Nourishing our future

The new Lancet Series on adolescent nutrition launched December 2021

Adolescence is a time of rapid changes in both physical growth and development, cognitive, and emotional capacities.There rightly has been much emphasis on early childhood nutrition. However, adolescence is an additional important phase of risks and opportunities for healthy nutrition with lifelong and intergenerational consequences. Yet, this age group has been neglected in national and global plans and policies. The new Lancet Adolescent Nutrition Series highlights the effect of nutrition on adolescent growth and development, the role the food environment has on food choices, and which strategies and interventions might lead to healthy adolescent nutrition and growth. Professor Norris lead the first paper in the series with a team of global scientists summarising the extraordinary biological changes adolescents go through and how nutrition impacts these processes.

The series papers:

 Nutrition in adolescent growth and development Shane A Norris, Edward A Frongillo, Maureen M Black, Yanhui Dong, Caroline Fall, Michelle Lampl, and others. The Lancet, Vol. 399, No. 10320; 2021

 Food choice in transition: adolescent autonomy, agency, and the food environment

Lynnette M Neufeld, Eduardo B Andrade, Ahna

Ballonoff Suleiman, Mary Barker, Ty Beal, Lauren S

Blum, and others. The Lancet, Vol. 399, No. 10320; 2021

 Strategies and interventions for healthy adolescent growth, nutrition, and development

Dougal Hargreaves, Emily Mates, Purnima Menon,

Harold Alderman, Delan Devakumar, Wafai Fawzi, and others. The Lancet, Vol. 399, No. 10320; 2021