Q: Eat foods from all five food groups every day. Don't substitute one kind of food or supplement for another. You'll get all the vitamins and minerals you need if you eat a varied diet. If the options in your home or at school are always the same, start working on getting some variety.  Get plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits. Eat them raw and cooked. Juice lacks fiber and can't provide all the benefits of whole produce, so don't replace your eating with drinking. Get protein every day. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, make sure you get adequate amounts of protein-rich foods like rice and beans, hummus, tofu, and nuts. Eat whole-grain carbohydrates for energy and minerals.  Yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese, and milk are delicious and provide essential calcium. Homemade food is almost always lower in calories than frozen or prepared food. Tell your parents you want to pack your own lunches. If your parents buy a lot of take-out, ask them if you can all start taking turns making dinner several nights a week. Your parents are going to worry if they think you're starving yourself. They're less likely to worry if they can see that you are eating well and getting interested in food preparation. Skipping meals will make you gain weight. Make sure you eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with some healthy snacks in between. You will overeat if you get too hungry. Try keeping a few snack bars, nuts, apples, and other filling snacks in your locker or backpack so that you can eat when you're hungry. Make sure you get breakfast! Skipping breakfast will make you hungry and low-energy. It may even lead to weight gain. Don't consume these things every day, but don't eliminate things you like completely. Treat sugary drinks and snacks as treats. Consume them as a special occasion. If you get out of the habit of eating sugar all the time, you won't crave it as much. Alcohol is very high in sugar, and it's best to avoid it if you're trying to lose weight. If you eat when you are stressed or distracted, you might eat too much or eat the wrong things. Try paying attention when you eat. Eat slowly so that you notice yourself filling up. Start eating when you're hungry, and stop eating when you're full.  Try tasting every bite you take. Eat with your family. Eating with people you like can help you eat the right way. Most restaurants will serve you more than you need to feel full. Dieting can actually make you gain weight. Most diets will cause you to lose weight at first, then gain it all back. The best way to have a healthy weight is to eat a healthy diet, get ordinary amounts of physical activity, and feel fine about your body and your habits.  Avoid any crash diets that claim you can lose a lot of weight at once. Never take laxatives, skip meals, vomit, or take weight loss pills to lose weight. It's hard to calculate your own correct weight, because everyone's healthy weight is different. You can calculate your BMI, which is how you find out if your weight is correct for your height, but the BMI fails to factor in things like your genes and your growth. You can talk to your doctor during an ordinary doctor's appointment.  Talk to your pediatrician, who has a record of your weight over your whole childhood, and ask if you are an ordinary weight for your age. You might also ask: "I'd like to lose weight. How can I do this safely?" Your doctor might refer you to a nutritionist who can give you advice. When you stress about food, you make worse eating choices. If you worry too much about your weight, your calorie intake, and eating the "right" foods, you may make worse and worse eating choices, and even develop an eating disorder.  To strike a positive balance, try eating healthily but having the occasional treat. If you overeat, don't beat yourself up. Let it go.
A: Eat a variety of foods. Make food at home. Eat regular meals. Limit your soda, alcohol, and candy. Eat mindfully. Beware of dieting. Talk to a doctor or nutritionist. Don't worry.

Q: Let the doctor know that you suspect gastritis, and ask him to focus on an abdominal exam. Bring a prepared list of all the symptoms you’ve experience and show it to your doctor. He will look for “alarm symptoms” that suggest you need urgent care. The alarm symptoms you should make sure to tell the doctor about are:  Vomiting blood or bile Black tarry stool (melena) Appetite loss, anorexia, and weight loss (especially of six pounds or more) Anemia (this may cause you to be pale, tired, weak, or dizzy) A bulge you can feel in your abdomen Let the doctor know if you are over 55 years old, as well. Once the sample has been drawn, he will send it to the medical lab for analysis. The lab may run the following tests:  Complete Blood Count (CBC) to check for anemia  Amylase and Lipase to rule out pancreatic disease Liver function test and renal function test to assess for dehydration and for other causes of your symptoms if you’re vomiting Stool guaiac test for occult blood (not visible in the stool)  A urea breath test or stool/blood test to check for the bacteria Helicobacter Pylori " If the doctor is worried about the list of symptoms you've provided, he will likely order an endoscopy for you. He will insert a small camera attached to a long, flexible tube down your throat. The camera will reach far enough down to observe the esophagus, stomach, and part of the small intestine. If you tested negative for H. Pylori, but continue to have symptoms, you may choose to have an elective endoscopy.  You can ask for a sedative during the procedure to help you relax. While you may feel pressure, you won’t feel any pain. The doctor will look for ulcers, erosions, tumors, and other abnormalities. He can also take biopsies to be tested in the lab.
A: See a doctor for a physical exam. Allow the doctor to take a blood sample. Be prepared for an endoscopy if you have "alarm symptoms.

Q: They come in several sizes and wingless and flightless as well.  Flightless is a better choice than wingless, as wingless can revert back to the flying.  You shouldn't have to worry about escapees, because the company will have secured them. They breed in the vials, but it's not recommended: they will over-crowed and die. Fill the cup up 1/4 full, maybe a little more, and this lasts about a month or so. If you use "Organix" remember to add the mold inhibitor.
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When buying fruit flies, choose the type of fruit fly you want, online. When buying them, get an extra order of fruit fly media (food), bedding and culture cups. When the box comes, remove the contents. If they are in small vials, put them in a freezer for a couple seconds, no more than ten, to slow them down a little, then pour them into a culture cup. Pour the fly food into a culture cup, adding the amount of water the package instructs you to. After assembling your culture cup, add the flies you bought/caught.