What types of foods are good and bad?

Teenagers should be eating a healthy balanced diet, which means a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, and starchy foods, that also contains reasonable amounts of foods rich in protein, and dairy foods. In a healthy balanced diet you should also eat the same amount of calories you take in and loose. Active healthy young teens can have large appetites and it's significant for them to eat food of high nutritional value in the form of well balanced meals, rather than too many snacks that are rich in sugar or salt, and fat. Fruits, nuts and dried fruit make healthier snacks than crisps and sweets.

Foods that a teen should eat drink:

• Dairy, soya beans, nuts and tofu are good sources of calcium, which is required for healthy bones and teeth.
• Breakfast cereals and margarine with vitamins, and oily fish, are good sources of vitamin D. Vitamin D helps keep a good supply of calcium in the blood.
  
• Meat, particularly red meat, and fish, are rich sources of iron. Iron is needed for healthy blood.
• Teens should take in foods containing folate - the natural form of folic acid - in your diet, such as green vegetables and brown rice, as well as fortified bread and breakfast cereals.
• Fruits (such as oranges and lemons), tomatoes and potatoes are all good sources of vitamin C.
  

Foods that a teen shouldn't eat or drink:

• Teenagers should stay away from thing thats have high levels of mercury in them
• Pizza, burgers, chips, sweets, and soft drinks (gives little nutrition)
  
• high calorie deserts or snacks (such as snack chips, regular soft drinks or ice cream)

A teenager's nutrition is important to his or her's overall health. Daily nutrition, which ought to include eating three meals a day and atleast two nutritious snacks, limiting high sugar fat foods, eating fruits, vegetables, meats and low fat dairy products. This includes 3 servings of milk, to meet teenager's calcium needs, it can also prevent many medical problems, including becoming overweight, becoming to have diabetes, and developing weak bones. A nutritious diet will make your teen to know what to eat, and what not to eat at a younger age which well make them healthier in the future.