Nutrition and Media Infographic for Young People. Amazing!

Thank you to Larry Ferlazzo and his Websites of the Day blog, I found this infographic about the nutrition, or lack of nutrition our young people are getting. It also contains some information about their habits and what media and media advertisements they are exposed to. The "results" section is probably the most alarming.  Click on Larry's blog by clicking here to read and see more.

Here is one part of the infographic, but there is a 2nd smaller infographic on his blog post.

Site for Health and Wellness Teachers

For any teachers out there who teach a Health class or Wellness Class, or even a Life Skills or PE course, this site could be of help. The site is called Kids Health in the Classroom. Tons of resources and information when it comes to any aspects of health including diseases, drugs and alcohol, growth, and nutrition. Plus a lot more. I only explored it a little, but some of it looked pretty good and it was all very easy to find and categorized by grade level. Have fun!

Kids Health Click HERE!

SugarStacks!

Just a quick post to alert and Health and Wellness teachers who talk to students about sugar content in foods. The site is called Sugarstacks. This site has lots of visuals that are pretty eye-opening as to how much sugar basic foods and drinks have. I also found that you can see pretty quickly how to make slightly healthier choices in each category of food or drink. Have fun!

SugarStacks

Best of 2010 By Subject

As always, a huge Thank you to Larry Ferlazzo and his Websites of the Day. As 2010 winds down, he has published blog entries that are basically one-stop shopping for certain subjects. Want some good tools or websites for teaching science and science activities? Got it. Looking for more health resources? Yep, it's here too. I will post the links to his blog entries by subjects below. Use what you can and make sure to follow Larry and his blog as it always has some great stuff and updates daily, many times multiple times a day! As more pop up, I will edit this entry and post the new ones.

Best Science sites of 2010

Best Health sites of 2010

Family Meals Fight Obesity....a SNAGlearning Film

A good video for wellness and health teachers, but also a heads up that Snaglearning continues to add good films/videos for educators. This video is 19 minutes and brings up some interesting ideas and good points. If you teach Wellness or health, check it out. If you teach at all, give this site a try.

The Family Meal

Health Hut: Good blog for Health and Wellness

Just a quick post to alert health, wellness, and PE teachers to a blog called "Health Hut". There are not a ton of blogposts on this site and new posts are not added very frequently, but the posts that are on there are very good and usually have links to many other posts and websites with even more information. If you teach anything about health, nutrition, or general wellness, this might be a site to check every now and then.

http://onlinemha.com/blog/