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1. 1.

   How is food essential to our body?

2. 2.

   Name the various nutrients present in the food that we eat.

3. 3.

   What is roughage? Give its importance in our food.

4. 4.

   Name the diseases caused due to the deficiencies of:

   1. Vitamin A
   2. Vitamin B
   3. Vitamin C
   4. Vitamin D
   5. Iron
   6. Iodine
5. 5.

   A child has cracks at the corner of his mouth; red and raw tongue, pain, numbness and loss of sensation in the limbs. Which vitamin deficiency is he suffering from?

6. 6.

   List the importance of water in our diet.