As a family, we really make an effort to try to eat healthy and take care of our bodies. We try to make better food choices for ourselves, but don't always know exactly why these are better choices. I was very excited to be able to review Nutrition 101: Choose Life! (priced at $99.95 for the book, $79.95 for the cd-rom, or $129.95 for both) by Growing Healthy Homes.
Nutrition 101: Choose Life! is a fantastic, colorful, 488 page, unit study on the human body, how it works and it's nutritional needs. It doesn't just tell you what to eat and what not to eat. It gives you tons of information about different foods and what each one does to or for your body. You are then able to make informed choices. The book includes six units:
- The Brain and Nervous System
- Digestion and Elimination
- Respiration and Olfactory
- Muscular and Skeletal Systems
- Cardiovascular and Immune Systems
- Endocrine System and Emotions
Each unit includes hands-on activities (elementary and secondary) and recipes that include the foods that help that system of the body! My favorite part of the book is the Appendix, with over 125 pages of various printable lists, charts and recipes. We plan on printing many of the reference pages for daily use in our kitchen.
Click here to see a sample.
Tomorrow (April 21, 2011), Homeschool Blogger is offering a FREE webinar from Nutrition 101: Choose Life!. To sign up, follow this link to register. https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/287516654%3E
I am looking forward to both the webinar and to the rest of the unit study. While I thought I was ahead of the game, knowing a lot of the good and bad foods, I realized that I didn't know what the effects good and bad foods have on the body. What we have covered so far has been extremely fascinating. Some of it has been over Isabel's head, but she has gotten so much out of it. Something I would have liked to see, though, is more pronunciation guides.
Other products by Growing Healthy Homes include Gentle Babies: Essential Oils and Natural Remedies... (which is a free download in April) and The Raw Food Feast: 7 Days Through the Rainbow .
Growing Healthy Homes is offering a 15% discount for blog readers. Just enter code TOScrew11.
*Disclaimer* This product has been given to me free of charge for the purpose of my review.
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