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The Impact Of Nutrition Education On The Dietary Habits
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1.1 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Poor nutritional choices and
practices have been shown to increase during adolescence; the need for
nutrition education becomes clear. It is important that health educators
look into nutrition education and its impact on the dietary habits of
adolescent females. Several studies have been conducted that show how
nutrition education impacts the dietary habits of adolescents.
These studies have reviewed the effect of nutrition education on
adolescent athletes and have analyzed how nutrition education impacts
snack patterns.
The main nutritional problems affecting
adolescent populations in particular include under-nutrition in terms of
stunning and wasting. Others are deficiencies of micronutrients such as
iron and vitamin a, obesity and other specific nutrient deficiencies
(Kurz and Johnson-Welch, 1994).
Adolescents because they are
still growing, who enter into marriage with poor nutritional status are
likely to give birth to smaller infants than mature women of the same
nutritional status (WHO, 1995) because of the competition for nutrients
between the growing adolescent and the growing fetus (Scholl et al,
1990) andpoorer placental function (Colson, 1987). Undernourished
adolescent girls and women give birth to underweight and often stunned
babies. These infants are less able to learn as young children and are
more likely themselves to be parents to infants with intrauterine
growth.
Retardation and low birth weight. However, they are
less able to generate livelihoods and are less equipped to resist
chronic diseases in later life. Such lifecycle and intergenerational
links demand sustained, long term ameliorative action (ACC/SCN, 2000)
which this study aims to provide.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The objective of this study was to explore the impact of nutrition education on the dietary habits of female secondary school students, sixty adolescent girls in the age group of 12-18 years were selected randomly from two (a private and a public) secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. Nutrition education improved their mean nutrition knowledge scores significant (p‹0.01) from 11.17=1.42 to 19.16 =1.8 significant increase in average daily intake of all the nutrients ... Continue reading---
