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Nutrition in Health Maintenance

Nutrition in health maintenance refers to the role of an adequate and balanced diet in preserving health, sustaining normal physiological function, and preventing the onset of disease, as distinct from its role in treating established illness. It rests on meeting requirements for energy, macronutrients, vitamins, mi…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 61× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835

Overview

Nutrition in health maintenance refers to the role of an adequate and balanced diet in preserving health, sustaining normal physiological function, and preventing the onset of disease, as distinct from its role in treating established illness. It rests on meeting requirements for energy, macronutrients, vitamins, minerals, and beneficial bioactive constituents across the life course, supporting growth and repair, immune competence, metabolic regulation, and increasingly the maintenance of a healthy gut microbiota. Dietary pattern and quality, rather than single nutrients, are central, and the concept connects everyday food choice to long-term resilience against chronic disease. Peer-reviewed research in this area examines how knowledge of the gut microbiota can inform an optimal diet for health maintenance, the place of vegetarian and plant-based patterns in dietary guidance, the principles of balanced diets and food guides, food-intake patterns and energy density in weight maintenance, the prevention of micronutrient deficiency such as vitamin A deficiency, the role of antioxidants in biological aging, and clinical nutritional support. Studies employ review, observational research, and intervention designs across diverse populations. This work connects dietary adequacy and pattern to the maintenance of health and the prevention of disease. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research in nutrition addressing diet, nutritional status, and health maintenance across the life course.

Research published in this journal

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

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 61 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Nov 2026.

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Editorial oversight

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

Journal editorial board
Christopher Ochner · United States Alicja Kuban-Jankowska · Poland Angel Catala · Argentina

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