**About the Editors**

#### **Silvia Scaglioni**

Silvia Scaglioni is a medical doctor who has a specialty in Pediatrics and in Endocrinology. The main lines of her research activities concern pediatric nutrition and endocrinology. In particular, she has dedicated herself to the following topics. In the area of nutrition, the assessment of eating habits and body composition; early risk factors for obesity development; nutritional approach to children and adolescent obesity; the development of programs for assessment of eating habits; eating disorders in children (selective feeding, refusal of food); the diagnosis and treatment of child malnutrition; cognitive and behavioural therapy for children and adolescents suffering from overweight and obesity; food education for the prevention of carious disease; factors influencing children's eating behaviours; and early taste experiences and later food choices. In the field of endocrinology of children and adolescents, her topic areas of interest are the management and therapy of children and adolescents suffering from growth failure, precocious and delayed puberty, hypogonadism, and thyroid disorders.

#### **Alessandra Mazzocchi**

Alessandra Mazzocchi is a Biologist who graduated in Human Nutrition with a PhD in Experimental and Clinical Nutrition. She is a fixed-term Research Fellow A at the Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milano, Italy. Since 2018, she has been a nutritional consultant at the Pediatric Clinical Nutrition Outpatient Clinic, IRCCS Ca' Granda Foundation Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy. Her original research projects are related to the nutritional status (energy expenditure, fatty acid profile, nutritional habits, vitamin D status) in pediatric patients hospitalized for both acute and chronic diseases. Her scientific reviews field are nutritional aspects in pediatric age; the role of docosahexaenoic acid in the development and maintenance of correct brain functions and protective effect against cognitive processes and the neuropathology's onset; nutrition in the prevention and management of food allergies (study of the diet in the first years of life and the impact on health and correct growth of the different types of formulas used as an alternative to breast milk); the role of diet and nutrients in the prevention of non-communicable diseases; Mediterranean diet; and sustainable diet.

#### **Valentina De Cosmi**

Valentina De Cosmi is a Biologist who graduated in Human Nutrition with PhD in Epidemiology. She is a post-doc researcher in the field of pediatric nutrition and nutrition epidemiology at the Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milano, Milano, Italy. Her topic areas of interest are the evaluation of resting energy expenditure of healthy and critically ill children; the evaluation of nutritional habits and body composition; the analysis of fatty acids profile; the Mediterranean diet and the adherence to the Mediterranean diet in children; the dietary patterns and their sustainability for the planet; the role of diet and nutrients in preventing non-communicable diseases; nutrition in the prevention and management of food allergies; the epidemiological determinants of infertility.
