Question

Bellevue High School has asked you to review its wellness policy and make recommendations to improve the health and well-being of its students. You visit Bellevue and observe the following: . The meal served at lunch is a chicken, black bean, spinach, and cheese burrito on a whole grain tortilla with a side of All students were served the same amount of food, but some students ate all of it while others threw half or more Soda was not available in the school cafeteria, but during lunch, you saw students walking to the 7-Eleven on the Time Attemp 57 Mi roasted potatoes and carrots and an apple. away. corner to buy big gulp sodas . On the bulletin board in the hallway, you saw a poster with information that eating too much sugar increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease later in life.

Answer 1

# The factors that influence calorie needs during adolescence are :-

- Lack of knowledge in the family and community about the importance of nutrition during adolescence

- Lack of food because of socio-economic circumstances

- Inequitable distribution of food in the family wherein girls being denied nutritious food

- Poor dietary intake of food and vegetables rich in iron

- Poor bioavailability of iron in the diet

- Hookworm infestation

- Diseases like Malaria

- Bad cooking habits (over boiling vegetables and straining water, removing husk from wheat, eating polished rice and straining rice water, etc.)