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Grade(s): Standard Grade
Author(s): Alastair MacGregor
ISBN: 9781843724933
This popular title is ideal as a step-by-step support throughout the academic year to develop knowledge and understanding and help students to gain the grade they really deserve. Eight comprehensive key units cover health, individual and family needs, design features and business and management and provide students with everything they need to know, in one handy volume, to excel in the written exam. Succinct explanations, detailed data tables and extensive illustrations present an accessible and stimulating approach to learning for all abilities. Whilst perfect for use as a core course text, the course content checklist allows for thorough revision and makes Standard Grade Home Economics Course Notes an invaluable tool in the approach to exams.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Eating a variety of foods contributes to good health
· The main nutrients, their sources and functions
· Relationship between water, non-starch polysaccharides and health
· Health and nutrient intake
· Interrelationship of nutrients
Chapter 2: Current dietary advice
· Dietary targets
· Ways to meet current dietary targets
· Choice of cooking methods
· Relationship between diet and health
· Food labelling
Chapter 3: Individuals have varying dietary needs
· Dietary requirements of different groups of individuals
· Dietary requirements of groups with special needs
· Factors affecting food choice
Chapter 4: Cleanliness is important in relation to health
· General personal hygiene
· Clothes care
· Hygiene in relation to food handling
· Causes, effects and control of food spoilage
· Food storage and preservation
· Food poisoning
· Preventing food spoilage, contamination and poisoning
· Refrigerators and freezers
Chapter 5: Safe working practices
· Safe working practices
· Use of food preparation equipment
· Care of clothing
· Sewing equipment
· Home safety
Chapter 6: Design features
· Influences on choice of materials and resources
· Design and design features
· Conservation of resources
Chapter 7: Physical needs of individuals and families
· Clothing
· Shelter
· Reliable sources of consumer advice
· Consumer rights and responsibilities
· Labelling of products
· General wellbeing
Chapter 8: Management of expenditure
· Budgeting
· Sources of income
· Household expenditure
· Purchasing goods and services
· Debt management
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