Promoting Healthy Weight Gain and Preventing Obesity in Children and Adolescents: The Role of Diet
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2024) | Viewed by 2442
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic conditions, including diabetes and heart disease, are leading health issues globally with important implications for individuals, families, healthcare systems, and societies. Previously rare, the global prevalence of obesity among children has risen dramatically over recent decades, often at rates that exceed those of adults. It is also becoming more common at increasingly younger ages. While multiple factors have been implicated in contributing to this rise, changes in what and how children eat from infancy onward have played, and continue to play, a central role.
This Special Issue of Nutrients will provide an overview of the available evidence on diet and diet-related factors that influence children’s current and long-term risk of obesity. We welcome the submission of manuscripts presenting original studies as well as reviews to examine how specific dietary patterns, foods, and/or nutrients modify this risk, how parent feeding and other practices and the environments in which children live, learn, and play influence their food choices, and why some children may be more vulnerable to excess diet-associated weight gain than others. Manuscripts which demonstrate the impact of interventions on children’s diet and weight status are also encouraged.
Dr. Jean A. Welsh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pediatric
- healthy diet
- weight management
- overweight
- obesity
- intervention
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