Investigation of the Effects of Social Media Use on Unhealthy Nutrition Tendency in Children and Adolescents
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Child, Food, Adolescent, Unhealthy Nutrition, Social MediaAbstract
The increasing trend towards unhealthy nutrition worldwide is increasing with the existence and promotion of food products with different contents. At this point, although children and adolescents are guided towards healthy nutrition based on the control of their parents and their environment, they are the groups that stand out in consuming food products that will negatively affect their health. Considering the conditions of the current digital world and the rapid adaptation of children and adolescents to these conditions, it is important to examine the negative effects of social media, the most effective tool of the digital age, in this process. It constitutes the basis of the problem of food products, which come to the fore in the shares of different segments on social media and hinder the healthy development of children and adolescents. In this study, the effects of social media use on health nutrition trends in children and adolescents were examined based on a literature review. The general picture revealed by the review shows that children and adolescents who are active in social media use have a high tendency towards unhealthy eating.
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