When I was a child, my family was big. Our house was in the countryside, so my mother and my grandmother always planted many kinds of vegetables in our yard.

At that time, meat was a little expensive, and we didn’t have enough money to eat it every day, so if meat was on the table for dinner, it was a special dinner.

We usually ate rice, many kinds of soup and other side dishes (小菜) for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Every meal was the same.

I would like sweet food, and I didn’t like vegetables, like most children. But if I took some vegetables off my plate, my mother would say “Don’t do that. You can’t eat the meal without vegetables. If you really don’t want this meal because of the vegetables, don’t eat dinner”.

I didn’t have any choice (选择) . I had to eat vegetables. However, I really wanted sweet food like chocolate and ice cream, so I often bought them, but I could never buy enough because my mom didn’t give me enough money. Luckily, I like vegetables and all kinds of fruit very much now. I think I have a healthy eating habit.

We did a survey about health states among 200 students from No. 6 Middle School. We know that the students are short of exercise, and what’s worse, they don’t pay attention to health very much. Here is some information about it.

There were many problems on health about behaviors among middle school students. It’s necessary and important to find ways to improve students’ health condition. One available way is to do physical exercises at least an hour every day. In addition（此外）, a healthy diet is also good to it. At last, the schools should take actions to cut down the heavy schoolwork of the students.

SOURCE: Chinese Health Education Center