Hearthside Homeschool Reviews...and More

Nutrition 101: Choose Life! is a comprehensive health and nutrition study for all ages. Two of the authors are also homeschool moms; one of these a naturopathic doctor, herbalist, aromatherapist, and nutrition counselor as well. Their desire is that through this study, one would come to understand the relationship that food has with our "fearfully and wonderfully made" bodies.


This is an in-depth study but it's not difficult to read or understand. Recipes, activities, and discussion questions are included. The text and activities lends themselves nicely to notebooking and/or lapbooking and would be fairly easy to adapt in that manner.

A Christian perspective is evident throughout, with Scripture frequently integrated. The authors clearly have a heart for teaching others about how God created our bodies to respond to proper and improper nutrition and exercise, in the hopes that it will help transform lives for the better.

This course is intended for all ages but much of the material is at a high school level. I believe this would be great to use with younger kids, covering and adapting the age appropriate material, and then again in high school as a health/science course. I hope to have my high schoolers work their way through this material, not only because they need the health credit, but because the information is so valuable.

This is an area I need help in myself. We changed our diet a couple of years ago and saw great change in our weight, health, and energy levels. However, due to time and finances, we slipped back into the old, poor nutritional choices. I think it's time to start making changes again, maybe a little less drastically this time. One step at a time, one chapter at a time, would be a better method for us.

This is a BIG book at 498 pages. I received this in e-book form and would not recommend that version. My plan is to have it printed and placed in a binder, but haven't been able to do this as of yet. It's very difficult to wade through such a large book, full of so much information, on the computer screen. I would definitely recommend the print version. It is bright and colorful and not on the computer. ;-)

All in all, I like this program. I'd love to dig deeper into it myself, adapting the teachings within for my family, and sharing with my high schoolers so that maybe they can do better at getting their future families started on the right track. I'm ignoring the advice on caffeine consumption though. I'm happy with my immunity supressing addiction. Just forget about the flu bug I am recovering from presently and let me live in denial a little longer.

Nutrition 101 is available for $79.95 for the CD version, $99.95 for the printed version (which I recommend over the CD), or $129.95 for the book/CD combo.