Teen Girls’ Poor Diets Are Worrying Doctors

During the pandemic, Ellen Rome, head of the Center for Adolescent Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, says she is seeing bored teens who are eating too much and gaining weight, and stressed-out teens who are eating too little, losing weight and being admitted to the hospital with “low heart rate and no periods.

Adolescent boys aren’t getting enough of many important nutrients, too: Like girls, they don’t consume enough phosphorus, magnesium and choline. But girls face particular diet-related health issues, such as anemia and poor bone health that can lead to osteoporosis in later life. “Adolescent girls gain 40% to 60% of their bone mass between 11 and 14 years of age,” notes Dr. Rome, which is why calcium, vitamin D and magnesium are so critical during this time. But 94.

While toddlers are assumed to be the pickiest eaters, Dr. Bailey says actually adolescence is “the life stage characterized by the lowest dietary diversity.” Teens “eat a limited number of foods and it is a time where there is often dieting and restrictive eating behaviors,” she says. Teens also have the lowest use of dietary supplements. They also tend to skip breakfast, a meal that often features nutrient dense foods such as yogurt, eggs and fortified cereals, says Dr.

Sometimes teens’ efforts to be healthy can backfire. Dr. Rome says she has seen problems with teens using diet and fitness apps “telling them incorrect information for their actual age and stage” and leading children into a cycle of undereating and then bingeing. Some teens who follow vegan or vegetarian diets have difficulty getting adequate amounts of iron and vitamin D, she says. They also may not get enough protein, fat and carbohydrates.

Yesss! She has been eating a tad better. Gets a veggie and fruit in every day. And water in a stupid plastic bottle.

yeah well it became non-pc to criticize obese people, so thats what you get

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