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Nutrition
and Fitness HOTLIST
Chevonne Suter Jow
Health
Education: Health Care Perspectives for Teachers
University of San Diego Department of Continuing
Education
Keeping
Kids Healthy-Children’s Nutrition Guide
http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/nutrition/
Provides information, articles and links on nutrition, diet, health screenings
and more for infants through adolescents.
Nutrition
Today: Dietary Fat and Children’s Health
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0841/n4_v33/21117338/p2/article.jhtml?term=
A journal article discussing how much fat children should have in their
diets and the link to diseases such as atherosclerosis and obesity.
Nutrition
Action-Diet and Behavior in Children
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0813/2_27/60051354/p1/article.jhtml
Article discusses how food additives like dyes, caffeine, and preservatives
affect children with ADHD or can cause similar symptoms.
Essence-Food
for Thought, Nutrition for Children
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1264/n4_v29/21003418/p1/article.jhtml
Article
discusses how a balanced diet in children aids in brain development and
academic performance.
Sizing
Up Kids’ Nutrition and Fitness
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content3/ific/ific.kids.nutrition.html
Relates the value of diet in proper growth and development of children,
exercise in maintaining weight and health, and consumer education in healthy
choices.
Fitness
and Healthful Eating for Children
http://www.eatright.org/nfs/nfs21.html
Provides tips for getting children to eat healthy foods and engage in
exercise, along with contacts to obtain additional information.
Teach
Nutrition
http://www.teachnutrition.org/ie/index.html
Teacher resources: activities and lessons about nutrition for teachers
to use in their classrooms.
Benefits
of Fitness on Children
http://66.70.57.123/benefits_of_fitness_and_children.htm
Information on how fitness benefits children and the psychological effects
of physical activity.
The
Challenges of Childhood Nutrition
http://www.diet-and-health.info/html/childhood_nutrition.html
Tips
for parents on how to provide a healthy diet for their children.
Making
the Grade with Good Nutrition
http://nationaldairycouncil.org/lvl04/consed/myths_facts/quiz35.asp
A quiz to see how much you know about nutrition.
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