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If adolescents are taught the importance of nutrition and follow the guidelines for healthy eating habits, they can help promote a healthy lifestyle and prevent adult onset diseases from happening.Nutrition is the study of nutrients in foods and in the body. Nutrients are the chemical substances or nourishing elements found in food (concepts 262). Adolescence is the second most critical period of physical growth in the life cycle after the first years of life. For many adolescents, inadequate quality and quantity of food are the prime determinates of nutrition problems. Many health problems later in life can be improved by adopting healthy lifestyle habits in adolescence. Adolescence have an increased nutritional need at this time in their life due to the fact that adolescents gain up to fifty percent of their adult weight, height, and of their adult skeletal mass. The beginning of adolescence is a time of very great change in their life. They begin puberty and body structure......

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