The cluster Diet-Body-Brain consisted of five interdisciplinary thematic areas, which are scientifically linked:

• optimization of technology-based dietary assessment methods and the derivation and further analysis of dietary patterns (TA1);
• conduct and integrative analysis of epidemiological studies (TA2);
• dietary intervention studies (TA3);
• genetic and epigenetic analyses to generate insights into biological mechanisms (TA4);
• and identification of targeted approaches to facilitate behavior change (TA5).