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Diet and Health

Diet and health describes the relationship between habitual dietary intake and the maintenance of well-being, the prevention of disease, and the management of chronic conditions. It examines how the composition of the diet, including the balance of macronutrients, micronutrients, and bioactive compounds, influences …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 244× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Diet and health describes the relationship between habitual dietary intake and the maintenance of well-being, the prevention of disease, and the management of chronic conditions. It examines how the composition of the diet, including the balance of macronutrients, micronutrients, and bioactive compounds, influences cardiovascular, metabolic, and gastrointestinal health, and how dietary patterns interact with the gut microbiota and overall physiology. The field also considers how diet is assessed and how dietary behaviour can be measured and changed. Research in this area includes novel approaches to dietary assessment, such as smartphone applications, and investigations of how the gut microbiota informs an optimal diet for health maintenance. Studies also examine established dietary patterns, including the Mediterranean diet and its cultural dimensions, the role of functional foods and plant extracts in gastrointestinal health, and high-fat dietary approaches in relation to body composition and brain health. Further work addresses culturally tailored nutrition and lifestyle interventions to reduce cardio-metabolic risk, children's understanding of fluid intake, and comparative dietary education across countries. By connecting dietary composition, eating patterns, and the microbiome to measurable health outcomes, diet-and-health research informs dietary guidance and interventions that aim to prevent disease, support metabolic and gastrointestinal function, and improve overall health through what people eat.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2019

Culture and Mediterranean Diet

López M.T IglesiasCorresponding author
Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Faculty of Health Sciences, Spain
International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 12 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-18-2272
2019

Functional Food

Butnariu MonicaCorresponding author
Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania” from Timisoara, Timis, Romania
International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 95 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-19-2615

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 244 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Diet and Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Nutrition (ISSN 2379-7835).

Journal editorial board
Kadri Koppel · United States Alicja Kuban-Jankowska · Poland Luigia Pazzagli · Italy

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