“Eat five meals a day, including lots of fruit and vegetables,” nutritionists say. It’s important to include different kinds of fruit and vegetables in each meal. Try to make your meals colorful. It’s easy. Red fruit and vegetables, like tomatoes and watermelon, protect you against some types of cancer. Some others, like strawberries and red grapes, help keep your heart healthy. A lot of oranges and yellow fruit and vegetables, like carrots, are rich in Vitamin A and help you have healthy eyes. They also protect you against some types of cancer and heart disease. Citrus fruit, like oranges, aren’t rich in Vitamin A, but they are rich in Vitamin C and a type of Vitamin B. They help keep your heart healthy. Green fruit and vegetables, like spinach, green peppers and green apples, help keep both your eyes and heart healthy, and protect you against some types of cancer. Blue and purple fruit and vegetables, like grapes and eggplants, keep you away from some types of cancer and heart disease. Blueberries also help you have a good memory.

        Mark is a young man with synesthesia. It is not a__36__ (although it sounds like one), and it does not really have any serious effects on his day-to-day life. However, it is a strange condition. Synesthesia happens when two or more of a person’s senses get __37__ . For example, Mark “tastes” words. His sense of taste__ 38__  when he hears or reads certain words, even if he is not eating anything. For him, the word “box” tastes of eggs.

       His sister is synesthetic, too, and she sees words__39__ color. Hence, when she sees the word “Tuesday” or just thinks of the word “Tuesday,” she gets the feeling of “brown.” Actually, the kind of synesthesia, where the days of the week are colored, is the most common type. Some scholars suggest that synesthesia is__40__  to the way our brains develop language and that there is a link between sounds and shapes.