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What part does the diet play in helping us to have a healthy thyroid gland?

Diet provides iodine which makes keeps the thyroid gland healthy by making thyroxine hormone and also prevents goitre.


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What is the name of in-built 'arrangement' in our body which controls the timing and amount of hormones released by various endocrine glands in the body?

 20

Name one gland each:

(a) which acts only as an endocrine gland.


. (b) which acts only as an exocrine gland.


(c) which acts both as an endocrine gland as well as an exocrine gland.

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If sugar is detected in the urine of a person, name the disease he is suffering from.

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Name two parts of the body which contain receptors of chemical stimuli.