Innovations in Children’s Diet-Related Behaviors

Dear Colleagues,

“You are what you eat.” We are sure each of you heard this as you were growing up and may even have passed it along to your children or young relatives. Although this adage has been around for a long time, it recognizes the critical role that diet has on health. As a health professional, you are well aware that healthy dietary intake during childhood is associated with current and future health, growth and development, and disease prevention.

This Special Issue focuses on “you are what you eat”. It seeks papers on studies on innovative nutrition education interventions and outcomes, conceptual models or studies demonstrating the effect of the food environment on children’s food consumption; communication strategies, including technology; nutrition-related economics; food safety education; and other topics related to children’s nutrition. We are interested in conception through adolescence. This Special Issue is designed to document and disseminate original qualitative and/or quantitative research and emerging issues and practices relevant to these issues globally. We welcome evidence-based manuscripts that provide new insights and useful findings related to childhood nutrition education research, practice, and policy. We also welcome review articles that highlight the significance of recent research in child nutrition and illustrate the central role of nutrition in the promotion of health and prevention of nutrition-related diseases in children like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other chronic diseases.

Please consider submitting an original article to this Special Issue. We welcome your participation and look forward to reading about the research you’re conducting to help us to better understand and promote healthy nutrition practices and behaviors toward children across the globe.

Dr. Jayna Markand Dave
Prof. Deborah I Thompson
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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