Sri Padmavathi Women’s Degree & PG College

Diet Counselling Center

Coordinator : Dr.V.Lakshmi

Sl. No.	Name	Designation & Department	Coordinator & Member
1.	Dr.V. Lakshmi	Head, Dept. of Home Science	Coordinator
2.	Dr.G. Nagamani	C. Lecturer in Home Science	Member
3.	Smt.K. Chenchulakshmi	C. Lecturer in Home Science	Member

Department of Home Science as part of its extension services launched the Diet Counselling Centre. The Diet & Nutrition counselling services are offered to the students, parents of the students and staff of the institution.

Objective:

To provide students a platform for experiential learning.
To implement the theoretical knowledge into practice.
To provide an easy access to Nutritional advice to the students and staff of the College.

The counselling is undertaken by the students on rotation under the guidance of Home science department faculty members. The students prepare and use the informative brochures and other graphic aids during counselling.

Activities undertaken:

Anthropometric measurements (Height, Weight and body fat analysis)
Haemoglobin estimation, Blood Glucose estimation, Blood pressure
Diet counselling as per the disorder (Obesity, Underweight, Anaemia, Hypertension, Diabetes, CVD and any other Nutritional disorders.

Significance:

Diet Counselling Centre was established to provide individualized nutritional care for encouraging the modifications of eating habits which helps in prevention or treatment of nutrition related illnesses. In addition, it also includes meal planning with Balanced Diet comprising of Macro & Micro nutrients to the hostellers.

Diet Counselling Centre is tailored to meet the needs of students to help ease the complications and or side effects especially Iron deficiency which is most commonly identified in the adolescent girls and to improve the general well-being of the students, by constant guidance, support and monitoring. With today’s emphasis on promotion of health and prevention of disease, Diet Counselling helps to reduce the risk of ill health by appropriate counselling.