Advice for Parents: Nutrition for Your Teenagers

Many people think that healthy nutrition means consuming low fat and low glucose food, however, healthy nutrition is far beyond this type of thinking. For having a suitable nutrition first we need to know: why having a suitable nutrition is important for us? Nutrition during adolescence has much more importance. In this period of life body grows faster, weigh, height grows fast and some gender characteristics such as growing breasts, hair on the genitals parts of body, periods in girls and so on happens in these ages. Losing the blood as a result of periods in girls increases needs of more nutrition in their body; moreover young girls are to face pregnancy and childbirth in future. All these show that our body needs nutritional materials which are in the foods to face this growth well. Therefore, having a dietary full of nutritionals which our body needs in this period can keep us healthy in adolescence and future.

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Dr Zahra Rahnavard, PhD. in health education (first rank), head of community health department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Her research interests are to study nutrition especially in adolescence. She has supervised many graduate students in their research and published numerous books and articles in peer-reviewed journals.