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Speech leading a healthy life style
1. A very good afternoon to the principal of SMK Taman Desa, teachers and my dearly
beloved friends. It really gives me great pleasure to deliver you a speech today on healthy
habits. Put on your thinking cap; try asking yourself, have you been on healthy diets?
Have you gotten sufficient rest each day? Or even, have you been performing healthy
lifestyle by doing sports regularly? Your answer lies with yourself. If you do not, start off
with some basic healthy habits. Here are some advices…
Avoid eating too much sweet or salty food. Normally, these sweet or salty food are not
healthy food because of the excessive salt and sugar content in the food product.
Nevertheless, after a prolonged period of time having such bad eating habits, it shall
direct us to diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. It has been kid’s nature to
love tasty food without having any healthy eating mindset. As we’re older, change our
diet by cutting down on sugar and salt food products starting from today! It would
definitely be a healthier lifestyle with a longer lifespan.
Moreover, I believe many of us here have enjoyed Chinese New Year. Picturing all the
junk food and soft drinks, I ought to advise you to have a good habit on drinking more
water instead of soft drinks. One of the leading factors to heavy obesity is the huge
consumption of soft drinks because it is high in calories and sugar, but low in nutrients.
In conjunction with that, tooth decay, caffeine dependence and bone weakening are too
mostly likely caused by soft drinks.
Skipping meals are also one of the bad habits of students. Due to how young generation
nowadays accentuate on their physical appearance, many of them skip meals to bring up
a “good image”. Well, it is a wrong perception which needed to be given advices on to
put an end to it. Eat meals at regular times, breakfast, which is the most important meal of
all and so needed to be taken care of whereas lunch and dinner at a...