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We have briefly reviewed the nutritional requirements of adolescents and the significant difficulties in establishing nutrient requirements for this period of rapid growth. In general, although there are data for specific nutrients in adolescents on which to base recommendations for nutritional requirements, by and large, most requirements are extrapolated from data on infants or adults. There is still a large void to be filled in determining the physiological requirements for nutrients during the adolescent growth spurt. Until this is accomplished, many of our data, as presented in the report, are extrapolated. For specific recommendations for individual adolescents, the reader is again referred to the FAO/WHO publication and the National Research Council Publication.
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