Parents must educate their children in simple facts about nutrition and it is easier to do it when they eat with them. Poor eating habits, learned in youth, affect the incidence of many diseases later. While keeping a sharp eye on what your kids eat, do not forget that overeating is just as bad as undereating. Bouncing fat babies of today can be coronary patients 50 years hence. Sp let's be farsighted and bear in mind that the food our children eat now may influence their lives long after they have passed from our care.
Health is, without doubt, the best of our inheritances.
There is also a widespread and deep knowledge regarding the effect of food on the human body- both in health and disease and for special needs such as for growing children, pregnant women, lactating mothers etc. It is summed up that treatment comprises of the Three-food, behaviour and medication. The simple home remedies and food habits which have been passed on to us have an interesting relationship with the principles of indigenous systems of medicine.