A balanced lifestyle style could improve lives through many aspects. For a teenager, it could boost confidence, improve metabolism, skin condition and also improve your social life.
Some people may disagree, they may think the whole living healthy process may get boring and hard to maintain or sustain.
However nowadays, teenagers are relying on the media. Especially girls, they are more focused on how they look then what they eat. It is very common on the media about being a size zero. Teenagers may have a favourite actress or model they want to look like or have the same body as, but after all the weight they have lost and the eating problems they have gone through, they would still need to get the extra skin removed. Not eating at all is how they think they will lose all the body weight and be skinny. But NO!! This is where most teenagers go wrong, eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia, and nervosa are a serious mental illness. Teens that have eating disorders may have problems such as feeling bad about them or are living in stressful family situations. The eating problem is often a mask for other issues or a way of trying to cope with them.
In addition teenagers feel that it is important to look good, they think it is vital to have a good figure and to be in shape. As society these days give the impression of the way you look and act is the most important thing in life.
Although eating healthy food or natural organics it can also be pricy. Most teens are in debt or they may live on benefits or income support, and also teen mothers and single mothers may have bills to worry about, organics may be the lat thing on their mind. So money can be a big issue for them. Healthy foods are expensive where as, fast foods such as pizza, and chips and all the rest of the unhealthy foods are cheaper and affordable.
Finally living healthier is better for teenagers because at this stage they are still growing and so having a fixed or balanced diet may have more or greater affects on this. Living healthy comes with more advantages than disadvantages, such as longer life expectancy, looking and feeling better physiologically and mentally, clearer skin and less chance of getting diseases or visiting the doctor. Even though some people may think that teenagers may have the urge to start eating unhealthy again after going through a few days of a healthy fixed diet, does not matter because the teen may feel or see a quick difference to how changing back to an unhealthy diet can have a quick affect on everything. Teens might prefer eating junk foods but I’m pretty sure they most rather would prefer looking and feeling better psychologically.
