Links for Big Picture: Food and Diet
Do you want to explore what else the internet has to offer on the subject of food and diet? We've compiled a list of links to relevant teaching resources and other organisations to help.
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Resources for teachers
- NHS BMI calculator
- School resources from the Food Standards Agency
- British Dietetic Association food facts
- “Family Food 2009” DEFRA document on food and drink consumption by UK households [PDF]
- Diabetes information for students from Diabetes UK
- Kimball’s biology pages on PKU
- Kimball’s biology pages on nutrition
- 300 kilocalorie picture gallery from HealthAssist
- “Fair miles: recharting the food miles map” from the International Institute for Environment and Development
- Science Advisory Committee on Nutrition draft document on energy requirements
- Food allergy info from the BBC
- Naked Scientists kitchen science experiments
- How much energy is there in food? Experiment from ‘Practical Biology’
- Film of a food technologist from National STEM Centre [login required]
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Practical activity exploring enzymes in fruit juice from National STEM Centre
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Squashed Tomato Challenge: Practical activity looking at food production
from National STEM Centre [login required] - Royal Institution lectures and online games on “the truth about food”
- Bad Science lesson plans: set one and set two
- Teaching mini-scheme on MMR vaccination from Teaching Science
- Activity on omega-3 supplements from Teaching Science
Other relevant organisations