Question

Read the excerpt from It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference. In his small Idaho school, football meant everything to Ernesto ("Neto”) Villareal, sixteen, the team’s star running back. And yet when he heard fans screaming racial insults at him and his Hispanic-American teammates, he wondered how he could keep playing for fans who felt that way. The insults also bothered Andy Percifield, a white student leader. When Neto and Andy teamed up, each using his own special power, fans began to feel heat they had never felt before. The details of this excerpt reveal the author’s purpose by

Answer 1

People living in hilly area usually suffer from goitre.

This is due to lack of iodine. We get iodine from salt.

In costal region where the salt content in high in soil hence vegetables provide much iodine but hilly areas are far away from the sea coast so the content of hill soil is negligible hence the people staying in people do not get sufficient iodine through their diet.