Contents:
- Medical Video: Nutrition, Food Pyramid, Healthy Eating, Educational Videos for Kids, Funny Game for Children
- Junk food is an energy source that is not good for your body
- Tips to improve your diet
- Change the way you think about food
- Change your eating environment
- Important to remember
Medical Video: Nutrition, Food Pyramid, Healthy Eating, Educational Videos for Kids, Funny Game for Children
Good nutrition is very important for everyone, especially for adolescent growth. Unfortunately, many teenagers have an unbalanced diet. Efforts are needed to change your eating habits, but even simple changes will make a big difference. You will feel better and it may be easier to maintain your weight.
Junk food is an energy source that is not good for your body
Many teens eat junk food every day. Junk food also includes sugary drinks such as soda and high-calorie snacks such as potato chips. However, your body cannot function properly if you only eat junk food like this.
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Compared to home food, junk food (including fast food) almost always contains:
- High fat levels, especially saturated fat
- Higher salt
- Higher sugar
- Low fiber
- Lower nutrition, such as calcium and iron
- Served in larger portions, which means more calories.
Although a heart attack in adolescence may still be too long to be true, your body may have a health problem that you don't know at this time. A poor diet can cause weight gain, high blood pressure, constipation, fatigue and concentration problems, even when you are young.
Tips to improve your diet
Small changes can make a big impact. Try to:
- Reduce sweet drinks such as soft drinks and energy drinks. Sugar-free drinks are okay to drink sometimes, but these drinks are acidic, which can have adverse effects on the health of bones and teeth. Water is a healthy drink. Try to add a slice of lemon, lime or orange to taste.
- Provide a bowl of fruit at home for fast, low-calorie snacks
- Require breakfast every day so you tend not to snack at rest. Breakfast of wheat or a low-sugar breakfast of whole-grain cereal served with low-fat milk can provide many vitamins, minerals and fiber. Other choices of fast and healthy breakfast include yogurt or whole wheat bread
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- Don't miss lunch or dinner
- Help parents prepare food while thinking of new ways to make healthier food. Make family recipes into low-fat foods by changing cooking methods - for example, baking, sautéing, boiling or using a microwave, rather than frying
- Reduce your food portion
- Don't add excess salt to your food
- Don't eat high-fat food every time you visit a fast food outlet with your friends. Many popular fast food outlets now provide healthy food choices
- Change the place to meet you. Instead of meeting your friends at fast food outlets, try suggesting food outlets that serve healthy food, such as whole wheat bread with vegetable contents, or sushi.
Change the way you think about food
There are many myths about healthy food. Don't make food choices based on false beliefs. Suggestions include:
- Compare the prices of junk food to the price of healthy foods to see that 'healthy' doesn't have to be 'expensive'
- Experiment with different food recipes. You will soon realize that foods cooked with fresh ingredients are always more beneficial than fast-food burgers or potatoes
- Try different fast-food healthy foods such as breakfast of whole-grain cereals, muesli, whole wheat bread, wheat muffins, fruit, yogurt or pasta
- Don't think that a diet should avoid all types of food. Applying a good diet does not mean you have to eat strange healthy foods. A good diet can eat other good foods for a while,
Change your eating environment
Advice:
- Try to lobby your school canteen to provide healthy food choices
- Ask your school canteen to include a variety of healthy food choices at low prices
- Follow shopping and choose a little processed food
- Follow cooking at home
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Important to remember
- A teenager who eats fast food regularly is more at risk of being overweight than teens who eat fast food only occasionally.
- A diet consisting of healthy foods and snacks will increase the intake of nutrients such as calcium, which is needed for strong bone growth
- Eating well doesn't mean you have to eat weird, healthy foods. A good diet allows you to eat your favorite junk food occasionally.
