A. Discuss these questions with your teacher or colleague.
1. Talk about what you have eaten today/yesterday.
2. What is the most unhealthy food you can think of? How often do you eat that?
3. Do you usually eat unhealthy food? Which is your favorite? How often do you eat that? Where do you get it from?
4. What are some different types of diets you have heard of? Have you ever been on a diet? Which one and why?
5. Do you think your parents/grandparents had better food habits than you do? Why?
6. Do you eat a lot of small portions or a few large portions of food each day? Tell me about your routine.
7. Do you think people from your country usually eat a lot of unhealthy food? What's the most popular junk food? Which one do you prefer? How often do you eat that?
8. What eating habit you have that you'd like to change?
9. Is organic food much healthier than non-organic or they're exactly the same? Do you buy any organic food? Is organic food cheaper or more expensive than non-organic? Why? Why not?
10. What is your favourite Brazilian dish? Is it healthy? How often do you eat that?
11. Do you think that a person’s eating habit affect how long they will live or not? How?
12. What's the most unusual food you have ever eaten? Did you like it? When was the first or/and the last time you ate that? Where did you that? How many people were you?
1. Talk about what you have eaten today/yesterday.
2. What is the most unhealthy food you can think of? How often do you eat that?
3. Do you usually eat unhealthy food? Which is your favorite? How often do you eat that? Where do you get it from?
4. What are some different types of diets you have heard of? Have you ever been on a diet? Which one and why?
5. Do you think your parents/grandparents had better food habits than you do? Why?
6. Do you eat a lot of small portions or a few large portions of food each day? Tell me about your routine.
7. Do you think people from your country usually eat a lot of unhealthy food? What's the most popular junk food? Which one do you prefer? How often do you eat that?
8. What eating habit you have that you'd like to change?
9. Is organic food much healthier than non-organic or they're exactly the same? Do you buy any organic food? Is organic food cheaper or more expensive than non-organic? Why? Why not?
10. What is your favourite Brazilian dish? Is it healthy? How often do you eat that?
11. Do you think that a person’s eating habit affect how long they will live or not? How?
12. What's the most unusual food you have ever eaten? Did you like it? When was the first or/and the last time you ate that? Where did you that? How many people were you?
PROCESSED MEATS DO CAUSE CANCER – WHO
By James Gallagher
Health editor, BBC News website
Published
26 October 2015
Processed meats - such as bacon, sausages and ham - do cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Its report said 50g of processed meat a day - less than two slices of bacon - increased the chance of developing colorectal cancer by 18%.
Meanwhile, it said red meats were "probably carcinogenic" but there was limited evidence.
The WHO did stress that meat also had health benefits.
Cancer Research UK said this was a reason to cut down rather than give up red and processed meats.
And added that an occasional bacon sandwich would do little harm.
WHAT IS PROCESSED MEAT?
Processed meat has been modified to either extend its shelf life or change the taste and the main methods are smoking, curing, or adding salt or preservatives.
Simply putting beef through a mincer does not mean the resulting mince is "processed" unless it is modified further.
Processed meat includes bacon, sausages, hot dogs, salami, corned beef, beef jerky and ham as well as canned meat and meat-based sauces.
It is the chemicals involved in the processing which could be increasing the risk of cancer. High temperature cooking, such / like as on a barbeque, can also create carcinogenic chemicals.
In the UK, around six out of every 100 people get bowel cancer at some point in their lives.
If they were all given an extra 50g of bacon a day for the rest of their lives then the risk would increase by 18% to around seven in 100 people getting bowel cancer.
"So that's one extra case of bowel cancer in all those 100 lifetime bacon-eaters," argued Sir David Spiegelhalter, a risk professor from the University of Cambridge.
HOW BAD?
The WHO has come to the conclusion on the advice of its International Agency for Research on Cancer, which assesses the best available scientific evidence.
It has now placed processed meat in the same category as plutonium, but also alcohol as they definitely do cause cancer.
However, this does not mean they are equally dangerous. A bacon sandwich is not as bad as smoking.
"For an individual, the risk of developing colorectal cancer because of their consumption of processed meat remains small, but this risk increases with the amount of meat consumed," Dr Kurt Straif from the WHO said.
IS PROCESSED MEAT GOING TO KILL ME?
Estimates suggest 34,000 deaths from cancer every year could be down to diets high in processed meat.
RED MEAT RISK
In context
21% of bowel cancers are caused by processed or red meat;
86% of lung cancers are caused by tobacco;
19% of all cancers caused by tobacco compared to 3% of all cancers ascribed to red or processed meat.
That is in contrast to one million deaths from cancer caused by smoking and 600,000 attributed to alcohol each year.
Red meat does have nutritional value too and is a major source of iron, zinc, and vitamin B12.
However, the WHO said there was limited evidence that 100g of red meat a day increased the risk of cancer by 17%.
The WHO said its findings were important for helping countries give balanced dietary advice.
LITTLE HARM
Prof Tim Key, from the Cancer Research UK and the University of Oxford, said: "This decision doesn't mean you need to stop eating any red and processed meat, but if you eat lots of it you may want to think about cutting it down.
"Eating a bacon bap every once in a while, isn't going to do much harm - having a healthy diet is all about moderation."
Dr Teresa Norat, one of the advisors to the WHO report and from Imperial College London, said there were many factors causing bowel cancer.
She told BBC News website: "People should limit consumption of red meat and avoid consuming processed meat, but they should also have a diet rich in fiber, from fruit and vegetables and maintain an adequate body weight throughout life and limit the consumption of alcohol and be physically active."
The industry body the Meat Advisory Panel said, "avoiding red meat in the diet is not a protective strategy against cancer" and said the focus should be alcohol, smoking and body weight.
RED MEAT AND CANCER
You're going to hear a genuine BBC news report. Before you listen, read these three summaries.
➤➤➤ Audio link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p35iWdqXRCKVH3-3Z_4-dvxqCqTCXyIB/view?usp=sharing
a) The World Health Organization has published a report about red meat and cancer.
b) The World Health Organization has published a report which says red meat causes cancer.
c) The World Health Organization will publish a report on research about red meat and cancer.
STEP 2: LEARN THE KEY WORDS AND LISTEN AGAIN
How was that? Try listening again. Here are four definitions of key vocabulary items which may help you.
⮚ the risk of
the possibility of something happening, usually bad
⮚ agency
an organization providing a particular service
⮚ processed meat
meat which has been treated to make it last longer or change its taste
➤➤➤ Audio link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p35iWdqXRCKVH3-3Z_4-dvxqCqTCXyIB/view?usp=sharing
a) The World Health Organization has published a report about red meat and cancer.
b) The World Health Organization has published a report which says red meat causes cancer.
c) The World Health Organization will publish a report on research about red meat and cancer.
How was that? Try listening again. Here are four definitions of key vocabulary items which may help you.
⮚ the risk of
the possibility of something happening, usually bad
⮚ agency
an organization providing a particular service
⮚ processed meat
meat which has been treated to make it last longer or change its taste
STEP 3: TRANSCRIPT AND ANSWER
The World Health Organisation is due (about) to publish a report today on whether some kinds of meat can increase the risk of cancer.
The WHO's agency for research on cancer has been reviewing evidence on red and processed meats.
The WHO's agency for research on cancer has been reviewing evidence on red and processed meats.
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