Eating Well for Young People

A balanced diet is an essential part of healthy living - especially when your body is going through lots of changes. This topic covers all kinds of dietary information for young people - everything from how to achieve a balanced diet to facts about dietary-related skin and weight problems. There are even some tasty recipes. For an introduction to healthy eating, take a look at the following site:

 

Updated August 2007

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Title:   Acne
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Acne is a skin problem that usually includes mild to severe outbreaks of blackheads, pimples and cysts. Triggers include hormones associated with puberty. Self-help strategies include keeping the skin clean and resisting the urge to squeeze pimples.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Teenagers and food
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Our eating habits today are different from those of a generation ago in so many ways. Fast foods, takeaways and eating out are part of this generations culture.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Eating tips for teenagers
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Good nutrition is essential for growing teenagers. A teenager who eats fast food regularly, tends to have a diet that is low in fruit, vegetables and fibre, and is more likely to put on weight than a teenager who eats fast food only occasionally.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Food and your life stages
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Our nutritional requirements change as we move through different life stages. Adolescence, pregnancy, lactation, menopause and ageing all place extra demands on the body. These demands need to be met by our daily diet to maintain the best of health.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Media release. Flavoured cigarettes a threat to children - minister flags possible ban
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, announced on 2 April she would talk to state and territory health ministers about actions to tackle the sale of flavoured cigarettes.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Healthy eating
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   It seems like everyone is always talking about diets, and what you should and shouldn't eat. 'Junk' food and 'healthy' food - what does it all mean? Is it really important?
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Healthy eating
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   It seems like everyone is always talking about diets: what you should eat and what you shouldn't eat, about 'junk' food and 'healthy' food. What does it all mean? Is it really important?
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Growth - assessing teenagers
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Teenagers grow rapidly and eat large amounts of food as their bodies develop. Your doctor can use a range of charts to help assess whether or not your child's growth is of concern. Try to maintain a healthy attitude to food during your child's adolescence as eating problems, such as overeating or crash dieting, can occur during the teenage years.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Nutrition & Children
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   The nutritional needs of children and adolescents are different from those of adults because children are growing and developing. Children need a wide range of nutritious foods, with high intake of important minerals and vitamins such as protein and calcium.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Dandruff - does your head feel itchy?
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Dandruff is itching and flaking of the scalp that some people start getting around puberty.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Vegetarian eating
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   People become vegetarians for a whole range of reasons.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Iron deficiency - children
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Babies, toddlers, preschoolers and teenagers are at higher risk of iron deficiency, because their increased needs for iron may not be met if their diet is not balanced. Treatment for iron deficiency anaemia in children starts with dietary change but may include iron supplements (under medical supervision only).
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Profile of the nutritional status of children and adolescents
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report presents new analysis on data from the 1995 National Nutrition Survey. This preparatory analysis calculated baseline statistics that may be compared with new results from the 2007 Kids Eat, Kids Play survey.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Media release. New Healthy Active Ambassador
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   World champion surfer Layne Beachley is one of seven current and former champions to have joined the Government's Healthy Active Ambassador Program.
Date:   Apr 2007
Title:   Menstruation - facts and questions
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Here are some of the questions you have asked about menstruation (say men-stroo-ay-shun) (periods).
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Eosinophilic oesophagitis
Publisher:   Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA)
Description:   Eosinophilic oesophagitis results in an inflamed oesophagus, the muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach. Most cases are seen in people with other allergies such as hay fever and asthma. The frequency of eosinophilic oesophagitis appears to be increasing.
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Who says you're overweight?
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   When you are a nearly teen, there are all sorts of things happening in your life. Some young people put on weight, then suddenly have a growth spurt and go skinny.
Date:   Mar 2006
Title:   Weight - how much should you weigh?
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Research shows that most children and teenagers think that they are too thin or too fat, but in fact most of them are about the right weight for their body!!
Date:   Nov 2005
Title:   Vegetarian eating for young people
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   There are a number of different styles of vegetarian eating, with the main ones being vegetarian (avoids all meat or flesh products), Lacto-ovo vegetarian (avoids meat, but eats egg and milk products), Vegan (avoids all foods of animal origin, eg. dairy foods, eggs, gelatin). Some people will eat limited amounts of meat, chicken and fish - but this is not a true vegetarian diet.
Date:   Jan 2005
Title:   Start the day with breakfast
Publisher:   Healthy Eating Club
Description:   No meal is easier to prepare than breakfast. This document gives ideas for quick, easy, nutritious and delicious breakfasts, and advises that breakfast is very important for children's growth and development.
Date:   Mar 2001
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