Healthy Diet for Teenagers

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Healthy Diet for Teens

Planning a Healthy Diet for Teenagers

Planning a healthy diet for teenagers can be challenging. If you’re lucky, your teenager likes chicken, fish, fruits, veggies and whole grains. If not, you may have to be sneaky. Here are a few suggestions.

Everyone loves French fries, but white potatoes are pretty low in nutrients and they may contribute to long term health problems. In order to come up with a healthy diet for teens, while still including flavors that they love, we learned how to thin slice sweet potatoes, coat them with olive oil and bake them in the oven. They actually taste so much better than regular French fries that the kids prefer them.

Even a healthy diet for teenagers must include pasta, simply because they love it. You can easily sneak several servings of vegetables and even a little shrimp or chicken in with their favorite spaghetti, linguini, shells or macaroni. It may take a little practice to get the consistency right, so that they don’t realize they are eating more vegetables, but it works.

A healthy diet for teens should include three to five servings of fish or seafood per week. But, fried or breaded seafood is too high in fat. The solution is boiling, baking or grilling. Of the three, most kids prefer the grilled variety. Our kids are particularly fond of shish-kabobs, because they can help load them up.

If you’re like most parents, you are pressed for time in the evenings. So, trying to find time to make dinner every night and work the family dinner into the kid’s busy schedules is next to impossible. One solution is to eat out. Just be careful about where you eat.

Subs and pizza can be a part of a healthy diet for teens, as long as you are selective about the toppings and dressings. Try to stay away from the high fat selections. Choose whole grain breads. Some pizza shops now sell a whole grain pie, which is quite good.

Another solution to the time crunch in the evening is to involve the whole family. If everyone helps, it is easier to come up with a healthy diet for teenagers and for their parents.

Including enough fruits and vegetables is the hardest part of planning a healthy diet for teens. Baby carrots, bananas, apples, apple sauce and juices are some of the solutions, although only 2 of the ideal 9 servings per day should be from juice. Kids and adults need the fiber that is present in the whole food.

Consider stocking the house with healthy wraps, instead of white bread and leaving the junk food on the store shelves. The whole family should be involved in planning and eating a healthy diet for teenagers.

After all, good food is good for everyone.

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