Innovative Food and Nutrition Approaches to Promote Healthy Lifestyles

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce our call for papers for the Special Issue of IJERPH titled: “Innovative Food and Nutrition Approaches to Promote Healthy Lifestyles”.

In 1999, the WHO defined a healthy lifestyle as a way of living that lowers the risk of being ‘seriously ill or dying early’; the definition throughout the years was clarified as ‘balance of responsible and smart health choices; eating right, daily physical activity, promoting emotional and spiritual wellness, ensuring adequate sleep, avoiding harmful drugs, alcohol, tobacco, illness, stress, & safeguarding a good work-life balance’. Several of the WHO recommendations for achieving a healthy lifestyle include food and nutritional perspectives, such as eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, reducing fat, sugar, and salt intake, and exercising; as well as controlling body weight and the body mass index. While those recommendations are valid and established, our Special Issue welcomes food and nutritional approaches beyond those which could impact our health and wellbeing. This can include but is not limited to dietary approaches, eating habits, and trends in food choice behaviors. While we welcome innovative approaches that could be used to improve the nutritional quality of people’s diets to contribute to their healthy lifestyle, we also welcome innovation in the food supply chain—e.g., novel crops/novel foods biofortification/food fortification, and novel approaches in processing and manufacture (e.g., food matrix/texture). The use of innovative approaches or technologies can also help us to better understand food environments/food behaviors/food intake or help with better food choice behavior, and our Special Issue is open to all innovations in food and nutritional sciences that aim to support health.

Prof. Dr. Farzad Amirabdollahian
Dr. Leo Stevenson
Guest Editors

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. 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.

• nutritional approaches
• enhancing health
• food innovation
• food composition
• food fortification
• food reformulation
• food environments
• dietary intake
• healthy lifestyle
• nutritional assessment