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The Role of Dietary Assessment and Nutritional Surveys in Human Health

A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition Methodology & Assessment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 16 December 2024 | Viewed by 1288

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Oscar H. Franco

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Director Department of Global Public Health & Bioethics, Professor of Public Health, Chair Healthy Living, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Interests: cardiometabolic health; dietary assessment; food insecurity; nutrition; lifestyle; physical activity
Dr. Sara Beigrezaei

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Department of Global Public Health & Bioethics, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Interests: dietary assessment; dietary pattern; cardiometabolic health; nutrition; lifestyle; physical activity; meta-analysis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

For many decades, clarifying the relationship between diet and health has been a challenge for researchers, clinicians, and policymakers. Nutritional surveys are widely known as the most popular, efficient, and cost-effective method for investigating various health outcomes, and dietary assessments are central to the evaluation of diet–health relationships. Dietary assessment data are collected in different contexts, including epidemiological studies, clinical trials, and personalized nutrition plans. Furthermore, a broad range of dietary assessment tools have been used, from different questionnaires and biomarkers to omics and new digital tools. The advances in technological innovation and biomarkers along with traditional methods can potentially enhance the quality of dietary assessment data in future research. Furthermore, new technologies and digital tools for dietary assessment are promising areas to enhance dietary intake assessment by improving accuracy, reducing the burden on users, and enabling more comprehensive data analysis in clinical and/or epidemiological studies. While all dietary assessment techniques are prone to measurement errors, further studies are needed to evaluate the efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and quality of data collection using different methodologies during this transition. This Special Issue aims to bring together novel dietary assessment methods and different perspectives in nutritional research to improve health. In this context, this Special Issue invites original research articles, validation studies, reviews, meta-analyses, opinions, and commentaries that address all relevant aspects of the role of dietary assessment and nutritional surveys in human health, including the development of novel dietary assessment methods such as biomarkers, new technologies, digital tools, omics, validation studies, and methods to assess dietary patterns using innovative statistical methods, macro/micronutrients, food components, and food groups.

Prof. Dr. Oscar H. Franco
Dr. Sara Beigrezaei
Guest Editors

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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.

Keywords

  • dietary assessment
  • dietary metrics
  • dietary intake
  • dietary patterns
  • food intake
  • macro/micronutrients intake
  • nutritional surveys
  • diet surveys
  • validity
  • nutrition-related biomarkers
  • precision nutrition
  • innovations and new technologies in dietary assessment
  • digital tools in dietary assessment
  • new statistical methods in nutritional surveys

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Planetary Health Diet Compared to Dutch Dietary Guidelines: Nutritional Content and Adequacy
by Julieth Pilar Uriza-Pinzón, Femke Fleur Verstraete, Oscar H. Franco, Vicente Artola Arita, Mary Nicolaou and Yvonne T. Van der Schouw
Nutrients 2024, 16(14), 2219; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16142219 - 11 Jul 2024
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In 2019, the EAT-Lancet Commission proposed a Planetary Health Diet (PHD) to address challenges toward sustainable and healthy diets. However, its suitability within the Dutch context and a comparison with the Dutch Dietary Guidelines (DDG) needs investigation. Our study aimed to compare the [...] Read more.
In 2019, the EAT-Lancet Commission proposed a Planetary Health Diet (PHD) to address challenges toward sustainable and healthy diets. However, its suitability within the Dutch context and a comparison with the Dutch Dietary Guidelines (DDG) needs investigation. Our study aimed to compare the PHD with DDG in terms of food groups, servings, nutritional content, and adequacy in adults. We modeled two theoretical diets, the PHD (PHD-NL) and another based on the DDG (DDG-NL), using the Dutch National Food Consumption Survey (FCS-2016) and Dutch Food Composition Database to calculate the nutritional content and compared it with the Dutch Dietary Reference Values (DRVs). The PHD included higher quantities of vegetables, fish, legumes, and nuts, while the DDG suggested more significant amounts of cereals, tubers, starchy vegetables, dairy, and red meat. We observed differences in macronutrient distribution; while both diets lacked sufficient vitamin D, calcium content was lower in the PHD-NL. The PHD-NL had higher levels of fiber, vegetable protein, unsaturated fats, and non-heme iron, while vitamins B2, B6, B12, and calcium were lower than the DDG-NL diet. The PHD-NL has nutritional adequacy in the Dutch context, except for vitamin D and calcium, although it is essential to be cautious with iron because of the bioavailability of non-heme iron in plant-based diets. These findings have implications for the adoption of a sustainable diet according to nutritional requirements, population health status, and sociocultural context, as well as compliance with specific dietary behaviors of populations. Full article
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Design and Validation of MEDOC, a Tool to Assess the Combined Adherence to Mediterranean and Western Dietary Patterns
by Camilla Barbero Mazzucca, Lorenza Scotti, Davide Raineri, Giuseppe Cappellano and Annalisa Chiocchetti
Nutrients 2024, 16(11), 1745; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16111745 - 2 Jun 2024
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The Mediterranean diet (MD) and Western diet (WD) are poles apart as dietary patterns. Despite the availability of epidemiological tools to estimate the adherence to MD, to date, there is a lack of combined scores. We developed MEDOC, a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) [...] Read more.
The Mediterranean diet (MD) and Western diet (WD) are poles apart as dietary patterns. Despite the availability of epidemiological tools to estimate the adherence to MD, to date, there is a lack of combined scores. We developed MEDOC, a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) designed to calculate a combined adherence score for both diets and validated it on 213 subjects. The test–retest reliability revealed all frequency questions falling within the acceptable range of 0.5 to 0.7 (Pearson correlation coefficient) in younger (<30 years old) subjects, while 1 question out of 39 fell below the range in older (>30 years old) participants. The reproducibility for portion size was less satisfying, with, respectively, 38.2% and 70.5% of questions falling below 0.5 (Cohen’s Kappa index) for younger and older subjects. The good correlation (R = 0.63, p < 0.0001 for subjects younger than 30 years and R = 0.54, p < 0.0001 for subjects older than 30 years, Pearson’s correlation coefficient) between the MEDOC score and the MediDietScore (MDS) confirmed the validity of the MEDOC score in identifying patients who adhere to the MD. Harnessing the capabilities of this innovative tool, we aim to broaden the existing perspective to study complex dietary patterns in nutritional epidemiology studies. Full article
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