Healthy eating is essential for growing teens. How we treat our body now will not only determine our lifelong appearance, but also our body's overall function throughout the rest of our lives.
If we eat unbalanced meals (such as ones with too many fats or carbs and not enough nutrients that our bodies need - especially while growing) it could affect the way we feel such as how much energy we have (how much we use and need as growing teens vs. how much we take in).
Eating Healthy foods while we're young also strengthens our bodies to better fight off diseases as we grow older. A balanced diet (as you will read about further in this blog) keeps our bodies in full swing and it will be able to focus its attention on nipping any "germy bacteria" that may pose as a threat to us. If our bodies aren't taken care of and fed the right nutrition (mentioned later in this blog) as we grow up, it will be more susceptible to any threatening diseases or sicknesses because it'll have to deal with the lack of those nutrients and the affects it can have especially later on in your life.
Appearance is also (obviously) greatly influenced by a healthy nutrition. Though, as teens, our metabolism (our bodies ability to break down - synthesize - complex forms of energy) is much higher than that of the average adult, we should not take in more energy supplying foods that we won't use. If you eat unhealthy fast foods then you will put on weight (which, in general is not desired from the average person). Likewise, the amount of fatty foods loaded with saturated, "bad-for-you" fats (also mentioned later on) will be reflected on your skin!
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