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SSC CGL 2022 PYQ — Question 38

SSC CGL - 02 Dec 2022 - Shift 3 • General Awareness • Q38

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Which of the following statement is correct?

 I. The nutrition requirements of adolescents are higher than adult.

II. Adolescents are generally grouped in the age group of 10 to 19 years.

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Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is Option 2. i.e. Both I and II.

  • The National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) in India apply adult cutoffs of nutritional status for the estimation of undernutrition/overweight in the 15–19 age group.
  • The prevalence of thinness in boys and girls thus estimated is 58.1% and 46.8% in NFHS-3, and 45% and 42% in NFHS-4 respectively.
  • But the WHO recommends using age and sex-specific reference for adolescents. We reanalyzed the nutritional status of the adolescents using the WHO 2007 Growth Reference to obtain revised estimates of thinness, overweight and stunting across states, rural-urban residence, and wealth quintiles.