Background: According to 2011 census 69%of the Indian population and 66% of people in Karnataka reside in rural areas. Knowledge about the nutritional status and morbidity pattern among rural people is essential for prevention, treatment, management of disease along with promotion of health among rural women .The health of the women is known to be influenced by her nutritional status. Over the years several changes have occurred in diet and physical activity, which have led to malnutrition and have contributed to several morbidity factors. Efforts are needed to improve diet quality and education for rural women so that they rise in economic status and are better nourished. Methods: Present study was a community based cross sectional study. Convenient Sampling method was used. A total of 200 women were randomly selected as sample from the selected villages. The period of study was three month from 31st january2019 to 31st March 2019. The women in the reproductive age from 15-45 years, who were willing to participate, were included in the study. Results: Out of 200 women in our study 7% of women were illiterate, 86% were house wives, 36% of them belonged to socio economic status class I, 76 % had no history of any regular physical activity while pallor was present in 22% of study subjects. Further, 95% of the women under study gave history of having received antenatal care, 54% of them gave history Dysmenorrhea while 14% of the women had irregular cycles of menstruation. The study also brought out that 18% of the women were found to be obese, 2% were known diabetic, 7% of them suffered from UTI while 6% of them were known hypertensive. Conclusion: Literacy rate was found to be very high in our study population area while most of the women belonged to higher socioeconomic status. Number of obese people was more which indicates unhealthy food intake and lack of physical activity. Antenatal care was found to be taken by greater number of study population. Prevalence of hypertension and diabetes as found to be on lower side.

Keywords: Nutritional status; Morbidity; Physical Activity; Obesity; Antenatal care.