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Essay plan

[Introduction]
General idea, background:
The rate of children who have meal alone has been increasing today.
Thesis: Eating alone brings bad influences on children's health and minds.

[Causes]
①Both father and mother work for their living.
②Children go to cram school, and eat supper there, not at home.

[Results]
①Lack of nutrition---unbalanced diet, getting overweight, unhealthy
②Hyperactivity may be caused by contains artificial coloring---UK's research
③Lack of communication---causing social phobia when they eat with people.

[Solutions]
①making a day that all family members have meal together.
②getting knowledge of nutrition to choose balanced meal by themselves.

[Conclusion]
Summary
My opinion: It is important for children's growths to have balanced meal
with family at home.


Note taking

[Main point]
Research--Southampton Uni.
・taking in artificial colours could be connected children's conducts;
hyperactivity, or ADHD.
⇒may bring good results if children cut the food that contains amount
of colours.
・the six colours were used in study.

[FSA's meeting]
UK food companies already have been finding other things instead of
artificial colours.

[the opinions of Dr. Andrew Wadge, the FSA's chief scientist]
・this research can be good use.
・hyperactivity is caused not only by artificial colours.
because of heredity
・be able to avoid artificial colours by food labels


Summary

The research by Southampton University shows that taking in artificial food colours may cause children's conducts. Children may get good results on hyperactivity or ADHD by cutting the food that contains amount of colours. From this research, UK food companies mentioned that they had already been finding other things instead of colours at FSA's meeting. From the FSA's sientist, Dr.Andrew Wadge's perspective, artificial colours are not only reason causing hyperactivity, but the research can be useful, and people who are afraid of can avoid artificial colours by checking food labels.

Reference
Food Standards Agency, 11 Sep 2007, "Agency revises advice on certain artificial colours", http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2007/sep/foodcolours, 25 Oct 2009