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.

>> Metabolism and Metabolic Studies
Adequate levels of dietary sulphur amino acids impart improved liver and gut health in juvenile yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi)
Caroline Lourdes Candebat, Frances Stephens, Mark A. Booth, Fernando Fernando, Andreas Lopata, Igor Pirozzi

>> Nutritional Endocrinology
a. Select Relationships between the serum TPOAb and TGAb antibody distributions and water iodine concentrations, thyroid hormones and thyroid diseases: a cross-sectional study of 2503 adults in China
Relationships between the serum TPOAb and TGAb antibody distributions and water iodine concentrations, thyroid hormones and thyroid diseases: a cross-sectional study of 2503 adults in China
Zheng Zhou, Lixiang Liu, Meihui Jin, Bingxuan Ren, Fangang Meng, Dandan Wang, Jianshuang Li, Baoxiang Li, Yanhong He, Fan Li, Hongmei Shen

b. Vitamin B12 and gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Xue Chen, Yushan Du, Shuangbo Xia, Zhiwen Li, Jufen Liu

>> Human and Clinical Nutrition
a. Increased energy and/or protein intake improves anthropometry and muscle strength in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: a systematic review with meta-analysis on randomised controlled clinical trials
Simone Bernardes, Igor da Conceição Eckert, Camila Ferri Burgel, Paulo José Zimermann Teixeira, Flávia Moraes Silva

b. Consumption of a light meal affects serum concentrations of one-carbon metabolites and B-vitamins. A clinical intervention study
Anita Helland, Marianne Bratlie, Ingrid V. Hagen, Øivind Midttun, Arve Ulvik, Gunnar Mellgren, Per M. Ueland, Oddrun A. Gudbrandsen

>> Dietary Surveys and Nutritional Epidemiology
Maternal diet quality during pregnancy and its influence on low birth weight and small for gestational age: a birth cohort in Beijing, China
Wangxing Yang, Na Han, Mingyuan Jiao, Xinlei Chang, Jue Liu, Qianling Zhou, Hai-Jun Wang

>> Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
a. Is dietary quality associated with depression? An analysis of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health data
Megan Lee, Joanne Bradbury, Jacqui Yoxall, Sally Sargeant

b. Associations of the serum n-6 PUFA with exercise cardiac power in men
Haleh Esmaili, Behnam Tajik, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Sudhir Kurl, Jukka T. Salonen, Jyrki K. Virtanen

c. Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Sustainable and Healthy Eating Behaviors Scale
Eda Köksal, Saniye Bilici, Merve Esra Çıtar Dazıroğlu, Nazlıcan Erdoğan Gövez

d. Association of an evolutionary-concordance lifestyle pattern score with incident CVD among Black and White men and women
Ziling Mao, Alyssa N. Troeschel, Suzanne E. Judd, James M. Shikany, Emily B. Levitan, Monika M. Safford, Roberd M. Bostick

e. Select Associations of diet quality, food consumption, eating frequency and eating behaviour with dental caries experience in Finnish children: a 2-year longitudinal study
Associations of diet quality, food consumption, eating frequency and eating behaviour with dental caries experience in Finnish children: a 2-year longitudinal study
Veera F. Virkkala, Aino-Maija Eloranta, Anna Liisa Suominen, Anu Vierola, Tiina Ikävalko, Juuso Väistö, Santtu Mikkonen, Mirja Methuen, Ursula Schwab, Heli T. Viljakainen, Jukka Leinonen, Matti Närhi, Timo A. Lakka

>> Alcohol intake and the risk of glioma: a systematic review and updated meta-analysis of observational study
Long Shu, Dan Yu, Fubi Jin

>> Behaviour, Appetite and Obesity
a. The impact of food addiction behaviours on the treatment of overweight students
Viviane Bellucci Pires de Almeida, Andrea Rocha Filgueiras, Paulo Cesar Koch Nogueira, Ricardo Cintra Sesso, Ana Lydia Sawaya, Semíramis Martins Álvares Domene

b. Association of nightly fasting duration, meal timing and frequency with the metabolic syndrome among Iranian adults
Sheida Zeraattalab-Motlagh, Azadeh Lesani, Nasim Janbozorgi, Kurosh Djafarian, Maryam Majdi, Sakineh Shab-Bidar

c. Increases in physical activity are associated with a faster rate of weight loss during dietary energy restriction in women with overweight and obesity
Nuno Casanova, Kristine Beaulieu, Pauline Oustric, Dominic O’Connor, Catherine Gibbons, John Edward Blundell, Graham S. Finlayson, Mark E. Hopkins

d. The sweet tooth of infancy: Is sweetness exposure related to sweetness liking in infants up to 12 months of age?
Carina Müller, Claire Chabanet, Gertrude G. Zeinstra, Gerry Jager, Camille Schwartz, Sophie Nicklaus