Are your girls eating what they shouldn’t be eating? Are they eating too much junk food?
Studies show that girls may have the pressure to be stickly thin like the models they see in the media, but it turns out that 37% of teenage girls are overweight and 22% are classified as obese, compared to 35% and 16% of boys that are overweight and obese, respectively.
Girls on average are only eating 2.8 servings of fruit and veggies a day, not the recommended 5 servings. I know that I didn’t follow the five-a-day rule when I was a teen…
One way to relieve your teen’s junk food eating habit is to purchase healthier food items the next time you go grocery shopping. This way, when your teens raid the fridge and cabinets, there won’t be junk food for them to munch on.
Do you notice this trend with your girls… they they tend to eat tons of junk food? Have you found your own solution to the problem?
Teenage Girls ‘Live on Junk Food’ Survey Finds [Times Online]
