Adolescent Nutrition and Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 18577
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutritional status; maternal health; preconceptional health; population surveys; developmental age; food habits; food consumption; adherence to the Mediterranean diet; sedentary lifestyle; obesity prevention; children’s health; communication; community-based interventions
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Interests: nutritional status; anthropometry; body composition; energy metabolism; food habits; adherence to the Mediterranean diet; physical activity; obesity prevention
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Adolescence is a critical age of life for the physical, neurological, cognitive, and behavioural changes that occur leading towards adulthood. Although health status in adolescents is shaped by former periods such as intrauterine development, breast feeding, weaning and childhood, this age represents a unique opportunity for a “healthy” development in which proper nutrition, healthy eating habits and lifestyles are the cornerstones and the investment of well-being throughout the course of life. Furthermore, adolescents, as the next generation of adults, are key players in improving health outcomes for future generations. On the other hand, unhealthy dietary patterns and behaviours in adolescence could persist in adulthood, with possible long-term health consequences such as increasing risk for non-communicable diseases. Poor nutrition in adolescents may be related to insufficient intake of macro and micronutrients, and to overweight/obesity, due to manifold factors, but there is a lack of information on this topic as yet. Increasing the knowledge about nutrition in adolescents within their socio-environmental context is essential for planning effective strategies to improve nutrition of young people, especially in this time marked by the possible effects on this issue due to COVID-19 pandemic.
This Special Issue focuses on the current state of knowledge on nutrition and health and their determinants in adolescents, also with a look at effective intervention strategies. New research papers and reviews are welcome to this Special Issue.
Dr. Stefania Ruggeri
Dr. Laura Censi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adolescent
- nutrition
- health
- dietary pattern
- micro macronutrient
- malnutrition
- overweight/obesity
- physical activity
- COVID-19 pandemic
- effective interventions
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