Real diet and nutritional status of children and women in the reproductive age as household economic level

ABSTRACT

To investigate the real diet and nutritional status of children and women in the reproductive ages as household economic level in Cua dong precinct and communes in Ha Tay, Yen bai, Thanh hoa, Khanh hoa and Tien giang provinces. The results showed that the consumption of animal food was increasingly as increase of economic level. The diet’s average energy of the poor, normal and quite economy level were1705 Kcal, 1969 Kcal and 2254 Kcal, respectively. The malnutrional rate in the households with the quite economic level was mainly high. The overweight rate was increasingly.