{"id":3094,"date":"2021-08-25T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T04:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/?page_id=3094"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:56:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T04:56:40","slug":"lancet-series-on-adolescent-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/lancet-standing-commission\/lancet-series-on-adolescent-nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancet Series on Adolescent Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Adolescent nutrition<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Background<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\"\"<\/span>Adolescence is a time of rapid change in physical growth and development and cognitive and emotional capacities. There has rightly, been much emphasis on early childhood nutrition. However, adolescence is an additional important phase of risks and opportunities for healthy nutrition with lifelong and intergenerational consequences. Despite this, adolescents have been neglected in national and global plans and policies.<\/p>

This Lancet<\/em> Series of three papers and three commentaries is the first to bring the health and nutrition communities together to focus on growth and nutrition across the adolescent years. It extends calls from the 2016 Lancet<\/em> Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing<\/a> and a 2018 Call to Action<\/a>, signed by over 100 organizations, to address a neglect of adolescent nutrition in policy.<\/p>

The series highlights the effect of nutrition on adolescent growth and development, the role the food environment has on food choices, and which strategies and interventions might lead to healthy adolescent nutrition and growth.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Paper 1: Nutrition in adolescent growth and development<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Lead authors: <\/b><\/span><\/span>Professor<\/b><\/span><\/span> Shane Norris and Professor Edward Frongillo Jr<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

This paper highlights the role of nutrition in the growth and maturation of major physiological systems in adolescence. Poor nutrition affects the physical and cognitive capabilities acquired with consequences for health and productivity across the life-course, and into the next generation. The paper also highlights gaps in knowledge including a focus on single facets of adolescent growth rather than the inter-connections between physiological systems. Read the paper<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Paper 2: Food choice in transition: adolescent autonomy, agency, and the food environment<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Lead author: Dr Lynnette Neufeld<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

This paper addresses the drivers of food choices, exploring the interactions among adolescent agency, autonomy, cultural context, and the food environment. \u00a0The diversity and quality of available and affordable food differs vasty across countries, as does the scope for dietary choice. Food environments are shifting quickly almost everywhere with economic development, urbanisation, and changes in the food industry and agriculture. They may offer adolescents more food options, but social desirability, convenience, taste, and affordability rather than nutritional value commonly determine food choice. Read the paper<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Paper 3: Strategies and interventions for healthy adolescent growth, nutrition, and development<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Lead authors: Dr Dougal Hargreaves, Emily Mates and Dr Purnima Menon\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

This paper examines the actions needed to create healthy adolescent food environments, including the roles that young people themselves may play in enhancing nutrition. To date, adolescent programs have overwhelmingly emphasised single actions, such as weekly iron folic acid supplementation, rather than tackling the multiple drivers of adolescent food choice and nutritional status.\u00a0 Adolescent nutrition policy and programming will differ across food environments but in all places, needs to be intersectoral, with action across schools, social protection, health services, food retailers, local communities and families. Read the paper.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Arabic<\/a>,\u00a0Chinese<\/a>,\u00a0French<\/a>,\u00a0Russian<\/a>,\u00a0Spanish<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Forecasting paper: Modelling trends in adolescent obesity, implications for population health, and potential impacts of interventions to 2040\u00a0<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Lead authors: Dr Jess Kerr, Dr Dot Dumuid, Kate Francis, A\/Prof Peter Azzopardi, Professor George Patton\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

This paper, will (1) provide contemporary estimates of the prevalence of underweight and overweight\/obesity for adolescents at global, regional and national levels and describe transitions that have occurred since 1990 to 2017; (2) model the implications of these contemporary overweight and obesity estimates on population health and disease burden, and (3) model the prevalence of adolescent overweight and obesity to 2040 and demonstrate how \u00a0projected prevalence could change through for example \u00a0intervention to diet and\/or increases in physical activity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Youth and education friendly resources<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Working with Science Journal for Kids & Teens<\/a>, papers 1 and 2 have been adapted for students and teachers (as well as parents and\/or guardians). Science Journal for Kids & Teens features freely downloadable peer-reviewed research papers rewritten in age-appropriate language. Each paper is accompanied by assessment questions and answers \/ teacher\u2019s key.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"\"<\/a>How does the food you eat affect your growth and development?<\/h4>

Hungry? Should you eat an apple or potato chips? Does it really matter? It turns out that what you eat as a child and adolescent affects your growth and development. It can also affect your health as an adult! We reviewed different scientific studies to understand the link between nutrition and adolescent growth. We found that not eating enough food, eating the wrong foods, and eating too much food all affect the body\u2019s systems. We also learned that the negative effects of poor nutrition aren\u2019t permanent if they\u2019re corrected at the right time.\u00a0<\/p>

Read the paper<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish (accessible via the above link).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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