Innovative Strategies for Preventing Nutrition-Related Chronic Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition Methodology & Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 11447
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutritional epidemiology; nutritional assessment; nutritional counselling; functional foods
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
2. Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Interests: nutritional epidemiology; public health nutrition; health promotion; implementation science; health literacy; vulnerable populations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes and some specific types of cancer, which until recently were common only in high-income countries, are now becoming a dominant cause of morbidity and mortality in several other parts of the world. Due to the increasing prevalence and incidence of chronic diseases, recent research has heavily focused on identifying the most important modifiable risk factors. In this context, prospective epidemiological studies, as well as randomized controlled trials that examined the effectiveness of intervention in the prevention of chronic disease endpoints, such as blood pressure and lipids, revealed a number of dietary and other lifestyle determinants. These findings highlighted that a reduction in the identified dietary and lifestyle risk factors can prevent most cases of chronic disease in populations of high-income countries, although this still remains to be thoroughly examined in populations from low- and middle-income countriess. These findings are profoundly important, since they clearly indicate that chronic disease can be prevented through lifestyle modifications, without the need for pharmateutical, surgical or other expensive therapeutic approaches. This Special Issue offers a review of the available literature that reports the effectiveness and implementation components of innovative intervention strategies that promote dietary and lifestyle changes for preventing nutrition-related chronic diseases.
Prof. Dr. George Moschonis
Dr. Tina Cao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chronic diseases
- cardiovascular disease
- coronary heart disease
- cerebrovascular diseases
- diabetes
- blood pressure
- blood lipids
- diet
- physical activity
- lifestyle
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