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K. Anooja Thomas ¹, P. Lincy ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science, CMS College, Kottayam, IN

Abstract

A community based study in Kerala funded by World Health Organization reported hypercholesterolemia in 54.1 percent.The present study aimed to investigate the nutritional profile and life style behaviour of selected mild hypercholesterolemia adults.Two hundred adults irrespective of sex were randomly selected from Kottayam district kerala.Information on economic background,anthropometric mesurements, diet history, life style habit and medical history of the subjects were collected using an interview schedule. All the subjects were screened for total cholestrol to select mild hypercholestrolemic patients. Data collected were consoildated and tabulated. Among the two hundred subjects 20 subjectas were found to be mild hypercholestrolemic. All the selected subjects were doing moderate workonly. Twelve of the selected subjects were overweight followed by eight normal. Moderate working habit, lack of physical activity and faulty food habit were found to be the main reason for hypercholestrolemic. Supplementation and nutrition education are the strategies to correct mild hypercholestrolemic.

Keywords

Adults, Hypercholesterolemia, Mild Hypercholesterolemic.

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G. Vasanthamani ¹, P. Lincy ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, IN

Abstract

Adolescence is one of the most exciting yet challenging periods in human development.Adolescents aged between 10 to 19 years account for more than 1/6^th of World's population and 22 per cent of the Indian population, ie, 230 million Indians are adolescents in the age group of 10 to 19 years'. Iron requirements are increased during adolescence for the deposition of lean body mass, increase in red cells volume and to support iron lost during menstruation among females. Increased needs for iron, combined with low in take of dietary iron, places adolescent females at risk for iron deficiency and anaemia.

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