HEALTHY DIET AND LIFESTYLE

1. Answer the questions:

Which food is healthy and which is unhealthy? Are there any kinds of food you eat all the time? What are they? What do you have for breakfast, lunch and dinner?

1. Match the words with their definitions.

1. Place the words in the appropriate column in the table below. You may add ideas of your own.

chocolate, ice cream, chips, potatoes, brown bread, crisps, milk, eggs, oranges, fish, fat-free yoghurt, cheese.

1. In pairs discuss a diet which is low in fat, rich in vitamins and high in fibre for a busy executive with an unhealthy lifestyle who needs to change his diet. Then report it back to the group.
2. Use your ideas in the role game: one student will be a busy executive who will describe his daily routine. The other student will be a health expert who will offer advice.

1. Match the headings with the short texts, then answer the questions.

1. What to eat, what to avoid. D. Give up smoking!
2. How the heart starts to go wrong. E. Crash diets don’t work.
3. Any regular exercise is good for the heart. F. Eat to live, don’t live to eat.

_______When a person’s diet has a high fat content the fat is usually in the body. It becomes deposited on the inside of the arteries which in turn become hard and narrow. If the situation worsens, fat is also deposited on the walls of the heart. The blood supply to the heart is reduced due to this obstruction and consequently the heart has to work much harder. This is the beginning of heart disease.

_______To avoid heart disease it is important to watch what you eat from an early age. A sensible diet can help prevent future problems with one’s heart. For example, when eating meat cut the fat off, and try to include more lean chicken and fish in your diet. Eat more fruit, vegetables, and foods that are high in fibre, such as wholemeal bread, which will help keep the arteries clear. Instead of frying food you should grill, boil or steam it, thereby reducing the fat content of the blood considerably. Try also to reduce your intake of sweet things such as chocolate, cakes and soft drinks, because if the sugar is not used as energy, it is stored as fat in the body. The intake of dairy products such as butter, cream and cheese should be controlled as they have a high fat content.

_______Watching your diet is only one step towards avoiding heart disease. To maintain a healthy heart a person should not smoke. Smoking doubles the chances of dying from a heart attack. Smoke from cigarettes makes the heart beat faster, thereby increasing the blood pressure. Smoking reduces the quantity of oxygen in the blood and due to this lack of oxygen the heart is forced to work harder.

_______The heart gets stronger with use, so it is important to exercise it. However, you should take exercise regularly; exercising only once every six months, for example, could do you more harm than good. Indeed the more energetic the exercise is and the more regularly you take it, the healthier your heart should be.

_______Losing a lot of weight in a very short period of time might sound tempting to someone who is overweight, but the effects of such a diet are normally only short-term and can be harmful. If long-term weight loss is the aim, it is important to follow a more sensible diet; a complete change of eating habits is needed.

_______Food is essential to sustain life. However, in western countries there is an imbalance between the amount we need to eat and what we actually eat. Nowadays it is not uncommon for people to eat out of enjoyment or for comfort rather than out of necessity. This can lead to overeating which can affect a person’s appearance and in time also their health.

How does fat affect the heart?

What should a healthy diet include?

What are the problems caused by smoking?

Why should one exercise regularly?

What is the best way of losing weight?

What are the causes of overeating?

Date: 2015-01-12; view: 1663