| One out of three children in the United States of | | | | lifestyle themselves. |
| America is either overweight or obese. This was | | | | Healthy diets for teens are not tough to put into |
| the results of a recent study conducted by a | | | | place. However, research has shown that unless a |
| team of cardiologists and doctors at Houston's | | | | child starts eating correctly from a young age, it |
| Memorial Hermann Hospital. This is why healthy | | | | might be tough to get him or her started on a |
| diets and workouts for teens are important. While | | | | healthy diet when they become teenagers. |
| teachers, especially gym coaches contribute to | | | | Therefore, it is important for parents to |
| the fitness quotient of teens, parents and the | | | | encourage healthy eating at home but at the |
| lifestyles they adopt are responsible for the | | | | same time not enforce it so strictly that they |
| wayward nature of teen food consumption. | | | | deny their child the right to eat the items that |
| Teenagers are not only impressionable due to the | | | | children love. If they want to eat that candy bar |
| mental changes they go through but are also | | | | go ahead and let them. It is all a matter teaching |
| prone to health risks because of the physical | | | | your child how to eat responsibly and always in |
| changes they go through. | | | | moderation. It is fine if they eat a candy bar, but |
| The teenage years are the toughest for anyone. | | | | do not go and eat five of them all in one sitting. |
| These are the years when a child becomes an | | | | Workouts for teens are necessary at this age |
| adolescent and the personality develops. He or | | | | because the body is going through a lot of |
| she starts getting conscious of life around and | | | | hormonal changes. Boys need to release the |
| faces questions about existence, self and the ego | | | | excess energy produced in their body because of |
| develops as well. It is also the time when the | | | | the high levels of the testosterone in their bodies. |
| teenager's body changes. If he or she does not | | | | Even girls should exercise because although they |
| stay active and exhibit good eating habits, there | | | | do not have testosterone, it is good to maintain |
| will be a good chance of developing eating | | | | high energy levels. Menstruation can take its toll on |
| disorders if they are not taught how and | | | | teenage girls and workouts will maintain a good |
| especially if the parents do not practice that same | | | | balance of energy. |