Junk food Throughout the last 20 years it has been a fact that junk food has expanded over many countries which can boast of having a traditional and renowned cuisine. But what are the key factors that make this food be so popular? I see the point that it is cheap, it doesn’t take us much time to prepare it, and taking into account that we live in a hectic society, you may accept that the faster you eat, the better, as long as you consider that eating is a waste of time. However, nutritionists and researchers have pointed out the rate of obesity of some countries have gone up dramatically among young people, and it has been proved it is linked with the consume of junk food, needless to say, obesity will take its toll because it is common knowledge that it is one cause of heart attacks, high blood pressure, stroke, etc… Obviously, in terms of health, there isn’t any advantage of eating junk food because it is full of chemical products which make it be tasteful, up to the point that youngsters and kids might be hook on it, therefore we’d better get used to eating homemade meals and going to Mc Donalds once in a blue moon.

Climate change It is undeniable the fact that the climate is already changing. We just have to realize that winter is not what it used to be. Now it is warmer, and winter days have mild temperatures and the most of them are bright and pleasant. Needless to say that there are very few days which it snows and is icy, therefore insects do not die, their population increases and they may transmit a wide range of virus which pose an endless of illnesses. Besides, summers are boiling lately and, what is worse, hot waves happen repeatedly. High temperatures are only one consequence of the global warming but they will probably lead us to others, much worse, such as the melting of the poles or the sea level rising, which will make many human settlements disappear in the coming years. Currently, we can observe the climate change’s effects on animals. As an example I will tell you one I have noted. I used to see cranes flying towards the North over late February, it was for me a signal which means the winter was over, but throughout the last years I have realized that they come back to North sooner, December or January. Then, some days later, I see them flying towards the South again, looking for warmer places, and past a couple of weeks or so, I see them towards the North again. Poor cranes! They are completely confused, they can not distinguish to where and when they must set off on their migratory journey. All people should clamp down on this issue, otherwise, human race will be damned to vanish.

Do aliens exist? Everybody has ever wondered if there is life in other planets, and we have imagined anytime small little green men getting out of an UFO. (Unidentified Flying Object) Nonetheless, many people are reluctant to believe that there are different forms of life, or that there is not any civilization outside of our world. In spite of the fact that I have never seen an UFO, even, I have never met anybody who has seen it, I am pretty sure that there are planets which are able to house life. I don’t argue my thoughts by those secret files which have been classified for a long time and belong to organizations or agencies like FBI or NASA and, I don’t believe that a dark point, which you hardly can distinguish, on an old picture is an UFO, neither. I base my idea of alien’s life, on probability. It has been shown by renowned scientists that we are in an expanding Universe whose limits we have not found still. As far as we know about Universe, which are very few things, there is an incredibly amount of galaxies that own millions of stars and planets. So, my question is: Among that amount of planets, why can not it be possible that living conditions happen at some of them? I do not mean that these living conditions are exactly like we have on Earth, even, that those who live outside are intelligent ones (many of earthlings neither are). I am of the opinion that it may exist beings which are able to breathe nitrogen for example, or even breathing is not necessary for them, they would take the energy through its body’s surface or however. As I see, there are forms of life which probably won’t have to do anything with ours, but we don’t have the proper technology and means to find them out, unless they find us first.

I am a hero It is common knowledge that a marathon consist in running a little more than 42 km, but what many people don’t know is that its name comes from an Ancient Greece’s legend. Basically, the legend tells the story of a Greek soldier, called Philipides, who ran the distance from the former city of Marathon to Athens in order to tell their population that the Greeks had defeated the Persian army. I have to point out that the distance between these two cities is 42 km, so it is the reason because of the longest pedestrian race is widely known as marathon, like the Greek city which became so popular thanks to this legend. Running a marathon involves not only being fit and having good health and physical preparation but you also must be well balanced mentally. To face this race you need an overdose of endurance and steadiness because it is hard to commit to training a couple of hours, at least 4 days a week over the 3 months before running the race, whether it is pouring down or boiling. At the end, when the great day comes, encouraged by the crowd, you overcome the difficulties and complete your marathon, your feelings will be just about as awesome as Philipides ones when he arrived exhausted to Athens…. like a hero.

Renewable energies It is often said that renewable energies are due to replace the traditional sources of energy that come from petroleum or coal. Everybody knows the consequences of having been using this kind of energies over the years, only we have to open our window to watch the depressing scenery which comes across to our eyes. High chimneys emitting smoke as if they were huge and enormous cigarettes, cars in a traffic jam… and an endless of circumstances that make our environment be worse and worse. It is such a high level of pollution that makes us draw our attention to change our minds in order to get energy from renewable sources. It has been shown that wind farms and solar panels can get energy from Nature, furthermore, there are researchers who claim that, unless we get rid of fossil fuels and encourage industries to use clean energy, we will have to face a problem which will have no return point. Those people that manage the world, should take drastic measures so as to avoid those activities that pose a risk in our environment and lead it on to a massive desertification and deforestation but… Why does it take them do it so long?.. Do they have any economical interest in things not to change?...