Ways to Improve the Nutrition and Metabolic Health of Pregnant Women and Their Offspring

Dear Colleagues,

Pregnancy can be considered a window into one's future health. For the mother and the developing child's health and wellbeing, optimal nutrition throughout this period is crucial because pregnancy outcomes have a lasting effect on both the mother and the unborn child. Furthermore, early nutrition can affect the development and formation of dietary patterns and behavioral patterns that last a lifetime because, at this stage, the fetus’s physiological development and metabolism are influenced by the mother’s nutrition. However, determining optimal nutrition for different stages of pregnancy is challenging.

This Special Issue, “Ways to Improve the Nutrition and Metabolic Health of Pregnant Women and Their Offspring”, invites submissions of original research, narrative reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses on etiology, mechanistic studies on the maternal diet during pregnancy and the effects of diet on the health of mothers and their children.

Dr. Sarah Glastras
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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.

• preconceptions
• pregnancy
• nutrition
• diet
• child growth
• infant
• gestational weight gain
• perinatal
• macrosomia
• large-for-gestational age