Sustainable Eating, Public Health, and Implications for Programs and Policies
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: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 68
Special Issue Editors
Interests: public health; nutrition; food security; nutrition security; systems science; social networks; families; children; community food systems; health equity; team science
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Interests: behavioural science; risk perception; risk communication; decision making; behaviour change; food waste; food safety; novel foods
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Interests: community nutrition; clinical nutrition; dietary behavior; environmental health sciences; public health; sustainable eating; urban food environments; health equity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is a growing bridge between public health nutrition and environmental sciences: both share an interest in increasing the consumption of whole plant-based foods, and evidence of these fields’ interdependence is now clear, given that food consumption has an immense impact on the environment, and environmental degradation and climate change pose potentially disastrous threats to the food supply and public nutrition.
In this Special Issue, we welcome new research, reviews, or theoretical contributions that examine environmentally sustainable (or unsustainable) food consumption and how this intersects with individual and/or public health. Studies may draw from a range of methods, including qualitative or mixed methods research, computational modeling, ethnography, community-engaged research, and theoretical development. Contributions might include, among other topics, studies that examine the beliefs, behaviors, or broader contextual factors relevant to the consumption of (un)sustainable foods; interventions to increase sustainable food intake; and/or studies that examine links between (un)sustainable food intake and health outcomes, such as diet-relevant biomarkers, dietary behaviors, diet-related disease, or food access (e.g., food or nutrition security). We intend to include research that considers different levels and domains of influence on food choice, diet, and related health disparities, ranging from the individual to interpersonal, community, and societal factors.
These studies are intended to capture translational science that can be used to advance knowledge and practice for interventions and policies needed to increase the sustainability of diets and food systems, improve equitable access to healthy and sustainable food, and to ensure the current and future health of the public and the planet.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Kayla de la Haye
Dr. Gülbanu Kaptan
Guest Editors
Dr. Katherine Baker
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- diet
- nutrition
- eating behavior
- sustainable diet
- sustainable food
- environment
- public health nutrition
- food security
- nutrition security
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