Author(s): V Krupa Satyavedam and Glory Joanna Manne

Abstract:
The research done by us mainly focuses on the amount of awareness about nutrition among adolescents in urban areas. This study primarily focused on understanding the extent of peoples awareness regarding food and nutrition investigating the grasp on fundamental principles of nutrition and implementing these principles like balanced diet etc. in there day to day life The primary motive in selecting the adolescent age group for study stems from the significant stage or juncture of life where actually nutritional habits are established, thus helping in knowing the extent of nutritional habits adopted by them. Significantly we selected 3 main objectives from our study to accurately know about “awareness of nutrition among adolescence. The three objectives include Awareness of people on terms like nutrition and diet, basic knowledge in balanced diet, number of people checking food labels etc. Specifically, the data collected showed that about 60% of people somewhat were aware about nutrition and 78% of participants had basic knowledge on balanced diet 26% respondents constantly checked food labels before purchasing any food product. Despite the positive findings regarding people's Awareness on Nutrition over half of surveyed participants experienced daily health issues. Further investigation revealed that insufficient implementation and partial knowledge were primary obstacles to achieve optimal health. This highlights a compelling necessity to raise awareness about daily nutritional habits; this can be accomplished through conducting nutritional programs in education Institutions, organizing conference workshops, fostering discussions on health and disease etc.

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