E Health Magasine May 2014 | Page 19

What is the optimal nutrition for adolescence When your reach the stage of adolescence as you know your body starts to change and grow so you have to keep your body healthy and strong. To do this you can follow the next guidelines so that you can keep a strong and healthy body. 1. Avoid eating to much fats and sugars, this can affect your body servilely 2. Try to consume food that has lots of proteins. 3. Try to balance your calories its okay to eat junk food but you have to eat them in a small position 4. Exercise!! Exercising can help you burn unwanted calories. What is a nutrient, and why does my body need them? Nutrients help your body in many differents ways! There are two main types of them there are the marconutrients and the micronutrients. This sound and look very similar, but they are different. The macronutrients we need to have in large amounts and in the other hand the micronutrients we need only a small doze. What are some examples of macronutrients? You have just learned that you need macronutrients in large amounts, and now you are asking yourself what are examples of them. Water is a very good example of marconutries, doctors normaly suggest their patients to dirnk daily 2 liters of water, this is an easy way to gain the