(EFC) Intellectual Factors Lesson
Intellectual Factors
Nutrition education is very important in the life of every human being. Education efforts that help individuals and families make healthy food choices are clearly an important part of our overall health, and can make a big difference for families with young children all the way to our senior citizens. Our knowledge of health benefits and risks are also a factor in food choices.
You are likely to make healthy food choices if you have knowledge and education about nutrients in different food. Knowledge about healthy eating will always inspire you to make healthy dietary choices. People know that fruits and veggies are healthy, but they just do not know how they can increase fruit and vegetable consumption in an affordable way. Similarly, the loss of cooking skills may also influence food choices people make. Lack of skills in preparing foods influences what individuals eat.
Think about what would happen to you if you do not eat the right kinds of food over a long period or if you do not know how to cook your food well to get the necessary nutrients. Can you imagine what you would look like?
Nutrition education would help you make many wise decisions about food. For example, what type to eat, when to eat, how many times you would eat a day and what combinations of food provide a healthy diet. Education also gives you consumer information which would help you to buy food wisely from the market place. It also provides you with the relevant skills needed to prepare your food well. In short, education helps you to make informed food choices which will provide the necessary nutrients for a healthy body. Education helps you to form certain food habits and change others. For example, education can make you decide to eat fruits at every meal because of your knowledge about their nutritional benefits. Education can also make you decide not to eat certain foods because of their harmful effect on your body.
Education, especially when it comes to education of health sciences and food choices, is an important way to learn about healthy diets and caring for your body.
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