PBS
Pbs Teachers: Fat: Obesity, Eating Habits and Weight Loss
Evaluate current guidelines for a healthy diet, compare them to one's own eating habits and learn safe behaviors for maintaining a healthy weight. Analyze the food pyramid, fast-food and health-food nutrition and the causes of obesity.
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Whole Grains Council: How Much Is Enough?
This page from the Whole Grains Council gives guidelines on what constitutes whole grains and how to get enough in your diet.
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Dieticians of Canada: Assess Yourself
Learn about your diet, BMI, and more with this resource from the Dieticians of Canada.
US Department of Agriculture
Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Description of the USDA's dietary guidelines. Also, an overall introduction to the guidelines and links to additional information about nutrition.
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Doctors' Medical Library: Anti Aging Medicine Clinic: Carbohydrates in Nutrition
This article describes the role of carbohydrates in the human body. Discusses the two basic forms: complex and simple. Gives examples of each. Defines the function of carbohydrates. Links to related topics are provided.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Winter Berries for Winter Birds
Find out about the change in diet for many bird species as the seasons change.
World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Obesity
Understand the facts and health consequences of being overweight. Also learn about how diet and physical activity contribute to your overall well-being.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Staying Healthy
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.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Educators
Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.
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Guinea Pig Compendium: Feeding and Nutrition
This site describes several common guinea pig foods, including hay, pellets, fruits, and vegetables. It also covers a guinea pig's need for Vitamin C, along with treats they enjoy.
New York State Dept. of Health
New York State Department of Health: Cardiovascular Disease
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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Vegetarian Resource Group: Vegetarian in a Nutshell
This website on vegetarianism is organized into several, very brief sections. Here, read about vegetarian nutrition, recipes, and meat and dairy substitutes. Also included are the names of several books and learning materials -- for...
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: En Espanol
The Spanish-language version of the U.S. government's online nutrition guide Choose My Plate makes it possible for Spanish speakers to access information about eating a nutritious diet and staying physically active.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Issues: Health and Fast Food
This lesson focuses on the the impact of fast food on the American people. It features links to obesity statistics, PBS NewHour: "Fighting Fat," Rolling Stone: "Fast-Food Nation: The True Cost Of America's Diet," and New York Times:...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 8: Color Your World
In this lesson, students play a guessing game to explore different fruits and vegetables, emphasizing the diversity of colorful foods available for them to eat. Students prepare and eat a colorful, plant-based salad and brainstorm ways...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: What's That Food? (Pre Assessment)
This activity explores healthy eating and can be used as a pre-assessment of students' knowledge about food and nutritional needs. Students will observe and describe samples of different food groups then share their observations with the...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Children's Activities: Healthy Eating
You can create opportunities for learning about healthy food in many ways besides cooking and eating: you can use games, crafts, songs and dance. This site provides coloring sheets, flashcards, curriculum materials, nutritional games,...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: You Are What You Eat!
Thinking about improving your sports performance? Want to help friends and family make the most of their physical fitness activities? One factor to consider is food. Whether you realize it or not, what you eat does change your body. It...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Food Foldable
During this lesson, students will listen to a poem about a balanced diet and create a foldable. In each section of the foldable, students will include information about a different food group and will use this creation as a study guide.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fortified Breakfast
In this lesson, students will learn that minerals are a necessary part of our diet. They will learn that different minerals have different functions in the body. More specifically, they will discover that iron is necessary to carry...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Fruit and Veggies Matter
Learners explore fruits and vegetables. The activity includes a questionnaire that asks an individual's age, sex, and level of physical activity to determine the fruits and vegetables needed in an individual's diet. The resource consists...
American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society: Stay Healthy
This large site from the American Cancer Society offers comprehensive information on many kinds of cancer. From the left navigation bar, click to Prevention, Early Detection, Nutrition and Prevention, or Environmental Risks.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: You Are What You Eat
Girls and boys explore the connections between a well-balanced diet and a healthy body. Learners keep a food diary, then compare their diet to the recommended daily allowance of food servings. Students use Thinkfinity websites to examine...
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Guinea Pigs Online: Piggie Nutrition
Find helpful information and pointers on guinea pig nutrition.
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