Appleman Nutrition Provides Nutrition Counseling and Health Recommendations for Teens and Their Parents

Our teenage years are a complex period of rapid growth and development. Adolescents experience changing bodies, changing minds, and a wealth of new experiences. Proper nutrition is critical during this time in order to provide a foundation for strength, both cognitively and physically.

Appleman Nutrition is here to help. We know how important nutrition is to a teenager’s body and how important it is to instill a healthy relationship with food at an early age. We provide services that include support for:

• Maximizing Bone Density
• Improving Athletic Performance
• Addressing Endocrine/Menstrual/Hormone/Thyroid Abnormalities

We do all this while teaching balanced, inclusive eating and the development of a healthy body image that is paramount during the adolescent years.

Here at Appleman Nutrition, our nutrition counselors and specialists teach adolescents about the critical needs of their growing and developing bodies and minds. Licensed in New York, Connecticut, and Florida – with offices in NYC and South Florida – we are here to work with your teen and provide the nutrition support and counseling that will help them for years to come.

Learn more by contacting us today at 917.885.4624 or filling out our online form.

At Appleman Nutrition, we offer a wide range of services for teens and young adults. We encourage you to reach out to our team if you have any eating or nutrition concerns about the adolescents in your life, no matter what they may be, and we’ll discuss the different options available and the ways in which our nutritionists can help.

Some of our specific areas of focus include:

• Optimizing Growth and Development – We teach adolescents about the critical needs of their growing and developing bodies and minds and cater nutrition recommendations to achieve the best in their developing health.
• Achieving Peak Bone Mass – We help our teens and young adults with essential information and strategies to help them maximize bone density.
• Managing Social Eating and Dining Out Contexts – We work with teens and young adults to gain confidence eating in restaurants and other social settings, such as large parties like Bar/Bat Mitzvahs or sweet 16’s, as well as smaller, more intimate gatherings.
• Enhancing Athletic Endurance and Performance – We utilize targeted Nutrition strategies with our student athletes to increase strength and improve results in their competitive events.
• Achieving a Healthy Weight – Working from an inclusive, non-diet approach we assist adolescents in reaching their comfortable, set-point weight range.
• Developing a Healthy Relationship with Food – We encourage our teens to pay attention to their bodies needs, to identify authentic cues of hunger and fullness and to eat mindfully and responsibly without preoccupation.
• Fostering a Healthy Body Image – Emphasizing body-positivity, we empower our teens to treat their bodies with respect and develop a strong, confident body image.
• Encouraging Independent Eating – We educate our teens and young adults about how best to meet their individual needs as they leave their families of origin and assume the role of proper nourishment on their own.
• Expanding the Variety of Foods Eaten – We promote the expansion of the diet to include a wide variety of foods from all food groups in an effort to maximize the nutrition density and overall potential of their intake.

Media platforms bombard teens with messages about how they should look and feel. Emphasizing body-positivity, we empower each of our adolescent clients to develop a strong, confident body image.

Adolescence can be a very challenging time, with so many changes to manage for both parents and teens.

It’s important for teens and young adults to feel understood, especially when it comes to their changing and developing bodies and minds. Because of social media and the internet, many are also misinformed about nutrition and dependent on information that has been distorted from unreliable internet sources and contexts.

The impact of such information can lead to unhealthy eating choices as well as destructive thoughts and behaviors. Thankfully, adolescents are typically eager to learn, and they crave the information, support and skills that will clear up confusion about how, what and when to eat so that they may feel their strongest and best.

Our adolescent nutrition specialists adore this age group.  We speak their specific language and we cater to their particular needs. And, no matter the explicit goals our adolescent specialists pay exceptionally careful attention to the language used to discuss food, weight, shape and size with the intention of guiding teens to develop into strong, autonomous eaters.

Get started today. Reach out to Appleman Nutrition, and let’s connect you to one of our nutritionists and start helping your teen get the support they need.