Healthy and Junk Food

NCERT anchor: NCERT Looking Around Class 1 — Theme: Food We Eat (healthy choices)

• Healthy food — fresh, home-cooked food like fruits, vegetables, dal, and roti.
• Junk food — very oily or very sugary packet snacks like chips and cola.
• Junk food is fine sometimes, not every day.

1. What is healthy food

Verbal: Fresh fruit, vegetables, dal-roti, milk — give energy and keep us strong.

Visual: Fruit bowl and home-cooked thali.

2. What is junk food

Verbal: Chips, cold drink, too many sweets — tasty but not good every day.

Visual: Packet snack with a caution sign.

3. Making healthy choices

Verbal: Choose fruit over chips; choose water or milk over cold drink.

Choosing a birthday party snack

Step 1 — See chips, cake, banana, and juice on the table.
Step 2 — Pick banana and juice as the healthy choice.
Step 3 — Have a small piece of cake — that is okay sometimes.
Step 4 — Skip a second bag of chips.
Answer: mostly healthy choices, with one treat.

• Name one healthy food and one junk food.
• How often should we eat junk food?
• What can we drink instead of a cold drink?
• Stretch: Why is a banana a better snack than a packet of chips?

Revision tip: Before eating a snack, ask: is this an everyday food or a sometimes food?

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