Normal Diet: Adolescence. Nutrition in Primary Care Series, Number 6.

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Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Bureau of Health Professions.

Support Staff; Practitioners

Adolescents; Athletes; Biochemistry; Body Weight; Dietetics; Disease Control; Health Education; Independent Study; Medical Education; Medical Evaluation; Medicine; Nutrition; Nutrition Instruction; Physiology; Preventive Medicine; Science Education; Therapeutic Environment; Therapy

Nutrition is well-recognized as a necessary component of educational programs for physicians. This is to be valued in that of all factors affecting health in the United States, none is more important than nutrition. This can be argued from various perspectives, including health promotion, disease prevention, and therapeutic management. In all cases, serious consideration of nutrition related issues in the practice is seen to be one means to achieve cost-effective medical care. These modules were developed to provide more practical knowledge for health care providers, and in particular primary care physicians. The goal of this module is to familiarize the student with the appropriate nutritional care of the adolescent. Changes in nutritional requirements, typical nutritional problems, and eating patterns of adolescents are discussed. Special attention is given to the adolescent male athlete and to the weight-conscious menstruating female. Included are the learning goals and objectives, self-checks of achievement with regard to goals, and references for the physician and for the physician to give to the patient. The appendices include a chart of nutritional analysis of fast foods, a list of food sources of iron, a method for determining minimum wrestling weight, and a nomogram for percentage of body fat. (CW)

1990

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