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    The document discusses nutrition concerns for Filipino adolescents, finding that about half of 11-12 year olds and two-thirds of 13-19 year olds have a normal weight but some face underweight or overweight issues. Key nutrition concerns for adolescents include skipping meals, poor food choices, fad diets, and eating disorders which can delay growth and development and impact school and daily activities. Addressing poor eating habits and food environments is important to improving adolescent nutrition.

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    NUTRITION DURING

    ADOLESCENCE
    OBJECTIVES:

    1. Explain the importance of nutrition


    education
    2. Analyze the nutritional status of Filipino
    adolescents
    3. Aware of the nutrition concerns of
    adolescents
    WHAT IS NUTRITION?

    Nutrition
    • Is the area of health that focuses on
    making food choices that will promote
    growth and development and reduce the
    risk of diseases and illness.
    WHAT IS THE NUTRITION STATUS OF
    FILIPINO ADOLESCENTS?

    • World Health Organization (WHO)


    - Adolescence as period of transition between
    childhood to adulthood, ages 10-19 often related to
    puberty.
    • Based on the FRNI results of 6th National Nutrition Survey ,
    the nutritional status of Filipino adolescents shows that:
    Among adolescents 11-12 years old:
    -49 in every 100 have normal weight for their
    height
    - 26 in every 100 are overweight
    - 4 in every 100 are overweight.
    Among adolescence 13-19 years old:
    - 68 in every 100; have normal weight for their height
    - 12 in every 100 are underweight
    - 3 in every 100 are overweight
    More males 11-12 and 13-19 years are underweight than
    females.
    More 11-12 year old males are overweight than females
    While more females age 13 -19 years are overweight then
    - males of the same ages
    - the prevalence of underweight adolescents
    - Increased between 1993 and 1998 but
    declined in 2003
    WHAT ARE THE NUTRITION
    CONCERNS OF ADOLESCENTS?

    • Skipping breakfast
    • Poor selection of foods eaten during
    meals /lunch
    • Poor snacking
    • Practice of fad diets to lose weight
    • Eating disorders
    WHY ARE ADOLESCENCE
    UNDERNOURISHED?
    • Poor eating habits
    • Poor food choices and intakes because of peers and media
    • Too conscious of the kinds and amount of food they eat
    • School canteens or cafeterias serve less nutritious food
    • Low intake of iron and vitamin C foods
    • Skipping breakfast and poor meals
    WHAT ARE THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF
    MALNUTRI TION AMONG ADOLESCENTS
    • Delay in growth and development
    • Poor performance in school
    • Being sluggish and gets tired easily
    • Delay in the onset of secondary sex charecteristics
    • Poor nutrition in adulthood
    ACTIVITY

    Answer the following questions:


    1. Why do so many people in our country
    have nutritional problems?
    2. How do nutritional problems affect our
    overall health?
    PERFORMANCE TASK

    • THE FOOD PYRAMID


    1. Create a collage of the Filipino Food Guide Pyramid.

    2. Use old newspaper, magazines, coloring, materials and


    cartolina.
    Explain the purpose of the Food guide pyramid.

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