TERM-1 (2020-2021)

INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY

ENGLISH (PISA)

CLASS 9th A

Balance diet (a color triangle)

Just by the use of colours, you can balance your diet. All you need to do is it pay a
little attention to the food you eat. Nutrition experts strongly recommended adding
colors to your diets. Sweets and candy bars are generally colorful but remember they
do not contain natural colors and hence are not healthy. The key is a Varity of
naturally colored foods. Deeper the color, greater the benefits. Getting more colors
in your diet does not mean you have to drastically change your current eating habits.
Have a glass of 100%juce in the morning. Keep a mix of dry fruits on hand for a quick
snack. Grab an apple or banana on your way out. Include at least two vegetables in
your dinner. get into the habit of starting your dinner with a salad.

Eat fruit for dessert always adds greens to sandwiches. Most red fruits and
vegetables contain an antioxidant, with offers protection against UV-rays and cancer,
and help to prevent urinary tract infections and diseases related to the circulatory
system. Green vegetables not only look great but also possess excellent antioxidant
properties that protect your eyes by keeping the retina in good condition and reduce
the risks of cancerous tumors .orange and yellow group fruits contain beta-carotene,
an antioxidant that improves cell communication and thereby helps to stop the
spread of cancer. Blue and the purple group not only adds richens to your plate but
also has an influence on the pineal gland (the third eye) and the nervous system. The
white group contains sulphur compounds that protect DNA and also contain
flavonoids, the antioxidant that protects cell membranes. Therefore, the more
colorful the diet is (all natural colors, of course), the better equipped your immune
system is to cope with diseases.
Choose the correct options:-

1: why are sweets and candy bars not good for health?

(a) They contain sugar.

(b) They do not contain natural colures.

(c) They contain natural colors’.

2: what is the key to healthy eating?

(a): eating variety of natural colored foods.

(b): eating artificially colored foods.

(c): eating junk food.

3: what are benefits of eating red fruits and vegetables?

(a) Contain antioxidants, protection from UV-rays.

(b) Protect from cancer and eye infections.

(c) all of these.

4: what are the components of white group of food?

(a)hydrous components.

(b) nitrous components.

(c) Sulphur components and also flavonoids and antioxidant.

5: give the noun form of ‘protect’?

(a)protecting

(b) Protactinium.

(c) None of the above

6:give the verb form of ‘ prevention’?

(a)preventive

(b)prevented

(c)prevent

NAME: SANJEEV PANDEY

ROLLNO: 43

DATE: 30.APRIL.2020