Editors-in-Chief: Richard D. Feinman (USA)
M. Mahmood Hussain (USA)

Dear Colleague,

We would like to invite you to submit your next manuscript to Nutrition and Metabolism.

Nutrition and Metabolism is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal focussing on the integration of nutrition, exercise physiology, clinical investigations, and molecular and cellular biochemistry of metabolism.

Currently the journal is specifically, but not exclusively, interested in manuscripts examining the metabolic effects of diet composition, interactions of macronutrients, effect of nutrients on gene expression, metabolic control and compartment models, nutritional effect of hormones, and genomic analysis of dietary phenomena.

The journal considers the following articles: original research, critical reviews, commentaries, brief communications, methods and book reviews.

The journal is available at www.nutritionandmetabolism.com and a number of articles have already been published. To keep up to date with the latest articles from Nutrition and Metabolism, why not register to set up email alerts?

We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please read below for further information about the journal and its publisher, BioMed Central.

Yours sincerely,

Richard Feinman
M. Mahmood Hussain

Editors-in-Chief, Nutrition and Metabolism

Nutrition and Metabolism, is published by BioMed Central, the Open Access Publisher. Read on to find out more about the benefits of submitting to Nutrition and Metabolism, recent articles, and how Open Access is funded.

How is Open Access funded?

To enable the journal to make all of its content Open Access, from the 1st March 2005, Nutrition and Metabolism will levy an article-processing charge for each manuscript accepted after peer review (payable on acceptance). The charge will be £330 (approximately US$600 or €500, dependent on currency fluctuations). The fee will be payable by the authors unless their institution is a BioMed Central member, but can be waived in cases of genuine hardship.

The fee pays for:

• Administering thorough and fair peer-review
  
• Preparing various formats of the manuscript for online publication
  
• Immediate, world-wide, barrier-free and permanent access to the full text
  
• Securing immediate full text inclusion in permanent archives, such as PubMed Central, Potsdam University, INIST and the National Library of the Netherlands
  
• Securing inclusion in CrossRef, which enables references to be linked directly to their online versions, if available
  
• Developing and maintaining electronic tools for submission, peer review and publication

Nutrition and Metabolisms' publisher, BioMed Central, operates a membership scheme to enable institutions to remove the burden of payment from individual researchers. Authors at institutions that are members of BioMed Central do not have to pay the article-processing charge directly as it is covered by a payment from their institution. These authors can submit an unlimited number of articles to Nutrition and Metabolism, as well as any other journals published by BioMed Central. Over 400 institutions worldwide have already become BioMed Central members.

Note that many funding bodies have shown support for Open Access by explicitly allowing the use of their grants to pay article-processing charges. These include the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the UK National Health Service.

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Recent articles

Please take a moment to look at some of the articles recently published in Nutrition and Metabolism and consider submitting your next manuscript.

Review
Transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolism by fatty acids: a key determinant of pancreatic beta-cell function
Fatehi-Hassanabad Z, Chan CB
Nutrition & Metabolism 2005, 2:1 (5 January 2005)

Research
Dietary isoflavones alter regulatory behaviors, metabolic hormones and neuroendocrine function in Long-Evans male rats
Lephart ED, Porter JP, Lund TD, Bu L, Setchell KDR, Ramoz G, Crowley WR
Nutrition & Metabolism 2004, 1:16 (23 December 2004)

Review
Thermodynamics of weight loss diets
Fine EJ, Feinman RD
Nutrition & Metabolism 2004, 1:15 (8 December 2004)

Book review
Review on "Atkins Diabetes Revolution: The Groundbreaking Approach to Preventing and Controlling Type 2 Diabetes" by Mary C. Vernon and Jacqueline A. Eberstein
Arora S, McFarlane SI

Research
Comparison of energy-restricted very low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets on weight loss and body composition in overweight men and women
Volek JS, Sharman MJ, Gómez AL, Judelson DA, Rubin MR, Watson G, Sokmen B, Silvestre R, French DN, Kraemer WJ
Nutrition & Metabolism 2004, 1:13 (8 November 2004)

To keep up to date with the latest articles from Nutrition and Metabolism, why not register to receive alerts? Registration also enables you to customise your subject areas of intereset, store your searches and submit your manuscripts.

To discuss whether your work would be suitable for the journal, contact the Editors-in-Chief at Nutritionandmetabolism.editors@downstate.edu.

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Benefits of submitting to Nutrition and Metabolism

There are numerous benefits to submitting your work to Nutrition and Metabolism:

• An efficient online submission process
• High quality peer review
• Immediate publication upon acceptance
• All articles can be freely printed, emailed to colleagues, and posted on the web because of the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement
• Ability to track the number of people viewing your article
• No page limits or restrictions on large data sets
• No colour charges or limits on numbers of figures
• Press releases are sent out about work of high quality and/ or of broad interest

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News from the Publisher

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BioMed Central warmly welcomes Google Scholar, a new service that maximises the opportunities offered by Open Access journals and open repositories. For more information, please read our press release

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Submit your manuscript

Submitting a manuscript to Nutrition and Metabolism is easy using the journal's online submission system. To find out more read the instructions for authors.

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