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How Well Do Their Dietary Patterns Meet the Healthy People 2010 Objectives?

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002;156:426-427.

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AN INCREASING number of adolescents, particularly females, are turning away from the traditional omnivorous diet to a diet devoid of meat, fish, and poultry. Although the reasons for shunning animal products are many, typically, vegetarians will voice their concern for animal welfare or their desire to improve the quality of their diet (and thus their nutritional health). It is not apparent, in "born-again" adolescent vegetarians, whether this change in dietary preference has a positive or negative impact on health.

In this fairly comprehensive study, the investigators collected self-reported surveys on dietary intake and vegetarian status from close to 5000 primarily white middle school and high school children and adolescents in the Twin Cites area of Minnesota.¹ The objective of this project was to examine whether adolescent vegetarians were more likely than their nonvegetarian peers to meet the dietary recommendations of the Healthy People 2010 Objectives and to examine differences in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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