The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Dietary Survey of Rural Rajput Children


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1 Department of Biolgical Anthropology, New Museum Site Pembroke Street, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, United Kingdom
     

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Food is the instrument of nourishment; nutrition is tlie act of using it. Diet and nutrition are not synonymous although they are popularly usea in that fashion. While diet consists of various articles of food which are ingested and converted for use in the body for building up and maintaining it in a vital condition, nutrition is the sum of the processes by which an organism is nourished by absorbing substances and assimilating them.
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Anita Saxena
Department of Biolgical Anthropology, New Museum Site Pembroke Street, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, United Kingdom

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Food is the instrument of nourishment; nutrition is tlie act of using it. Diet and nutrition are not synonymous although they are popularly usea in that fashion. While diet consists of various articles of food which are ingested and converted for use in the body for building up and maintaining it in a vital condition, nutrition is the sum of the processes by which an organism is nourished by absorbing substances and assimilating them.