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INTERNATIONAL OBESITY SUMMIT AND EXPO

DIABETES, NUTRITION, METABOLISM & MEDICARE

International Conference on

Joint Event on

OF EXCELLENCE

IN INTERNATIONAL

MEETINGS

YEARS

LASER, OPTICS AND PHOTONICS

World Conference on

Obesity Summit 2018 & Diabetes Conference 2018 & Laser Photonics Conference 2018

Biomedical Research

ISSN: 0976-1683

Volume 29

Biomed Res 2018, Volume 29 | DOI: 10.4066/biomedicalresearch-C7-020

STATUS PASSAGES IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD AS A RISK FACTOR FOR THE

NUTRITION BEHAVIOR

Alexandra Sept

Technical University of Munich, Germany

tatus passages are planned or unplanned transitions like from work life to retirement or from living as a couple to living as a

family. Especially young people experience many status passages like the transition from school to university or from living at

parent’s home to moving out and living in a own flat. This transitions cause changes in lifestyle and behavior. Additional to changes

because of status passages, adolescents are faced with many challenges like finding their identity, building up a system of moral

and develop an own future perspective. Transitions in young adulthood, like the replacement of the parents by moving out of the

parental home or the change from school to university are associated with many changes and also changes in the personal nutri-

tion. Because young adults have many new freedoms and opportunities to try out and the focus is not always on the nutrition, the

main criteria the nutrition has to comply with are fast, easy to get, delicious and cheap. The consumption of fast food, convenience

food and snacks, for example, is particularly attractive for adolescents, as it is a distinction from the adult culture of eating, which

is characterized by rules such as eating on a table, using cutlery and having fixed mealtimes. The young adults have to achieve

autonomy, develop themselves personally and form a nutrition behavior that fits in their way of life. In this work the focus is on the

practice of nutritional behavior in adolescence and young adulthood. Within the framework of the interdisciplinary research cluster

enable, that develops strategies for a healthier nutrition in different stages of life, two focus groups with young women and men

between and guided narrative interviews describe the personally perceived changes in nutrition behavior and provide information

on the criteria that determine these changes.