Unit 3 : Diet And Nutrition

Question 1

What is a nutritious diet?

Answer 1

A nutritious diet is a mixture of all the nutrients that our body needs to survive.

Question 2

What should you eat to gain essential nutrients for your body?

Answer 2

We should eat grains, fruits, vegetables, milk products, animal products, and beans, and oily foods to gain essential nutrients for our body.

Question 3

What is a major cause of ill health?

Answer 3

• is the lack of essential nutrients.

Question 4

How can you strengthen your immune system and protect against illness?

Answer 4

• by having a balanced diet.

Question 5

What kinds of food should you avoid eating?

Answer 5

• processed foods, refined foods, and high-cholesterol food.

Question 6

Why are forests beneficial to us?

Answer 6

• because they can provide us with an excellent source of foods such as mushrooms, bamboo shoots, nuts, berries, leaves, and tubers.

Question 7

What can cause loss of biodiversity and loss of nutrition in local communities?

Answer 7

Deforestation

Question 8

Mention some nutrition-related health problems.

Answer 8

• malnutrition and infectious diseases

Question 9

Why is nutrition said to be closely related to the environment?

Answer 9

• because environmental deterioration can cause nutrition-related health problems such as malnutrition and infectious diseases.

Question 10

Why should we avoid eating processed food?

Answer 10

• because they contain a lot of sodium which causes high blood pressrue.

Question 11

What is nutrition closely related to?

Answer 11

• the environment

Question 12

What will happen if national institutions and local communities fail to protect the environments around them?

Answer 12

• their hopes of thriving in the long run will be dashed.

Question 13

What will deforestation lead to?

Answer 13

• loss of biodiversity and loss of nutrition for many local communities.

Question 14

What is the root cause of the environmental damage?

Answer 14

• pollution

Question 15

What can environmental deterioration cause?

Answer 15

• can cause nutrition-related health problems such as malnutrition abd infectious diseases.

Question 15

What adversely affect diet, nutritional value and health?

Answer 15

• Environmental damage and loss of biodiversity

Question 15

What does ‘nutrition’ refer to?

Answer 15

• refers to ‘the process by which all living things recieve food necessary for them to grow and be healthy.

Question 16

What are the most fundamental of human needs?

Answer 16

• Diet and nutrition

Question 17

What do environmental damage and loss of biodiversity affect on?

Answer 17

• adversely affect on diet, nutritional value and health.

Question 18

What are diet and nutrition strongly linked to?

Answer 18

• environmental factors.

Question 19

Classify food into different groups.

Answer 19

Food can be classified into different groups: grains, fruits, vegetables, milk products, animal products and beans and oily foods.

Question 20

How many kinds of nutrients do foods carry, what are they?

Answer 20

Foods carry six kinds of nutrients: carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre, proteins and lipids.

Question 21

What foods provide carbohydrates?

Answer 21

Grains such as rice, wheat, maize, millet, barley and corn are energy-giving foods that provide carbohydrates.

Question 22

What do fresh fruits and vegetables give us?

Answer 22

• minerals, vitamins and fibre.

Question 23

Rich source of protein.

Answer 23

Beans, milk products and animal products such as meat, fish and eggs are a rich source of protein.

Question 24

What foods provide fatty acids?

Answer 24

Foods such as vegetable oil, fish and other seafood, nuts and seeds, eggs, yogurt, milk, etc. are energy giving foods that provide fatty acids.

Question 25

What does a balanced diet mean?

Answer 25

A balanced diet simply means eating more fruits, vegetables and grains, and consuming less food high in fat, sugar and cholesterol.

Question 26

One of the most important factors in remaining healthy.

Answer 26

• is taking preventive medicine

Question 27

What are refined foods?

Answer 27

Refined foods are highly processed foods - foods that have been stripped of their original nutrient content and fibre.

Question 28

What are high-cholesterol foods?

And what are they linked to?

Answer 28

• fried-foods, full-fat diary products and red meat.

- a higher risk of heart disease.