TY - JOUR AU - Kapil, Umesh AU - Sareen, Neha PY - 2015/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Double Burden of Nutritional Disorders amongst Adolescents and Strategies required for combating it JF - Indian Journal of Community Health JA - Indian J Community Health VL - 27 IS - Supp 1 SE - Editorial DO - UR - https://www.iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/614 SP - AB - <p>Adolescents are the future generation of any country and their nutritional needs are critical for the well being of the society. In India, approximately 20% of the population consists of adolescents (1). Presently, the dietary inadequacy exists due to poverty and it is the main cause of under-nutrition. However simultaneously, we have affluent population groups, which have high consumption of foods rich in fats and calories, leading to over-nutrition and obesity. Thus, India is facing double burden of Nutritional disorders amongst adolescent in which we have under-nutrition at one end of the socio-economic spectrum and over-nutrition at the other (1).</p> ER -