Breakfast is considered to be the most important meal of the day, usually eaten within 2 hours of waking up and before starting daily activities. As it is the first meal after a physiological break with consciousness during the night, breakfast takes on great importance due to th...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2025/v25i41167
Zinc is one of the most abundant micronutrients in the human body, found in all tissues and playing an important role in vital structural, regulatory, hormonal and catalytic functions. Zinc deficiency is a major public health problem that affects almost one fifth of the world's p...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2024/v24i10928
Introduction: The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus forced the adoption of several measures for individual and collective protection measures, including isolation, which interrupted direct social contact and started to draw the attention of researchers due to its potential...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i130164
Adolescence is a period of growth and physical and emotional development for which, among other factors, it is necessary to ingest nutrients in sufficient quantity and quality to supply all the demands of the organism. As it is a phase of nutritional vulnerability, adolescents ne...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2020/v12i1030305
Adolescence is a phase marked by physical, emotional and, social changes culminating with sexual development and final adult height, which occur at different stages during the second decade of life. Due to their characteristics of immaturity, impulsiveness, and tendencies to take...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v4i130141
Nutrition is an act of fundamental survival in the human being's relational process with the environment. It is, instinctive in the first weeks of life and then becomes a learned behavior that counts on the participation of all organs and senses. The child needs nutrients in adeq...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2020/v20i330184