What Our Food Contains
Practising good dietary habits over a lifetime is a key ingredient to living long and well. Research has shown that various nutrients play especially important roles in warding off illnesses and minimizing the normal effects of growing older. Some nutrients seem to boost the immune system. Others act as antioxidants, molecules that help prevent the damage caused by three radicals.
Beta-carotene is an antioxidant and is also thought to be an immune-system booster. It is found in such foods as apricots, cantaloupe, carrots and orange or leafy green vegetables.
Vitamin C, found in citrus fruits, strawberries, potatoes, and tomatoes, is another antioxidant and may also help prevent cataracts (clouding of the lens of the eye).
Vitamin D, found in fish oils and such fish as tuna, salmon, cod, and herring, may help protect against breast and colon cancer. It also enhances absorption of calcium, an important nutrient.
Vitamin E, another antioxidant, is a nutrient in many foods and is abundant in vegetable oils and olives. It may be especially helpful in preventing the build-up of fatty deposits in arteries.
Calcium, which occurs naturally in leafy green vegetables, milk products, and legumes, such as soybeans, helps prevent osteoporosis.
Fibre, found in whole grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables, may decrease the risk of colon and breast cancer.
Speaking
B. What do you think?
Why do we need to eat foods containing different kinds of vitamins and minerals?
What vitamin may prevent cataracts?
What products may contain vitamin C?
What vitamins may help to protect against breast cancer?
What enhances absorption of calcium?
What vitamin may prevent the build-up of fatty deposits in arteries?
What mineral may decrease the risk of osteoporosis?
What products may contain vitamin E?
What nutrient seems to boost the immune system?
Exercise 1
Translate the following sentences into English:
Вегетаріанці вважають дієту без м’яса більш здоровою, тому вони відмовляються їсти будь-які м’ясні, морські, тваринні і молочні продукти, а отримують всі поживні речовини завдяки овочам і фруктам.
Захисники вегетаріанства вірять, що вбивати тварин заради їжі – негуманно.
Червоне м”ясо містить багато насичених жирів і холестерину, які можуть призвести до серцевого нападу.
Вітамін С – це антиоксидант, який може запобігти катаракті (затемненню кришталика ока); багато вітаміну С знаходиться в фруктах, картоплі, томатах та інших овочах.
Бета-каротин – це імуномодулятор та антиоксидант, що допомагає запобігти шкоді, спричиненій вільними радикалами.
Якщо у вас добре збалансоване харчування, то ви отримуєте всі необхідні важливі поживні речовини, які запобігають різним захворюванням та підтримують імунну систему.
Якщо ви хочете збільшити ваші шанси залишитися здоровим, зменшуйте кількість насиченого жиру у вашій дієті, вживайте лише натуральні продукти, багаті на вітаміни, мінерали та протеїн – будівельний матеріал.
Grammar. Conditional sentences.
Part A. When we talk about what may happen in the future if a certain condition occurs, we can use the first conditional.
If Maria eats shrimp, she’ll get sick. Some people think that if they eat lobster, they will live for a long time. |
What effects do different foods have? Finish the sentence using the table.
If you drink coffee, ___________________________________________________
If you eat too much candy, _____________________________________________
If you never drink milk or eat cheese, _____________________________________
You won’t get strong if ________________________________________________
You might live to a very old age if _______________________________________
If you eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, ___________________________________
You’ll get strong if ____________________________________________________
Part B. Work with a partner. You know already about the relationship between food and vitamins. Brainstorm a list of foods and the vitamins they contain. Then, using the conditional, make sentences showing the effects of eating or not eating these foods. Use the previous exercise as an example.
Reading
You are going to read a newspaper article about unhealthy food. Six paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from paragraphs A – G the one which fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0).
- Part I what we eat Fruit and Vegetables
- H. Translate into English:
- In a sauce
- Pasta and bread
- Herbs, spices and nuts
- Vanilla
- Vinegar
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 9 Do you eat to live or live to eat?
- Exercise 19
- Part II healthy eating
- What Do the Stars Eat?
- Vocabulary Practice
- Reading
- To meat or not to meat
- Reading
- What is a healthy diet?
