Emilio Aguinaldo College – School Medicine
Department of Family & Community Medicine – FCM1
Section A
Topic: Nutrition among Vulnerable Groups (Childhood,
Adolescence, & Elderly)
Keemaya Joglekar
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Section A
Homework Questions & Instruction:
1. List the number of children, adolescents, and
elderlies in your family.
Ans ) There are no children or adolescents in my family.
There is 1 elderly person in my family.
2. Determine their Body Mass Index (BMI). If actual
height or weight is not available or
undetermined, make an approximate measurement.
Ans) height : 167 cm
Weight : 70 kgs
Bmi : 25.1
3. Make a nutritional plan (meal plan) for a day
(breakfast, lunch, and dinner) for the said
family members, basing on their vulnerability, food
preference (vegetarian, halal,
hypoallergenic, etc.), and kind of food available or
produced in your area.
Meal time
Breakfast
Mid
morning
Snack
Meal items
1 bowl of poha/
upma/dosa + Fresh
Vegetable juice/ one
cup of fruit.
One cup Plain
yoghurt
2 almonds
2 walnuts
Lunch
Snack
2 dates
1 chappati + 1 bowl
of any leafy green
vegetable + one cup
of salad+1 cup of
lentil soup(daal)
1 bowl of chana
(chickpea) chaat/1
Supplements
2 tbspoons of
flaxseeds
Vitamin D+
calcium+b12+
folic acid+
thiamine (vit
b1)+zinc
Dinner
besan chila + 2 cup of
milk.
Vegetable fried
rice/pulao/stir fried
vegetables with rice,
daal(lentil soup), one
cup of salad
4. How does this differ from your usual family meal?
Ans) Usually the number of servings of vegetables and
fruits are not as much as they are in the above
nutritional plan. Also the above nutritional plan has no
foods with added sugars which is different than the
usual family meal.