protect your body eat food that's good for you good food helps your bones to grow it makes you strong and it stops you getting sick there's lots of water in your body you lose water when you go to the toilet and when your body makes sweat drink water every day to protect your body go to the doctor when you get sick and go to the dentist every year do exercise every day it's good to do exercise and it makes you happy it's good to sleep when you are tired too it's important to protect your body
you food for life you everyone needs food to live it gives you energy to work and play it also gives you nutrients to grow well and stay healthy do you eat a balanced diet with lots of different nutrients your body needs proteins to build muscles proteins are also important for healthy hair and fingernails you can get lots of proteins from meat fish and eggs dairy products like milk cheese and yogurt also contain proteins many people don't eat animal products but they can get proteins from plant products pulses like beans and lentils are rich in proteins
many grains nuts and seeds have proteins too which of these foods do you eat carbohydrates you carbohydrates give your body energy you can get carbohydrates from grain products like rice bread and pasta your body digests these foods slowly so they give you energy for many hours some vegetables like potatoes also have lots of carbohydrates what grains and vegetables do you eat sugar is also a carbohydrate your body digests sugar quickly so it gives you energy right away don't eat too many sweet foods like candy or ice cream and remember that you can also get sugar
from naturally sweet foods have a bowl of fruit with a little honey you fats you you need to eat some fats too grow well and stay healthy your body also stores fats for extra energy and to keep you warm in winter some types of meat and fish have a lot of fats dairy products like butter and cheese have fats too you can also get fats from plant products like nuts seeds and vegetable oils be careful too many fats can make you fat vitamins you your body needs vitamins to stay healthy and fight diseases nay keeps
your skin healthy you can get vitamin A from orange fruits and vegetables like carrots or pumpkins dark green vegetables like spinach have lots of vitamin A - dairy products give you vitamin B for healthy blood you can also get vitamin B from meat fish and eggs vitamin C helps your body fight diseases you can get vitamin C from citrus fruits like oranges and lemons you minerals you your body also needs minerals you need calcium for strong bones and healthy teeth dairy products like milk and yogurt are good sources of calcium you also need iron for
healthy blood you can get iron from red meat and eggs or from vegetables like broccoli and spinach salt is also an important mineral but be careful too much salty food is bad for you too much waste in some countries one person can make about five kilograms of waste every day where does all this waste go most waste goes to a landfill at a landfill people put the waste under the ground landfills are very big because we make so much waste most waste materials decompose they break down into very small pieces food waste decomposes fast but
some waste materials decompose slowly paper materials take from two to five months to decompose some metal materials take from 80 to 100 years and plastic materials take may be up to 1,000 years some materials like glass never decompose we are making more and more waste we need more landfills but there's no more land on Earth for landfills our waste stays in landfills for too long and this is bad for Earth so we should make less waste we should recycle more things around the world people make up to 4 billion metric tons of waste every year
you stop germs do you get sick germs are things that can make you sick germs can get in your body when you breathe and when you eat germs can get in your mouth from your fingers too some germs get in your body when you get a cut in your skin you you wash your hands with soap and water to get germs off your fingers wash your hands when it's time to eat after you go to the toilet after you touch animals and after you play outside stop germs there are germs in a sneeze catch sneezes
in a tissue then throw the tissue in a wastebasket maiya I volunteer three times a week after school I go to an elementary school in an underdeveloped neighborhood and help students with their homework they don't have private tutors and their parents are usually busy working the kids look up to me and ask me for advice I try to set a good example and I encourage them to study hard Roberto when I think about things I try not to think too much about the negative side of things I try to focus on the positive I think
things will work out for the best and they usually do some of my friends are just the opposite and that can be hard on me sometimes I guess I prefer to be around people who also focus more on the positive but I get that not everyone is the same the Sun is a star it's very very hot the Sun has lots of heat and light heat and light from the Sun come to earth the heat and light make earth warm so we can live here light from the Sun comes to earth in eight minutes some
places are warm and sunny all year and they have no seasons some places have seasons in summer there's more light from the Sun so it's warm in winter there's less light from the Sun so it's cold is it warm and sunny where you live
