Dietary Intake, Eating Behaviors and Multiple Health Outcomes: From Pregnancy to Infancy
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Epidemiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 2016
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diet is a modifiable factor before and during pregnancy that impacts maternal and birth outcomes. Accumulating research demonstrates that poor dietary quality before and during pregnancy is linked to maternal complications, such as gestational diabetes and hypertension and an increase in the predisposition of offspring to the development of many diseases. In addition to diet quality, recent studies show that dietary behaviors, including skipping breakfast, eating out, eating instant food, overeating, eating fast, meal timing, meal frequency and irregularity in meals may influence maternal and infant health.
However, findings regarding dietary behavior during pregnancy and its related outcomes up to infancy remain challenging. This Special Issue will include research topics related to the association of dietary intakes and eating behaviours before and during pregnancy on maternal and/or infant health.
Dr. Sakineh Shab-Bidar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- meal frequency
- fasting
- dietary patterns
- chronotype
- chrononutrition
- diet quality
- skipping breakfast
- skipping meals
- lifestyle
- dietary indexes
- maternal nutrition
- birth outcomes
- pregnancy
- maternal health
- gestational diabetes
- preeclampsia
- hypertension
- diabetes
- obesity
- metabolic syndrome
- meta-analysis
- systematic reviews
- nutritional epidemiology
