Why Diet?
Why diet? If you can’t think of a good and permanent answer then don’t do it. Personally doing anything with the word die it in seems rather unhealthy and dieting definitely is not healthy in the long run, You might lose the weight, even keep it off for a while, but when dieting it always [...]
Learn MoreHelping Teens
It’s been scarcely a month since I wrote about Xenical for Teens, and I found this really good article on helping teenagers stay on a diet at UK paper Telegraph’s website: Junk the Bad Habits and Glow With Teen Spirit.
Bryony Gordon examines their nutritional needs and steers parents through the minefield of faddy diets and eating disorders.
and Melissa Whitworth reviews Abby Ellin’s new book Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs in on Living Large, Losing Weight, and How Parents Can (and Can’t) Help (Public Affairs).
One tip, as a last resort, suggests force-feeding adolescents a multivitamin and mineral pill daily to combat their naturally bad eating habits. The piece also addresses eating disorders, common in teens, and explains how to cope with the vegetarian teen:
Soya beans, seeds, almonds and dark-green vegetables provide the calcium normally found in fish; lemons, vegetables, figs, onions, carrots, potatoes and corn are rich in magnesium (which non-veggies usually get from chicken). Nuts, sunflower seeds, oats, rice, avocados and apricots are good sources of iron; zinc, which is found in all meat, is also in brown rice, cucumbers, cauliflower, lettuce and beans.
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