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Health and Nutrition

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Health and nutrition questions explore the benefits of physical activity, chronic disease prevention, and dietary choices. This topic bridges human biology with everyday wellness, appearing in general science papers. Practice these questions to master concepts related to healthy lifestyles and aging.

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Health and Nutrition Questions

Multiple choice evs - i growth and personality development heredity and other supporting factors for development all together community work and its importance

Along with nutritious food, adequate exercise is also necessary for growth and development.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

It is an old proverb that a healthy mind resides in a healthy body. Food rich in nutrition is a primary requirement for a healthy body but regular physical exercise along with nutritious food maintain the balance of minerals, protein etc in the body and keeps unnecessary diseases away from the body.

Multiple choice biology health and hygiene life is precious road safety and pollution personal health care

Maintaining personal hygiene is important because

  1. Lack of oral hygiene causes oral thrush and dental caries.

  2. Poor personal hygiene may causes foul smelling.

  3. Poor personal hygiene affects the appearance of an individual.

  4. All of the above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

  • The Importance of Good Personal Hygiene is for the maintaining of personal hygiene as it is necessary for many reasons like for personal, social, health, psychological or simply as a way of life. 
  • Keeping a good standard of hygiene helps to prevent the development and spread of infections, illnesses and bad odours. Hence, Maintaining personal hygiene is important because Lack of oral hygiene causes oral thrush and dental caries, Poor personal hygiene may cause foul smelling and Poor personal hygiene affects the appearance of an individual.
 So, the correct answer is 'All of the above'.

Multiple choice poster writing english

Which of the options may be included in a poster on the given topic:

Maintaining good health

  1. Fun with Fitness!

  2. Would you like to know how to stay fit?

  3. Maintain good health by joining our health club.

  4. Good health is something we all think is elusive but it need not be so.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Posters are placards displayed in public announcing and advertising something. The purpose of a poster is either to create social awareness or to advertise or even extend public invitations and display notices.
The correct answer is Option A. This poster here, is to urge people to maintain good health. The poster should attract attention and encourage people to join the campaign. The posters have important information in persuasive language. Slogans make an important part of the posters. Details and formal language is avoided in a poster to retain compactness.
Options B, C and D are incorrect as they do not adhere to the format of poster making due to the formal language used in them and having unnecessary information, thus, making it boring.

Multiple choice evs nutrition and its deficiency need for nutrients nutrition and its need nutrients needed by the body

Which of the following is incorrect? Good nutrition:

  1. Can help to slow the ageing process

  2. Boosts immune system

  3. Gives you vitality and energy

  4. Causes fatigue and low mood
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Option D is the correct answer here.

Good nutrition provides you all essential elements of the body like vitamins, minerals, ions, protein, and carbohydrates. The feeling of fatigue and low mood is related to the brain, good nutrition provides a proper supply of glucose to the brain. Because of proper supply of nutrient functioning of the brain never get any affect. So, feeling of fatigue and low mood can't appear to the person who takes a proper supply of nutrition.

Multiple choice evs the muscular system and digestive system in human beings human muscular system closer look into muscular system muscles and its types

For muscle-building anabolic steroids we can say that:

  1. They are relatively risk free to use

  2. They have side effects that outweigh their benefits

  3. They increase muscular strength and endurance

  4. Both (b) and (c)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
Anabolic steroids are synthetic, or human-made, variations of the male sex hormone testosterone. The proper term for these compounds is anabolic-androgenic steroids. "Anabolic" refers to muscle building, and "androgenic" refers to increased male sex characteristics. Some common names for anabolic steroids are Gear, Juice, Roids, and Stackers. Health care providers can prescribe steroids to treat hormonal issues, such as delayed puberty. Steroids can also treat diseases that cause muscle loss, such as cancer and AIDS. But some athletes and bodybuilders misuse these drugs in an attempt to boost performance or improve their physical appearance.  Misuse of anabolic steroids might lead to negative mental effects, such as paranoid (extreme, unreasonable) jealousy, irritability, and aggression (“roid rage”),delusions—false beliefs or ideas, impaired judgment etc. Aside from mental effects, steroid use commonly causes severe acne. It also causes the body to swell, especially in the hands and feet.

