Back to School Nutrition: High School Students Have Important Needs

SAN ANTONIO - Feeding on healthy can be a challenge, but its particularly significant for growing kids to possess a balanced diet.



Dietitians admit as children grow more mature their nutrition needs change, with high school students at a critical associated with development -- having higher and specific needs.



"It's about helping to create great food environment and relationship with food because they (teenagers) are heading to have more independence to go to fast food restaurants or be able to drive where ever they like, " Rachel Bland, a registered dietitian with Selrico Services said. "That's where education and teaching them about can be out there and how to make those healthy choices comes in. inches



In fact, many universities make the change from fried to baked and white bread to entire grain. Food service companies like Selrico Services are emphasizing both nutrition and education.



"(Lunch is) a perfect possibility to find out more on exactly what is in the food, where its coming from, why its healthy for them, why they can be eating it... because food should be serving as nourishment and sustenance. Kids need to grasp that. It's not merely to fill your stomach, it's so much more than that, " Dreary said.



Bland said that it's important for high school students to eat right.



"Females are heading to go through growing up -- they are heading to have more straightener losses so their golf iron needs are going to go up, " Dull said. "So in basic, more protein more flat iron. So more protein foods-meats and beans. "



Certainly not only will protein needs for boys increase as they age, but their calorie needs will also go up.



"They need to incorporate a healthy diet and find the right portions and as their physical activity level increases and so they take on more, as they build more body mass, they need more nutritionally, inches Bland said.



Bland said it's good to start out healthy habits early because eating well can lead to fewer health conditions in the future.



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