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Seeing the growing cases of diabetes and depression among young children, Mr. Lugani, the principal of one reputed school organised a seminar in which he invited parents and principals. They all resolved this issue by strictly banning junk foods 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. Lugani conducted a 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:


a) What are the values (at least two) displayed byMr. Lugani?


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


c) What are antidepressant drugs? Give an example.


d) Name the sweetening agent used in the preparation of sweets for diabetic patient.


a) Kind, Aware, caring, well-educated

b) We can conduct nukkadnataks to educate the people by announcing or showing them with various audio-visual aids along with we can make posters and paste them to advertise.


c) Anti-depressant drugs those drugs which are used for the treatment of depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders, hyperactivity disorders etc. Some examples include Iproniazid and Dibenzipin.


d) Artificial sweetening agents like Saccharin, alitame and aspartame are generally used in the preparation of sweets for diabetic persons.


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