Being active is vital to growing up healthy, but eating healthy is as important as keeping active. In this article Dan, member of the Somerset Youth Parliament advisory group, gives us more information about the importance of a healthy diet.
Throughout our lives people constantly talk to you about taking care of your health. Both physically and mentally. All the different types hold substantial and equal importance to your body and mind. One of the most mentioned of these being refining your diet. Today I’m not going to write about how to have a healthy diet, but more specifically, the effects of a healthy diet.
Having a healthy and nutritious diet helps you in a multitude of monumental and interesting ways. The one I’m going to cover first is growth. Growth is a ubiquitous and blissful experience that happens perpetually throughout your life, and it is amplified as an adolescent. Between the ages of 2 and puberty children commonly grow 2 to 3 inches annually, and during puberty children approximately grow 3.5 inches yearly.
Yet in order to let this happen you need to give your body the necessary nutrients to produce and sustain that growth. Under-eating (help for under-eating will be available at the end) can completely stunt or hinder your growth spurts during puberty which can be detrimental to your health. This can stop your natural potential for height while also contributing major health problems such as fatigue and depression.
Another phenomenal benefit of having a healthy diet is boosted immunity. Immunity gives you higher protection from illnesses and viruses which can plague the everyday person. This will maintain your health on a more perpetual scale and will boost productivity rates. While not giving you anywhere near complete immunity to negative bacteria, it will hinder and get rid of them considerably faster.
There are also a variety of even more unique and outstanding benefits from this indispensable necessity that I haven’t covered in this article. Thank you for reading.
Dan
For further support
For help with under eating or other eating disorders, visit, message or talk to the following:
- Shout or text the word SHOUT to 85258
- Beating Eating Disorders
- Young Minds
- First Steps ED
- Hub of Hope
- Papyrus, text the word HOPE to 88247 or call 0300 102 2470
- Samaritans or call 116 123
