Rajammal P. Devadas ¹, T. M. Usha ¹, L. Sankari ¹, R. S. Rajalakshmi ¹, Geetha Patrath ¹, Mangala Babtiwale ¹

Affiliations
1 Sri Avinashilingam Home Science College, Coimbatore, IN

Abstract

Nutrition is one of the major factors responsible for the maintenance of health and physical fitness of man. Diet and nutrition surveys so for carried out in India have revealed that the diets consumed by a large majority of the population are based mainly on cereals and contain negligibile quantities of protective and protein rich foods.

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Godavari Kamalanathan ¹, L. Sankari ¹, Rajammal P. Devadas ¹

Affiliations
1 Sri Avinashilingam Home Science College, Coimbatore, IN

Abstract

Diets based predominantly on rice and containing only small amounts of milk and other protective foods are being consumed by a vast majority of the population in different parts of India.' Aykroyd and Krishnan^ showed in experiments with albino rats that poor Indian rice diets are deficient in calcium, vitamin A, certain vitamins of the B complex group and proteins.

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