Free Health and Nutrition MCQs with Answers

213 Health and Nutrition MCQs from Health and Physical Education, each with the correct answer and a written explanation of why it is correct. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.

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  • A. Having a small, thin frame
  • B. Personal and/or family history of broken bones in adulthood
  • C. A diet high in calcium
  • D. Smokin

Explanation: A diet high in calcium helps maintain bone density and therefore is protective against osteoporosis.

Correct answer: A diet high in calcium
  • A. Chemical
  • B. Thermal
  • C. Electric
  • D. No energy

Explanation: Minerals do not provide calories or usable energy; they support functions such as bone formation, fluid balance, nerve activity and enzyme…

Correct answer: No energy
  • A. Opium
  • B. Lead
  • C. Sugar
  • D. Lithium

Explanation: Morphine is a powerful opioid alkaloid obtained from opium, the dried latex of the opium poppy.

Correct answer: Opium
  • A. Sweating
  • B. Dehydrated
  • C. Fatigue
  • D. NONE

Explanation: Heat exhaustion commonly develops when heat exposure is combined with dehydration, which reduces the body’s ability to cool itself.

Correct answer: Dehydrated
  • A. Tooth disease
  • B. Eye
  • C. Skin
  • D. Bone disease

Explanation: Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium and maintain strong bones, so deficiency can cause bone disease such as rickets.

Correct answer: Bone disease
  • A. Spleen and liver
  • B. Kidney and lungs
  • C. Lung and heart
  • D. Heady and brain

Explanation: Malaria parasites affect the liver during their developmental stage and commonly enlarge or damage the spleen as infected red blood cells…

Correct answer: Spleen and liver
  • A. Measles, syphilis
  • B. Cholera, tuberculosis
  • C. Poliomyelitis, syphilis
  • D. Measles,smallpox, mumps

Explanation: Measles, smallpox and mumps are all viral diseases, whereas cholera, tuberculosis and syphilis are caused by bacteria.

Correct answer: Measles,smallpox, mumps
  • A. Epilepsy
  • B. AIDS
  • C. Color blindness
  • D. Leucidrema

Explanation: Color blindness is commonly an X-linked inherited condition, so it is genetically transmitted through sex chromosomes.

Correct answer: Color blindness
  • A. H.I.V
  • B. A.I.B
  • C. B.I.G
  • D. V.I.H

Explanation: AIDS is caused by HIV, which stands for human immunodeficiency virus. The other letter combinations are not the accepted name of the virus.

Correct answer: H.I.V
  • A. Whooping cough
  • B. Cholera
  • C. Poliomyelitis
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Pertussis is the medical name for whooping cough, a contagious bacterial respiratory infection marked by severe bouts of coughing.

Correct answer: Whooping cough
  • A. Lack of green vegetable in diet
  • B. Use of milled rice
  • C. Definitely of calcium in bone
  • D. Poor use of citrus

Explanation: Beriberi results from a deficiency of thiamine, or vitamin B1, and is classically associated with eating polished or milled rice because…

Correct answer: Use of milled rice
  • A. Flexometer
  • B. Dynamimeter
  • C. Skin fold caliper
  • D. Stadiometer

Explanation: A skinfold caliper estimates subcutaneous body fat by measuring the thickness of skinfolds at standard body sites.

Correct answer: Skin fold caliper
  • A. Trace
  • B. Complex
  • C. Simple
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Minerals are broadly classified as macrominerals and trace minerals according to the amounts the body requires.

Correct answer: Trace
  • A. Building bones
  • B. Building Blocks
  • C. Building Muscles
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Amino acids join together to form proteins, so they are called the building blocks of proteins.

Correct answer: Building Blocks
  • A. Rickets
  • B. stress
  • C. Scurvy
  • D. Constipation

Explanation: Vitamin C is needed for collagen formation and healthy connective tissue, so severe deficiency causes scurvy, marked by bleeding gums and…

Correct answer: Scurvy
  • A. 8 Amino Acids
  • B. 12 Amino Acids
  • C. 11 Amino Acids
  • D. 9 amino Acids

Explanation: Adults require nine essential amino acids in the diet because the body cannot synthesize them in sufficient amounts.

Correct answer: 9 amino Acids
  • A. Chicken pox
  • B. Rabbies
  • C. Leprosy
  • D. Tetnus

Explanation: Rabies is a viral infection that attacks the central nervous system and is usually transmitted through the bite of an infected animal.

Correct answer: Rabbies
  • A. Fats
  • B. Vitamin
  • C. Carbs
  • D. Proteins

Explanation: Carbohydrates are the body's principal and most readily available fuel for physical activity, especially moderate- and high-intensity…

Correct answer: Carbs
  • A. Oranges
  • B. Bread
  • C. Cereals
  • D. Red meat

Explanation: Red meat generally contains substantially more fat than oranges, bread, or cereals, although the exact amount depends on the cut and…

Correct answer: Red meat
  • A. 60%
  • B. WA. 50%
  • C. 70%
  • D. 80%

Explanation: Water makes up about 60% of an average adult human body, though the exact proportion varies with age, sex, and body composition.

Correct answer: 60%