OUR FOOD

      What we are eat decide how we grow. If you eat good, wholesome, nutritious food you will grow up healthy and strong.

           You must have healthy food that has all the main nutrients. You need carbohydrates like rice, potatoes or bread. There is starch in these types of food. Your body can turn the starch into energy to give you brain power for you work and muscle power for sport.

Proteins are necessary to build strong muscles and firm flesh. These are found mainly in fish, egg, nuts, green vegetables and meat. We also need a smaller amount of fat as in margarine, butter and cooking oil. Calcium in milk builds strong bones and teeth. Iron in spinach and other dark green vegetables is good for our blood.

                The important vitamins, vitamin A, B, C, D and E we find mainly in fresh fruit, vegetables, brown rice, brown bread and fish oil. Vitamins help us fight diseases. They keep our eyes, hair, skin and teeth in good condition.

            Yet vitamins and other important things in food can often be destroyed if the food is boiled or fried too much. Vegetables must be washed carefully. Then they should be cooked only for a very short time. Fruit, again carefully washed with clean water, is best eaten raw.

                             Many people nowadays eat too many sweet things. Biscuits, cakes, sweets, chocolates and ice-cream all contain too much sugar. Sugar is a carbohydrate and some of it can be turned into energy, but too much sugar is ban for your skin, makes your body fat and gives you toothache. If you have too much sugar over a long time, you may even lose all your teeth

Vitamins

• We need vitamins for healthy growth of our body.
• They are best taken by the way of food.
• If you are healthy you are not in need of vitamin tablets or syrups.
• Vitamin preparations are needed only when you are in a vitamin deficiency.
• If you take vitamin tablets unnecessarily there is a risk of overload of vitamins.
• Vitamin overload can cause symptoms like headache, hair-loss and skin rashes.

Michael Faraday

              Michael Faraday was born in Newington in England. He was the son of a blacksmith. During his early years, he worked as an apprentice in bookbinding. He attended lectures given by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1812 and developed interest in science. Later, Faraday sent his study notes to Davy with a request for a job and as are result he started to work as Davy’s assistant at the Royal institution in 1813. A year later, he went with Davy on a European tour from which he gained much experience.