Funky facts
Every year in Britain we eat 560 million bacon butties.
The number one food crop in the world is rice, which feeds half the people in the world.
The word
banan
is Arabic for finger.
Food gives you energy. But you use more energy eating a stick of raw celery than you get from it.
Keeping healthy
Children all over the world need the same things to keep them healthy: Clean water, healthy food to eat, lots of exercise and people to take care of them.
Everyone needs a good mix of food:
* protein to build and repair our bodies
* carbohydrates to give us our main source of energy
* vitamins and minerals from fruit and * vegetables to help our bodies work properly
* calcium from milk and dairy foods for strong bones and teeth
*and a small amount of fat and sugar to help food taste nice!
Children in different countries get these nutrients from different foods. Some people get their protein from meat such as chicken and beef. Some people are vegetarians and their protein comes from nuts and beans, or eggs and cheese. Other people choose not to eat certain food because of their faith for example, Hindus do not eat beef and Jews do not eat pork. But what matters is getting enough of each different type of food.
is not always easy.
In many parts of the world, children don't have taps in their houses to give them clean water. They have to collect water from a well or a river. Water from rivers can be dirty and contain germs that make people ill.
Sometimes the food that people are used to eating runs out. In Ghana for example, many people ate fish regularly. But then the supplies of fish dried up and people had to find a new source of protein.
It's great to be able to grow your own food to eat, but then if there is a drought, or your crops are affected by disease, or if someone takes your land away, you're in trouble!
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Did what you ate yesterday include something from each of the food groups above?
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Gus Clarke
To keep healthy, try eating something red, something green and something yellow or orange each day. (That's fruit and vegetables, not sweets!)
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