How can you tell they’ve got it: Diet Imbalance & Deficiency?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Defines obesity, starvation, and deficiency disease and links each to dietary imbalance; Identifies at least two specific deficiency diseases and the missing nutrient causing each; Explains why the impact of poor diet can be long-term. Or just try it together: If your child heard about conditions like obesity or vitamin deficiency diseases, could they explain how eating too much, too little, or the wrong mix of foods leads to those health problems?

Science Organisms & Life Processes Ages 11–13

Diet Imbalance & Deficiency

Your child can explain how poor eating harms health. Too much energy leads to obesity. Too little food is starvation. Missing a nutrient causes illnesses like scurvy.

In curriculum terms

Explain the health consequences of an imbalanced diet including obesity (excess energy), starvation (severe energy deficit), and deficiency diseases (lack of specific nutrients, e.g. scurvy, rickets)

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Defines obesity, starvation, and deficiency disease and links each to dietary imbalance
Identifies at least two specific deficiency diseases and the missing nutrient causing each
Explains why the impact of poor diet can be long-term

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Try this together

If your child heard about conditions like obesity or vitamin deficiency diseases, could they explain how eating too much, too little, or the wrong mix of foods leads to those health problems?

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Nutrients in a Healthy Dietages 11–13Understanding imbalanced diet consequences requires knowing what a balanced diet looks like

Diet Imbalance & Deficiencythis skill · ages 11–13

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Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

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VC2TDE6C03low confidenceDesign and Technologies · Levels 5 and 6 · Technologies Contexts strand

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