Encourage your teen to eat 3 balanced meals a day, with fruits or vegetables as snacks.
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Information on the link between soft drinks and metabolic syndrome.
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Parents can do a lot to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in their kids, even if the parents already have it.
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For overweight children 7 and older, the initial goal is to keep them from gaining more weight. Changes in eating habits and exercise are gradually introduced to trim pounds.
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Although it is not a perfect measure, BMI gives a fairly accurate assessment of how much of your teen's body is made up of fat.
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The cholesterol in blood comes from 2 sources: the foods your teen eats and their liver. The liver, however, makes all of the cholesterol your teen's body needs.
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