Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Just by the use of colours you can balance your diet. All you need to do is to pay a little attention to
the food you eat. Nutrition experts strongly recommend adding colours to your diet. Sweets and
candy bars are generally colourful, but remember they do not contain natural colours and hence
are not healthy. The key solution is a variety of naturally coloured foods. The deeper the colour,
the greater the benefits.
Getting more colours in your diet doesn?t mean you have to drastically change your current eating
habits. Have a glass of 100% juice in the morning. Keep a mix of dried 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 add greens to
sandwiches.
Most red fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants, which offer protection against ultraviolet rays
and cancer, and helps to prevent urinary tract infections and diseases related to the circulatory
system. Green vegetables along with being appealing possess excellent antioxidant properties that
protect the eyes by keeping the retina in good condition and reduce the risk of cancerous tumours.
The orange and yellow group is rich in beta-carotene, an antioxidant that improves cell
communication and thereby helps to stop the spread of cancer. While the blue and purple group
adds an element of richness to your plate, influences the pineal gland (the third eye) and the
nervous system. The white group contains sulphur compounds that protect the DNA and
flavonoids, an antioxidant that protects cell membranes.
Therefore, the more colourful your diet is, the better equipped your immune system would be to
cope with diseases.
On the basis of your reading complete the following sentences:
(8?1= 8 marks)
(i) ___________ can balance one?s diet.
(ii) Sweets and candy bars ___________ so they are unhealthy.
(iii) One should substitute ___________ for pudding at the end of a meal.
(iv) Antioxidants help to ___________.
(v) The word ?drastically? in Paragraph I means ___________
(vi) Green vegetables reduce the risk of ___________.
(vii) Blue aind purple vegetables add ___________ in plate.
(viii) Colourful diet helps our ___________ to cope with ___________.