Dietary Patterns and Their Role in Obesity Prevention Across Different Life Stages
A Special Issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643) belonging to the section "Nutrition and Obesity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2027 | Viewed by 5
Editors
Interests: dietary patterns; obesity prevention; life-course nutrition; diet quality; nutritional epidemiology
Interests: obesity; type 2 diabetes; risk factors; diet; personalised nutrition; nutrigenetic
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Obesity remains a major global public health concern and results from the complex interaction of biological, behavioral, social, and environmental factors. Among modifiable determinants, diet plays a central role. Current research increasingly emphasizes overall dietary patterns rather than individual nutrients or foods, as they better reflect habitual intake and the combined effects of different dietary components.
Dietary behaviors and nutritional requirements vary substantially across the life course, from pregnancy and early childhood to adolescence, adulthood, and older age. These stages are characterized by different physiological, behavioral, and social conditions that may influence susceptibility to excessive weight gain and obesity.
This Special Issue, “Dietary Patterns and Their Role in Obesity Prevention Across Different Life Stages”, aims to provide an updated overview of the role of dietary patterns and diet quality in obesity prevention from a life-course perspective. We welcome original research, observational and longitudinal studies, dietary interventions, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses.
Topics of interest include healthy and unhealthy dietary patterns, diet quality, meal patterns, food processing, lifestyle interactions, socioeconomic and environmental determinants, and age-specific nutritional strategies for obesity prevention across diverse populations, cultures, settings, and stages of human development worldwide.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Joanna Smarkusz-Zarzecka
Dr. Edyta Adamska-Patruno
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dietary patterns
- obesity prevention
- life course
- diet quality
- obesity
- overweight
- children
- adolescents
- adults
- older adults
- nutritional epidemiology
- mediterranean diet
- healthy eating
- body composition
- dietary assessment
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