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One of the most important parameters that affect the development of adolescents is their nutrition level. It is known that adolescents with a balanced diet have advantages in academic success as well as physiological development. In the puberty where quite various psychological and physiological variations occur, child raising attitudes of parents is admittedly important with regard to the behavior of adolescents. This study aims to bring a viewpoint to healthy nutrition concept which is required for healthy development and individual success of adolescents with regard to attitudes within the family which is the smallest unit of a society and socio-economic status of the family. Sampling of the research is composed of 116 adolescents and their parents who applied to Ankara (Turkey) Dışkapı Pediatrics Training and Research Hospital with nutrition complaints.

In order to determine the attitudes of parents of adolescents whose nutrition and development conditions are measured clinically, Parent Attitude Scale and socio-demographical scale have been used in the research. Research findings indicate that there is a negative correlation between democratic child-raising attitudes of parents and level of nutrition of adolescents. While the level of nutrition varies depending on the income level of the families, no variation depending on “education level” of parents has been determined. Behavioral problems were evaluated in Taiwanese children who were born between July 1978 and June 1985 to women who had consumed rice oil that was contaminated by heat-degraded polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). One hundred and eighteen such children, referred to as ‘the early-born Yucheng children’, and matched controls were followed with the Chinese version of Rutter's Child Behavior Scale A annually from 1985 to 1991. At any fixed age, the early-born Yucheng children had mean Rutter behavior scores 1.75 to 2.40 points higher (14–38% worse) than that of their controls. The effects were similar in the health, habit, and behavioral sub scores and persistent as the children aged.

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