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  1. The aim of this study was to examine the association of sociodemographic factors and television advertisements with junk food consumption among adolescents aged 13 to 17 in Bangladesh.

    Authors: Shammy Akter, Md. Hasan Al Banna, Justice Kanor Tetteh, Trisha Mallick, Bably Sabina Azhar, Joytun Nahar, Masuma Chowdhury, Addah Graham Gilbert Wilfred and Sumaia Sahrin
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:109
  2. Following a plant-based diet is associated with reduced risk of cardiometabolic diseases and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, the determinants of plant-based diet adoption in the United States remain poorl...

    Authors: Jiaqi Yang, Lauren Bernard, Audrey Ting, Valerie K. Sullivan and Casey M. Rebholz
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:108
  3. Undernutrition is a significant challenge in Ethiopia, where limited dietary diversity and widespread micronutrient deficiencies affect millions, especially women of reproductive age. Although much research ha...

    Authors: Andinet Abera Hailu, Stephen Thornhill, Masresha Tessema, Alebel Bayrau Weldesilassie and Edward Lahiff
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:107
  4. The Kasai region in the Democratic Republic of Congo suffered a violent conflict in 2016-17 and has been facing high household food insecurity and acute malnutrition (AM) in under 5 children ever since. This s...

    Authors: Victoire Hubert, K. Phelan, L. I. Bozama, H. Boubacar, G. Tshibangu Sakubu, B. Tshiala, Mathilde Savy, R. Becquet and C. Cazes
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:106
  5. The risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus has been linked to dietary factors. This is one of the first studies that has investigated the relationship between dietary phytochemical index (DPI) and ge...

    Authors: Tooba Bahramfard, Mohammad-Amin Zolghadrpour, Mohammad-Reza Jowshan, Davood Sheikhi, Atousa Zandvakili, Zahra Mohagheghzade, Marjan Roozbehi and Azizollah Pourmahmoudi
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:105
  6. Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) has been identified as a promising indicator for monitoring diets globally. MDD-W questionnaires have been integrated into, amongst others, the Demographic and Healt...

    Authors: Giles T. Hanley-Cook, Simone M. Gie, Juan Pablo Parraguez and Bridget A. Holmes
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:104
  7. As no study has evaluated the association between fat intake and its components with diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) indices, our aim in the present cross-sectional study was to assess this association.

    Authors: Faezeh Geravand, Ensieh Nasli-Esfahani, Mohsen Montazer, Moharam Jalalzadeh and Leila Azadbakht
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:103
  8. Consuming alternatives to cow’s milk (CM) could help counteract current environmental problems. Plant-based milk alternatives (PBMA) and precision fermentation-based milk alternatives–also called “animal-free mi...

    Authors: Lena Szczepanski, Laura-Marie Bahlmann, Corinna Rötker, Annike Eylering and Florian Fiebelkorn
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:101
  9. Research examining the relationship between glycemic and insulin indices and sleep quality and duration is scarce and has yielded contradictory results. This study evaluated the relationship between dietary gl...

    Authors: Kimia Rostampour, Mohammadtaghi Sarebanhassanabadi, Reza Bidaki, Seyed Mostafa Seyedhosseini, Azam Ahmadi-Vasmehjani, Matin Mohyadini, Fatemeh Sadat Mirjalili and Amin Salehi-Abargouei
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:100
  10. Self-medication, as a self-care practice, increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the most prevalent medications used for self-medication were vitamins and minerals. Accordingly, this study ...

    Authors: Shideh Rafati, Foozieh Rafati, Nahid Shahabi, Neda Dastyar, Fatemeh Arjmand and Seyedeh Masoumeh Mousavi Nejad
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:99
  11. This review aims to explore factors associated with the provision of enteral nutrition in critically ill children in intensive care. Critically ill children are at risk of becoming malnourished, which can lead...

