Tuesday, July 21, 2009

ISN'T GOOD TO EAT?

ISN'T GOOD TO EAT?
"Vegetables are good to eat, good to eat, good to eat, vegetables are good to eat, good to eat, they make us healthy". This is one of the song we are singing when we are in the kindergarten.During that time, we always consider that vegetables make us healthy and also with fruits, milk,cereal foods and others. Now that we are on the stage of critical thinking, we classify the food we eat into GO, GROW, and GLOW. Aside from that, we've discovered the different nutrients we can get from it.
How can we get good nutrition? Good nutrition refers to the food that promotes growth and repairing of waste in organic bodies. We should know also that insufficient intake of food may bring poor health and worst of all, malnutrition.Good nutrition also refers on how a persontake it's balanced diet.Through this, we can indicate the amount of nutrients a person needs for the maintenance of good health. We have the body- building, energy- giving and regulating foods which we can get from green vegetables and fruits that is rich in vitamins. And also egg yolk, beans, peas, that is rich in iron.Other nutrients such as protein, calcium and carbohydrates. If a person has a good nutrition, he or she can easily coop up or prevent from diseases and spreading of bacteria and viruses in our body.
Therefore, our body really needs different kinds of food in order for it to function well, to be healthy and to get rid of diseases. That is why the food we eat must be nutritionally balanced and properly selected.