The World is Changing - Liceo Sesto Properzio

We are proud of our basketball and every boy wants to be as good as Lithuanian basketball stars like Sabonis,Kleiza, Siskauskas etc. So we have a good situation in the youth basketball.One of the better signs is the revival of football in Lithuania. We don’t have a good football team but somehowwe managed to attract youngsters to football pitches. We have good U-16, U-15 national teams and I’m surethat in a couple of years we will play in the World Cup or European championship.The worst situation is in other kinds of sport, because all the youngsters see is basketball and football ,so theydon’t like other sports. As a result we don’t have strong a handball, volleyball or ice hockey team.To end with, I want to say that Lithuania is a country that loves sport. Some people say that basketball is thesecond religion of Lithuania, football is a fast growing sport in Lithuania and I’m sure that we have to continueour traditions of sport and we can’t forget them. What can be better than sport? It’s the main source of healthand the healthy youth is the best youth.posted on Wednesday, March 14th, 2012A sound mind in a sound bodyby Martynas JAKAS (1996), SPG Šilutė/LithuaniaBefore we start, consider yourselves warned: this article is not about every single human on this planet.A sound mindMost people cherish their mind. Our mind is special for its use. Having a sound mind means: solving ourproblems with less obstacles, finding the light side in worst situations… Since having a sound mind means thatwe can think more clearly. If we would think that our mind is worthless, we wouldn’t cherish it and we wouldonly trust our feelings. We could believe anything that people say, we would lock ourselves in our little worlds,because if someone would lie to us, maybe everyone else could, so we couldn’t trust others. If our feelings wouldcontrol us, we would see only black and white in our world.A sound bodyThese days there are people ignoring the healthy life and those, who live healthy. Unhealthy life is very commonthese days, because lots of junk food is sold and eaten every day, new ones created every month. Newtechnologies help to sat unhealthy, too I’m not against mobile phones, TVs, computers, but that’s true. We don’talways go out to meet friends, because we have computers, we don’t need to stay outside for a long time to chat– we have mobile phones. These things make us lazier, that’s why we move less and eat unhealthy.So let’s open a new page in our lives and start thinking more clearly and living more healthy. Just don’t give up!posted on Sunday, March 4th, 2012Food and healthby Laura SALDAUSKAITĖ (1996), SPG Šilutė/LithuaniaIn today‘s fast-moving world, people have less and less time to spend eating,let alone cooking. It is probably for this reason that junk food has becomeso popular, and there is no doubt that it is here to stay. In fact, one Britishhotel group has announced that its guests are able to order fast food eventhrough room service. So what exactly is junk food? Basically, it is anythingthat is high in calories but lacking in nutrition as well as high in saturatedfat, which is linked with a higher risk of cancer. Our eating habits havechanged due to lack of time. Also, the amount of exercise we do hasdecreased. Researches suggest that the new generation will be more likely tosuffer from heart and liver disease. But if we improve our eating habits, wewill be better equipped to deal with our stressful lifestyles.One of the ways to stay healthy is the Pyramid diet.We‘ve had the High Fibre diet, the Protein diet, the hip diet, but the latestdiet is The Pyramid‘s.This isn‘t a diet to help people lose weight. It‘s a dietfor healthy life. The Pyramid diet is very simple. Different kinds of food are atdifferent levels of the pyramid. The higher up the pyramid, the less you should eat.At the bottom of the pyramid are complex carbohydrates like bread, pasta and potatoes. About 50% of your dietshould be complex by them. At the second level are fruit and vegetables. Thes should be about 30% of your diet.Above the second level are the protein-rich foods like meat, fish and cheese. At the top of the pyramid are fat,oil and sugar. We should eat as little as possible of things at this level.So that’s why, the proverb says: “An apple a day, keeps a doctor away”.posted on Monday, May 14 th, 2012n° 9/2013, page 119