SCOTS schoolchildren are consuming fewer nutrients in their diet than they were in the late-1990s and fewer than three portions of fruit or vegetables a day.
Experts presented research into the health and wellbeing of adolescents across the UK and Scotland at a conference for teachers in Glasgow yesterday.
Dr Sandra Drummond of Queen Margaret University said studies of the intake of key nutrients by youngsters aged 11 to 18 revealed, apart from folates, all had fallen between 1997 and 2008/09.
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