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烹饪方式英语作文 篇一： Food is important to health at all stages of life. Healthy diets help children grow, develop and do well in school. They enable people of all ages to work productively and feel their best. Healthy food also can help to reduce the risk for chronic diseases, such as heart disease, certain cancers, diabetes and stroke, which are leading causes of death and disability. Foods contain nutrients . These nutrients are essential because the body cannot make them and must obtain them from food. Essential nutrients include vitamins, minerals, certain amino acids and certain fatty acids. Foods also contain other components such as fiber that are important for health. No single food can supply all nutrients in the amounts people need. For example, oranges provide vitamin C but no vitamin B12; cheese provides vitamin B12 but no vitamin C. So people should eat different foods to maintain the balance of nutrients. The carbohydrates , fats and proteins in food supply energy, which is measured in calories . Foods that are high in fat are also high in calories. Calorie needs vary by age and level of activity. Many older adults need less food, in part due to decreased activity. People who are trying to lose weight need to select more nutrient-dense foods in order to meet their nutrient and calorie needs. New research says thirty-five percent of all child deaths worldwide are caused by under nutrition —hunger. The Lancet, the British medical magazine, just published a series of five studies. The answer, they suggest, is greater investment in nutritional services and improvements to health systems. Robert Black from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland is the lead author of the series. He says more than two million children die from underdevelopment, either before or after birth, or from starvation because of lack of food. Millions of others who survive face a life-ti