Body composition is connected to various physiological, transitional, and overt pathological conditions. Individual body component characterization adds insight to metabolic, endocrine, and genetic data around pathological conditions we experience throughout life. By combining individual body components with their related functional aspects (e.g., endocrine, metabolic, and inflammatory pro?les), an adequate basis for future de?nitions of metabolically healthy or unhealthy body composition will be obtained. Thereby, it is advocated that overly simplistic approaches be overcome and replaced by innovative models, as the basic anthropometry used to date cannot provide a solid foundation for nutritional assessment, understanding of metabolic physiology, clinical decision-making, personalized medical nutrition, prognosis prediction in patients, and in-depth biomedical research. The concept to keep in mind is the functional body composition model that considers the relationships between individual body components, organs, and tissues and their relative metabolic and physical functions. Currently, multicomponent models derived from whole-body MRI and DXA have reached the highest level of body composition analysis and are considered as gold standard or criterion methods.
To date, a large research window is still open on the role of diet and eating habits in characterizing body composition understood as pooled body components and their relative functional aspects (e.g., endocrine, metabolic, and inflammatory pro?les). Filling this gap would be an effort in defining dietary features associated with body functioning in the context of well-defined disease states (physical frailty, sarcopenia, obesity, sarcopenic obesity, osteoporosis) or intermediate disease states.
This Research Topic has the purpose of investigating the relationship between diet, as assessed by a priori or a posteriori approach, and body composition features as defined by criterion methods rather than traditional anthropometry, in order to add a piece to the knowledge on the role of diet in influencing specific body composition and functioning in the context of well-defined disease states (physical frailty, sarcopenia, obesity, sarcopenic obesity, osteoporosis) or intermediate disease state.
Original article, systematic review, review, mini-review, and clinical trial articles providing additional knowledge on the topic "Nutrition and Diet Practices: Impact on Body Components and Functioning" will be welcome.
Any research involving diet as exposure in relation to body structure and functioning outcomes and its metabolic understanding will be fully on target. Of particular interest will be novel data on well-known health endpoints of altered body functioning and composition, such as physical frailty, sarcopenia, obesity, sarcopenic obesity, and osteoporosis.
Body composition is connected to various physiological, transitional, and overt pathological conditions. Individual body component characterization adds insight to metabolic, endocrine, and genetic data around pathological conditions we experience throughout life. By combining individual body components with their related functional aspects (e.g., endocrine, metabolic, and inflammatory pro?les), an adequate basis for future de?nitions of metabolically healthy or unhealthy body composition will be obtained. Thereby, it is advocated that overly simplistic approaches be overcome and replaced by innovative models, as the basic anthropometry used to date cannot provide a solid foundation for nutritional assessment, understanding of metabolic physiology, clinical decision-making, personalized medical nutrition, prognosis prediction in patients, and in-depth biomedical research. The concept to keep in mind is the functional body composition model that considers the relationships between individual body components, organs, and tissues and their relative metabolic and physical functions. Currently, multicomponent models derived from whole-body MRI and DXA have reached the highest level of body composition analysis and are considered as gold standard or criterion methods.
To date, a large research window is still open on the role of diet and eating habits in characterizing body composition understood as pooled body components and their relative functional aspects (e.g., endocrine, metabolic, and inflammatory pro?les). Filling this gap would be an effort in defining dietary features associated with body functioning in the context of well-defined disease states (physical frailty, sarcopenia, obesity, sarcopenic obesity, osteoporosis) or intermediate disease states.
This Research Topic has the purpose of investigating the relationship between diet, as assessed by a priori or a posteriori approach, and body composition features as defined by criterion methods rather than traditional anthropometry, in order to add a piece to the knowledge on the role of diet in influencing specific body composition and functioning in the context of well-defined disease states (physical frailty, sarcopenia, obesity, sarcopenic obesity, osteoporosis) or intermediate disease state.
Original article, systematic review, review, mini-review, and clinical trial articles providing additional knowledge on the topic "Nutrition and Diet Practices: Impact on Body Components and Functioning" will be welcome.
Any research involving diet as exposure in relation to body structure and functioning outcomes and its metabolic understanding will be fully on target. Of particular interest will be novel data on well-known health endpoints of altered body functioning and composition, such as physical frailty, sarcopenia, obesity, sarcopenic obesity, and osteoporosis.
