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Pre-reading questions: What is your favorite food? Do you like eating vegetables and fruits? Our brains become smaller as we get older. A new study found that if you eat more Mediterranean food, your brain will stay healthy as you grow old. Your brain will also not grow smaller as fast as those who don’t eat as much Mediterranean food. The study found that people in their mid-70s who eat more fruits, vegetables and olive oil lose less brain mass. On the other hand, people who eat more fried food, red meat and cheese, lose more brain mass as they get older. The researchers for this project say that this…
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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]…
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