nutrition web quest

In your exercise book, title the page Nutrition. Answer each question under the title in a complete sentence.

1. Go to Nutrition Facts & Calorie Counter and estimate your daily needs for calories. You will find the calculator on the right hand colume.  Go to the BMI Calculator and find out what BMI is and calculate your BMI.

• How many calories do you burn in a day?
• What is your Body Mass Index? 
• Which category do you fall under?
• Underweight, Normal, Overweight or Obese

Food Labels:
2. Click on the link for the “50 Most Popular  Foods” and choose two item from the list.

• What is your chosen foods?
• Click on it and tell how
  many "fat" calories are in your chosen foods?

 3. From the Nutrition Facts & Calorie Counter, Enter “Taco Bell” in the search. Find the Cheese Quesadilla link.

• Is this considered a good or bad food? Why
• How many calories are in the
  quesadilla?
• How many of those calories are from fat?

 5. At the Choose My Plate site click on the yellow stripe and then click  on “Learn More”.

• Name 3 of the 4 foods shown that are naturally high in  oils.

 6. At the Deciphering Food Labels site, find out what nutrition labels usually include:

 7. Write down what you ate and drank yesterday,use the NutritionData  website to find out how many calories you consumed. .

 8. Find 3 other interesting links on the NutritionData website,