So, the correct answer is 'Both (b) and (c)'.
Multiple choice zoology locomotion and movement disorders of musculoskeletal system disorders of muscle and skeleton joints and movements

Repetitive muscular activity at moderate levels, such as weight training, can result in

  1. Denervation atrophy

  2. Mood swings

  3. Muscular hypertrophy

  4. A decline in health
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

  • Muscular dystrophy is a collection of muscle-wasting conditions. 
  • A lack of a protein called dystrophin is the main cause of muscular dystrophy.
So, the correct option is 'Muscular dystrophy'.

Multiple choice biology nutrition and diet effect on general health diseases caused by changes in lifestyle diet, drugs and disease

To keep a person healthy, he should be provided 

  1. High energy food

  2. Large amount of food

  3. Balanced diet

  4. Interest and spirit
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A person should eat a balanced diet for healthy living. A balanced diet is the diet that contains all the components in optimum proportions and quantity required for maintaining the body in a perfect state of health, activity and development. Various components of the balanced diet are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, mineral and roughage or fiber.

Multiple choice evs nutrition and its deficiency general functions of food nutrition and its need in plants nutrition and its need

Which of the following life process maintains good health?

  1. Reproduction

  2. Nutrition

  3. Locomotion

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
Nutrition contains the nutrients that are necessary for an organism to have good height, good weight and good strength. Hence, the nutrition maintains good health of an organism.
So the correct answer is 'Nutrition'.
Multiple choice zoology our health introduction to health and disease health and its failure health and its significance

Which of the following is the initial step towards good health?

  1. Adequate housing

  2. Natural environment

  3. Clean water and air

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Health is dependent on physical, social and mental well-being. A healthy environment is required to maintain the physical fitness and for sustaining social well-being. This includes characteristics of the natural environment, the built environment and the social environment. Factors such as clean water and air, adequate housing, and safe communities and roads all have been found to contribute to good health, especially to the health of infants and children. 

So, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice zoology our health introduction to health and disease health and its failure health and its significance

Ramesh started going for a regular morning walk for controlling his blood sugar level. He did so for a month and also started for any pathological examination. He underwent pathological test after two months and found that the blood sugar level has come down. Presuming that he had not changed his food habits during these two months, which statements given below follows most logically?

  1. Blood sugar level comes down after doing regular morning walk.

  2. Blood sugar level comes down after yoga

  3. Blood sugar level rises on doing regular morning walk, yoga or both may raise sugar level despite not changing food habits

  4. Regular morning walk, yoga or both may bring down sugar level despite not changing food habits
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In diabetes patients, the cells do not respond to the insulin. Doing walk or exercise our body uses more glucose from the blood stream. Over time this lowers the blood sugar level and also makes the insulin in our body work better. Yoga acts on the endocrine gland of our body and regulates the body functions. It massages and tones the abdominal organs like pancreas and liver stimulate the nervous and circulatory system which in turn helps in controlling diabetes. So, the option D is correct. 

Multiple choice zoology our health introduction to health and disease health and its failure health and its significance

Education and literacy can be considered as a factor to determine health of a person.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

According to the World Health Organization, the main determinants of health include the social and economic environment, the physical environment and the person's individual characteristics and behaviours. 

Multiple choice zoology our health introduction to health and disease health and its failure health and its significance

Other factors that influence the health of an individual can be

  1. Lifestyle

  2. Background

  3. Economic condition

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Health is dependent on all the three factors social, physical and mental. A number of other factors are known to influence the health status of individuals, including their background, lifestyle, economic and social conditions and spirituality. 

So, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice zoology our health introduction to health and disease health and its failure health and its significance

Which of the following aspects can be controlled by an individual to determine the effect on health?

  1. Environment

  2. Biochemical process

  3. Lifestyle

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The lifestyle of a particular individual can be adjusted to avoid the unhealthy situation. Whereas, the environment and biochemical factors cannot be controlled. 

So, the correct answer is option C.

Multiple choice zoology our health introduction to health and disease health and its failure health and its significance

A 35 year old man works in a cooperative firm. He gets 7 hours sleep, does regular exercise in the morning, has a healthy diet, he is happy and does not have any stress or work load. He is said to be 

  1. Healthy

  2. Disease free

  3. Joyful

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The person described has all the characteristics of a healthy individual. Therefore, (a) is the correct answer.