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Show Lynn Says: What they do: The basic seven food requirements are so made up as to take care of the body's demand for certain types of food. For example, proteins, minerals miner-als and water are all essential to building torn parts of the body and keeping them in repair. They are needed for tissues, bones, muscles, blood and other fluids. Energy for breathing, heart action, ac-tion, circulation of the blood, and other bodily functions is supplied by fuel foods foods rich in fats and sugar. To keep up the body's resistance resist-ance to disease, to keep it in good running order, is the function of regulation and protective foods these are the vitamins, minerals, water and roughage. |