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Food and Deficiency

4 Diseases

Learning Objectives

To Understand:
• Constituents of our food • Requirement for food

• Balanced diet • Deficiency diseases
• Causes of communicable and non-communicable diseases
• The need to follow the protective measures to prevent diseases

To Find Out:
• Whether the food you take in is sufficient for your age?
• Is your diet appropriate for your growth and development?

Let’s Begin

Plants and animals provide us different kinds of food. We eat different varieties of food
in our breakfast, lunch and dinner. The choice of food in the three meals varies from
place to place and from person to person. Like, north Indian food is different from south
Indian food – some people like pakoras while others like idlis. However, each of the food

that we consume serves only one purpose in our body, i.e., to provide nutrients.

Pictures of some food items have been given. Name them and mention the source we
get these from.

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