COMMUNITY NUTRITION 3 (1+2)

Lesson 6 : Diet Survey

Purpose of Diet Survey

1. To assess, what people eat, qualitatively and quantitatively
2. To know the regional variation in the diet
3. To find out whether the existing dietary patterns are satisfactory or not.
4. To know the inadequacies in the existing dietary pattern.
5. To find out the association between diet and disease.
6. To formulate plans to improve the existing dietary patterns through final nutrition programmes at the national level.
7. To fix minimum wages and rations.