title: Nutritional issues for adolescents.
abstract: This chapter provides background on the nutritional health of adolescents, focusing on a public health or population-level approach. We detail some specific nutritional issues and related health outcomes that are particularly relevant to adolescents, including overweight and obesity, type 2 diabetes, eating-related disorders and bone health as it relates to calcium intake. We discuss implications of the trends in adolescent dietary habits for practitioners and propose a research agenda for better understanding and positively influencing future adolescent nutritional health.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454-1054, USA. lytle@epi.umn.edu
authors.forename: Leslie A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Lytle
authors.forename: Martha Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Kubik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent / Q000502:physiology*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology