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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 biology aids to health immunization, treatment and antibiotics antibodies and antitoxin prevention and treatment of disease

The best medicine for snake bite is 

  1. Antiseptic

  2. Antivenom

  3. Antibiotic

  4. Atreptomycin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Any injury caused by the biting of a snake is called a snake bite. It is usually poisonous. A common sign of snakebite is the presence of two wounds from snake's fangs. Snakebite delivers poison to the person it bites. This poison has to be nullified through anti-venom drugs. Antivenom is a medicine made from antibiotics. It is used to treat snake bites.

So, option B is the correct answer.

Multiple choice zoology endocrine system and chemical co-ordination pineal gland pituitary gland and pineal gland pineal gland and thymus

Which of the following statements is correct?

  1. Argentaffin cells produce serotonin

  2. Villikinin is secreted by large intestine

  3. In cheilosis, deficient nutrient is nicotinamide

  4. Bleeding disease occurs due to deficiency of vitamin E
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Argentaffin cells (also known as enterochromaffin cells) are specialized cells in the gastrointestinal tract that produce serotonin.

Multiple choice biology reproductive health reproductive health of humans need of family planning reproductive health problems different types of reproduction

Reproductive health is related to

  1. Physical fitness

  2. Emotional compatibility

  3. Behavioural inter relationships

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

Reproductive health as a total well being in physical, emotional, behavioral and social aspects of reproduction.

A society can only be termed as reproductively healthy if the people have physically and functionally normal reproductive organs as well as normal emotional and behavioural interactions among them in all sex- related aspects.
So, the correct answer is 'All of the above'.

Multiple choice biology food for health fats fats and their test different nutrients in food

Excess intake of food calories, specially food with little
water, sugar, honey and ghee causes

  1. Hypercholesterolmia

  2. Kwashiorkar

  3. Bleeding disease

  4. Obesity
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Obesity is an abnormal increase in the proportion of fat cells mainly in the viscera and subcutaneous tissues of the body.

Multiple choice zoology plant reproduction different modes of reproduction sexual and asexual reproduction lifespan, reproduction and variation

The diseases caused by using mosquito repellents are 

  1. Blood related diseases

  2. Fits

  3. Bronchial diseases

  4. Kidney related diseases
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

There are harmful and toxic chemicals present in the mosquito repellents and coils like the pyrethrum. These molecules when inhaled may cause diseases like asthma, bronchitis and another type of chronic lung infections. These are collectively referred as the bronchial diseases. 

Thus, the correct answer is option C. 

Multiple choice physics the essence of change forms of energy and energy conservation energy for everything forms of energy

The muscular energy required by our body is given to us by :

  1. Air

  2. Water

  3. Oxygen

  4. Food
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

chemical energy is the potential of a chemical substance to undergo a transformation through a chemical reaction to transform other chemical substances.

In food different different reaction occurs which provide energy to run the body, so energy possessed in food is chemical energy and which is converted to muscular energy required to run our body.
so option D.

Multiple choice zoology diseases and hygiene health introduction to health health and its maintenance

Health is

  1. Weight of body according to height

  2. Absence of disease or infirmity

  3. State of complete physical, mental and social well being

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

Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. It depends on three parameters physical, mental and social. It is a dynamic condition resulting from a body's constant adjustment and adaptation in response to stresses and changes in the environment for maintaining an inner equilibrium called homeostasis.

Multiple choice zoology why do we fall ill health introduction to health health and its maintenance

All of the following can prevent mental illness except _____________.

  1. Healthy life

  2. Weekend break

  3. Loneliness

  4. Exercise
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Healthy life, healthy food and habits can help in preventing the mental disorders. When there is a weekend break, the person can enjoy and have rest. Exercise helps to keep the body fit and healthy. Loneliness is a type of mental illness in which the person suffers from sadness, depression, low mood quality, etc.

Thus, the correct answer is option C. 

Multiple choice evs let's clean together cleanliness who will do this work? personal and public cleanliness

Apart from the cleanliness of one's own body __________also helps to improve personal health.

  1. Depression

  2. Over-eating

  3. Medicines

  4. Physical exercise
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Physical exercise helps improve bodily functions. It prevents the body from mental and physical illnesses. A person with a sedentary lifestyle is more prone to diseases and infections than a person with little or more working lifestyle. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice evs let's clean together cleanliness who will do this work? personal and public cleanliness

.......... practice at regular basis can help reduce risk of various diseases.

  1. Hand washing

  2. Cleaning gardens

  3. Car washing

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

To improved health, it is necessary to follow some good and basic hygienic behaviour particularly hand-washing with soap after defecating and before eating or preparing food. Handwashing with soap can significantly reduce the incidence of diarrhea. Good hand-washing practices have shown to reduce the incidence of other diseases, notably pneumonia, trachoma, scabies, skin and eye infections and diarrhoea-related diseases like cholera and dysentery. Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

Multiple choice evs let's clean together cleanliness who will do this work? personal and public cleanliness

Which of the following reduces hypertension?

  1. Daily exercise

  2. Listening music in slow volume

  3. Eat fruits daily

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

  • Lifestyle changes you can make to lower your blood pressure are:

Exercise regularly.
Eat a healthy diet. 
Reduce sodium in your diet.
Limit the amount of alcohol you drink. 
Quit smoking.
Cut back on caffeine. 
Reduce your stress. 
  • Hence, Daily exercise reduces hypertension.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Daily exercise'.

Multiple choice evs let's clean together cleanliness who will do this work? personal and public cleanliness

Lack of daily exercise can cause

  1. Fever

  2. Pneumonia

  3. Typhoid

  4. Diabetes
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
  • A sedentary lifestyle and lack of physical activity can contribute to or be a risk factor for:
  1. Anxiety.
  2. Cardiovascular disease.
  3. Migraines.
  4. Colon cancer.
  5. Depression.
  6. Diabetes. 
  • Hence, Lack of daily exercise can cause Diabetes.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Diabetes'.