subject: Adolescent Nutrition Mandatory For Growth In Teenagers [print this page] 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.
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