The 12th ISBCR held in Auckland, New Zealand brought together experts from around the world to exchange ideas, share knowledge, and advance the field of human body composition research. This invited collection of papers was presented at that conference and discusses recent advancements, ongoing controversies, and future opportunities, of relevance across research, clinical and applied settings. The special issue is curated by Jennifer Miles-Chan, Carrie Earthman, Kay Nguo and Lindsay Plank.

The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (EJCN) invites submissions for a special issue on “Postprandial Events and Chronic Disease.” This issue will showcase the role of post-meal metabolic pathways on dyslipidaemia, hyperglycaemia, energy balance, and vascular dysfunction.

Editors: Rebecca Kuriyan Raj & Mario J Soares The EJCN is pleased to announce the launch of a special issue on public health issues in India. Nutrition Research Course to Translate and Utilize Research (NURTURE) is an annual training program held at St John Research Institute, Bangalore India. These invited papers were core presentations from the July 2025 program and provide the latest evidence in public health nutrition, implementation research, evaluation, program experiences, and laboratory analytics. Deadline: Feb, 2026

The EJCN has always published across the spectrum of nutritional issues from maternal and child health to adult body composition and metabolic dysfunction. This collection reflects that scope and affords the reader a quick snapshot of EJCN over the last 2 years. We present papers that deal with breast feeding, nutritional issues in hospital, body composition models for infants and adults, and metabolic outcomes that may signal adult chronic disease. We hope you enjoy reading these articles and find them of use in your ongoing research.

The EJCN marks International Women’s Day through the curation of two related collections. These recent data highlight health issues faced by women around the globe. The first deals with the critical period of pregnancy and lactation, where optimal foetal outcomes benefit the next generation. The second is a snapshot of efforts to identify and manage chronic diseases that are important to women’s health. We hope these papers alert the reader to the ongoing need for better medical outcomes, as well as improved nutrition and health services in several parts of the world.

Body weight and body composition of adults are the result of the regulation of energy balance and remain fairly stable over an extended period of time. Regulation of energy balance calls for fine-tuning of energy intake to energy expenditure. Current methods cannot yet explain annual weight changes as observed in many adults in daily life. This Special Issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition curated by Klaas Westerterp and Mario Soares aims to address a few challenges in measurements of energy balance and body composition.

A special category of paper that is aimed at stimulating nutrition research, and driving the future nutrition agenda

In this collection we highlight a selection of articles from 2021, which top the list of the journal’s most cited, downloaded and most shared (including press coverage, blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Weibo). They showcase the breadth of scope and coverage that the journal consistently delivers to its readers.

The Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition are delighted to share with you an Editor's Choice selection of key papers that highlight some of the best current research published in the journal. These papers showcase the breadth of scope and coverage that the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition consistently delivers to its readers, and have been selected because readers of the journal will find them particularly interesting or useful.

The editors present a collection of recent papers in an area that is critical to the health and well-being of populations worldwide. In keeping with the breadth of our scope these papers vary from editorials to original articles to systematic reviews. Importantly, they share insights into maternal nutrition and infant growth, growth charts and anthropometric standards for nutritional status, nutrient inadequacy and future health outcomes.

It is well recognised that nutrition is intricately linked to immunity and to the risk and severity of infections. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for a balanced healthy diet to support the immune system and fight infection has become more apparent than ever.