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Chapter 9: Nutrition
 
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BBC Healthy Living
This site has a nice graphic of the human digestive system. It has basic information about the digestive system. Read about the digestive system from the taste buds through the large intestine. How many taste buds does the average tongue have?

Dole 5aDay
This page is sponsored by the Dole Food Company. Go to the Kids Come on In section. Read what "5 a Day" means. Go to the Select-O-Meter and determine how your favorite fruit or vegetable is described. Now, go to the reference center and select a fruit or vegetable from the Fruit & Vegetable Encyclopedia. What kind of nutritional information can you find about your selection? What are some ways that you can eat your selected food? What is interesting about the history of your selected food?

NAT Tools for Good Health
Visit this site to figure out the number of calories that you burn each day. Go to the Energy Calculator and choose the Advanced Functions. Choose Function three and figure out what sorts of activities you could do to burn 200 calories in 20 minutes. List five different activities from the list. Which would be your first choice to participate in?

 


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