Eat Right for a Long and Healthy Life: What Every Body Needs to Know in 9 Nutritious Lessons

This DVD delivers healthy portions of nutrition and fitness information guaranteed to please many audiences. Delivers 9 sequenced 10-minute nutrition modules about food groups, labels, servings, digestion and exercise. A  diverse cast of characters, animation and humor help to make complicated ideas fun and easy to understand.

The carefully crafted content in this nine-lesson curriculum is based on national heath curriculum standards for grades 3 through 6, and has been designed to appeal to students in upper elementary grades and to students who have developmental disabilities.

First, viewers join an inclusive cast of characters at the Home-Cooked Cafe where learning about how to eat right is served up with every meal. 

Next, viewers meet two experts, Dr. Why and Snoop-the-Sleuth, who use animation and humor to make complicated ideas fun and easy to understand. 

Viewers learn about:

• What healthy eating really is
• Calories and metabolism
• Food groups and nutrients
• Healthy and unhealthy fats
• Decoding food labels
• Optimum serving sizes
• Water and why it's important
• The role of digestion
• The activity pyramid and daily exercise

25 colorful Activity Sheets that integrate with the video lessons are filed on the DVD as PDFs for easy printing.
Nine 10-minute videos.