Effect of Health and Hygiene on Common Nutritional Practices of the School Going Children Residing in Urban Areas of Prayagraj District

Abstract

Nature is a complex of physical element and biodiversity. Each living being struggle for their survival. Life forms desire to live and perpetuate in all set of comforts suited to them. The basic aim is to fit themselves in the environmental complex in comfortable situation. Man suppose to be at the top of evolution has always dominated over other life forms. This character has made human beings socio living - ecological organism living and interacting in biological milieu. Human race has cultivated habit to live in all comforts. This has generated the concept of hygiene in the mind of human beings. Hygiene is a condition which makes damaging factors such as harmful bacteria, viruses, carnivorous animals, reptiles and plants and others keeps away. Besides the causes which make natural resources such as air, water and food chemically contaminated also be included as the hazardous factors. Man has always been a biological unit of nature with unlimited capacity of selection and omission of his liking and disliking. This character has developed ways and means to keep human inhabitation comfortable where human populace may get fresh air to breathe, water for multipurpose use including for drinking and food for the support of biological functions such as proper development growth and metabolic energy for physical and mental work. All above is only when human populace remains friendly to nature. In eco friendly situation human populace can maintain safe survival and healthy life in environmental flux. Unfortunately with the progress, fast growing needs and technical development generated waste material which ultimately is dumped in our surroundings. The quantum of dumping of waste is so high that it is a threat to all including our environment and ultimately human race is in danger. Life sustaining resources air, food and water are withdrawn from biosphere. Waste products in all physical state i.e. gaseous, liquid and solid forms are discharged in human inhabitation.