1 . For most of us, it takes a long time to learn how to make something tasty. But not for Remmi Smith, still a teenager, she’s already creating fantastic dishes. She’s also becoming well known for her Italian salad dressing, which is delicious. And with her knowledge of social media (媒体), she’s making sure that everyone knows she’s here!

Remmi, who was born in China, now lives in the USA. She is just 16. She has already starred in two shows on cooking and her book of healthy recipes (食谱) has recently come out. From the age of four, Remmi helped in the kitchen by preparing vegetables. By the age of seven, Remmi was a real food love r who could cook complete meals for her family. Remmi began making videos for fun. Her mother videoed her while she was cooking and put the videos online. A local TV station broadcast (播放) them. They then asked Remmi to create another show.

That show is mainly about Remmi’s interest, which is getting teenagers to take healthy eating seriously. She believes that when young people make their own food, they care more about what they eat. Remmi works with a company in the USA which shows her videos in school dining halls. About 3.5 million students watch her every day!

Remmi believes that young people can create a healthy meal for their family which doesn’t cost a lot. Her delicious recipes include vegetable paella and strawberry kebabs. In fact, strawberries, which are Remmi’s favorite food, appear in other recipes, including strawberry sandwich!

Her latest idea is a healthy-snack service. For a monthly subscription (订购), you receive snacks, which include fruit sticks and popcorn, and fun cooking activities that help you develop a healthy lifestyle.

3 . Water plays an important role in keeping you healthy. This should come as no surprise. Much of your body is made up of water, after all. It keeps your body working properly. But did you know that too much water can make you die?

Water poisoning (中毒) happens when people drink too much water. This lowers the level of sodium (钠) in their blood to dangerous levels. When you have too little sodium in your body, a lot of things will go seriously wrong in your body.

Your brain may begin to swell (膨胀). You may get a headache, feel very tired and sick. You may even lose consciousness. In these cases, water poisoning can be deadly. You will need to go to a hospital immediately.

Protecting yourself from water poisoning may seem easy, however, this is easier said than done. For example, when you do exercise, you may have to drink a lot of water. It is important to balance the amount (量) of water. This can help you stay healthy whenever you are exercising.

So, how much water should a person drink each day? For years, we have been told to drink two liters (公升) of water a day. But in fact, the actual amount needed is different for each person. Today, most doctors are telling people that they should drink water whenever they feel thirsty.

We can’t live without water. Neither can we live with too much water in our bodies. Make sure you take the right amount of it each day — staying healthy is all about staying balanced.

Hello! My name is Susan. I am a middle school student.     1    . For breakfast, I have bread, eggs and milk.     2    . For dinner, I have vegetables, sandwiches and fruit.

    3    . He likes chicken very much, but he doesn’t like vegetables.     4    . So our teacher Mr. Green always tells him, “You should eat well, Tony.     5    .”

5 . This is David, an English boy and he is 12 years old. He loves hamburgers. He has one hamburger in the morning, three hamburgers and two ice-creams in the afternoon. For dinner, what does he have? Three hamburgers and a coke (可乐)!

Some scientists (科学家) say, “Hamburgers, ice-cream and coke are nice but eating them too much is not good.” If we have food like hamburgers too much, what can we get?

Scientists have an experiment (实验) on rats (老鼠) to find the answer (答案).

Here are three groups (组) of rats. Group One eat fruit and vegetables. Group Two eat some vegetables and hamburgers. But they can eat hamburgers for only one hour every day. Group Three have hamburgers and vegetables, too. But rats in this group can eat hamburgers all day.

The rats in Group Three like hamburgers very much and always want them. After the experiment, they are the fattest (最胖的).

Can it be the same with people? Some scientists think “YES”. It is OK to love food like hamburgers, but having so many hamburgers a day like David sounds (听起来) “fat”. You don’t want to be too fat, right? Ice-cream is nice and cool. It’s OK to have one ice-cream after dinner. But it’s not OK to have five ice-creams after dinner. We don’t want to be the fat “rats”.

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7 . Salted fish is a common food that is popular in the south of China. It is chewy (有嚼劲的) and adds a salty taste to other dishes. But eating too much salted fish can give you cancer (癌症), according to a list of cancer-causing foods that was recently published by the China Food and Drug Administration.

Salted fish is produced with a large amount of salt, which later turns into nitrites (亚硝酸盐).When nitrites reach our stomach, they turn into another kind of chemical (化学物质) that can cause cancer, Huang Yufang from the Cancer Center of Guangzhou Medical University told Xinhua News Agency.

So does this mean we can’t eat salted fish anymore?

“People don’t need to worry too much. It has to do with how often you eat certain foods and how much of them you eat,” Huang said. If you really like eating salted fish, you can eat a small amount once or twice a month. At the same time, you should also eat more fruit and vegetables that are rich in vitamin C, as this can help to prevent the formation (形成) of nitrites.

In fact, there are many foods we often eat that are thought to cause cancer, such as pickles (咸菜), areca palm (槟榔), certain fried foods and even red meat, such as pork, lamb and beef.

Although these foods can possibly cause cancer, it doesn’t mean a person will get cancer just from eating them, according to the World Health Organization.

Cancer is caused by many different factors, such as one’s genes (基因), environment, lifestyle and eating habits. As long as one has a balanced diet, one doesn’t need to avoid cancer-causing foods totally, Fang Yu, a doctor from the Beijing Cancer Hospital, told People’s Daily.