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1.Deficiency of proteins and calories (Protein Energy Malnutrition - PEM) generally occurs inGrowing children2.What is the indication of Protein Energy Malnutrition - PEMunderweight3.What are the most serious forms of Protein Energy Malnutrition - PEMKwashiorkor and Marasmus4.Human body contains about _____ minerals.245.Minerals are needed forFormation of bones and teeth, maintenance of osmotic pressure of body fluids, blood formation by iron etc.6.Deficiency of Calcium and Phosphorus causes _____ in children and _____ in adults.Rickets, Osteomalacia7.Deficiency of sodium chloride areUrine loss, kidney damage, acidosis8. Why is Magnesium important for human body? for the proper functioning of various metabolic pathways and ion channels9.What are the deficiencies of magnesiumIrritability, hyperreflexia10.Iron is essential for the formation of _____.Haemoglobin11.What is the deficiency of ironAnaemia12.Which tablets should be given for the treatment of iron deficiency?Ferron sulphate13.Iodine is found in _______.Dairy products, seafood, kelp, eggs, some vegetables and iodised salt.14.Why is Iodine required for our body?synthesis of thyroid hormones, thyroxine and triodothyronine15.What are the deficiencies of Iodine?Cretinism, still birth, neonatal hypothyroidism, damage of hearing and brian development, can cause an enlarged thyroid gland (goitre)16.Prevention of Iodine deficiency isconsumption of iodised salt17.Inadequate amounts of fluorine causeDental decay18.Measles, an infectious disease, especially of children, that causes fever and small red spots that cover the whole body is treated with Vitamin A19.Night blindness and xerophthalmia are caused due to the deficiency of which vitamin?Vitamin A20.Rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults are the deficiency of which vitamin?Vitamin D21.In pregnancy, which vitamin helps the development of a baby's bones.Vitamin D22.Which vitamin helps our body absorb calcium through the small intestine.Vitamin D23.Lack of exposure to sunlight can lead to which vitamin deficiency?Vitmain D24.Rickets is a preventable bone disease of early childhood, caused by which vitamin deficiency.Vitamin D25.Vitamin E deficiencies arehabitual abortion, muscular dystrophy, testicular degeneration26.Deficiencies of Vitamin K ishaemorrhage or delay in blood clotting27.Which vitamin could prevent serious bleeding in newborn babies, including Haemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)Vitamin K28.Vitamin C is also called ______.Ascorbic acid29.Vitamin C deficiencies areSwelling and bleeding of gums, anaemia and weakness30.Deficiency of Vitamin B1 known as thiamine isBeriberi31.Deficiency of Vitamin B3 also known as Niacin isPellagra32.Why is some small amount of sun exposure is needed to keep us healthy?This is because we need vitamin D which is made by the action of sunlight (UVB rays) on the skin.33.Oral zinc is used for treating _____ in children.Diarrhoea