NUTRITION, DIET INTAKE & PATTERNS FOLLOWED BY WOMEN: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Dietary patterns and nutritional intake of food is an emerging area of research work. Whereas the level of
nutrition is affected not only by food availability but also by sanitation such as access to safe drinking water and disease.
In addition, education can also play a vital role in improving nutritional intake and balance. The fundamental indicator
of good health depends upon the socio-economic conditions in which people live and the intake of food of different
varieties for example vegetables, fruits and animal fat. Present Literature review provides a range of dietary practices,
taste preferences, nutritional beliefs and knowledge, cultural practices and analysis a degree of traditional factors
associated with food consumption in the stereotype society. A secondary aim of this review is to investigate whereas the
dietary patterns are connected with risk factors for nutrition-related diseases. The review was carried out various
research papers, articles, reports based on food patterns & nutrition intake among women. Present study brings close
findings that most of the Indian women population are vegetarian believers and this section neglect most of the nutrition
items such as (fruits, nuts and animal food) which results in poor diet intake, followed to Recommended Daily Allowance
(RDA) standards. However, there are limited studies which explore the relationship of cultural beliefs & nutritional
dietary patterns followed by women. Secondly, most of the studies are on pregnant women diet consumption patterns but
studies on another age group of the women sections are less