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Junk Food Pyramid

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Junk Food Pyramid
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grade 9
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.96

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		arbitrary, assiduous, chicken-like, collegiate, grades-how, hairnets, impetus, lo-carb, mega-meal, noncompliance, on-paper, overcooked, pimply, sallow, shot-you, tremulous
	content words:		Miss Ima Peach, Miss Peach, Ima Peach, Chubby Susan, Mega-Burger Pit

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Junk Food Pyramid By Colleen Messina

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¹     Susan climbed up a squishy mound of yellow pasta sprinkled with Parmesan cheese until she reached a tremulous glacier of green peas. Using her toothpick walking stick, she stabbed her way to safety. Susan found it helpful to hang onto the sporadic potato chip boulders, which were covered with sparkling salt crystals. Her next obstacle was a river of hot fudge dotted with marshmallows. Susan waded through the thick, oozing chocolate. A glorious vanilla ice cream hill loomed temptingly ahead. Suddenly, just as Susan reached the gooey rainbow sprinkles, she...
 
²     "We are finished with our discussion about the food pyramid. Any questions? Good!" said Miss Peach, the health teacher.
 
³     A loud rumble punctuated the silence. Susan imagined a potato chip landslide in her food world, but the sound came from her own ravenous stomach. Everyone snickered because the noise was so loud. Susan's face flushed pink behind her wire-rimmed glasses, and her brown eyes teared. This was terrible!
 
⁴     "Your homework assignment is to document your food consumption for a week. Everyone's diet will be up for discussion. I exhort all of you to eat well. One deserving student will receive a prize next week," Miss Peach said in a disciplined voice. Her name was fitting because the skin on her cheekbones resembled the soft, pink skin of a ripened peach.
 
⁵     Susan groaned as she exited the classroom. What kind of diet would be acceptable to Miss Peach? Susan crashed through life and enjoyed sweets, French fries, and junk food of all kinds. In sharp contrast, Miss Peach's self-discipline was obvious in her trim body and her smooth, precise movements. She looked as if she had eaten salads and practiced yoga every day for fifty years.
 
⁶     Susan entered the noisy cafeteria and glanced over at the frantic lunch line. Hard-working women wearing hairnets scooped out motley mounds of mediocre food to the mobs. A soda can sailed past Susan and hit the wall with a loud clang, missing the garbage can by two yards. Susan sighed as she picked up the can and tossed it into the trash. Barbarians! She was glad she had brought her own lunch so she didn't have to do the lunch line battle today. She glanced around to find a seat and saw a vacancy next to her friends, John and Shelley.
 
⁷     "Hey, Susan! Nice shot - you should join the basketball team! Let's speculate about this health class assignment. I bet the prize is a coupon for the health food store," said John. John was tall, gangly, and gregarious. He was friendly to everyone! Susan loved his dry sense of humor. He offered Susan a greasy French fry dripping with ketchup as a gesture of goodwill.
 
⁸     "Do you think we'll get a lower grade if we don't eat well? Shelley, you are proficient in excellent grades - how should we handle this?" Susan asked.

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