Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Diet Therapy

Diet therapy is the use of planned, modified, or therapeutic diets as a deliberate intervention to maintain health, manage disease, or correct nutritional imbalances. It involves adjusting the composition, quantity, timing, or type of food and nutrients to meet defined clinical goals, such as controlling body weight…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 8 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 19× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835 🗓 Reviewed October 2026

Overview

Diet therapy is the use of planned, modified, or therapeutic diets as a deliberate intervention to maintain health, manage disease, or correct nutritional imbalances. It involves adjusting the composition, quantity, timing, or type of food and nutrients to meet defined clinical goals, such as controlling body weight, blood glucose, or lipid levels, supporting recovery, or relieving symptoms of a specific disorder. Diet therapy is individualized to the patient and is frequently used in conditions including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and gastrointestinal disorders. Research in the International Journal of Nutrition reflects this applied focus: a brief report described the implementation of an elemental diet in children with autism spectrum disorder presenting with gastrointestinal disease, a study on the hypocaloric Mediterranean diet examined factors predictive of completion in overweight patients, and work on Solanum aethiopicum explored its beneficial impact on diabetes control. These studies illustrate how structured dietary regimens are designed, applied, and evaluated for particular health conditions. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to diet therapy and the use of dietary modification to prevent and manage disease.

Research published in this journal

8 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 8 articles above have been cited 19 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Diet Therapy, 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

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.