The graph shows the percentage of UK adolescents following a vegetarian diet. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features.

The graph shows the percentage of UK adolescents following a vegetarian diet. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features.
Over the past fifty years, there has been significant variation in the percentage of young people in the UK who choose to eat a vegetarian diet. In 1960, only a small percentage of adolescents (about 1
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) were vegetarian. There was
then
a steep increase until 1978
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when over 15
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were following a vegetarian diet.
Thereafter
, the percentage fell steadily until 1990 and
then
fluctuated for a decade. It reached a low point of just 4
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in 1996. It has risen gradually since 2000 and is expected to continue to do so over the
next
few years. After reaching a high point in around 2015, it is projected to decline again and level off by the decade’s end.
Overall
, the graph shows two main periods of interest in vegetarianism among young people in the UK: one peaking around 1978 and the
second
projected to peak approximately forty years later, in 2015.
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