Seeing the growing cases of diabetes and depression among young children, Mr. Chopra, the principal of one of the 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) Give two examples of artificial sweetners.

(i) Mr. Chopra showed the need for awareness and responsibility towards the health of the children studying under his institution. He also showed the essence of cooperation and commitment involving the parents and increasing awareness among them.

(ii) There are always competitions held as extracurricular activites in schools, so as a student one could take part in competition involving public speaking and choosing the topic for awareness regarding junk food related health problems.

Also, one can involve into school club activities to write in club articles and school journals and involve other students to write for the same or may conduct competitions between students to increase participation; those can later be reviewed by teachers. For encouragement prizes should be included as a part of their participation.

(iii) Aspartame, sucralose, corn syrup, neotame are some of the examples for artificial sweeteners.