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The Effect of Diet and Physical Activity on the Weight Management

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2023) | Viewed by 3929

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Ailing Liu

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National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China
Interests: eating behavior; physical activity; obesity control and prevention

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Weight is the main indicator for the nutrition and health status. Underweight and overweight are two types of malnutrition which can both increase health risks and have a significant economic impact on global healthcare systems. Diet and physical activity are the main determinants of weight status. Although a lot of previous studies have explored the role of diet and physical activity in weight management, we still need a valid and feasible approach to address the challenge in different periods of life or different physiological statuses, as well as a novel approach for assessing diet and physical activity.

Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to focus on diet and/or physical activity in weight management. If you have conducted interesting research on children, adults, elderly, pregnant women, or patients, we encourage you to share your findings in this Nutrients Special Issue on “The Effect of Diet and Physical Activity on Weight Management”.

Original research articles, as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses, are welcome.

Dr. Ailing Liu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • dietary pattern
  • eating behavior
  • physical activity
  • weight
  • BMI
  • underweight
  • obesity

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Early-Adulthood Weight Change and Later Physical Activity in Relation to Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality: NHANES 1999–2014
by Xinyu Xiao, Chengyao Tang, Xiaobing Zhai, Shiyang Li, Wenzhi Ma, Keyang Liu, Shirai Kokoro, Haytham A. Sheerah, Huiping Zhu and Jinhong Cao
Nutrients 2022, 14(23), 4974; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14234974 - 23 Nov 2022
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Limited evidence investigated the combined influence of early-adulthood weight change and later physical activity on the risk of cardiovascular (CVD) and all-cause mortality. The aim of this study is to explore the associations of early-adulthood weight change and later physical activity with CVD [...] Read more.
Limited evidence investigated the combined influence of early-adulthood weight change and later physical activity on the risk of cardiovascular (CVD) and all-cause mortality. The aim of this study is to explore the associations of early-adulthood weight change and later physical activity with CVD and all-cause mortality. This is a cohort study of 23,193 US adults aged 40 to 85 years from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999 to 2014. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of CVD and all-cause mortality associated with early-adulthood weight change and later physical activity. During a median follow-up of 9.2 years, there were 533 and 2734 cases of CVD and all-cause deaths. Compared with being physically inactive, the HRs of the CVD mortality of being physically active were 0.44 (0.26 to 0.73), 0.58 (0.19 to 1.82), 0.38 (0.17 to 0.86) and 0.46 (0.21 to 1.02) among individuals with stable normal, stable obese, non-obese to obese and maximum overweight early-adulthood weight change patterns. Using stable normal patterns that were physically active later as the reference, other early-adulthood weight change patterns did not show a significantly higher risk of CVD mortality when participants were physically active in later life; later physically inactive participants had a significantly increased risk of CVD mortality, with HRs of 2.17 (1.30 to 3.63), 5.32 (2.51 to 11.28), 2.59 (1.29 to 5.18) and 2.63 (1.32 to 5.26) in the stable normal, stable obese, non-obese to obese and maximum overweight groups, respectively. Similar results can be seen in the analyses for all-cause mortality. Our findings suggest that inadequate physical activity worsens the negative impact of unhealthy early-adulthood weight change patterns, which is worthy of being noted in the improvement of public health. Full article
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Low Dietary Diversity for Recommended Food Groups Increases the Risk of Obesity among Children: Evidence from a Chinese Longitudinal Study
by Haiquan Xu, Songming Du, Ailing Liu, Qian Zhang and Guansheng Ma
Nutrients 2022, 14(19), 4068; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14194068 - 30 Sep 2022
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The association between dietary diversity and childhood obesity remains unclear; therefore, this longitudinal study was conducted to analyze the effect of dietary diversity on childhood obesity. One year after the first investigation, a follow-up was completed in 2010. A total of 4538 participants [...] Read more.
The association between dietary diversity and childhood obesity remains unclear; therefore, this longitudinal study was conducted to analyze the effect of dietary diversity on childhood obesity. One year after the first investigation, a follow-up was completed in 2010. A total of 4538 participants were included for analysis. Dietary diversity scores were calculated based on the consumption of nine recommended food groups which were categorized in accordance with the 2013 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization guidelines. After a one-year follow-up, the low-score group underwent a significantly more considerable change in weight, body mass index, and body fat percentage than the high-score group (4.62 vs. 4.06 kg, 0.76 vs. 0.51 kg/m2, and 1.99% vs. 1.13%, respectively). Furthermore, in the low-score group, the odds ratios for overweight, obese, and overweight and obese were 1.76 (95% CI: 1.17, 2.65), 0.99 (95% CI: 0.67, 1.46), and 1.35 (95% CI: 1.01, 1.81), and the relative risks were 1.81 (95% CI: 1.03, 3.19), 2.31 (95% CI: 0.81, 6.59), and 1.98 (95% CI: 1.20,3.28), respectively. Low dietary diversity for the recommended food groups was associated with a high weight, high body mass index, and high body fat, which was associated with an increased risk of being overweight or obese in Chinese children. Full article
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