Nutrition and Fitness

In this chapter you will learn about the importance of nutrition and exercise, and how teens should make healthy food choices and establish a realistic exercise plan.

Introduction
Calories is a unit of heat that measures the energy available in foods. In this video you will understand that calculating calories is a difficult task, and that it can be easy to miscalculate the amount of calories there are in a given food stuff.

Lesson 1
Nutrients for your body

Label Reading

Food label game

Lesson 2
The Five Food Groups

My Plate Brochure (click here to dowload)

Lesson 3
Making Healthy Food Choices