--- title: Healthy food, water and vitamins — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Healthy food, water and vitamins», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Food gives the body energy and the materials it needs to grow and to repair itself. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Healthy food, water and vitamins # Healthy food, water and vitamins Lesson 36 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/36-healthy-food/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/0/) — Food gives the body energy and the materials it needs to grow and to repair itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/1/) — No single food has everything, so we need a mix of foods: a balanced diet. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/2/) — Carbohydrates (bread, rice, potatoes, pasta) give energy; proteins (meat, fish, eggs, beans, milk) build and repair the body; fats (oil, butter, nuts) store energy and keep us warm, but we need only a little. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/3/) — Fruit and vegetables give vitamins, minerals and fibre. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/4/) — For example, vitamin C from oranges and peppers helps the body heal, and calcium from milk builds bones. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/5/) — More than half of your body is water. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/6/) — We lose water every day in sweat, breath and urine, so we must drink it every day; water carries food in the blood, cools us by sweating and washes out waste. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/7/) — Sugary drinks and sweets give quick energy but almost nothing else, so they are foods for sometimes, not for every day. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/8/) — A balanced diet is a mix of foods from all the food groups. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/9/) — Carbohydrates, such as bread, rice and potatoes, give the body energy. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/10/) — Proteins, such as meat, fish, eggs and beans, build and repair the body. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/11/) — Fats give energy and keep us warm, but we need only a small amount. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/12/) — Fruit and vegetables give vitamins, minerals and fibre. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/13/) — Vitamin C, found in oranges, lemons, peppers and berries, helps the body heal and fight illness. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/14/) — Calcium, found in milk and cheese, builds strong bones and teeth. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/15/) — More than half of the human body is water. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/16/) — We lose water every day in sweat, breath and urine. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/17/) — A person can live for weeks without food but only for a few days without water. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/18/) — Too much sugar can cause tooth decay and too much weight. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/36-healthy-food/19/) — Long ago sailors without fresh fruit got sick with scurvy because they lacked vitamin C. - ← previous: [Teeth and their care](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/) - next →: [Germs, hygiene and vaccines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)