Food Nutrition - JSS2 Home economics Lesson Note

Food is necessary for life and good health. It contains nutrients which nourish the body. The nutritional state of an individual can protect him/her or predispose him/her to diseases. In other words, food is any solid or liquid material which when eaten and digested nourishes the body.

Nutrition refers to the way the body uses the food we eat. It is the sum of all the processes by which our bodies take in food nutrients for nourishment which carries out functions in our body.

Food nutrition is all about eating healthy or eating a proper balanced diet.