THE EFFECT OF NUTRITION EDUCATION ON FEMALE EATING HABITS
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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
To assist the voluntary adoption of food choices and other food- and nutrition-related behaviours that are beneficial to one's health and well-being, nutrition education can be defined as any combination of teaching tactics that are supported by environmental supports (Mahan, Escott-Stump 2021). The dissemination of nutrition education takes place across a variety of platforms and include actions on the individual, community, and policy levels (Jones and Bartletti, 2007). Dr. Isobel Contento, a preeminent figure in the field of nutrition education, is credited with authoring this definition, which has been approved by the Society for Nutrition Education and Behaviour and is used by the Society. The work of nutrition educators can be found in a variety of settings, including schools, colleges, and universities; government agencies; cooperative extension programmes; communications and public relations firms; the food industry; voluntary and service organisations; and other credible sources of information on nutrition and health education (Nicklas, Johnson, Myers, Farris, Cunningham 2021). A position statement addressing the dietary requirements of adolescents was recently released by the Nigerian Dietetic Association (ADA). In this article, it was mentioned that the health of teenagers is reliant on regular dietary intakes, and that the supply of foods that contain enough amounts of energy and nutrients was crucial for physical, social, and cognitive growth and development (Elliot, Goldberg, Moe, Defrancesco, Durham & Hix-Small 2022). Consuming a sufficient amount of nutrients during the teen years is vitally important for a variety of reasons. Because of the rapid changes that take place in a person's body, mind, and thoughts throughout this stage of life, adolescence is a particularly remarkable and distinct era (Mahan, Escott-Stump 2021). Adolescence is a stage that occurs between childhood and maturity. The period of time encapsulated by the age of adolescence is one in which a person's body is undergoing the process of transitioning into that of an adult. It is a period when the teenager is urgently trying to be socially accepted by his classmates while at the same time trying to build his own unique identity (Lulinski, 2001). Hormonal shifts that occur during puberty are responsible for the acceleration of height gain. The first year of an individual's existence is the only other moment in their life when growth is quicker than it is now (Brasel, 1982). The fact that teenagers gain up to fifty percent of their adult weight, twenty-five percent or more of their adult height, and fifty percent or more of their adult skeletal mass during this era is the root cause of the increased dietary requirements that are present at this stage (Brasel, 1982). Therefore, the teenager faces a series of significant dietary issues, which would have an influence not only on this rapid development spurt, but also on their health as adults. However, adolescents continue to be a demographic that is often ignored, difficult to assess, and challenging to communicate with. As a result, the requirements of adolescents, particularly adolescent girls, are frequently disregarded (Kurz and Johnson-Welch, 1994). At this embryonic stages, protein requirements maximum. Increased physical activity, when paired with bad eating habits and other factors such as menstruation, oral contraceptive usage, and pregnancy, lead to an accentuation of the possible risk of poor nutrition for teenagers (Nicklas, Johnson, Myers, Farris, Cunningham 2021).
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