Abstract: Physical fitness and maintenance of sound health of an individual is directly related to the condition of nutrition. Appropriate nutrition helps man to maintain health and stay fit whereas inadequate nutrition decreases fitness and causes vulnerability to diseases. Constant undernourishment continues to exist widely, especially among women of different age group, because they are trapped in the sequence of poverty, inadequate nutritious food intake and illnesses. Finally, a women health affects the entire household and disturbs economic aspects of the family. A woman with deprived wellbeing will also be less productive in the labour market.
Frequency of anemia in developing countries is high and its occurrence is attributed to deficiency of iron. The nutritional deficiencies prevail more among the low income group. Anemia is very common in India particularly in the women of poor economic section of the country. The tribal women from Gondi Nagar are also lacking behind in decision making policy. The reason can be stated as lack of education as most of them only got the primary education, due to patriarchal society system. Women folk are least cared in terms of consumption and they were not allowed to work outside. They are believed to stay at home looking after the children and do all types of household works except a few. Moreover there is a lack of interaction with outside community so there is no sharing of ideas or knowledge and the male member whoever is working outside never used to talk to them about the different aspect of nutrition requirement in the body. The women lack awareness about the nutrition level which they can receive from different vegetables. Hence the present study on nutrition deprivation among the Gond tribal women resided in Gondi Nagar, Coimbatore district was carried out and the results were highlighted in the article.
Keywords: Deficiency, Malnutrition, Nutritional food.
Title: A STUDY ON NUTRITION DEPRIVATION AMONG THE GOND TRIBAL WOMEN IN COIMBATORE DISTRICT
Author: Maumita Goswami, Dr.M.Nagalingam
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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