Exercise

Exercising has some meanings. It can let us not to gain weight. We can feel better to exercise and get happiness, I think. But I don't belong to any sports club or circle. So, I searched the sports I want to do.

As we know, bowling is the ball game which we roll a large heavy ball along a wooden track in order to knock down a group of pins. Some people bowl as their hobbies, other bowl as their jobs. There is the association in Japan. It's Japan Bowling Congress(JBC). This page explains about competition. We can enjoy bowling with friends!! Let's go bowling in your summer vacation!

Next is badminton. It's the game that is similar to tennis but played with a shuttlecock instead of a ball. You think we don 't much move in this sport than like basketball or soccer. But this require the quickly movement. So we can lose weight like basketball. We play badminton singles or doubles. I think we can get a good relationship. Here is Japan Badminton Association. Now the badminton team is popular in Japan. They will participate in the Beijing Olympics. I'm looking forward to watching it. The Olympics is starting on 8.8 2008! It has a lot of "8". Let's play badminton and watch Beijing Olympics!!!

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Have a nice summer vacation:-D

Diet

Some people diet by eating healthy food without exercising. I introduce Japanese healthy foods. 　Japan has lots of healthy foods. For example, konnyaku, harusame( looks the spring rain), kanten(=agar)…etc. The food I choose is kanten. Kanten is made from a kind of seaweed but the appearance is not seaweed. It just looks jelly. Japanese sweets use kanten. It has some effects for our health. First, it has few calories so we eat it a lot ,we don't take many calories. Second, it prevent our bodies from absorbing oil and sugar. Third, it have the blood pressure be lower so this is good medicine for the people who have high blood pressure. I think these are wonderful!!

By the way, February 2nd is called "kanten no hi" in Japan. It means " the day of agar". Nagano Prefecture established the day because the agar was well-known on TV on that day. Nagano is the No.1 producing district of the agar.

My mother sometimes cooks me the agar jelly. You can season with that various. I love cocoa flavor;-9 Let's cook an agar jelly!!

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