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Nutrition Essentials

cover iconNutrition Essentials is a series of lessons will help you make healthful eating and physical activity choices. It provides several tools which give you information you need to make educated choices. Nutrition Essentials contains 5 posters: Food for a Day, How Much Do You Eat, Move It, MyPyramid, and Read It. Nutrition Essentials also includes an interactive CD, NutritionDecision, with games and nutrition education information.

Printed: April 2007

Distributed: to Team Nutrition Middle and High Schools.

Available: to Team Nutrition Schools upon request from Team Nutrition.

Download in PDF:   Nutrition Essentials PDF Version

Nutrition Essentials Supplemental Materials:
   PowerPoint – Overview of Nutrition Essentials
   Enrichment Materials
   Teaching Tips and Tricks
   Objectives and National Standards

Reproducibles:
   MyPyramid Amounts of Foods – FOR YOU
   Get What YOU Need
   Food Group Choices
   Vocabulary and Definitions
   Sources of Nutrition Information
   Nutrition Facts cards
   Homework, Test Questions and Answers
   Spotlight on What Teens Eat, What They Need
   Personal Power Tips for Adults
   MyPyramid Amounts of Foods and Calories for a Day – adult charts