HEALTH IS WEALTH

Q.1  Why did Kashif’s mother refused to but sweets from the first shop?

Ans. She refused to but sweets from the first shop because flies were sitting on them so they were not good for health.

Q.2  What do dust and flies carry ?

Ans.  Dust and flies carry hundreds of germs and they are enemies to our health.

Q.3   How are diseases caused ?

Ans.  Diseases are caused by germs.

Q.4    What are germs ?

Ans.   Germs are the smallest living things. They cannot be seen with the naked eyes. You can see them through a microscope. These germs are harmful to our health.

Q.5  How do flies carry germs to food ?

Ans.  Flies sit on dirty things. There are germs on these things and they stick to the flies legs. When the flies sit or walk on our food, the germs that they carry stick on our food and when we eat that food the germs enter out bodies and we fall ill.

Q.6   How do we get malaria ?

Ans.  We get malaria from the bite of a particular kind of mosquito which lives in stagnant water.

Q.7    How can we get rid of malaria ?

Ans.   We can get rid of malaria by not allowing any kind of stagnant water near our house. The latest method of getting rid of a mosquitoes is to spray Kerosene  oil or DDT to kill the mosquitoes before they are big enough to be harmful.

Q.8    Why did Kashif’s mother refused to but sweets from the second shop as well?

Ans.  She refused to buy sweets from the second shop as well because a man was sweeping the road by the shop and all that place was dusty.