Nutrition & Diet Fundamentals

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to demonstrate a basic understanding of nutrition concepts including nutrient classifications, the connections between nutrition and health, sources of reliable nutrition information, and factors that lead to a healthful diet.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe carbohydrates including basic types and chemical structures, functions in the body, recommended intakes, and associated health and diet issues.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain anatomy and physiology basics of the digestive system.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain energy balance including contributing factors, ways of measurement, relationship to body composition, and requirements for optimal health.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain was that food products can be unsafe including measures taken to increase food safety and prevent foodborne illness.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe lipids including basic types and chemical structures, functions in the body, recommended intakes, and associated health and diet issues.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe minerals and water including the different minerals and their functions in the body, the function of water in the body, recommended intakes, and associated health and diet issues.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain important nutrition considerations through the life cycle including those related to conception, pregnancy, childhood and adolescence, adulthood, and older adulthood.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to define physical fitness including how healthful nutrition strategies supports fitness and fitness related problems that can impact health.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe hunger in the United States and globally including contributing factors and risk factors, at risk populations, and impact on health.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe proteins including basic types and chemical structures, functions in the body, recommended intakes, and associated health and diet issues.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain food governance in the United States including the various tools available to the public.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe vitamins including the different vitamins and their functions in the body, recommended intakes, and associated health and diet issues.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe healthy and weight management strategies including dangers associated with unhealthy weight management strategies and disordered eating.