What do you need to keep you healthy ?

We all need food if we want to stay alive and healthy. Food gives us the energy we need to move, to work to play, and even talk. Food makes our body grow strong. our body can live for many day without food. After that, we would begin to starve and get very weak.

We all need many different kinds of food to keep our body healthy.healthy food contains body-builiding subtances, and we can find these subtances, like protein, in food such as meat, fish, chese and nuts. Children need proteins to help them grow. adults need proteins to repair any damage of their skin and bones.

fruits, dairy foods, vegetables, and fish oils conatain vitamins. Vitamins are substance that our body need to fight against diseasea. Foods, like bread and rice, help to gice us energy. Fattty food, like butter and oils, helps to keep body warm.We also need small amount of different minerals, such as mineral salt, calcium and iron

Some of mineral salt are used, together with proteins, to build our bones, muscles, and nevers. calcium is one  of the most important minerals to make our bones and teeth healthy. Iron is another important minerals to help our body to stay red and healhty. But of course, we do not need need to eat nails or screws to keep our blood red and healthy ! To do this fact would make us very ill. we need only tiny amount of iron. and we can find it in foods like liver, corned beef, and sardines.