Given the widespread concern over obesity it's hardly surprising there are a number of government-sponsored sites promoting healthy eating. Much of the guidance on these websites is similar but the formats differ and young people will no doubt respond better to particular sites.
The Food Standards Agency has developed www.eatwell.gov.uk as a comprehensive site giving guidance on a healthy diet, food safety and labelling, and an "ages and stages" section offering nutrition advice for all stages of life including childhood, adolescence, pregnancy and old age. For the young people section the site has, seemingly without conscious irony, teamed up with the teen magazine Sugar. The result is very girl-oriented with a weekly meal plan to "eat yourself gorgeous" and suggestions on what to "get Mum to buy" to make your skin, hair and nails look the best.
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