Some tips for making your meals more colorful can be found at www.5aday.org/html/recipes/recipetips.php (Produce for Better Health Foundation).

Information about obesity and oxidative stress can be found at www.obesity-news.com/mar01pro.htm (Obesity Meds and Research News).

You can learn more about antioxidants and health at www.healthyontario.com/english/
features_details.asp?aggregate_id=201&text_id=761 (Ontario Government).

Information about antioxidants is available at www.betterhealthchannel.com.au/bhcv2/
bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Antioxidants?OpenDocument (Better Health Channel).

Raloff, Janet. 2005. Food colorings. Science News 167(Jan. 8):27-29. Available at http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050108/bob9.asp .

______. 2004. A carrot rainbow (with recipe). Science News Online (Nov. 20). Available at http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041120/food.asp .

______. 2003. As if you needed another reason to eat strawberries (with recipe). Science News Online (Oct. 18). Available at http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20031018/food.asp .

______. 2002. Berry colorful nutrition news (with recipe). Science News Online (April 20). Available at http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20020420/food.asp .

Sohn, Emily. 2004. Packing fat. Science News for Kids (Oct. 27). Available at http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20041027/Feature1.asp .

______. 2004. Building a food pyramid. Science News for Kids (Feb. 18). Available at http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20040218/Feature1.asp .

James Joseph has written a book about eating by color. To learn a lot more about what different colors of fruits and vegetables can do inside your body and how you can eat more of them, check out The Color Code: A Revolutionary Eating Plan for Optimum Health (with Daniel A. Nadeau and Anne Underwood). See www.hyperionbooks.com/titlepage.asp?ISBN=0786886218 (Hyperion).

For teachers: A lesson about antioxidants can be found at www.co.mohave.az.us/WIC/Antioxidants.htm (Mohave County, Arizona).

Books recommended by SearchIt!Science:

Health Science Projects About Nutrition — Robert Gardner Published by Enslow Publishers, 2002. We know that all living things, including humans, need food to provide energy. What foods are healthiest for our bodies? Can you test food for fats, carbohydrates, and proteins? How much does a human eat compared to a whale or a mouse? This book includes science projects, facts, and experiments that will help you to answer these questions and many more about nutrition and the food we eat. Young scientists will find inspiring ideas here for further research and science fairs.

Fruit — Jillian Powell Published by Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1997. From apples to cucumbers to bananas to tomatoes, everyone eats fruit. How do people in the Caribbean use fruit? How is fruit preserved? Did you know that cranberries are often harvested by flooding the fields and the fruit floats to the top? Learn about new ways to enjoy your favorite fruit. Be sure to read about the religious significance of fruit around the world.

Green Power: Leaf & Flower Vegetables — Meredith Sayles Hughes Published by Lerner Publishing, 2001. Did you know that some of the fruits and vegetables you see at the grocery store may be grown thousands of miles away? Have you ever seen a strange fruit or vegetable and wondered how you're supposed to eat it? Have you ever thought about how the different plants that people grow and eat affect the way they live—and may even have affected history? This book is about vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli, artichokes, spinach, and others. You'll find out where these plants grow and how, who eats them, and what their economic and social role is. You'll even learn a few recipes!

lipid A fatty substance that is found in living things and that is an important source of food energy. Oils, fats, and waxes are lipids.

radical A group of atoms that behaves as a unit in chemical reactions and is often not stable, except as part of a molecule. The hydroxyl, ethyl, and phenyl radicals are examples. Radicals are unchanged by chemical reactions.

ultraviolet light Electromagnetic radiation that has wavelengths shorter than those of visible light but longer than those of x-rays. Ultraviolet light is given off by the Sun but is invisible. Too much ultraviolet light can cause sunburn and skin diseases. Ultraviolet light is used in hospitals to sterilize medical equipment.

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