2013 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2014), "2013 Awards for Excellence", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 44 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/NFS-02-2014-001

2013 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: Nutrition & Food Science, Volume 44, Issue 1

The following article was selected for this year’s Outstanding Paper Award for Nutrition & Food Science

"Healthy diets for preventing or delaying bone loss during adulthood"

John J.B. Anderson
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Purpose – Healthy diets need to be coupled with an active lifestyle and other healthy behaviors to achieve and maintain bone health across the life cycle. The purpose of this paper is to focus on several nutrients that aid skeletal development in early life and help promote healthy bone and prevent or delay osteoporosis in late life in both males and females.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a brief review of recent findings linking diet and bone health.
Findings – Skeletons of both females and males benefit from reasonably sufficient intakes of calcium, phosphate, vitamin D, and other bone-related nutrients and phytochemicals, but excessive amounts, especially via supplements, may not help bone and they may even have adverse effects, such as promoting arterial calcification.
Research limitations/implications – Trials are needed to establish with certainty that calcium intakes beyond the recommended intakes do not protect against hip and vertebral fractures and may contribute to arterial calcification.
Originality/value – Maintaining bone health, especially late in life, helps prevent or delay hip fractures, devastating events that are life threatening, especially in women, but excessive calcium may not be healthful.

Keywords: Bone health, Bones, Calcium, Diet, Life cycle, Minerals, Vitamin D

The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

“The food environment in leisure centres and health clubs: how appropriate is it for children?”

Magdalena Nowak, Yvonne Jeanes and Sue Reeves

This article originally appeared in Volume 42 Number 5, 2012, Nutrition & Food Science

“Steps towards an organic professional kitchen”

Irma Tikkanen

This article originally appeared in Volume 42 Number 3, 2012, Nutrition & Food Science

“Healthcare foodservice workers’ knowledge of the dysphagia diet”

Charles C. Broz

This article originally appeared in Volume 42 Number 5, 2012, Nutrition & Food Science