IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

FOOD PRACTICES AND NUTRITIONAL CONDITIONS OF TRIBAL WOMEN – A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

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Mrs.M.Pandeeswari and Dr.P.Sethurajakumar

Abstract

Tribal people they are considered as the aboriginal people in our country. They are away from our mainstream of the society. Most of them they are living in the forest and they are doing their work related with the natural environment. Like that their food practices are mainly related with their forest products. Among most of the tribal community they are still using various types of millets to their food consumption. They used to take wild fruits, tubers, leafy vegetables of forest and also the wild grains for their food consumption. The richness of the food practices vary from one tribal to another tribal group. This makes them very strong in their nutritional status. In some places the tribes are working in the farms, by that income they used to get their accessories. That is not enough to their family and in the aspect of good health condition. With this view the researcher select this title to study the food practices and the nutritional condition which determines the health status of the tribes in our society.This research reveals that the unique food practices of the tribes are supporting the nutritional conditions of the tribes. In some places their own and natural environment which support their food production has been encroached as well as they are threatened by the land mafias. This makes them the economically vulnerable and it affect the health too. Apart from that they are having richness in their food culture that supports their better nutritional status. In some places their orthodox values and culture and poor economic status gives the negative impact, this also affects their nutritional conditions.

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