Food helps you grow, makes you strong, and helps you stay healthy. Food gives you energy that you need to work and play. Some foods taste good, but do not help us stay healthy. It is all right to eat these foods sometimes, but the other foods are more healthy for us.

    Nutrients are found in food. There are six groups of nutrients:

carbohydrates	vitamins
fats	minerals
proteins	water

Each nutrient provides something important. Most foods provide more than one nutrient.

    A balanced diet includes foods from each food level with more servings from the bottom of the food pyramid.

Let’s meet Benny Good Sport and learn more about the food pyramid.

To learn more about the foods you like to eat, let's go on the 5 A Day Fun and Adventures.

Be sure to explore the entire site:
*Meet your fruit and vegetable friends.

*Explorer Zone-go on an exciting adventure with Amber Orange, Barney Broccoli and other friends.

*Go to the Fruit and Vegetables Encyclopedia.

*Visit the 5 A Day Puzzle Chest

*Take the 5 A Day Challenge

* Print out your favorite 5 A Day Coloring Pages
 

It is now time to take a rest from your climb to complete Stop #2.

Sit down,
take your backpack off ,
get your pencil out,
have a drink of water
and complete

You are now ready for stop #3.