Nutritional Awareness amongst the Adolescents and Their Parents in India

Abstract

In today’s world of hustle bustle, the life is quite occupied apart from just living it by good and healthy way, studying the awareness level in the society, especially in that segment of population where parents of the adolescents and the teenagers themselves, about the nutritional requirement by their body, to fulfill the demand to stay healthy, in terms of physical and psychological state in present and in future as well. Allowing the lifestyle in this regard, irrespective of other factors contributing towards life and giving preference to the healthy eating habits by including the nutritional foods in daily diets of the teenagers of our family and on the other hand teenagers also making it sure that they follow the guidelines about their nutritional requirements in the respective resources of information. This feedback from various targeted respondents was collected with the help of the survey questionnaire. It was circulated amongst mixed samples of students and parents from different places across the state of Maharashtra.

Keywords: Nutrition, Awareness, Adolescent, Malnutrition, Childhood, Adulthood

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