Healthy Eating: An introduction for children aged 5-12

i think it means to be healthy

lots of different things affect how

healthy we are including what we eat and

how active we are we know that all

living things need food to stay alive

have you ever wondered why this is can

you think of a time you felt hungry how

did it make you feel

perhaps your tummy rumbled you felt

tired or grumpy or maybe you found it

hard to concentrate why do you think we

feel this way when we're hungry well

just like a car needs fuel to make the

engine work properly our bodies need

food to be able to work properly as well

what it

means to eat a balanced diet and why

eating a range of different food is good

for us what is a balanced diet do you

think it would be healthy to only ever

eat chocolate what about if you only

ever ate carrots it's very important

that we eat a variety of foods and we're

going to find out why food contains

something called nutrients

we'll be

learning all about nutrients such as

proteins carbohydrates vitamins and

minerals eating a healthy diet means

that the food we eat gives our bodies

all of the nutrients they need to work

properly as well as giving us lots of

energy to learn play and grow keeping us

full of beans for a morning till night