Nutritional Status and Its Associated Factors among Adolescent Residing in Different Countries: A Review

Abstract

Human development depends on good health state which is also essential for the wellbeing of people belonging to different age groups. Adolescence is a time of fast growth that is associated with increased nutritional needs. The base of the community's nutritional condition and the main point of action to end the intergenerational cycle of nutritional inadequacies is by improving the nutritional status of rural adolescents. This review will show the prevalence of under nutrition and over nutrition among adolescents by exploring different studies. Nutritional intake, nutritional deficiencies in adolescence age group in different regions of developed and developing countries are discussed. Nutritional knowledge among adolescents especially in developing countries are mentioned in this review.