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5C LET FOOD BE YOUR MEDICINE

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 Lead in

a Discuss the following questions with your partner.

1 Talk about your eating habits. What do you
usually have for breakfast/ lunch/ dinner?

2 Do you think you have a healthy eating habit?
Why/ Why not?

b Read the text and try to guess the meanings of
the highlighted words.
a Discuss the following questions with your friends.

1 Do you know the importance of ‘proteins’,
‘vitamins’, ‘carbohydrates’, ‘fats’ and
‘minerals’? From which food can you get them?
2 How do you think our diet affect our overall

well-being?

b Look at the healthy eating pyramid below, match
the words to their categories and write their
numbers.
Different Eating Habits around the World
It is a known fact that countries’ cuisines change
a Whole Grains
according to their cultures, climates, and geographies.
b Fruit Eating habits may cause serious health problems and

c Dairy diseases. For instance, consuming too much coffee
can result in insomnia, or cuisines with too much
d Vegetables
carbohydrates lead to various illnesses. Let’s have a
e Fats and Sugar closer look into the eating habits of different countries

f Fish, Poultry and Meat and common diseases resulting from their cuisines.
Do you know which countries have common health
problems resulting from their eating habits?
Recent studies have revealed that Greeks’
Mediterranean diet, which includes low-fat food, organic
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fruits and vegetables, seafood rich in Omega 3, meat and
olive oil, makes you live longer and healthier. However,
Greeks have already changed their eating habits due
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to their modern way of life. They don’t have breakfast
early any more. Rather than that, they habitually have
coffee and spinach pie or cheese pie while they are on
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their way to work or school. Nowadays, teenagers love
eating hamburgers and sandwiches, so they have been
taking lots of carbohydrates, which causes obesity,
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instead of Greek food.

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