title: Awareness about balanced food among unskilled human resource.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study was carried out at Peshawar about the food habits of daily wages labourers working in the urban area.
  
  
  METHODS
  One to one interview was conducted with 50 randomly selected daily wages labourers, using structured questionnaire. At the same time specimen of capillary blood was obtained from their fingers tips for haemoglobin measurement.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The study revealed that due to lack of awareness and poor socio economic status the daily wages labourers are more prone to malnutrition and iron deficiency anaemia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a need of comprehensive health education and a strategy should be designed to provide a food locally available that could fulfill the requirement that occurs due to the deficiency of animal protein in the food of daily wages labourers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad.
authors.forename: Shaukat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sohail
authors.forename: Nasir
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Farooq
authors.lastname: Haroon-ur-Rashid
authors.forename: Huma
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jadoon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004032:Diet; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D010154:Pakistan; D014505:Urban Population