Fat

Fats are foods which store energy in case you need it later. Everybody needs some fat in their food or they will starve to death. Some foods which have a lot of fat in them are olive oil, nuts, meat, and butter and cheese.

To find out more about fats, check out this book from Amazon.com or from your library:

Nutrition: What's in the Food We Eat, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and William Munoz (1992). For kids.

Olive oil
Meat
Cheese

Carbohydrates
Proteins
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