Question

Read the passage carefully and answer the question.

Health and nutrition are intimately interlinked. In some diseases, nutrition plays a major role in its management and treatment, and for some it complements the medical treatment. Nutritional status and support, prior to and after illness, plays an important role in determining prognosis, recovery and even duration of hospitalization. Nutritional assessment is required to obtain information on the patients' nutritional status and nutritional needs. A dietitian can develop a nutrition care plan by analyzing the nutritional requirements in state of disease and also provide appropriate diet counselling and guidance.

Given below are two statements labelled as Assertion (A) and Reason (R).

Assertion (A): In tube feeding, nutritionally complete feeds are delivered to a patient through a tube.

Reason (R): Oral feeding means that the patient is nourished with special solutions which are given through a drip in a vein.

Options

• Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

• Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

• (A) is true, but (R) is false.

• (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer 1

(A) is true, but (R) is false.