Abstract:Eating behavior is acquired from infancy through sensations and experiments that stimulate the child through touch, taste and smell, building the food preferences. Such preferences consist in sensations and meanings of physical, social, psychological and cultural representations. The way of eating is related to the adolescents’ body transformation, which can be observed by the food standards adopted by this population. Adolescents exposed to the media, society, peers and family influences may undergo changes i… Show more
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