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Healthy eating for adolescent boys
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- 1—Do: fill your plate with colourful veggies.
Why: veggies are super foods, they help you prevent and fight disease.
Challenge: eat at least two colours of vegetables with lunch and dinner.
Tasty idea: try steamed veggies with pasta sauce. Don’t cook them too long or they’ll lose their superpowers! - 2—Do: eat fruit between meals.
Why: fruits are super foods, they help you prevent and fight disease.
Challenge: eat a new fruit every week.
Tasty idea: frozen berries and grapes are great in summer.
- 3—Do: add some meat, chicken, fish, eggs, nuts or beans to your veggies.
Why: these foods help your muscles grow strong. Fish also makes you healthier and happy.
Challenge: eat fish every week.
Tasty idea: mix a can of salmon or tuna with avocado and add to your salad or wholemeal toast
- 4—Do: eat wholemeal bread, pasta, cereals, brown rice and oats.
Why: whole grains will give you a healthy heart and help you prevent some cancers.
Challenge: ask for wholemeal bread next time you buy a sandwich or toast.
Tasty idea: have porridge with a spoonful of peanut butter and a sliced banana for breakfast.
- 5—Do: eat burgers, pizza, takeaway, pastries, biscuits, cakes and chips only sometimes and in small amounts.
Why: this will help you keep a healthy weight and heart.
Challenge: cook at home at least three times per week.
Tasty idea: make a healthy burger with ground beef, salt and pepper.
- 6—Do: drink water instead of soft drinks, sports drinks, cordial, fruit juice and energy drinks.
Why: this will help you keep a healthy weight and teeth.
Challenge: carry a bottle of water with you everywhere.
Tasty idea: add some lime or lemon juice to your water.
- 7—Do: drink low-fat milk, eat low-fat yoghurt and cheese.
Why: these foods will help your bones grow stronger.
Challenge: say “no” to flavoured milks.
Tasty idea: make smoothies with low-fat Greek yoghurt and your favourite fruit.
- 8—Do: wait until you are 18 to have a drink with your mates.
Why: your brain won’t grow well if you drink.
Challenge: say “no” next time someone offers you a drink.
Tasty idea: try a mocktail (that’s a cocktail without the alcohol).
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- Healthy eating for adolescent boys, based on the Australian Dietary Guidelines. Images taken off the web for assignment purposes only.
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- Gaby Mora
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