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Healthy Diet and Nutrition during Childhood and Adolescence

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 4220

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Kozeta Miliku

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1. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S1A8, Canada
2. Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S4L8, Canada
Interests: deveolpmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD); cardiometabolic health; clinical epidemiology; lifecycle nutrition; pediatrics; personalized medicine

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Dietary risks continue to be among the leading attributing factors to chronic disease. Therefore, improving nutrition and ending malnutrition remain critical standing items in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Intending to achieve these goals by 2030, there is an urgent need for nutrition research and policy implementation.

Thus far, the first 1000 days of life (from pregnancy until the age of two) have been identified as the optimal window for implementing nutrition interventions to reduce the burden of chronic disease, as per the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis. While this remains true, emerging research is identifying other critical DOHaD periods, including childhood and adolescence. Adequate dietary intake in childhood and adolescence contributes to the growth of physiological systems; therefore, it is essential for optimal growth, development, and health. In addition, childhood and adolescence are sensitive periods when dietary patterns, food autonomy, and eating habits are established.

While living in a period of a global pandemic and wars, reducing the burden of chronic disease by improving nutrition in children and adolescents can be more challenging, and it will require the collaboration of multiple societal and environmental layers.

For this Special Issue, we are inviting papers (original articles, reviews, clinical trials, etc.) addressing the impact of a healthy diet and nutrition during childhood and adolescence on health outcomes.

Dr. Kozeta Miliku
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. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2500 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

  • nutrition
  • diet
  • childhood
  • adolescence
  • food environments
  • developmental origins of health and disease
  • chronic disease
  • non-communicable disease
  • epidemiology

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Development of the Menu Assessment Scoring Tool (MAST) to Assess the Nutritional Quality of Food Service Menus
by Claire Elizabeth Pulker, Leisha Michelle Aberle, Lucy Meredith Butcher, Clare Whitton, Kristy Karying Law, Amy Louise Large, Christina Mary Pollard and Georgina S. A. Trapp
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(5), 3998; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20053998 - 23 Feb 2023
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Preventing the rise in obesity is a global public health priority. Neighbourhood environments can help or undermine people’s efforts to manage their weight, depending on availability of nutritious and nutrient-poor ‘discretionary’ foods. The proportion of household food budgets spent on eating outside the [...] Read more.
Preventing the rise in obesity is a global public health priority. Neighbourhood environments can help or undermine people’s efforts to manage their weight, depending on availability of nutritious and nutrient-poor ‘discretionary’ foods. The proportion of household food budgets spent on eating outside the home is increasing. To inform nutrition policy at a local level, an objective assessment of the nutritional quality of foods and beverages on food service menus that is context-specific is needed. This study describes the development and piloting of the Menu Assessment Scoring Tool (MAST), used to assess the nutritional quality of food service menus in Australia. The MAST is a desk-based tool designed to objectively assess availability of nutrient-poor and absence of nutritious food and beverages on food service menus. A risk assessment approach was applied, using the best available evidence in an iterative way. MAST scores for 30 food service outlets in one Local Government Authority in Perth, Western Australia highlight opportunities for improvements. MAST is the first tool of its kind in Australia to assess the nutritional quality of food service menus. It was practical and feasible to use by public health nutritionists/dietitians and can be adapted to suit other settings or countries. Full article
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The Project “Colourful Means Healthy” as an Educational Measure for the Prevention of Diet-Related Diseases: Investigating the Impact of Nutrition Education for School-Aged Children on Their Nutritional Knowledge
by Elżbieta Szczepańska, Agnieszka Bielaszka, Agata Kiciak, Gabriela Wanat-Kańtoch, Wiktoria Staśkiewicz, Agnieszka Białek-Dratwa and Marek Kardas
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(20), 13307; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013307 - 15 Oct 2022
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Methods: An educational project called Cooking and Educational Workshops “Colourful means healthy” was conducted at the Department of Dietetics of the Faculty of Public Health in Bytom of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, between 1 July 2017 and 30 June [...] Read more.
Methods: An educational project called Cooking and Educational Workshops “Colourful means healthy” was conducted at the Department of Dietetics of the Faculty of Public Health in Bytom of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, between 1 July 2017 and 30 June 2019. The participants/recipients of the project were second-grade primary schoolchildren (317 pupils aged 7–9 years). Objective: The aim of this article is to assess the change in knowledge of the principles of healthy eating among children aged 7–9 years following the nutritional education we carried out as part of the “Colourful means healthy” project. As part of project evaluation, the participating children were asked to rate selected food products in terms of their influence on human health (healthy vs. unhealthy). Results: There was a statistically significant difference between the percentage of correct answers provided by the pupils before and after nutrition education. Thus, one may conclude that conducting an educational programme caused the participants’ nutrition knowledge to increase. Conclusion: The present study demonstrated the potential of nutrition education in the form of cooking and educational workshops in terms of increasing nutrition knowledge. As such, workshops like these can be a useful measure for improving eating habits and eliminating dietary errors in the study population. However, future research is needed in order to verify whether such cooking and educational workshops can produce beneficial and lasting changes in dietary habits over the long term. Full article
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