Food Choices, Consumption, Nutrition Behaviors, and Human Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 November 2024 | Viewed by 1648
Special Issue Editor
Interests: agricultural economics; climate change and health; environmental and health economics; food and nutrition security; sustainable food system
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthy dietary practices start early in life with breastfeeding fostering healthy growth that improves cognitive development, and may have longer term health benefits such as reducing the risk of becoming overweight or obese and developing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) later in life. Energy intake (calories) should be in balance with energy expenditure to avoid unhealthy weight gain. Furthermore, consuming a healthy diet throughout the life-course helps to prevent malnutrition in all its forms as well as a range of the NCDs and other health conditions. However, increased production of processed foods, increasing food prices, climate change impacts, rapid urbanization and changing lifestyles have led to a shift in individuals and household’s dietary patterns and nutritional outcomes. People are now making different food choices and consuming more foods high in energy, fats, free sugars and salt/sodium, while many people do not eat enough fruit, vegetables and other dietary fibres. Meanwhile, healthy diet helps to protect against malnutrition in all its forms, as well as the NCDs, including diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer while unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity are fastly leading global risks to human health. Interestingly, the exact make-up of a diversified, balanced and healthy diet will vary depending on individual socio economic characteristics such as age, gender, lifestyle and degree of physical activity, cultural context, locally available foods and dietary customs. Intriguingly, the basic principles of what constitutes a healthy diet remain the same. This Special issue welcomes original studies (review and research articles) that consider and links food-nutrition economics with economic principle and theories, economics of food and nutrition behavior, food-nutrition and health economics, climate change-food and health economics, dietary diversity, hunger and undernourishment, consumer food choices and nutritional outcomes with a focus on micro and macroeconomic issues of significant development policy relevance to the attainment of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This Special Issue will highlight the most recent advances in all aspects relevant to food-nutrition behaviors and health economics.
Dr. Abiodun Olusola Omotayo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food intake
- food sovereignty
- climate and health
- health economics
- malnutrition
- nutritional status
- UN’s sustainable goals
