Nutritional Tips for Teenagers
Healthy eating advice for Teens
- Drink loads of water to make you feel less tired. Check your wee, it should pale coloured. If it is yellow or dark you are dehydrated and this can cause water infections. Take a bottle of water to school.
- Eat healthy for 6 days and have one day eating what you like.
- Eat healthy for at least 2 meals a day. If you skip lunch, make sure you have a decent breakfast and evening meal.
- If you don't have time for breakfast, eat an apple or a banana and take an extra sandwich to have at first break.
- Only eat fruit in between meals, or get your mum to buy fruitus bars instead of crisps, which are tasty but don't have added sugar, fat or salt.
- Don't eat loads of wheat - try oats, rye bread, oatcakes or rice as a change.
- Don't eat too many carbohydrates e.g. lots of bread, cereal, pasta and crisps. Have more protein - beans on toast, peanut butter on toast, fish fingers, fish cakes, organic beef burgers.
- Have healthy snacks in the fridge - chicken satay sticks, cheese string, chicken drumsticks, hard boiled eggs, baked beans.
- Avoid fizzy drinks, they are either LOADED with sugar, or have lots of sweeteners which can interfere with your brain.
