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NUTRITIONNUTRITIONRELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What's Inside:
  • What the Study of Nutrition Is
  • Carbohydrates
  • Proteins and Fats
  • Vitmins and Minerals
  • The Digestive System
  • A Balanced Diet
  • Healthful Eating Around the World
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There's a song from the musical Oliver! called "Food, Glorious Food." A group of children sing about "magical food, wonderful food, marvelous food, fabulous food." Those words just about sum up most people's feelings about eating. Food is tasty. It makes the feeling of hunger go away. But most important of all, just like air and water, food is something your body needs for survival.
RELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS
MEDICINEMEDICINE
"Medicine is old. In the Stone Age, healing herbs and plants were used to cure illnesses. Operations were performed, too, using crude tools. Back then, medicine went hand in hand with superstition. Ancient healers mixed practical cures with magic charms and chants. And while the sick and injured sometimes got better, quite often they did not. In the fifth century b.c., the Greek doctor Hippocrates . . ."
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition, by Lizzy Rockwell. HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.
  • Eat Your Vegetables! Drink Your Milk!, by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein & Laura Silverstein Nunn. Scholastic Library Publishing, 2000.
  • What Happens to a Hamburger?, by Paul Showers & Edward Miller. HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
  • Why Do People Eat?, by Kate Needham. EDC Publishing, 1993.
  • Eat Healthy, Feel Great, by William Sears, Martha Sears & Christie Watts Kelly. Little, Brown & Company, 2002.
ADULT BOOKS
  • Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating, by Walter C. Willett, P. J. Skerrett. Free Press, 2005.
  • The Essential Guide to Nutrition and the Foods We Eat, by American Diabetic Association. Collins, 1999.
  • Nutrition Almanac, by Lavon J. Dunne. McGraw-Hill, 5 edition, 2001.
  • The New Optimum Nutrition Bible, by Patrick Holford. Crossing Press, 2005.
  • The Family Nutrition Book: Everything You Need to Know About Feeding Your Children - From Birth through Adolescence, by William Sears. Little, Brown, 1999. .
WEBSITES
  • Nutrition Exploration, http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/main.asp
  • Kids World Nutrition, North Carolina Department of Agriculture, http://www.agr.state.nc.us/cyber/kidswrld/nutrition/ 
  • Nutrition for Kids, http://nutritionforkids.com/