Nutritional status of college girls of Faisalabad city

ABSTRACT

A nutrition assessment study was undertaken on 805 girls of 17-22 years age from the two local girls colleges of Fasisalabad city. Different nutritional status indicators i.e.anthropometric, biochemical and dietary, were used to evaluate the degree of malnutrition. The study revealed that the height, weight, skinfolds thickness, arm circumference values were significantly below the international standards. Haemoglopin content in 20% of the total randomly selected cases, total serum proteins and serum albumin in 45 randomly selected cases were found to be below the international standards in all groups. Nutrient contents id diet were found to be below the recommended allowances. Our results show that inadequate supply of food to the college girls and socio-economic system were mainly responsible for poor anthropometric indices and of high prevalence of anemia among those apparently health young girls