From youth through old age, the food you eat affects your health. The state of your health can affect the quality of your life. When you make food choices, you also choose what kind of life and health you want for yourself. Like gasoline for a car, food is fuel. Choosing the right fuel for your car can be essential in the longevity and performance of your car. Likewise, the right kind of fuel can keep you healthy and the wrong kind can make you sick. As simple as this may sound, there are many complex decisions to make about food, and processes that take place once food hits your body. The activities provided on this page are aimed to help you learn about the field of nutrition, how your body uses food as fuel, and how what you eat can affect your appearance, your growth and development, the way you feel, and the diseases that may occur throught your life.

Nutrition True/False Explanations

Nutrition Sampler

Four Food Groups

Fast Food Facts

Directions:

1. Find and write shortened versions of explanations of all true/false questions that you answered incorrectly.

2. Click on the Nutrition Sampler link and complete the list of activities.

3. Click on the Four Food Groups and complete activities.

4. Using your worksheet as a guide for your tasks, click on Fast Food Facts and complete your worksheet.