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Why Don't We Have a Tail ?
The Peter Gurney Guinea Pig Health Guide offers an easy to read page on guinea pig diet and nutrition information.
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American Diabetes Association: Making Sense of Food Labels
This is a simple guide to understanding the Nutrition Facts label, which is on most packaged foods in the grocery store. Read definitions of terms on labels like "serving size," "reduced," and "free." Learn the importance of...
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American Diabetes Association: Food and Fitness: What Can I Eat: Eating Out
Learn to make low fat, low sugar, and low sodium food choices, even when eating out. This guide serves as a helpful tool not only for diabetics who need to control their blood glucose levels, but for anyone seeking to eat healthfully,...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Dining Decisions
This interactive game has kids try to create a well-balanced, nutritious lunch. After selecting five foods, kids find out how they did. They learn what nutrients each healthy food choice provided and what was wrong with the poor food...
PBS
Pbs: Now With Bill Moyers: Soft Drink Sales at School
Explore the pros and cons of soft drink sales in schools. Examine the amount of sugar in soft drinks, research links to obesity and debate whether or not schools should partner with soft drink companies.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Digestion
A student-paced tutorial where learners read information, answer interactive review activities, and then take a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Revision Notes on the Nutrients in Food
Discusses food, why we need it, and the types of nutrients that food for humans must have.
National Institutes of Health
Nih Curriculum Supplement Series: The Science of Energy Balance
A great resource for teachers to help explain the balance between calorie intake and physical activity. There are many student activities that reinforce the need for physical activity in a healthy life style. Included are a teacher's...
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American Diabetes Association
Learn basic information about what diabetes is and the different types of diabetes. Topics include treatment methods and prevention through lifestyle changes.
Curated OER
Kids Health: What Do Food Labels Really Say?
An overview of food labeling history and importance, how to read food labels, basic components of a food label, and a comparison of different foods.
PBS
Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Teaching Gude: Healthy Choices
Through this activity, high school students keep track of what they eat everyday and compare their nutrient intake with the minimum requirements for good health.
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Digestion in Green Iguanas and Other Herbivorous Lizards
Melissa Kaplan's Herp Care Collection provides the article, "A Very Brief Overview of Digestion in Green Iguanas and Other Herbivorous Lizard Species."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Choosing Healthy Foods
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Foods such as whole grain breads, fresh fruits, and fish provide nutrients you need for good health. But different foods give you different types of nutrients. You...
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: High Cholesterol
Thorough overview of high cholesterol. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and much more.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: Cayman Islands: Human Body: Eating Healthy
Help Cole make good choices for healthy foods before he can play at the beach.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Healthy Weight Pyramid Tool
Use this healthy weight pyramid tool to calculate your appropriate weight according to your body type and then learn how to maintain that weight level.
University of Guelph
Introduction to Invertebrate Biodiversity: Fungi
Find out more about fungi when you check out this comprehensive site. This resource provides an introduction and information on morphology, reproduction and the importance of fungi. Don't miss out on this fascinating source.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Kids and Exercise
Information about kids and exercise. Includes an age-appropriate guide to the type and the amount of daily exercise children should be getting.
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Kids Health: Kids and Exercise
Information about kids and exercise. Includes an age-appropriate guide to the type and the amount of daily exercise children should be getting.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Gary Wolf: The Quantified Self
Gary Wolf discusses how we use modern technology, more specifically gadgets and apps, to monitor our health and body. [5:11]
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: About All You Can Eat: Superfoods
Explore the advent of corn as a nutritional staple in the human diet. Observe popping corn and measure differences in the mass of the corn before and after heating, and make pH indicators using fruit, flowers or vegetables.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Dick Gregory
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Dick Gregory, an African-American comedian, civil rights activist, and spokesman for health issues, who became nationally recognized in the 1960s for a biting brand of comedy that attacked...
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Genetically Modified Rice
Scientists inserted daffodil genes and other genetic material into ordinary rice to make this golden rice. The result is a strain of rice that provides vitamin A, a nutrient missing from the diets of many people who depend on rice as a...
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