Overweight Teens - Beth Kunkel

We also had a viewer request how to help adolescents with weight control. Adolescents are really difficult in weight management and weight control. We know we have a lot more adolescents that are overweight than we have had before. Theyre going through a lot of physical changes as well as a lot of emotional changes so we have to tread really very lightly when working with adolescents in trying to help with controlling their weight. We need to make it easy for them to be active so they are working off calories. We need to make it easy for them to make appropriate food choices this is the time where they are learning how and they are taking control of more of what and how much they eat. Its an opportunity for us to make sure weve taught them basic concepts of portion sizes that weve taught them principles of selecting a healthy diet whether than our selecting the foods they eat or their gate keepers or care givers. If I look at these bagels at a nutrition view point this is an equivalence of about two servings of what we would consider a grain or a bread product perhaps three. So its fine to have these foods, but if Im going to buy them in bulk or regular packages I need to make sure Ive taught my adolescent what is an adequate portion size. Some of that is getting easier if you look at now we can buy a lot of foods in a 100 calorie portion pack so you can eat the whole thing or pack the whole thing in a lunch. We also should be thinking about helping adolescents learn how to prepare foods and how to construct and plan healthy foods themselves. So whether were buying frozen meals having those available so they child can put them in the microwave heat them up very easily or we can also start teaching things instead of having them heat it up let them make pizza.

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• Clemson University
• PSA
• Public Service
• weight
• weight control
• adolescents
• weight management
• pizza
• nutrition

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no more lunchables either!