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Science CH 2

The document discusses the key components of food including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and roughage. It provides definitions for various deficiency diseases and asks questions about major nutrients, foods containing specific nutrients, true/false statements about balanced diets and deficiency diseases, and filling in blanks about deficiency diseases. The summary outlines that the major nutrients are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals and that balanced diets provide all nutrients needed to prevent deficiency diseases.

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Science CH 2

The document discusses the key components of food including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and roughage. It provides definitions for various deficiency diseases and asks questions about major nutrients, foods containing specific nutrients, true/false statements about balanced diets and deficiency diseases, and filling in blanks about deficiency diseases. The summary outlines that the major nutrients are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals and that balanced diets provide all nutrients needed to prevent deficiency diseases.

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Components of food

Key words

1. Balanced diet
2. Beriberi
3. Carbohydrates
4. Energy
5. Fats
6. Minerals
7. Proteins
8. Roughage
9. Scurvy
10. Starch
11. Vitamins

Definitions

* balanced diet means a diet which have a variety of food which provide all the
netrients which our body needs.

* beriberi means a disease causing by the inflammation of the nerves and heart
failureascribed to a deficiency of vitamin B

* inflammation means A localised physical in which part of the body is reddened,


Swollen and hot and often painful

* Roughage means fibrous indigestible in vegetables foodstuffs which aids the


passage of food and waste products through the gut

* Scurvy means a disease resulting from a lack of vitmin c . Early symptoms of


deficiency include weakness and feeling tired and sore arms and legs

* Rickets means a disease of children caused by vitmin D Deficiency, characterised


by imperfect calcification

* softening, and of distortion of the bones typically resulting in bow legs .

* Goitre means a swelling of the neck resulting from enlargement of the thyroid
gland .

* Anaemia means a condition in which there is a dificiency of red cells or of


haemorrhage in the blood,resulting in pallor and weariness.

Question and Answer

Q1. Name the major netrients in our food.

A. The major nutrients in our food are named


carbohydrates ,proteins ,fats ,vitamins and minerals . In addition ,food contains
dietary fibre and water which are needed by our body .

Q2. Name the following :

A. Carbohydrates, fats
B. protiens
C. Vitamin A
D. Vitamin D

Q3. Name two foods each rich in :

(a) Fats - Avacodo ; peanut butter

(b) Starch - potato ; rice

(c) Dietary fibre - Spinach ; kidney beans

(d) Protein - Pulses ; meat

4. Write (yes) for correct smtatments.

(a) by eating rice alone ,we can fulfill nutritional requirement of our body . (no)

(b) Deficiency diseases can be prevented by eating a balanced diet. (yes)

(c) Balanced diet for the body should contain a variety of food items (yes)

(d) Meat alone is sufficient to provide all nutrients to the body . (no)

5. Fill in the blanks.

(a)__rickets____________ is caused by deficiney of vitamin D.

(b) Dificiency of __vitamin B____________ causes a disease known as beri beri


.
(c) Deficiency of Vitamin C causes a disease known as __scurvy____________.
(d) Night blindness is caused due to deficiency of _vitamin A___________ in our
food.

Summary

The major nutrients in our food are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and
minerals. In addition, food also contains dietary fibres and water.

Carbohydrates and fats mainly provide energy to our body.

Proteins and minerals are needed for the growth and the maintenance of our body.

Vitamins help in protecting our body against diseases.

Balanced diet provides all the nutrients that our body needs, in right quantities,
along with adequate amount of roughage and water.

Deficiency of one or more nutrients in our food for a long time may cause certain
diseases or disorders.

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