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Diet and Health: Nutritional Needs Across the Life Cycle
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Question 1 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

A pregnant woman in Trinidad visits her local health centre for prenatal advice. The nurse recommends she increase her intake of a specific nutrient to prevent neural tube defects in her baby. Which nutrient is the nurse most likely recommending?

  1. Vitamin C
  2. Folic acid
  3. Calcium
  4. Vitamin D
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✓ Answer: BFolic acid
Award 1 mark for identifying folic acid as essential for preventing neural tube defects such as spina bifida. A is incorrect — Vitamin C supports immune function but does not prevent neural tube defects. C is incorrect — Calcium is important for bone development but not specifically for neural tube formation. D is incorrect — Vitamin D aids calcium absorption but does not prevent neural tube defects.
Question 2 · 1 mark · Difficulty 2/3

Which of the following statements BEST explains why elderly persons in the Caribbean often require less energy from their diet than adolescents?

  1. Elderly persons have a higher basal metabolic rate
  2. Elderly persons are generally less physically active and have reduced muscle mass
  3. Elderly persons absorb nutrients more efficiently
  4. Elderly persons require more protein for growth
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✓ Answer: BElderly persons are generally less physically active and have reduced muscle mass
Award 1 mark for recognising that decreased activity and muscle mass lower energy requirements. A is incorrect — basal metabolic rate decreases with age, not increases. C is incorrect — nutrient absorption often decreases in the elderly. D is incorrect — adolescents, not elderly persons, require more protein for growth.
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Kramizo currently has 20 exam-board-aligned practice questions on Diet and Health: Nutritional Needs Across the Life Cycle for CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition, with new questions added every week. Each question gives you instant feedback and a full examiner-style mark scheme that tells you exactly what would earn marks on a real CXC paper. The questions span the full difficulty range — from straightforward recall (level 1) right up to multi-step reasoning and evaluation (level 3) — so the bank works for first-pass revision and final exam-week stress testing alike.
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Every question is written against the published CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition specification, including the exact command words (state, describe, explain, calculate, evaluate, etc.), mark allocations, and difficulty tier you'd see on a real CXC paper. Explanations are written in the style of official examiner mark schemes — they tell you what is being awarded marks and why distractors are wrong, not just whether you got it right. The bank is continually refined to match the latest syllabus updates from CXC.
How is Diet and Health: Nutritional Needs Across the Life Cycle typically tested on CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition papers?
Diet and Health: Nutritional Needs Across the Life Cycle appears across multiple question types on real CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition papers — most commonly as multiple-choice questions in the objective section, structured short-answer questions in the main paper, and occasionally as part of an extended response. Kramizo's practice bank reflects that mix: 4-option MCQs, true/false statements, fill-in-the-blank key terms, multi-select questions, and ordering questions. Working through the bank gives you exposure to every question style examiners actually use.

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