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A．I'll call you back later. 　　　　　　
B．I should be home until 4. Call me if you get a chance. 　　　　　　
A．OK.

A．How was the Italian restaurant last night?
B．It was amazing. If you get a chance, you should take your girlfriend there.　　　　　
A．I'll do that.

A．Why did you skip school today?
B．I didn't. What are you talking about?
A．Oh, don't give me that. Your teacher called me.

A．Where did you stay last night?
B．I stayed at my friend's house.
A．Don't give me that.

Well, I’m twenty now but when I was seventeen I think I was addicted to computer
games. At the weekends I started playing when I got up in the morning and I played them all day. I even had lunch and dinner in front of the screen while I was playing games. On school days I started playing at about 7 o’clock in the evening and didn’t stop until after midnight.

It didn’t affect my schoolwork that much but it did affect my relationship with my family.
When my mum asked me to stop playing or take a break, I got really angry with her. One time I was so angry that I threw my shoe and it hit her in the face.

She was so upset and I felt really bad. She told me things had to change. I agreed with her.
I realised my family is more important than computer games.

No, almost never, but I still use the Internet a lot for sending messages and stuff like that.

In South Korea, online gaming is hugely popular with young people but now it’s become a problem with young people spending too long online, and not on their schoolwork.

Alexi10 has got in touch on Chatter. He says, “I play computer games every night but I always do my homework first, so it’s not a problem. I have a lot of friends and we all play online games, then we talk about it at school.”

Now we have a caller on the phone who has something to tell us. Hi George. What’s your
story?

My goodness! Did that affect your schoolwork?

Oh, no! What happened after that?

So, do you ever play computer games now?

That’s a great story, George. Thanks for calling!

Thanks for all those opinions and stories.

Yes, reports say that young gamers in South Korea are not getting enough sleep or exercise. It’s such a big problem that the South Korean government wants to stop all online games at midnight. But what about in the UK? Is computer game addiction a serious problem here?
Do you play online games? Maybe YOU are addicted? Get in touch and tell us
your stories. You can get us on our Chatter page or on text, phone or email.

And there’s an email here from Cara. She says, “I share a room with my brother and he’s
always playing online games. I hate it. He never lets me go on the computer.”

And finally, here’s one message. Twilight-Girl on Chatter says, “Where I live so many kids stand on the street or in parks and cause trouble. They drink alcohol and have fights. So, what’s the problem with online gaming? It stops teenagers getting into real trouble.”

How to have an healthy food?
The treatment is based on healthy eating and regular exercise :

How to have an healthy food?

Eat a wide variety of food
Eat regular meals and snack such as, three moderatly size meals and three small snacks
Eat meals on time and don’t skip it
Include carbohydrate food in each meals and snacks (cereals, pasta, rice, fruit and vegetables)
Avoid foods and drinks containing large amounts of sugar
Use low fat cooking methods ans chose low fat products
Drink plenty of water

Insulin :
Insulin is a hormone produced by a gland called the pancreas. It enables glucose in the blood to enter body cells where it can be used for energy.
Five types of insulin are available and the patient and his doctor will discuss which is right for him.
The Daily injections process will become routine.
The patient should also regularly monitor his blood glucose and records his result.
Self blood glucose testing is a method of measuring how much sugar is in your blood. It is done by using a drop of blood from a finger.
The blood is applied to a test strip, which is read by a blood glucose lachine.
Testing for glucose in the urine is not as accurate as testing the blood.

Tablets :
For people with type 2 diabetes (Not suitable for type 1 and gestational diabetes)
 If healthy eating and regular exercise does not reduce blood sugar

5 Groups :
- Sulfonylureas
- Biguanide
- Meglitinides
- Thiazolinediones
- Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors
- DPP-4 inhibitors

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Can I shut the curtain please?
Can I close the curtain please?
Can I open the window please?
Can I shut the window please?
Can I close the window please?
Can I erase the whiteboard please?
Can you shut the door please?
Can you close the door please?
Can you switch on the light please?
Can you switch off the light please?
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I don't remember.
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I haven't got my copybook.

An 8-year-old boy who weighs an astonishing 14 stone* may be taken into care to control his eating habits. But Connor McCreaddie’s mum says it’s the fault of doctors for failing to help them.

Our medical correspondent Thomas Moore reports:

Gammon, chips and not a trace of a vegetable. That’s tea at Connor McCreaddie’s house, a boy who tips the scales of 14 stone and he’s just 8 years old. Social workers are so alarmed by his eating problems that they’ve summoned the family to a child-protection conference. They could take him into care for his own well-being.

“When you’ve got a child who won’t eat anything healthy what can you give them? It’s been suggested that you just don’t give them anything and then he’ll eat it. Connor won’t. He’ll refuse. He’ll actually just go without and then whinge and whinge and whinge, have a tantrum and slam doors. At the end of the day you don’t just starve a child”.

Connor weighs four times as much as he should for his age. He’s broken 4 beds and 5 bicycles and he’s missed weeks of school because of the bullying but he still can’t bring himself to eat healthy food.

Connor’s family insist he’s lost a stone and a half since starting a diet two months ago, but he remains at high risk of diabetis and heart disease.

The Child Growth Foundation which tracks children’s size says Connor must be isolated from the temptations at home to change his eating patterns.

“There’s only one way that we can deal with Connor and that is to remove him from the environment, put him in to hospital, not into care but into a hospital where he will be on 24 hour surveillance from nurses and doctors who will start to put into place weight management programmes”.

But Connor’s mum denies that poor parenting has caused his obesity. She’s been asking for help since he was 5. But she was only given diet sheets.

“When he was going for check ups at the clinic, his weight was getting taken. He was going to the GP and he was getting weighed. But they’ve let it to go this far now and they’re blaming me”.

Whatever the reasons for Connor’s obesity, the family and the experts are agreed that somehow they have to find a way to bring his diet under control and save Connor from himself.

Thomas Moore, Sky News.