Factors that affect growth and development include heredity, health, nutrition, habits, diseases, rest, recreation, family, and surroundings. Healthy children who practice good nutrition and hygiene habits, get adequate rest and exercise, and live in clean, supportive environments tend to grow and develop faster. Certain diseases and genetic factors can slow growth.

1. Factors Affecting Growth and
Development
Prepared by: Lovelyn M. Mataac

2. 1. Heredity
 Heredity is the passing on of characteristics
from parents to their children.
 Healthy children grow and develop faster
than sickly children.

3. 2. Health
 Health means being physically, mentally
and socially fit.

4.  Children inherit some physical
characteristics from parents. If a child
inherited shortness, he or she will be short
even with the proper nourishment.
 A child who is healthy grows and develops
faster than the one who is sickly.

5. 3. Food and Food Habits
 The body needs different kinds of nutrients
for growth, energy and repair.
 The body needs different nutrients;
carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins,
minerals, and water.

6.  Carbohydrates and fats provide the
body with the energy needs.
Proteins provide the materials for
growth and repair. Vitamins and
minerals keep the body in good
condition. Water is essential for
metabolism and for bowel
movement. It also determines the
amount of blood in circulation.

7.  Minerals are nutrients that are needed for
building strong bones and teeth, for helping
the nerves work, for regulating growth and for
the clotting of blood.
 Metabolism refers to all the activities going on
in the cells so that they can absorb food and
produce energy.

8. • It is important to practice good food
habits that are necessary for one’s
health. When one is healthy, he or she
grows and develops fast.

9. 4. Good Food Habits
• Eat plenty of food from grains and
cereals. They are the food that give
you energy.
• Eat protein-rich food. They are the
foods that make you grow.

10.  Eat fruits and vegetables. They are foods that
regulate your growth. Some vegetables are
good if eaten raw. Others should be lightly
cooked so that their nutrients will not be lost.
 Eat less fatty, salty or sweet foods. Too much
of these can cause illnesses.

11.  Drink plenty of water. Your body parts need
water to do their work.
 Eat a balanced diet. A balanced diet has the
right kinds of food in the right amount.

12. 5. Good Health Habits
 Keeping Clean-make cleanliness a habit.
Take a bath daily. Wash your hands as often
as needed. Brush your teeth. Be sure to
clean your nose and ears. Keeping yourself
clean can keep off some germs that caused
diseases.

13.  Exercise-your body also needs exercise.
Exercise makes your muscles strong. It
also improves your flexibility and makes
your heart, lungs and other body parts
work efficiently.
 Playing is also an exercise.

14.  Rest-while you need exercise, you also
need rest. Muscles get tired when
they overworked. When your muscles
are tired, they cannot work well.
 Rest after work or play. You rest when
you sit down and read a book or listen
to music. Sleep is a form of rest.

15. 6. Diseases
 Some diseases may affect babies before they are
born or at birth. These diseases may affect some
parts of the body like the brain, in which case the
child may become paralyzed or mentally retarded.
Blindness may also affect development of
physical and social capabilities of children.

16.  Cerebral palsy is a disorder that affects a
person’s movement and posture.
 Immunization means injecting into the body a
weakened form of germs.
 SOME DISEASES SLOW DOWN ONE’S
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.

17. 7. Rest and Recreation
• Recreation- an activity engaged in to
restore strength and spirits after work.
• It is an activity done for enjoyment.
• Recreational Activities-Activities that
you do voluntarily because you like it to.

18.  Rest and recreation help a child develop
physically, mentally and socially.

19. 8. Family and Surroundings
 Children grow up in a family. What children
experience in the family affect their growth
and development. Children who are loved
grow up with a feeling of security. If their
physical, emotional and social needs are
provided

20. For, children grow up to be well-adjusted
and confident of themselves. Negative
experiences in the family may affect
children.
Surroundings affect children. If the place
they live in is polluted, children are likely to
be sickly.

21.  Family affects the growth and development of
children. A small family can meet its basic
needs.
 Surroundings affect the growth and
development of children. A clean
surrounding is good for one’s health.

22. Answer the following with a Yes or a No.
Answers only.
 1. Eat fruits and vegetables daily.
 2. Practicing good food habits will make us
healthy.
 3. Rest after work or play.
 4. proteins are nutrients that come from both
plants and animals.
 5. Foods which contain vitamins and minerals are
called Glow Foods.

23.  6. Children inherit their neighbors’
characteristics.
 7. Inherited traits can affect one’s growth and
development.
 8. Cerebral Palsy is injected into a body.
 9. Diseases and defects can affect one’s
growth and development.
 10. Rest is doing what you like.

24. B. Write Rest or Recreation
 1. Playing “taguan” with friends and
neighbors.
 2. Sleeping under the tree.
 3. Playing badminton.
 4. Making sketches of cartoon characters.

25. Write Good or Bad.
 1. Living in a polluted surrounding.
 2. Playing with stray animals.
 3. It is right to drink contaminated water.
 4. Healthful surroundings are free from
garbage and junks.
 5. Parents of a small family cannot provide
the needs of the children.