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Not since infancy has your child experienced such rapid growth. Helping him maintain a healthy diet may be difficult but it is essential
- Encourage your teen to eat breakfast and make healthy choices while she is on her own throughout the day.
- Keeping up meal routines, despite busy schedules, is a good way to get healthy food into your teen, and it will give you a chance to spend time together and talk.
- Teens living with a sense of immortality will respond when you focus on the immediate benefits of good diet (increased energy, improved athletic ability, good skin).
- Watch for signs of eating disorders: starving, binging and purging, overeating, excessive working out, diet pills, steroid use.
- If your teen wants to make radical changes to his diet, such as becoming a vegetarian or entering a sport training diet, make sure he gets advice from a dietitian.
- Model healthy eating habits and a positive self image.
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