Choosing the Right Fuel: Intro to Good Nutrition

If you were to consult your car's owner’s manual, you would find instructions and recommendations for choosing the right fuel so that your car could perform at its optimum level. As a human, you do not come with an owner’s manual, but there are still plenty of recommendations out there for how to choose the right fuel, which for you is food. In this topic, you learn how to make the right food choices so that your body can perform at its optimum level.

Essential Questions

• What are the basic components of good nutrition and how does it affect the body?