Because it’s Fat

You’re only young once.

By Helen Law 10M2

“I sat myself down onto the cafeteria chair, smiling at my friends. Suddenly, I caught a new face amongst the familiar faces that I eat lunch with everyday. She was bent over a plate of French fries and chicken, stuffing her face with it. Her plump figure reminded me of a pregnant woman I had seen on the street the other day. Her mouth opened every few seconds to let food in. 

Everyone on the table was gaping at her. Every once in a while she would look up at us and smile, with tomato sauce dripping from the corners of her mouth. She didn’t seem to care that everyone was staring at her, she ignored the mean comments floating in from the nearby tables. I felt my smile slipping off my face, I couldn’t see what was wrong with what she was doing. I couldn’t understand why everyone was treating her that way. I knew that half the people in this cafeteria a were dying to just TASTE her French fries and chicken. The reason why they weren’t eating what she’s eating? Because it’s fat.”

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Because it’s fat, that’s why we don’t let it enter our body, that’s why it starts a trend, a trend not to eat these types of food if you want to look slim. What these people don’t know is that the key to being healthy is not just cutting down on these fatty foods. What we also don’t realize is that all those fattening foods such as Ice cream and chocolate are not that harmful to our bodies. Plain milk chocolate contains a lot of iron which combines with protein to form haemoglobin, the red substance in blood that ...

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