2023-01-172023-01-172018SIQUEIRA, Jéssica Valéria Garcia; LISBOA, Maira Gonçalves. Uso de dietas da moda por adolescentes do sexo feminino: Uma revisão de literatura. Orientadora: Alodia Brasil Costa. 2018. 46 f. Trabalho de Curso (Bacharelado em Nutrição) - Faculdade de Nutrição, Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, 2018. Disponível em: https://bdm.ufpa.br:8443/jspui/handle/prefix/5075. Acesso em:.https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/5075OBJECTIVE: Carry out a bibliographical survey about the use of fad diets for adolescents and the nutritional status in which they are found. METHODOLOGY: This is a review of the literature with a period of 10 years (2007­2017), with the descriptors "fad diets", "adolescents" and "diets of weight loss". In the searches, the Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo) and Academic Google, considering articles only in Portuguese, were used as databases. After evaluation, 10 articles were selected that met the inclusion criteria and answered the question addressed to the study. RESULTS: A total of 403,581 were obtained and after application of the selection criteria resulted in 9 articles used in the present review. Through the results of researches done with adolescents where there was a higher prevalence of eutrophic as nutritional diagnosis of adolescents who make use of fad diets. It was identified the diet of the dots as the most popular fashion diet for weight loss by this public. As for the frequency of the use of fad diets, through the evaluation of seven articles where it turned out that about half of the adolescents who participated in the surveys stated to do or already have made diet for weight loss. Regarding the motivation for the use of fad diets, body dissatisfaction was identified as the main reason. CONCLUSION: The present literature review demonstrates that female adolescents who wish to lose weight, even most of them presenting eutrophic nutritional status, commonly resort to inadequate methods for weight loss, among them the use of fad diets that promise rapid weight loss. However, these diets are not the best alternative for weight loss as they can bring harm to health. Being always recommended the accompaniment with nutritionist.Acesso AbertoDietas da modaDietas de emagrecimentoAdolescenteFad dietsWeight loss dietsTeensCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAOTrabalho de Curso - Graduação - Monografia