A Balanced Diet

Your body needs the right fuel or it won't work properly

Carbohydrates:

• Found in Pasta, rice and sugar
• Provide energy

Lipids (fats and oils);

• Butter, oily fish
• provide energy, act as an energy store and provide insulation

Proteins;

• Meat, fish
• Needed for growth and repair of tissue, and to provide energy in emergencies

Vitamins:

• A- liver
• helps to improve vision and keep your skin and hair healthy
• C- Oranges
• Needed to prevent scurvy
• D- Eggs
• Needed for calcium absorption, body produces it when your skin is exposed to sunlight

Mineral Ions:

• Calcium- Milk, cheese
• needed to make bones and teeth
• Iron Red Meat-needed to make Haemoglobin for healthy blood

Water:

• Food and drink
• Just…