Upcoming Special Issue on "Indexes to Screen Obesogenic Dietary Habits in Children and Adults (HABIT)" will be published in Journal of Obesity in May 2013. You can find the Call for Papers for this Special Issue at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobes/si/169816/cfp/.  The deadline for submission is December 14th, 2012. The Special Issue is open to both original research articles, as well as review articles.  Articles published in the journal are made available on PubMed Central at the time of publication.  Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Development and validation of diet indexes
• Evaluation of obesity prevention interventions using dietary indexes
• The need for healthy lifestyle indexes combining dietary habits and physical activity
• Use of reference curves and cutoffs to help in the interpretation of indexes

Please read over the journal's Author Guidelines at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobes/guidelines/ for more information on the journal's policies and the submission process.  We also encourage authors to send us their tentative title and/or a short abstract by e-mail for approval to the Editorial Office at this email.  In case you cannot meet the deadline, please feel free to contact us.  If you have any questions about this Special Issue, or about the journal,please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

Chrystalleni Lazarou,MSc,PhD 

Guest Editor

Ministry of Education & Culture & European University Cyprus 

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