Abstract
With the aim of making appropriate reference data for teaching better nutrition, a dietary survey and the time study of the college girls were carried out to calculate out the expended energy as well as the ingested energy, and to research their nutritional status.
The students (221 girls) were grouped according to their living circumstances (living with their families, private boarding houses or school boarding house) and relationship between their ingested calories and expended calories was studied.
The result was that, on an average the calorie balance was positive and protein intake was favorable both in quantity and quality.
Observing from dwelling conditions girls living with their families were in positive calorie balance and lodgers in the private boarding house were in negative balance. The boarders in school boarding house were in the best condition; their nutrient intakes were favorable.
