【推荐1】Why is Eating Colourful Food Good for You?

Most of us are faced with the same choice numerous times a day: what to eat. Along with price, accessibility and preference, we’ll often use a food’s healthfulness to help us make a decision.     1    

It’s widely accepted by researchers that we need a varied diet.     2     The proof may be in the Mediterranean diet, which contains a lot of fruit, vegetables and healthy fats such as extra virgin olive oil, and is frequently rated the healthiest diet by scientists.

Eating lots of colours may lower your risk of missing out on all vital nutrients. “If we re missing a colour of the rainbow, we may be missing a function of that food,” says Minich. This is because plant foods contain thousands of natural compounds, which have anti-inflammatory (抗炎的) benefits.

    3     Blue and purple foods, including blueberries, have a high content of the plant anthocyanin (花青素), which has been linked to lowering the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Flavones (黄酮), which give foods a yellow colour, may reduce the risk of heart disease.

Research follow at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, says eating a colourful diet can also help people avoid possible side effects of eating too much of one food. “    4     For example, research has found that orange juice is associated with a lower risk of cognitive decline, but too much intake is associated with type 2 diabetes,” she says. Although, this is because of its sugar content, not flavones.

Eating a rainbow diet may also be complex.     5     We could tie ourselves in knots. We also need to eat from other food groups to get all the nutrients we need, such as protein.

A．Food is very complex.

B．A varied diet is packed with different vegetables.

C．It could be really tricky to get every colour every day.

D．But how do we know we’re getting enough nutrients?

E．Different coloured foods come with different benefits.

F．However, is colour the best guide to getting all the nutrients?

G．And one way to do this is by eating all the colours of the rainbow.

【推荐2】Limiting your child’s candy this Halloween might be more of a trick than a treat, experts say. Once you’re a grown-up raising kids, that bag full of candy might be the scariest part of Halloween — whether it’s concern about a potential sugar rush, worries of parenting perfectionism or diet culture anxiety.

“It makes sense to be scared, because we’ve been taught to be scared,” said Oona Hanson, a parent coach based in Los Angeles. “Sugar is sort of the boogeyman in our current cultural conversation.”

But micromanaging your child’s candy supply can backfire (适得其反)，leading to an overvaluing of sweets，binge (暴食) behavior or unhealthy restriction in your child，said Natalie Mokari, a registered dietitian-nutritionist in Charlotte, North Carolina.

As stressful as it may be to see your child faced with more candy in one night than they would eat in an entire year, the best approach may be to lean into the joy, she added. “They are only in that age where they want to trick or treat for just a small glimpse of time — it’s so short-lived,” Mokari said. “Let them enjoy that day.”

Experts aren’t suggesting kids have sugar all day every day. The American Heart Association and the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee — groups charged with providing science-based recommendations every live years — have recommended lower daily levels of sugar. Too much added sugar has been associated with cardiovascular disease and lack of essential nutrients.

But a healthy relationship with food has balance, and you can keep your kids’ diets full of nutrients while allowing them lo eat sweets, Mokari said.

1. Why are the grown-ups raising kids scared at Halloween?

A．Because they don’t look perfect enough.

B．Because their children faced too much candy.

C．Because they’ve been taught to be.

D．Because they don’t know the diet culture.

2. Which of the following best explains “Sugar is sort of the boogeyman” underlined in Paragraph 2?

A．Sugar can make us scared.

B．Sugar is a sort of healthy food.

C．Sugar is harmful to our health.

D．Sugar is a sort of essential nutrient.

3. Which of the following statements will Natalie Mokari probably agree with?

A．Kids should have sugar all day every day.

B．It makes sense to be scared with that bag full of candy.

C．It’s a good idea to micromanage your child’s candy supply.

D．Kids would have much joy when treated to candy at Halloween.

4. What are the last two paragraphs mainly about?

A．Diseases associated with sugar.

B．The right attitude towards sugar.

C．Allowing your kids to eat sweets.

D．Keeping your kids’ diets full of nutrients.

【推荐3】Over years with technology and changes in lifestyle, the consumption of processed food has become very popular. To make cooking effortless, quick and delicious, processed food turns out to be an enormous business today.     1    

Since early ages, people have been preserving food with varied techniques such as salt preservation, fermentation (发酵), drying, and so on. Food is either mechanically (机械地) or chemically processed to increase shelf life and ensure it is free from harmful micro creatures.     2     What's more, processed food is very popular nowadays because of the taste and flavors it offers to its consumers.

Processed food uses artificial flavors, preservatives, added colors, and many chemicals. It offers a heavy calorie dose and less nutrition, making it an unhealthy option. Besides, some processed food contains too much sugar, salt, and fats, which are extremely harmful to health.     3    

You need to be aware of what you are eating. The way it impacts your health is essential to a healthy well-being. Some lifestyle changes can help to get away from health risks and ensure a healthier lifestyle. Replacing highly processed food with more organic and natural food options is important.     4    

    5     More studies can help in bringing up awareness among people about its harm. Limiting the intake of processed food and replacing it with healthier options can help overcome health risks associated with it.

A．It is very common to over eat processed food.

B．Such a change can help you ensure a healthy lifestyle.

C．Eating such kind of food often can cause health issues.

D．Too much sugar intake increases the risk of getting overweight.

E．Processed food has developed rapidly because of its convenience.

F．However, an important question is about the nutritional value of it.

G．Processed food is less nutritious than natural and freshly prepared food.