    Authors: Elisabeth Søiland, Claire Glenton, Susan Munabi-Babigumira, Lena Victoria Nordheim, Suzgika Lakudzala, Idriss Ibrahim Kallon, Celeste Naude, Amanda Brand, Simon Lewin and Nyanyiwe Masingi Mbeye
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:98
  12. Effective nutrition interventions for hypertension (HTN), including the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Eating Plan, fail to consider cultural preferences and barriers to obtaining and utilizing...

    Authors: Ambria Crusan, Kerrie L. Roozen, Clara Godoy-Henderson, Angela Evans and Katie Reeves
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:97
  13. Anaemia is a significant global health issue, with adolescents being a particularly vulnerable group. In developing countries, 27% of adolescents are affected by anaemia, compared to a much lower prevalence of...

    Authors: Joyce Sangeetha Soans, Judith Angelitta Noronha, Suneel C Mundkur, Baby S. Nayak, Meenakshi Garg, Roshan David Jathanna and Edlin Glane Mathias
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:96
  14. Hemodialysis affects patients’ nutritional status in several ways, resulting in malnutrition, which, in turn, increases the rates of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The main aim of this study was to compreh...

    Authors: Zakaria Hamdan, Zaher Nazzal, Souzan Zidan, Lawra Bsharat, Sanaa Ishtayah, Sarah Sammoudi and Manal Badrasawi
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:95
  15. Humans seek to eat what is palatable, especially when snacking. Theoretically, a person who enjoys sweet taste more may choose snacks with higher sugar and calories, leading to lower overall diet quality, yet ...

    Authors: Faye Guarneri, Liz Cortes, Caren Ghali, Janel Clovis, Enrique R. Pouget, Stephanie Hunter and May M. Cheung
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:94
  16. Adaptive and innovative technologies to prevent stunting are being developed continuously in various countries. This study aimed to develop and evaluate the accuracy of a stunting risk detection application ba...

    Authors: Tria Astika Endah Permatasari, Yudi Chadirin, Ernirita Ernirita, Anisa Nurul Syafitri and Devina Alifia Fadhilah
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:93
  17. Acute malnutrition still affects millions of children under five years of age globally each year and contributes to approximately half of all annual childhood deaths. A considerable proportion of patients who ...

    Authors: Hermann Biénou Lanou, Jérôme Winetourefa Somé, Marie Arsène Aristide Koumbem and Seni Kouanda
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:92
  18. The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) necessitates greater efforts to find effective therapeutic agents for this complex condition. This study conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of ra...

    Authors: Mohammad Rudiansyah, Dina Akeel Salman, Hardik Doshi, Renuka Jyothi S., Debasish Shit, Swati Sharma and Mehran Nouri
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:91
  19. Malnutrition is a common global health problem that affects children under five years of age. This study aimed to explore current barriers and facilitators from the perspective of health personnel at Tamale Te...

    Authors: Tamimu Yakubu, Charles Apprey and Reginald Adjetey Annan
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:90
  20. Oxidative stress contributes to the initiation of inflammatory processes in the airway passages of asthmatic patients. An antioxidant-rich diet may alleviate asthmatic outcomes; however, evidence for this is c...

    Authors: Theerapan Songnuy, Putrada Ninla-aesong, Piyada Thairach and Janjira Thok-Ngaen
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:89
  21. Changes in diet following the Great East Japan Earthquake may affect the mental health of evacuees. However, a large-scale data analysis on this topic is still lacking. Therefore, this study aimed to investiga...

    Authors: Junko Yoshida, Eri Eguchi, Fumikazu Hayashi, Masaharu Maeda, Hirooki Yabe, Seiji Yasumura and Tetsuya Ohira
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:88
  22. Obesity is a threat to public health. Dietary protein and certain amino acids (AAs) have been associated with obesity; however, the association of AAs patterns with excess body weight has not been considered, ...

    Authors: Fahimeh Alijani, Ali Ahmadi, Nakisa Mohammadpour, Shima Jazayeri, Jamileh Abolghasemi, Hossein Shahinfar, Atie Sadat Khorasanian and Shahnaz Rimaz
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:87
  23. The role of vitamin D supplementation in modulating clinical outcomes and inflammatory responses in COVID- 19 patients has garnered significant interest. This umbrella review consolidates current evidence to e...

