British Journal of Nutrition is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original papers and review articles across the full spectrum of nutritional science. The focus of all manuscripts submitted to the journal should be to increase knowledge in nutritional science relevant to human or animal nutrition. The BJN welcomes manuscripts that report studies in nutritional epidemiology, nutritional requirements, metabolic studies, body composition, energetics, appetite and obesity. Manuscripts that address interactions of nutrition with endocrinology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience and physiology and that report outcomes relevant to health, behaviour and well-being are also within scope for the BJN.

>> Molecular Nutrition
a. Oleamide rescues tibialis anterior muscle atrophy of mice housed in small cages
Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Natsumi Watanabe, Tomoya Kitakaze, Keiichiro Sugimoto, Takeshi Izawa, Kenji Kai, Naoki Harada, Ryoichi Yamaji

b. Gallic acid affects intestinal-epithelial-cell integrity and selected amino-acid uptake in porcine in vitro and ex vivo permeability models
Marco Tretola, Giuseppe Bee, Paolo Silacci

>> Metabolism and Metabolic Studies
a. Skeletal mass indices are inversely associated with metabolically unhealthy phenotype in overweight/obese and normal-weight men: a population-based cross-sectional study
Cristiane Junqueira de Carvalho, Giana Zarbato Longo, Adriana Maria Kakehasi, Patrícia Feliciano Pereira, Kátia Josiany Segheto, Leidjaira Lopes Juvanhol, Andréia Queiroz Ribeiro

b. Effects of guanidinoacetic acid and coated folic acid supplementation on growth performance, nutrient digestion and hepatic gene expression in Angus bulls
Y. J. Liu, J. Z. Chen, D. H. Wang, M. J. Wu, C. Zheng, Z. Z. Wu, C. Wang, Q. Liu, J. Zhang, G. Guo, W. J. Huo

>> Nutritional Endocrinology
Diet-induced obesity enhances postprandial glucagon-like peptide-1 secretion in Wistar rats, but not in diabetic Goto-Kakizaki rats
Jukkrapong Pinyo, Hiroshi Hara, Tohru Hira

>> Human and Clinical Nutrition
a. Higher adherence to an empirically derived Mediterranean dietary pattern is positively associated with telomere length: the Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra (SUN) project
Ana Ojeda-Rodríguez, Itziar Zazpe, Lucia Alonso-Pedrero, Guillermo Zalba, Miguel A. Martínez-González, Amelia Marti

b. Weight gain and body composition during pregnancy: a randomised pilot trial with probiotics and/or fish oil
Outi Pellonperä, Tero Vahlberg, Kati Mokkala, Noora Houttu, Ella Koivuniemi, Kristiina Tertti, Tapani Rönnemaa, Kirsi Laitinen

c. Can COVID-19 be a risk for cachexia for patients during intensive care? Narrative review and nutritional recommendations
Isabel P. A. Virgens, Natália M. Santana, Severina C. V. C. Lima, Ana P. T. Fayh

>> Dietary Surveys and Nutritional Epidemiology
a. The Platform to Evaluate Athlete Knowledge of Sports Nutrition Questionnaire: a reliable and valid electronic sports nutrition knowledge questionnaire for athletes
Ryan Tam, Kathryn Beck, Justin Newton Scanlan, Tanya Hamilton, Tania Prvan, Victoria Flood, Helen O’Connor, Janelle Gifford

b. Reducing ultra-processed foods and increasing diet quality in affordable and culturally acceptable diets: a study case from Brazil using linear programming
Part of: Ultra-processed foods
Eliseu Verly-Jr, Alessandra da Silva Pereira, Emanuele Souza Marques, Paula Martins Horta, Daniela Silva Canella, Diana Barbosa Cunha

c. Select Recent consumption of a caffeine-containing beverage and serum biomarkers of cardiometabolic function in the UK Biobank
Recent consumption of a caffeine-containing beverage and serum biomarkers of cardiometabolic function in the UK Biobank
Marilyn C. Cornelis

d. Adherence to healthy and sustainable diets is not differentiated by cost, but rather source of foods among young adults in Albania
Erand Llanaj, Giles T. Hanley-Cook

e. Ultraprocessed beverages and processed meats increase the incidence of hypertension in Mexican women
Adriana Monge, Daniela Silva Canella, Nancy López-Olmedo, Martín Lajous, Adrian Cortés-Valencia, Dalia Stern

>> Behaviour, Appetite and Obesity
a. Chinese visceral adiposity index, a novel indicator of visceral obesity for assessing the risk of incident hypertension in a prospective cohort study
Minghui Han, Ranran Qie, Quanman Li, Leilei Liu, Shengbing Huang, Xiaoyan Wu, Dongdong Zhang, Cheng Cheng, Yang Zhao, Dechen Liu, Chunmei Guo, Qionggui Zhou, Gang Tian, Yanyan Zhang, Yuying Wu, Yang Li, Xingjin Yang, Yang Zhao, Yifei Feng, Pei Qin, Fulan Hu, Ming Zhang, Dongsheng Hu

b. Longitudinal patterns of lifestyle behaviours in adolescence: a latent transition analysis
Mohamed Dakin, Florian Manneville, Johanne Langlois, Karine Legrand, Edith Lecomte, Serge Briançon, Abdou Y. Omorou


c. Effects of consuming later evening meal v. earlier evening meal on weight loss during a weight loss diet: a randomised clinical trial
Ameneh Madjd, Moira A. Taylor, Alireza Delavari, Reza Malekzadeh, Ian A. Macdonald, Hamid R. Farshchi