The performance of candidates was below average in question 6 as most of them could not name the conditions under which the liver converts glycogen to glucose. Only a few candidates could state the effects of malnutrition, some candidates wrote on causes of malnutrition. Expected answers include:
Conditions under which glycogen is converted to glucose
- during fasting/starvation/low glucose/sugar level in the body;
- during exercise/manual labour;
- under stress/danger/excitement;
- when ill/sick.
- Effects of malnutrition in children Stunted/retard growth;
- Marasmus/shrunken appearance;
- Retarded intellectual development/mental retardation; Deficiency disease/kwashiorkor/named;
- Blindness;
- Deformities/rickets;
- Goiter;
- Cretinism.
