Food

Food is the basic material which the body need for its survival and well being Good food is indispensable for health at all stages of life and for satisfactory growth during infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

Human diet is not restricted to any special category of food. Man eats a variety of foods, of plant and animal origin as no single food provides us with all the nutrients that we need.

Primitive societies obtained food through hunting and gathering. But now great majority of people obtain food from cultivated plants & domestic animals Al­though some food is obtained from oceans and fresh waters, but the great ma­jority of food for human populations is obtained from traditional land-based agriculture of crops and livestock.