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Promotion of a Healthy Nutrition and an Active Lifestyle Across the Lifespan and in Different Settings

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 June 2026 | Viewed by 6

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Department of Community Medicine, Research Center in Preventive Medicine, Health Promotion and Sustainable Development, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: health promotion across the lifespan; hygiene; nutrition education and policies, formal and informal education for health and well-being; community medicine; community engagement
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The promotion of a healthy nutrition and an active lifestyle acroos the lifespan is very important for appropriate growth and development as well as physical, mental, and social health and well-being. In order to achieve this, policies, measures, and programmes should target different population groups using different settings as an access point for them.

This Special Issue focuses on data gathering, developing, implementing, and evaluating different initiatives with regard to promotion of healthy nutrition and an active lifestyle across the lifespan.

This Special Issue is open to reviews and original research papers addressing themes such as:

  • Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours related to nutrition, food safety and physical activity among different population groups;
  • Analyses of measures and policies which targets nutrition and physical activities in different countries;
  • Development, implementation and evaluation of educational programes which promotes healthy nutrition and physical activity in different settings;
  • Formal and informal education related to nutrition, physical activity and well-being among different population groups;
  • The use of creative and inspiring communication strategies to promote a healthy lifestyle in the digital era;

Creation of suportive environments which encourage and enable a healthy lifestyle.

Prof. Dr. Lucia Maria Lotrean
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Nutrients is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • healthy nutrition
  • active lifestyle
  • educational programmes
  • health communication
  • nutrition policies

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