Evans, CEL orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-4397 (2020) Next Steps for Interventions Targeting Adolescent Dietary Behaviour. Nutrients, 12 (1). 190. ISSN 2072-6643
Abstract
Adolescents in many countries consume poor quality diets that include high intakes of sugary drinks and fast food and low intakes of vegetables. The aims of this Special Issue on adolescent dietary behaviour were to identify methods and approaches for successful interventions to improve diet quality in this age group and identify at risk subgroups that need particular attention. In total, 11 manuscripts were published in this Special Issue—three qualitative studies which included a systematic review, five cross-sectional studies and three quantitative evaluations of interventions. This Editorial discusses the contribution of the studies and provides suggestions to improve the success of future interventions in adolescents. It is important that adolescents are involved in the design of interventions to improve social and cultural acceptability and relevance. Interventions targeting schools or communities framed within a larger food system such as issues around climate change and the carbon footprint of food may improve engagement. Furthermore, targeting adolescents in areas of lower deprivation is a priority where diet quality is particularly poor. Potentially successful interventions also include environmental policies that impact on the cost and marketing of food and drinks, although evaluations of these were not included in this issue.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | intervention; adolescent; dietary behaviour; education; environment; nutrition policy; sugary drinks; vegetables |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Food Science and Nutrition (Leeds) > FSN Nutrition and Public Health (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2020 09:39 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/nu12010190 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155759 |