• Diet before puberty and its effects on puberty and after (Systematic review(
  • Saeideh Almasi,1,* Mehdi Ardakani,2 Mojgan Yaghoubi,3 Mahsa Teymouri,4 Venus Sargazi,5
    1. Instructor, Department of Nursing, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran.
    2. School of medical ,Mashhad Azad University, Mashhad , Iran
    3. School of midwifery ,Mashhad Azad University, Mashhad , Iran
    4. School of Nursery, Broujerd Nursing University, Lorestan , Iran
    5. Nursing Department, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran


  • Introduction: Nutrition plays a direct and key role in creating, maintaining and promoting health because nutrition is necessary for all vital functions of the body. Proper nutrition is one of the most important issues related to puberty. And this largely depends on proper nutrition before puberty, so that sometimes the diseases of puberty, such as obesity, lack of proper height growth, etc., are rooted in improper nutrition before puberty. Studies have shown that malnutrition habits occur before puberty and, as a result, during puberty.
  • Methods: This review is published in articles on databases Pubmed, sid , google scholar, Magiran From 2010 to 2020 .A search of the databases turned up 146 articles, 73 of which were not relevant to the research, were removed by reading the abstract, and finally 32 studies were selected. It was done in Persian and English
  • Results: Finally, 18 articles were included in this study. Some studies have shown that the incidence of developmental disorders and diseases related to puberty is directly and significantly related to diet before puberty. When the adolescent body needs nutrients for development and growth, but there is a limit to the quality and quantity of the diet and this need is met with non-nutritious foods, it provides the basis for developmental disorders and disease during puberty. Therefore, it can be said that the quantity and quality of nutrition before puberty is very important on the developmental stages of puberty.
  • Conclusion: The results of the present study show that in general, the type and amount of diet has a direct effect on the age of onset of puberty, growth rate, disorders and diseases during puberty. Therefore, caring for and improving the quality and quantity of children's nutrition guarantees proper growing and health that during puberty and adulthood that it preserves and promotes the health of the next generation.
  • Keywords: Effect ,Diet, Before, puberty,after