Eighth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

Diet and nutrition are main essential factors in the maintenance and promotion of good health throughout the entire span of life. Their role as determinants of chronic Non-communicable diseases is well established, and they occupy a prominent position in the prevention of diseases. Currently, chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases like stroke and heart attacks, cancers, metabolic syndrome, Type 2 diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma and hypertension are the leading killers in developed countries and are increasing wildly in developing nations. The objective of this study is to see the linkage between the food habits in terms of five macronutrients Calorie, Protein, Fat, Carbohydrate and Minerals with various prominent non-communicable diseases. This work uses NSSO 68-71st round of data along with Indian Census-2011 for Eight north-eastern states of India. During the analysis multi-level modelling approach has been carried out to find out the desired outputs. By using multilevel models, we can apportion the variance in the response variable according to the different levels of the data. Our data is following three-level hierarchical structure with individuals, district and state level.The study established that with the higher consumption level of protein , fat and carbohydrate food, the risk of having any non-communicable diseases increases. Whereas intake of Minerals and calories along with a good amount of physical exercise can help us to away from these non-communicable diseases. Moreover, men are more at more risk of having NCDs as compared to their women counterpart.