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Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Personal health Grades K-4, page 140 Nutrition is essential to health. Students should understand how the
body uses food and how various foods contribute to health. Recommendations
for good nutrition include eating a variety of foods, eating less sugar,
and eating less fat.
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Benchmark 6E The Human Organism: Physical
Health
Grades 3-5, page 144
Food provides energy and materials for growth and repair of body parts.
Vitamins and minerals, present in small amounts in foods, are essential
to keep everything working well. As people grow up, the amounts and kinds
of food and exercise needed by the body may change.
Science for All Americans The Human Organism
Chapter 6, page 82
The fact that most people now live in physical and social settings
that are very different from those to which human physiology was adapted
long ago is a factor in determining the health of the population in general.
One modern "abnormality" in industrialized countries is diet, which once
included chiefly raw plant and animal materials but now includes excess
amounts of refined sugar, saturated fat, and salt, as well as caffeine,
alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs.