Do you follow a diet?

1. Do you follow a diet?

2. Answer the questions: • When do people usually follow a diet ? • Do men or women usually follow a diet ? • Who follows a diet in your family ? • Do you always eat healthy food ? • Do the members of your family eat healthy food ? • Why is the problem of food very important for the healthy way of life ? • What do doctors usually advise us to eat ?

3. To keep fit • To be healthy • To look wonderful • Not balanced • To cause health problems • To eat more vegetables and fruit • To ear a variety of food • To be thin and beautiful • Not to overeat • To have anemia

4. Vegetarian A vegetarian is someone who avoids eating theflesh of animals (meat, poultry, or fish, includingshellfish. Most vegetarians will also not eat eggsor cheese or use cosmetics or toiletries whichcontain animal ingredients or are tested onanimals. The word "vegetarian" coined around1842, comes not from "vegetable" but from theLatin word vegetus meaning "whole, fresh, full oflife". People are vegetarians for a number of reasons.Some think that it is wrong to keep and kill animalsfor use as food and in other products. Others chooseto be vegetarians because they believe that avegetarian diet is healthier than a diet that includesmeat. Indeed, a vegetarian diet fits in very well

5. with modern medical advice to cut down on fat, salt,and sugar, and to eat more fibre and freshvegetables. It is also cheaper than meat. Somepeople are vegetarian because of their religiousbeliefs. Some people have chosen to be vegetarianfor ecological reasons. They argue that the growingof vegetables takes up much less valuable spacethan the raising of livestock1; moreover, it is easierto provide food for all the people on Earth bygrowing vegetables for food rather than raisingvegetable-eating animals.

6. A balanced daily diet +Body-building foods (proteins) Energy rich foods (fats, oils, and carbohydrates (углеводы) + Protective and regulative foods (vitamins and minerals)