SNAKES AND LADDERS

Make a bond-game just like ‘snakes and ladder’ with 10 10 grid boxes.

The mouth of the snake will represent the faulty food habit or faulty method of cooking. Its tail will represent the deficiency disease caused or loss of any nutrient in food.

Similarly, the box at the base of a ladder will represent healthy food habit or healthy method of cooking. Its upper end will represent the beneficial effect of that habit. An example is given as Fig. 2.3. Complete the board and with your friends.

‘Water does not provide nutrients, yet it is an important component of food.’ Explain?

Boojho was having difficulty in seeing thing in dim light. The doctor tested his eyesight and prescribed a prescribed a particular vitamin supplement. He also advised him to include a few food items in his diet.

(a) Which deficiency disease is he suffering from?

(b) Which food component may be lacking in his diet?

(c) Suggest some food items that he should include in his diet. (Any four)

Solve the cross-word puzzle gi9ven as Fig. 2.1 from the clues given below.

Across

1. Lack of nutrients in our diet over a long period causes these diseases (10)

2. Rice and potato are rich in this type of carbohydrate (6)

3. Deficiency disease in bones making it become soft and bent (7)

4. The diet that provides all the nutrients that our body needs, in right quantites, along with adequate amount of roughage and water (8. 4)

5. Deficiency disease with bleeding gums (6)

6. Disease caused due to deficiency of iodine (6)

Down

7. Starch and sugar in our food are rich in this type of energy giving nutrient (13)

8. The term given to the useful components of food (9)

9. The disease caused by deficiency of iron in diet (7)

10. Green leafy vegetables, liver and apples are rich in this mineral (4)

11. Deficiency disease caused due to lack of vitamin B₁ in the diet (8)

Observed the items given in Fig. 2.2 carefully and answer the question that follow.

(a) Food item rich in carbohydrates is ………(i)………….

(b) Egg is a rich source of protein, the mineral ………(ii)…… and vitamin ….(iii)……..

(c) …..(iv)…. Is a rich source of fat.

(d) Milk provides …….(v)……, vitamin D and ….(vi)…… (mineral)

(e) …..(vii)…. (fruit) is a rich sources of vitamin A.

(f) Spinach is a good sources of the mineral …..(viii)……. .

(g) Both eggs and ….(xi)…. Are rich in ….(x)….. .