Geographical analysis

Abstract

Abstract Nutrition is the foremost factor of all the basic factors essential for a healthy life. The inadequacy of Nutrition in the human body can result from inadequate quantity or quality of food consumed. The qualitative deficiency generates hunger and calorie deficiency. When the food consumed is inadequate to mitigate the hunger, it essentially fails to provide all the required nutrients. In such a situation, it is not the under nutrition, but the malnutrition poses the biggest public health problem especially in the vulnerable groups of the society. Hence in the present study an attempt is made to study the existing availability of Nutrients and the levels of consumption in scheduled caste population of Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh state, India.

Keywords: Nutrition availability, Nutritional standards, Scheduled caste population, Kurnool District.