Choose your answer to each question, then add up your score.

How fit are you?

1. How often do you eat chocolate or sweets?

every day (0) occasionally (2)

once or twice a week (1) very rarely (3)

2. How often do you eat fruit or green vegetables?

every day (3) occasionally (1)

once or twice a week (2) very rarely (0)

3. How many hours' sleep do you normally get at night?

more than 12(1) between 5 and 8 (2)

between 8 and 12 (3) less than 5 (0)

4. How often do you play sport or do exercise?

every day (3) occasionally (1)

once or twice a week (2) very rarely (0)

5. How many hours a day do you spend watching TV or videos?

less than 1 (3) between 3 and 5(1)

between 1 and 3 (2) more than 5 (0)

6. Which of these things would you rather do now?

eat a bar of chocolate (0) go shopping (2)

watch a video (1) go swimming (3)

What your score means

1-5You should change your lifestyle!

6-11Think carefully about what you eat, and get a little more exercise.

12-15You lead a healthy life.

16-18You are very fit and healthy. Are you sure that you're being honest?

10. Read the following article about the influence of fast food on the human organism:

Fast Food or Slow Food?

In North America people are always in a hurry. Children have special lessons or sports activities after school. Parents often work late and don’t get home until 7 or 8 o’clock at night. More than 50 percent of women work at full-time jobs, and many people do shift work. It isn’t a surprise that the average North American family doesn’t have the time to eat many meals together.

When a family takes the time to eat a meal together, often there isn’t enough time to prepare the food. That is why “fast food” is so popular in North America. People spend about 40 percent of their food dollars on fast food.

Fast food is food such as hamburgers, pizza, submarine sandwiches, or fries chicken. People usually buy this food from a restaurant chain such as Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, or Kentucky Fries Chicken. Fast food saves work and time, but it is not very nutritious.

Fast food is popular in many countries. American fast-food companies now have restaurants all over the world. There are McDonald’s restaurants in Bangkok, Moscow, Kyiv, and Mexico City, as well as in Paris, London, and Rome.

Not everyone is happy about the spread of North American fast food. A group of people in Italy wants to fight the spread of American fast food. They do not want any more fast-food chains to open restaurants in their country. Their organization is called the Slow Food Movement. This group wants to fight against the spread of fast food everywhere.

They fight not only against the spread of North American eating habits. According to scientists, overeating and a weakness for fast food and sweet carbonated drinks (soda pop) are not simply a question of tradition or self-discipline. People who like hamburgers, French fries, soda pop and other fast food can become addicted to these products, which have been proven to be as addictive as drugs.

Regular consumption of products with a high fat content and carbohydrates can cause such changes in the human brain that will make it very difficult for a person to refuse such products. By stimulating the production of opiates, large doses of frozen foods can cause a state of narcotic intoxication.

A team of scientists at Princeton University proved that rats kept for a certain period on a diet with a 25% sugar content showed withdrawal symptoms like shaking and gritting their teeth after they were taken off the diet. When the rats were given a dose of medicine, which blocked their opiate receptors, their condition returned to normal.

The scientists say that neurochemical activity in drug addicts going through withdrawal changes along exactly the same patterns. Experts studying the problems of excess weight or obesity believe that eating fast food and sweets stimulates a cycle in the body known as “immediate satiation”. This is characterized by an acute rise in blood sugar content and, hence, the desire to eat more. Once there, the path to pathological dependence continues.

11. Are these statements true or false? Rewrite the false statements to make them true.

1. Many families in North America have the time to eat their meals together.

2. Parents in North America often come home early.

3. There is always enough time to prepare meals.

4. People spend all their money on fast food.

5. Fast food is food such as hamburgers, French fries, and fish and chips.

6. Fast food saves people money and it is very good for them.

7. There aren’t any American fast-food chains in other countries.

8. There aren’t any Pizza Hut restaurants in Moscow and Paris.

9. There are some people who don’t like fast food.

10. There is an organization called the Food Movement.

11. This organization fights only against the spread of North American eating habits.

12. Fast food is as addictive as drugs.

13. Even after regular consumption of fast food it is easy to refuse fast food products.

14. “Immediate satiation” is a cycle in the body stimulated by eating fast food and sweets.

Date: 2015-12-11; view: 1753