Vol. 3, Issue 5, Part D (2017)

Abstract
For centuries man has known that there are direct casual relationships between nutrition and disease. Nutrition is very essential part in our daily life and it is directly correlated with diet, health and diseases. Nutritional status is a condition of an individual as influenced by nutrient in taste and its utilization in the body. Assessment of nutritional status in population is useful to analyse growth pattern and entity sign and symptoms associated with malnutrition or excessive nutritional intake. The main objective of the nutritional survey is to obtain precise information on the prevalence and geographic distribution of nutritional problem of given community and identification of individuals or population group at risk or in greatest need of assistance.