TROP Activity –January  2019

Venue: Kunnukara Grama Panchayat

Date: 28/01/2019

Target Group: Adult men and women ( 30-60 years)

The students of the  Masters in Clinical   Nutrition and Dietetics along with  Ms.  Anie Thomas and L R Rajani provided Community Nutrition awareness programme  both  adult men and women with and without non- communicable diseases at Kunnukara Grama Panchayat . The camp  mainly  focused on providing  awareness on dietary management of non-communicable diseases especially  obesity, diabetes,hypercholesterolemia, anaemia  and hypertension.Talks were provided by the student dietitians based on these topics.  Informative charts on nutrition and wellness were put up and explained to the participants. Health assessment based on anthropometry; ie., height, weight and BMI,  along with that simple low cost nutritious recipes were  prepared and distributed among the participants which  was done as part of the programme .