1. Nutrition, Health, and the Food Pyramid By Nathan Cheung A/B

2. Introduction Your body needs to stay healthy, and the key thing for health is nutrition. Here’s a podcast to get us started!! Click here to look closer into the pyramid! CLICK!

3. Nutrition Your body needs energy to do work, and that energy comes from food. Food provides something called Nutrients to your body. Nutrients are substances that provide energy and materials for growth, repair, and cell development! CLICK For a Video!! http://www.brainpop.com/health/nutrition/nutrition/zoom.weml

5. Carbohydrates (Wheat, Grains)

6. Minerals

7. Vitamins

8. Fats

10. One molecule of protein is made of smaller units (building blocks) called amino acids.

12. The atoms are held together by energy. When the carbohydrate is broken down, this energy is released for your body.

14. About 14 minerals are used in your body.

16. Vitamins are needed for growth, preventing diseases, and regulating body functions.

18. One gram of fat releases almost twice as much as energy than one gram of carbohydrate does!

21. Food Groups http://www.mypyramid.gov/audiopoddcasts/index.html

22. Calories If it wants to perform ANY activity, your body needs energy. That energy comes from food. The energy available in food is measured in Calories. Calorie: The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius. For example there is a big difference in the amount of calories a slice of pizza and a carrot contains. One gives more nutrition, and the other gives more energy. Depending on the kind of nutrients that a type of food provides, the amount of calories differ.

23. Bibliography Websites BrainPOP, Nutrition. Web. 27 Mar. 2010. Picture of Pizza. Web. 2 Apr. 2010. MyPyramid.gov. Web. 27 Mar. 2010. Books Ortleb, Edward Paul., and Dinah Zike. Human Body Systems. New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2008. Print. -Other pictures from “clip art”.