In addition to balanced diet of adolescents has to be varied and more energy. According to the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), the daily diet of a teenager who may vary according to lead a life more or less active, must be greater than the 3,500 calories a day. A balanced diet during adolescence must contain the same proportions of nutrients than any other stage of life: 60% carbohydrate, 25% fat, 14% protein and 1% of vitamins and minerals. In addition to balanced nutrition of adolescents should be rich and varied, no forbidden foods, even those who have good reputation, such as hamburgers, red meat or sweets, because the key is to moderate consumption. Educating for eating right nutrition education must also take into account the turmoil and rebelliousness that characterize this stage of life. The diet does not have to be boring and difficult to carry.
The latest trends in nutrition and tax him fleeing coercive. Several studies have demonstrated that the more rigid we are to make dietary rules, unless we get the desired effect. And this is observed reliably in. At this age are extremely dangerous if are not properly addressed by a specialist. Nutritional imbalances can not only produce changes in all cardiovascular risk factors such as elevated cholesterol and, especially, the occurrence of obesity and diabetes, but may also adversely affect the mood and the onset of eating disorders. Body Conscious eating disorder and Adolescence is an especially vulnerable to all forms of social pressure and fashion, and certainly one of the dominant is the cult of the body and the identification of thinness with success in interpersonal relationships . Thus, the preoccupation with weight and figure are exaggerated in this period and even more so in females.
This is a troubling combination for the two most common eating disorders: anorexia (refusing to eat) and bulimia (excessive need to eat). Food thus becomes an emotional nourishment. The attitude of total rejection or delivery emotional frenzy that food intended fill or empty alleviate existential, emotional deprivation, frustration and disappointment of all kinds of love. These eating disorders can affect hormonal balance. In girls can lead to amenorrhea (loss of menstruation) and in boys inhibition of sexual desire. Complex alterations also occur in some neurochemical mechanisms. Altered levels of serotonin, an important neurotransmitter that regulates mood, anxiety and compensation processes and satiety. With a great interest in health and alternative medicine. I believe that natural remedies and alternative therapies have their place in modern medicine. I am confident that an informed person is potentially a more happy and healthy.
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