Here is a song I created to help my 6th grade students study. I hope you enjoy. It’s just food and diet Keep you healthy tonight. You’re not alone in this fight. We’re talking ’bout nutrition, yeah Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, are called nutrients. Add accessory foods. Something ’bout sugar Starch, carbohydrates Giving energy Break down digestion Glucose is the name Energy producing Liver stores it up Yeah your body needing protein Growth and repair Body tissue better Other vital jobs Make your body grow stronger When you’re eating meat, fish, and nuts It’s a fact Protein simple chemicals Called amino acids I can see your body needs warmth Storing energy up in there Your body counting up the fat Still storing it holding Up in places under skin Right how body really keeping hold it Hanging on till it needs it later These fats coming in two types Unsaturated fats and saturated It’s just food and diet Keep you healthy tonight You’re not along in this fight We’re talking ’bout nutrition, yeah Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, are called nutrients Add accessory foods We’re talking ’bout nutrition, yeah We’re talking ’bout nutrition, yeah (Nutrients, accessory) Next up vitamins Part of accessory Healthy diet giving body all it’s needing Cause they’re chemical or organic Contains carbon, fifteen kinds your having They’re not only Minerals important They are needed for life Now inorganic like iron Sodium, iodine Twenty different minerals to grow up higher Dietary fiber in here …
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