Understanding nutrition

A guide to making good nutrition choices.

Discusses the importance of good nutrition for doing well at sports and in school.

Explains calories, BMI, and portion sizes.

Explains how to make healthy choices when purchasing meals in a school cafeteria or food items in a convenience store.

Explains how nutrition affects weight, how to determine what overweight is, how to change diet to affect weight, what healthy snacks are, and more.

Explains how food labels should be read and why, and covers serving size, understanding calories, and what the body needs.

Explains how to make healthier choices when at fast food restaurants.

Explains why many readily available snack foods are unhealthy, what foods are healthy snacks, and how to keep junk food and calories in check.

Explains how to find ways to enjoy eating out while making healthy choices.

Explains how to find good ways to lose weight and stay in shape and points out health hazards and diet myths.