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R. S. Balgir ¹, A. S. Kerketta ¹, B. Murmu ¹, B. P. Dash ¹

Affiliations
1 Division of Human Genetics, Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, IN

Abstract

The school-going children are the most important segment of the society. Good nutrition of the children is an indispensable component of healthy life. It is also a determinant of healthy growth of mind and body. The tribal people in India have their own life styles, food habits, beliefs, traditions, socio-cultural and biological activities. Lack of proper health education, poverty, faulty feeding habits and irrational beliefs aggravate the health and nutritional status of these under privileged children in India.

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A. Mohapatra ¹, J. J. B. Geddam ¹, N. Marai ¹, G. Mallick ¹, B. Murmu ¹, A. S. Acharya ¹, G. Bulliyya ¹, K. Satyanarayana ¹

Affiliations
1 Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar - 751023, IN

Abstract

In tropical countries, adult malnutrition has received much less attention than that of the children. The prevalence of adult undernutrition has been high in poor socio-economic groups and continues to be an important public health problem in India. Studies have shown that parents often sacrifice their own feeding in times of serious food shortage in favour of young children. The nutritional and health status of the women both in expectant and nursing mothers have been recognised as important vulnerable phases since pregnancy and child-birth become associated with high risk and need additional nutrients. Ill effects of malnutrition during pregnancy, child births and thereafter (peri-and neo-natal mortality and low-birth weight) are well recognized.

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R. S. Balgir ¹, B. Murmu ¹, B. P. Dash ¹

Affiliations
1 Division of Human Genetics, Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, IN

Abstract

The nature of physical growth and development of children depends primarily upon the genetic endowments, nutritional status, psycho-social environment and surrounding physical environmental conditions. Good nutrition is an indispensable component of healthy life. It is a determinant of healthy growth of mind and body. It plays a vital role in the physical, mental and emotional development of a child. School going children are the most important segment of the society which is vulnerable to retardation in growth as a result of malnutrition and undernutrition. The problems get compounded due to ignorance and poverty of the parents. When the children grow rapidly, they need the best food and care.

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R. S. Balgir ¹, B. Murmu ¹, B. P. Dash ¹

Affiliations
1 Division of Human Genetics, Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, IN

Abstract

Human nutritional aisorders have become a widespread public health problem among the under-privileged communities in many parts of the world, especially in the under-developed or developing countries including India. The inciaence of anemia and under-nutrition in many parts of India including the other developing countries of the world is as high as that of industrialised parts of the world.

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