The Nemours Foundation Teens Health website provides countless resources and information about smart snacking, ways to tell if a diet is safe, healthy meal planners, cooking tips and recipes, healthy body image, and eating for sports, at http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/

While you already know it’s important to eat a nutritious diet, it is challenging to sort through all of the information that is available about nutrition.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide the nutrition basics at Nutrition for Everyone, http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/everyone/index.html

http://mypyramid.gov/ offers personalized eating plans, interactive tools, and tips and resources to help you make smart choices from every food group and get the most nutrition out of your calories

http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/PDFs/teenblackwhite3.pdf is a downloadable guide called “Take Charge of Your Health!” for teenagers, published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  This guide is a wealth of information to help teens stay healthy.

Information and resources about eating disorders can be found at the Children’s Hospital Boston website at http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/eating_disorders.html

http://www.youngmenshealthsite.org/menu_nutrition.html at the Children’s Hospital Boston website provides a great deal of information for young men and teen boys on nutrition and health.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/eatingdisorders.html, provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Library of Medicine, contains information and resources on eating disorders.