Food and nutrition
Subtitle: eating to win
By: by Emily Sohn and Diane Bair
Contributors: Bair, Diane
Series: iScience readers; iScience readers
Publisher: Norwood House Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781599534244
Subjects: Food; Nutrition; Juvenile literature
Description: "Describes why, what, and how much we need to eat and the different ways it all affects the human body. As readers use scientific inquiry to learn what it is about different foods that influences your health, an activity based on real world situations challenges them to apply what they've learned in order to solve a puzzle"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-47) and index.
Table of contents: title: iScience puzzle; title: Discover activity; title: Why do you need to eat?; title: Why do you need to "eat the pyramid"?; title: How does your body use what you eat?; title: Science at work; title: How do other body systems help digestion?; title: Connecting to history; title: Solve the iScience puzzle; title: Beyond the puzzle.