Healthy feeding and eating practices - JSS1 Home Economics Lesson Note

Healthy feeding habit is defined as patterns of good consumption that would lead to optimum health and maintain quality life. Meals consisting of all food groups and providing the essential nutrients in the right proportion must be consumed.

Feeding or eating habits are your everyday patterns of eating. Some feeding habits developed when you are very young while other habits are also influenced by friends, neighbours and lifestyle. 

Unhealthy eating habits results from poor selection and irregular consumption of inadequate foods over a period of time. The effect becomes prominent on the persons health.