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Dietary Pattern, Stress and Anxiety amongst Schoolgoing Adolescents from Coimbatore


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1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore - 641043, India
     

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Adolescence is a time o f many transitions for tine children in terms of physical growth, psychological development and emotional maturity. Nutrition during adolescence is one of the vital aspects as adolescence comprises the second and lost growth spurt period and adolescents are susceptible to develop faulty eating behaviour leading to malnutrition. Currently, the total population of adolescents between the age of 10 and 19 years is 1.2 billion i.e, one in every five people in the world today, the largest generation of young people in history.
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Rohini Tiwari
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore - 641043, India
C. Yegammai
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore - 641043, India
S. Radha Devi
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore - 641043, India

Abstract


Adolescence is a time o f many transitions for tine children in terms of physical growth, psychological development and emotional maturity. Nutrition during adolescence is one of the vital aspects as adolescence comprises the second and lost growth spurt period and adolescents are susceptible to develop faulty eating behaviour leading to malnutrition. Currently, the total population of adolescents between the age of 10 and 19 years is 1.2 billion i.e, one in every five people in the world today, the largest generation of young people in history.