Healthy Eating for Teen
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Tips to eating for your health
Young Women's Health
These tips for healthy eating for teens are easy ways to adjust your eating habits for the better. Pick one and follow it for a month to form a new healthy habit.
A healthy eating overview
Utah State University Extension
This excellent overview of healthy eating for teens includes quick and easy breakfast ideas and tips for eating out.
What’s in a name?
Child and Youth Health
This excellent resource includes an explanation of why some foods are considered healthy eating for teens while others are junk.
Should you go on a diet?
Intelihealth
Well, it depends on what sort of diet you’re talking about. As this article explains, diet pills are out, while exercise and healthy eating for teens are in.
Lose weight and stay healthy
Teen Growth
If your goals for teen healthy eating include losing weight, read this page to learn about permanent weight loss that won’t damage your health like most diets.
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Signs of an eating disorder
YouTube
This excellent video shows you what an eating disorder can look like. If this is what you or a friend is doing instead of enjoying healthy eating, please get help.
Avoiding fad diets
Kids Health
Fad diets do even more damage to growing teens than to adults. Learn how to tell the difference between healthy eating for teens and a passing craze.
Go beyond the mirror
Warm 2 Kids
It’s easy to obsess over how you look and choose crash diets over healthy eating for teens. Please don’t fall into this trap; it will only hurt you.
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How the BMI falls short
Washington Post
Healthy eating for teens becomes a concern with a high BMI score. But as this article explains, the BMI is starting to lose credibility as a measure of health.
While debunking a report regarding the effect of soda on girl’s bones, this article reminds us that healthy eating for teens involves moderation, not avoidance.
Why you should bother
Need 2 Know
This page discusses the benefits of exercise and healthy eating for teens, including the need to be active beyond PE class.
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For the vegetarian teen
Vegetarian Resource Group
If you want to give up meat and your family consists of omnivores, read this article on healthy eating for teen vegetarians.
Diabetic teens eat and live well
Diabetes Teen Talk
This article offers an excellent discussion on healthy eating for diabetic teens when they are away from home, whether at school, the mall or a party.
How parents can help their teens
Raising Kids
Would you like to teach your teen about healthy eating? This page has wonderful suggestions for what parents can do to help their child.
Your tax dollars at work
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Learn about Bodyworks, the federal program that teaches mothers and daughters about healthy eating for teens in an effort to stop the obesity epidemic.
