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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2018 , Volume 6, Issue 6
Page No. : 1238-1242
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.7275
Food and Nutrition Behaviour of Women Police of Hubli Dharwad
Muragod, P. P.* and Chimmad, B. V.
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Rural Home Science,
University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: pakeerammapm91@gmail.com
Received: 22.10.2018 | Revised: 30.11.2018 | Accepted: 10.12.2018
ABSTRACT
Nutrition is one of the key factors which help an individual to attain one’s full potential as an adult and it depends to a great extent on the quantity and quality of food. An investigation was carried out during 2013-2014 at UAS Dharwad, Karnataka. To assess the food behaviour and diet quality of 90 women police working in technical cadres of police department of Hubbali-Dharwad. It was observed that nutrient adequacy of women police varied for energy (81 to 157%), protein (55.66- 96.54%), fat (109.85- 379.60%), thiamine (96.00 to 211.00%) and magnesium (31.20-298.49%) contents of diets rest of the nutrient contents were lower than the RDA. Police women consumed a diet that of fair quality (54.45%), followed by good (22.22%) and poor (18.89%) qualities. Only 4.44 per cent women police consumed a diet of very good quality.
Key words: Nutrition behaviour, Diet quality, RDA, Nutrient adequacy.
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Cite this article:
Muragod, P.P. and Chimmad, B.V., Food and Nutrition Behaviour of Women Police of Hubli Dharwad, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci. 6(6): 1238-1242 (2018). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.7275
