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8 Food and health

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Grammar in use Rules

1 Look at the text. I t-ook at the two groups of words.
O Answer the questions. ? Answer the questions.
I What is it about? t Which can we make plural?
2 What is the purpose oI the diet? 2 Which can we use d or an wtth?
3 Who is it for?
4 Why is it called the Pyramid diet? nouns n.0u11s
b nead the text and complete the diagram.
potato apple vitamin bread pasta calcium
2 Discuss these questions.
I ls the Pyramid dict sensible?
2 Is it appropriate Ior everyone? b Write the words uncountable and countable at the top
I Would it provide an interesting diet? of the correct columns.
C Find more examples oI both types of noun in the text.
s" Check the rules lor countable and uncountable
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FOOD TYPES:
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We've had lhem all the High Fibre should eat. At the bottom of the vitamins and minerals as well as fibre.
diet, the Protein diet. the Hip and pyramid are complex carbohydrates Above fruit and vegetables are the
Thigh diet. And here's lhe latest - the like bread, pasta and potatoes. These protejn-rich foods like meat, fish.
Pyramid diet But this jsn't a diet to provide fibrre and energy About 500/o beans and cheese. These also provide
help people lose weight. lt's a diet for of your dret should be complex a lot of calcium. These prolein-rich
a healthy life The Pyramid diet is very carbohydrates. At the second level are foods should be about 1Ba/a of Yaur
simple. Different l(inds of food are at fruit and vegetables, such as apples diet At the top of the pyramid are fat,
different levels of the pyramjd The and carrots. These should be about oil and sugar. We should eat as iittle
higher up the pyramid. the less you 30a/o of your diet. They provide as possible of things at this level.

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