    Authors: Hamed Jafari-Vayghan, Mehran Rahimlou, Amir Almasi-Hashiani, Ehsan Aframehr and Sevda Saleh-Ghadimi
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:86
  24. Despite its prevalence, Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) remains poorly understood, with limited therapeutic options available to manage its debilitating symptoms. The discovery of a potential link between F...

    Authors: Ninar AlJerf, Abdullah H. Maad, Loai Aljerf and Muaaz Alajlani
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:85
  25. Risk factor surveillance is vital for public health interventions in non-communicable diseases (NCD) control due to a noticeable nutrition transition among the population affecting dietary patterns. The object...

    Authors: Adhra Al-Mawali, Ayaman Al-Harrasi, Avinash Daniel Pinto, Magdi Morsi, Abbas Balouchi and Francesco P. Cappuccio
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:84
  26. Anemia, characterized by a deficiency in red blood cells or hemoglobin, remains a significant public health concern worldwide, particularly among children and adolescents. Inadequate dietary intake, including ...

    Authors: Haiting Li, Seyedeh Parisa Moosavian, Niloufar Ghanbari, Seyed Hossein Mirlohi and Mehran Rahimlou
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:83
  27. Communities afflicted by armed conflict are characterized by pervasive malnutrition and widespread hunger. For nearly two years, there has been an unbroken conflict in Tigray. However, little is understood abo...

    Authors: Hadush Gebregziabher, Amaha Kahsay, Gebretsadkan Gebremedhin Gebretsadik, Tedros Bereket, Teklay Negash Gebregziabher, Micheale Yifter Weldemichael, Afework Mulugeta and Alem Gebremariam
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:82
  28. Dietary practices have a valuable impact on lowering the risk of complications associated with diabetes mellitus. The countries in the horns of Africa do not follow properly the approaches of dietary recommend...

    Authors: Esmael Ali Muhammad, Ever Siyoum Shewarega, Lemlem Daniel Baffa, Elsa Awoke Fentie, Aysheshim Kassahun Belew, Berhanu Mengistu, Mekuriaw Nibret Aweke, Medina Abdela Ahmed and Muluken Chanie Agimas
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:81
  29. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a prevalent endocrine disorder affecting women of reproductive age, characterized by hyperandrogenism, ovulatory dysfunction, and polycystic ovarian morphology. This study a...

    Authors: Zeinab Ajorlouie, Paniz Moshkian, Ghazal Baghdadi, Roksaneh Amiri, Fereshteh Biglari and Mehran Rahimlou
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:80
  30. Successful outpatient management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) significantly lowers the morbidity and mortality of patients. However, 29.5% of children under five years of age default from outpatient mana...

    Authors: Sandrah Joyce Mwima, David Lubogo and Arthur Bagonza
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:78
  31. The rising intake of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) among the pediatric population poses challenges due to the lack of precise and easily accessible tools to quantify such intake. This complicates understanding ...

    Authors: Laura Fernanda Rosales-Arreola, Citlali Ayala-Galván, Estefany Villa-Aguilar, Analí Villegas-González, Rosa E. Soriano-Rosales, Beatriz Pérez-Guillé, José Francisco González-Zamora and Ailema González-Ortiz
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:77
  32. Low-carbohydrate diets (LCDs) have been associated with inflammation while there is still conflicting evidence regarding the effects of this type of diet on inflammatory markers and the clinical benefit of the...

    Authors: Mahdieh Khodarahmi, Fatemeh Pourteymour Fard Tabrizi and Gholamreza Askari
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:76
  33. More than 60% of women of reproductive age in Odisha, India are anemic. The national long-term efforts in reducing anemia have focused mostly on the supply side, with a paucity of campaigns on the demand side....

    Authors: Bee-Ah Kang, Rajiv N. Rimal, Jeffrey Bingenheimer, Rohini Ganjoo, Hagere Yilma and Erica Sedlander
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:75
  34. The risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is increased in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Previous research has suggested that lipid metabolism is altered in RA, but research under postprandial con...

