Importance of Healthy Eating for an Athletic Teenager

The Importance of Healthy Eating for an Athletic Teenager is very important because without supplying your body with the right nutrients the athlete will possibly have growth problems which will affect their performance in their sports and their extracuricular activities. Your body is like a machine. In order to get the energy or fuel that you need to power your machine is through the food that you eat. Teenagers like us burn so many calories everyday because our bodies are still growing while using a lot of energy through sports and other activities. Teenage athletes are required to have about 2,000 to 5,000 calories a day to maintain the energy level that they need.


A teenager is always growing, and we are always looking for food or energy to supply our bodies. Our body is like a machine. In order to get the energy or fuel that you need to power your machine is through the food that you eat. Eating a healthy meal will help you perform better and keep our bones and muscles strong and healthy. By doing that we need to keep our bodies in the best condition that we can by not abusing it with drugs and alcohol. Everybody should have an idea on the damage that drugs and alcohol do to our bodies. As teenagers we can get pressured into trying one of them someday, but it is up to you to choose the right thing. 


Keeping our bodies in the active mentality, we need the right amount of sleep. Getting the right amount of sleep helps our bodies focus better when we are both playing the sport and in school. But getting the right amount of sleep can be interpreted in many ways, either 3 hours a night (which I would not recommend) or the 7-8 hours a night (which is highly recommended). I can't express how important sleep plays in your diet. We also need to keep our bodies hydrated an full of liquid to make sure that our bodies function the way that they are supposed to.


Eating healthy, drinking, and sleeping is the importance of having a healthy diet. These three elements are what lead to what our bodies behaving the way that an athlete wants it to, and they all make us happy.

Links:

http://www.mom-going-organic-sensibly.com/importance-of-eating-healthy.html

http://www.livestrong.com/article/74741-eating-teenage-athlete/