Recently, the number of adolescents with diseases of the digestive system is growing. A disease such as gastritis does not surprise anyone and is found in almost every second child. Solid sandwiches, chips, soda water, crackers - replace full breakfasts, lunches and dinners for many teenagers. But in adolescence, the whole organism is maturing. Therefore, it is especially important that the child eats properly during this period. What needs to be included in the child's diet so that he grows up healthy and vigorous?
Features of nutrition for adolescents:
1. First of all, the child needs to be explained that if he wants to be healthy in the future, then he needs to eat right every day.
2. Mandatory: breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. It is better to eat a little 4-5 times a day than 1-2 times, while eating a large amount of food. By doing this, you are causing great harm to your body. Girls who are preoccupied with their figure should remember this.
3. A large amount of sweets in adolescence provokes increased work of the sebaceous glands. Acne can appear in large numbers on the face and all over the body.
4. Sweets in large quantities contribute to rapid weight gain, and this is not always easy to cope with. Poor girls begin to torture their still fragile body with all kinds of diets. But how many problems could have been avoided by giving up the second piece of cake or the third cake for the evening.
5. There should not be any diets at this age, it harms the still fragile child's body.
6. It is necessary to eat foods containing calcium: milk, dairy products, cottage cheese, fermented baked milk, eggs.
7. You can not eat a lot of fatty, fried foods. If you have pies, then baked ones are better.
8. Teenagers should definitely eat meat, preferably beef.
9. Several times a week eat fish and seafood: squid, shrimp, crab meat.
10. Eat fruits and vegetables every day.
11. Breakfast should be hot: scrambled eggs, cottage cheese casserole, various cereals, milk soups, hot sandwiches.
12. Two-course lunch: soup, main course. A teenager needs to eat soup at least once a day.
13. Exclude coffee from drinks. Herbal teas, rosehip decoctions, compotes, jelly, fruit drinks - not only can, but also need to be drunk.
14. Sausage, which many children love, it is better to exclude. Cheese or hot cheese sandwiches are best.
15. Dinner should be no later than three hours before bedtime. This can be a vegetable stew or a casserole of potatoes, meat, cabbage.
The diet of a teenager should include all the necessary minerals and vitamins. If you follow all the basic rules for eating, then the growing up period will be easy and painless.
