Monday, August 10, 2009

6 Great Diets For Teens Tips

When it come to diets for teens, most teens do not always make healthy choices. Teens who are vegetarians will somehow end up eating junk food. Parents normally will tell them not to eat fast food or junk food with their friends.

But telling them not to eat junk food with their friends will not work because parents need to educate them about a healthy diet and provide them with the correct basis to make healthy choices. As such parents should restrict the junk food in the house.

Here are some diets for teens tips:

1. Never skip breakfast. For continuous energy, the inclusion of protein in the breakfast is a must. It will also help to include some grains and whole grain breads, fruits or homemade fruit juice.

2. Promote healthy eating during lunch by highlighting about the available healthy choices at school to your kids.

3. Provide your children with lunch box and fill them up with vegetables, fruits, whole grain breads, chicken (remove skin), turkey (remove skin) and salmon.




4. Stockpile ample healthy snacks in your house for the post school snacks. List down a healthy snacks suggestion and hang it on the refrigerator.

5. Have dinner with your family as frequent as possible. Although this may be a bit difficult to some parents, studies have however revealed that teenagers who eat together with their families are likely to have healthier and better diets when they grow older. They will also smoke less and drink less compared to other kids. Girls who frequently have meals with their families are likely to have less eating disorders incidence.

6. Diets for teens should include a healthy supper as well. Supper is probably meal that you may control, so make sure it has lean protein (the source could be from chicken, turkey, salmon as well as from vegetable), vegetables, whole grains, and for dessert, prepare some fruit based desert.

These 6 diets for teens tips are great to help your teenagers to lose weight. Although there are many more diets for teens tips, but for a start, these 6 should suffice.

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