Everybody, whether a boy or girl needs to eat a good
breakfast including nutritious food when going through the adolescent phase of life,
as it increases thinking power and helps maintain a healthy body weight.
If you
take proper food in your breakfast and never avoid it then it will help you to
stop snacking on high calorie bars and confectionery at break time and so can
help keep the total calorie intake also low. If we talk about the proper
adolescent nutrition then having a fortified cereal in breakfast would
definitely meet the adolescent calcium and iron needs.
Girls generally attain the adolescent phase of life before
boys, so it becomes mandatory for them to fulfill their Adolescent nutrition
requirements. Intake of nutritious food is must in this age, as body demands
more of calcium and iron. This is the age when the gain in bone density is to
its max (up to 90%) and lack of calcium intake at this time can have a detrimental
affect on bone growth. As far as the calcium sources are concerned, Milk,
cheese and yogurt are the obvious food for it. In the daily diet of teenagers a
pint-and-a-half of ordinary milk or a pint of fortified milk is necessary. This
can be made up of milk on breakfast cereal, milk in tea, coffee, milkshakes or
smoothies.
If you take Iron which is also another nutrient in your
regular diet then your adolescent nutrition requirements will surely be accomplished.
Mostly found in plant foods, Iron need to be combined with vitamin C rich foods
for proper fulfillment of nutrition. For say a glass of orange juice (vitamin
C) with beans (iron) on toast. Citrus fruits (orange, lemon, lime and
grapefruit), kiwi, nectarines, mango, blackcurrants and drinks based on these
fruits are some of the other vitamin C rich foods.
Divine Wellness is an interactive health portal that
provide useful encyclopedia about the nutrition requirements for Adolescents.
You can learn various health tips from here only.
Patresia Adams is a healthcare consultant working with Divine Wellness. This interactive health and wellness portal offers live online yoga classes through High-definition video conferencing.
