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Adolescent Nutrition
Yolanda N. Evans Alicia Dixon Docter Editors
Adolescent Nutrition Assuring the Needs of Emerging Adults
Editors
Yolanda N. Evans Department of Pediatrics University of Washington Seattle, WA USA
Alicia Dixon Docter Seattle Children’s Hospital University of Washington Seattle, WA USA
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Preface
Adolescence is a time full of growth, opportunity, and potential in addition to risks. As health care providers, we have the unique privilege of playing a role in navigating health behavior. This developmental stage of youth sets the stage for future health over the lifetime. Nutrition is part of every aspect of development, from puberty to cognitive maturity, from growth to self-esteem. Experts from the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine stated in the Position Paper on Addressing Nutritional Disorders in Adolescents published in the Journal of Adolescent Health (2018): Adolescent-specific recommendations for nutritional intake differ significantly from adult to child recommendations…factors contributing to nutritional disorders in adolescence include poverty, child maltreatment, political upheaval, socio-cultural influences, and inequitable access to education and health care. Nutritional behavior may be affected by expected developmental and behavioral changes of adolescence, including increased influence from peers and media, evolution of sociocultural beliefs, and body consciousness.
Nuance in communication is critical in all realms given the complexity of providing care to
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