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Download full textAcademy for Educational Development, Washington, DC. – 1999
The LINKAGES Project is intended to improve breastfeeding and related complementary feeding and maternal dietary practices. The project, in consultation with technical experts and program managers, identified a set of recommended feeding and dietary practices intended to break the cycle of poor health and nutrition that passes from generation to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Breastfeeding, Child Development, Dietetics
Peer reviewedLoosli, Alvin R.; Ruud, Jaime S. – Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1998
Physically active adolescent girls and young women who eliminate meat from their diets risk developing protein, iron, and zinc deficiencies. Meatless diets signal the possibility of amenorrhea and/or disordered eating, with the attendant risk of osteoporosis. Physicians must educate young women, parents, and coaches about the risks of meatless…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Athletes, Dietetics, Eating Disorders
