Are You What You Eat?

✍ Scribed by Baggaley, Ann(Editor);Love, Carrie(Editor);Mitchem, James(Editor)

• Publisher: DK Children
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 97
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Help your child better understand how food fuels and effects our bodies inAre You What You Eat?a book that uses color and fun presentation to communicate nutritional information in a fun and eye-catching way. Kids learn to see their food as more than just taste, learning things like which foods will make you sleepy, how to tell if you're hungry or full, and why our bodies need nutrition. Teach your kids the basics about proteins, taste buds, antioxidants, and more food facts withAre You What You Eat?Because nutritional information is presented through quizzes, questions, facts, and pictures, children are eager to learn fromAre You What You Eat?They'll be guided through food facts, how the digestive system works, and how to make smart choices about food and nutrition. Are You What You Eat? may even help picky eaters become a little more adventurous come meal time.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents 7......Page 9
The spark of civilization 8......Page 10
Timeline 10......Page 12
Recipe for a human 20......Page 22
Building blocks 22......Page 24
Fueling the body 24......Page 26
Feeling hungry 26......Page 28
Down the hatch 28......Page 30
The body’s chemical laboratory 30......Page 32
Running on empty 32......Page 34
Lifetime nutritional needs 34......Page 36
What’s in food? 38......Page 40
Energizing carbohydrates 40......Page 42
Perfect proteins 42......Page 44
Essential fats 44......Page 46
Vital vitamins 46......Page 48
Vitamin chart 48......Page 50
Eat your minerals 50......Page 52
Major minerals 52......Page 54
Fabulous fiber 54......Page 56
Brain food 56......Page 58
Eat a rainbow 58......Page 60
To cook or not to cook? 60......Page 62
Are you really what you eat? 62......Page 64
Allergies 64......Page 66
Using it up 68......Page 70
What’s on your plate 70......Page 72
Eat fruits and veg 72......Page 74
Too sweet? 74......Page 76
Too fatty? Too salty? 76......Page 78
Look at the label 78......Page 80
Bigger is not better 80......Page 82
Added extras 82......Page 84
Making it last 84......Page 86
Future food 86......Page 88
Quizzes 88......Page 90
Glossary 90......Page 92
Index 93......Page 95
Quiz answers 94......Page 96

✦ Subjects

Nonfiction;Health;Nutrition