Dietary Patterns and Sustainability: Food Systems Perspective for Healthier Diets
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 268
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food consumption patterns; dietary intervention; public health nutrition; food security
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: public health nutrition; chronic disease prevention; cancer epidemiology; obesity and metabolic health; dietary patterns; plant-based diets; cancer survivorship; primary health care interventions; school nutrition programs; health equity; nutritional epidemiology; population cohorts (UK Biobank); lifestyle and inflammation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, titled “Dietary Patterns and Sustainability: Food Systems Perspective for Healthier Diets”, aims to examine the complex relationships between food consumption behaviours, nutritional quality, and environmental sustainability. This interdisciplinary research field integrates nutritional epidemiology, food systems science, and public health to evaluate how dietary patterns influence human health outcomes while simultaneously affecting natural resources, climate change, and biodiversity. Research in this area focuses on identifying sustainable dietary models that optimize nutrient adequacy, reduce the environmental footprint of food production, and promote long-term population health. Key topics include plant-based and traditional dietary patterns, ultra-processed food consumption, food security, life cycle assessment of foods, and behavioural determinants of sustainable eating. By combining nutritional science with sustainability metrics, this discipline supports evidence-based strategies to guide food policy, improve dietary guidelines, and foster resilient food systems. Ultimately, the goal is to develop integrated solutions that address the dual challenges of malnutrition and environmental degradation, contributing to healthier populations and more sustainable global food systems.
Dr. Samuel Durán-Agüero
Dr. Solange Parra-Soto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutrition
- food
- public health
- ultra-processed food consumption
- dietary patterns
- food security
- sustainable eating
- food systems
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