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What you eat effects your health. I'm sure we all know that. They effect your mental and physical health. By eating healthy and doing physical activity, you can lose weight and become stronger. It is so important to eat healthy so you don't start contracting heart disease's and don't become at risk to strokes and heart attacks. To live a healthy lifestyle, you need to have a good balance between healthy food choices and good exercise choices. Here is an example of a healthy life style choice:

Breakfast: wholemeal toast with butter and peanut butter, and a piece of fruit

Lunch: Glass of Water, Avocado and egg sandwich

Snack: Fruit, Vegetable sticks and hummus

Dinner: Fried rice

Just because you eat healthy doesn't mean that you have to go off takeaways all together. I mean you can if you want but we are saying that you just need to have them occasionally or like special treats. Another way you can make healthy choices is by choosing fruit over lollies/candy. Fruit is still sweet and there is so many different choices that you could have.

What are the benefits of the vitamins in our smoothie/meal ?

Vitamin D: This vitamin can be produced by exposure to the sun. You can also get this vitamin by eating certain foods. Vitamin D helps to maintain your teeth and bone strength, helps to strengthen and support your immune and nervous system and can also help your brain and it helps diabetes management as well as other things.

Vitamin B-12: This vitamin helps with red blood cell formation. It can also help prevent Anemia. While you are pregnant this vitamin is crucial to healthy growth for your baby. This vitamin may also be able to improve your mood and any signs/symptoms of depression.

Magnesium: This vitamin is very good for your bones. It helps strengthen them. Magnesium is very good for your health and is also good for diabetes and can help prevent migraine headaches.

Zinc: Zinc can help your nutrition and is also good for peoples diet, it develops organs and brain. It makes you grow and be healthy

Calcium: Though lots of vitamins are good for bone growth/strength calcium is one of the more important ones. Calcium strengthens and supports bone growth and it also help major organs such as the heart and lungs function properly.

Folate: Folate is a B vitamin and it makes your blood cells white and red. This vitamin is very important during many periods of growth in your life.