pick out 1. seçmek, ayırmak. 2. ayırt etmek. 3. çıkarmak. 4. müz. ağır ağır nota çıkarmaya çalışmak.
respond to karsilik ver
enable f. 1. imkân vermek, mümkün kılmak, sağlamak. 2. yetki vermek.
105 YOUR DIET
One of the side-effects of mothers leaving the kitchen in favour of more interesting, sociable and better paid work is, sadly, that their children are not being fed properly (i.e. their diets are not satisfactory). In 1985 a survey was carried out on over four thousand children throughout England and Wales to try and find out how well they were fed. The results were alarming:
Once, schools tried to make up for these deficiencies by providing free milk and cheap meals. Now the price of meals is increasing continuously. Moreover, free milk is no longer provided since the government believes that the nation's children are properly fed, and that children's dietary standards are not the business of the government anyway. According to the results of the survey, however, it has become obvious that school plays a very important part in a child's diet. Before the Second World War, the mother supplied the nourishment (i.e. the food that is needed to grow and remain healthy). Now the responsibility is divided between home and school.
A third of the working force in England are women, two-thirds of them married, half with school-age children. Many have long distances to travel to work and are not prepared to spend hours working in their home in the evening or at the weekend. These facts mean that the approach to food and its preparation has changed a lot since the war.
During the war many women were required to work in industry and weren’t able to spend much time cooking for their children. Children's diets were therefore supplemented outside the home by various welfare agencies, including the schools. In other words, additional food was provided to improve chldren's diets.
The situation really has not changed very much. More and more women are going out to work, and are either just not at home when their children need to be fed, or are short of time to prepare proper meals. The children consequently end up with meals of chips, chocolate and bread and jam.
If we, as a society, want our children to be properly nourished, their the most sensible way is to use the school system through which every one of them passes for ten years of his or her life. A school can plan and serve well-balanced weekly diets to all its children, supplementing the diets of those who are not able to get proper meals at home, and certainly doing no harm to those that are.
Dostları ilə paylaş: |
