Nutrition Websites You Can Use
- Nutrition
Education Project – SFUSD (http://www.healthiersf.org/): The
Nutrition Education Project website is a resource for teachers and
staff to support student academic performance through nutrition
education and physical activity promotion. This site contains these
sections—Learn the Facts (Learn
how San Francisco students are doing in areas of healthy
eating and physical activity. Find information on national and local
healthy habit trends including results from student health surveys.),
Take Action (Find tools such as lesson plans, newsletters, and
other resources you can use to teach nutrition and reach out to
families.), Find out more (Discover links to nutrition and
physical activity web sites to support classroom and school-wide
efforts for healthy change.) Nutrition artwork
by school children is featured.
- Harvest of the Month—Growing Healthy Students from
California State Department of Health Services (http://www.harvestofthemonth.com/):
This webpage provides the tools and resources
to give students hands-on opportunities to explore, taste and learn
about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. After several
years of varied implementations, Harvest of the Month
is being introduced and made available statewide as a tool kit.
The sections of this site are: program overview, produce
list and criteria, tool kit elements, ordering information, resources,
recipes, contact information. An educator
newsletter, links to content standards, and menu slick are also
available.
- MyPyramid.gov—United
States Department of Agriculture (http://www.mypyramid.gov/): Subjects—my
pyramid plan, inside the pyramid, tips and resources, dietary
guidelines, for kids, for professionals, related links, my pyramid
tracker. The tool bar has: about us, news &
media, site help, online ordering, contact us, en espanol.
- Dole
5 a Day (http://www.dole5aday.com/):
Contents—Kids, Teachers, School Food Service, Family &
Friends, Retailers, Media. This site is going to
change to “Dole Superkids”. The best of the old
will be maintained and new additions will include: new easier
interface; new Spanish content, i.e., the most comprehensive bilingual
nutrition information on the web; more content for parents; new
newsletter and e-store features; streaming video.
- Eat
5 to 9 Servings of Fruits and Vegetables a day for Better Health
from the National Cancer Institute (http://www.5aday.gov/): Contents—For Men, For
Women, African American Health, Why fruits and vegetables, What’s a
serving?, The color guide, Research, Recipes, Resources & Tools,
Newsroom, About the 5 a day program. In the
Resources & Tools section, there is a section on “School
Resources”—“To support your efforts, facilitate classroom intervention,
and foster positive reinforcement for the project throughout the entire
school community, we created a resource guide”. Also
in this section is a “Digital Assets & Resources” page which has
print materials, people photos and fruits and vegetables photos
available for download.
- FDA
Kids’ Site (http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids/default.htm):
This is information from the federal Food
and Drug Administration (http://www.fda.gov/)
for kids. The contents are: Food safety quiz, Help
inspect a warehouse, Meet Yorick, Food & drug word find, All about
animals, In the news, Test your memory, Take a fun poll. “More
Kids’ Links”: All about vaccines, Braces for your teeth, All about the
flu, All about mad cow disease, Teachers: tell us what you think, Other
information for teens, other kids’ sites, parents’ corner. There
are also links to the FDA pages.
·
Kid Zone
(http://www.health.state.nd.us/ndhd/kidstuff/index.htm)
from North
Dakota Department of Health (http://www.health.state.nd.us/): Last updated 1996.
The sections are-- Foods Memory Game,
Fruit and Vegetable Hunt, Fruits and Vegetables Hangman Game, Fruits
and Vegetables Word Search Game. The only one of these that seems to
function is Fruit and Vegetable Hunt. The contact
us email should be used to find out if the others are still running.
· Team Nutrition (http://www.teamnutrition.usda.gov/):
Team
Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to
support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical
assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their
caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and
physical activity. Team Nutrition's Goal is to improve children's
lifelong eating and physical activity habits by using the principles of
the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and
MyPyramid.
To accomplish this goal, Team Nutrition has developed this site and two
sister sites:
·
The Team Nutrition site reaches a broad
audience with information on nutrition education, healthy eating and
physical activity. Schools are the key focal point.
·
The Healthy School Meals Resource System
provides technical assistance support and materials for school
foodservice professionals.
·
The Child Care Nutrition Resource System
provides the same support for child care professionals.
·
Educators’
Page (http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/educators.html):
We're making our classroom curriculum and activities available to you,
on-line. And, wherever possible, we have PDF files of our other
materials that you can download from our Resources
section.
·
MyPyramid for Kids
Classroom Materials (http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/Resources/mypyramidclassroom.html):
Three levels of 3 lessons each for elementary school children.
- Nutrition Explorations from the National Dairy
Council (http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/):
“Fun and Easy Way to Teach and Learn Nutrition”. There
are sections for educators, parents, and school food service.
The educators section has lessons which requires free
enrollment. Fun food games are available.
The KIDS site (http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/main.asp)
has nutrition, activities, contest, kids panel, kitchen and fun links
tabs.
- Nutrition Café (http://www.exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition/noflash_nutrition.html): This site is a joint endeavor of the Pacific Science Center and the Washington State Dairy Council.
The games are— Nutrition Sleuth, Grab a Grape, Have a Bite.
The “More Nutrition Information” has The Nutrition Café
glossary, The Interactive Food Guide Pyramid, Dietary Guidelines for
Americans, and Washington State Dairy Council’s eatsmart.org.
- Nutritiondata. Com
(http://www.nutritiondata.com/):
Commercial site with
intensive information. Tabs with drop down
information boxes are Home, Tools, Topics, Pantry, Help, Links.
The home page has Nutrition
Facts & Calorie CounterNutritionData
(ND) which provides a complete nutrient analysis for any food or
recipe, and helps you select foods that best match your dietary needs.
At the bottom of the page is a unit conversion “calculator”.
ND has free nutritional tools to take control of your diet, free
newsletter, fast food fact linked chart listed by company such as
McDonald’s then by specific food for nutrition facts and analysis.
There is also a food search box so a any food can be
searched for nutrition facts and analysis. ND's Nutrition Glossary includes definitions of both common
nutritional terms and terms specific to the NutritionData website. The
convenient alphabetic links allow you to quickly navigate between
different sections of this glossary.