Solve your Ignou Doubts

Define adulteration? What preventive measures you should adopt against adulteration?

Justify the statement “Grading is one way of ensuring food quality”. Give appropriate example. 

Elaborate different Nutrition Prophylaxis programmes initiated by the Government of India. 

Differentiate between inland fishing and marine fishing

Write a brief note on different Central and State Government schemes for the development of fisheries sector in India.  

 Define Pisciculture. 

Enlist different phases of White Revolution initiated in India. Explain any one. 

What are Fair Price Shops? Discuss the advantages of buying from these shops

Briefly elaborate different types of agricultural production subsidies given by World Trade Organization (WTO)

What do you understand by market price, issue price and procurement price? Describe the role of FCI in food subsidies. 

How irrigation and use of fertilizers influences foods from land (Food crops)?  

Define Food budget. List different points you should keep in mind while preparing food budget for your family. 

Make an inventory of your 3 days minute to minute activity. Then classify yourself as sedentary, moderate or heavy worker according to the average activity performed. (Refer to Unit 2).  

Record the weight and height of five elderly person in your neighbourhood. Are these persons normal, underweight or overweight? Also record their daily food intake. Did they include foods from all food groups? (Refer to Unit 11) 

Is the infant getting foods from all the five food groups? If not, suggest some foods that (10) can be included. (Refer to unit 9) 

Visit any one family in your neighbourhood where they have an infant 6 to 12 months of age. Record the complementary foods given to the infant in the proforma below: 

 Is the infant getting foods from all the five food groups? If not, suggest some foods that (10) can be included. (Refer to unit 9) 

Comment on the following:
i) Factors which influence our food habits.
ii) Misrepresentation of food products by manufacturers.

Why is dietary assessment important? How will you record and evaluate your own daily food intake? Explain any one method in detail.

List the physiological changes that occur in later years of life. How do they influence the nutrient needs of the elderly. 

How will you meet the nutritional needs of people with varying food budgets? Explain giving the guidelines for food selection within the varying food budgets?