英语作文：饮食的安全与健康，靠政府还是靠自己？

题目：Some people think that governments should do more to make their citizens eat a healthy diet. Others believe that individuals must take responsibility for their own diet and health. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

有些人认为，政府应该多做事情，让公民吃上健康的事物。另一些人则说责任还是在个人，自己要负起责任来调节食谱，保持健康。你讨论这两个方面的内容，并给出你自己的观点。

英文：

Some people think that governments should do more to make their citizens eat a healthy diet. Concerning about food safety, they feel that if governments don’t take actions, the illegal medicine such as Melamine, Clenbuterol and Sudan will not be forbidden. The laws, proceedings of cases, propaganda on a healthy diet from governments are all useful. Others have a point of view that eating is one’s own choice. If they want to be healthy, they will pay attention to learn more knowledge, and take actions on their conditions.

First, let’s look at what measures the government is doing. There are 26 national laws about food in China by 2015. For example, recently a butcher in Tianjin was punished by court since in 2015 and 2016 he couldn’t offer the certificate materials on the lamb he sold after being warned for many times. He will be in prison for one year, pay a forfeit of 10,000 RMB and cannot sell meat for 3 years. So businessmen can be awed by law.

Countries also focus on education the public. TV shows, newspapers, websites and other propaganda can offer us latest knowledge of heathy food. In Rizhao, Shandong Province, the Food and Drug Administration corporate with schools and bring about a lot of interesting activities. The staffs give booklets containing related food health information to students, and arrange lectures conducting by professionals. The students can make posters to how the knowledge they learn and teach their family members as well. In the end, there is a competition and some gifts are prepared for students. These activities are highly relying on governments because they have strong force, enough money and talented people.

Second, it is also very correct that individuals must take responsibility for their own diet and health. Since governments’ force is about making food healthy and punishing the illegal actions, it is not much to do with our own health. If offered healthy foods, how can we eat them healthily?

To begin with, we should find reliable information source. The articles, books, websites and so on that we read, should have no flaws on logic. This is a need of one’s thinking and understanding ability. It must be trained in everyday life. So stop reading the fast spreading articles in wechat. It is because that fear and rumors is most spreading not the real knowledge. We should read papers, official news or other checked information sources.

Next, we must have patience. For instance, fitness is very popular now, but many people who just begin to go to gyms want to see effects quickly. However, fitness takes lots of time and the cost is expensive. Many give up in less than three months since they don’t realize this. Then they are frustrated and go to eat weight loss drugs which make their body conditions even worse. So the individual’s thought is the key point of keeping health.

All in all, the governments and individuals are all contributing to eating a healthy diet, and their efforts are just in different aspects.

中文：

说到饮食的安全和健康，有些人会很依赖国家，觉得像三聚氰胺、瘦肉精、苏丹红等等违规药品在食品中的使用，政府不管就没人管，会觉得全国级别的颁布法律、对案子严格审讯，还有广泛宣传饮食的知识非常有用。另一些人觉得吃饭就是个人的事情，自己想获得健康，就的多学习相关知识，根据自己的情况去制定计划。

先来看看国家做了哪些应对措施。截止到2015年，中国关于食品方面有26部国家级的法律和法规。举个例子，最近有一位天津的屠夫，因为2015年和2016年他所卖的羊肉都没有证明材料，并且经多次警告未改。他被判入狱一年，罚金一万元人民币，并且三年不得售卖肉制品。所以法律对于商人是有震慑力的。

国家也会花大力气在教育公众上。像电视，报纸，网站及其他的宣传方式，都在告诉我们最新的关于食品健康的知识。比如在山东日照，食药监局就和学校合作，给学生分发手册，请专业人员讲课，学生们可以做海报，并且把知识带给家人，最后组织知识竞赛。此类宣传活动非常依赖政府，因为只有政府有强力，有经费，有专业人才。

第二，每个人要负起自己的责任，找到适合自己饮食健康的方式，也是非常正确的。因为政府的力量是确保食品的健康和惩罚违法的行为，这和我们自己健不健康没有直接联系。如果食品是健康的，我们的身体就健康的吗？

先要有的就是可靠的信息来源。像文章，书籍，网站，我们阅读的时候，应该找它逻辑上没有漏洞的内容来读，这就需要一个人的思考和理解水平了。这需要在日常生活中训练出来。所以，微信里的爆款文就别看了。因为恐惧和谣言远比真正的知识传播得快。我们应该多读论文，官方的新闻或者其他经过检验的信息来源。

其次要有耐心。举例来说，健身是当下很流行的活动，但是很多人刚开始去健身房，就希望能看到效果。但是，健身需要占用大量时间，并且成本是很高的。许多人在三个月之内放弃就是因为没有意识到这点。然后他们就变得沮丧，去吃减肥药，但是让身体变得更差。所以，个人的观念是保持健康的核心。

总而言之，政府和个人对于吃得健康都有作用，只不过他们的努力在不同的方向上。