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When I was at school, our teacher told the class "You are what you eat." My friends and I would laugh and call each other ‘hamburger' and ‘biscuits'. Our teacher was trying to show us the importance of eating the right food to stay healthy.

This was a few decades ago when there were big campaigns to make British people healthier. We decided to throw out our chip pan which we had used until then to make chips every day for dinner. We replaced our chips with boiled potatoes. We also started using semi-skimmed milk instead of whole milk in our cups of tea and bowls of cornflakes. At first I felt like I was eating my cornflakes in water and my potatoes had no taste at all. But after a while I started to prefer healthier food because I felt stronger and I didn't get sick so often.

Japanese people are reputed to be the healthiest in the world because of the food they eat. The healthiest Japanese people eat rice and fish and vegetables every day. They drink green tea or water when they're thirsty, and snack on dried fish, fruit or gingko nuts. The traditional Japanese diet is famous for helping you to live a longer and healthier life.

So we have proof that you become what you eat. Can you tell what your friends eat just by looking at them? When you know the effects of different types of food, you can use your knowledge well and eat what you want to become.

Food has an impact on our physical and emotional health. Have you ever heard any of the following advice?

• Lettuce or milk can make you sleepy.
• To stop feeling sleepy you should eat peanuts or dried fish.
• To keep your teeth clean you should eat apples often.
• Garlic helps you not to catch a cold.

Everyone has their own advice to give, which they have read about or have been told by older relatives. Some of these pieces of advice seem to contradict each other.

• Eating chocolate makes you fat and gives you spots.
• Chocolate contains the essential minerals iron and magnesium

What we need to figure out is what type of chocolate to eat to get the benefits and how much of it to eat. We can do this by reading the list of ingredients on the chocolate bar wrapper. Exactly how much real chocolate is in there? And how much of that do we need to eat to get the benefits of the minerals it contains?

Future restaurants might be named after the physical or emotional state they hope to create. Their menus will list the benefits of each dish and drink. Some restaurants have already started this concept, and list the nutritional content of their dishes on the menus.

Let's take the restaurant ‘Winners' as an example. Their menu would list dishes specifically designed to help you win sports competitions. There would be Night-before Vegetable lasagne, a pasta dish with extra layers of spinach pasta for slow-burning energy, rich tomato sauce full of vitamin C and soft, easy-to-digest vegetables. All this would be topped with a little fresh cheese - just enough to help you get a good night's sleep, but not enough to give you nightmares!

Or you could choose the Go-faster salad, which is a large bowl of mixed raw vegetables in a light salad dressing, giving you energy without making you gain weight. The vegetables are carefully chosen to include plenty of natural vitamins and minerals.

What kind of dishes do you think would be on the menu at the ‘Clever Café' (which sells food that's good for your brain)?

Vocabulary

5 words/phrases from the text:

1. semi-skimmed milk: milk with some of the fat removed to make it healthier
2. to) snack (on): to eat small amounts of food between meals
3. wrapper: the covering (usually made of paper or plastic) used to protect something
4. salad dressing: oil, vinegar, salt and other ingredients mixed together to eat with salad
5. -free (sugar-free, fat-free, caffeine-free): a suffix which means "without"

Exercise one.

Vocabulary gap fill. Now use the 5 words/phrases to fill the gaps in the sentences below:

1. The doctor recommended ........................ instead of full fat milk to reduce my cholesterol
2. Teenagers these days ................... on chocolate and crisps
3. If you want to know what these sweets contain, read the ..................
4. You can't smoke here, it's a smoke - ............... zone
5. Waiter, can you bring me some .......................... please?

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Exercise two.

Comprehension. Answer the 5 questions using information from the article.

1. Why are Japanese people so healthy?
2. How is chocolate bad for you? And how is it good for you?
3. What can we find out by reading a chocolate wrapper?
4. What is the food at "Winner's" good for?
5. How are cola companies making their drinks healthier?

Grammar.

Words that are often confused

Some words are often confused by language learners - because they are similar to another word or because they look like a word in your own language but have a different meaning. Here are some words that often cause confusion.

sensible and sensitive

sensible means ‘practical' or ‘having good judgement''
sensitive means ‘easily affected by the things people say or do'

Come on darling, be sensible and put a coat on. It's freezing outside.
Don't be so sensitive he didn't say you were fat, it was just a joke.

sympathetic

Usually we are sympathetic when someone has a problem or is in trouble.

They were very sympathetic when our house was burgled but they couldn't do much to help.

We don't use it to mean ‘nice' or ‘pleasant'
My uncle is a very sympathetic man.

nervous

We are nervous in a particular situation, like an exam. We don't generally use nervous to describe someone's character.

I've never been as nervous as the time I had to give a speech to 500 people.
My sister is very nervous. She's always shouting at me.

journey and travel

Journey is countable. Travel is uncountable and refers to the general idea of travelling.

Did you have a good travel?
Travel is something I recommend to all young people.
The journey took about 8 hours.

recipe, receipt and prescription

A recipe is a set of instructions for cooking something.
A receipt is a piece of paper you are given after you pay for something.
A prescription is a piece of paper a doctor gives you to get the medicine you need.

Exercise

Choose the correct word to complete each sentence.

1. Did you make this cake yourself? It's lovely. You must let me have the (recipe/receipt/prescription)
2. I think it would be (sensible/sensitive) to take an umbrella. The forecast is for rain.
3. We've had a horrible (journey/travel) and now I want a cup of tea.
4. Don't ask him how old he is - he's really (sensible/sensitive) about it.
5. We often eat in that restaurant. The owners are really (sympathetic/nice)

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Quiz Question 36

Famous 'square' in London that commemorates a sea battle of 1805

Special quiz question:

Famous UK river that flows through Oxford and Reading.

Food - key

Vocabulary

1. semi-skimmed
2. snack
3. wrapper
4. free
5. salad dressing
   

Comprehension

1. Japanese people are so healthy because they have a healthy diet. They eat rice, fish and vegetables every day, drink green tea or water and snack on fruit, etc.
2. Chocolate makes you fat and gives you spots. It contains iron and magnesium.
3. By reading a chocolate wrapper we can find out exactly how much chocolate it contains.
4. The food at "Winner's" helps you win sports competitions.
5. Cola companies are making their drinks healthier by making their drinks caffeine-free or sugar-free.

Grammar

1. recipe
2. sensible
3. journey
4. sensitive
5. nice