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　　Breakfast is not only the most important meal of the day, but also the most neglected．Common reasons for not eating breakfast include lack of time, not feeling hungry, traditional dislike for breakfast, and dieting．

　　Breakfast simply means：break the fast．Your body spends at least 6 to 12 hours each night in a fasting state．In the morning your body needs energy for the day’s work ahead．

　　A good breakfast should provide up to 1/3 of your total calories needs for the day．On average(平均)we eat 400 calories less for breakfast than for dinner．If you don’t want to have breakfast in the morning, try eating a lighter dinner earlier in the evening or save half of your dinner for breakfast in the morning．

　　Some people who fear eating breakfast will make themselves hungrier during the day and they will eat more．It is true that eating breakfast is likely to make you feel hungry throughout the day．That’s because your body is working．Although you may feel as if you are eating more all day long, in fact you are probably not．

　　Not eating breakfast can last cause you to overeat, since a fall in blood sugar often makes you feel very hungry later．What’s worse, since your body is in a slow state it will not be able to burn those extra calories very efficiently(有效率的)．

　　Breakfast is the first and most important．The best breakfast foods are fruits, juice, meat, and grain products such as bread, rice, and noodles．

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　　The food we eat seems to have a great effect on our health．Although science has made big steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat．Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of human illness is related to food and forty percent of cancer is related to food as well．That food is related to illness is not a new discovery．In 1945, some researchers realized that things commonly used to keep colours in meats and other food additives caused cancer．Yet, these additives remain in our food, and it is difficult to know which things on the wrappings of foods are helpful or harmful．The additives which we eat are not all so direct．Farmers often give penicillin to their animals, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of cows．Sometimes similar things are supplied to animals not for their health, but just to make a profit．

　　The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to get a higher price on the market．Although some countries have tried to control such things, the practice continues．

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　　A car needs gas to run and your body also needs food to work for you．Eating the right kind of food is very important．It can help your body grow strong to take care of what you eat．

　　There are four main food groups altogether．The dairy group has food like milk, cheese and sour milk．The other three groups are the meat and fish group, the fruit and vegetable group, and the bread and rice group．Each meal should have at least one food from all four main groups．With all these food together, you will be given enough energy during the day．

　　It is easy to get into the bad eating-habits．You may eat your breakfast in a hurry to get to school on time．Or you may not have time for a good lunch．It may seem easy to．But you will find yourself tired in these days and you can not think quickly．

　　Watching what you eat will help your body remain healthy and strong．It is also good to take some exercise．It will help you eat more if you take a walk or play games in the open air．Having a good eating habit with some exercise is the key to your health．

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　　The trees arrived by post, a halfopen parcel．They were thin and straight, rather like arrows but with shiny leaves at one end and muddy roots at the other．Terry and his father took them down the garden and planted them in their prepared places．Terry had great hopes of the middle trees, now set in the holy spot where Henry, his cat, run over, had been laid to rest a year before．The nine trees made an avenue down one side of the garden, where there was already a fifteenfoot stonewall between the garden and the back yards of the Jenkins Street houses．

　　“Why do we want a row of trees as well as a wall,”Terry asked his father．

　　His father said,“For privacy．These trees grow very thickly．”

　　His father’s love of privacy often puzzled Terry, who was not one to keep himself to himself, but he could see part of the point here．The houses in Jenkins Street were on higher ground．His friend Leslie lived in number twelve, and Leslie had only to stand on a box to see right over the wall．

　　“Will the trees grow higher than the wall?”Terry asked then．

　　“Oh yes, twice as high if not more．It’ll take a few years but they’ll grow．”

　　So they were going to have nine trees thirty feet tall, to keep them from being overlooked．Terry wondered why this was so desirable．He said,“Our garden is very pretty．Why can’t we let the people over the wall see it?That wouldn’t be showing off, would it?”

　　“No, I don’t think it would be,”his father said．“Yet some people might feel a bit less happy if they can always see a good thing that isn’t theirs．We don’t want to be the cause of any jealousy if we can help it．”

　　This consideration for other people’s feelings must be a grown-up thing, Terry thought．It was not his idea of how to run things．He said,“These trees－it seems a lot of trouble to go to just to stop people being jealous of us．”

　　His father looked at him．“It isn’t much trouble, Terry,”he said．“These trees will grow without help from us．They’ll be beautiful．And listen to them．You can already hear them whispering to us in the wind．”

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　　Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth but more by accident than design．While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil had better results without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard．

　　Brazil’s population growth rate dropped from 2.99％ a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93％ a year between 1981and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average．Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries．

　　Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas(肥皂剧)and installment(分期付款)plans introduced in the 1970s．Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate．Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas．Globo, Brazil’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night．Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities．

　　Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values：not many children, women working, says Martine．They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious(有意识的)of other patterns of behaviour and other values, which were put into a very attractive package．

　　Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers．“This led to an enormous change in consumption(消费)patterns and consumption was incompatible(不相容的)with unlimited reproduction,”says Martine．

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