实践主题Topic: a healthy diet

Discuss your understanding of, or reflection on eating habits and food.

实践目标Objective of the practice:

To invite and share personal opinions with others

To have a better knowledge on eating habits

To apply the words and expressions

实践任务Tasks:

Discuss your reflections with your friends or classmates.

Refer to the aspects we have discussed in this unit.

实践要求Requirements:

Write down what has come to your mind during your thinking and discussion, and organize them into a neat essay.

Sample

What is a healthy diet? How to lead a healthy life? What kind of food is good for people’s health and what are the good eating habits? Provide proper comments and elaborate on your own understanding of, or reflection on it.

 

教师解析：

A healthy diet

With the improvement of people's life quality, health increasingly becomes an important issue of their life. Diet is firstly essential part to keep one's health. In order to own a healthy body, you should maintain a healthy diet. If you want to keep a healthy diet, you'd better balance the food that you take in everyday including grains, meat, vegetables and diary products.

Taking grains is the most important part of keeping one's life because they provide enough substance to fulfill your stomach and protect you from starving. Grains are the basic food to support your life. Usually, according to diverse geographical environment, different people have different dietary structures. For example, the western like taking bread that made from wheat as their main food, but the eastern especially Asian people prefer rice. No matter what kind of grain you take, it is good for you only if it keep your life going on. In addition, more and more people like fast food due to the fast paced life . Hence, taking some grains from time to time can provide proper food fiber for your body and help your body work well.

Eating meat everyday is the foundation of providing energy because meat contains abundant protein and it can replenish the needs that your body demands. You have many choices to choose all kinds of meat you like. For example, you can eat some beef, pork, mutton and so on. According to a research, 100g beef contain 21g protein, which can supports your body work well a day. Furthermore, you can take proper pork everyday but not too much because it contains a lot of fat that will make you become heavy. Many girls want to lose weight, so they didn't take any meat. But if you want to own a healthy body, proper meat must be your choice.

Taking a plenty of vegetables and fruits is also vital to make your body become healthy because they contain rich vitamins, which is vitally important for your health. If you take vitamin less than that your body needs, you will become sick even get serious disease like scurvy. Therefore, it is better for you to eat many vegetables such as beans, cabbage and onion, which contain abundant all kinds of vitamin. In addition, you can eat fruits as much as you can in your daily life, for example, apple, banana, strawberry, watermelon, which not only taste delicious but also have rich vitamin. Remember an old saying, an apple a day keeps doctor far away from you.

Having proper diary products is also an important complement of your healthy diet. For one thing, diary products such as cheese, milk, yoghurt can supply the elements that your body needs. For example, you can drink milk everyday because milk contains rich calcium that good for your bones growing. For another thing, diary products can replenish the protein if you take less meat. Furthermore, diary product like yogurt has a lot of good bacterium that can help you digest well. For girls who want to lose weight, taking yogurt is a good way to practice. If you are not allergic to diary products, you can take them in your free time.

On the whole, balancing food is very important to keep a healthy diet. If you want to make a strong and healthy body, you not only need to take enough grains to support your foundation and take proper meat to supply enough energy, but also take some vegetables, fruits and diary products to replenish and adjust your body needs. Only if you have healthy diet, can you own a healthy body. After you owning a strong health, you can pursue your happy life confidently.