• Pratibha Dheeman
• Dr. Daxa Jotangiya

Women in many developing countries face social and cultural disadvantages in terms of health, nutrition, education and economic status compared to women in developed countries, as well as, men in their own society. Women’s health and well being in the low income families are seriously affected by too many pregnancies, prolonged lactation, long hour of work, poor diet repeated exposure to disease and limited access to adequate health care. A woman prepares herself to meet the nutritional demand by increasing her own body fat deposits during pregnancy. In India it is observed that diets among women from the poorer groups are essentially similar during pre pregnant, pregnant and lactation periods. In the present study 25 women of 20-40 years of age were selected by random purposive sampling method. The data was collected by questionnaire cum interview method. The results of the study revealed that majority of the respondents were belonging to 20-29 year of age while 36% were 30-40 years of age and all of them belong to low income group. 68% respondent belongs to joint family. 20% respondent were illiterate, 68% were educated up to 10th standard. Income of 72% respondent family was 3000-5000 per month. Only 16% respondent gets adequate food to eat. Out of 25 only 2 respondents eat sabji or dal in their meal while other just have chutney, onion or any other substitute. 96% respondent buys cheap quality food. Out of 25 only 4 families are there in which all family members eat their food together. No respondent take extra food during pregnancy and lactation period. Diets of the respondents were found to be dominated by cereals, roots and tubers, sugar and fats. Pulses, green leafy vegetables, milk and milk products, meat, fish and egg were found to be less in their diet in comparison to RDA. Thus it can be concluded that the community need women education to improve their health status by wise use of available food stuffs and government should provide good quality of supplementary food to meet the dietary intake of women.

"Impact of House Hold Food Insecurity on Health and Nutritional Status of Women in Wadhwan city, Surendranagar.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no.e292-e299, March-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203437.pdf

"Impact of House Hold Food Insecurity on Health and Nutritional Status of Women in Wadhwan city, Surendranagar.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no. ppe292-e299, March-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203437.pdf