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luation of nutrition among adolescents in Slovenia prehrana otrok in mladostnikov | nutrition of children and adolescents
Katja Zdešar Kotnik1, Gregor Jurak2, Matej Gregorič3, Barbara Koroušić Seljak4,
Petra Golja1
1 University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Večna pot 111, 1000 Ljubljana,
Slovenia
2 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, Gortanova 22, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
3 National Institute of Public Health, Trubarjeva cesta 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
4 The Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Introduction: We aimed to determine whether health risk due to inadequate
diet and/or use of dietary supplements (DS) exists among adolescents.
Methods: Data on micronutrients intake (24-h recall), eating habits (frequen-
cy questionnaire), and DS use were collected within the ACDSi 2014 study
among high-school adolescents aged 14-16 years (N=342). Data were evalu-
ated according to the national recommendations and to Optimized Mixed Di-
et (OMD).
Results: Adolescents consume less vitamins and minerals with diet alone than
recommended and exceed the recommendations for niacin and sodium; the
intake of the latter exceedes the recommended minimum value for 2-3 times.
The vast majority of adolescents do not consume enough of the recommend-
ed food groups (they eat only 1/3 OMD recommended amounts of fruit, vege-
tables and fish, 40 % OMD for milk/diary products, and 1/2 OMD for cereals/
cereal products). On the other hand, adolescents exceed the recommended
intake of meat/meat products (320 % OMD) and sweet/savory snacks (453 %
OMD). Concomitantly, 69 % of adolescents use DS. DS users most often use
vitamins, minerals or combinations (45 %), yet their intake with food and DS
does not exceed the daily upper tolerable level.
Conclusions: Adolescents must significantly improve nutritional habits to meet
the intake requirements for all micronutrients. Adolescents need to get a bet-
ter education about the importance of healthy nutrition and possible negative
effects of (mostly unnecessary) DS use.
Keywords: adolescents, food, dietary supplements, vitamins and minerals,
nutrition recommendation
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Katja Zdešar Kotnik1, Gregor Jurak2, Matej Gregorič3, Barbara Koroušić Seljak4,
Petra Golja1
1 University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Večna pot 111, 1000 Ljubljana,
Slovenia
2 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, Gortanova 22, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
3 National Institute of Public Health, Trubarjeva cesta 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
4 The Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Introduction: We aimed to determine whether health risk due to inadequate
diet and/or use of dietary supplements (DS) exists among adolescents.
Methods: Data on micronutrients intake (24-h recall), eating habits (frequen-
cy questionnaire), and DS use were collected within the ACDSi 2014 study
among high-school adolescents aged 14-16 years (N=342). Data were evalu-
ated according to the national recommendations and to Optimized Mixed Di-
et (OMD).
Results: Adolescents consume less vitamins and minerals with diet alone than
recommended and exceed the recommendations for niacin and sodium; the
intake of the latter exceedes the recommended minimum value for 2-3 times.
The vast majority of adolescents do not consume enough of the recommend-
ed food groups (they eat only 1/3 OMD recommended amounts of fruit, vege-
tables and fish, 40 % OMD for milk/diary products, and 1/2 OMD for cereals/
cereal products). On the other hand, adolescents exceed the recommended
intake of meat/meat products (320 % OMD) and sweet/savory snacks (453 %
OMD). Concomitantly, 69 % of adolescents use DS. DS users most often use
vitamins, minerals or combinations (45 %), yet their intake with food and DS
does not exceed the daily upper tolerable level.
Conclusions: Adolescents must significantly improve nutritional habits to meet
the intake requirements for all micronutrients. Adolescents need to get a bet-
ter education about the importance of healthy nutrition and possible negative
effects of (mostly unnecessary) DS use.
Keywords: adolescents, food, dietary supplements, vitamins and minerals,
nutrition recommendation
113
