Dietary Survey of Rural Rajput Children

Abstract

Food is the instrument of nourishment; nutrition is tlie act of using it. Diet and nutrition are not synonymous although they are popularly usea in that fashion. While diet consists of various articles of food which are ingested and converted for use in the body for building up and maintaining it in a vital condition, nutrition is the sum of the processes by which an organism is nourished by absorbing substances and assimilating them.