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Diet, Nutrition

Eating Well Everyday -- Do you ever wonder how to eat a balanced diet? Or how many calories you should have each day? According to the US Department of Agriculture, teen girls need about 2200 calories per day. These calories should be chosen from low-fat, lean foods from the 5 major food groups of the Food Guide Pyramid.

Lactose Intolerance -- Jessie was so embarrassed! About an hour after chowing down on pizza and ice cream with a group of friends, her stomach suddenly started rumbling, and she began farting over and over. Then Jessie's stomach began to ache and she had to run to the restroom every few minutes. In the excitement of an afternoon hanging out at the mall, Jessie had forgotten to watch her dairy intake. Jessie has lactose intolerance and her symptoms flare up when she eats more dairy than her body can handle.

Milk Allergy -- You're allergic to milk. Maybe you're wondering what that really means. Is it like your friend who's lactose intolerant? And is it really a big deal? After all, it's not like you're a little kid who needs milk to grow, right?

A Soda a Day: How is it Affecting Your Weight? -- Many people limit themselves to one soda a day especially those looking for a quick sugar or caffeine boost. However, new research shows that daily soda may be affecting your weight more than you think.

Diet Soda Drinkers: Are You Dehydrated? -- Some people trying to control their weight, drink bottles of diet sodas each day. Often these beverages contain caffeine, which is a diuretic causing the body to excrete water. In fact the net result is often dehydration.

10 Tips To Reduce Fat In Your Diet -- 10 simple ideas for reducing your fat intake without sacrificing taste, for a healthier you.

7 Strategies to Stop Eating Junk Food! -- Research into how junk food and fast food restaurants affect obesity, have found that there may be a relationship between the number of people per fast food restaurant and how many square miles there are between fast food restaurants located within your local area and obesity rates.

10 Ways to Curb Your Snacking Binges -- When you're dieting, the thing that can really wreck a healthy eating plan is that awful feeling that comes over you to just grab a huge bag of potato chips and polish it off while watching your favorite sit-com.

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Childhood Obesity Major Problems of Teens -- The term childhood obesity may refer to both children and adolescents. In general, we use the word, children to refer to 6 to 11 years of age, and adolescents to 12 to 17 years of age. If otherwise, and when possible, we will use a specific age or age range.

Teen Dieting -- We have the highest teenage and childhood obesity rates today than at any other point in the world's long history. Much of the blame for this is on the fast food, low energy society that we have become. Far too often we feel that it is safer to keep our children inside our homes rather than out and about in the great outdoors. The things we are doing for the protection of our children are actually detrimental to the health of our children.

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