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What to Eat. Most teens need five to ten servings of grains or starchy foods per day, two to three servings of fruit, three to five servings of meat or other protein-rich foods, two to three servings of vegetables, four to five servings of dairy and two to four servings of fat each day.
Regardless, the teen runner will need 0.5 to 1 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day. So if your child weighs 120 pounds, he should have a daily protein intake of 60 to 120 grams of protein. Examples of proteins are fish, meat, and tofu. To reach this protein requirement, a teen runner should eat between 200 to 400 grams of meat and fish.