You Want Me to Eat That?: A Kids’ Guide to Eating Right

“Thanks to nutrients in food, you can run, play, do chores—and live a healthful life.” This accessible volume identifies and explains the five food groups and how the digestive system works, and provides helpful advice for being active and maintaining a healthy diet. Kids may know that they shouldn’t eat junk food, but they will be interested to learn some lesser-known facts about nutrition. For example, oranges can assist in healing cuts, and broccoli builds strong bones. Fact boxes offer more informational morsels (“Food travels about 30 feet from one end of the digestive system to the other!”), tips, and food-related jokes. A combination of color photographs, diagrams, and cartoons appear on every spread. Back matter includes a healthy-eating self-assessment, glossary, text-based true or false questions, book and Web-site suggestions for further reading, and an index.