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Curated OER

Kids Health: Staying Healthy

For Students 3rd - 5th
Find yummy recipes for food to make yourself! There are also articles about the reasons for vitamins and minerals, how to eat when you're playing sports, and a number of other important topics.
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US Food and Drug Administration

U.s. Food and Drug Administration: The Food Label

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, through the use of food label, plans to make Americans informed consumers of food. Here, you can learn about the sections of the food label and read definitions of the terms like...
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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Bmi Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive body mass index calculator to determine if your weight is under, over or normal for your size and read about things you can do to maintain a healthy weight.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: How Can I Lose Weight Safely

For Students 9th - 10th
Finding the right weight for yourself can often be difficult because most people aspire to loose or gain a few pounds. Find out how you can safely reach a comfortable weight based on your unique body composition. Links to similar sites...
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National Institutes of Health

Niddk: Safe and Successful Weight Loss Program

For Students 9th - 10th
Put up by the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & kidney Diseases, this site offers guidelines to help you choose a safe, effective, and long-range weight control program.
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Other

Soil Association: Food for Life Curriculum Pack [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A curriculum focusing on food production and consumerism.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Center of the Ocean: How Can Some Foods Be Harmful to Our Health?

For Students 2nd - 4th
Theo is on a cruise ship with his family. They're having a party with loads of food. Not all the food is healthy though. Can you help Theo choose healthy foods?
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Other

Cardiovascular Disease: Facts, Prevention, Treatment

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses lifestyle changes, nutrients, and medical options and precautions.
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Other

Ifpri: Ecoregional Perspective on Malnutrition (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an eco-regional perspective on the issue of malnutrition with charts on prevalance in different areas.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Food Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site from EnchantedLearning.com provides food-related activities including nursery rhymes, printables, crafts, and quizzes. Includes pages on the food pyramid, food terms in other languages, famous paintings, and a feature on the...
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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Energy Density & Weight Loss:feel Full on Fewer Calories

For Students 9th - 10th
This article is medium-sized in length and provides great information on the subject. Links are provided for additional information as well.
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Handout
National Institutes of Health

Niddk: The Health Risks of Being Overweight

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NIDDK provides an article and weight for height chart. Discusses Type 2 diabetes and associated health problems and effective preventative measures.
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American Academy of Family Physicians

Aafp: Hypertension Treatment and the Prevention of Heart Disease in the Elderly

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the American Family Physician journal discusses medical research on the treatment of hypertension and its role in preventing coronary heart disease. Read about how doctors are treating and preventing hypertension and...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: What's the Right Weight for Me?

For Students 3rd - 5th
It is easy to compare yourself with the celebrities and models you see every day on TV and in magazines. These pictures sometimes help shape our body image and we begin to think that we should look like these people. The truth is that...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Be a Fit Kid

For Students 2nd - 5th
There's a lot of talk these days about fit kids. People who care (parents, doctors, teachers, and others) want to know how to help kids be more fit. Here are five rules to live by, if you're a kid who wants to be fit.
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Handout
New York State Dept. of Health

New York State Department of Health: Cardiovascular Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this resource to learn how proper nutrition and diet play a role in preventing heart disease. Provides facts and figures on causes, costs, and risk factors for the disease.
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Other

Guinea Pig Health: Marty the Cyber Pig

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides facts about guinea pig anatomy as well as nutrition. It also suggest a daily diet designed to keep a guinea pig healthy. Lastly, it offers descriptions of some common guinea pig illnesses and how to treat them.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Virtual Workshop: Food and Fitness Energy for Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A slide presentation that gives students an appreciation for what happens when living organisms use food for energy. Actual hands-on yeast lab exercise is part of the presentation.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Superhumans and Bionics: A Heart of Titanium

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore how to keep your heart healthy by exercising regularly, sticking to a low-fat diet and not smoking. Use mathematics to understand nutritional information about various foods.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: About All You Can Eat: Feast or Famine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the theory that including desert plants such as mesquite and cactus in a diet can help control obesity and diabetes. Design a scientific experiment that will test this hypothesis, using control variables, observation and...
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Precision Nutrition

Encyclopedia of Food: Vitamin B2 Riboflavin

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Identify the health benefits and sources for maintaining a good level of vitamin B2 in the human diet.
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Precision Nutrition

Encyclopedia of Food: Vitamin C

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Identify the benefits of adding vitamin c to the daily diet and discover plentiful sources of it. Recognize symptoms of a vitamin c deficiency.
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Precision Nutrition

Encyclopedia of Food: Chromium

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find the importance to ensuring daily diets contain this essential mineral. Recognize sources of chromium and symptoms of deficiency or excess.
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Precision Nutrition

Encyclopedia of Food: Iron

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find out the benefits of iron in a diet and what foods are rich in the mineral. What symptoms might reveal deficiency or too much in a body?

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