Community nutrition

Nutritional aspects to be focussed in the community

1. COMMUNITY NUTRITION Mrs. Madhurima.D Community Health Nursing Department Hindu Mission College of Nursing

2. DEFINITION - NUTRITION The process of taking in food and using it for growth, metabolism, and repair. The process of nourishing or being nourished, especially the process by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and for replacement of tissue …………… T heasurus medical dictionary

3. CLASSIFICATION OF ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS BY ORIGIN Foods of animal origin Foods of vegetable origin

4. CLASSIFICATION OF ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS BY CHEMICAL COMPOSITION Proteins Fats Carbohydrates Vitamins Minerals

5. CLASSIFICATION OF ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS BY PREDOMINANT FUNCTION Body building foods Energy giving foods Protective foods

6. CLASSIFICATION OF ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS( BY NUTRITIVE VALUE) Cereals Pulses Vegetables Nuts & oil seeds Fruits Animal foods Fats and oils Sugar and jaggery Condiments and spices Miscellaneous foods

7. CARBOHYDRATES Carbohydrates are simple sugar units All the foods we eat will turn in to the form of glucose Based on the number of glucose availability, they are divided into saccharides

8. CLASSIFICATION OF CARBOHYDRATES

9. PROTEINS Proteins are amino acids, used for body building.

10. FATS Fats and oils are concentrated sources of energy

11. WATER The normal requirement of water for a 50 kg adult contains about 3 – 5 litres

12. FIBRE Fibre  is a mixture of different carbohydrates which are not digested like other nutrients but pass through the gut nearly unchanged.

13. MICRO NUTRIENTS Vitamins are groups of related substances present in small amounts in foodstuffs and are necessary for the body to function normally

14. CLASSIFICATION OF VITAMINS

15. MINERALS

16. MAJOR NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS PROTEIN ENERGY MALNUTRITION ANEMIA VITAMIN A DEFECIENCY IODINE DEFECIENCY FLUROSIS OBESITY

17. PROTEIN ENERGY MALNUTRITION

18. ANAEMIA

19. VITAMIN A DEFECIENCY

20. IODINE DEFECIENCY

21. FLUROSIS

22. OBESITY

23. NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT

24. METHODS OF NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT Anthropometric measurements Biochemical evaluation Assessment of dietary intake Vital and health statistics

25. TAMIL NADU NOON MEAL PROGRAMME

26. CONCLUSION Health is wealth; a good health is attained by good nutrition. A good nutrition should contain all the essential components in required amounts.

27. BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS K.Park , Textbook Of Community Health, 2017 Jaypee bros, New Delhi 24 th edition, pg no 630 B.T. Basavanthappa , Text book of community health, 2005, Vijayam publishers, Bangalore, 3 rd edition, Pg no 430 I.Clement , Text book of community health, 2005, Vijayam publishers, Bangalore, 3 rd edition, Pg no 320 Kamalam Text book of community health, 2005, Jaypee publishers, Bangalore, 2rd edition, Pg no 430