Diet, Nutrition, Diseases, and Health

Question 1

What is the evolutionary history of humans?

Answer 1

Refers to the evolutionary history of human nutrition in reference to the dietary changes that occurred to humans due to accumulated biological and cultural evolution across geographical spaces/environments and time.

Question 2

What is the environment of evolutionary adaptation (EEA)?

Answer 2

Refers to the notion that the biology of contemporary organisms has been shaped by their evolutionary history and the traits that humans now possess reflect the advantages that accrued to individuals with those traits in a past environment (e.g., having flexible fingers, opposable thumb)

Question 3

Describe how sociocultural and environmental factors affect human biology

Question 4

What are the main sources of energy?

Question 5

What are the roles of diet in health and disease?

Question 6

What do “micronutrients” and “nutrient balance” refer to?

Question 7

What does chronic stress refer to?

Question 8

What are examples of infectious diseases?

Answer 8

Infectious diseases are illnesses caused by germs (such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi) that enter the body, multiply, and can cause an infection. Some infectious diseases are contagious (or communicable), meaning they are capable of spreading from one person to another.

Question 9

Describe the causes of beriberi disease and scurvy disease

Question 10

What causes Pellagra?

Question 11

What contributions did Christiaan Eijkman and Frederick Gowland Hodgkins have in terms of unfolding the cause of beriberi disease?

Question 12

What steps did the Government of Italy take to mitigate the suffering of the poor?

Question 12

Why do humans need a long period of learning?

Question 13

What is life history theory?

Question 14

According to the article The Tall and Short of It, what causes stunting? Why are the Pygmies shortest peoples in the world?

Question 15

What causes malnutrition?

Answer 15

a lack of nutrients, either as a result of a poor diet or problems absorbing nutrients from food.

Question 16

What causes stunting?

Question 17

Which country has the highest level of child wasting in South Asia?

Question 18

What do micronutrient deficiencies refer to?

Answer 18

a lack of essential vitamins and minerals required in small amounts by the body for proper growth and development.

Question 19

What are the consequences of micronutrient deficiency?

Question 20

Why are the first 1000 days crucial for a baby?

Question 21

What are the factors that cause poor pregnancy in India?

Answer 21

malnutrition?

Question 22

Plasticity

Answer 22

Plasticity refers to the ability of many organisms to change their biology or behaviour to respond to changes in the environment.

Question 23

Chronic stress

Question 24

Scurvy

Answer 24

serious vitamin C deficiency

Question 25

Cholera

Answer 25

acute diarria illness

Question 26

Beriberi

Answer 26

Lack of Vitamin B1

Question 27

Pellagra

Answer 27

fatal Infection due to the indigestion of corn