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"Fruit is nature's candy" 

Fruits are both delicious and nutritious. They can reduce the risk of death almost by 42 percent. So, it is important to develop the habit of eating fruits to try to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Citrus fruits such as lemons, limes, grapefruits are especially good for maintaining a healthy heart. Fruits also have less calories than other food groups, and more fiber. Fruits also have important vitamins and minerals. Fruits can also help avoid diseases such as cancer, diabetes, etc. Fruits help maintain our cells healthy in order to have strong bodies.
Vocabulary: 
1.    Nutritious – something that has vitamins and minerals
2.    Habit – something you do every day or often
3.    Maintain – to continue
4.    Calories – the amount of energy in food
5.    Fiber – the part of food that cannot be digested
6.    Avoid – to keep away
7.    Diseases – sickness, an unhealthy condition of body or mind
8.    Cells – the smallest basic building blocks of living things
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Comments

  1. Teacher: JackieMarch 29, 2018 at 6:06 PM

    Nice and useful blog on nutrition! I like your simple definitions. You are missing your grammar point here.

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