BTerres 's List: Nutrición

"Even if nutrition is not officially part of your curriculum, with today’s staggering obesity epidemic it is so important to teach and model a healthy lifestyle."

Magnífico sitio que visualiza la cantida de azucar en distintos alimentos representando la cantidad por terrones de azúcar ¡¡Muy didáctico!!!
Sugar Stacks provides good effective visuals that health teachers could use to show students just how much sugar they consume. Teachers could also the concept of Sugar Stacks to have students create their own visuals with sugar cubes.

sometimes a sensory demonstration works best to illustrate scale. The website Sugar Stacks has applied this tactic to eating habits. The front page shows various-sized servings of Coca-Cola. Next to each stands a pyramid made out of sugar cubes equal to the amount of sugar in each serving. Looking at the piles of sugar may make your students rethink that trip to the vending machine between classes. Sugar Stacks asks, “A label can tell you there are 39 grams of sugar in your soda, but what does that much sugar look like?” Frankly, it looks like a case of type 2 diabetes waiting to happen. Sugar Stacks doesn’t only pick on sodas. You can find out the horrifying amounts of sugar in snacks, cereals, and even fruit (the amount of sugar in fruit is really depressing — what are we supposed to eat? Drywall?).

While not as high-stakes as nuclear war, making informed eating decisions is important for your students to learn. Visualizing how much sugar is in their diet may mean fewer trips to the dentist and the doctor in the long run. -BILL FERRIS

This European site features nutrition information in interactive format for two age groups: Kidz (ages 6-12) and ADOZ (ages 13-19). The KIDZ area features topics such as "Brain Food," "Nutrition Quiz," "Body Fit," "Safe Food," and "What's a Label?" The ADOZ section delves deeper into the same topics and more, including "Emotions and Eating" and "Food Myths." The nutrition information included in the site is from EUFIC but closely parallels comparable literature from the USDA and other US agencies. There is a "School and Parents" section with teacher's guides and background information about the site. You may want to turn down your speakers to avoid the intro music in each area. If you have speakers of European languages other than English, return to the coolfood home to select a different "flag" for another language. 10448

This European site features nutrition information in interactive format for two age groups: Kidz (ages 6-12) and ADOZ (ages 13-19). The KIDZ area features topics such as "Brain Food," "Nutrition Quiz," "Body Fit," "Safe Food," and "What's a Label?" The ADOZ section delves deeper into the same topics and more, including "Emotions and Eating" and "Food Myths." The nutrition information included in the site is from EUFIC but closely parallels comparable literature from the USDA and other US agencies. There is a "School and Parents" section with teacher's guides and background information about the site. You may want to turn down your speakers to avoid the intro music in each area. If you have speakers of European languages other than English, return to the coolfood home to select a different "flag" for another language. 10448

Plantilla gratuita de Hotel y Restaurante.
Puede servir para crear un aactividad relativa a la nutrición o al ahorro energético.

Calculadora de calorías

Visualización de la cantidad de sal que ingerimos en nuestears comidas.
The amount of salt consumed by most people has been a worry for many years. In fact, it's estimated that of the salt we consume, an astonishing 75 percent of it is already present in our food.

Most foods contain some salt, but it's the foods that are naturally high in salt we need to watch out for because eating these can push our salt intake over the edge. This is why it's important to choose foods that are lower in salt, when you can.

A new ESA educational video Feeding our Future – Nutrition on Earth and in Space examines food as a vital part of life on Earth and in space. It shows why we need food in the first place and what it represents in our culture and daily living.

Artículo que explica por qué cuesta más una ensalada que una hamburguesa y enlaza con buenas reflexiones sobres los malos hábitos alumentarios actuales.

Artículo muyinteresante que reflexiona sobre las políticas nutricionales y su relación con las salud, el uso de energía y el cambio climático.
Michael Pollan wrote a tremendous pieces for the NYT Magazine this weekend: An Open Letter to Our Next Farmer-in-Chief. In it, he argues that the American food system is deeply broken, and with the price of oil rising, in need of reform. Soon.

It must be recognized that the current food system — characterized by monocultures of corn and soy in the field and cheap calories of fat, sugar and feedlot meat on the table — is not simply the product of the free market. Rather, it is the product of a specific set of government policies that sponsored a shift from solar (and human) energy on the farm to fossil-fuel energy.

The piece lays out an agenda that includes not just reform of the government’s approach to agriculture (which should delight free-marketeers), but a prescription for better health (cutting back on plentiful corn and soy could mean limitations on cheap non-food derivatives like high fructose corn syrup) and some re-tooling of the educational system as well (taking a long hard look at agricultural/industrial education and how we promote certain careers). This is the kind of thoughtful editorial that could spark some real discussion in a classroom — you could use it as-is for high-schoolers or adapt it for middle-schoolers. -ROSS WHITE

Página que se puede emplear como recurso a los estudiantes para elaborar el menñu semanal. Ofrece recetas clasificadas por la cantodad de calorías: entre 100 y 150, entre150 y 200, entre 200 y 250

Recurso para los estudiantes para calcular el menú semanal. Oncluye recetas con calorías y posibilidad de buscar según aporte calorico.
además ofrece consejos nutricionales, menús, etc.

Tabla de calorías pro cada 100gr de producto (incluye bebidas)

Página patrocinada por el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente Medio Rural y Marino sobre el etiquetado de alimentos.
es interactiva y al final se proporciona un test para comprobar si se ha entendido la información suministrada,

Un articulo que se refiere a otro artículo australiano en el que se listan los 10 tipos de alimentos menos saludables.