Healthy+Eating,+Atoms+and+Arcimboldo

=__Stardust, Salads and the Human Body:__= =Why you are as old as Granny.=

**Get a taste of chemistry!**
From humans and pencils to tomatoes and stars, the building blocks are elements, arranged in trillions of different patterns.

//**Elements**// are //**everywhere**// and make //**everything!**//
The display shows children that the trick of healthy eating is to learn which foods contain the elements matching those needed by the human body. Using an "elementary" recipe book, and a cryptic artwork they discover that, whether building an apple, a dog, or a bottle of water, the elements have lots in common. Elements are also introduced in a lively board game. Set off to school with your piece of fruit and be the first to get it there without losing it or squashing it, then explode the elements inside: may have once been drunk by a dinosaur in two fascinating books:
 * Discover why you are as old as granny** and marvel at the fact that your glass of water

Move on ...
Learn about elements in food molecules.**Get a taste of atoms.** Build a protein, a vitamin, a carbohydrate and a water molecule:

__Guiseppe Arcimboldo.__

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__Spot your Fruit-face in the Arcimboldo Workshop:__
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=__Go further....__=

You may need to [|download] Shockwave player onto your home computer.
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__No food at all?: Hunger and Starvation:__

 * A site where you can make a difference!**
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WFP [|interactive hunger map.]
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__Fruit Carving__
Get inspired by the exquisite traditional fruit and vegetable carving of Thailand. This ancient tradition goes back to 1324. Read about its origins **[|here.]**

__Have a go!__

 * [|Learn how to carve]** a cucumber leaf, a leek marigold, a melon nest or a tomato rose.



Take on the computer in a fruity strategy game:

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from the table is the winner.
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