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Nutrition Studies

Nutrition studies are the systematic scientific investigation of how foods, nutrients, and dietary patterns affect human health across populations, the life course, and disease states. The field combines observational and interventional methods to characterize dietary intake, assess nutritional status, and test how …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 41× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835

Overview

Nutrition studies are the systematic scientific investigation of how foods, nutrients, and dietary patterns affect human health across populations, the life course, and disease states. The field combines observational and interventional methods to characterize dietary intake, assess nutritional status, and test how specific diets or nutrition-education programs change behavior and outcomes. Its scope is broad: it encompasses the bibliometric evolution of specialized areas such as vegetarian nutrition, culturally tailored interventions that lower cardio-metabolic risk in migrant groups, and the analysis of dietary patterns in defined populations including those in rehabilitation or at risk of micronutrient deficiency. Disordered eating, exemplified by orthorexia nervosa, falls within its remit alongside the diet-disease relationship seen in conditions such as colorectal cancer. Mechanistic and translational strands include epigenetics and nutrition, the effect of macronutrient composition on exercise-induced muscle adaptation, and the movement from personalized medicine toward customized nutrition. Comparative and educational research, such as cross-national studies of dietary education, examines how nutritional knowledge is taught and applied. Sub-areas include dietary assessment, public-health and community nutrition, clinical and metabolic nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, and nutrition education. Collectively, nutrition studies translate evidence on what people eat into strategies for preventing deficiency and chronic disease and for promoting population health.

Research published in this journal

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

2015

Epigenetics and Nutrition

Kenneth LundstromCorresponding author
International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-14-603

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 41 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Nov 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Nutrition Studies, linking to each citing work.

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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