Health Wise: Fight Obesity in the Classroom

by: Michael E. Bratsis

This column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—along with classroom activities that help students make healthy choices. This month’s issue describes a classroom activity that focuses on sugar and fats in our food and drink, which helps start the discussion on obesity.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2012Stock # tst12_079_06_68Volume 079Issue 06

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As I read this I thought about ways to adapt the calcualtions of sugar content to dimensional analysis in my chem class. Actually I could also look at calcualtions of energy content too. Emb... See More

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