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Neha Bakshi ¹, Kalyani Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Food and Nutrition, Lady Irwin College, Sikandra Road, New Delhi-110001, IN

Abstract

Adolescents are at on age of transitioning from parental supervision to independent decision making and are developing food patterns that will affect their future. Adoiescence is a period of rapid growth; upto 45 percent of skeletal growth takes place and 15 to 25 percent of adult height is achieved during adolescence. Adolescents experience dramatic physical growth and development during puberty, which in turn appreciably increases their requirements for energy, protein and many vitamins and minerals. It is a timely period for the adoption and consolidation of sound dietary habits. Many habits acquired during adolescence will last a lifetime.

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Deepika Bahl ¹, Ishu Kataria ¹, Neha Bakshi ¹, O. P. Aslesh ², Anil Goswami ², Kapil Yadav ³, Chandrakant S. Pandav ², M. G. Karmarkar ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Food and Nutrition, Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, IN
2 Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IN
3 Indian Coalition for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorder, New Delhi, IN

Abstract

Iodine supplementation through Universal Sait iodization (USI) has been proven to be an effective way of reducing the prevalence of iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD). After implementation of USi, the number of countries in which iodine deficiency was a public health problem decreased from 110 to 54 between 1993 and 2003.

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