Nutrition for Positive Health

As part of our Inquiry, 'Healthy Body? Healthy Mind?' we have been thinking about nutrition. If our bodies are human machines, food is our fuel. How well we eat, affects how well our bodies work. 

It is especially important that we eat healthily as children, as we are still growing and developing. A healthy diet is sometimes called a balanced diet as it needs to consist of different types of foods.

The Food Pyramid

Willa: Food pyramids are a good way of showing what quantities of food you should be eating. You should eat grains more than everything else. You should have 5 vegetables and fruit a day. Have one or two portions of meat a day. You should only have a little amount of fats. So have lots of grains...

Lillian: Nutrition is very important to staying healthy. There are many different types of vitamins. They keep different parts of your body healthy, such as Vitamin A, Vitamin B, to Vitamin E. All of these vitamins play a vital, (as is the name) role in keeping your body healthy. Vitamin A helps keep your eyesight strong. Here is the list for all of the vitamins and their roles: 

Vitamin A: This helps maintain your eyesight and strengthen it. 

Vitamin B: It helps your body make protein to strengthen muscles. 

Vitamin C: This vitamin heals your skin, and keeps colds away. 

Vitamin D: This strengthens your bones and how strong they are. 

Vitamin E: It strengthens your cells and keeps them healthy.

Darragh: I learnt that protein: is good for growing your muscles. Iron is good for healthy blood and you can find it in your leafy greens. Vitamin c is good for healthy skin healing skin and is found in tomatoes and citrus fruit.

Lucca M: Today I learned that sunlight strengthens your bones. I thought it was only your teeth!

Tom, Oscar and Jake: We were learning about healthy food.There is a food pyramid and it shows you what you should eat daily. We learnt why these foods are healthy. We were shown that it is important to eat a range of colours. If you go out side and the sun shines on you, your brain feels better. You need to stay healthy and eat a lot of veggies. You should have 5 veggies or fruits a day to keep your system working and running. Chocolate isn't actually that bad for you if its dark or plain but you should still limit your self on that.

Emily and Anastasiya: The food pyramid shows how much of what foods you should consume daily for it to be a balanced diet, carbohydrates are on the bottom because you should eat it the most but of course not too much. Sugars and Fats are on the top layer because you should consume the least amount of it otherwise it can be quite unhealthy. You should also remember to eat 5 portions of Fruit and Veg daily.

Mae A: We learned about what a balanced diet is. We learned the properties of different coloured fruit, for example yellow fruit and vegetables produce vitamin c. The most common vitamins are: vitamin A, Vitamin B, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E and Iron. Vitamin D helps strengthen bones in your body. Eating things that have iron in them such as green leafy vegetables and meat will have healthy blood. Vitamin A Helps maintain eyesight, you can find it in sweet potatoes and carrots.

Lisa and Olive:
1. A small amount of chocolate is good for you.
2. Purple and blue foods give you a strong brain.
3.Just because you do lots of exercise doesn't mean that you don't have to eat well
4. Food labels are confusing, The front packaging can tell a different story than the back. 

5. Eating vegetables are good for you. 

6. having lots of different colours on your plate helps your health.