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