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Explain how health, nutrition, and safety interrelate.

True or False: Health is a state of physical, emotional, social, economic, cultural, and spiritual well-being.

Factor Influencing Children's Health: Characteristics transmitted from biological parents to their children at the time of conception determine all of the genetic traits of a new, unique individual.

Heredity

Factor Influencing Children's Health: Encompasses a combination of physical, psychological, social, economic, and cultural factors that collectively influence the way individuals perceive and respond to their surroundings.

Environment

It refers to behaviors and measures that are taken to protect an individual(s) from unnecessary harm.

Safety

It refers to the science of food, its chemical components.

Nutrition

True or False: Nutrients play critical roles in a variety of vital body functions.

True

It refers to the many physical changes that occur as a child matures.

Growth

True or False: Protecting children’s safety requires a keen awareness of their skills and abilities at each developmental stage.

True

_________ supplies energy, promotes growth and development, improve resistance to illness and infection, build and repair body tissue.

Nutrients

______ provide a useful reference for understanding, monitoring, and promoting children's growth and development. They represent the average or approximate age where majority of children demonstrate a given skill or behavior.

Norms / Normal curve

Determine the developmental stage: weighs approximately 7 to 8 pounds (3.2–3.6 kg) and is approximately 20 inches (50.8 cm) in length

Infancy

Determine the developmental stage: Eruption of “baby teeth,” or deciduous teeth.

Toddlerhood

Determine the developmental stage: chubby body shape becomes more defined as muscle tone and strength increase.

Preschool age

True or False: Paternal practices affect early brain development

True