nutrition

A guide to understanding vitamins and minerals.

"Explore nutrition and healthful eating! Leveled text, colorful visual aids, and . . . photographs teach early readers about food, diet, and forming daily healthy eating habits"--Provided by publisher.

Contains twelve recipes for healthy snacks, accompanied by background information about blood sugar, metabolism, and the importance of snacks.

Explore the many ways in which your everyday food choices can determine your well being and it also includes facts, figures, and data that is packed with useful information about protecting and improving your health.

This book will tell you everything you need to know about eating for health: what a healthy diet looks like, why some people don't bother with it, and why you should.

Explore the many ways in which your everyday food choices can determine your well being and include facts, figures, and data, and are packed with useful information about protecting and improving your health.

A guide to making food choices that are are good for you, others, and the planet. Is organic really worth it? Are eggs ok to eat? If so, which ones are best for you, and for the chicken--cage-free, free-range, pasture-raised? What about farmed salmon, soy milk, sugar, gluten, fermented foods, coconut oil, almonds? Thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or somewhere in between? Using three criteria--Is it good for me? Is it good for others? Is it good for the planet?--Sophie Egan helps us navigate the bewildering world of food so that we can all become conscious eaters.

"Step-by-step instructions and colorful images introduce children to snacking with a purpose--making delicious and nutritious snacks to fuel their bodies--and fact boxes help readers understand the benefits of nutrition."--Publisher.

When a girl who feels rotten about playing Second Banana in the annual food and nutrition pageant learns that the girl playing First Banana has stage fright, she suggests a solution to both problems.