INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AGUASCALIENTES

English Department

Major:

Industrial Engineering

Name of the class:

Times change, diets change...

UNIT 3

Activity:

3.10

Professor name:

Paola Nieves Perales

ID: D18151885, Jaime Arturo Ramos Ortega

Date: Friday 20th March 2020

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 READING
I. INSTRUCTIONS: Read the paragraph and answer the questions.

New Foods, New Diets.

A. On March 26, 1662, Samuel Pepys and four friends had dinner at his home in London, England.
They ate beef, cheese, two kinds of fish, and six chickens. They didn’t eat any fruits or
vegetables. Over three hundred years ago, people in Europe ate differently from today. They
looked different too. In famous painting by Titian, Rubens, and other artists, people weren’t
slender; they were overweight. But people three hundred years ago thought, “How attractive”!
–not, “How ugly”!
B. Today people are learning more about health. People in North America and Europe are
changing their way of eating. They’re eating a lot of fruits and vegetables. Many of the
vegetables are raw. They aren’t cooked because cooking takes away some vitamins, such as
vitamin A, B, and C. People are eating less sugar. They’re not eating much red meat. They’re
drinking less cola and coffee. They’re eating low-fat foods.
C. People these days want to be slender, not fat. Sometimes people in North America go a little
crazy to lose pounds. Thousands of them join diet groups, go to special diet doctors, or spend
a lot of money at diet centers. Each year Americans spend over $30 billion on diets and diet
products. Sometimes people lose weight fast, but they usually gain it back again. Almost 95%
of all people gain back weight after a diet.
D. Diets are changing in a lot of countries, but this isn’t always good news. For example, the
Japanese diet was very healthful for many years. People ate a lot of fish and vegetables. Now
they’re eating more and more beef, sugar, and dairy products – ice cream and cheese. This
seems like Samuel Pepys’s dinner party, doesn’t it? The problem with this change in diets is
easy to see. There is more sickness such as heart disease. The changing diet is not good for
the health of the Japanese people.
E. Sometimes people go crazy over food. They eat lots of bad foods because they taste good. Or,
other times, they do the opposite – eat very little because they want to be slender. When will,
people learn? Too much food, too little food, and the wrong foods are all bad ideas.

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1. The main idea of “New foods, New diets” is letter …………………………………………………………………. (d)

a) It’s important to eat fruits and vegetables.

b) People today eat differently from people in the past

c) People in the Past were fat; people today are not fat.

d) The way of eating today is better than in the Past.

2. Every paragraph has a letter. What is the main idea of each paragraph? Write the correct letter.

• People sometimes go crazy over food…………………………………………………………………………..(E)

• Europeans in the Past ate differently from today, and they were overweight……………………………… (A)

• The Japanese way of eating is changing, but the change isn’t good………………………………………. (D)

• The way of eating in Europe and North America is changing………………………………………………. (B)

• Today Americans don’t want to be overweight. They do many things to lose weight…………………… (C)

3. Choose True (A) or False (B) for the next statements related to the main ideas of the paragraph.

a) The author criticizes healthy food…………………………………………………………………………………….( B )

b) The diets are changing everywhere………………..….………………………………………………….………….( A )

c) We have to eat a lot of food with sugar……………………………………………………………………………...( B )

d) A healthy diet is good for your health………………………………………………………………………………..( A )