Linking Nutrition Education to National Development through Gut Health and Mental Well-Being Outcomes

Abstract

While human beings may the conscious ability to provide their own foods, in terms of the nutritional values of these foods, they will need a measure of nutrition-education to gainfully benefit from the dietary values supplied to the body system through these foods. In a way    then, a greater population of Nigerians, either because they do not know the art of meal planning or how to preserve the essential microbial content of these foods, they do not wholly gain their maximum nutritional value. While they consume these foods on daily basis, the foods soon become toxic to their body. The consequence of this is that they constantly break down. Furthermore, there stems from this a huge decline in the production chain of the country as the nation’s development is tied to the well-being of its labour force. This study, content wise, claims that two essential aspects that nutrition education must step in to rescue the modern man are in the areas of the gut health and the mental well-being of the individual. The study is a content analysis of secondary works from which the researcher concludes that largely impactful on the nutritional values of food intake are the gut health condition of the individual and his mental stress.