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 32
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cardiometabolic health; dietary assessment; food insecurity; nutrition; lifestyle; physical activity
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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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
