Food Biodiversity and Consumption Pattern in Eastern India - Couverture souple

Sengupta, Ratnabali; Basu, Saikat Kumar

 
9783848409402: Food Biodiversity and Consumption Pattern in Eastern India
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3848409402 ISBN 13 : 9783848409402
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Food is the basic necessity for human survival and evolution. A region with different food species and their abundant growth and availability demonstrate better consumption pattern of different food items. The purpose of this study has been to identify food varieties and energy consumption ratio among people with low and high income levels among thirty randomly selected Bengali Hindu families of Kolkata, east India. In addition the study also investigated the influence of income on the availability and abundance of different food items and their corresponding amounts. The survey indicated that people from low income groups demonstrated lack of key nutrients in their regular diets with symptoms of deficiency diseases. Income has a direct effect on the consumption rate of foods. Low income and illiteracy were found as the two main factors of difference between the two economic classes. The study further highlights that higher income was associated with better consumption of nutritious food. The current volume will be useful for those involved in research and development in food, food preferences and food habits, nutrition sciences, ethnicity, socio-economic and cultural relations.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Food is the basic necessity for human survival and evolution. A region with different food species and their abundant growth and availability demonstrate better consumption pattern of different food items. The purpose of this study has been to identify food varieties and energy consumption ratio among people with low and high income levels among thirty randomly selected Bengali Hindu families of Kolkata, east India. In addition the study also investigated the influence of income on the availability and abundance of different food items and their corresponding amounts. The survey indicated that people from low income groups demonstrated lack of key nutrients in their regular diets with symptoms of deficiency diseases. Income has a direct effect on the consumption rate of foods. Low income and illiteracy were found as the two main factors of difference between the two economic classes. The study further highlights that higher income was associated with better consumption of nutritious food. The current volume will be useful for those involved in research and development in food, food preferences and food habits, nutrition sciences, ethnicity, socio-economic and cultural relations.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ratnabali Sengupta did MSc in Zoology(C.U.),MPhil in Zoology(Annnamalai Univ.)&BEd (WB State Univ),India.Pursuing PhD at WBSU in Nutrition Sc. Assistant Teacher at the D.B.High School, Kolkata,WB, India. Saikat Kumar Basu did MSc in Botany (C.U.) & Agriculture (Univ of Lethbridge,Canada).Currently finishing PhD in Biomolecular Sc at the same univ.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3848409402
ISBN 13 
9783848409402
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
104
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