Nutrition affects the development of
teenagers.
Teenager is middle period of teenage and adult.
This is golden period for development of both constitution and spirit.
Nutrition is physical foundation to ensure normal growing and development of
body.
With teenage period, your body will change
quickly. Nutrition is accompanied with development. In this age, organs,
muscles, fat and bone frame develop.
Nutrition
affects development of teenagers.
Nutrition affects the development of teenagers
According to statistics, from 12 to 18 years
old, teenager’s weight will increase with medium rate about 20-30 kilograms and
their height also increases about 28-30cm. To get used to and satisfy this
demand and keep body healthy, it depends on providing enough nutrients or
suitable order of arrangement about nutrition so that it can ensure healthy
development and development of the body for teenagers.
Bringing up teenagers is a complex problem.
It is different from demand about nutrition of adults. Besides satisfying basic
physiological demand, energy and nutrition for teenagers need to satisfy
growing and developing demand of teenagers both physicality and spirit. If
parents don’t pay attention to state about physicality of teenagers and special
demand, it will affect directly or obstruct normal development of teenagers. It
can even lead to some diseases that can cause harmfulness to health. Among
them, some damages can be restored, but some others can even affect the future
life of teenagers.
Bringing
up teenagers is a complex problem.
For example, if teenagers don’t have enough
protein, energy and calcium of diet in a long time, this thing can cause bone
disorder of hands, legs and blond hair. Lacking vitamin A can make skin become
rough. Other vitamins such as riboflavin (vitamin B2), acid nicotinic (vitamin
PP), vitamin C and vitamin E play important part in protecting skin.
Consequently lacking nutrients will cause many kinds of disease about skin.
Moreover, minerals and micronutrients have different effects on human body. For
example, lacking in Fe can lead to lacking blood, lacking zinc, obstructing
development of body, and as a result, teenagers will have small stature. So,
body won’t have the amount of fluorine and it will lead to tooth decay.
Moreover, boys and girls don’t have the
same demand. A girl’s height can increase 15cm in 2 years; a boy’s height can
increase over 20cm in 6 months. Girls develop quickly in age from 13-15 years
old. The speed of development will be slow when girls have menstruation. Boys
begin to develop slower with a little from 12-13 years old and it will increase
to 18 years old. So, nutrition for 2 genders is different in the same age.
Necessary for teenagers
Main reasons that make balance of nutrition
lose include: not having enough source to provide food, habit of poor eating
and drinking, being lazy doing exercise… So, parents should pay attention to
these problems in daily life so that they can provide their children with a
balanced and healthy diet.
Providing energy for teenagers needs to be
diversified from different foods: Starch: bread, rice, vermicelli, grain, potato...;
kinds of food that are rich in calcium are yoghurt cheese, fresh milk, orange
juice, mineral water; foods that are rich in Fe such as shrimp, crab, oyster,
cocoa, liver, lentil, beef, lamb, chocolate, egg, poultry meat, foods that are
rich in protein such as meat, fish, egg….
Providing
energy for teenagers needs to be diversified from different foods.
Besides, you need to create habit in eating
and drinking for teenagers: drinking 6-8cups of water every day; eating enough
meals including breakfast; eating and drinking with diversified foods; choosing
portion that contains a lot of grains, vegetables and fruits; choosing portion
with less fat, fat can cause atherosclerosis; choosing portion that contains
the suitable amount of sugar and salt; choosing portion that provides enough
calcium and Fe that are necessary for development of the body….
Besides, doing exercise regularly will be
important element to have a body that develops totally, has balance, and healthy
heart, stable bone.
