Cereals, pulses, sweet potatoes, sugar etc are the sources of:
proteins
vitamins
carbohydrates
fats
Some disease like typhoid, cholera, dysentery etc are spread by:
carriers of germs
infected food and water
deficiency of vitamins
blood sucking insects
Which one of the following keep our body fit, improve appetite and increase the body's ability to fight diseases?
minerals
The way of purifying huge quantities of drinking water is called:
boiling
chlorination
cooling
pasteurization
Along with their breeding grounds which of the following is the best solution for protection from harmful diseases of mosquitoes?
destruction
progression
increasing the number
carriers.
How are the diseases like malaria, yellow fever, plague, dengue and kala-azar caused?
sneezing and coughing
Deficiency of vitamin C results in:
Beri-Beri
Scurvy
Rickets
Goitre
Iodised salt helps to prevent:
Anaemia
What is the process of heating milk at high temperatures and quickly cooling it to kill harmful germs called?
condensation
prevention
What is the disease caused by a protozoa which is carried by the female Anopheles mosquito?
plague
dengue
malaria
kala-azar