: Adolescence and puberty bring a variety of physical, social and emotional changes and is stated as a transitional period. Poor health and malnutrition may affect cognitive abilities, necessary for learning process and consequently educational achievement. Present study aims at understanding the effect of the nutritional status on cognition and academic performance of college going adolescents. 110 number of college studying adolescents aged 15 to 17 years old were selected randomly as the sample for the study. Data collected using short term memory test, visual-spatial memory test, verbal fluency/memory test, letter-cancellation task, school marks of the examination of previous year and nutritional status. About 62 per cent of the respondents were of normal nutritional status and the nutrient intakes were inconsistent with recommended dietary allowances (RDA) by ICMR. Significant relation (P<0.05) was also observed between good nutritional status and academic performances.

Women development plays an important role in nation's economy. The society can march towards development only when it accepts the women participation, grants responsibility and utilizes her ability. India has witnessed a positive transformation in women's employment and economic development. Present study was conducted among 110 working women of Keonjhar district of Odisha. Various degree of empowerment was observed in fields of social, financial, legal empowerment. The study revelled that decision making was most restricted in financial matters.

:Adolescence is a transitional period and college life is an important stage as at this time like behaviours are conducive to change. Dietary intake during adolescence contributes to lifelong eating habits and the development of early risk factors for disease in adulthood. Insight into breakfast consumption of adolescents is of public health concern, for several reasons as it has been associated with positive outcomes for diet quality, BMI status and lifestyle factors. Studies suggest that eating a breakfast which contains sufficiently balanced nutrients has a beneficial impact on both student health -in terms of nutrient intake height-toweight ratio and early physical development-and cognitive skills such as focused attention and memory recall. In the research study the researcher had studied aiming on the objectives like -to access association of body image in skipping breakfast, lifestyle of post graduate students, impact of skipping breakfast on memory and concentration, taking 46 (Female) post graduate students as sample size of Sambalpur University. According to the results of the current study it was found that 60.87 per cent agreed whereas 39.13 per cent denied, that students breakfast skipping shows an impact on memory and 82.6 per cent agreed whereas 17.4 per cent denied that they felt difficulty in doing their work and concentrate if they do not consume breakfast. As per BMI 54.35 per cent were under weight, 36.96 per cent were normal weight and 8.69 per cent were obese, respectively. A significant variation in life style and body image was observed.

There are concerns about the rates of depression, stress and other psychiatric symptoms among university students along with the unhealthy pattens of food consumption resulting either malnutrition or obesity. This study was aimed to determine the nutritional status, mental health and emotional maturity among 120 post graduate students of Sambalpur University, Odisha. The mean weight, height and BMI were found to be 51.96 kg (±7.9893), 1.5671 mts (±0.0617) and 21.142 (±3.2536), respectively. 25 per cent of the respondents showed poor mental health Significant association was found between BMI and Mental health stats at p<0.05 level.