Food is the most basic prerequisite of living organisms. Food builds, provides energy for living and working, and regulates the mechanisms essential for health and survival of life.
Food thus constitutes the foundation of health of humans and animals.
Human health is a function not only of medical care but of the overall integrated development of society – cultural economic, educational, social and political. It also depends in a number of supportive services, nutrition, improvement in environment and health education.
Food being the basic vehicle of satisfying man’s hunger, it is intimately woven into the physical economic, psychological, intellectual and social life of human beings.Our food has several dimensions, the most obvious being the quantitative one. Insufficiency of food leads progressively from mild discomfort to severe hunger and ultimately to death.
Its qualitative dimension is equally important, because low quality or improper diets lead to malnutrition and disease.
Food affects health life spam, physical fitness, body size and meal development. Food also has a cultural dimension.
The food habits of people are part of their cultural and emotional life, and preferences for foods are ingrained.
People may cling for generations to their food habits, which may become rituals and patterns of daily routine life.
A satisfying meal soothes both the body and mind and determine s quality of human life.
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