Health & Nutritionalstatus of Indian College Girls –Urban and RURAL Conglomeration

Undernourishment of women is a development-related problem in Third World countries. Poor nutritional status of women leading to 1.1 billion days of illness a year (World Bank, 2002) Vitamin- A deficiency,  susceptibility to respiratory diseases and diarrhea (World Bank, 2002), Iron deficiency and anemia ,increased death rate, low-birth weight, impaired growth and retarded cognitive development, low work capacity and low productivity (ACCN/SCN, 2002) are the outcome of it .

West Bengal (23^oN and 87^oE), an Indian state, covers 2.89% percent land area constituting 8% of India’s population ,where 32% population (national fugure26.5%) live below poverty line (BPL). 72% children of 06-35 months , 66% pregnant and married women of 15-49 years suffer from  iron deficiency (NFHS-3).  

Considering the risk criteria of height less than 145cms & weight less than 38 kg, (Saramma 1989), the present paper tries to reveal the nutritional status, height and weight of 390 adolescent girl students commuting from urban and rural peripheries to a College in Kolkata Metropolis. To correlate family status with women health and to inculcate the high obstetric risk associated with it, the respondents from urban and the remote village background ( Sunderban delta ) are chosen .Food habits (Rice eater 70% rural students and 90 % urban students are junk food  eater )  and  physical structure correlation is observed through weight and the pattern on sickness Sudden  sickness, indigestion, anemia ,headache , getting senseless, irritable stomach ache are common rural women symptoms .Obesity or O figure syndrome for urban students. Difference in attention syndrome in the single daughter families and  the  both sex children families are looked up as an exception in nutritional studies in two difference family structures in both rural and urban centres.