ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Nutritional status and lifestyles of adolescents from a public health perspective. The HELENA Project—Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence | J Public Health 2007 15 187-197 DOI s10389-007-0107-3 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Nutritional status and lifestyles of adolescents from a public health perspective. The HELENA Project Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence S. De Henauw F. Gottrand I. De Bourdeaudhuij M. Gonzalez-Gross C. Leclercq A. Kafatos D. Molnar A. Marcos M. Castillo J. Dallongeville C. C. Gilbert P. Bergman K. Widhalm Y. Manios C. Breidenassel M. Kersting L. A. Moreno on behalf of the HELENA Study Group Received 31 January 2007 Accepted 12 March 2007 Published online 11 May 2007 Springer-Verlag 2007 Abstract The HELENA Project Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence is a European collaborative research project financed by the EU Sixth Framework Programme in the area of nutrition-related adolescent health. The basic objective of the HELENA project is to obtain reliable and comparable data from a See Appendix. S. De Henauw I. De Bourdeaudhuij Ghent University Ghent Belgium e-mail F. Gottrand Université de Lille 2 Lille France M. Gonzalez-Gross Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid Spain C. Leclercq INRAN - National Research Institute for Food and Nutrition Rome Italy A. Kafatos Preventive Medicine and Nutrition Unit University of Crete School of Medicine Heraklion Crete Greece D. Molnar University of Pécs Pécs Hungary A. Marcos Grupo Inmunonutrición Departamento de Metabolismo y Nutrición Instituto del Frio Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid Spain M. Castillo Departamento de Fisiología Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Granada Granada Spain J. Dallongeville INSERM U744 Institut Pasteur de Lille Université de Lille 2 Lille France C. C. Gilbert Department of Consumer and Sensory Sciences Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association Chipping Campden Gloucestershire UK P. Bergman Karolinska Institutet Huddinge Sweden K. Widhalm Department of Pediatrics .