Food
Food Eating is fun, especially when you are hungry. Most people have a
favourite food. Some people enjoy eating sweet things like chocolate, cake and
ice cream.Other people enjoy savoury foods like cheese and meat. Food helps us
to keep warm. It also gives us the energy to walk talk, run, and the other
things we do. Food helps us to grow and to stay healthy.Some food is grown in
this country, for example potatoes, apples ect. But food can also come from
other countries, as oranges, bananas, olives and ect.Our body needs energy to
work, to play, to move and to talk. We also use some of this energy to keep our
bodies warm and we must give our bodies the right kind of fuel. This is food.In
our bodies food is slowly burned. Scientists call the food which gives our body
energy, carbohydrates and fat.Most of the carbohydrates we eat come from
plants. These carbohydrates are mainly starch and sugar. Cakes, jam, potatoes
and bread contain a lot of carbohydrates and they are foods which give us
plenty of energy. Fats give us even more energy. Fats can come from animals or
plants. Margarine, butter and cooking oil are fats.The body can make its own
fats. It does this when we eat more food than we really need.Then our body
stores this extra food as fat. Some of this fat is useful because it keeps us
warm. Some of this can give us energy if we haven´t eaten for a long time. But
when you have too much fat in our body your heart has to do extra work to allow
us to carry this fat around.We also eat proteins when we eat lean meat, fish,
nuts, beans and peas. Proteins help your body to repair damaged parts and it
makes it possible that muscels and bones can grow.Proteins keep our body strong
and give it some energy.All people say you have to eat vitamins when you are ill.
But why? Like minerals salts, vitamins keep us healthy. Our body needs vitamins
in tiny amounts. Some people buy pills or tablets that contain vitamins. But
this isn´t really necessary, because most of us eat vitamins and salts in
(with) food. Vitamins help all parts of the body to work properly and to stay
healthy and some vitamins help keep our eyes ,skin healthy and make our blood
vessels strong. In fresh fruit and green vegetables you can find Vitamin C.
This vitamin keeps our skin and gums healthy. Fish, milk, butter ,cheese,
margarine contain Vitamin D. This is only a vitamin we can make for ourselves
when the skin get enough sunshine. Vitamin D helps your bones to grow stong and
hard.Our body need water as well as solid foods. People have survived for a
month or more without food. But we cannot stay alive without water. A large
part of your body is made up of water. About two-thirds (66 %) as your body is
water. We lose water when we go on the toilett, breath or sweat.Then you feel
thirsty. If you want to stay healthy, you must drink as much water as your body
loses. We find water in food that we eat and in milk that we drink. All other
drinks are mostly water but many drinks that we buy in bottles or cans are just
water with a little sugar and flavouring. Most food have some mineral salts in
them. Some of these minerals are used, together with proteins, to build our
bones and other are used to help build our muscles and nerves or other mineral
salts are used for teeth and blood. All parts of our body are in need of
mineral salts.Some of the most important mineral salts are calcium salts that
we can find in milk, butter, cheese, yoghurt, bread, cabbage and many other
foods. Calcium salts are used by your body to make healthy bones and teeth.
Another important group of minerals or iron salts. Iron salts, are needed for
healthy red blood but we don´t have to eat nail or screws to keep our blood
red. To do this in fact would make us very ill. We need only tiny amounts of
iron salt that we can find in liver, corned - beef ,sardines, eggs, bread and
baked beans.We learn that we must to eat foods because we get power from food,
but it must be the right food. Chips, Pop corn, lollies, bonbons, chocolate and
other sweet stuff we don´t need firsttime they aren´t good for our teeth and
secondtime you get too much sugar when you eat them.But apples, bananas, pears,
oranges, melons, carotts, tomatoes, peas all vegatables and fruits are good for
your body. And we can feel lucky that we have enough to eat.
