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Transition towards Sustainable Healthy Diets: A Complex Journey

A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 May 2025 | Viewed by 7369

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Daniela Martini

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Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS), Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: nutrition; diets; sustainability; food labeling; food quality; cereals; antioxidants; phenolic; antioxidant activity
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Dr. Massimiliano Tucci

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Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS), Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: plant based diets; food and nutrition; sustainable diet; bioactive compounds; applied nutrition; diet
Dr. Giorgia Vici

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School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy
Interests: nutrition; nutrition assessment; human nutrition; nutritional education; clinical nutrition; metabolism; nutritional and metabolic diseases; body composition; child nutrition; applied nutrition

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Promoting the transition towards healthy and sustainable diets is becoming increasingly urgent considering, on the one hand, the high rate of malnutrition in the global population, and on the other hand, the need to reduce the impact of the food system on the environment.

However, promoting this transition represents a complex issue, also considering that dietary patterns are not only about generating a low environmental impact in terms of gas emissions or land and water use but must also integrate nutritional, health, sociocultural, and economic aspects, as highlighted by the FAO and the World Health Organization.

This Special Issue welcomes papers focused on at least one of the many aspects of healthy and sustainable diets, their complex interactions, as well as on the numerous strategies that can be implemented to promote the transition towards these models and their impact in terms of nutritional, environmental, and economic sustainability. This may include, but is not limited to, educative initiatives as well as regulatory and policy tools that can be employed in different settings with the intention of fostering this transition.

Trials, narrative reviews, and systematic reviews with and without meta-analyses, as well as commentaries, are welcomed to be submitted to this Special Issue.

Dr. Daniela Martini
Dr. Massimiliano Tucci
Guest Editors

Dr. Giorgia Vici
Guest Editor Assistant

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Keywords

  • sustainable diets
  • food policy
  • healthy diet
  • diet environment
  • human health

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Investigating the Consumer Choices of Gen Z: A Sustainable Food System Perspective
by Ewa Halicka, Joanna Kaczorowska, Krystyna Rejman and Marta Plichta
Nutrients 2025, 17(3), 591; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17030591 - 6 Feb 2025
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Background/Objectives: Developing nutrition-oriented and more responsible consumer behaviors is crucial for the well-being of current and future generations. Food choice determinants and concerns of Gen Zs—also referred to as Post-Millennials, or Zoomers—were explored from a sustainable food system perspective to identify factors encouraging [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Developing nutrition-oriented and more responsible consumer behaviors is crucial for the well-being of current and future generations. Food choice determinants and concerns of Gen Zs—also referred to as Post-Millennials, or Zoomers—were explored from a sustainable food system perspective to identify factors encouraging young people to be on the front line of this much-needed transformation. Methods: Quantitative data were collected with the use of the CAWI method from 650 adults representing Generation Z living in Polish cities. Statistical analysis identified three consumer segments, and cluster (CL) means were statistically contrasted using a one-way ANOVA with Scheffé tests for post hoc comparisons. Results: The research results indicate that the key considerations of food choice in the studied Gen Z sample are taste, price, and health. External factors, such as social media influencers and consumer trends, play a relatively minor role in decision-making. Gen Zs were more aware of the link between their eating patterns and health than the link between their eating habits and the natural environment. Members of the biggest cluster (CL3), constituting 48.3% of the total sample, declared the highest level of agreement with statements referring to links between diet, environment, and health from the food system perspective. This most allo-centered (community-oriented, altruistic) consumer segment, differing significantly with gender to other CLs was more concerned about climate change and protecting the natural environment and open to changing its dietary habits. Conclusions: Implementing research-based policy measures focusing on Generation Z, especially young women, as potential leaders and drivers of food system change is recommended. Full article
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Impact of Substituting Meats with Plant-Based Analogues on Health-Related Markers: A Systematic Review of Human Intervention Studies
by Cristian Del Bo’, Lara Chehade, Massimiliano Tucci, Federica Canclini, Patrizia Riso and Daniela Martini
Nutrients 2024, 16(15), 2498; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16152498 - 31 Jul 2024
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The growing drive towards more sustainable dietary patterns has led to an increased demand for and availability of plant-based meat analogues (PBMAs). This systematic review aims to summarize the currently available evidence from human intervention studies investigating the impact of substituting animal meat [...] Read more.
The growing drive towards more sustainable dietary patterns has led to an increased demand for and availability of plant-based meat analogues (PBMAs). This systematic review aims to summarize the currently available evidence from human intervention studies investigating the impact of substituting animal meat (AM) with PBMAs in adults. A total of 19 studies were included. Overall, an increase in satiety following PBMA intake was reported, albeit to different extents and not always accompanied by changes in leptin and ghrelin. PBMAs generally resulted in lower protein bioavailability and a smaller increase in plasma essential amino acids in comparison to AM. However, muscle protein synthesis and physical performance were not affected. Finally, conflicting results have been reported for other outcomes, such as pancreatic and gastrointestinal hormones, oxidative stress and inflammation, vascular function, and microbiota composition. In conclusion, we documented that the impact of substituting AM with PBMA products has been scarcely investigated. In addition, the heterogeneity found in terms of study design, population, outcomes, and findings suggests the need for additional high-quality intervention trials, particularly long-term ones, to better clarify the advantages and potential critical issues of such substitutions within sustainable healthy diets. Full article
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