Volume : 9, Issue : 2, FEB 2023

2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON YOGA FOR GLOBAL WELL-BEING (Shree Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal, Amravati (M.S.) INDIA)

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF USE OF YOGA AND NUTRITION FOR IMPROVING PHYSICAL HEALTH OF TRIBAL STUDENTS

TEJSIHA LAXMANRAO JAGDALE

Abstract

Malnutrition amongst the tribal population is a chronic problem in India and Maharashtra is no different. Despite large number of studies on health status of tribal population in general and the tribal children in particular among the various areas of Maharashtra, relatively few studies have focused specifically on the tribal groups of Vidarbha (portion of eastern part of Maharashtra). In view of this present investigation was carried out to study the role of Yoga practices and Nutrition supplements in improving the physical health of the tribal students. Although it is known that nutritional supplements can have positive impact on the health the major aim of this study was to check the combined effect of the Yoga intervention and nutrition for sustainable development of these tribal children. The nutritional requirements of the tribal children were determined from the data obtained with respect to their food consumption habits (studied by adopting three day diet recall method). The yogic exercises included Suryanamaskar, Shuddhikriya and Pranayam. In all two separate groups were formed one received only nutritional supplements and the other group was subjected to nutritional supplements as well as intervention by yogic exercises. The study results showed that the physical health of the experimental group that performed yogic exercises and received nutritional supplements was significantly better than the children belonging to other group, which received only nutritional supplements.

Keywords

TRIBAL POPULATION, MALNUTRITION, YOGA, NUTRITION, PHYSICAL HEALTH.

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