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Healthy Eating! It can be fun and totally enjoyable. So if you're really passionate about food and you love cooking and eating, you will want to know about the basics of nutrition and how your body breaks food down into the useful molecules that it needs to maintain itself and grow. If you know what happens and what your body needs you'll have a much healthier and enjoyable life.

You'll find lots of comprehensive information here about healthy eating and more is added all the time.

Visit a few of the sites below to learn the basics about Nutrition and also how your digestion works and maybe take one of the online quizzes?

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Nutrition
The Basics:

 

 

 

 

The Nutrients

All the food you eat contains chemical compounds called "nutrients". Our bodies are made up of trillions of tiny cells that need small amounts of these nutrients everyday to give us energy, and to help us build and repair our body tissues. These nutrients are grouped into six different categories:

Carbohydrates
Fats
Proteins
Vitamins
Minerals
Water

Carbohydrates / Fats & Protein

Carbohydrates

 Fats & Oils:
Protein:

Vitamins & Minerals (back to top)

General Info:

Specific Vitamins:

 Specific Minerals:

Water

Digestion (back to top)

The Basics:

Digesting food involves a series of mechanical and chemical steps that break the food we eat into smaller particles that our bodies can use. Please take a tour of the Digestive System and be amazed at all of the incredible functions your many digestive organs perform daily. These tours are free! Just go to either of the following links:

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Quizzes (back to top)

Now that you've learned all about Nutrition, how about trying a quiz? It won't take you long to test your new awareness.     

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