Assessment Of Nutritional Status And Dietary Intake Of Pre-School Children In An Urban Pocket

Abstract

Nutrition of preschool child is of paramount importance, because the foundation for life time health, strength and intellectual vitality is laid during that period1. The pre-school children constitute about 15% of the total population and account for 40% of the total deaths in India. This age group is notoriously fraught with the risk of protein energy malnutrition2. Keeping this in view the present study was carried out.