【推荐3】Grand Historic City Tour Start this tour to create some new memories in the beautiful city of San Antonio！

Description

During this eight-hour tour, you will explore one of Texas’ most historic cities. The tour includes a look into the cultures that make up the 300-year-old history and takes you to see some hot attractions.

•HemisFair Park: HemisFair Park is a popular landmark, and it’s an enjoyable place to visit. Whether you picnic or take part in one of the many events held here, your visit to its extremely beautiful squares will be an undoubtedly one.

•La Villita: On the southern end of the River Walk, La Villita is a shopping center where you can find everything from food to workshops and artworks.

•Theatre District: See the landmarks that have shaped the city’s theater industry. These towering buildings are not only architectural feats (建筑奇观), but they are also so important to the history of art in the area.

•San Fernando Cathedral: This cathedral (大教堂) is home to the oldest religious community and was founded in the 1700s.

•Spanish Governor’s Palace: If you’re an architecture and history lover, then the Spanish Governor’s Palace is sure to impress. This wonderful building features details from the 1700s as well as well-designed gardens.

Transportation Guide Service

A comfortable air-conditioned Gray Line bus will take you to each location visited. During the tour, a knowledgeable guide will be able to tell you about the local life and things to do. Ask all your burning questions about the area anytime！

【推荐1】Being healthy is important. Often, we’re crazy about articles in health magazines talking about the latest popular diets, or advertisements that offer cures (疗法) for fatness that are often too good to be true. One of the latest crazy phenomena (现象) is intermittent fasting (间歇性禁食).     1    

There are different ways of intermittent fasting.     2     Another common way is choosing a diet that sees people only eating during a limited part of the day, for example, over eight hours.

    3     A study suggests intermittent fasting may help control blood sugar and reduce the possibility of suffering related disease. Other studies have shown intermittent fasting may help slow the ageing process, support brain function, lose weight, etc.

Some people try intermittent fasting for weight management, and others use the method to deal with some conditions such as high cholesterol or arthritis.     4     Fasting might not suit those who are underweight or with a long-term medical condition. Fasting may cause some people to experience symptoms (症状) such as headaches or make them easily suffer from overeating after a reduced calorie intake (热量摄入) day.

As with many diets, it’s always wise to speak to your doctor or weight-loss professional before changing your eating habits. And, at the end of the day, it could just come down to what lifestyle choice suits you.     5     If not, your health may suffer.

【推荐2】How to eat well

Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food?

It’s not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.     1     Nor is it for sake of available information. There are plenty of recipes (食谱), how-to-videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smart phone or television.     2    

Cooking is not a hard -to- learn skill for young people.

    3     My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends. The frozen foods, the canned goods, the packed, pre-prepared meals and the fast foods may cause a lot of health problems and environmental harm.     4    

Cooking real food with raw ingredients is the best solution.

To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple: Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. And to save money and still eat well, you don’t need local organic ingredients; all you need is real food.

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There is nothing mysterious about cooking the evening meal. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more. Every time you cook, you advance your level of skills. So for the benefit of health, please cook at home and enjoy yourself.

【推荐3】Reasons Why Chocolate Is Really Good to Us

Who doesn’t love chocolate? You know it never stops amazing me when I come across people who don’t like chocolate. That just confuses me.     1     There are even a wonderful, delicious variety of chocolates to choose from. Did you seriously try them all and still hate chocolate? I’ll never understand this.     2     I found some interesting information letting us know that we should be eating chocolate daily.

    3     Can you imagine? Chocolate, with a high percentage of cocoa in it, is the key to reducing your risks of heart diseases, strokes and heart attacks. The cocoa bean is very high in flavonoids (黄铜), which means health.

    4     The flavonoids in chocolate not only protect your heart and improve your mood, but also boost your brain. According to the research, they improve mental functions so that you perform well on tests and school work.

Need to calm some angry youngsters or wipe away their upset tears? Chocolate will surely do that. Sometimes it’s just hard to understand why our children are upset and unfortunately. It’s not always so easy to calm them down and make them feel better.     5    

【推荐2】The whole idea behind the US National Parks system was to preserve natural and historic locations, and the wildlife that lives there. That goal allows for inclusion of anyplace that features natural beauty, unique geological features, or an interesting ecosystem,plus the sites of national monuments and other places of historical or archaeological significance.

We've selected three US National Parks that are as different from each other as possible. Let's start in the Northeastern corner of the US, with a beautiful park called Acadia.

Acadia National Park

Acadia National Park is in Eastern Maine, near the town of Bar Harbor. The park is unique, in that it features a wide variety of landscapes, including mountains, ocean coastline, woodlands, lakes, and wetlands. It covers a total of 49,075 acres.

The park is home to 37 species of mammals, including black bears, moose, and deer. There are 33 fish species and 331 bird varieties.

Everglades National Park

Unlike many national parks, Everglades National Park was initially created to protect a fragile and disappearing ecosystem. The Everglades consist of a network of wetlands and forests that are fed by a river flowing slowly out of Lake Okeechobee.

The Everglades cover a massive area, and Everglades National Park protects only the southern twenty percent. It's the United States' largest tropical( 热带的) wilderness;in fact,it's the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is located on "the big island", Hawaii. It was created in 1916. The park features two active volcanoes, one of which, Mauna Loa, is the world's largest shield volcano. The other, Kilauea, is one of the world's most active volcanoes.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park lets visitors get up close and personal with the two volcanoes.Odd-looking lava(岩浆）fields and dramatic landscapes captivate the eye,and you can learn about the rare plants and animals that thrive in the tough environment.