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World Nutrition 2018
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Journal of Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics
ISSN 2472-1921
W o r l d C o n g r e s s o n
Nutrition and Dietetics
Y
oung adults are faced with many challenges: in addition to finding the
identity in thegender role andbuildingupa systemofmoral, one's own future
perspectives must also be developed. The essential thing is the replacement
of the parents, which is often obtained by moving out of the parental home
and is associated with many changes for the adolescents. Moving to their
own home is a step in their life, which often causes changes in the personal
nutrition. With the move from the parental home, the self-sufficiency is on
and an own lifestyle and nutritional style has to be developed and there are
new freedoms and opportunities to try out. Because the move is a big step for
young adults, the focus is not on the nutrition. The main criteria, the nutrition
has to comply with are fast, easy, delicious and cheap. The consumption of
fast food, for example, is particularly attractive for young people, as it is a
distinction from the adult culture of eating, which is characterized mainly by
rules such as eating with cutlery. Although food has the same function for
all ages, the different meanings between the nutrition habits of adolescents
and adults become clear. In addition to achieving autonomy, personality
development is also a developmental task in youth. This also includes the
nutritional style, which is developed through the (un-) conscious examination
of the eating patterns of adults. Within the framework of the
research cluster
enable – Healthy food choices in all stages of life
, two focus groups with young
women and men between the age of 18 and 25 and guided narrative interviews
describe the personally perceived changes in nutrition behavior and provide
information on the criteria that determine these changes. In this work, the
focus is on gender-specific concepts and the practice of nutritional behavior in
adolescence and young adulthood.
Biography
Alexandra Sept studied Elementary and Family Pedadogy,
Adult Education and Sociology in the Bachelor’s. She has
completed her Master’s degree in Educational Sciences mainly
focussed on Elementary and Family Pedagogy at the University
of Bamberg in Germany. Now she is working at the Technical
University of Munich at the Professorship of Gender in Science
and Engineering. There she is pursuing her PhD in the research
cluster
enable
that develops newstrategies to promote healthier
food choices in all stages of life. The research project is
interdisciplinary with the focus on the interface of food science
and nutrition technology with information and communication
technology as well as social studies. Current presentations and
publications were at the GLOCER- Conference in Las Vegas
(April 2018) and in the ACM-Journal.
Alexandra.Sept@tum.deThe importance of moving from the parental home for changing the
nutrition behaviour of young adults in a gender perspective
Sept A and Ihsen S
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Sept A et al., J Clin Nutr Diet 2018 Volume: 4
DOI: 10.4172/2472-1921-C1-002