Tinku is obese. What is obesity? Excessive intake of which nutrient causes this condition? How can you test the presence of this nutrient in the food?
Answers
Explanation:
Weight above what's considered healthy, often measured using body mass index (BMI).
Very common
More than 10 million cases per year (India)
Usually self-treatable
Usually self-diagnosable
Lab tests or imaging not required
Chronic: can last for years or be lifelong
Excessive intake of which nutrient causes this condition?
Answer:-Obesity is generally caused by eating too much and moving too little. If you consume high amounts of energy, particularly fat and sugars, but do not burn off the energy through exercise and physical activity, much of the surplus energy will be stored by the body as fat.
How can you test the presence of this nutrient in the food?
Answer:-Take small quantity of the food items to be tested. Put 2-3 drops of iodine solution on it. Observe the colour of the food item. Blue-black colour indicates the presence of starch in the tested food item.