Health Education Paper 2 WASSCE (PC 2ND), 2021

Question 5

 

 

State three causes of obesity.                                                                            [3 marks]

Observation

 

 

Many candidates got the answer to the question correctly. Some candidates were however not coherent in the presentation of answers and were revolving different answers around eating/overeating.
           
The expected answers are:

 

Causes of obesity

  • Eating more than necessary/overeating
  • Hormonal discharge
  • Heredity and genetics
  • Physical inactivity/sedentary lifestyle/lack of exercise
  • Enlargement of the adipose tissues after childbirth
  • Eating late at night/irregular eating/eating between meals
  • Poor/unbalanced diet
  • Poor knowledge of what/when to eat
  • Improper medication
  • Disease e.g hyperthyroidism
  • Culture/food faddism
  • Poverty