FOOD VALUES

Macronutrients

NUTRIENTS FOOD NEEDED IN ITS USES IN THE DISEASES CAUSED DISEASES

THE BODY BODY BY FOOD CAUSED BY TOO
DEFICIENCY MUCH FOOD

Protein Fish, meat, chicken, Enables growth and Kwashiorkor Type 2 diabetes
Body building food milk, eggs, cheese, repair of worn-out body
locusts, legumes tissues

Carbohydrates Potatoes, pasta, Provide energy needed Marasmus Type 2 diabetes

Energy giving food cassava, rice, bread by the body to do work

Fats Oil and margarine Provides warmth and Marasmus Heart diseases and
Warmth giving food energy stroke

Water Drinking water or eating Regulates temperatures Dehydration Water intoxicating

foods that contain water in all its cells and Constipation
organs. Transports
nutrients and removes
wastes.
Micronutrients

NUTRIENTS FOOD NEEDED IN ITS USES IN THE DISEASES CAUSED DISEASES

THE BODY BODY BY FOOD CAUSED BY TOO
DEFICIENCY MUCH FOOD

Vitamins Carrots, dark green Help the body to fight Night blindness
Protective Food vegetables (such as diseases (lacks Vitamin A)
spinach, cabbages and Beriberi
rape), liver, kidneys, (lacks Vitamin B1)
milk, fruits Pellagra Liver damage
(lacks Vitamin B3)
Scurvy
(lacks Vitamin C)
Rickets
(lacks Vitamin D)

Calcium Milk, bones Make bones and teeth Hypocalcaemia Osteoporosis

strong.

Potassium Vegetables Regulate fluid balance.

Controls muscle Anaemia Liver Disease
contractions and nerve
signals.

Iron Meat, squashes, nuts Helps in the production Anaemia/Goitre Goitre

of blood.

Iodine Iodised salt, sea foods Prevent goitre Goitre