Instruções:
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INTRODUCTION:

Obesity myths are everywhere you look and they can harm your health and the goals you set for yourself. It’s important to take your thoughts about obesity and turn them around. Put your knowledge to the test and use it to turn your life around. Don’t be your own worst enemy and become a danger to your own health. The sad truth is that people gain weight and gain weight all the time. It’s a fact of life. This is as true for adults as it is for young people and children today. And always has been. It’s nothing new. Modern life and modern food are only part of the problem.  YOU CAN READ MORE HERE

VOCABULARY: Obesity, Harm, Goals, Worst, Gain weight

LISTENING EXERCISE ONE:

Watch the short video below about sweet potatoes and answer the questions below.

QUESTIONS:

1. 1. 1. 1. What is a superfood
         2. What is a ‘fad’
         3. ‘The tip of an iceberg’ What does this expression mean?
         4. What is Dietary Fibre and why is it important in the diet?
         5. Where do purple sweet potaoes originate from?

Also, overweight people tend to be overweight most of their lives, at least that is until they decide to do something about it.

As part of a healthy diet and therefore a diet that maintains and controls your weight, it is important to include not only low-calorie foods, but also high-nutrient foods such as sweet potatoes and other such super-foods. We will talk about some alternative foods as we go through this lesson.

According to several national nutritional studies, the number of obese adults has doubled in the past 30 years. It went from 15% in the late 1970s to around 31% today. It’s scary, especially in terms of the cost to the nations health systems.

VOCABULARY: Overweight, Super-foods, High-nutrient, Sweet potatoes, According to Doubled, Scary

How many people can be defined as overweight or obese today? Well about 64% of most westerners weigh too much. This means that it is far to normal and accepted for many people in the world. According to a national study, the cost of obesity to society as a whole, which takes into account lost productivity and health costs, is estimated to be $173 billion in the United States in 2021 and £6.5 billion in the UK. What will or can you do to remove yourself from the health risks of obesity and not to be part of these statistics and a health burden to your country?

Read on for the 10 weight and dieting myths that may be ruining your efforts when trying to maintain or reduce your weight.

LISTENING EXERCISE TWO:

Listen to Jamie Oliver talk about the sweet potato and then answer the questions below.

QUESTIONS:

1. 1. 1. 1. What do we mean when we talk about having ‘five a day’?
         2. What are the four micro-nutrients that sweet potato have? What are macro-nutrients
         3. Jamie uses a few expressions in this video. For example:
            1. 1. 1. Big it up.
                  2. To get into something.
                  3. A sugar rush.

VOCABULARY: Defined as, Westerners, Take into account, Productivity, Ruining, Burden

Chapter One

Cutting drastic calories will mean losing weight faster

This is not the case! If you eat too few calories, you will actually send your body into a tailspin that can actually lead you to gain more weight in the future. This is called yoyo dieting. When you cut a lot of calories from your diet, your metabolism slows down, which is the opposite of what we need to lose weight. During our lives we do this over and over again. Our metabolism goes up and it comes back down just like a yoyo. The net result is a lowered metabolism and hence mid-life weight gain. I’m sure everyone reading this text will recognise this.

VOCABULARY: Tailspin, Yoyo-dieting, Metabolism, Hence, Weight-gain

You will find continually yourself in a state of hunger. If your brain is sent the message that you are not eating and you are hungry, it will cause your metabolism to slow down significantly thinking there is a famine on it’s way. This is your body’s natural protection to preserve life as long as possible.

It doesn’t make losing weight easy and this is why losing weight becomes more difficult the older you get.

We use the term ‘creeping obesity’.

VOCABULARY: Hunger, Brain, Famine, Preserve, Creeping Obesity

WRITING EXERCISE:

Write 150 words about your favourite vegetable. In your text include the following information:

1. 1. 1. 1. Why you like it.
         2. How often you eat it.
         3. What kind of nutrients are contained in it.
         4. Why its good for you.

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