“COSTACHE NEGRUZZI” HIGH SCHOOL

IASI, ROMANIA

A teenager’s daily diet

Advertising= a rational diet’s biggest enemy

Breakfast: milk and cereal, pancakes, ham and cheese sandwiches, scrambled eggs, coffee, milk or tea

Lunch: chicken soup, grilled beef, pork or chicken with a side-dish of baked potatoes or boiled vegetables and a tomato salad

Dinner: a salad (Caesar, Greek, Bulgarian etc.) and fruits

Additional meals: sweets and fruits

What a teenager should eat

Current tendenciesThe so called “light” food

Traditional Romanian dishes

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● Eating meat means preserving centuries of tradition and many traditional foods that include meat. All muscle tissue is very high in protein, containing all of the essential amino acids. Muscle tissue is very low in carbohydrates and does not contain dietary fiber

● Although a vegetarian diet is cheaper than a omnivorous one (people who are on vegetarian diets are shown to spend, in one week, half the money an omnivorous spends), meat consumption ensures a high value market due to the high price of meat itself

Being a vegetarian or an omnivore..general facts

● Many studies have shown that nutrients are more easily obtained from meat and many vegetarians of not get sufficient amounts of protein or Calcium and other nutrients. One way or another, our body has to have protein, iron, Calcium, enzymes, vitamin B12 and amino acids every day. Even when we find these, your body can’t always utilize them. But, when found in meat they are highly digestible.

● Being a vegetarian usually means very little waste in comparison to the large amounts of organic waste in meat consumers, but animal grazing is part of a natural cycle and, in many countries, part of ancestral tradition

● Generally speaking, children in Romania are educated from an early age to have an omnivorous diet● In the country side, almost all farmers raise chicken and pigs for meat and eggs

● The Romanians’ affinity for meat is mainly caused by the sum of traditions that imply the consumption of animal origin products exclusively

● Moreover, the eventual transition to a vegetarian diet implies the consumption of high-protein aliments like soya or beans, cultures which are not so developed in Romania

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..when it comes to Romania

● Nowadays, obsessive advertising has determined us to abandon regular diets and pick fast-food or other unhealthy method of alimentation

● Current tendencies between teenagers are that of consuming “light” foods, disregarding the health and demands of their own body

● When it comes to teenagers, extreme dieting is not the answer. Abstaining from fattening food and regular exercise is the perfect way

● When it comes to Romania, an omnivorous diet is highly promoted vegetarianism being mostly ignored( as it could be seen between the traditional foods)

What to remember