How to cook and eat well and get healthy

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• You Are What You Eat: A Guide for Good Nutrition
  Why is nutrition important? Why don't diets work? What's the deal with those new food labels? Find out here! Get interactive and set your own profile. Just enter your name, age, weight, height, gender, and level of activity to determine your Recommended Dietary Allowances, daily caloric needs, and your body mass index. How does your diet measure up?

• The Real Truth About Fast Food And Nutrition
  The Real Truth About Fast Food And Nutrition provides a general overview of nutrition (calories, RDA, fats, etc.). The site also focuses on the nutritional value of fast food restaurant items and how these restaurants get you to buy the food.

• The Food Files
  Learning to eat the right way can help you to stay well, look good, and enhance your mental and physical performance. This site will help you to identify those foods that are best suited for good nutrition, and discover which foods to avoid. How much protein do you need? What is a complex carbohydrate? Learn how to handle food properly for prevention of disease.

• Food and Fitness
  Ever wonder if some diets are really safe? Or how you can excel at sports? Get the lowdown on healthy eats, dieting, strength training, eating disorders, steroids, and more.

• Your Body
  From growing up to getting braces, popping pimples to catching some ZZZs, this section of TeensHealth gives you the basics on your changing body - from head to toe.

• ThinkQuest Library: Food & Nutrition
  More excellent nutrition sites at ThinkQuest.

• Patrick Holford
  Patrick is one of Britain's leading nutritional authors and founder of ION. As both psychologist and nutritionist, he teaches a unique holistic approach, based on sound scientific research.

• Nutrition: Medicine of the Future
  The medicine of the future will no longer be remedial, it will be preventive; not based on drugs but on the best diet for health. This site explores the issue: What is Optimum Nutrition?

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