AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION OF BOYS FROM URBAN SCHOOLS OF HARYANA

The purpose of the study was to explore prevalence of malnutrition in school going boys of urban school of Haryana the study was done on 70 school boys of 10-12 years from urban areas of Haryana and the study shows that 51.42% boys are under nourished and fall in underweight category where as 25.71% of total boys deal with the problem of malnutrition. The sample subject had been delimited to school boys of 10-12 year from urban areas. Digital weight machine and stadiometer were used examine the BMI of the subjects. Very low percentage of boys was found overweight and obese from urban school. Perhaps high demand of knowledge regarding nutritional values and health education is required in the society. Health services and health supervision must be given timely to children to avoid problems like malnutrition.