Guide To Healthier Eating For Teens

Warning

To start Teens should not go on any diet with out consulting thier doctor first, the reason is that teens are still growing, thier body is still developing and dieting will cause unforseen problems in thier body growth.

Healthier Eating Guide For Teens:

The speed at which most families live today it's not supprising that teens are over weight, ( 25% US & UK ) it's easy to see why when there is so many fast food joints out there, so whats the solution.

Education , you have to teach your teens on how to read food lables, better still, pack them a healthier lunch box in stead of useing fast food out lets at lunch times.

Stop them  drinking to much pop, cola's, soda's etc, do you know that it's recomended that all of us should drink up to eight glasses of water perday?

Stop them watching to much TV, Playing computer games and generally lazing about after school, join them in some out door games or exercise, all forms of sport are good for exercising, swimming is one of the best.

Guide To Healthier Eating For Teens:

• Cut out or down on all red meats.
• Cut out all products with high sugar content.
• Cut down on salt when cooking for them.
• Cut out all fast food out lets.
• Cut out all white bread, rice, pasta, etc.
• Cut down on coffee, tea, fizzy drinks.
• Cut down on thier TV or Computer viewing - playing time.
• Don't fry any food products.
• Don't bake any food products useing fat or oil's.

Healthier Eating Guide For Teens:

• Grill or Steam cook all red meats.
• Add more white meat to thier diet.
• Add more fresh vegetables with low salt content.
• Add more fresh fruit and water to thier diet.
• Add fish high in omega3 twice aweek, at least.
• Add more summer salads to your family diet, salmon salad, great.
• Add whole meal bread, pasta, rice, whole grain products.
• Add fresh fruit drinks with no added sugar.

Thats but afew, do a search on Google for healthy eating options for teens and you will come up with thousands of heathier diets you can apply today.

Cooking For Teens:

If you cook your teens meals in a more healthier way and this includes your whole family, you will all be better off with clearer skin, brighter eyes, heathier body, you will think quicker and respond faster than normal.

Cooking useing a family size steamer retains all the goodness of the foods you are going to eat, frying or braking just adds more fat to there diet which you don't want.

Grilling your red meats gets rid of a lot of fat and it's best to cut off all visible fat before you grill it.

By boiling your vegetables you are pouring all of the goodness down the drain plus most cooks use much to much salt which is bad for any ones diet.

Tips

If you haven't got one buy your self a good size family cooking steamer which will cook a meal for your whole family not just for teens, your teens or young children will not feel put out if you are all eating the same type of healthy food.

Grilling your red meats will also help by cutting down on thier fat intake, add a very thin coating off English mustard to pork or beef will also help break down the fat and guess what! It also helps fight the skin ageing process, helps to stop your skin from wrinklying, it's true...

Try This!

Instead of stuffing your chicken with your normal stuffing, cut a fresh lemon in half and use that instead, it's a great tasting way to cook chicken in a shorter time as normal stuffing holds back the cooking time.

Ok.  heres a quick easy healthy meal for all the family which save you time and money.

Put two inches of water in your steamer or what is recomended by the makers, place a chicken with half a lemon on the first layer, put on your heat source, gas, eletric.

Bring it to the boil and then turn down the heat, don't forget to put the lid on and check the water every now and then.

Thats the chicken cooking, time taken, 5minutes, now top and tail baby carrots and scrub under running water, a nail brush is good for that, don't peel, there done.

Prepare your peas or any fresh vegetables that you like, it shouldn't take you more than a few minutes, place to one side, the size of the chicken will determin the cooking time and when you should add your fresh vegetables.

The maker of your steamer should have given you a cooking guide and cooking times for differn't foods.

That simple meal will give your teens and you all the vitamins, minerals, proteins for a healthy body and life style, it also save you money by useing only one heat source plus there is less washing up for you...

Fish:

Fish high in omega3 like mackerel, salmon, pilchards, haddock, herring are all high in omega3, this is a must have food source at least twice aweek, Why, it's great for your heart and blood.

Quick snack.

Pilchards in tomatoes sauce on lightly toasted whole grain bread.

Main Meal.

Salmon salad,   there's two simple ways to get enough omega3 for one week.

For more fish recipes:

Check out this link Fish Recipes?

Fresh Fruit.

Any fresh fruit once a day is a must for all of us not only teens or young children, most fresh fruit has vitimins A, C, B2 plus fiber.

Fresh fruit tip:

On hot days?

Cut fresh fruit into cubes about the size of your thumb nail, place in a small serving dish, pour over a low fat cream and place in your fridge half ahour before they come home.

It's cool, refeshing, and very healthy, infact you can use it as a starter or after your main meal, either way it's a great way to get your teens or young children to eat more fresh fruit, don't forget your self!

How about you?

Yes you Mum or Mom how about DAD?

Are you looking after your self, health wise?

Check out this link, it's just for you    MUM-DAD?

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