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Dietary carbohydrates are a heterogeneous group of molecules derived from plants that include mono- and disaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides and fiber. It is well documented that the health effects of dietary carbohydrate can be detrimental when high amounts of fructose-containing sug...

This section of Nutrients aims to rapidly publish contributions on all aspects of clinical nutrition. We encourage the submission of original research, reviews, and communications reporting findings of clinical, experimental, and epidemiological studies of novel nutrition-based preventio...

Nutrition plays a crucial role on health throughout the life span, which can meaningfully contribute to the health status late in life. There is growing scientific and clinical interest in the role of nutritional factors as determinants of the aging process, and as key contributors to longevity a...

Lipids are no longer considered to only be important as energy-rich nutrients, and specific fatty acids and lipid-soluble substances are now known to act as metabolic regulators. Lipids also play an important role in the development of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mental...

Micronutrients are essential components of the diet. They are classically divided into four groups: water-soluble vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins, macrominerals, and microminerals or trace elements. A lack or imbalance of these components can impact on human health at different levels. Awareness o...

The completion of the human genome sequencing and the advances in high-throughout ‘omic’ technologies place Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics at the very core of the modern Nutrition science. These achievements are enabling novel hypothesis and non-hypothesis-driven approaches to study ...

Over the last few decades, diabetes incidence has grown from around 3.5% of the adult population in Europe to around 10%. The underlying fat storage (adiposity) has become the most prevalent metabolic disorder worldwide. Taken both together with hyperlipidemia and hypertension, they are the major...

Nutrition and metabolism have a synergistic effect on human health. While nutrition is the process of nutrient acquisition from the environment, metabolism is the coordinated process of transforming nutrients into substrates. The homeostatic interactions between nutrition and metabolism can be al...

Nutrition and Neuro Sciences represent an emerging interdisciplinary research field aimed at understanding the impact of nutrition on cognition and brain health throughout the entire lifecycle. Research in this emerging field suggests that many aspects of nutrition—spanning from the entire ...

Over the last few decades, obesity has become the most prevalent metabolic disorder worldwide. Excess adiposity increases the risk for the development of cardiometabolic alterations such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cancer, among ...

The Nutrition and Public Health section of Nutrients aims to publish high-level, peer-reviewed research on nutrition and food approaches to address diet-related public health issues. This could include multidisciplinary approaches to understanding and modeling the causes of these issues,...

Arguably, nutrition and food are at the epicenter of both health and disease. The Section Nutrition in Women of Nutrients aims to publish high-level, peer-reviewed research on nutrition, dietary, and food approaches to understand the impact of nutrition on women’s health and d...

Dietary surveys play an important role in monitoring the nutritional status of populations and evaluating relationships between diet and health. Dietary assessment can be used to describe types and amounts of food and food components, either actual or habitual intakes, and potential exposure to r...

The Section “Nutritional Epidemiology” aims to publish contributions on the impact of food consumption and nutritional status on different health aspects. Papers should provide new knowledge from descriptive cross-sectional studies to those studies contributing to prevent the appearan...

Diet plays a role in almost every function in the body. Among others, diet is critical in maintaining an optimal immune function. Extensive research demonstrates the immunomodulatory properties of particular nutrients; however, in many cases, mechanisms still remain unclear.

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The “Nutritional Policies and Education for Health Promotion” section of Nutrients aims to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed research on the development of nutritional policies and nutritional education programs that could tackle various aspects of nutrition-related disease...

Pediatric Nutrition focusses on all nutritional aspects regarding children, from birth up to 18 years of age. This section covers a huge age group, going from the preterm infant of 0.5 kg to the obese adolescent of 150 kg. A major area of interest of this section regards "the first 1000 days", a ...

The Section “Phytochemicals and Human Health” aims to publish high-quality scientific contributions providing novel insights into the impact of dietary intake of plant ingredients, also called phytochemicals, on the physical, mental, and emotional health and wellbeing of humans. We wi...

Despite some recently voiced skepticism on the value of prebiotics and probiotics in human medicine, this field remains very dynamic and keeps expanding as the role of gut microbiota is quickly reaching center stage in a variety of health-related issues.

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Dietary proteins and their constituent amino acids are fundamental to health. This section invites authors to submit original research and review articles in basic or clinical nutrition and regarding mechanisms underlying relationships between proteins (and their constituents, e.g., peptides and ...

This Section of Nutrients aims to rapidly publish contributions on all aspects of sports nutrition. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that provide novel insights into the influence of diet, nutrition, ergogenic aids, and supplements on sports performance, metabolic recovery, imm...