The document discusses guidelines for selecting nutritious foods using food groups like go, glow, and grow foods. Go foods provide energy, grow foods help build strong muscles and bones, and glow foods increase resistance to disease. Examples of each food group are given. Malnutrition is defined as an unhealthy condition from not eating enough healthy food and can result in underweight or overweight children. A balanced diet with proteins, vegetables, and fruits is recommended for health.

1. Guides in Selecting
Nutritious Food

2. Food groups and the food pyramid
are guides to help you choose the right
and amounts of food to eat.

4. Nutrition experts have grouped
and identified foods as go, glow, and
grow foods.

5. 1. Energy- giving food or go food. These are
the foods that give the body energy for work
and play.
Examples: rice, bread, oatmeal, root crops such
as potato, sweet potato (kamote), cassava, taro

7. 2. Body- building food or grow food. These
are the foods that make children grow and help
build strong muscles and bones.
Examples: meat, poultry, fish, eggs, milk,
seafood, legumes, beans

9. 3. Regulating food or glow food. These foods
increase the body resistance to diseases and
infections.
Examples: green leafy vegetables such as
malunggay, saluyot, kangkong, camote tops;
yellow vegetables such as carrots, squash; fresh
fruits and juice.

10. Regulating Foods

12. Malnutrition is the unhealthy
condition that results from not eating
enough food, especially healthy food.

14. Underweight Child
(malnourished)
Healthy Child Overweight Child
(malnourished)
Lack of food, thin child,
poor, and eats only rice
with soy sauce and instant
noodles
Eats a balanced meal
of fish or meat,
vegetables, and fruits
Eats too much food, especially
fatty foods, such as processed
meats, fast food, and
carbonated drinks

15. overweight child
healthy child
underweight child

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