junk food in schools

Junk Food in School

Annta: What’s your opinion on selling junk food like candy, chocolate, drink in school?
Paloma: It’s will provide the percentage of obesity.
Beverly: If pupils have too much junk food in their daily life, they will loose their interests in vegetables.
Lisa: Besides, it can cause cancer.
Annta: Our future will die in ingesting too much junk food.
Paloma: Should schools sell junk food or not?
Annta: I think selling an average of snacks can be accepted. We can’t take away the students’ rights to have snacks.
Beverly: I still don’t agree that junk food is available in school.
Lisa: Due to the news, lots of children who like sweets get overweight easily. Therefore, the frequency of exercising decreases.
Paloma: I think that junk food is still being sold in schools, but schools should also teach them that eating junk food harms their health.
Beverly: We should promote that milk and vegetable are healthier than junk food.
Annta: Companies that sell snacks may argue with this politic that their benefit in schools have been cut down. So the government should think of other ways to help these companies.
Lisa: Also, these snack companies should produce snacks based on students’ health. For example, some factories were reported using trans fats just to save more money, and this is very bad.
Beverly: When they are producing those snacks, they should add more nutrients like Vitamin A and Calcium.
Paloma: The kitchens in schools should use Oliver oil instead of trans fats to fry food.
Annta: The problems of selling junk food in schools have been discussed for years, but haven’t got any solutions. Food factories should make some changes on the ingredient of their products, that way; the whole society will become healthier.
Lisa: Governments should take this issue really seriously. After all, these kids are the masters of the country in the future. The fatter they are, the weaker the country will be.
Beverly: Every one of us would become parents, so next time when we are having chips, we should think twice before we put them into our mouths.
Paloma: I think that junk food is fast to acquire and sometimes it’s delicious, but we still shouldn’t eat too much of it, and we cant’s take it as ordinary meal as well.



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/us/02school.html?_r=1&ref=health&oref=slogin

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21567822/

Yahoo news summary 2

Q&A:

1. What is another new dream option in Disneyland?

It will be nightly stays in a new family suite in the park's New Orleans Square, beginning on January 3lst.

2. What do the new offers in the catalog include?

The new offers include private hot-air ballooning above Disneyland, a private visiting to Disney Cruise Line's Castaway Cay island in the Bahamas, a private character breakfast at Walt Disney World, and attending the film premiere of "High School Musical 3.

3. Which interactive show has already started at both parks?

It is “High School Musical 2: School's Out!”

4. In the past year, what have "dreams" included?

"Dreams" have included free dining, ticket upgrades, special passes allowing fast entry into multiple attractions, shopping sprees and an overnight stay at Cinderella Castle, all of which will continue to be offered in 2008.

5. What’s the title of the program that Disney extends through 2008?

It’s called “Year of a Million Dreams.”


VOCABULARIES:

1. giveaway--- something that a company gives free, usually with something else that is for sale.
2. catalog--- a simple series of items
3. showcase--- a cabinet for displaying items
4. freebie--- something given without charge
5. eligibility--- what is qualified to participate or to be chosen
6. multiple--- (adj.) more than one
7. castaway--- (adj.) cast adrift or ashore as a survivor of a shipwreck
8. premiere--- (n.) a first performance
9. commission--- (v.) to order or to be made
10. incredible--- (adj.) to too extraordinary and improbable to be believed



SUMMARY:

Disney is extending its program called “Year of a Million Dreams” through 2008 and what “Dreams” have included in the past years will still last to be offered then. In addition to “Dreams”, there are also some new offers such as private hot-air ballooning above Disneyland. What’s more, there is a more attractive new dream that will come to a reality on January 31st! Visitors can be nightly stay in a new family suite in the park's New Orleans Square which is originally designed by a Hollywood setmaker as in-park accommodations for Walt Disney’s family. Those lucky participators will be chosen from among visitors of Anaheim, Calif., and Walt Disney World near Orlando.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20071001/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_disney_dreams_1

CNN 1

SUMMARY:

According to Natalie Ledesma, a registered dietician at U.C.S.F super food is more than just delectable. Foods like tomatoes and onions with powerful chemicals may offer our bodies mighty protection against chronic diseases. These powerful chemicals are known as photochemical, which compounded in super food can not only cut down the risk of cancers and increase our immune systems but also protect our hearts. As a result, she suggested that everyone should try to eat per week for optimal health.

Reflection:

People start to emphasize the importance of health after so many modern diseases has appeared. With the fast step of globalization, it seems like that most of us are immersed in American’s fast food culture. It’s not hard to find a chain fast food restaurant with a big yellow M and its well-known slogan “I’m lovin’ it” on the streets. Every child looks up to the “uncle” dressed in yellow as his follower. Everything has gradually changed until LOHAS was announced.
Nowadays, we pursue food to be both healthy and delicious. Besides, when it comes to meat and vegetable, experts will probably recommend us to take vegetable the first priority. One of the reasons is that CNN report has just mentioned, vegetable contains a great deal of photochemical which may do us good. What’s more, “meat” needs more resource to grow than vegetable. It requires more water, more land, more fodder, and will doubtless produce more waste.
I am a lover of vegetable myself. I’m not a vegetarian but I seldom eat meat. I guess that’s because my mom shed light on the importance of dark green vegetable and seaweed by making them take part in our each dine (expect for breakfast) and dance together in our stomachs. I know some people are really afraid of swallowing rosemary, green pepper, alfalfa and so on but that’s not a big deal for me. For I have eaten them for more than ten years. What’s more, for the sake of health, I eat an apple in the morning. As the proverb goes, “An apple a day keeps doctor away.” Apples are good for our digestive system and will help our intestines digest.
I think our government should promote to grow super food for the sake of our health and our mother earth. Vegetable is indeed a fabulous gift that God gives to humankind. What is the reason of refusing vegetable? Let’s embrace vegetable with a big smile! Say cheese.
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