Malnutrition
Malnutrition is a state resulted from deficiency or excess supply of essential nutrients. This note has information about malnutrition, its causes, types and symptoms.
Summary
Malnutrition is a state resulted from deficiency or excess supply of essential nutrients. This note has information about malnutrition, its causes, types and symptoms.
Things to Remember
- Malnutrition is a state resulted from deficiency or excess supply of essential nutrients.
- Malnutrition can be classified into three groups on the basis of its severity. They are simple malnutrition, medium malnutrition and severe malnutrition.
- Lack of proper storing and cooking causes malnutrition because nutrients of food are destroyed with the improper storing and over cooking.
- Kwashiorkor and Marasmus are two types of malnutrition according to the severity of malnutrition.
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Subjective Questions
Q1:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are opposite in meaning to the following:
bright
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q2:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are opposite in meaning to the following:
Shallow
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q3:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are opposite in meaning to the following:
Big; large
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q4:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are opposite in meaning to the following:
Difficult
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q5:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are similar in meaning to the following:
Forest
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q6:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are similar in meaning to the following:
Strange
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q7:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are similar in meaning to the following:
Blowing of air
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q8:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are similar in meaning to the following:
Soft; cotton
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q9:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are similar in meaning to the following:
Beautiful; attractive
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q10:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are similar in meaning to the following:
Swear
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q11:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are opposite in meaning to the following:
Shaking
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q12:
Find the words, from the above poem, that are similar in meaning to the following:
Eve
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q13:
Match the words in column ‘A’ with their meaning in column ‘B’:
Column ‘A’ Column ‘B’
Watch a small thin piece
Farmhouse leather straps for an animal
Lake with a layer of ice on the surface
Frozen a large area of water surrounded by land
Harness the main house on a farm, where a farmer lives
Flake to look at something carefully
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q14:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The speaker in the poem is probably a traveller.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q15:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The poet is sure that he knows the owner of the woods.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q16:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The woods are beautiful and the poet adores the scenery so much.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q17:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The poet and the horse used to stop at farmhouse at night.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q18:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The horse was not happy to stop in the woods.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q19:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The poet is the owner of the woods.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q20:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The poet stops by the woods due to its beauty.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q21:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The horse stays in the farmhouse.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q22:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The weather describe in the poem is cold
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q23:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The poem is about the beauty of nature and his desire to enjoy its pleasure.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q24:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The poet’s house is in a village.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q25:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The poet stops in a farm house.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q26:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The horse rings the bell to warn the poet.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q27:
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
The poet has many promises to be fulfilled.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q28:
Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:
The poet stops to enjoy ______.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q29:
Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:
The event described in the poem happened at the time of ______.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q30:
Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:
The poet hears the sounds of ______.
Type: Very_short Difficulty: Easy
Q31:
Answer these questions:
Who has composed the poem?
Type: Short Difficulty: Easy
Q32:
Answer these questions:
What is the poem entitled?
Type: Short Difficulty: Easy
Q33:
Answer these questions:
Who, do you think, is the speaker in the poem?
Type: Short Difficulty: Easy
Q34:
Answer these questions:
Why did the poet think that the owner would not find him stopping in the owner’s wood?
Type: Short Difficulty: Easy
Q35:
Answer these questions:
What was the weather like that night?
Type: Short Difficulty: Easy
Q36:
Answer these questions:
Why did the horse give a snake to his bells?
Type: Short Difficulty: Easy
Q37:
Answer these questions:
Where was the poet going?
Type: Short Difficulty: Easy
Q38:
Answer these questions:
What is the poem about?
Type: Short Difficulty: Easy
Q39:
Answer these questions:
What does ‘before I sleep’ suggest?
Type: Short Difficulty: Easy
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Malnutrition
Malnutrition
Malnutrition is a state resulted from deficiency or excess supply of essential nutrients. It is the root cause of any infectious disease that occurs especially in children. It can occur at any age, but most frequently it occurs in children.
Cause of Malnutrition
Malnutrition is the lack of appropriate amount of nutrients in food.
It is due to the following causes: -
- Lack of food: Inability to consume either required quantity of food or due to low production or lack of purchasing power, causes malnutrition.
Lack of knowledge: Most of the people do not know about the importance of home-made food with high-quality nutritive value and they are lured to instant and expensive foods from the market. Those instant foods have low nutritive value which may cause malnutrition.
- Diseases: Various diseases like roundworm may cause malnutrition because the patient feels the loss of appetite. Indigestion also causes malnutrition because of the lack of necessary absorption of micronutrients from the food.
Improper storing: Lack of proper storing and cooking causes malnutrition because nutrients of food are destroyed with the improper storing and over cooking.
- Food adulteration: For the sake of money, shopkeeper sells the foods mixed with poor quality foods. It is adulteration. It is harmful to the health and person cannot get proper nutrition.
Types of Malnutrition:
Malnutrition can be classified into three groups on the basis of its severity. They are as follows:
- Simple malnutrition: There is no special symptom of simple malnutrition. It is justa condition of lack of weight for height. It can be detected by taking the weight.
- Median malnutrition: This type of malnutrition especially suffers the children under 5 years old. When the children continuously quarrel and get irritated, they are in median malnutrition.
- Severe malnutrition: Kwashiorkor and Marasmus are two types of malnutrition according to the severity of malnutrition.
General symptoms of malnutrition:
- Regular weeping, crying
- Feeling irritation
- Underweight in children
- Wrinkled skin especially in happy and calf of leg
Lesson
Disease. Nutrition. Tobacco. Alcohol And Drug
Subject
EPH
Grade
Grade 10
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