Comments on: Ask-A-Teen Column: The Healthy Choice

By: Vanessa Van Petten

Vanessa Van Petten — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:17:29 +0000

thank for reading and will check out the site!

Vanessa

By: Carole

Carole — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:43:42 +0000

You guys are right on target. I’ve always led by example, eating and cooking healthy. My daughter is worse about reading labels than I am! When I ask what they (she and her boyfriend) want for dinner – they choose things like pecan chicken, chicken wraps, or like last weekend ‘good food’.

We’re food snobs. We don’t make instant dinners, or drink pop, or eat chips. We want fresh good food. No chemicals, no corn syrup….

Sounds hard? It’s not. As a matter of fact, I created RebelWithaFork.com for her. Now she can have all of the nutrition info and our fast easy recipes no matter where she is. Sneaky, right? Hey, it works. She uses the site! And this way, you can have access to it all too.

By: Vanessa Van Petten

Vanessa Van Petten — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:01:35 +0000

thanks for these suggestions!

By: theteendoc

theteendoc — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:35:38 +0000

Teens may not be concerned about their future health, but they are concerned about their appearance. The guys want to be bigger and the girls want to be smaller frequently. Limiting the changes while having them be great tasting can often help inspire more changes.
A little change like increasing the fiber in foods in the home can make a big difference in preventing heart disease, colon cancer, constipation and encouraging weight loss and/or maintenance. Decreasing juice in the house is another while decreasing the portions of dinner and enforcing a no skipped breakfast rule is yet another change that enhances weight loss and maintenance. Above all seeing parents make these changes and have success will spark the curiosity in you r teen to ask, “How did you do that?”