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Nutritional Effects on Growth and Development
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Nutritional Effects on Growth and Development

A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (11 April 2022) | Viewed by 7525

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Ram Reifen

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School of Nutritional Sciences, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Interests: vitamin A; interaction of vitamin A and iron; pediatric and maternal nutrition; enhancing nutritional quality of foods via genetic manipulations; food allergy
Prof. Dr. Efrat Monsonego-Ornan

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Institute of Biochemistry and Nutrition, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Interests: understanding the role of nutritional and metabolic factors in bone development

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In all cultures and most languages our mothers used to tell us "if you won't eat you won't grow-up", and they were right. The association between under-nutrition and growth retardation is well documented. Proper nutrition may lead to a better development; this is well documented in Korea where South Koreans grow taller than Northern Koreans. Children from developing countries with Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) (either marasmus or kwashiorkor types), as well as animal studies clearly demonstrate the deleterious effects of PEM on linear growth. Insights to the mechanism by which under or over nutrition affects growth are still imperfect.

In recent decades, a transformation in human eating habits, led to increase in the prevalence of over-weight, obesity and other diet-related chronic non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and non- alcoholic fatty liver this has a clear effect on growth patterns maturation. Do specific diets and nutrients as well as the level of processing of foods have a major effect on growth?  Can we modify eating patterns and enhance growth?  Is it mediated by the microbiome?  How does bone growth affected by specific nutrients?

The aim of this edition is to gather papers from leading researchers in both basic and clinical science on various aspects and different perspectives associated with growth and development including novel directions that have arisen over the last decade. We shall pick the best papers which will reflect the up to date research in this fascinating area of research.

Prof. Ram Reifen
Prof. Dr. Efrat Monsonego-Ornan
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • nutrition
  • growth
  • development
  • malnutrition
  • GI system
  • microbiome
  • food
  • diet
  • plant protein
  • nutrients

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Ultra-Processed Food Impairs Bone Quality, Increases Marrow Adiposity and Alters Gut Microbiome in Mice
by Tamara Travinsky-Shmul, Olga Beresh, Janna Zaretsky, Shelley Griess-Fishheimer, Reut Rozner, Rotem Kalev-Altman, Sveta Penn, Ron Shahar and Efrat Monsonego-Ornan
Foods 2021, 10(12), 3107; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10123107 - 15 Dec 2021
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Ultra processed foods (UPF) consumption is becoming dominant in the global food system, to the point of being the most recent cause of malnutrition. Health outcomes of this diet include obesity and metabolic syndrome; however, its effect on skeletal development has yet to [...] Read more.
Ultra processed foods (UPF) consumption is becoming dominant in the global food system, to the point of being the most recent cause of malnutrition. Health outcomes of this diet include obesity and metabolic syndrome; however, its effect on skeletal development has yet to be examined. This project studied the influence of UPF diet on the development and quality of the post-natal skeleton. Young female mice were fed with regular chow diet, UPF diet, UPF diet supplemented with calcium or with multivitamin and mineral complex. Mice fed UPF diet presented unfavorable morphological parameters, evaluated by micro-CT, alongside inferior mechanical performance of the femora, evaluated by three-point bending tests. Growth-plate histology evaluation suggested a modification of the growth pattern. Accumulation of adipose tissue within the bone marrow was significantly higher in the group fed UPF diet. Finally, microbiome 16SrRNA sequencing was used to explore the connection between diets, gut microbial community and skeletal development. Together, we show that consumption of UPF diet during the postnatal developmental period alters the microbiome and has negative outcomes on bone parameters and bone marrow adiposity. Micronutrients improved these phenotypes only partially. Thus, consuming a wholesome diet that contributes to a healthy microbiota is of a great significance in order to achieve healthy skeletal development. Full article
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Dietary Patterns among Adolescents Are Associated with Growth, Socioeconomic Features, and Health-Related Behaviors
by Tali Sinai, Rachel Axelrod, Tal Shimony, Mona Boaz and Vered Kaufman-Shriqui
Foods 2021, 10(12), 3054; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10123054 - 8 Dec 2021
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Dietary patterns (DPs), usually established in adolescents, are important modifiable risk factors in the etiology of malnutrition and chronic diseases. This study aimed to identify DPs of adolescents and examine their associations with growth, sociodemographic, and lifestyle characteristics. A nationally representative, school-based, cross-sectional [...] Read more.
Dietary patterns (DPs), usually established in adolescents, are important modifiable risk factors in the etiology of malnutrition and chronic diseases. This study aimed to identify DPs of adolescents and examine their associations with growth, sociodemographic, and lifestyle characteristics. A nationally representative, school-based, cross-sectional study was conducted in Israeli adolescents aged 11–18 years during 2015–2016. A self-administered survey queried sociodemographics, health behaviors, and diet. Weight and height were measured, and WHO height z-scores and BMI cutoffs were calculated. Food frequency questionnaire data were analyzed using principal components analysis (PCA) to identify DPs. Associations between growth, lifestyle, and sociodemographic characteristics and DPs were modeled using multivariable logistic regressions. A total of 3902 adolescents (46% males, mean age 15.2 ± 1.6 years) completed the survey. PCA identified five DPs, accounting for 38.3% of the total variance. The first two prominent DPs were the ‘plant-based food’ DP, which was associated with the female sex, higher socioeconomic status, overweight/obesity, and healthy lifestyle and the ‘junk food’ DP, which was associated with lower SES, unhealthy lifestyle, and lower height z-scores. Our results elucidate major DPs that strongly correlate with lifestyle risk behaviors and suboptimal growth among adolescents. Implementing screening for DPs should be further examined to identify higher risk health factors among youth. Full article
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