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Cambridge IGCSE Biology

7.1Diet

Diet in Cambridge IGCSE Biology: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives

What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.

  1. 7.1.1Describe a balanced diet.
  2. 7.1.2State the main dietary sources and describe the importance of carbohydrates, fats and oils, proteins, vitamins C and D, calcium and iron, fibre and water.
  3. 7.1.3State the dietary deficiencies that cause scurvy and rickets.

Lessons

  • Nutrients and a balanced diet

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Diet: sample question

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Tendai has swollen, bleeding gums, and a small cut on his hand is taking weeks to heal. His diet contains almost no fresh fruit or vegetables. Which deficiency disease is he most likely to have?

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