Theme 4:

Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices

In Theme 3, you learned about some of the human body systems that perform critical life functions. How do these systems keep working properly and efficiently? Part of the answer is in the food we eat and the lifestyle we choose.

In this theme, you will learn about the nutrients that your body needs and how to improve your body functions by making good diet and lifestyle choices. You will also learn that your body systems interact and work together to keep everything working well and that your diet and lifestyle choices have a great impact on this. You will see what may happen when your body has trouble coping and investigate the technologies available to help correct and improve imbalances in the body.