Tag: nutrition

As a nutrition enthusiast’s the first thought in your mind is, where to get all the nutrition data? You require all types’ of nutrition data. You want to eat an apple. But do not know how many calorie a medium size apple may contain. Where to get nutrition data about the apple? It is not only related to calories, it is about other nutrients like, fats, proteins, minerals. If you are on non fat diet, you want to confirm the fat data of any food item that you are going to consume.
You want to develop a diet program. What are your physical activities? How much energy is consumed in doing one particular type of physical activity?? Again you need nutrition data associated with your physical activity. If you come to the conclusion that you want to add some more physical activities to your every day routine you’ll need some more information. Now, you will like to know how much calorie you are going to burn in that particular activity. Here again you want nutrition data associated with a particular type of activity.
Early in the morning you are having your breakfast. Can you have something which is not containing any fat? Where will you get nutrition data about non-fat food items?
Well there are countless web sites providing you nutrition data you are interested in.
Nutrition dot gov is the official site on the nutrition by the US government. This is largest nutrition data giving site. This nutrition data is authentic. So you need not be worried about fake nutrition data displayed here. Is it possible for anybody to fake the nutrition data? Well, the answer will be, it sort of depends. If some company is producing, a new food supplement, it is possible that it may choose to exaggerate the nutritional benefits. Here the nutrition data might be fake. But there are lots of social watch dog associations working in nutrition field. They will certainly not allow any fake nutrition data to remain in public domain. So the idea of fooling the public with fake nutrition data always, invariably, boomerangs. Well, let us review the government site further.
Let us say you are interested in nutrition data of apple. You type that word in provided space and click. Next movement you get about 23 options for your query. Your juice could have added sugar or otherwise. Your apple can be dried, sulfured but uncooked variety. It could be of frozen, unsweetened, heated variety. You can have apple in any condition; you will get nutrition data about it. Next page will be weight converter. You can have info for 100 grams of apple or you can convert the info to suit your nutrition data, in to the fraction. Next page will give nutrition data for your query. I had asked for the nutrition data of 100 grams of frozen, unsweetened, heated apples. I got the results.
In the table I get water, calorie, protein, minerals, and vitamins info.

It is really necessary to teach kids basic principals of nutrition at the early stage of their lives. Kids find playing a game as the fun activity. The nutrition games were created initially, to inspire the children to take nutrition study. Once it was proved that children enjoy nutrition games and learn a lot about the nutrition in the whole process, the market for the nutrition games for kids started growing very fast. Today all sorts of nutrition games are available on line in both free and paid versions. The world of nutrition games is ever expanding one
Halloween candy game is one of the nutrition games for kids. There is pumpkin on the webpage. Kids can drag the candy bars to pumpkin’s mouth. When the pumpkin is fed whole day’s nutrition, the game tells you to stop. The kids learn so many things about nutrition here. Firstly there is definite limit for eating candies if you want to maintain healthy life. They learn to space their candy bar consumption. They also enjoy this game.
The next one from nutrition games is mission Nutrition. On the web page there is colorful picture of the corner of the kitchen. and the kid is told to open the door of the fridge. The interactive game makes it possible to open the door at the click of the mouse. The kid sees lots of food items. A pop window asks a question, which one of these contains maximum amount of added sugar.? The kid feels the milk should be the answer. and clicks on it. Pops out an answer, the milk does contain sugar,. but is of natural verity. The kid automatically learns that there are two types of sugars, one naturally occurring, and another added one. By clicking on different pictures of food items he gets nutrition info of that food product. The nutrition games add to his nutrition knowledge in a great way.
My body scavenger Hunt .This is the name of one of the most popular nutrition games.
Nutrition games can teach about the complicated digestive system in a fun way. Nutrition games can help kids to understand the cause of the heart burn and how to avoid it. Nutrition games can take the kids in to the 22 feet long intestine. The kids also learn about the foods journey in our body. The kids do get lots of questions about our body. How many bones do we have? Where are they situated? What are their important properties? How do they develop? All these questions are answered in this type of nutrition games.
There are nutrition games for adults also. The US govt has famous my pyramid nutrition games site. There are printable nutrition games available. The world of nutrition games is too big to be covered in such a small space.