Cola is bad for our health. Cola is sweet because it has sugar in it. Too much sugar can let you get fat. Drinking one bottle of cola each day can make you get fifteen pounds（磅）each year. And because the sugar in cola can make you feel full，you can't eat much healthy food，such as fruit，vegetables and rice. And cola is bad for your teeth and bones（骨头）.

Drink water，please. Water is very important to our body. It keeps us healthy. We get water from drink and food，especially（特别是）from fruit and vegetables. But it's better to drink water. If you don' like plain（清淡的）water，you can put a little 100%fruit juice into it.

Today many parents worry about their children’s diets (饮食). But what is a healthy diet for children? Miss Jones from Happy Children Hospital gives some advice(建议):

◆Children shouldn’t eat food with too much salt because it can cause high blood pressure (高血压).

◆Children should eat food with less fat, oil and sugar. They should not eat too much junk food like instant noodles(方便面), potato chips (薯片), prunes (梅干), ice creams and cola.

◆Fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamins (维生素). So children need to eat them often.

◆Water is important to everyone. Children need to drink about eight glasses of water every day.

◆Children need to eat breakfast every day. It is good for their health

Our eyes can deal with 36, 000 bits of information every hour, many messages for our brain to connect with the world around us. We often say that we eat with our five senses. So what happens if we eat with our eyes closed? Would we enjoy food in the same way?

Eating with eyes closed

Since years ago, some restaurants offer to eat meals with eyes closed, a special experience to “reconnect with food” in a different way. The lack of senses like eye-sight helps us pay more attention to what we are eating. Those who take the challenge say the taste of many meals becomes stronger.

Playing with these feelings is possible from our home or even right now. If we think about a lemon, our brain sends orders to make our mouths water, as a natural reaction of our bodies to the acid flavor（酸味）. It also happens if we smell a BBQ in the garden of a neighbor. We probably wish a burger badly when we smell it .

Thinking about eating less? This may help. Eating with our eyes closed can make us think we are eating more than we actually are. A German study gave ice-creams to several students. Part of them with their eyes closed ate fewer before they were full than the students who could see. Even though this cannot be a definite way to weight loss, meals can be funnier for sure.

Enjoy with our five senses

Sight may be an influence when we have to choose what to eat or even how much. We will probably eat more in a comfortable restaurant than in front of our computer at work. Color and presentation of the food matters too. Supermarkets usually put products with lively colors at eyelevel. In many cases, stores add extra colors to food to make it look better. But that does not mean they are healthier at all.

Are any other senses involved when we eat? Yes! If we listen to a cook telling us how wonderful the recipe of those fish and chips is, we will probably think it’s the best fast food we have had so far. In the end, everything is important for the complete enjoyment of a meal.