of non-pregnant mothers living in the slums suffer from severe malnutrition. About 70% of women in Bangladesh suffer from anaemia [7][8][9]. Following the liberation of Bangladesh, when Dhaka became the capital city and the centre of commercial and economic activities there was a rapid migration of rural people into the city which is still continuing. The rural to urban influx has lead to the development of slums in a large number of places within the city and its fringes with overcrowding, unhygienic and poor sanitary conditions, along with economic insolvency lead to malnutrition and poor health condition. Around half of the city's poor people are concentrated in nearly 3000 densely populated and environmentally hazardous slums and the overall urban growth rate is very high [10,11]. It is very much clear that the health and nutritional status of the city people is quite impossible to improve without improving the health and nutritional status of the slum dwellers, specially, slum mothers. Research on urban slum mothers, specially, on nutrition is very relevant and deserve in depth studies. This could help to explain many of the interrelated variables which come into play in explaining the prevailing situation amongst the urban slum mothers. The purpose of the study was to assess the nutritional status of the women living in slum environment. So the findings of the study might provide a comprehensive picture on nutrition of slum women, which could inform and guide the concerned authorities for undertaking appropriate measures to improve the situation. IntroductionThe prevalence of malnutrition in Bangladesh is among the highest in the world. Millions of children and women suffer from one or more forms of malnutrition including low birth weight, wasting, stunting, underweight, vitamin A deficiency, iodine deficiency disorder and anemia. Today malnutrition not only affects individual but its effects are passed from one generation to the next as malnourished mothers give birth to infants who struggle to develop and thrive. If these children are girls, they often grow up to become malnourished mothers themselves. Globally, malnutrition is attributed to almost one-half of all child deaths. Survivors are left vulnerable to illnesses, stunted growth and intellectual impairment [1]. The deprivation to women starts from birth in Bangladesh. The socioeconomic, health and nutritional status of women depict gloomy pictures throughout their life [2]. Moreover, like most developing countries, the picture of nutritional status of women is far too serious in the poorer socioeconomic groups who live in the rural areas and urban slums of Bangladesh [3,4]. It has been recognized that infants, children and women of the reproductive age constitute the most vulnerable group from the stand point of nutrition [5]. Malnutrition is the outcome of many complex biological and social processes. The roots of malnutrition run deep into its social soil and it is a matter of thought that malnutrition has not been changed significantly during t...