WHAT IS FOOD FOR MAN

     Human beings can eat virtually anything ranging from mammary(milk) secretions to minerals of the earth crust, including  fruits, flowers, seeds, stalks, leaves, seaweeds,roots,fungus,eggs of birds and fishes even to dead bodies of variety of animals.

All of these processed to a greater or  lesser degree,provide food for million of people out there at different market places. However, all of these  are not fit for human consumption because of health implications. The essence of food is to nourish our body and to prevent disease as a result there is the need to plan what we take in as food at any point in time.

Right from creation, God have given us the right to take every living thing around us as food but we still need to mind the way these foods are being taken into our body system to avoid their detrimental or negative impact on us. On daily bases the decisions we take concerning our eating habit determine how healthy we are at the end of the day, so the need to be very ,careful and mindful of what we consume as food becomes very very indispensable.In our next blog,we shall attempt to mention some of these food items,their composition nutrient value to human health.