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LET FOOD BE YOUR MEDICINE

We all know that Italy is really famous for its tasty Koreans usually prefer sweet egg sandwich and tea
food such as pizza, spaghetti, lasagne and meat. for breakfast. They eat a bowl of rice with vegetables
Italian cuisine offers many health benefits thanks to and fish for other meals. It is well-known that rice
cheese used in almost all the dishes. Though it is a is an indispensable food for them. Consuming that
natural source of calcium, excessive consumption of much rice, however, makes people gain weight
cheese can be unhealthy. It can damage the heart and it leads to serious blood vessel problems.
because it contains saturated fats. When cheese is All in all, different countries have different diets that
used in moderation, there will be no harm, though. result in different kinds of health problems. Yet, don’t
forget that health problems are not only caused by
what we eat, but the amount we consume.

c Match the highlihgted words and phrases in the
text to the definitions.

1 : the quality of doing something
within reasonable limits

2 : a condition of having higher
blood sugar level
3 : style of cooking

4 : food prepared in a particular
Britain is famous for its traditional fish and chips, way
which they usually eat for lunch, or dinner. The British
usually eat unhealthy snacks with too much fat and 5 : to become heavier
sugar for other meals, too. Unfortunately, these kinds 6 : a substance in food such as
of dishes increase the health problems such as obesity, sugar that gives your body energy
diabetes and heart diseases in the country. 7 : sleeplessness
d Read the text again and complete the chart.

Preference for Medical problems
Cuisine breakfast/ lunch or Health advantages or Reasons for being resulting from
disadvantadges
unhealthy
dinner eating habits
Greek

Italian

British

Korean

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