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UNIT 10 NUTRITION
Section 1: Reading comprehension

Grace decided she needed to change her family’s diet. They are too much fast food and frozen
dinners. Grace has high blood pressure and knows these foods contain a lot of salt. Her doctor had
told her salt is bad for high blood pressure. Her husband has high cholesterol and many fast food
contain a lot of fat. Plus she does not want her children to have problems with heart disease when
they get older.
Grace began her family’s new diet by serving breakfast. Before, she and her husband would
just have a cup of coffee and the children would have a glass of orange juice. Often by ten o’clock
in the morning Grace felt tired and irritable. Her body had gone too long without food. She started
serving cereal with milk, toast, and orange juice for breakfast. It was not a difficult meal to make. She
did have to get up earlier but she found she had more energy during the day. Her children would
have preferred sugar coated cereals but she tried to stay away from those.
Since neither Grace nor her husband are able to be home when the children arrive from school,
she decided to start having healthier snacks in the house for the children. She stopped buying
chips, cookies and soda. Instead she made sure there was food for sandwiches, fruit and milk. Grace
also started eating healthier snacks. She takes fruit to work for a snack between meals.

Grace went to the library to get a cookbook on easy healthy meals. She started cooking with olive
oil. It has less cholesterol. Cholesterol can accumulate in the walls of blood vessels which gradually
narrows them. This condition may lead to a heart attack or stroke. She and her family started eating
more rice and pasta dishes and less red meat. Along with this, they eat salads, fruits, and vegetables.
Grace is feeling better and has more energy. Besides eating healthier meals she and her family
eat healthier snacks. They no longer drink sodas but instead of drinking water. She is glad they have
changed their diet.
Questions and Answers
Use the story on Nutrition to answer the following questions. Answer in complete sentences.

1. What health problem does Grace have?
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2. What health problem does her husband have?
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3. Name two health problems that can cause heart disease.
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4. Grace stopped eating fast foods and frozen dinners because they often contain high quantities of
what two ingredients?

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5. After Grace started her family’s new diet, which meal did they begin eating?
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6. Instead of soda, what did Grace’s family begin to drink?

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7. What healthy snacks do Grace’s children eat?

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8. Where did Grace go to get a cookbook on easy healthy meals?
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