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Food and Its Sources

• Importance of Food • How Food is Formed?
• Autotrophs and Heterotrophs • Sources of Food
• Food from Plants • Food from Animals

Health is wealth! Ea ng healthy food and IMPORTANCE OF FOOD
following a healthy lifestyle can keep us
Food helps living beings in many ways:
healthy and happy. Let us understand what
v Food provides energy : Food provides
healthy food is!
energy to all living beings. To carry on
Healthy food simply means nutri ous food. life processes and other ac vi es, we
These are the food that are considered need energy. We obtain this energy
good for health. from food.

Healthy food assists a person in enhancing v It protects us from diseases : Food

the physical and mental well-being. These contains vitamins and minerals that
foods are full of nourishment and enhance protect our body from various diseases.
growth. Some of the significant examples v It helps our body to grow : Food helps

of healthy food involve natural food, fiber- our body to grow. A baby grows into a
rich food, vitamin-rich food, protein-rich man or woman. Food contains various

food, etc. substances needed for physical and
Healthy food keeps us away from diseases. mental development.

We feel relaxed, light and stress-free when v It repairs our damaged body parts :
we eat nourishing food because we know Food also contains proteins that is

that we are feeding something healthy and needed to repair damaged body parts.
good to our body.

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