Influence of Dietary Pattern, Quality, and Chrono-Nutrition on Maternal and Offspring Health Outcomes

Dear Colleagues,

There has been a paradigm shift in the field of public health nutrition to focusing on overall dietary pattern/quality, as dietary pattern holistically considers the interactions and potential synergistic influence among nutrients and foods. In addition, it has now been appreciated that non-food dietary factors, such as food timing, can improve prediction of health indicators, including plasma glycemia and lipemia. This relatively new area of research encompassing aspects of food timing, meal frequency, and fasting duration is collectively known as chrono-nutrition. While evidence on how dietary quality and timing affect one’s health in the general population is emerging, there is still a dearth of research investigating whether and how these dietary aspects affect the mothers’ health post-delivery and their offspring health trajectory during the perinatal period.

The objective of this proposed Special Issue “Influence of Dietary Pattern, Quality, and Chrono-Nutrition on Maternal and Offspring Health Outcomes” is to collect high-quality papers assessing the influence of perinatal dietary pattern and chrono-nutrition on offspring or long-term maternal health outcomes. This may include studies examining the relationships of dietary pattern/quality (data-driven or index-based) and/or chrono-nutrition during the peri-conceptional, antenatal, and postnatal periods with maternal and child physical and mental health, including but not limited to growth and metabolic health. Studies investigating determinants/predictors of dietary quality and/or chrono-nutrition will also be within the scope. We will consider submissions of epidemiological investigations, intervention studies in humans, reviews (systematic or narrative), and meta-analyses.

Dr. Ling-Wei Chen
Dr. See Ling Loy
Guest Editors

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