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Summary

- Insufficiency in the supply of nutrients needed for the body is known as
malnutrition.
- If the food items available in the local context are properly collected and
utilized, this becomes a balanced diet.

- We can get different nutrients in locally available foods as well.
- A kind of disorder that appears in children due to deficiency of carbohydrates
and protein in the body is called Marasmus.

- The disease caused by deficiency of vitamin C is Scurvy. It causes swollen
and infected gums.

- Anaemia is a kind of disease caused by deficiency of blood in the body due
to various reasons.
- We have to be careful on the ways of protecting natural nutrients while
preparing food.

Exercises

1. Give short answers to the following questions.
a. What is malnutrition?

b. Make a list of nutrients necessary for our body.

c. What causes marasmus?
d. Describe the ways to protect the nutrients.

e. Write any four ways to avoid scurvy.
f. Make a list of the symptoms of anaemia.

g. What are the harms of processed/ready-made food items? Prepare a list of
such harms.
2. Give very short answer to the following questions.

a. Write the names of any two food items that assist to protect the body
by increasing immunity.

b. Deficiency of which vitamin causes wasting?
c. Which disease causes inability to see in dim light?

d. Write one of the ways to protect nutrients during cooking.

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