Health, Nutrition, and Safety

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

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

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

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

Explain how health, nutrition, and safety interrelate.

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

______ 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.

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

True or False: Paternal practices affect early brain development

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.

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

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.

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

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

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