Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Processed Food (blog prompt)

Processed food are bad for health. What are processed food? Processed food are also known as preserved food. Some examples are sausages, luncheon meat, meatballs, crab stick and other types of canned food. How are these processed food made? Guess What? Some of the colours on these processed food are actually artificial colouring and flavours are artificial flavourings! Some people like to eat crab stick and actually what are they eating? They are eating eating artificially coloured and flavoured food!

Processed food are made to be preserved for quite a long time. What is used to preserve these food? Mainly, salt is used used in preserving most kinds of processed food. Consuming too much salt can lead to kidney failure. Thus, do not become a victim of kidney failure just because you take too much processed food. The next bad thing is preservatives. Research has shown that taking too much preservatives cause respiratory and other health problems. Allergenic preservatives in food or medicine can also cause anaphylacic shock in susceptible individuals, a condition which is often fatal within minutes without emergency.

Personally, I do not really take much processed food as my parents always tell me that they are unhealthy and may cause health problems. That is why my diet is balanced. I take more vegetables and fruit instead of processed food. In conclusion, take processed food in moderation and stay healthy!

The Taximan's Story (questions)

Q1.The irony in the story is that young girls are fooling around, which includes the taximan's daughter. The taximan did not expect his daughter to be fooling around as her results in school were excellent.

Q2.The themes in the story are that we should be good children and not fool around like the girls in the story when we are still young.

Q3. The story is rather realistic, as nowadays, there is an increasing number of young students fooling around like what Dexter mentioned in his blog.

Q4.I think that the taximan is rather sociable as he told a stranger about his daughter and his personal problems. I sympathise for the taximan as he must be very angry to find out that his daughter was fooling around without his knowledge.

Q5.I do agree with the taximan's lamenting. We young people nowadays should be studying hard for exams instead of fooling around. Fooling around does not benefit us nor our parents. Our parents work hard to pay for our monthly school fees, pinning their hopes on us. We should not let them down by fooling around and not working hard.

Q6.I also sympathise for the taximan's wife. She as well as the taximan himself, would not have expected their daughter with excellent results in school to be fooling around behind their backs. The taximan's wife must be extremely upset and disappointed with her daughter.