Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

You are what you eat

Most of us don’t think about food until we start feeling hungry, but eating is essential to life. Every creature must eat and be nourished to stay alive. To talk about food and eating is to talk about one of the more commonplace subjects we

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