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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Nutrition in Adolescence: Multiple Challenges, Lifelong Consequences and the Foundation for Adult Health Your Health

Nutrition in Adolescence: Multiple Challenges, Lifelong Consequences and the Foundation for Adult Health

Around the world, there are an estimated 1.2 billion adolescents between 10 and 19 years old. Although adolescence lies between childhood and adulthood, adolescents are neither big children, nor little adults. They have increased food requirements to support their rapid physical growth and maturation. The steep increase in issues such as anemia, overweight and obesity […]

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