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University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru

University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, a premier institution of agricultural education and research in the country, began as a small agricultural research farm in 1899 on 30 acres of land donated by Her Excellency Maharani Kempa Nanjammanni Vani Vilasa Sannidhiyavaru, the Regent of Mysore and appointed Dr. Lehmann, German Scientist to initiate research on soil crop response with a Laboratory in the Directorate of Agriculture. Later under the initiative of the Dewan of Mysore Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah, the Mysore Agriculture Residential School was established in 1913 at Hebbal which offered Licentiate in Agriculture and later offered a diploma programme in agriculture during 1920. The School was upgraded to Agriculture Collegein 1946 which offered four year degree programs in Agriculture. The Government of Mysore headed by Sri. S. Nijalingappa, the then Chief Minister, established the University of Agricultural Sciences on the pattern of Land Grant College system of USA and the University of Agricultural Sciences Act No. 22 was passed in Legislative Assembly in 1963. Dr. Zakir Hussain, the Vice President of India inaugurated the University on 21st August 1964.

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Subject: Food and Nutrition × Author: BHAVANA, A. × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2019 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF GERIATRIC SUBJECTS LIVING IN OLDAGE INSTITUTIONS
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BANGALORE, 2019-08-08) BHAVANA, A.; JAMUNA, Dr.; K. V.
    The study aimed at assessing the nutritional status of geriatric subjects living in oldage institutions in the age group of 60-100 years who were selected from the three different old age institutions located in Bangalore. The results revealed that the majority of the geriatric subjects both females (79.36%) and males (54.05%) had no source of income. BMI classification showed that, underweight was most prevalent both in females (66.66%) and males (54.05%) respectively. The different tools used to assess nutritional status gave diversified results when compared with BMI. As per the scores of MNA tool males (70.27%) were predominantly assessed to be ‘at risk of malnourishment’. MUST tool based unplanned weight loss and BMI indicated that majority of the females were at low risk of malnourishment (55.55%) and males were at medium risk of malnourishment (51.35%). DII is an assessment which is purely based on the diet and takes no bodily measurements into consideration determined that all the subjects had a good quality of dietary intake. Training programme was conducted on nutritional education. Brown rice kichidi mix was developed providing 1/4th of RDA was given for acceptance. The product was well accepted. Malnutrition assessment tools like MNA, MUST and DII are found to provide efficient and accurate analyses of malnourishment and BMI is one of the part of the assessment tools. Hence, it is best to use the different tools rather than using BMI to assess their nutritional status.