Nutrition and Lifestyle Intervention and Weight Management during Pregnancy: For Maternal and Offspring's Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition in Women".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (13 September 2023) | Viewed by 5398
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Interests: obesity in pregnancy; gestational diabetes; nutrition in pregnancy; gestational weight gain; pregnancy outcomes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Women's nutritional status and lifestyle prior to and during pregnancy play an important role in the developmental and growth processes of the offspring and successful pregnancy outcomes. Nutrition and Lifestyle Intervention and Weight Management during Pregnancy aims to publish opinions, research findings, and international recommendations on a variety of pregnancy nutrition and lifestyle-related aspects from preconception to pregnancy and delivery. We invite papers looking at overall health, exercise and lifestyle interventions prior to conception that could provide recommendations for pre-conception counseling of women. We also invite papers with a focus on diet and nutrition recommendations for a healthy pregnancy to ensure optimal maternal and fetal outcomes, as well as articles centered on the most common nutrition-related pregnancy complications, obesity, and gestational diabetes. Articles that delve into the cutting-edge world of epigenetic and metabolomic research assessing the role of the programming effects of nutrition in pregnancy on the long-term health and disease outcomes in the offspring are welcomed.
We also consider qualitative research of everyday situations, questions, and challenges pregnant women face in trying to maintain a healthy nutrition and lifestyle in pregnancy that could provide answers to aid healthcare professionals in the nutrition-based counseling of pregnant women and their families.
Given the multifaceted complexity of nutrition during conception and in pregnancy, we have established this Special Issue to highlight the theoretical and practical, clinical, and allied health aspects of weight and nutrition management in childbearing.
Dr. Angela Vinturache
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutrition
- lifestyle
- diet
- weight
- BMI
- obesity
- gestational weight gain
- diabetes
- exercise
- pregnancy
- childbearing
- postpartum
- gestation