What you'll learn

• Healthy feeding practices include e.g. - eat adequate diet, - use foods in season
• Healthy eating habits e.g. - washing hands before and after eating; - taking a small quantity of
• food at a time; - chewing food properly; - talking (if you have to) without food in the mouth
• Effect of unhealthy feeding practices e.g. marasmus, kwashiorkor, obesity, etc
• Effects of unhealthy eating habits e.g. - Stomach ache
• Food additives: uses, misuses and detection
• Food contaminants
• Harmful substances that should not be consumed e.g. banned additives, spoilt fruits, under-cooked food,
• etc
• Meaning of drug abuse
• Effects of drug abuse in the
• body