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Food, Health and Nutrition
Environmental Studies
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Overview
Food gives energy and nutrients for growth and health; hygiene prevents disease.
Key points
- Food comes from plants and animals.
- A balanced diet includes carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, water and fibre.
- Deficiency diseases: scurvy (vitamin C), night blindness (vitamin A), anaemia (iron).
- Handwashing with soap prevents many infections.
- Food preservation: drying, refrigeration, salting, pickling.
- Mid-day meals support children’s nutrition.
Explanation
- Food habits vary across regions and cultures.
- Wasting food should be avoided.
- Clean drinking water prevents diarrhoea.
- Children can survey foods eaten at home.
- Avoid judging food choices of other communities.
Step by step
- Identify the concept, law or fact asked.
- Recall the definition, formula, example or year.
- Apply it and eliminate mismatched options.
Examples
- Children list the food groups in their lunch → balanced diet.
- Washing hands before eating → hygiene.
- Drying mango slices (aam papad) → preservation.
Traps and advanced points
- Trap: Calling some foods "bad" culturally.
- Trap: Wrong vitamin–disease pairs.
- Trap: Ignoring hygiene.
Quick revision
- Food groups.
- Deficiency diseases.
- Handwashing; preservation.
Practice MCQs
During a field investigation on Food and Nutrition, students compare repeated observations. Choose the most defensible exam-ready conclusion about Food and Nutrition.
- A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
- One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
- Food and Nutrition is useful only for record keeping and has no effect on learning.
- Food and Nutrition should be applied identically in every situation without checking learner needs.
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Answer: (a) A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.. A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
During a field investigation on Food and Nutrition, students compare repeated observations. A teacher wants to apply Food and Nutrition correctly. Which action is most appropriate?
- One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
- Food and Nutrition is useful only for record keeping and has no effect on learning.
- Classify a local meal by food groups and discuss variety and hygiene.
- Food and Nutrition should be applied identically in every situation without checking learner needs.
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Answer: (c) Classify a local meal by food groups and discuss variety and hygiene.. A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
Which statement about Food and Nutrition is NOT appropriate?
- A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
- Classify a local meal by food groups and discuss variety and hygiene.
- Food and Nutrition should be interpreted according to its purpose and context.
- One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
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Answer: (d) One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.. The NOT-appropriate statement is: One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
Choose the most defensible exam-ready conclusion about Food and Nutrition.
- A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
- One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
- Food and Nutrition is useful only for record keeping and has no effect on learning.
- Food and Nutrition should be applied identically in every situation without checking learner needs.
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Answer: (a) A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.. Choose the most defensible exam-ready conclusion about Food and Nutrition.: A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
During a laboratory exercise on Food and Nutrition, students compare repeated observations. Choose the most defensible exam-ready conclusion about Food and Nutrition.
- A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
- One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
- Food and Nutrition is useful only for record keeping and has no effect on learning.
- Food and Nutrition should be applied identically in every situation without checking learner needs.
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Answer: (a) A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.. A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
During a laboratory exercise on Food and Nutrition, students compare repeated observations. A teacher wants to apply Food and Nutrition correctly. Which action is most appropriate?
- One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
- Food and Nutrition is useful only for record keeping and has no effect on learning.
- Classify a local meal by food groups and discuss variety and hygiene.
- Food and Nutrition should be applied identically in every situation without checking learner needs.
Read chapter notes · Similar questions
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Answer: (c) Classify a local meal by food groups and discuss variety and hygiene.. A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
A teacher wants to apply Food and Nutrition correctly. Which action is most appropriate?
- One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
- Food and Nutrition is useful only for record keeping and has no effect on learning.
- Classify a local meal by food groups and discuss variety and hygiene.
- Food and Nutrition should be applied identically in every situation without checking learner needs.
Read chapter notes · Similar questions
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Answer: (c) Classify a local meal by food groups and discuss variety and hygiene.. A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
During a laboratory exercise on Food and Nutrition, students compare repeated observations. which statement about Food and Nutrition is NOT appropriate?
- A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
- Classify a local meal by food groups and discuss variety and hygiene.
- Food and Nutrition should be interpreted according to its purpose and context.
- One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
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Answer: (d) One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.. The NOT-appropriate statement is: One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
During a field investigation on Food and Nutrition, students compare repeated observations. which statement about Food and Nutrition is NOT appropriate?
- A balanced diet provides appropriate energy and nutrients from varied food groups; needs differ with age and activity.
- Classify a local meal by food groups and discuss variety and hygiene.
- Food and Nutrition should be interpreted according to its purpose and context.
- One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
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Answer: (d) One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.. The NOT-appropriate statement is: One food item can supply every nutrient in the required amount for everyone.
Choose the most defensible exam-ready conclusion about Health and Hygiene.
- Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.
- Hygiene practices such as safe water, handwashing and sanitation help reduce transmission of many infections.
- Health and Hygiene is useful only for record keeping and has no effect on learning.
- Health and Hygiene should be applied identically in every situation without checking learner needs.
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Answer: (b) Hygiene practices such as safe water, handwashing and sanitation help reduce transmission of many infections.. Choose the most defensible exam-ready conclusion about Health and Hygiene.: Hygiene practices such as safe water, handwashing and sanitation help reduce transmission of many infections.
During a laboratory exercise on Health and Hygiene, students compare repeated observations. A teacher wants to apply Health and Hygiene correctly. Which action is most appropriate?
- Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.
- Health and Hygiene is useful only for record keeping and has no effect on learning.
- Health and Hygiene should be applied identically in every situation without checking learner needs.
- Connect a daily routine with the route by which infection can spread.
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Answer: (d) Connect a daily routine with the route by which infection can spread.. Hygiene practices such as safe water, handwashing and sanitation help reduce transmission of many infections.
Which statement about Health and Hygiene is NOT appropriate?
- Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.
- Hygiene practices such as safe water, handwashing and sanitation help reduce transmission of many infections.
- Connect a daily routine with the route by which infection can spread.
- Health and Hygiene should be interpreted according to its purpose and context.
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Answer: (a) Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.. The NOT-appropriate statement is: Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.
During a field investigation on Health and Hygiene, students compare repeated observations. which statement about Health and Hygiene is NOT appropriate?
- Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.
- Hygiene practices such as safe water, handwashing and sanitation help reduce transmission of many infections.
- Connect a daily routine with the route by which infection can spread.
- Health and Hygiene should be interpreted according to its purpose and context.
Read chapter notes · Similar questions
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Answer: (a) Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.. The NOT-appropriate statement is: Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.
A teacher wants to apply Health and Hygiene correctly. Which action is most appropriate?
- Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.
- Health and Hygiene is useful only for record keeping and has no effect on learning.
- Health and Hygiene should be applied identically in every situation without checking learner needs.
- Connect a daily routine with the route by which infection can spread.
Read chapter notes · Similar questions
Show answer
Answer: (d) Connect a daily routine with the route by which infection can spread.. Hygiene practices such as safe water, handwashing and sanitation help reduce transmission of many infections.
During a laboratory exercise on Health and Hygiene, students compare repeated observations. which statement about Health and Hygiene is NOT appropriate?
- Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.
- Hygiene practices such as safe water, handwashing and sanitation help reduce transmission of many infections.
- Connect a daily routine with the route by which infection can spread.
- Health and Hygiene should be interpreted according to its purpose and context.
Read chapter notes · Similar questions
Show answer
Answer: (a) Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.. The NOT-appropriate statement is: Medicine alone makes hygiene practices unnecessary.
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