Food Habits and its Impacts on Health of Dom Community in Dharan Municipality Sunsari

Abstract

This thesis entitles "Food Habits of Dom Community and its impacts on their Health" has been carried out to find out socio- demographic characters, identify the food habits of Dom Community of the study area and health condition of Dom Community. The researcher has used the Dom community as the sample population and has chosen the 50 Dom families of Dharan Municipality using purposive sampling. Similarly the researcher has collected data from interview and analyzed descriptively. At last, Findings and conclusion has been drawn and the researcher has recommended and suggested the points. This thesis is structured into five parts. First part deals with the introduction of the title and its theoretical ground. Second part reviews the related literature of the relevant work. Third part deals with the methodology of the study. Fourth part deals with analysis and interpretation of data. Fifth part deals with summary, findings conclusions and recommendations. In this research, it was found that most of Dom people take food two to three times a day. It is found that 70 percent Dom people were suffering from different type of weakness of body. Average quantity of rice taken in launch is 280 gm. They prefer tea- biscuits, noodles or bitten rice as their breakfast. 60% of Dom never consumes milk and snacks. They have to eat meat daily in dinner. Most of Dom people (66%) used junk food, they aren't conscious about their food habits. 24 percent Dom people home is dirty. Only 28 percent Dom people drink filter water. There is clear indication of the study that the time to get food and the items used while getting food both are not sure and fixed. There seems direct impact of food habits in health condition of the Dom people. Other risks like accidents, psychological harassments and over work are adverse reality to their health.