Nutritional Surveys and Assessment of Unhealthy Eating Behaviors

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue of the journal Nutrients on the subject area of “Nutritional Surveys and Assessment of Unhealthy Eating Behaviors”.

This research topic aims to explore the emerging and precise tools for evaluating the nutrition condition of people with unhealthy eating behaviors. In fact, a precise tool for nutrition assessment is recognized as the cornerstone of assessing the actual nutrition condition of people with unhealthy eating behaviors.

The prevalence of unhealthy eating behaviors around the world is incredibly high, including the under- or over-consumption of food and the inappropriate matching of food items. Many chronic diseases are preventable and controlled through changes in eating behaviors. The method used for the precise evaluation of nutrition intake is important in identifying unhealthy eating behaviors. Currently, a majority of the nutrition assessments are generally conducted using traditional survey tools, such as dietary recall, food records, and food frequency questionnaires. With the development of food industry technology and artificial intelligence, increasingly innovative technologies, including intelligent ordering systems and visual ordering systems, are considered to be important tools in precise nutrition surveys and assessments.

This Special Issue is aimed at providing selected contributions to address this topic, with a particular emphasis on how to precisely evaluate nutrition intake using innovative technologies or methods for identifying unhealthy eating behaviors.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Innovative methods employed for nutrition surveys and assessments; 
• How to identify unhealthy eating behaviors using innovational technologies;
• Comparison of dietary survey methods with traditional and emerging tools;
• Selection of dietary evaluation methods for different populations;
• Dietary pattern transition and its relationship to the development of chronic diseases.

Dr. Yingnan Jia
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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