Health Food

Generally food is categorized in to two group’s 1.Main foods 2.Supplementary foods.Main food fulfill the daily needs of our body and supplementary food is important to built and maintenance of our body. Usually main food are also called as energy food it gives energy for our day to day work. To be healthy our bodies need a balance of different nutritious foods every day. The food we eat has to fulfill many needs. First, it should provide enough energy to keep as active and storing. Also, it must help build, repair and protect the different parts of our bodies. To do all this, we need to eat a combination of foods everyday. At every meal, we should eat something from each of the four major food groups – energy food, body building food, extra energy foods and foods that prevent illness and disease. Below I had listed the foods from each category.

Energy foods:
• Cereals and grains: Wheat, rice, maize, millet, sorghum
• Starchy root: Potatoes, sweet potatoes, tapioca.
• Starchy fruits: Banana, breadfruit, plantain.

Body building foods:
• Animal product: milk, curd, cheese, eggs, meat, fish.
• Vegetable: Pulses, Nuts, Peas, beans, Soya bean, Groundnut.

Extra energy food:
• Fats: Oil, butter, ghee, meat fat.
• Sugar: white sugar, honey.
• Fat rich foods: sesame and sunflower groundnuts, walnuts, cashews, and almonds

Foods that prevent illness and disease:
Vitamin and mineral foods
• Dark green vegetables: spinach, drumstick leaves, amaranth.
• Dark yellow vegetables: Carrots, yellow pumpkins.
• Red vegetables: tomato
• Fruits: Papaya, mango, lemon, orange
• Mineral food: tamarind, millets, beet root, sea foods.

That is enough for today in by next post I’m going to explain the roll of the above mentioned foods in our body.

Take care bye,