Healthy feeding and eating practices

Feeding or eating habit means everyday pattern of eating.

Healthy feeding practices include eating adequate diet, use foods in season, etc.

A healthy feeding habit results from choosing nutritious food in a conscious way.

Importance of Healthy Feeding Habit

Healthy feeding and eating practices will help you to achieve the following:

1. Healthy feeding and eating practices will make you look and feel better.
2. It will help you have a body that is better equipped to heal fast and properly when attacked by diseases than a poorly nourished one.
3. It will give you more energy.
4. It will help prevent diseases later in life.

Healthy Feeding and Eating Practices

Healthy feeding and eating practices include the following:

1. Eat adequate meals daily with plenty of water at the appropriate time.
2. Eat foods with plenty of green vegetables.
3. Do not eat too much or too little.
4. Eat food from all the classes of food.
5. Do not eat foods that contain too much sugar, salt and fats & oil.
6. Do not take soft drinks in place of food.
7. Use foods in season.

EVALUATION

1. Define healthy feeding habits.
2. Mention four importance of healthy feeding habits.
3. Outline five healthy feeding practices.