Developing Dietary Guidelines
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 2711
Special Issue Editors
Interests: dietary surveys; public health nutrition; nutrient profiles; maternal and child nutrition
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: nutritional epidemiology; social epidemiology; nutrition education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Dietary guidelines are essential for dieticians and health professionals, who give dietary advice to those with health issues related to their current diet. These guidelines need to be updated from time to time based on sound science, so that the professionals can be confident that their advice is evidence-based. Furthermore, dietary guidelines should be practical and must be written in plain language, in order to avoid misinterpretation.
Another important point is that dietary guidelines should meet the specific needs of their target population. For example, infants, children, and pregnant or lactating women are populations with special needs. To develop effective dietary guidelines, attention should be paid to these special needs.
Therefore, guideline development is more than just grading systemically collected evidence. We appreciate papers that provide evidence for recently revised or developed dietary guidelines, together with the introduction of the guideline itself, for example, how it is implemented, and the setting in which it is used.
Dr. Hidemi Takimoto
Dr. Kayo Kurotani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dietary guideline
- systematic review
- meta-analysis
- diet
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