Pre-reading questions:
- Do you like eating shrimp?
- How do you like the shrimp to be cooked?
- Do you know someone who has high cholesterol levels?
Doctors believed that eating shrimp causes heart diseases. One serving of shrimp has 189 milligrams of cholesterol or 60 percent of the recommended amount of cholesterol per day. But after years of research, they finally discovered that eating shrimp can increase the levels of good cholesterol, making it safer for people with high cholesterol to eat shrimp.
Vocabulary:
diseases [noun] – illness; sickness
cholesterol [noun] – a fatty substance that is found in the body tissue and blood
recommend [verb] – advise; suggest
research [noun] – collecting of information about a subject
increase [verb] – to become greater in number
True or False:
- Doctors believed that eating shrimp causes heart diseases.
- A serving of shrimp has 189 milligrams of cholesterol.
- They finally discovered that eating shrimp can increase the levels of bad cholesterol.
- It is not safe for people with high cholesterol to eat shrimp.