11.2pc families suffer food insecurity: Survey
Although Bangladesh has achieved food autarchy, the country's 11.2 percent households suffer from food insecurity for their limited access to resources, said a survey.
About 15 percent households sometimes and 11.2 percent either always or often face food shortage, it said.
The Institute of Nutrition and Food Science of Dhaka University conducted the study titled "The Nutrition, Health and Demographic Survey of Bangladesh-2011."
With financial support from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Prof Dr Akhtaruzzaman, Prof Dr M Nazrul Islam Khan and Prof Sheikh Nazrul Islam of the institute carried out the survey in seven divisions of the country.
According to the study, there is a significant difference in nutritional status of adult population in the country.
At the national level, about 48 percent of women and 60 percent men are suffering from chronic energy deficiency, while there is no significant difference in rural and urban settings in case of men, it said.
But, the prevalence of chronic energy deficiency in rural women is higher than that in urban women.
It reveals that the prevalence of underweight at the national level is about 45 percent in both girls and boys.
The survey shows that in case of random blood glucose level, nationally 21 percent men and 25 percent women (age above 40) were detected with diabetic but from fasting blood glucose level, the rate in case of men is 10 percent while 13 percent in case of women.
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