AWARENESS ABOUT HEALTH AND NUTRITION IN RURAL WOMEN

Food plays a vital role in providing nutrition to the body. Preparing food and feed for all the family members is an important job for rural women. Thus, the study was conducted to assess the present awareness of rural women about some selected areas of health and nutrition. Data was collected by personal interview. It was found that rural women were very less aware of health and nutrition. Very few rural women are aware of a balanced diet, functions of food, food groups, safe drinking water, immunisation and awareness about iron deficient disease anaemia. The study implies that the information on certain nutritional aspects could be spread to increase awareness about human nutrition among rural women for their wellbeing