Fill in the blanks by selecting suitable words given below:

(clotting, goitre, insulin, rickets, iron, proteins)

(d) Kwashiorkor is caused due to the deficiency of _______.

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Solution

The correct answer is:Protein

Kwashiorkor is a protein deficiency disease.The common symptoms included swollen body parts,poor muscles development,etc.

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Rickets is caused by the deficiency of__i__ in food, while goitre is caused by the deficiency of__ii__.

The information in which alternative completes the given statement?

A. Cretinism
B. Gull’s disease
C. Grave’s disease
D. Simple goitre

Question 9

Fill in the blanks from the list of words given below:

$\begin{matrix} carbohydrate, fat, protein, starch, sugar, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, roughage, balanced diet, obesity, goitre \end{matrix}$

(a) Egg yolk is rich in __ and egg albumin is rich in __.

(b) Deficiency diseases can be prevented by taking a __.

(d) The component of food that does not provide any nutrient to our body and yet is essential in our food is __.

(e) The vitamin that gets easily destroyed by heating during cooking is __.

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