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Seeing the growing cases of diabetes and depression among young children, Mr. Chopra, the principal of one reputed school organized a seminar in which he invited parents and principals. They all resolved this issue by strictly banning junk food in schools and introducing healthy snacks and drinks like soup, lassi, milk, etc. in school canteens. They also decided to make compulsory half an hour of daily physical activities for the students in the morning assembly. After six months, Mr. Chopra conducted the health survey in most of the schools and discovered a tremendous improvement in the health of the students.

After reading the above passage, answer the following questions:


(i) What are the values (at least two) displayed by Mr. Chopra ?


(ii) As a student, how can you spread awareness about this issue?


(iii) Why should antidepressant drugs not be taken without consulting a doctor?


(iv) Give two examples of artificial sweeteners.


(i) The values displayed by Mr. Chopra are:

(a) Care towards nature


(b) Social awareness


(c) Concern for students healths.


(ii) Awareness can be spread by performing nukkad natak (street play) in community, displaying posters, cartoons and slogans and by conducting seminars.


(iii) Antidepressant drugs have a lot of side effects like indigestion, headache, stomach aches, drowsiness, weight gain. That is why it should not be taken without consulting with doctors.


(iv) Example of artificial sweeteners are Aspartame, Saccharin, Sucralose etc. These are used on the alternative of sugar but also these artificial sweetener are high in sugar content.


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