Estimation of calorie consumption from high value food for school going girls: an agro-ecological and socio-economic analysis

The menace of malnutrition has been considered as the deadliest factor causing great hindrance towards ensuring a decent and secure livelihood.  Basically, the problem of malnutrition has got social, political, technical and motivational dimensions as well.  Education being the basic driving force for any economy and progress per se, the school going children need to be focused and attended comprehensively so that they can grow up themselves as healthy citizens having belligerent mind and body.  But unfortunately almost 80% of the school going children in India are suffering from deleterious impact of malnutrition leading to poor performance, malfunctioning, stunned growth, vulnerable to diseases, morbidity and so on.  Instantly, the entire exercise over the research text of child nutrition has confirmed that nutrition is basically a complex phenomena and cannot be managed in the single intervention.  It’s not bee a single chance factor either.  In this study, the nutrition has been conceived as a composite configuration of food intake, calorie intake, high value food intake, sanitation and total calorie intake.  It depicts that the predictor variables like age, training, family size, subsidiary income, parents education, crop yield etc. have become predominant factors in preparing a discernable difference between high and low level of nutrition status among the respondents.