British Journal of Nutrition is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original papers and review articles across the full spectrum of nutritional science. The focus of all manuscripts submitted to the journal should be to increase knowledge in nutritional science relevant to human or animal nutrition. The BJN welcomes manuscripts that report studies in nutritional epidemiology, nutritional requirements, metabolic studies, body composition, energetics, appetite and obesity. Manuscripts that address interactions of nutrition with endocrinology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience and physiology and that report outcomes relevant to health, behaviour and well-being are also within scope for the BJN.

>> Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
a. Effects of gradual weight loss v. rapid weight loss on body composition and RMR: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Damoon Ashtary-Larky, Reza Bagheri, Amir Abbasnezhad, Grant M. Tinsley, Meysam Alipour, Alexei Wong

b. Healthy and unhealthy dietary patterns and the risk of chronic disease: an umbrella review of meta-analyses of prospective cohort studies
Ahmad Jayedi, Sepideh Soltani, Anna Abdolshahi, Sakineh Shab-Bidar

>> Molecular Nutrition
Starch in aquafeeds: the benefits of a high amylose to amylopectin ratio and resistant starch content in diets for the carnivorous fish, largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Songlin Li, Chunyan Sang, Giovanni M. Turchini, An Wang, Jiacan Zhang, Naisong Chen

>> Metabolism and Metabolic Studies
a. An iodine balance study to explore the recommended nutrient intake of iodine in Chinese young adults
Lichen Yang, Jun Wang, Jianjun Yang, Huidi Zhang, Xiaobing Liu, Deqian Mao, Jiaxi Lu, Yunyou Gu, Xiuwei Li, Haiyan Wang, Jing Xu, Hongxing Tan, Hongmin Zhang, Wei Yu, Xiujuan Tao, Yanna Fan, Qian Cai, Xiaoli Liu, Xiaoguang Yang

b. Urea supplementation in rumen and post-rumen for cattle fed a low-quality tropical forage
Cristhiane V. R. de Oliveira, Tadeu E. Silva, Erick D. Batista, Luciana N. Rennó, Fabyano F. Silva, Isabela P. C. de Carvalho, Javier Martín-Tereso, Edenio Detmann

>> Human and Clinical Nutrition
a. Select Consumption of whole purple and regular wheat modestly improves metabolic markers in adults with elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein: a randomised, single-blind parallel-arm study
Consumption of whole purple and regular wheat modestly improves metabolic markers in adults with elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein: a randomised, single-blind parallel-arm study
Tamer H. Gamel, El-Sayed M. Abdel-Aal, Amy J. Tucker, Shannon M. Pare, Kate Faughnan, Charlene D. O’Brien, Andrea Dykun, Iwona Rabalski, Mark Pickard, Amanda J. Wright

b. Select Controlling Nutritional Status score is superior to Prognostic Nutritional Index score in predicting survival and complications in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a Chinese propensity score matching study
Controlling Nutritional Status score is superior to Prognostic Nutritional Index score in predicting survival and complications in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a Chinese propensity score matching study
Yi-Shen Mao, Si-Jie Hao, Cai-Feng Zou, Zhi-Bo Xie, De-Liang Fu

>> Dietary Surveys and Nutritional Epidemiology
a. Dietary flavonoids among children and adolescents in the Dortmund Nutritional and Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed (DONALD) study: intake, food sources and trends from 1985 until 2016
Johanna Rienks, Katharina J. Penczynski, Sarah Schmitting, Anette E. Buyken, Ute Nöthlings

b. The longitudinal relationship between dietary intake, physical activity and muscle strength among adolescents
Ai Kah Ng, Noran Naqiah Hairi, Maznah Dahlui, Tin Tin Su, Muhammad Yazid Jalaludin, Hazreen Abdul Majid

c. Meal and snack frequency in relation to diet quality in Japanese adults: a cross-sectional study using different definitions of meals and snacks
Kentaro Murakami, Nana Shinozaki, M. Barbara E. Livingstone, Aya Fujiwara, Keiko Asakura, Shizuko Masayasu, Satoshi Sasaki

>> Innovative Techniques
Select The use of a portable metabolic monitoring device for measuring RMR in healthy adults
The use of a portable metabolic monitoring device for measuring RMR in healthy adults
Suey S. Y. Yeung, Marijke C. Trappenburg, Carel G. M. Meskers, Andrea B. Maier, Esmee M. Reijnierse