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Overweight, Obesity and Body Mass Index (BMI)

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2022) | Viewed by 3133

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Antonio S. Cabaco

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Guest Editor
Department of Psychology, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Interests: basic psychological processes
Dr. José Enrique Moral-García

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Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Seville, 41013 Seville, Spain
Interests: healthy habits; physical activity; parental influence; physical education; motivation; self-perception

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

On a global scale, obesity and underweight are severe health risks for various diseases. Along with the popularity of high-sugar and high-fat foods, increasingly more people are becoming obese. Especially now that more and more adolescents are starting to be exposed to these foods at an early age, which, too, has led to a variety of cardiovascular diseases.

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters. A high BMI can be an indicator of high body fat. BMI can be used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems, but it is not diagnostic of the body fatness or health of an individual.

In this Special Issue, we would like to invite all outstanding scholars in the field of obesity and BMI to contribute to this topic. Interdisciplinary studies are also welcome!

Dr. Antonio S. Cabaco
Dr. Jose Enrique del Moral-García
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • body mass index
  • obesity
  • overweight
  • physical activity

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Intake Differences between Subsequent 24-h Dietary Recalls Create Significant Reporting Bias in Adults with Obesity
by Costela Lacrimioara Serban, Adela Chirita-Emandi, Iulia Teodora Perva, Alexandra Sima, Nicoleta Andreescu, Salomeia Putnoky, Mihai Dinu Niculescu and Maria Puiu
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(5), 2728; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app12052728 - 06 Mar 2022
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In depth understanding of the dietary patterns of individuals with obesity is needed in practice and research, in order to support dietitians and physicians in the design and implementation of nutritional management. We aimed to analyze the consistency of energy, macro-, and micronutrient [...] Read more.
In depth understanding of the dietary patterns of individuals with obesity is needed in practice and research, in order to support dietitians and physicians in the design and implementation of nutritional management. We aimed to analyze the consistency of energy, macro-, and micronutrient reported intakes in four non-consecutive 24-h dietary recalls from 388 adults with obesity using information collected in the NutriGen Study (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02837367). Significant decreases were identified for reported energy and several, macro- and micronutrient intakes, between the first and subsequent 24-h recalls. Significant differences of reported intakes were identified in sensitivity analyses, suggesting that the first recall (also the only one performed on site, face-to-face) might be a point of bias. A comparison of the differences in intakes between weekend and weekday, after adjustment for false discovery rate were non-statistically significant either in male, females, or in total. To overcome this potential bias, studies should be carefully conducted, starting from the design phase, through to the analysis and interpretation phases of the study. Prior to averaging specific intakes across all sessions of reporting, a preliminary analysis must be conducted to identify if a certain time point had significant differences from all other time points and overview potential sources of bias: reporting bias, training bias, or behavioral changes could be responsible for such differences. Full article
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