Impact of Food Choice on the Health of Adolescents

Dear Colleagues,

Adolescence is the most crucial stage of life, which plays a decisive role in the process of nutritional development of a person. In the formative period, childhood, the nutritional needs of a person are met by their parents; however, by adolescence, individuals get better acquainted with their body systems and are thus capable of making their own food choices, ones that are well suited for their needs.

However, in this phase of life, individuals are rather susceptible to advertising and social media influence as well as peer pressure, which might propel them to adopt certain food habits that are detrimental to their health. Therefore, there is a dire need to make the teenagers aware of the impact of nutrition and diet on health (in particular, the Mediterranean diet), thereby helping them to make balanced and proper food choices. By doing so, we could effectively combat the endemic of obesity, and other severe diseases, that is becoming increasingly common in the youths. Measures should also be taken to introduce stringent food health policies.

In this context, this Special Issue invites papers that address all relevant aspects of food choices and nutrition impacting the health of adolescents.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Luis Villarino-Marin
Prof. Dr. Jesús Román Martínez Álvarez
Guest Editors

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• obesity
• nutritional balance
• caloric density
• palatability
• healthy Mediterranean diet
• lifestyle
• fast food