9781422287866 Building a Healthy Diet with the 5 Food Groups

Chapter 1

T hink of your favorite food. Maybe you love hamburgers. Or watermelon. Or ice cream. You might wish you could eat your favorite food for every meal! You’d never get tired of it. Or at least that’s what you think! Eating the same thing over and over again might be fun for a little while. But eating that way wouldn’t do you any good. You’d soon get sick, even if your favorite food were carrots or some other healthy food. If you ate only carrots all the time, you wouldn’t be very healthy. Instead, you need to eat a bunch of different things. The best way to make sure you eat all the different kinds of foods you need is to pay attention to food groups. We have five food groups. Each food group has different kinds of things your body needs to work right and stay healthy. If you only eat from one or two food groups, your body doesn’t get everything it needs to work right. What Are the 5 Food Groups — And Where Do They Come From?