Metabolic Pathways of Nutrition Intake in Obese Children
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 April 2025 | Viewed by 1568
Special Issue Editors
Interests: children and adolescents; nutrition; obesity; physical activity; public health
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Interests: nutrition; epidemiology; obesity; diet; children
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Interests: health promotion; physical activity; public health; nutrition; obesity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Childhood obesity has become a worldwide epidemic in both the developed and developing world. Increased body mass index (BMI) and childhood obesity have significant long-term consequences, including an increased risk of developing chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), as well as impaired mental health, social, and economic outcomes. Elucidating the mechanisms of development of childhood obesity at the molecular level may contribute to identifying potential targeted intervention approaches to prevent childhood obesity and clarify the links between obesity and metabolic disease. Many dietary patterns are implicated in the pathway to childhood obesity, either as protective ones, such as the Mediterranean diet pattern, or as harmful ones, such as the Western-type diet pattern. Finally, nutrient intake in the context of childhood obesity could be impaired due to unhealthy eating patterns, and specific nutrients could be lacking in the diets of overweight or obese children. This could result in nutrient deficiencies that could have a harmful effect on their health.
Nutrition is a key part of the imbalance in energy intake and energy expenditure that, through complicated and poorly understood pathways, results in obesity. Metabolic pathways are highly coordinated and regulated to meet the body’s energy requirements throughout the day and night, and they provide molecules required for tissue growth and maintenance. When nutrients are plentiful, anabolic processes build up stores (glycogen and fats) which can be used catabolically to generate energy when nutrients are scarce. High-energy molecules generated by the oxidation of nutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, and fats) are used as an energy source for processes such as active transport and muscle contraction. The aim of this Special Issue of Metabolites is to highlight new insights into the complex role that nutrition plays in the etiology of childhood obesity.
Dr. Edyta Łuszczki
Dr. Katarzyna Dereń
Dr. Anna Bartosiewicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- children and adolescents
- dietary habits
- Mediterranean diet
- metabolic pathways
- metabolic diseases
- nutrition
- obesity
- Western-type diet
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