There are a lot of definitions for the word ‘healthy eating’, no doubt, but there is usually something missing in most definitions. The apt way to explain what healthy eating entails is to start from the very beginning.
 

Look at it this way. As a teenager or even as an adult, you have a body, and you need to constantly renew your energy level, right. Well, there you have it. You constantly need to eat to replenish your body reserves, okay, but you need to eat the right kinds of foods to keep the strength level actually up to par, and also to provide yourself with the nourishment level needed. Well, this has been written to help you out in your healthy eating habits. There would be explanations on what a healthy meal encompasses, what it entails and the components you cannot do without. The thing is, if you actually take the pains to eat well, you can be sure to get a lot more output from your body.

Reasons for wanting to eat healthy:

• If you eat healthy as teenager, you can be sure of a wonderful energy level all through the day.
• Vitamins and minerals are in the right composition in your body, and you can draw on these when needed.
• If you have an eye for sports or athletics, you can be sure to perform better since you are actually doing your body well.
• For those people who have not yet attained their maximum growth level, they can be happy to note that if they eat healthy, they can grow as much as they possibly can without and nutritional restrictions.
• Also, you can be sure that you would not fall into feeding and weight disorders like bulimia and anorexia. Also, you do not have to worry about being chronically thin or just plain obese.
• Your eating habits would also be groomed so you do not do some funny things like skipping some meals and stressing your GIT.

• Healthy eating means actually eating regularly, at the right time. This translates to eating in the morning, noon and evening. Of course, it might also include the need for consuming healthy snacks, especially if you are in need of extra energy in the day.
• It also means actually eating food that comes from the healthy food groups in the food categories.
• It is also the combination of foods rich in nutrients with other ordinary or not so rich foods like sweets and all those ‘junk’ actually called fast foods.
• Believe it or not, eating healthy also means eating enough to satisfy your appetite and learning to stop when you have had enough – i.e. avoiding overstuffing or under eating.

Here are some tips to help you eat healthy as a teenager :

• First rule of eating healthy: do not avoid meals and dos not skip your meal routine. Therefore, you would need to have had a plan for your eating plans so you do not fall into the eating trap. Therefore, when you are planning your meals and snacks, ensure that you are going to follow through on them. The truth if you want to maintain your weight and energy level, you would need to have a good balance between your normal food level and snack levels to achieve the desired results. The thing is this, when you actually skip meals and attempts to supplement them, you invariably often select foods that are not as healthy as if you had gone for your original food choice.
• Next in the list: always eat breakfast. A good percentage of young teenagers skip their breakfast. Of course it is easy to empathize with this phenomenon since they often are in a hurry to get to their classes, but the thing is that when you skip your breakfast, you tend to become insanely and overtly hungry, and in the process you may get to over eat in the day.
• Are you the kind that is going to eat away from your home? Well, you do not want to get yourself stranded, now, do you? Therefore, you might consider the good option of going along with some food from your home. However, if you are sure that you can get quality food from the place you are going to be, then it might not be too necessary to get food from home.

You might also want to educate yourself about some really simple foods that are yet very powerful ands very helpful in fueling you as healthily as possible without having to over eat or fall into eating disorders.

In all, you need to be wise as a teenager in order to eat healthy. Make sure you take instructions from your parents and teachers at school in order to maintain healthy eating styles.

• One example of a pretty healthy ways to cook food is by grilling. You might also want to consider stir-frying, baking and other options that avoid increasing the cholesterol level of foods to an obscene level like frying for instance.
• You might want to prefer going for fresh and dry herbs and spices in spicing up and flavoring your foods, instead of going for the obviously fat – based flavorings like butter for instance.
• When you are preparing your meat, do not just dump it into the pot.  Why not try removing the meat and skin from the flesh? Don’t worry; it won’t affect the quality of your meat at all. A trial would probably be the only thing that might convince you. When you are consuming sugar, ensure that you do so with moderation. Try to avoid excess sugar when you are eating.
• Sugar based drinks might seem to be a great way to replenish your energy levels, but the thing is, they are actually fueling you with energy that is, really, empty. Empty in the need that they may be giving you more than enough calories without actually balancing on your fiber, vitamin and mineral needs. So consume them with moderation.

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