Dietary intake of select at risk micronutrients among vegetarian and non-vegetarian female adolescents

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Dietary intake of select at risk micronutrients among vegetarian and non-vegetarian female adolescents

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University of Otago

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Background: Worldwide, vegetarian-type diets are increasing in popularity for reasons including health, environmental and ethical. Appropriately planned vegetarian diets are nutritionally adequate, however some nutrients may be at risk of inadequacy due to the omission of nutrient rich animal source foods and a lack of nutrition knowledge. Given that energy and nutrient requirements are higher in relation to body weight during periods of growth, adolescents are especially at risk of nutrient ...

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2022

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Ranasinghe, Chaya

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/13388

Related subjects

vegetarian / females / adolescents / dietaryintake / micronutrients

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