Shakuntala Punia ¹, Sudha Chhikara ¹, Santosh Sangwan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Child Development, COHS, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125004, IN

Abstract

In developing countries of the world, malnutrition makes its impact principally on young children, because childhood is a period of rapid growth when nutritional needs are very high. Feeding especially in the early years of life has a life long effect since varying degrees of growth retardation has been observed in infants and children because of undernutrition and malnutrition.

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Santosh Sangwan ¹, Sudha Chhikara ¹, Shakunatala Punia ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Child Development, College of Home Science, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Nutrition plays a very important role in the physical, mental and emotional development of a child. The infants and preschool children are most vulnerable to retardation in growth as a result of malnutrition and under-nutrition. The problems get compounded, due to the ignorance and poverty of most of the parents, when they grow rapidly and need the best food and care. This study is an effort to analyse the factors affecting the nutritional status of selected rural infants in Haryana.

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