Part 5: Read the passage and answer the following questions by choosing A, B, C or D. Aside from just eating food to get energy, you also eat to get vitamins and minerals. Vitamins and minerals don't provide energy; they help your body run properly. Each vitamin or mineral helps your body in different ways. The vitamins are: A, B, C, D, E, and K. Vitamin A helps your eyes and immune system. Vitamin B, actually a group of vitamins, helps your body to get the energy out of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. They also help with growth and making healthy blood. If you see Thiamin, Niacin, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, and B12 on a food label, these are the B vitamins. Vitamin C helps protect your cells, makes healthy fats in your skin, and gives your immune system a boost. Vitamin D helps your body absorb the calcium you need for your bones and teeth. You actually get this one from the sun, too. Vitamin E helps protect your cells. Vitamin K helps your blood and bones. There are a lot of minerals, but the main ones your body needs are: Calcium, Copper, lodine, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorous, Potassium, Selenium, Sodium and Zinc. You won't see all of these on every food label, but you might see a lot of them on your cereal boxes. Minerals generally help your body run correctly. They help your glands, organs, and bodywork at its best. They support your immune system, help to regulate your body's functions like breathing, growing, your heart rate, and energy production, and do many other things. It is important to eat a variety of foods to get all of the vitamins and minerals. This includes foods like: vegetables, beans, fruit, grains, proteins, and dairy. Each food gives you a little of what you need. If you don't have a well - rounded diet, you might not be getting all of what you need. Children's vitamins can help, but getting vitamins and minerals from foods is the best way to get essential nutrients! 1. According to writer, A. eating food helps you get both energy and vitamins and minerals B. vitamins and minerals provide lots of energy C. vitamins and minerals don't help your body run properly D. each vitamin or mineral helps your body in similar ways 2. Vitamin B helps A. your eyes and immune system B. your body to get the energy out of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins C. protect your cells, makes healthy fats in your skin, and gives your immune system a boost D. your body absorb the calcium you need for your bones and teeth 3. Calcium, Copper, Iodine, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorous, Potassium, Selenium, Sodium and Zinc help A. your body absorb the calcium you need for your bones and teeth B.your eyes and immune system. Vitamin B, actually a group of vitamins, helps your body to get the energy out of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins C. support your immune system, help to regulate your body's functions like breathing, growing your heart rate, and energy production, and do many other things D. protect your cells, your blood and bones 4. Eating a variety of foods to get all of the vitamins and minerals is A. depending B. unnecessary C. important D.unimportant 5. The best way to get essential nutrients is A. from foods B. from children's vitamins C. from junk food D. from unhealthy food