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The Independent and Joint Roles of Nutrition, Sleep, and Lifestyle in Human Health

A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2024) | Viewed by 5292

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Dr. Arthur Eumann Mesas

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Health and Social Research Center, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 16002 Cuenca, Spain
Interests: epidemiology and public health; lifestyle; nutrition; sleep disorders and sleep medicine; physical activity; sedentary behavior; mental health
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Dear Colleagues,

The impact of lifestyle behaviors on physical and mental health is widely acknowledged in the literature, with evidence focusing on the individual effects certain aspects of lifestyle have on health. This simplification is due to the complexity of studying behavioral interactions and streamlining recommendations in clinical and public health settings. However, behaviors often combine into patterns, potentially magnifying their effects.

With this in mind, this Special Issue aims to delve into the roles of nutrition and sleep as fundamental components of lifestyle that impact health. We seek to deepen our understanding of how nutrition influences health, covering aspects like nutritional status, body composition, dietary intake, and body image perception. Additionally, we aim to explore the relationship between various sleep-related variables—such as duration, quality, latency, efficiency, insomnia, and other sleep disorders—and health outcomes. Furthermore, we consider the interplay between nutrition and sleep and their potential synergistic effects on physical and mental health. Studies on chrononutrition and the association between chronotype and health outcomes are also encouraged.

Dr. Arthur Eumann Mesas
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • nutrition
  • diet
  • sleep
  • chronotype
  • lifestyle
  • physical condition
  • mental health
  • chronic diseases
  • cluster effects

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What Is the Relationship between Chronotype and Disordered Eating in Adolescents? The EHDLA Study
by José Francisco López-Gil, Jorge Olivares-Arancibia, Rodrigo Yáñez-Sepúlveda and Mayra Fernanda Martínez-López
Nutrients 2024, 16(16), 2576; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16162576 - 6 Aug 2024
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Background: Evidence assessing the relationship between chronotype and disordered eating in adolescents is scarce. The current study tried to evaluate the association between chronotype and disordered eating in a sample of Spanish adolescents. Methods: This secondary cross-sectional study analyzed data from the Eating [...] Read more.
Background: Evidence assessing the relationship between chronotype and disordered eating in adolescents is scarce. The current study tried to evaluate the association between chronotype and disordered eating in a sample of Spanish adolescents. Methods: This secondary cross-sectional study analyzed data from the Eating Healthy and Daily Life Activities (EHDLA) study. The sample consisted of 703 adolescents (56.3% girls) aged between 12 and 17 years from the Valle de Ricote (Region of Murcia, Spain). Chronotype was assessed using the Morningness/Eveningness Scale in Children (MESC). Disordered eating was evaluated by two psychologists using the Sick, Control, One, Fat, and Food (SCOFF) questionnaire. Results: Adolescents with an eveningness chronotype showed a higher SCOFF score (estimated marginal mean [M] = 1.1; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.7 to 1.5) in comparison with adolescents with a morningness chronotype (M = 0.7; 95% CI 0.5 to 0.8) (p = 0.010), as well as with those with an intermediate chronotype (M = 0.6; 95% CI 0.5 to 0.8) (p = 0.032). A higher predictive probability of having disordered eating was identified in adolescents with an eveningness chronotype (39.5%; 95% CI 22.8% to 59.1%), compared to adolescents with an intermediate chronotype (14.9%; 95% CI 10.8% to 20.1%) (p = 0.008) and with their counterparts with a morningness chronotype (16.9%; 95% CI 11.6% to 24.0%) (p = 0.021). Conclusions: This study reveals that adolescents with an eveningness chronotype are more likely to exhibit disordered eating behaviors compared to those with morningness or intermediate chronotypes. These findings highlight the importance of considering chronotype in adolescent health, particularly in developing targeted interventions to prevent eating disorders. Full article
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Chrononutrition and Cardiometabolic Health: An Overview of Epidemiological Evidence and Key Future Research Directions
by Oluwatimilehin E. Raji, Esther B. Kyeremah, Dorothy D. Sears, Marie-Pierre St-Onge and Nour Makarem
Nutrients 2024, 16(14), 2332; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16142332 - 19 Jul 2024
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Chrononutrition is a rapidly evolving field of nutritional epidemiology that addresses the complex relationship between temporal eating patterns, circadian rhythms, and metabolic health, but most prior research has focused on the cardiometabolic consequences of time-restricted feeding and intermittent fasting. The purpose of this [...] Read more.
Chrononutrition is a rapidly evolving field of nutritional epidemiology that addresses the complex relationship between temporal eating patterns, circadian rhythms, and metabolic health, but most prior research has focused on the cardiometabolic consequences of time-restricted feeding and intermittent fasting. The purpose of this topical review is to summarize epidemiological evidence from observational and intervention studies regarding the role of chrononutrition metrics related to eating timing and regularity in cardiometabolic health preservation and cardiovascular disease prevention. Observational studies are limited due to the lack of time-stamped diet data in most population-based studies. Findings from cohort studies generally indicate that breakfast skipping or the later timing of the first eating occasion, a later lunch and dinner, and a greater proportion of caloric intake consumed in the evening are associated with adverse cardiometabolic outcomes, including higher risk for coronary heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, and systemic inflammation. Randomized controlled trials are also limited, as most in the field of chrononutrition focus on the cardiometabolic consequences of time-restricted feeding. Overall, interventions that shift eating timing patterns to earlier in the day and that restrict evening caloric intake tend to have protective effects on cardiometabolic health, but small sample sizes and short follow-up are notable limitations. Innovation in dietary assessment approaches, to develop low-cost validated tools with acceptable participant burden that reliably capture chrononutrition metrics, is needed for advancing observational evidence. Culturally responsive pragmatic intervention studies with sufficiently large and representative samples are needed to understand the impact of fixed and earlier eating timing schedules on cardiometabolic health. Additional research is warranted to understand the modifiable determinants of temporal eating patterns, to investigate the role of chrononutrition in the context of other dimensions of diet (quantity, quality, and food and nutrition security) in achieving cardiometabolic health equity, and to elucidate underlying physiological mechanisms. Full article
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