Food Variety and Nutrition Status
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition Methodology & Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2020) | Viewed by 21451
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Interests: population health; health behaviours; health policy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food variety is well recognised to be important for optimal nutritional status across the life course with few exceptions—which are usually temporary, for example, exclusive consumption of breast milk for newborns. As such, dietary guidelines worldwide promote that people eat a wide variety of foods as part of a nutritious diet.
Food variety refers to the consumption of a mixture of foods from a range of food groups. The number and type of different foods consumed may vary within a food group, by meals across the day, from day to day, by season, and over the life course.
Measuring food variety is challenging, and achieving consumption of a wide variety of foods is expected to have a range of modifiable determinants. Understanding the role of food variety in promoting nutrition and health status is important to protect health. Therefore, this Special Issue of Nutrients titled “Food Variety and Nutrition Status” has been developed to compile research on this important topic. To better understand this complex area, we welcome all types of study design, in various populations using a range of methodologies.
Potential topics may include but are not limited to:
- Importance of food variety within a healthy diet;
- Associations between food variety and nutritional status and/or risk of chronic disease;
- Methodologies to measure food variety;
- Intervention studies or population initiatives to increase food variety.
Dr. Malcolm Riley
Dr. Gilly Hendrie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Food variety
- Diet diversity
- Obesity
- Health outcomes
- Diet quality
- Food consumption patterns
- Nutritional status
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