Affiliation:
1. Department of Foods and Nutrition, College of Home Science, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand)
Abstract
Adolescents is the transition period from childhood to adulthood. As healthy eating habits and lifestyle play important role in enhancing health and
slowing down ageing process but in adolescence eating habits and lifestyle becomes more critical as this stage lays the foundation of healthy
adulthood. Design: A dietary questionnaire was constructed to check the nutritional status and eating pattern of adolescents. Setting: The study
was carried out in the G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. Subjects:Thirty adolescent subjects, aged 12-
19 years, attending schools were participated in the study. Measures: Eating habits, physical activity, meaning of healthy and unhealthy dietary
habits and food, self-efcacy, barriers affecting healthy food choices, nutritional and food safety are evaluated.
Subject
Virology,Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),Microbiology,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,General Medicine,Internal Medicine,Immunology,Immunology and Allergy,Pharmacology (medical),General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Medicine,Dermatology,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,Gastroenterology,Hepatology,Hematology,Biomedical Engineering,General Medicine,Surgery,Genetics,Molecular Biology,Molecular Medicine,Pathology and Forensic Medicine
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