Food–Gut–Brain: Control of Appetite and Weight Management
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2025) | Viewed by 2130
Special Issue Editor
Interests: dietary and nutrition; ultra-processed food; high fat and high sugar diet; intestine-brain axis; intestinal barrier; intestine selective permeability; gut microbiota; molecular mechanisms controlling food intake; hormones, neuropeptides, and neurotransmitters involved in the regulation of food intake; weight management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The worldwide prevalence of individuals with obesity has doubled since 1990. In 2022, it was estimated that there were more than 1 billion people in the world who had obesity. Body fat accumulation is associated with higher mortality rates and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) development.
However, all strategies available to prevent and treat obesity, including pharmacological, surgical, dietary, and behavioral interventions, have limited efficacy.
The relevance of bidirectional interactions between the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract is now recognized as a crucial mechanism to control energy homeostasis and the core of the pathophysiology of obesity and T2DM and other cardiometabolic diseases involving low-grade inflammatory components.
Thus, in this Special Issue, we aim to accept papers and review papers that shed light on relevant mechanisms by which diets and different kinds of foods affect the gut–brain axis, intestine hormones such as, but not limited to, glucagon-1-derived peptide (GLP-1), glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), and peptide YY (PYY), reflecting the management of appetite and body weight.
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are recognized drivers of the overweight and obesity epidemic, which increases the risk of morbidity and mortality. We are also interested in receiving manuscripts that approach the effects of UPFs on the gut–brain axis, gut microbiota, appetite, and weight management.
Dr. Patricia Oliveira Prada
Guest Editor
Kênia Moreno de Oliveira
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- gut–brain axis
- appetite
- weight management
- obesity
- nervous system
- gastrointestinal tract
- energy homeostasis
- intestine hormones
- ultra-processed foods
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