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| Patterns Healthy Food for Teenagers |
Adolescence is a time of growth, so it is healthy and nutritious meals every day shall be consumed, the reason is simple enough for teens who are in the process of growth can grow optimally, height and weight, and is able to perform various activities.
Here are some tips that we provide to you that while the growth process in choosing healthy foods so that the growth process can be optimized and more active.
The Importance of Healthy Breakfast For Teens
Do you agree that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Especially for adolescents who are in a period of growth, nutritional adequacy of breakfast must be met as well. Unfortunately, only 50% of children aged 6 -11 years who eat breakfast on a regular basis. And what about the older teens?
The prevalence of adolescents skip breakfast to be higher than the children, especially for young women. They will tend to spend the time to set up the appearance compared to breakfast. They also believe that in order to get a slim body and gorgeous, they have a strict diet and one way is to skip breakfast.
Without realizing it, the nutrients obtained at breakfast is very important and greatly affects the activities throughout the day. Consumption of breakfast proven to improve cognitive function so that the brain is able to concentrate, remember, and solve problems more accurately. Not only that, teenagers who eat breakfast feel more energetic, able to think clearly, and have adequate better mood. Breakfast will increase blood sugar levels are known to have a positive relationship with mood and ability to concentrate so you can do better in school.
The first meal should be done on schedule, like three times a day by adding some healthy snacks are among the best ways to maintain a healthy weight. If you skip breakfast or dinner, you would be more hungry and tend to eat more unhealthy foods.
Get used to bring a lunch from home. In addition to saving money for snacks, bring a lunch from home will save you time by not having to queue for food outlets and of course the food you bring from home are healthier than snacks outside.
Choose foods that are baked or boiled, not fried. Compared baked or boiled foods, fried foods have 50% fat calories or more! Wow!!
Reduce fast food. Eat once in a while may be, but watch portions and avoid large fast food. Calories in a large fast food will be stacked into fats and lead to increased weight body. Most fast food is also rich in saturated fats, sugar, salt, and lack of essential vitamins and mineral nutrients.
With healthy snacking. One of the healthy snacks are fruits and vegetables. Besides rich in fiber, fruits and vegetables contain vitamins and minerals that are good for your health. Baseball so bored, vary with fruit yogurt, juice, or salad. Or mixed with fruit / vegetable delight you. For example, fruit juice you do not like that you like to reduce taste good baseball.
Eating a nutritionally adequate and balanced. Besides carbohydrates (rice, bread, pasta), as well as the consumption of protein (skinless chicken, lean beef), fats (fish, nuts, low-fat salad dressing, avocado), also fruit and vegetables in sufficient quantities to meet the needs of your daily nutrition.
Avoid soft drinks. This drink does not contain vitamins, minerals, protein or fiber. Instead of drinking soft drinks with just getting carbohydrate intake, better to drink milk with a more diverse nutrient content, particularly calcium nutrition for growth and bone healthy to concentrate so you can do better in school.
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