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The motto of the project is “Good health is above wealth”.

I think bad habits are really deadly. Of course, you can inherit some health problems from your parents, but you can always keep .your health if you want to.

The first rule of the healthy way of life is to have normal weight, not to be overweight, and not to change your weight quickly. It is not natural to lose or gain weight quickly or to look like top models who are too slim. A human body needs about 10%of it to be fat, otherwise it does not work properly. There are two ways of controlling your weight. You can regulate your diet and your exercise.

Vitamins make people healthy, optimistic and strong.

But you can hardly find any useful vitamins in Coke, cakes, sweets, chips and fast food. They have much fat and sugar. This food gives a lot of energy. If you do not work it out, it becomes fat in your body. A correct diet helps your organism work well and be healthy. It is the second rules of the healthy way of life.

Nowadays a lot of teenagers spend more time glued to their tellies. They prefer taking a bus or a taxi to walking. Young people buy VCRs and lots of videotapes. Some prefer watching films about travelling to travelling itself. These teenagers ruin their eye-sight and weaken their muscles. They don’t exercise and often fall ill. But at the same time many young people understand that it’s wrong. This way of life can’t be called healthy.

The third rule is regular exercise. Many teenagers jog, walk or cycle in their free time. Physical exercises help you keep fit, have a good gait and figure. They also help them lose weight and work out energy. It is not good to be as thin as a stick, but extra weight can cause serious problems, such as heart problems and diabetes. There are a lot of advertisements both on TV and newspapers of different pills and drops which can help girls become slim and slender in two weeks. But taking medication without a doctor’s control is dangerous. I know that pills cannot work a miracle.

There are also some bad habits that can ruin teenagers’ health. They are smoking, drinking alcohol and using drugs. Speaking about smoking, I must say that smoking in some aspects is worse than other bad habits. You see, there are active smokers (those who smoke) and passive smokers. Passive smokers don’t smoke themselves, but they inhale the smoke from the cigarettes of those who are active smokers. So the latter make other people breathe smoky, poisonous air. That’s not fair, I think. Passive smoking can be very dangerous for teenagers. I’m glad that since the 1^st of July, 2002 smoking has been banned by law in public places and at work in the presence of other people. At the same time I think many teenagers smoke because they want to look older. So cinema and TV should stop portraying people smoking. I’m glad that advertisements of cigarettes and alcohol (except for beer) are prohibited on TV and radio.

Drinking alcohol is another bad habit among teenagers. Some young people think that alcohol help them relax and feel more confident. I don’t agree with this opinion. Sometimes I see drunken young people in the streets. They look terrible. They don’t care about their appearance or health. So they ruin their health and their lives. Drinking alcohol is bad for all organs of the human body, but it first influences the liver, the organ, which purifies the blood. As a result the drunkard gets cirrhosis of the liver. Then alcohol influences the brain and a man stops being a man. A great man said that drinking alcohol is a voluntary madness, and I think he was right.

The usage of drugs is a bad habit, too. Many young people smoke but cigarettes don’t kill so quickly. Alcohol can be taken on the daily basis all man’s life without killing. Drugs make teenagers their addicts very quickly– after a few doses. In the beginning a pusher gives drugs for free or at a symbolic price. But later, after several doses, they can’t live without drugs. Drugs start ruining teenagers health and dreams, ruin all human organs, and drugs addicts die young.

These bad habits ruin teenagers’ health and show their week character. I think many young people smoke, drink alcohol, take drugs because they want to look like adults, not because they like. Many of my classmates always look pale and feel tired even in the morning. In my opinion they have health problems because they don’t care about their health. First of all they smoke a lot. They don’t eat fruit and vegetables. They often skip their meal. They sleep too little because they watch TV till late in the evening. You can’t buy health, but you can keep fit it if you begin to take care of it early enough.

“One” for each “Yes”

If you want to be healthy you have to keep fit.