, metabolic, epigenetic, and behavioral adaptations.
In tactical populations, such as police officers, military personnel, and firefighters, who face high physical and psychological demands and often present with excess weight and metabolic disorders, physical exercise plays an even more complex role.
This Special Issue aims to bring together research exploring the effects of physical exercise in individuals with overweight or obesity, with a particular emphasis on clinical and tactical populations. We welcome original studies (clinical, experimental, or observational), review articles, and investigations involving human subjects or animal models that address physiological, metabolic, molecular, and lifestyle-related mechanisms from interdisciplinary or translational perspectives.
Dr. Diego Ribeiro De Souza
Dr. Sandro Massao Hirabara
Dr. Gabriel Nasri Marzuca Nassr
Dr. Diogo Antonio Alves De Vasconcelos
Dr. Tiago Fernandes
Dr. Filip Kukić
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- overweight
- law enforcement
- inflammation
- metabolic and epigenetic adaptations
- appetite control
- body composition
- mitochondrial function
- metabolic syndrome
- cardiometabolic health
- physical performance
- occupational health
- nutrition
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