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Food SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Digestion p.79

Humans need to eat the right mixture of different food ▸ ▸ Energy pp.88–89
groups to keep all the parts of the body working properly. ▸ ▸ Eating
pp.104–105
Food gives us energy to move, grow, and repair our ▸ ▸ Food chains

bodies. Types of food give our bodies the different p.107
goodness we need. ▸ ▸ Gases p.117

▸ ▸ Plants p.194

Food groups
There are five main food Carbohydrates
groups that give us the Bread, rice, cereal,
nutrients and vitamins and pasta contain
carbohydrates, which
we need to be healthy. give our bodies energy.

Dairy foods
Milk, yogurt,
cheese, and butter
contain calcium to
help teeth, nails,
and bones grow.

Fruit and
vegetables
Fruit and Protein
vegetables have Meat, fish, eggs,
fiber, which helps and beans are
break down our food. high in protein,
They also contain which is needed
vitamins and minerals to grow and
that help our bodies repair our bodies.
work properly.

Drinking
Water transports the
goodness we get from food
into and around our body.
It then flushes waste materials
out of our bodies.
Fat and sugar
Sugar and fat give our Energy
bodies energy. We can
get fat from food like When we eat, our body
cheese and nuts, and changes energy in food into
sugars from fruits. the energy we need to move
Too much fat and and grow. Stored energy is
sugar is bad for us.
turned into movement
energy in our bodies.

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