Food and nutrition behaviour of women in Hubli-Dharwad
Keywords:
Nutrition behaviour, diet quality, RDA, nutrient adequacyAbstract
Nutrition, as one of the key factors that help an individual to attain one’s full potential as an adult, depends to a great extent on the quantity and quality of food. The investigation, to assess the food behaviour and diet quality of women police personnels working in technical cadres of police department of Hubbali-Dharwad, was carried out during 2013-2014. The nutrient adequacy of women police varied for energy (81 to 157%), protein (55.66-96.54%), fat (109.85-379.60%), thiamine (96.00 to 211.00%) and magnesium (31.20-298.49%). The rest of the nutrient contents were lower than the RDA. More than 50 per cent of police women consumed fair quality diets (54.45%) followed by good (22.22%) and poor (18.89%) qualities. Only 4.44 per cent women police consumed very good quality diet.
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