Food

📖 In short

Food is one of our most important needs, and we can't live without it. It gives us energy for everything we do: walking, talking, playing, reading, and even thinking, breathing and sleeping. It also helps our bodies grow and heal.

🤩 Did you know?

Your body stays at about 37 degrees thanks to the energy food gives it.
The first great civilizations appeared in river valleys more than 5000 years ago.
Grains like wheat, rice and maize are the most important food for most people in the world.
The body needs water even more than food.

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🌟 Where does food come from?

We get food from plants, like grains, fruit, vegetables and pulses, and from animals, like meat, fish, eggs and milk.

🔍 Farming changed life

Long ago people gathered fruit and hunted animals. Then they learned to farm and raise animals, so they settled near rivers and built the first villages and towns.

💡 Keeping food

Food goes bad quickly if it's left out, so people learned to keep it by drying, salting and canning, and today we keep it in the fridge and freezer.

🎯 Food and health

A varied diet makes the body strong: bread and rice for energy, meat and pulses for building, vegetables and fruit for vitamins, and milk for bones. And we shouldn't throw food away.