The Impact of Eating Behaviors on Long-Term Health Outcomes
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Eating behaviors are critical drivers of long-term physical and mental health, influencing weight trajectories, nutritional status, and chronic-disease risk worldwide. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), rapid nutrition transitions, widening health inequalities, food-system changes, and increased exposure to ultra-processed foods pose growing global health challenges. Appetitive traits such as emotional eating, food responsiveness, satiety sensitivity, and eating speed interact with social determinants, including mental health vulnerability, caregiving practices, cultural norms, and economic barriers, shaping lifelong disease risk, particularly in obesity, diabetes, and cardiometabolic conditions that disproportionately impact LMICs. Yet the mechanisms linking eating behavior profiles with environmental and psychosocial drivers remain underexplored in these settings. This Special Issue welcomes research on appetite and eating behaviors across the life course, including LMIC-focused epidemiology, measurement validation, and culturally relevant behavior-change interventions to inform equitable and scalable chronic-disease prevention strategies within the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and its Global Health section.
Dr. Claudia Hunot-Alexander
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- eating behaviors
- appetitive traits
- dietary patterns
- ultra-processed foods
- feeding practices
- life course health
- behavioral nutrition
- chronic disease prevention
- global-health challenges
- psychosocial determinants
- public health nutrition
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