OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Nutrition and Diet
Explain how different foods and eating a healthy diet can affect a person's metabolism. Also learn reasons why vitamins and minerals are critical to a healthy diet.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Nutrition and Healthy Eating: Food Pyramids
Illustrated explanation of different types of pyramid-shaped healthy-eating plans.
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.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Figuring Out Fat and Calories
Most people know that fats and calories are connected to our weight, but what is their correlation? This article analyzes their relationship and how an understanding of these items can benefit your body. Links to related articles are...
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Nutrition
One-page article with a complete overview of the importance of good nutrition in reducing your risk for health problems, including facts on nutrients, vitamins, body mass, snacking tips, and ChooseMyPlate.
Other
Nutrition, Health & Heart Disease
This website provides information about nutrition, health, and heart disease. It also discusses specific types of vitamin and mineral supplements you can take to improve or maintain your health.
Other
British Nutrition Foundation: Food a Fact of Life (11 16 Years): Nutrients
Learning module with a large set of resources on energy in the diet, nutrient requirements of humans, dietary fiber, how alcohol affects one, nutritional needs of different people, and how food is digested. The last section has videos on...
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Vegetarian Diet a Healthy Alternative
This article discusses the benefits of a well-balanced vegetarian diet. Here, read about how vegetarianism can promote a healthy lifestyle and help maintain a healthy body. Learn how vegetarianism is safe and healthy for everyone, even...
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Deal With Diets
There are numerous diets advertised that claim to be healthy and effective. Which is the right one for you? This article includes dieting tips that are both safe and of benefit to your body. Links to related sites are also included.
Other
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,...
Other
Story md.com: Wellness and Nutrition: Fats
Fats are part of a larger family of molecules known as lipids. Lipids occur naturally in your body and can also be ingested through the foods in your diet. Which fats are healthy and which should you avoid? The answer may surprise you.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Hunger and Malnutrition
Most of us have little knowledge of what it's like to experience malnutrition. Malnutrition is caused when a person does not have access to a well-rounded diet or has a condition that does not allow him or her to absorb the proper...
Other
Vegetarian Nutrition for Teenagers
This is a very brief article, which discusses ways in which teenagers can eat a healthy vegetarian diet. Here, read tips that will help vegetarians get the protein and nutrition they need to stay healthy.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Spot a Fad Diet
Conventional wisdom about diets, including government health recommendations, seems to change all the time. And yet ads routinely come out claiming to have THE answer about what we should eat. So how do we distinguish what's actually...
Other
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.
Other
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.
Other
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.
Other
Diet: The Only Real Hope for Arthritis
In addition to discussing the use of a vegan diet to lower the risk of arthritis, this article also talks about diet as a means of preventing other diseases and disorders.
Other
Whole Grains Council: Whole Grains 101
Whole grains are an important part of your diet. This article discusses the advantages of whole grains, how you can incorporate them into your meals, and there are even some recipes to try.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Hypoglycemia
Thorough overview of this condition often associated with diabetes. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and more.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Atherosclerosis
Thorough overview of atherosclerosis. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and much more.
Other
Cardiovascular Disease: Facts, Prevention, Treatment
This site discusses lifestyle changes, nutrients, and medical options and precautions.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: About All You Can Eat: Feast or Famine
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...
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: High Cholesterol
Thorough overview of high cholesterol. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and much more.
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