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CCEA GCSE Food and Nutrition: Diet and health through life overview

An overview of the diet and health through life module of CCEA GCSE Home Economics: Food and Nutrition, mapping dietary needs across the life stages, the current dietary guidelines including the Eatwell Guide, and diet-related conditions, and how they are examined on Unit 1.

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  1. What this module covers
  2. How it is examined
  3. How to study it

The second module of CCEA GCSE Home Economics: Food and Nutrition takes the nutrient science and applies it to real people and health. It sits in Unit 1 Food and Nutrition and is examined on the written paper. This page maps the topics and links to a focused answer page for each one.

What this module covers

Dietary needs across life stages
How nutritional needs change from pregnancy and weaning through childhood, adolescence and adulthood to old age, and the nutrients each group needs most. Start with Dietary needs across life stages.
Current dietary guidelines
The Eatwell Guide food groups and proportions, the eight tips for healthy eating, and the government targets on fat, sugar, salt and fibre. See Current dietary guidelines.
Diet-related conditions
Obesity, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, anaemia, dental caries and osteoporosis, their links to diet, and how diet can reduce the risk. See Diet-related conditions.

How it is examined

These topics appear on Unit 1, worth 50% of the GCSE. Expect questions that name a group (a pregnant woman, a teenager, an older person) and ask you to explain their needs, questions on the Eatwell Guide and the tips, and questions linking diet to a named condition and how to reduce its risk. Extended answers carry quality of written communication marks.

How to study it

Learn each life stage with its key nutrients and reasons. Memorise the Eatwell Guide and the eight tips, with the 6 g salt target. Learn each diet-related condition as a cause-to-cure pair. The marks come from applying this to named people and situations, so practise that, then finish with the module quiz.

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