Comprehension Passage
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions.
Food can maintain or save a life. It can destroy life as well. Proper food serves the purpose of
medicine. Improper food works as poison and causes diseases. We may take pride in calling
ourselves civilized, but we float all the
norms about the quality or quantity of food. We mostly
eat
processed foods
. We have
drifted away from Mother Nature. Thus the incidence of diabetes has
increased
very much
.
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According to a survey
,
diabetes
was rare in the
natives of Canada a
few
years ago. With the
advent of processed and junk foods: the incidence of diabetes has shot
up
within a very
short time. By offering ice-creams, chocolates and cakes too often to our children
and by
attending parties every other day, we, in fact, invite
obesity and diabetes.
1. What is improper food?
2. What is the effect of improper food?
3. "We float all the norms about the quality and quantity of food." Questions 3

What does this
.
expression mean?
4. How have we changed our food habits?
5. What causes obesity and diabetes?
6. What was the incidence of diabetes a few years ago in Canada?
7. Write antonyms:
a.
save-
destroy