CommonLit
Common Lit: Court Rejects New York City's Portion Cap for Sugary Drinks
In 2014, Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, designed a proposal known as "the soda ban" that would put limits on the size of sugary drinks that people could buy. The proposal was favored among health advocates, including...
Other
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...
WebMD
Web Md: Food O Meter: Calorie Counter & Calculator
Help stick to a healthy diet by using the calorie counter to tell you the number of calories in food that you find in your refrigerator and restaurants. This searchable database will also give your calorie count based on the number of...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mc Donald's Cup Sizes Around the World
Ready to super size that soda? Buzzfeed produced this clever video comparing the various soda cup sizes from countries around the world. Which country has largest option to consume soda? [1:05]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How the Food You Eat Affects Your Brain
Which foods cause you to feel tired after lunch? Or so restless at night? Mia Nacamulli takes you into the brain to find out. [4:52]
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Guinea Pig Health: Marty the Cyber Pig
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Food Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a basic lesson introducing food groups along with healthy choices having to due with nutrition.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Eating Healthy for Sports Athletes
Learn how eating healthy can make you a stronger athlete and better at sports.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Healthy Eating Activity 1: Food
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the "Food - a fact of life" website. Pupils will be able to discuss what foods they eat and when, identify different types of meals and discuss which are their...
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Vitamin B2 Riboflavin
Identify the health benefits and sources for maintaining a good level of vitamin B2 in the human diet.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Vitamin C
Identify the benefits of adding vitamin c to the daily diet and discover plentiful sources of it. Recognize symptoms of a vitamin c deficiency.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Chromium
Find the importance to ensuring daily diets contain this essential mineral. Recognize sources of chromium and symptoms of deficiency or excess.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Iron
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?
Curated OER
Kids Health: Ready, Set, Breakfast!
Use this site to learn why breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. This article provides information on how breakfast jumpstarts your body and includes alternatives to eating cereal in the morning.
Other
Colloidal Minerals Iron
This site provides lots of information on iron such as a description, its importance, deficiency symptoms, diet recommendations, food sources, and toxicity.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Foul Food
The Why Files have provided a site discussing topics pertaining to food cleanliness. Topics include: dining in, dining out, sanitary conditions, and origins of food.
University of Missouri
University of Missouri: Feeds for Light Horses
What type of feed do horses need to maintain their health? Are oats and timothy hay necessary? These questions are answered and this comprehensive site discusses pasture grasses, silage, legume hays, and more.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Shackleton's Antarctic Odyssey: Meal of Endurance
Analyze caloric intake vs. caloric expenditure, understand the nutritional value of the explorer's meals, describe the trend in diet changes the explorers experienced and explain the physiological consequences these changes caused.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Healthy Eating Activity 3: Composite Dishes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the Food - a fact of life website. Pupils will be able to identify a healthy meal working out what are the key ingredients for the meals presented.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curriculum Family Sheets (Espanol)
This is a compilation of all of the take home Family Sheets from Lessons 1-10 in Spanish. These help students bring messages learned in the In Defense of Food Curriculum back to their Spanish speaking families.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 7 14 14 : Contestant Wins Hot Dog Eating Contest for 8th Year
Learn about the recent win of Joey Chestnut, a successful competitive eater. Includes video.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Do Beliefs About Healthy Food Inform Consumer Choices?
Questions related to attitudes.
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...
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.
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