Dietary, Lifestyle and Children Health

• Other Authors: Zou, Zhiyong (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Food & society; preschool children; nutritional status; eating habits; Mediterranean diet; Split-Dalmatia County; fruit consumption; lipid; dyslipidemia; children and adolescents; China; child; diet quality; caregiver perception; CCDI; dietary fat; polyunsaturated fatty acid; monounsaturated fatty acid; puberty timing; soy food; obesity; hypertension; child and adolescent health; food marketing; policy research; diet; kindergarten; menus; nutritional errors; children; blood pressure; single-child status; lifestyle behaviors; birth cohort; prospective study; maternal dietary pattern; neurodevelopment; malnutrition; overnutrition; fruit and vegetable intake; potassium intake; renal damage; leptin; preterm neonate; intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR); growth trajectories; children health prognosis; diet quality questionnaire; food groups; sentinel foods; dietary diversity; sedentary behavior; metabolic syndrome; preterm; prebiotics; glycomacropeptide; metagenomics; breastfeeding; obesity phenotypes; healthy lifestyle; baby food; food contaminant; toxic elements; food exposure; children safety; children's health; arsenic; cadmium; mercury; lead; latent class analysis; mediation analysis; health-related behavior; cohort; health-related quality of life; Swedish Healthy Eating Index for Adolescents 2015 (SHEIA15); Riksmaten Adolescents Diet Diversity Score (RADDS); inositol; myo-inositol; D-chiro-inositol; gestational diabetes mellitus; insulin resistance; randomized controlled trial; meta-analysis; screeners; nutrition; physical activity; sedentary behaviour; lifestyle risk; COVID-19; dietary balance; Japan; mealtime regularity; lifestyle; electronic devices; household; fast food; adolescents; dietary behavior; family; childhood asthma; innate immunity; fruit and vegetables; carotenoids; cardio-metabolic risk factors; birth weight; parents' educational level; parents' occupational level; birthweight; adiposity; cardiorespiratory fitness; cholesterol; lifestyle intervention; KIDMED test; kidney impairment; Diet Quality Questionnaire; global dietary recommendations; overweight; child-nutrition disorders; prediabetic state; nutrition therapy; Mediterranean; rural health; complementary feeding; determinants; infant feeding; Thailand; young child; n/a
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Food quality, including dietary quality and diversity, is as essential to human health as air is to human life. In addition, other healthy lifestyle factors, including a healthy body mass index, regular exercise, no smoking, and sufficient sleep duration, are associated with a lower incidence of chronic non-communicable diseases and longer life expectancy. More importantly, maternal healthy lifestyle factors are also associated with a substantially reduced risk of chronic diseases in their offspring. Childhood is a critical period for the development of a healthy lifestyle and the prevention of chronic diseases in adulthood. However, the prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing and unhealthy lifestyles are becoming an epidemic, posing a potential future burden of adult chronic disease. The aim of this Special Issue is to identify and assess dietary factors, including dietary diversity and specific nutrients/phytochemicals, as well as other healthy lifestyle factors, in the prevention and management of childhood chronic diseases. Additionally, we want to identify gaps and tools that could help with the assessment of children's health. We wanted to encourage all researchers who work in this field to submit original research, reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses to this Special Issue to broaden our knowledge and pave the way for new research directions.