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C. SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS: Answer in a sentence or two.
1. Into which classes are nutrients divided? Which of these provide energy to the body?
2. What are protective foods?
3. How are the proteins important for the body?
4. Mention two cooking methods that destroy nutrients in food
5. Name the two kinds of carbohydrates. Which of these provides us quick energy?
6. Which nutrients are needed by our body in small quantities only?
7. Write the symptoms of rickets.
8. What are the symptoms of marasmus?
9. The incidence of goitre among the people living in the Himalayan region was quite high. Why?
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1. Nutrients can be divided into two categories: macronutrients, and micronutrients. Macronutrients are those nutrients that the body needs in large amounts. Micronutrients are those nutrients that the body needs in smaller amounts.

2. Foods rich in vitamins and minerals are referred to as protective foods.

3. need protein in your diet to help your body repair cells and make new ones.

4. -->Roasting and forging destroy nutrients in food. ---> Cutting and cubing vegetables prior to roasting, boiling or steaming them does make them lose a little more of their nutritional value during the cooking process.

5. Sugars and starch are two kinds of carbohydrates. Sugars are easier to break down and they provide us with quick energy.

6. Micronutrients consist of vitamins and minerals. Although the body only needs small amounts of them, a deficiency can cause ill health.

7. pain or tenderness in the bones of the arms, legs, pelvis, or spine, muscle cramps etc.

8. weight loss, dehydration etc.

9. The incidence of goitre among the people living in the Himalayan region was quite high. lot of snow is experienced in Himalayas which leads to the leaching of iodine from the soil. The crops grown in a soil which is iodine deficient will lead to people consuming food with low dietary intake of iodine.

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