Different foods help your body (身体) in different ways. It’s easy to know what foods are good for you. 【小题1】 You need to eat the foods in different groups every day.

You need six to eleven servings (份) from the grain (谷物) group every day. 【小题2】 Foods like them can give you energy (力量).

Eat three to five servings of vegetables every day. Eating more vegetables can help you get thin.

You also need some fruit every day. Put fruit where you can see it. That way you can eat more.You can drink a glass of apple juice. 【小题3】 Eating fruit makes you feel happy.

Try to drink milk every day. 【小题4】 Drink one in the morning and the other at night.

You also need to eat meat. 【小题5】 You need two to three servings a day to have strong muscles (肌肉).

Try not to eat many candies. They may taste (品尝) good, but they don’t help you to grow strong or stay healthy.

Overweight (超重) is one of the biggest health problems now. Being overweight affects (影响) more than how you look. Too much fat can kill you. What’s worse, overweight children turn into overweight adults (成人) . If you’re obese now, you will probably grow into an obese adult. But here’s good news. You can fight overweight.

Change your eating habits

You are what you eat. Kids like snacks. Have you listed any healthy snacks? One study of eating habits shows that soft drinks are the first in the snack list. Next, kids choose salty snacks, like chips. What’s more, the list is full of junk food from No. 3 to No. 11. Finally, No. 12, kids pick a healthy snack — fruit. So, think about your snack choice (选择) again.

Get outside to exercise

Jim, a player on his school football team, had a weight problem not long ago. He could never get anyone to play with him. So his father and he started playing football for a few minutes every night. Ten minutes turned into an hour or more. In just a few years, the heavy kid became healthy.

More TV means more fat

Nearly every American kid watches TV for 2 hours and 56 minutes every day — that adds up to 44 days a year of sitting. More TV (or more Internet surfing, or more computer games) means more fat.

Eat an apple a day, walk around the house, play with your family ... Do it today, and do it more tomorrow. It will help you a lot.

For years, American parents are trying to get children to drink fewer sugary( 含糖的)drinkssuch as Coca Cola and Pepsi because sugary drinks make many people get fat. And being fat canbring many health problems later in life. Children are drinking fewer sugary drinks these days. They turn to sports drinks. There are many ads(广告)for sports drinks on TV and they show sports stars or movie stars having the drink.

These ads make the drinks look heathy. In fact, they are not. Sports drinks have lots of sugar, too.

Scientists at Harvard University did a survey(调查)in 2017 to find out how many sports drinks high School students had. They surveyed 22, 000 students and found those students were drinking sports drinks more than they did before. Almost one third of the students drank one to three sports drinks each week. And more than one tenth had four to six drinks. Students in sports teams would have sports drinks each day and they maybe had one or more. The same was true of those students who watched TV for over two hours every day.

"Although water is the best choice for kids, sometimes having a sports drink is fine. If someone is on a long bike ride or in an all-day race, he can have one," said Tomas Hardy, a health expert(专家). “But if kids play sports or have soccer practice for only 20 minutes, they just need water or a little fruit juice.”