Nutritional Trends in Family and Community Studies
Contents: Preface. 1. An awareness of dietary practices, hygiene, morbidity pattern and superstitious beliefs among tribal children/Sunita Mishra. 2. A study on traditional foods, and beliefs system relating to health and nutrition prevailed among the Adivasi Community of Kalahandi district, Orissa/Sarojini Padhan and Sunita Mishra. 3. Inter-generational study on socio cultural aspect of food/Geeta Mathur. 4. Hypoglycemic effect of selected green leaves on non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus/Laxmi Singh and Sunita Mishra. 5. The role of health dietary intake for prevention of non-communicable diseases among working women/Meera Singh, R.K. Verma and Arvind Kumar Vaish. 6. Importance of nutrition education in pregnancy and lactation/Anita Singh. 7. Evaluation of the impact of nutrition education on nutrition related knowledge and practices of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients/Roli Agrawal, Sunita Mishra and Sweta Rai. 8. Religious fasting and its effect on health of women in society (urban and rural)/Richa Singh and Sunita Mishra. 9. Effect of flaxseed among arthritis patients/Preeti Chhabra and Shipa Thakur. 10. Chywanprash : one of the commercial Aonla product and its nutritional values in relation to human health/Priyamvada Sonkar, R.B. Ram, S.K. Chaturvedi, Rubee Lata and Divya Maurya. 11. Role of fruits and vegetables in human diet, consequences of deficiency and sources of essential nutrients/R.B. Ram, Rubee Lata and M.L. Meena. 12. Spices and health care/Rubee Lata, R.B. Ram, Deepa H. Dwivedi and M.L. Meena. 13. Livelihood security of women through fruit preservation/Alka Singh and Anju Singh. 14. Consumption of energy by preschool children in Varanasi/Vinita Singh and Anita Singh. 15. Growing use of fast food among school going children of Lucknow city and its impact on their health/Devina Sahai, Meera Singh and Nidhi Tripathi. 16. Healing action of antioxidants rich food on our health/Sunita Mishra. 17. Effectiveness of herbal dietary supplements on influenza/Amita Bhargava, Garima Tyagi and Rhea Bhargava. 18. Nutrition related knowledge of adolescent girls/N. Singh and C.P. Mishra. 19. Cancer : nutritionists point of view/Amita Bhargava and Rhea Bhargava. 20. Dietary intake and their practices of reproductive age group (15-49 years) women in Varanasi city/Neetu Singh and Archana Chakravarty.
A National Conference on Traditional and Contemporary Trends in Family and Community Studies was organized by School for Home Sciences, Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, in November, 2009. The proceedings of the conference are published here in the form of an edited book entitled Nutritional Trends in Family and Community Studies. The participants in the conference included leading academicians and scientists from all over the country who could speak on the subject of their choice, with firsthand knowledge and experience.
The aim of the national conference was to coordinate and present available empirical data, to bring together people from home science, family studies, nutrition and allied researches to discuss the programmes for achieving ways and means to improve the study of this theme by suggesting specific programmes, action plans and intervention programmes.
The choice of subject and speaker was mainly governed by taking into consideration all the five branches of family and community sciences i.e., food and nutrition, human development and family studies, clothing and textile, family resource management and extension education as their many important resources presented.
This publication will serve as a very useful handy reference tool on nutritional trends in family and community studies. (jacket)
A National Conference on Traditional and Contemporary Trends in Family and Community Studies was organized by School for Home Sciences, Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, in November, 2009. The proceedings of the conference are published here in the form of an edited book entitled Nutritional Trends in Family and Community Studies. The participants in the conference included leading academicians and scientists from all over the country who could speak on the subject of their choice, with firsthand knowledge and experience.
The aim of the national conference was to coordinate and present available empirical data, to bring together people from home science, family studies, nutrition and allied researches to discuss the programmes for achieving ways and means to improve the study of this theme by suggesting specific programmes, action plans and intervention programmes.
The choice of subject and speaker was mainly governed by taking into consideration all the five branches of family and community sciences i.e., food and nutrition, human development and family studies, clothing and textile, family resource management and extension education as their many important resources presented.
This publication will serve as a very useful handy reference tool on nutritional trends in family and community studies. (jacket)