- How much fat is too much for healthy eating?
- General Advice
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Reading
- What Our Food Contains
- Junk Food
- Vocabulary Practice
- A. Ask for b. Demand c. Order d. Command
- A. Grabbed b. Snatched c. Took d. Bit
- A. Earn b. Win c. Put d. Gain
- A. Diet b. Fast c. Nutrition d. Health
- Eat, drink… and don’t be sorry
- Vocabulary Practice
- Exercise 3. Read the text again and talk about chocolate, sugar, cheese, butter and cream, meat and coffee or tea in terms of : nutrients, calories and ways they affect the human system.
- Reading
- A view of fast food
- Listening
- Speaking
- Role-play
- Reading
- What is cholesterol?
- For less cholesterol…
- 1. Вітамін та його молодший брат - каротин.
- 3. Редис – поліпшувач травлення.
- Exercise 2
- Part b. Say what someone should do to change their unhealthy eating habits. E.G. You should eat fruit instead of crisps when you want a snack.
- The balanced diet
- It is interesting to know
- In Eating Habits, East is Better than West
- Reading
- He isn’t heavy, he’s on redux
- Keeping fit
- How did you score?
- Fighting fit
- Розпочніть день правильно
- 5 Дієт на всі випадки життя
- Genetically engineered food
- Reading
- Eat less and live longer
- Vegetables
- Single serves
- Part III cooking
- Ways of cooking food – verbs
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- Pea soup
- Holubtsi (Cabbage Rolls)
- Speaking
- Chocolate – like falling in love
- Vocabulary Practice
- Exercise 11
- Sponge cake
- Speaking
- Stuffed tomatoes
- Exercise 13
- Apple cake
- Ingredients
- Shepherd’s pie
- Ingredients
- Varenyky with cottage cheese
- Exercise 16
- Бісквіт зі смородиновою начинкою
- Ягідний торт з горіхами та йогуртом
- Fish and Chips
- Irish Stew
- Burger and Fries
- Pancakes with Maple Syrup
- Exercise 17
- Describing food
- Exercise 18
- Десять заповідей кухаря
- A Housewife’s Day
- Baked tuna and apple flambé
- Part IV my meals
- Why We Eat What We Eat
- Comprehension check
- Interested
- Interesting
- Words to remember
- Phrases to remember
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 6
- Exercise 7
- Let’s eat breakfast
- Exercise 8
- Reading
- The cocktail you couldn't mix
- Drinking
- It is interesting to know
- Champagne
- Vintage and non-vintage champagne
- Exercise 19 Translate the following sentences into English:
- I. Nonfood considerations.
- II. Food
- Exercise 20 Translate the following into Ukrainian:
- Part V
- Eating out
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 5
- Korean Dining
- Reading
- Glossary
- Role-play
- Reading
- At the Restaurant
- Exercise 9
- In the dining-hall
- Exercise 10 Translate into English:
- Listening
- Translate into English:
- До мережі сендвіч-барів
- Caribbean Club
- Turkish Antalya
- Khutorets
- Italian
- International
- Listening
- Exercise 14
- Exercise 15
- Exercise 16
- Role-play
- Exercise 18 Translate into English:
- Post-listening
- Ordering food in a restaurant
- Exercise 19
- Crossword
- The Restaurant Game
- Main dishes
- Desserts
- Beverages
- Speaking
- Introduction
- Speaking
- Introduction
- Main Body
- Exercise 24
- Part VI table manners a list of do’s and don’ts
- Never stretch over the table for something you want, ask your neighbour to pass it.
- Never ______ over the table for something you want, ask your ________ to pass it.
- The abc of Table Manners
- Speaking
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Speaking
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- Part a. Зовсім нескладний етикет.
- Part VII National cuisine
- Ukrainian Cuisine
- It is interesting to know
- Ukrainian specialities
- Ukrainian cuisine
- English Cuisine Reading
- Australian food
- Eat your heart out …in the usa
- French cuisine
- Asian food
- Greek guisine - simplicity inspired by gods
- Revision topics
- 10. International cuisine.