Towards Healthy and Sustainable Diets: Environmental and Nutritional Perspectives
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Policies and Education for Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 January 2026 | Viewed by 5088
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable agrifood systems; sustainable diets; environmental management; biotic resources; spatial analysis
Interests: human nutrition; human wellness; public health; nutritional pathophysiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Interest in sustainable and healthy diets has evolved significantly over the years following scientific research and public awareness towards emerging challenges related to human health and wellbeing combined with environmental sustainability on a planetary as well as a local level.
Sustainable diets, by definition, are closely linked to human health since they promote the consumption of nutritionally adequate, safe, and healthy foods while minimizing environmental impacts. They promote nutritional patterns rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats, with moderate or minimal amounts of meat, saturated oils, added sugars, and processed foods. Various well-known diets, such as the Mediterranean diet, the Nordic diet, Asian diets, vegetarian diets, vegan diets, and others, follow sustainable and healthy dietary patterns. Traditional diets, which originated from or are adapted to local sustainable agrifood systems, include healthy dietary choices, based on indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage. Contemporary healthy plant-based food consumption combined with zero-waste and zero-plastic initiatives reduces the environmental impact of food production systems. Do these different aspects of sustainable diets manage to have an impact on complex health issues? Are global guidelines on sustainable diets and/or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adequate to transform regional and local behaviors around the world? Could sustainable dietary habits change food production, affecting our adaptation to environmental challenges ahead?
This Special Issue aims to enhance understanding of the interconnection between human nutrition and environmental sustainability following the guidelines of sustainable diets as they should or could be implemented across global, regional, and local scales. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, those described above. Thus, all types of quantitative and qualitative studies are welcomed.
Dr. Georgios K. Vasios
Dr. Constantinos Giaginis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable diets
- healthy dietary patterns
- plant-based consumption
- food security
- sustainable food systems
- local and traditional diets
- Mediterranean diet
- vegetarian diets
- human health
- human wellbeing
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