"Good nutrition is essential to keeping current and future generations healthy across the lifespan. A healthy diet helps children grow and develop properly and reduces their risk of chronic diseases. Adults who eat a healthy diet live longer and have a lower risk of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers."–Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
New discoveries in health research happen every day, but one clear message remains consistent; optimal nutrition is imperative to human health. Research shows that an unhealthy diet is one of the major risk factors for a range of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and other conditions linked to obesity World Health Organization, 2022).
While poor nutrition can lead to life-threatening physical disease, it also can negatively contribute to secondary issues. An unhealthy diet can alter the microbiome in the gut, thereby impacting the gut-brain connection and affecting mental health and wellbeing.
Annual Reviews has curated this new review article collection that broadly explores nutrition and diet, particularly focusing on their connection to diseases such as cancer and obesity and overall health. The reviews span multiple fields of study including food science, biology, and physiology, in the following five categories:
- Food and behavior for improved health
- The microbiome and gut health
- Nutrition's link to disease
- The business of nutrition
- The complexities of obesity
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Food and Behavior For Improved Health
The Importance of Food Processing and Eating Behavior in Promoting Healthy and Sustainable Diets
Ciarán G. Forde and Eric A. Decker, Annual Review of Nutrition
Plant-Based Proteins: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
William R. Aimutis, Annual Review of Food Science and Technology
Sleep and Diet: Mounting Evidence of a Cyclical Relationship
Faris M. Zuraikat, Rebecca A. Wood, Rocío Barragán, and Marie-Pierre St-Onge, Annual Review of Nutrition
Cardiometabolic Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
Krista A. Varady, Sofia Cienfuegos, Mark Ezpeleta, and Kelsey Gabel, Annual Review of Nutrition
Can We Say What Diet Is Best for Health?
D.L. Katz and S. Meller, Annual Review of Public Health
Plants, Diet, and Health
Cathie Martin, Yang Zhang, Chiara Tonelli, and Katia Petroni, Annual Review of Plant Biology
Precision (Personalized) Nutrition: Understanding Metabolic Heterogeneity
Steven H. Zeisel, Annual Review of Food Science and Technology
The Microbiome and Gut Health
The Gut Microbiome: Connecting Diet, Glucose Homeostasis, and Disease
Elizabeth J. Howard, Tony K.T. Lam, and Frank A. Duca, Annual Review of Medicine
The Gut Microbiome and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Yue Shan, Mirae Lee, and Eugene B. Chang, Annual Review of Medicine
The Influence of the Western Diet on Microbiota and Gastrointestinal Immunity
Vanessa Las Heras, Silvia Melgar, John MacSharry, and Cormac G.M. Gahan, Annual Review of Food Science and Technology
A Crucial Role for Diet in the Relationship Between Gut Microbiota and Cardiometabolic Disease
Ilias Attaye, Sara-Joan Pinto-Sietsma, Hilde Herrema, and Max Nieuwdorp Annual Review of Medicine
Nutrition's Link to Disease
The Lard Works in Mysterious Ways: Ceramides in Nutrition-Linked Chronic Disease
Rebeka J. Nicholson, Marie K. Norris, Annelise M. Poss, William L. Holland, and Scott A. Summers, Annual Review of Nutrition
The Role of Diet in Cancer Prevention and Chemotherapy Efficacy
Steven D. Mittelman, Annual Review of Nutrition
The Role of Nutrition for the Aging Population: Implications for Cognition and Alzheimer's Disease
Rebecca Power, Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, Ríona Mulcahy, Alan Howard, and John M. Nolan, Annual Review of Food Science and Technology
Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer Epigenetics
Carmen Sapienza and Jean-Pierre Issa, Annual Review of Nutrition
The Business of Nutrition
The Influence of Front-of-Package Nutrition Labeling on Consumer Behavior and Product Reformulation
Christina A. Roberto, Shu Wen Ng, Montserrat Ganderats-Fuentes, David Hammond, Simon Barquera, Alejandra Jauregui, and Lindsey Smith Taillie, Annual Review of Nutrition
Beyond Calories: The New Economics of Nutrition
Amelia B. Finaret and William A. Masters, Annual Review of Resource Economics
The Complexities of Obesity
Adipose Tissue Fibrosis in Obesity: Etiology and Challenges
Geneviève Marcelin, Emmanuel L. Gautier, and Karine Clément, Annual Review of Physiology
Advancing Health Equity Efforts to Reduce Obesity: Changing the Course
Shiriki K. Kumanyika, Annual Review of Nutrition
Endoscopic Approaches to Obesity Management
Russell D. Dolan and Allison R. Schulman, Annual Review of Medicine
Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells: Facilitators of Cancer and Obesity-Induced Cancer
Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, Annual Review of Cancer Biology
Early Childhood Obesity: A Developmental Perspective
Megan H. Pesch and Julie C. Lumeng, Annual Review of Developmental Psychology
Developmental Origins of Common Disease: Epigenetic Contributions to Obesity
Maya Kappil, Robert O. Wright, and Alison P. Sanders, Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
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