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Information for Parents on
Healthy Lifestyles
The Food
Guide Pyramid
This is an excellent resource for students, parents and teachers. It
explains about the food pyramid, plus other health related subjects, such as
dealing with feelings, everyday illness and growing up.
Children’s Nutrition Guide:
This site has information about the food pyramid and food labels for kids,
along with a plethora of information for parents.
US Government Nutrition Sites: Food Pyramid: Not only does this site have information on the food pyramid, but it has
information that can benefit all aspects of nutrition.
Nutrition Café:
This site allows you to select you favorite meal and it calculates the nutrients
and other important things. It also contains other online activities.
Shape Up America:
The Fitness Pyramid:
This site contain a picture of the activity pyramid.
It also contains a list of activities for students to participate in with their
families! Never heard of the activity pyramid, well, check it out! It is
neat!
Activity Pyramid: Just
another version of the activity pyramid. Along with different activities
for students to do that fall under the different categories!
Winter Activity Pyramid
Many things can be done very easily during the spring,
summer, and fall, but what do you do about the winter? Check out this site
for a list of many winter activities!
Calories
Calories Per Hour:
This site allows you to calculate the number of
calories that you burn in a certain amount of time doing a certain exercise.
Just add a little information and you can find the best activity that you
partake in.
How Stuff Works: Calories:
This is an experiment that allows students to find out what
calories are and why we need them. It also examines the relationship
between calories and weight.
Daily Calories Per Capita
(world): This is a site that contains a map.
It shows the daily caloric intake in various countries.
Healthy Heart: This is a
page that we created that also has information about having a healthy heart.
It contains a lot of neat ideas and activities to do!