Nutrition and Health

Nutrition in Adolescents and Teens

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Nutrition for Adolescents and Teens is essential for their good health and overall growth. Adolescence is a critical period for the growth and development, so good nutrition is essential during this period. During adolescence, the nutrients including energy, protein, vitamins and minerals is very important. As appetite is also likely to increase, it is important to choose food carefully. It can be tempting at this time to increase the intake of snacks and fast foods that contain high amount of fat, sugar and salt. It deals with Nutritional requirements in infants and children, ways of prevention of low birth weight cases, preventing malnutrition in children, high risk Nutrition Related Problems.