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Dietary Recommendation

Dietary recommendations are evidence-based statements that translate nutritional science into guidance on the types and amounts of foods and nutrients people should consume to promote health and reduce the risk of diet-related disease. They are issued as food-based dietary guidelines, nutrient reference values, and …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 7 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 42× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Dietary recommendations are evidence-based statements that translate nutritional science into guidance on the types and amounts of foods and nutrients people should consume to promote health and reduce the risk of diet-related disease. They are issued as food-based dietary guidelines, nutrient reference values, and condition-specific advice, and they synthesize epidemiological, clinical, and mechanistic evidence into practical targets for populations and individuals. Recommendations address energy balance, macronutrient distribution, micronutrient adequacy, and the limitation of components such as added salt linked to adverse outcomes. Research in this area examines how dietary guidelines incorporate eating patterns such as vegetarianism, the role of targeted dietary interventions in managing conditions including colorectal cancer and diabetes, and the use of protein- and energy-dense nutritional supplements for clinical needs such as cancer cachexia. Studies also assess the prevalence and determinants of behaviors that conflict with recommendations, including excess salt intake, and consider how exclusion diets are evaluated for specific clinical populations. An emerging direction is the movement from population-level guidance toward personalized and precision nutrition, in which recommendations are tailored to individual characteristics. The field connects nutrition epidemiology, public health policy, and clinical dietetics to develop, apply, and evaluate guidance that shapes food choice and nutritional status.

Research published in this journal

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

2022

Beneficial Impacts of Solanum aethiopicum L. in Diabetes Control

Michael Chukwudike Anyakudo MagnusCorresponding author
Endometabolic and Nutrition Research Unit, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Medical Sciences, P.M.B 536, Laje Road, Ondo City, Ondo State, Nigeria.
International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 4 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-22-4170
2015

Vegetarianism in Food-Based Dietary Guidelines

Baroni LucianaCorresponding author
Primary Care Unit, Northern District, AULSS 9, via Manin 46, I-31046, Oderzo, Treviso, Italy
International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 28 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-14-588

How this research is being cited

The 7 articles above have been cited 42 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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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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