What does the diet look like for a teenager?
It's no secret that most teenagers who focus on advertising and peer examples often prefer unhealthy food, so snacks such as chips, sugary drinks, fast food or a chocolate bar become at that age the norm. Therefore, the task of parents to get acquainted with the table of the correct diet for adolescents and to ensure that the daily menu of their children included foods rich in various vitamins, trace elements and nutrients. Among them, an important role is played by:
- Calcium, which prevents brittle bones and tooth decay. They are rich in milk and dairy products, broccoli, hard cheese, lentils, rice, beans, cabbage, various kinds of nuts and seeds.
- Protein. It is a real "brick", from which our muscles, tissues and internal organs are built. Even if your child is overweight and wants to do everything to lose weight, proper nutrition for teens should still include protein foods. This seafood, low-fat kefir, cottage cheese and yogurt, lean meat, fish, nuts, tofu cheese, beans.
- Fats, the use of which in the transitional age will ensure the health of hair and skin and saturate the body with energy. But the correct diet for adolescents suggests that their content in the diet will be no more than 25-35% of the total daily amount of calories. The correct fats are found in walnuts, almonds, peanuts, cashews, corn, sunflower, olive, rapeseed and soybean oils, as well as in trout, salmon, tuna. But butter, fatty meat and milk should be limited.
