Impact Of Educational Status of Parents on Nutritional Status of Adolescent Girls-A Cross Sectional Study

• Main Authors: Sujit K Singh (Author), Gagan Garg (Author), Sanjeev Davey (Author), Santosh Kumar Raghav (Author), Khursheed Muzammil (Author), Jai Vir Singh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medsci Publications, 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Adolescent is a period where significant growth changes occur necessitating optimum nutritional requirement. During adolescence 20% of adult height attained and 50% of adult bone mass gained. Girls deposit twice as much body fat as boys at this time and boys double their lean body mass....