Teens and Eating Disorders Nutritional Needs Change Throughout the Life Cycle

Teens Adolescents need a variety of nutritious foods throughout the day. Teens should eat a diet rich in iron and calcium. Adolescence is a time of great activity and RAPID growth, so you need nutrient dense foods to keep up with the growing phase. Teens should avoid high sugar and high fat snack foods and monitor amounts of caffeine and carbonated drinks.

Iron Teen females need 15 mg / day Teen males need 12 mg /day Good sources: meat, poultry, fish, cereal, beans, green leafy green vegetables.

Drink WATER instead of sugary, carbonated, caffeinated drinks. Soda Sippers How much sugar do you get from soda each day? Here’s what a recent USDA survey shows: Note: There are 10 teaspoons of sugar in One can (12 ounces) of regular soda!! Sugar turns into fat when not used and caffeine blocks the absorption of calcium for bone structure and growth Drink WATER instead of sugary, carbonated, caffeinated drinks. GUYS GALS 15 tsp. 20 tsp.

Special Nutritional Concerns Eating Disorders In our society, we are bombarded daily with images of the “ideal body” From birth, we link food with personal and emotional experiences. Eating disorders involve psychological changes associated with food.

Types of Eating Disorders Anorexia Nervosa: an eating disorder involving a psychological loss or denial of appetite and self-starvation Bulimia Nervosa: an eating disorder in which large quantities of food are eaten at one time (binging) and then purged from the body by vomiting or use of laxatives