    Authors: Torsten Sällström, Linnea Bärebring, Erik Hulander, Inger Gjertsson, Anna Winkvist and Helen M. Lindqvist
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:74
  35. The ketogenic diet (KD) has been used as a therapeutic diet for a range of diseases such as epilepsy, obesity, and cancer. However, it may cause some adverse effects that are not well known. This study aimed t...

    Authors: Khatereh Rezazadeh, Mohammad Barzegar, Erfan Nezamdoost, Maryam Shoaran, Mehran Mesgari Abbasi, Babollah Ghasemi, Solmaz Madadi and Sina Raeisi
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:72
  36. Only a small percentage of children with severe and moderate acute malnutrition receive treatment due to resource limitations, relatively complex treatment protocols, persistent supply chain challenges, and li...

    Authors: Indi Trehan, Yosef Beyene, Hiwot Darsene, Bailey S. Adams, Maria Wrabel, Getu Gizaw, Liya A. Legese, Bernardette Cichon, Stanley Chitekwe, Mesfin W. Shellemew, Masresha Tessema and Heather C. Stobaugh
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:71
  37. Migraines have been associated with nutritional imbalances within the brain, sparking ongoing interest in the possible association between dietary elements, including milk intake, and the occurrence of migrain...

    Authors: Xiwang Gao, Tingting Wang, Sha Xu, Xiuping Chai, Pingfan Wang, Huanhua Gu, Hongna Ma, Zhimin Wang and Fangyuan Chang
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:70
  38. Pregnancy nutrition recommendations are aimed at maximizing the health of pregnant people and fetuses, but the ability of people to follow these recommendations may depend on their level of nutrition knowledge...

    Authors: Perizat Adylbekova, Katherine Balantekin, Kristiana Feeser and Jennifer Temple
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:69
  39. Vitamin C is a fundamental antioxidant with important metabolic actions in several biological processes. Patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) are exposed to oxidative stress as a consequence of an increased pro...

    Authors: Anna Toffalini, Nicolò Vigolo, Nicoletta Rolli, Elisa Paviati, Matteo Gelati, Elisa Danese and Giacomo Zoppini
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:68
  40. Pregnant women require specific dietary intake to optimize fetal development and support mother’s health. The ongoing crises in Lebanon: the economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Beirut port explosio...

    Authors: Rana Mahfouz, Yonna Sacre, Rana Rizk, Myriam El Khoury-Malhame, Toni Sawma, Lara Hanna-Wakim and Maha Hoteit
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:65
  41. Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) encompass a range of disruptive conditions with varying prevalence rates and multiple contributing factors. Recent studies have suggested a potential connection between NDDs...

    Authors: Elaheh Dehghani, Keyvan Karimi, Soheil Arekhi, Maryam Ardeshir, Reshad Rezapour, Monir Shayestehfar and Amir Hossein Memari
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:64
  42. The consumption of carbonated soft drinks has risen substantially and has been associated with weight gain, chronic disease, and oral health issues. This study seeks to examine the relationship between carbona...

    Authors: Nor Azian Mohd Zaki, Lai Wai Kent, Syafinaz Sallehuddin, Norhafizah Sahril and Ruhaya Salleh
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:62
  43. In South Africa, severe acute malnutrition remains a significant cause of child mortality. Measuring mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) is a simple, cost-effective approach to identify malnutrition in communit...

    Authors: C. Horwood, S. Luthuli, L. Haskins, S. Mapumulo, Z. Kubeka and G. Tshitaudzi
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:61
  44. Migraines are a type of headache, with certain types being more severe than others. The aim of this scoping review is to map the association between migraine headache and irregular meals, including skipping me...

    Authors: Samson Mideksa Legesse, Alemu Earsido Addila, Belayneh Hamdela Jena, Birhanu Jikamo, Zewditu Denu Abdissa and Tesfahun Hailemarim
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2025 11:60

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