Promote nutrition and hydration in adult care settings
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What is usually used to identify and measure obesity?
The Body Mass Index
Weight
The responsible General Practitioner
The body’s proportion of muscle to fat
Which of the answers below is the most common sign of malnutrition?
People refusing food they do not like
People refusing food they like
Weight loss of more than 5% - 10% of body weight over one to two months
Weight loss of 5% - 10% over 3-6 months
People living with dementia:
Seldom eat healthy diets
May need encouragement to eat
Must always eat regularly
Are almost always malnourished
Dehydration is:
When the body loses more water than it takes in
A medical term for a specific illness
Only to be diagnosed by a doctor or nutritionist
Treatable but seldom curable and sometimes fatal
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