Pre-Reading Questions:
- How often do you eat vegetables?
- Do you always eat unhealthy foods?
Vocabulary:
- diet /DAHY-it/
- contain /kuhn-TEYN/
- according to /uh-KUWR-ding tuh/
- reduce /ri-DOOS/
- damage /DAM-ij/
[noun] an eating plan in which someone eats only particular types of food
Ellise is on a low-fat, high-protein diet.
[verb] to include something as a part
Try to eat food that contains a lot of nutrients.
[preposition] as stated by
According to the news, it will snow tomorrow.
[verb] to make something become smaller in size, amount, degree, importance, etc.
To lose weight, one must reduce the number of calories he or she eats.
[noun] harm or injury
The storm didn’t cause any damage.
Avoiding meat and processed food can make the world a better place.
A study from the journal ‘Nature’ says that Western diets which contain red meat and processed foods can increase damage to the environment by up to 90% by 2050. According to Marco Springmann, an author from the University of Oxford, this could cause dangerous climate change including bad weather and water pollution.
People should also lessen the amount of food waste to maintain a healthier world. A mainly plant-based diet could reduce the effect on the environment by up to 25%. Sharon Palmer, a plant-based food expert said that if people continue to eat meat and processed food at an increasing rate, it will result to terrible environmental damage for the planet. So let’s start the year right by eating more greens to save our planet.
A study from the journal ‘Nature’ says that Western diets which contain red meat and processed foods can increase damage to the environment by up to 90% by 2050. According to Marco Springmann, an author from the University of Oxford, this could cause dangerous climate change including bad weather and water pollution.
People should also lessen the amount of food waste to maintain a healthier world. A mainly plant-based diet could reduce the effect on the environment by up to 25%. Sharon Palmer, a plant-based food expert said that if people continue to eat meat and processed food at an increasing rate, it will result to terrible environmental damage for the planet. So let’s start the year right by eating more greens to save our planet.
True or False:
- Western diets mainly contain plant-based food.
- Marco Springmann is a plant-based food expert.
- Environmental damage causes climate change.
- A mainly plant-based diet could raise the effect on the environment by up to 25%.
- If people continue to eat meat and processed food, the environmental effect would be dangerous.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| diet | contain | according to | reduce | damage |
- Gigi was supposed to submit the file earlier today, _____ our agreement.
- Most wines _____ between 10% and 15% alcohol.
- Eunice wanted a picture taken of the _____ done to her car.
- Which ____ is better? Eating vegetables or fruits?
- He tried to ____ his weight.