Are we paying enough attention to adolescent nutrition?

Are we paying enough attention to adolescent nutrition?

This issue of the journal focuses on studies undertaken in adolescent populations around the world. Roger Hughes’ ‘In this issue’ piece highlights key findings in some of these studies. Particularly challenging is the persistence of undernutrition alongside overnutrition in South African children. The 2005 National Food Consumption Survey of South Africa results were presented at the South Afri...

Detection of Optic Neuropathy and 3-month Follow-up of an Adolescent Inhalant User: Are we Paying Enough Attention?

Sir, Very few centers provide specialty treatment services for adolescent drug users in India. When an adolescent presents with chronic drug use, often the resultant psychosocial complications are assessed in detail, however the physical complications (unless gross or with overt manifestation) are often overlooked in general clinical settings. Inhalant abuse is known to be especially more preva...

Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults: are we paying sufficient attention?

Heterogeneity has been recently highlighted as a relevant characteristic of diabetes mellitus. The current classification of diabetes mellitus includes two main types of the disease, i.e. type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The latter is by far the most prevalent one. Nevertheless, there is a significant proportion of subjects with autoimmune diabetes mellitus that are classified as type 2 diabetic pat...

Are developmental theories of learning paying attention to attention?

Currently available empirical evidence is often insufficient to distinguish among developmental theories of word learning, categorization, and induction. This paper argues that theories of conceptual development should be evaluated not only on the basis of their ability to account for empirical findings, but also on the basis of their consistency with a broader body of knowledge, particularly w...

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