Dr. Víctor Moreno, group leader of colorectal cancer  of Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and director of the Oncology Data Analytics Program, of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), will be the Guest Editor of a special issue of Nutrients journal and, in collaboration with Dr. Mireia Obón, nutrionist and Post-doc researcher at IDIBELL and ODAP, will be responsable for selecting the articles. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31st October 2020. The journal Nutrients is planning to publish a special issue to provide current scientific evidence for the role of unhealthy foods, macronutrients, micronutrients, or diet patterns in cancer risk. For this special issue, different types of manuscript submissions, including research articles, systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis, are welcomed.

Following an unhealthy diet is one of the major risk factors for a wide range of chronic conditions, including cancer. Diet is subjective by many social and econòmic factors, and according to the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation, food consumption patterns and trends in developed countries are shifting towards an unbalanced diet: the consumption of fruit, vegetables, whole grains and legumes is decreasing, while that of high-energy foods, fats, sugar and salt, meat, and processed meat is increasing.

Nutrients is an international peer-reviewed, open-access, scientific journal. Its impact factor is 4,171 (2018) and its objective is to publish studies related to Human Nutrition. Manuscripts are considered for publication if they provide novel insights into the impacts of nutrition on human health or novel methods for assessing nutritional status. In addition, Nutrients is member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), taking the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication.