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Nutritional Situation of Bangladesh During Bangia Fourteenth Century

S.M. Ziauddin Hyder
Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Aminul Haque Bhuyan
Institute of Nutrition and Food Science: University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Md. Abdul Malek
Institute of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

A.M.R. Chowdhury
Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

<p style="text-align: justify;" margin-left:.45pt"="">The survey conducted by wilson & Mitra, the 1962-64 nutritional survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, East Pakistan, the 1975-76 and 1981-82 survey conducted by the Institute of Nutrition and Food Science (INFS), Dhaka University, and the 1992 nutrition data collected by the Research and Evaluation Division (RED), BRAC. In this paper, per capita daily adequacy of calorie and protein, and average height and weight of the rural boys aged seven to ten years are used as indicators to describe the nutritional trend from 1937 to 1992. Per capita daily adequacy of both calorie and protein has been declining since 1937 in the rural areas of Bangladesh. However, the decline in calorie adequacy than that of the protein is much severe. A declining trend is observed in terms of average height and weight of the rural boys aged seven to ten years since 1937 with a sharp drop between 1937 and 1964. However, both height and weight showed an increasing trend since 1982, but still remaining below the 1937 level.

Keywords: Nutritional situation, Bangladesh, BangIa fourteenth century

Location: Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Performance

Objectives:

In this study, it was observe the per capita per day adequacy of calorie and protein, and average height and weight of the rural boys aged seven to ten years to describe the nutritional situation.

Methodology:

Great Bengal" was well known for its fertile agricultural land, bountiful rice, ponds full of fish, and wealth that used to attract people from different parts of the world. However, no survey data are available during that period to describe the nutrition situation of this part of the rural Bengal except a survey done in 1937 by wilson and Mitra". Until 1918, concept of different vitamins and its influence on different human organs was not clearly known". One reason for not conducting much population based studies in the rural areas of the then Bengal during the first quarter of the 20th Century was due to unrest during the independence struggle against the British regime. As a result, most of the health studies during that period were conducted between the prisoners and soldiers". After the 1937 survey conducted by wilson and Mitra, the first nutrition survey in Rural Bangladesh (the then East Pakistan) was conducted by the Ministry of Health, Pakistan, in collaboration with the University of Dhaka in 1962-64. The second and the Third survey were done in 1975-76 and 1981-82 respectively by the INFS, University of Dhaka. After the 1981-82 survey, no national nutrition survey has so far been done except the Child Nutritional Status Survey, 1989-90 conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). But, this survey covered only children aged less than five years. Apart from the above surveys, it was taken data from the two studies done by the Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of BRAC8.9. The authors observed severe scarcity of nutrition data specially before the 1962-64 national nutrition survey. The study conducted by Wilson and Mitra in 1937 is the only available source of relevant data before the 1962 Survey. Moreover, in that study the height and weight data of the rural boys aged seven to ten years are available as line graphs. For this study, it was estimated average height and weight at different ages from those graphs. Due to unavailability of raw data of the survey conducted in 1937, it could not calculate anthropometric indices to describe and compare nutritional status of the children.

Source of Information: Bangladesh j. Nutr. VoL 7. Nos. 1 & 2. June 1994

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Per capita daily adequacy of both calorie and protein had been declining since 1937 in the rural areas of Bangladesh. However, the decline in calorie adequacy than that of the protein was much severe. A declining trend was observed in terms of average height and weight of the rural boys aged seven to ten years since 1937 with a sharp drop between 1937 and 1964.

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