The nutritional status of the female with referance to the prevalling gender belief

Abstract

I selected to research on food habit with reference to gendeI beliefs because the village life could be understood through the food consumption pattern. As an anthropologist who knows what the members of a society eat, already knows a lot about them. Learning how the food is obtained, who prepares food and who gets privilege in its distribution, it adds considerably to the anthropologist's store of information about the way that society functions And once the anthropologist finds out where, when, and with whom the food is ea ten, just about every thing r else can be inferred about the rela tions among society's members. This is possible bec;;ause human behaviour has evolved in great paft as an inter play between eat ing behaviour and cultural institution and it in turn influences anatomy, physiology and · the evolution of the human organism itself As females compara ti've to their counterpart males are less privileged members, so they have totally different dietary habits as compare to mal e, id eal physical images " and specific prevailing beli ef" about dietafY items lead them(female) to select or reject dieuuy items during the different stages of their life which resulted into their poor nutritional status that is the thesis to be set forth by this academic research