HABITUAL DIETS AND THEIR ADEQUACY AMONG FARM WOMEN OF TUMAKURU DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA STATE
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2017-09-12
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
Habitual diet is a vital determinant of health and nutritional status of people
in a region. The present study focuses on the habitual dietary pattern of the farm
women. The investigation was performed on 300 farm women of Tumakuru district
who were selected randomly in the age group of 20-60 years. A detailed schedule
was formulated and used to elicit the information on various aspects related to the
assessment of habitual dietary pattern. The study results revealed that majority of
the farm women were non-vegetarians and followed three meal pattern a day. Food
frequency revealed that the majority of farm women were consuming cereal and
millet in their daily diet. The habitual dietary pattern of the farm women was rice
and finger millet based foods. Finger millet was one of the staple food of the farm
women and finger millet based food items acquired major part in the farm women
daily diet. The intake of protective foods like green leafy vegetables, other
vegetables, milk and fruits was quite low in the diets of farm women. The mean per
cent adequacy of the farm women for cereal was 117 per cent. Whereas, the
adequacy for pulses, milk and milk products, roots and tubers, green leafy
vegetables, other vegetable, fruits, sugar and fat was 79, 75, 61, 53, 42, 24, 64 and
75% respectively, which were found to be below the RDA. The mean nutrient
intake of energy (1929 Kcal), protein (39.55 g), fat (19.56 g), iron (14.50 mg), b-
carotene (1954 μg) and vitamin C (24.93 mg) were below the RDA except calcium
(849.67 mg) among the farm women. Hence, farm women diets were inadequate
with respect to nutrients, particularly vitamin A, iron and vitamin C.
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