Health and Nutrition – Questions and Answers
Health and Nutrition – Questions and Answers
1-Which of the following is the sweetest natural sugar?
(A) Sucrose
(B) Glucose
(C) Lactose
(D) Fructose
2-The deficiency of Iron in man may result in
(A) Anemia
(B) Beri-beri
(C) Scurvy
(D) Diabetes
3-Deficiency of Vitamin D in children causes
(A) Pellagra
(B) Beriberi
(C) Rickets
(D) Scurvy
4-Scurvy is caused due to deficiency of Vitamin
(A) A
(B) C
(C) D
(D) K
5-Tamiflu is a frontline drug against
(A) AIDS
(B) Tuberculosis
(C) Diabetes
(D) Bird flu
6-‘Short-sight’ in human eye can be corrected by using
(A) Concave lens
(B) Convex lens
(C) Cylindrical lens
(D) Bifocal lens
7-Hypoglycemia refers to
(A) high salt concentration of blood
(B) high blood sugar level
(C) high blood pressure
(D) low sugar level in blood
8-Hypermetropia or long sight can be corrected by using
(A) Bifocal lenses
(B) Cylindrical lenses
(C) Convex lenses
(D) Concave lenses
9-Insufficient dietary iodine can cause
(A) Enlarged thyroid
(B) Weak bones
(C) Joint pain
(D) All of the above
10-What is “ALZHIEMER’S” disease?
(A) It affects liver
(B) It affects kidney
(C) It is a disorder of brain
(D) It affects human immune system
ANSWERS:
1-(D), 2-(A), 3-(C), 4-(B), 5-(D), 6-(A), 7-(D), 8-(C), 9-(D), 10-(C)