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labels
By tia

part of my nutrition unit involves learning how to read labels--before we read labels, though, we learn what all the nutrients do and why we need them. the students understand we need calories (but they shouldn't all come
from fat) and we need fat (but not a lot of it.)
i bring in a bunch of foods that are similar--orange juice, orange punch/drink, and gatorade and we compare the ingredient lists and the nutrition information. i bring in prepared foods (boxed rice, mac and cheese, chili, raviolis and other crap-in-a-can) and have them focus on the amount of fat and sodium in these types of foods. i

have them save their milk cartons at lunch--they are surprised to find that skim milk has the same amount of calcium as 1% and 2%. they are surprised that chocolate milk has more sodium... i also bring in different types of chips and crackers...all sorts of things.