Abstract
One hundred fifty girls in the age group of 13-19 years were selected randomly from government schools of rural and urban area of district kurukshetra, Haryana and surveyed for their attitude towards food, knowledge and awareness about nutrition, behaviour and practices adopted to maintain nutritional status. Nutrition education was imparted to the subjects after assessing their basic nutrition knowledge. Nutrition education improved their awareness about nutrition and health significantly.
Highlights
Adolescent nutritional problem is common throughout the country
This necessitates a rudimentary knowledge of what constitutes a nutritious diet and how people can best meet their nutritional needs from available resources
Nutrition Knowledge: For adjudicating current level of nutrition understanding, a questionnaire comprising list of questions relating to calories, carbohydrates, proteins, macro and micro nutrients, attitude towards conservation of nutrients during preparation, during cooking and during storage, awareness about anaemia, beliefs related to food, fad and fallacies, food hygiene and sanitation was supplied to each subjects for filling before imparting nutrition education
Summary
Adolescent nutritional problem is common throughout the country. They have to happenstance a sequence of serious nutritional trials affecting their growth and development and their livelihood as adults. If adequate motivation is delivered, adolescents can embrace healthier diets and improve their nutritional health by changing their food and nutrition attitudes, knowledge and practices. Nutrition education is applied to emphasize specific nutrition-related practices or behaviours to change habits that contribute to poor health; this is done by crafting a stimulus for change among people, to initiate desirable food and nutrition behaviour for advancement and sentinel of good health. Keeping this in view, the present study has been expounded to understand the impact of nutrition education on knowledge, attitude, practices and beliefs of adolescent girls
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