The nutritional Knowledge - Attitude - Behavior of random samples of 173 housekeepers (151 of housewives

22 of housemen) in Chongqing Yuzhong district was investigated with questionnaires. The results showed: Forthe housewives

their nutritional knowledge about VitA

VitC

Zinc was poor

while their nutritional attitude wasrelatively scientific. Their nutritional behavior largely depended on their nutritional knowledge (bj=0.3418

P< 0.001)

meanwhile their nutritional knowledge was influenced mostly by their educational degrees (bj=0.6585

P<0.001).Engel index

which shows the cenomic situation of a family

seldom influenced the housewife’s nutritionalknewledge (P>0.05).These results indicated that

allording to nutritienal knowedge-Attitude-Behavior model

nutritional education could effectively guide the target group - housewives to have reasonable diet and toimprove the family members’ nutritional condition.