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.

See what scientists worldwide have been reading, citing and sharing.

The Crystal Ball Series is a collection of papers from prominent figures in the nutrition field. Through this collection the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition hopes to profile the paths of the eminent individuals nutrition journey; how they came to it and what have their contributions to nutrition science been. In addition, we ask them to share what they would like to see done now, where they see their area heading, the potential pitfalls, and over all what do they see in their crystal ball for the future of nutrition research.

Over recent years Vitamin D has grown from being just a bone vitamin to a multi-tasking vitamin that can play a key part in many systems. This special issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition curated by Associate Editor Dr Giovanna Muscogiuri aims to evaluate aspects of Vitamin D research that are important to clinical and public health nutrition, and demonstrate how Vitamin D supplementation could be useful in the prevention and treatment of extra-skeletal diseases.

Research into Human Body Composition & Energy Expenditure has been a significant area for EJCN over a number of years. In this collection of original articles, reviews and letters, the editors showcase our most recent publications, to afford the reader the opportunity to quickly access the current literature in this challenging area. Readers can learn about newer techniques of body composition, validation studies, organ metabolic rates in ethnic groups, and changes in body composition and energy metabolism in health and clinical disease states.