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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.
Read Works
Read Works: Vitamin G for Your Mind
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the positive effects of "green time," or spending time outside. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Web Health Centre: Food Types and Their Powers
This website describes the nutritional values of different types of foods. Learn what types of foods are sources of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals through a chart provided at the bottom of the page.
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Folic Acid
This resource provides basic information on folic acid and an explanation and common symptoms of folic acid deficiency.
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Vitamin Information Center Vitamin B 2
This site provides very brief information on vitamin B2 which is also known as riboflavin.
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Kids' World Nutrition Information: Understanding Food Labels
In order to plan a healthy diet, students must know how to read a food label. Food labels show that a food has a little or a lot of certain nutrients. Look on the side of a product to find the Nutrition Facts title, which is fully...
Indiana University
Area 10 Math and Technology Project: Nutrition Labels
Lesson Plan involving all aspects of reading a nutrition label. Emphasizes math skills. Includes links to a teacher outline, student copies and reference materials.
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.
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Supralife International: Colloidal Minerals, B Complex?
This site provides a brief description of vitamin B complex. Includes information on topics such as the function of the vitamin and recommended daily allowances.
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Vitamin C, Antioxidant
This site is a discussion of vitamin C and antioxidants. Includes functions and benefits of vitamin C, antioxidant theory, osteoarthritis, diabetes, and atherosclerosis.
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Zinc an Essential Mineral
This site promotes the benefits on zinc and other not so well-known minerals; calcium is best known. Discusses the importance of zinc, and the types of food zinc is found.
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Kids Health: Eating Well While Eating Out
The older you become the more choices you will have to make about what types of food will make up your diet. This article relates the importance of a well rounded diet. Find out more about how good food has everything to do with how you...
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Kids Health: About Kids Health
This page for the huge KidsHealth site gives you a jumping-off point and an overview of the site's content, purpose, and usage. With sections for parents, kids, and teens, KidsHealth has been online since 1995 and today it is accessed...
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.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Mag Nificent Breakfast Cereal
You will devise a way of testing foods for supplemental iron additives in this experiment provided by Science Buddies. Then you will use your design to test different breakfast cereals to see how much iron they contain. The goal is to...
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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...
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Brown Chiropractic and Acupuncture
This is a commercial alternative health site that offers some basic information about chiropractic and acupunture procedures.
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Web Health Centre: Food at Work
Read about the roles of protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Learn what kinds of foods are "Body builders," "Energy givers," and "Protectors," and tailor your diet so that you are getting the nutrients you need to...
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source on Line: Infant Formula: Second Best but Good Enough
Offers information about infant formula including vitamins, preparation, and storage.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Heart Healthy Foods
Resource provides great information on the topic of heart healthy foods. The site is fairly in-depth with links scattered throughout for additional information on related subjects.
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Cardiovascular Disease: Facts, Prevention, Treatment
This site discusses lifestyle changes, nutrients, and medical options and precautions.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Aafp: Hypertension Treatment and the Prevention of Heart Disease in the Elderly
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Food and Nutrients
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses classes of nutrients and their functions in the human body.
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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.