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Nutrition Education to Minimize Health Risk: Approaches for Teaching College Students and Female High School Athletes

Adolescence is a time of increased control over food choices and dietary practices. Participating in high school sports or attending college presents unique nutritional concerns and health risks. Some female high school athletes have low energy availability (consuming inadequate calories to compensate for exercise energy expenditure), which can result in menstrual dysfunction, bone loss, and injury, also known as the female athlete triad (Triad). College students who consume diets low in fruits and vegetables and high in fast food are at increased risk for weight gain, chronic disease, and some cancers.
Nutrition education interventions that were tailored to the participants' unique nutritional concerns yielded positive results such as increased Triad knowledge among female high school athletes and increased self-efficacy and readiness to change dietary behaviors among college students. Peer-led education was preferred by college students, but not by high school students.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UTAHS/oai:digitalcommons.usu.edu:etd-2464
Date01 May 2013
CreatorsBrown, Katie Nicole
PublisherDigitalCommons@USU
Source SetsUtah State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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