Nutrition Deficiencies

Can you name the four main food groups?

Nutrition is the energy and nutrients we get from food. Nutrients are

• The vitamins and minerals our bodies need to grow and develop

• Vitamins and minerals found in rocks

• Only found in the soil

To have good nutrition we need the correct nutrients from our food. This means . . .

• To be healthy we need to eat a lot to get the right nutrients

• To be healthy we need to eat RUTFs too get the right nutrients

• To be healthy we need to eat a balanced variety of food to get the right nutrients

• We can get all of our nutrients from our favourite food and eat the same thing every day

Sometimes when we don't eat the right food we can get sick from nutritional deficiencies. A deficiency is

• When we have too much of something

• When we have something in the wrong place

• When we have too little of something

• When we have a headache

Sailors at sea for a long time would often get sick with . . .

• Rickets

• Scurvy

This illness is caused by . . .

• Too much sugar

• Pirates

• Eating a lot of pickles

• Not enough vitamin c

• Not enough work

Something we can eat to get better from this illness is ...

This kid's legs have grown bendy because of a vitamin deficiency, using your textbook which illness do you think they have?

• scurvy (vitamin c deficiency)

• anaemia (iron deficiency)

• rickets (vitamin d deficiency)

Something we can eat to help get better from this illness is

• potato chips

• fish

• limes

How do you think we can avoid getting nutritional deficiencies like this?