Read the jokes given below, choose one and make a dialogue between the doctor and a patient reflecting the main idea of the joke.

Healthy food

The importance of food to good health is one of the oldest and most significant notions in human material culture. Obviously people must eat or they will die, but the concept of «health food» carries with it moral, religious, and even political meanings that go far beyond mere nutrition. For most people just getting enough to eat can be a struggle. But for those living beyond the margin, the selection of what one ought to eat or to avoid to recover or to preserve health is profoundly revealing of cultural attitudes and of the relationship of the body to what enters it.

The term «health food» is generally used to describe foods that are considered to be beneficial to health. However, the term is not precisely defined by national regulatory agencies such as the USDA or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Health foods are sold in health food stores or in the health/organic sections of supermarkets. Health foods are often seen as acting like medicines, in that they are considered to provide specific favorable effects on health. Purported examples of health foods include alfalfa, broccoli, sprouts, wheat germ, and low fat yogurt. In general, however, their claims of health benefits have not been evaluated by national regulatory agencies. In the United States, the term is often used for foods that are low in fat and/or sugar, since over consumption of fatty and sugary foods is seen as contributing to the obesity epidemic.

A) Here are several statements. Find the wrong ones and make them correct.

· Obviously people must eat or they will die.

· The idea of importance of food to good health is not old enough.

· For most people just getting enough to eat can be a struggle.

· The term «health food» is generally used to describe any foods.

· Health foods are sold in health food stores.

· Health foods aren`t often seen as acting like medicines.

· Health foods are considered to provide specific favorable effects on health.

· The term «health food» is often used for foods that are low in fat and/or sugar.

b) Explain the idea of «health food».

3. There are a number of diets and recommendations by numerous medical and governmental institutions that are designed to promote certain aspects of health. There are five of them given below. Read and translate them. Think – what recommendations concerning healthy nutrition could you give to people?

The World Health Organization (WHO) makes the following 5 recommendations with respect to both populations and individuals:

1. Achieve an energy balance and a healthy weight.

2. Limit energy intake from total fats and shift fat consumption away from saturated fats to unsaturated fats and towards the elimination of trans-fatty acids.

3. Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables, legumes, whole grains and nuts.

4. Limit the intake of simple sugar.

5. Limit salt / sodium consumption from all sources and ensure that salt is iodized.

Read the jokes given below, choose one and make a dialogue between the doctor and a patient reflecting the main idea of the joke.

ツ A man walks into a doctor's office. He has a cucumber up his nose, a carrot in his left ear and a banana in his right ear.

"What's the matter with me?" he asks the doctor.

The doctor replies, "You're not eating properly."

ツ A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDICINE: "Doctor, I have an ear ache."

2000 B.C. – "Here, eat this root."

1000 B.C. – "That root is heathen, say this prayer."

1850 A.D. – "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."

1940 A.D. – "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."

1985 A.D. – "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."

2000 A.D. – "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root!"

5. Read the quotations about food. Are you agree with them? Discuss them in your group.

ü “What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.” Lucretius

ü “All happiness depends upon a leisurely breakfast.” John Gunther

ü "One should eat to live, not live to eat." Cicero

ü "At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and speak well but not too wisely." W. Somerset Maugham

ü "There is no sincerer love than the love of food." G. Bernard Shaw

ü “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper”. Adelle Davis

ü “We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are”. Adelle Davis

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