Nutrition Health

Good nutrition means eating a well-balanced diet every day. This means getting enough vitamins, minerals, and fiber in each meal, but not taking in more calories than are needed for energy and growth.

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• Kid's Coloring Pages - Printable pictures showing healthy foods by the Produce for Better Health Foundation.
  
• Wellness 101 - Educational program focusing on nutrition, fitness, and overweight prevention for young women ages 12 to 20. Includes exercises to stretch and tone, quizzes, nutrition guides, and FAQs.
  
• Why Drinking Water Is the Way to Go - Explains what water does for the human body.
  
• Kids Central - Fun facts, games, recipes, and coloring pages featuring the avocado fruit.
  
• Wrigley's World of Gum - Explains how gum is made, what goes into it, and about its history together with fun facts and FAQ.
  
• Food and Nutrition - Facts about food, body weight, and special diets for those with allergies or disease. Includes recipes and information about how to read them.
  
• Dole SuperKids - Features fun recipes, games, puzzles, songs, and coloring book about fruits and vegetables.
  
• Milk Matters for Kids - Learn why milk is important with games, puzzles, mazes, and stories. Download a coloring book or a booklet with meal and snack ideas. (Downloads require Adobe Reader.)
  
• All About What Vitamins and Minerals Do - Explains how substances like vitamin A, B, C, D, E, K, calcium, and iron work in the human body.
  
• European Food Information Council - Offers information about food production, nutrition, and biotechnology. Includes puzzles, quizzes, trivia, and encyclopedia of terms. [English and German]
  
• Apple Juice - Play games, send holiday cards, and learn about drinking healthy beverages and juices.
  
• ThinkQuest: Nutrition On the Web - Learn about world nutrition, exercise, and common health myths. Use the diet planner or take a food quiz. (English, Spanish, and German)
  
• Mission Nutrition - Interactive game to help kids test what they know about healthy foods.
  
• California Strawberryville Kids - Enter the clubhouse and find stories, strawwordy searches, painting lessons, recipes, and games.
  
• Food Fun from Apples to Zucchini - Find alphabet fun and coloring pages about fruits and veggies.
  
• Foodskool - Visit a virtual West Cork village and learn about food. Includes the food pyramid and food labels, facts from around the world, movies about how foods are made, and games and puzzles. [Requires free Flash download.]
  
• Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls - Fun games, quizzes, ideas, and tips on what foods have calcium and what activities are good for bones and the body.
  
• Nutrition Explorations - Join Berry and the gang from The Pyramid Cafe to learn about building a healthy body. Features games, coloring pages, recipes, contest, and kids panel.
  
• Where's the Beef ? - A project by schoolchildren explains farming, types of cattle, breeds, digestion, and products. Also discusses how mad cow disease has affected the world and gives some solutions to the problem.
  
• The Food Guide Pyramid - Explains how the pyramid is used to show the foods that make up a good diet.
  
• FDA Center For Food Safety and Nutrition - Healthy eating and food safety coloring pages, games, activities, songs, and quizzes for kids.
  
• Empowered Kidz: The Power of Healthy Eating - Offers information, resources and activities for kids 5 to 17 on healthy eating, dieting, body image, and eating disorders. Includes surveys and quizzes.
  
• The Brain Eater - About the scientific research that linked "mad cow disease" to a related brain disease in humans. With food safety tips and a debate about the existence of prions, a possible new type of infectious agent.
  
• Go for 2&5 - Find out fun ways to eat fruit and vegetables, with coloring in, recipes, challenges and activities such as making a vegetable man.
  
• My School Lunch - Provides nutritional information about school lunches. Includes a description of how the meals are cooked, what is on the menu, and games.
  
• Figuring out Food Labels - Explains how the label on a food package is a lot like the table of contents in a book, telling exactly what the food contains.
  
• The Popcorn Board - Trace the history, learn geography, and play games featuring popcorn as a healthy snack.
  
• Fantastifood Fables - Come with a brother and sister as they help save the land of Fantastifood from the Junk Food Junkies in this online fantasy fable for kids.
  
• Healthy Eating Tips for Teens - Offers information about how to fuel the body for energy and health. Includes carbohydrates, proteins, good and bad fats, and sample menus.
  
• Nutrition Dictionary - Explains what different vitamins and minerals do for your body.
  
• Scintro - Fruit Book - Encyclopedia about fruits. Learn about the botanical facts, health benefits, varieties, cooking uses, storage ideas and nutrition chart. Includes photos.
  
• Mix it with Milk - Explains the nutritional value of milk, with the milk mustache hall of fame, celebrities, contests, and cooking with milk.
  
• Florida Citrus Land - Games for kids, food pyramid, introduction to citrus fruits, coloring pages, and recipes from The Florida Department of Citrus.
  
• Fun With Food - Helps children discover good nutrition through fun coloring picture, song, and recipes.
  
• Nutrition For Kids - Created by Kris, Nick, and Anthony. Check out the food pyramid, take a nutrition quiz, and find sample menus.
  
• Kids Cube - Learn new recipes, try science projects for school, play games, and color pages.
  
• IFIC.org for Students - International Food Information Council provides brochures and booklets, reviews, Qs and As, and fact sheets on nutrition topics. Includes information on sweeteners, pesticides, caffeine, allergies, and antioxidants.
  
• Sunkist Kids - Games, Experiments and Citrus Recipes - Features coloring page, crossword puzzle, games, and fun facts about citrus fruits.
  
• Burger Town - A safe site for kids with kid-created beef recipes, nutrition fun facts, and quizzes and information on food safety and fitness.
  
• Kidnetic.com - Offers interactive games, recipes, and tips for healthy eating and living.
  
• All About Apples - About the science and production of apples, apple trees, and their healthy qualities.
  
• The Fruit Pages - Educational fruit information, including ten reason to eat fruit, the fruit alphabet, and a newsletter.
  
• Ready, Set, Breakfast - Tells why breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
  
• Vitamins and Minerals - What they do, how fast they work, how much you need, and how to get the right amount.
  
• Eaten Alive: The Journey of a Biomolecule - Includes biographies for biomolecules, recycling, and a virtual journey through the digestive tract.
  
  

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