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encourage the other members in the society to live healthy life. As a result, the health
of the people can be promoted. Therefore, every member in the family, society and the
nation should work together to live healthy life. To make members of the family healthy,
the following activities should be done by every members of the family.
a. All the family members should be responsible to the family as per the individual’s
capacity.

b. Create good mutual relationship between the members in the family.
c. Maintain balance between income and expenditure in the family.
d. Work collectively for the family welfare.
e. Division of work can be done to get effective result.
f. Decisions should be made taking suggestions from the family members.
g. The needs and demands of the family should be fulfilled on the basis of mutual
understanding.

Summary
1. A consumer is a person or institution that consumes the goods and services available
in the market.
2. A person who buys the products or services for personal use and not for manufacture
or re-sale.
3. Consumers’ health is described as the status of health resulted due to the
consumption of goods and services from the market.
4. The Consumer Protection Act 2054 B.S. was formulated with the purpose of making
the daily essential goods available to the consumers in a simple and easy manner.
5. The consumption of low quality substances adversely affect the health of the
consumers.
6. The knowledge about consumer health must be disseminated among the people to
make them aware about their rights and responsibilities.
7. Food helps in the growth and development of living beings as well as gives energy
to do different activities.
8. Nutrients are those chemical components in foods that are used by an organism to
grow and survive.
9. Proteins are essential for the survival of all living organisms.
10. They are one of the building blocks of body tissues and also can serve as a fuel
source.
11. When the body lacks fats, it causes itching sensation around the anus especially in
children, and dry and itchy skin.
12. Majority of the minerals are stored in the bones and teeth of our body and some in
the blood, muscles, tissues, etc.
13. Water is not a nutrient but it is an essential element without which the other
nutrients cannot be utilized in the body.
14. Lack of sufficient amount of water in the body is considered as dehydration.

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