Most of us don’t think about food until we start feeling hungry, but eating is important in life. To talk about food and eating is to talk about one of the most common subjects we know. Eating is just like breathing or sleeping, so everyday, so ordinary, so it does not receive much notice.

However, what, where, when, how, and with whom we eat say a great deal about who we are. Do you use chopsticks? Do you hold the knife backward? Do you chew with your mouth open? All these eating habits say something about you. They are messages even when we are not trying to say anything. Food and the ways we eat it, like clothes and the way we wear them, tell who and what we are.

We learn our eating habits very early in life. We usually have strong feelings about our childhood foods. Foods we learn to like in our early years probably have a special meaning for us forever because they are connected to people and things we love. Mom’s cheese or the way Dad cuts the bread crusts is just right bringing up feelings of love and comfort.

People use food and eating to mark the seasons and the important moments in life (such as growing up and getting married), or to honor gods, and to say something about themselves. People will eat different foods for different holidays. Sometimes people even explain why they eat certain things on certain days. Americans do that sort of explaining at Thanksgiving. They eat Turkey, corn, and Indian pudding because their ancestors ate them at the first Thanksgiving. Those foods mean something to Americans.

As you can see, food and eating mark people’s shared experiences, but they can also mark the differences. In that sense, we truly are what we eat.

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These days many people are interested in losing weigh (体重). It is very popular among people, especially young people. Everybody hopes to become thin quickly. Some people even take medicine. Do you know how to control weigh? Well ... diet and exercise are the right answers. Please read and remember the following tips.

Tip 1       You should eat only when you are hungry. Don’t eat if you don’t feel hungry.

Tip 2       You should eat only food that is good for your health. Don’t eat junk food such as hamburgers and French fries.

Tip 3       It is better to prepare your own food instead of eating out. When you eat out, you may eat too much. That can make you become fatter.

Tip 4       Don’t forget to think about changing your lifestyle. For example, turn off the TV and the computer and take some exercise every day.

Don’t be too strict with yourself. Give yourself some free time to find the best way to control your weight.

Do you like eating vegetables? We all know that 【小题1】 They give our bodies different kinds of vitamins (维生素) and help us grow. But how can they make us healthy? 【小题2】

Here are the answers:

【小题3】 They can help us see better at night.

Do you want to have strong teeth? Eat some beans. Beans have Vitamin K in them. Vitamin K is helpful to our teeth.

Do you like tomatoes? They look nice. Doctors call tomatoes “healthy vegetables”, 【小题4】 They also have Vitamin P and it can keep our skin healthy. So it is important to eat some tomatoes.

Don’t forget spinach (菠菜). The spinach leaves have Vitamin A, Vitamin C and Vitamin E. They can make us strong.

So if you want to keep healthy, 【小题5】