Teenager Nutrition...
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Anorexia and Your Teenager
Anorexia is an eating disorder that most commonly affects girls and young women although it’s increasingly seen in boys and young men too. It is characterised by drastic...
Binge Eating and Your Teen
Teens who suffer from a binge eating disorder eat large quantities of food in one sitting, either as a typical meal or when they are feeling upset and turn to food for...
Bulimia and Your Teenager
Bulimia is an eating disorder characterised by cycles of binge eating followed by excessive dieting, vomiting and/or use of laxatives. It particularly affects younger...
Coping With a Vegan Teenager
Teenagers become vegan for a variety of reasons – to improve their health, because of a concern for the environment or animal welfare, or even because they don’t...
Eating Disorder Signs & Clues
The three main eating disorders are anorexia, bulimia and binge eating. Though these disorders are all defined by actions, how a person eats (or does not eat), they...
Encouraging a Healthy Attitude Towards Food
In today’s media-driven world, children are exposed to all sorts of messages and images that affect their attitudes towards eating and food. On one...
Encouraging a Positive Body Image in Your Child
Everywhere we turn we see idealised images of the human body – on TV, in films and adverts, in comics and magazines. Even children’s dolls echo the...
How to Tempt Your Teenager's Taste Buds
Teenagers are growing rapidly, and it’s important that this should be supported by a balanced and varied diet. However, they are also gaining...
Iron Deficiency in Teenagers
What Is Iron?
Iron is a substance that is essential to humans and is a valuable protein ion the blood. It is taken from food sources and used in the body every day....
Kids and Breakfast: Why is it Important?
Breakfast is the first meal of the day, and it really is the most important one, because it feeds the brain and body, and supports better eating...
Overweight or Obese Teens
Research shows that an overweight or obese teenager is in danger of becoming seriously overweight as an adult too.
Quite apart from the poor self-esteem that often...
Should I Worry About My Child's School Dinners?
Many parents worry about what their children are eating at school believing quite rightly that a good meal at lunchtime will help their children...
Under-Age Drinking
Binge drinking and under-age drinking are increasingly in the news these days. More and more children seem to be drinking too much too often and too soon – certainly...
