The present book has been written for the benefit of all those interested in women and child health programmes in our country and is a must for child health workers. This book aims to provide information to all those concern with health and nutrition of women and children. It explains the nutritional needs of women children and adolescents and how this can be best done. It is therefore addressed to medical doctors, nurses, auxiliary nurses midwives, multipurpose health workers, dieticians and home science students and functionaries of integrated child development services and anyone else involved in material and child care, and through them to the community which they serve.