Diet-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Well-Being in Adolescents with a Vegetarian Lifestyle.

ABSTRACT: Vegetarianism can meet healthy, ethical, or ecological values (such as equality and protection of animals or the environment). At the same time, it can represent a response to the need for self-determination in adolescence. Furthermore, some studies show vegetarians have greater depressive risk and a lower sense of body satisfaction. Considering the spread of non-meat diets in the Western world, researchers have investigated the benefits and risks to physical and psychological health. Despite this, few studies have been conducted on factors influencing adolescent's vegetarian diet-related attitudes. Through self-administered loosely structured interviews, this research investigated factors potentially associated with vegetarian choices in adolescence. It checked (a) gender differences in v

SUBMITTER: Benedetto L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10650094 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature