Comparative Study of Dietary Habits between Rural and Urban College Level Students

The purpose of this study was to compare theDietary Habits between Rural and Urban Studentsof Lucknow. For the present investigation, 200students (100 urban and 100 rural ) from differentdepartments of Kalicharan P.G College Lucknowwere selected as subject for this study. The sampleswere selected by using random sampling technique.Data for the study on Dietary Habits (DH) wasmeasured by Questionnaire. (Dietary Habits &Nutritional Knowledge of College Athletes, Thesis;California University of Pennsylvania, California,Pennsylvania). In order to found the result of the studydescriptive statistics and independent t-test were usedat 0.05 level of significance. The result of this studyshowed that significant difference between urban andrural students in relation to dietary habits (t=4.641,p<.05). on the basis of this study it was concludedthat the urban students have better dietary habitscompare to rural students.