Junk Food

吳晨

Junk food， such as candy and soda， has lots of fat， salt and sugar， but few nutrients.

Junk food is very popular in the world because it is cheap to make. It doesnt cost much money. Almost every child likes to eat junk food， but eating a lot of sugar is not healthy. It can even make you sick. Most junk food has food additives， so it looks and tastes better. Junk food is bad for our health， especially for young children. It may lead to overweight， heart diseases and many other health problems. When children eat lots of junk food， they dont have enough milk or healthy fruit juices. This is bad for their health. In order to keep healthy， wed better eat lots of vegetables and fruits.

I. 詞語拓展

用下列詞語的適當(dāng)形式完成句子。

nutrient 營養(yǎng)物質(zhì); sick 生病; additive 添加劑; lead to overweight 導(dǎo)致肥胖

1. Food? are bad for our health.

2. Vegetable contain （包含） many .

3. Eating too much can .

4. Lucy didnt go to school yesterday because she was .

II. 閱讀訓(xùn)練

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，回答下列問題。

1. What is a soda？

2. What is bad about junk food？

3. What does the text suggest （建議） about vegetables？