nutrition nauts

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Team Members:  Mia, Makenna, Audrey

 

Intended Audience:  If you are in the middle school age group you will love this game!

 

The Object of the Game: to travel through the body and cure the symptoms in certain parts of the body that are caused by unhealthy habits. There are fat cells, bad bacteria, and plaque along the way that must be terminated in order to help the body maintain proper health. Information blocks where put in the levels to help teach a specific lesson about what part of the body the level is about and what you can do to help keep your body healthy. Nutrition coins are spread throughout the level that the character must get in order to pass the level. On certain levels you are timed, so be quick!

 

The Health Lesson: to learn how to eat properly, exercise, and to know the effects of being healthy and unhealthy.

 

The Story Behind the Game:  The heart is the most important organ in your body, this is what level one is all about. Eating foods that have high fat levels and cholesterol can have a terrible effect on your heart. They can also buildup plaque in your blood vessels and arteries. After a while a block can form in your blood vessels and this makes the heart work harder to pump blood. The heart has to get blood through the block which can cause many health problems. This includes heart disease, heart attack and stroke. Exercising will help keep the heart strong and healthy. Benny the Blood Cell must collect all the good fats and the right amount of cholesterol to keep the heart pumping. He has to be fast though, your body can’t last long without breathing.

In level two Sammy the Stomach Acid must get through all the fatty foods that are in the stomach and collect all the healthy coins. Eating processed foods can slow down your digestion and cause constipation. Also if you develop too much fat on your stomach area it can crush your organs. It is imperative that you eat healthy and do cardio daily. You should keep your heart rate up for 30 to 40 minutes, this will help you to burn calories faster. It’s important to burn more calories than you consume.

Your intestines is a very important part of your body, it helps get nutrients from foods and digests them. Eating unhealthy can cause a block in your intestines and can cause your stomach area to hurt in result of constipation or your body trying to process unnatural foods. In level three Nathaniel the Nutrient must get past the fat that clogs the intestine and collect the liquid coins to help keep the body healthy and hydrated.

Level four is about how certain foods can have an effect on the way you process information and think. Consuming foods that are high in fat content and eating sweets can unbalance you insulin levels causing certain cells not to respond to this hormone. This will affect your brain causing it to not respond and making it harder to think. Another factor that has seemed to catch all of our brains is the craving for bad and unhealthy food. Big companies consider this part when making their product, they try to make you become addicted and coming back for more. Getting the perfect balance of salt and sweet in a chip or the satisfying flavor in a soda is what all these companies do. This can all be prevented by slowly changing the way you eat and you will begin to crave less and less. So to do this you must get Becky the Brain Cell through all the unwanted conditions in the brain and collect the nutrition coins so the brain can continue functioning properly.

Your bones are a very important part of your body, they give you stability and some of them protect you. Your ribs are very important to your body, they protect your organs and even the most vital of them all, your heart. It is important to take caution when performing certain activities, and make sure eat and drink foods that will strengthen your bones. In level five Ricardo the Rib Bone must avoid the fat cells that are clogged in between the ribs and retrieve the calcium coins to strengthen the bones.

Level six focuses on the nasal cavity and how eating certain foods can affect your allergies. The phlegm, which is caused by eating dairy foods, blocks the sinuses and impairs drainage. It can even cause small air ways to close down and become backed up. In this level Nathan the Noes Hair must navigate his way through the nasal cavity, while avoiding the phlegm that inhabit it. He must collect the coins that help clear up the noes and drive out the phlegm.

We hoped you learned a lot and have fun playing Nutrition Nauts! We Nauts thank you for your service in helping the body achieve maximum health.