Bridging Human and Environmental Health Through Sustainable Diets: From Theory to Real-World Challenges
A Special Issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643) belonging to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2027 | Viewed by 418
Editors
Interests: nutrition; diets; sustainability; food labeling; food quality
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: sustainable diet; plant-based diets; food and nutrition; bioactive compounds; applied nutrition; planetary health; environmental impact
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The transition toward sustainable food systems represents one of the greatest global challenges of our time, driven by the necessity of feeding a growing global population while ensuring that diets promote health and minimize environmental pressures and ecosystems degradation. Achieving this balance requires a clear understanding of the nexus between nutritional adequacy, environmental sustainability, and socio-economic feasibility, in alignment with the implementation of both the Sustainable Development Goals and the One Health vision.
Despite a vast body of scientific evidence, knowledge in this field remains fragmented, with conflicting results concerning the synergies among these factors, the trade-offs involved, and the real drivers underlying the barriers that hinder the adoption of more sustainable diets.
This Special Issue welcomes original research and comprehensive reviews that critically integrate nutritional and sustainability perspectives. We encourage contributions from observational and intervention studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses addressing topics such as sustainable dietary patterns, diet quality assessment, life cycle impacts of food consumption, policy evaluation, and behavioral determinants of sustainable eating. By fostering a multidisciplinary dialog, this Special Issue aims to advance the evidence base needed to guide healthier and more sustainable dietary transitions worldwide.
Dr. Daniela Martini
Dr. Massimiliano Tucci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- diets
- dietary patterns
- sustainability
- environmental impact
- planetary health
- plant-based diets
- food systems
- nutritional adequacy
- diet optimization
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