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- food more important than exercise.
- food keeps us alive.
- only rich people worry about having a perfect balance of food and exercise.
- rest of the world is worrying about where their next meal will come from.
On this planet of more than six billion people, only the very richest people get to worry about having the perfect body. For most people on this earth, hunger is a constant threat, and any food is good food. In this essay I will persuade you to see that we should value our opportunities to eat at all, and that good exercise is just what is needed because we are so rich that we are sitting around in cars and with computers and phones all day.
When we worry about good food, we worry because we are lucky enough to have food so much food that we can eat too much. I grew up watching television footage of children in Sub-saharan Africa who were dying of starvation. They had had so little food that their stomachs were blown up and distended. When I didn't want to eat my dinner, my Mum would remind me to eat up and remember than there were people starving in Africa. So if we want everyone in the world to have enough to eat, we need to stop worrying about whether we have the perfect diet, appreciate the food that we do have, and make sure we don't waste food. How many times have you looked in the fridge to find leftovers now limp and even mouldy, because it wasn't your very favourite food? Not cool at all when you think of people having to look through rubbish bins or line up in refugee camps to find their meal for the day.
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