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Vegetarianism

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Adolescents’ development necessarily centers on their nutritional intake, and nutrition gains different meanings as it can play multiple roles in adolescents’ transition into and out of adolescence. In USA, for example, the majority of adolescents do not meet national dietary guidelines (Ogden et al. 2006). Some of that failure to meet minimal dietary standards may be due to simple access to adequate or healthy foods, but the failure to do so also often includes adolescents’ deliberate stances toward particular foods. Because adolescents’ adequate nutrition involves their attitudes toward food, nutrition plays a key role in many risks adolescents face. Nutritional concerns are involved in youth’s increasing obesity rates and in several adolescents’ disorders relating to, for example, body images. Sometimes in response to these risks, youth now turn to vegetarian diets. Despite the potential significance of this trend, much remains to be investigated and existing research often leaves...

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Levesque, R.J.R. (2011). Vegetarianism. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_348

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