Hungry Students Get Healthy Choices
It is a well-known scientific fact that teenagers eat 50 percent more than the average person. Well, actually three meals a day just isn't enough (satisfy) their endless hunger.
Recently Tongji University (decide) to keep its canteens open till 11 p.m. and to serve healthy meals at affordable prices. Fu Qinjun, the director of the university's food services, (quote) as saying, "Students are usually hungry after studying late into the night, but our canteens used to stop service after 7 p.m. That's students turned to outside vendors (小贩) but the quality and safety of the food is not good enough."
This is good news for the students now have healthy late-night choices for their diet instead of relying on fast food and the snacks available at convenience stores. Those foods tend to contain a lot of salt, fat and sugar which set off pleasure receptors (感受器) in our brains but are basically unhealthy when (eat) in excess and can make us fat.
If you're a boarding student, you probably know about fat because you have likely put on a little weight since you started school. In North America, this phenomenon is called the "Freshman Fifteen." refers to the fact that many students gain up to fifteen pounds during the first year they are away from home. Without mum (look) after them, they tend to eat more than they should.
For young people, though, having a healthy appetite is a good thing. Your body keeps growing until about the age of twenty-one, so you need to eat. However, it's important to learn how to eat well. So, kudos (赞誉) to Tongji University for helping students fill their bottomless pits (无底洞) healthy food. And now maybe the university will keep its gym open late at night students can walk off some of those extra calories!
