3. Diety

Ćwiczenie 3.

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Scientific studies have shown that people who eat a lot of fruit and vegetables may have a lower risk of getting illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer. For this reason, health authorities recommend that you eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables every day and it doesn't matter whether they're fresh, tinned, frozen, cooked, juiced or dried. How much is a portion?

• One piece of medium-sized fruit, e.g. an apple, peach, banana or orange.

• One slice of large fruit, such as melon, mango or pineapple.

• One handful of grapes or two handfuls of cherries or berry fruits.

• One tablespoon of dried fruit.

• A glass (roughly 100 ml) of fruit or vegetable juice.

• A small tin (roughly 200 g) of fruit.

• A side salad.

• A serving (roughly 100 g) of vegetables, e.g. frozen or mushy peas, boiled carrots or stir-fried broccoli.

• The vegetables served in a portion of vegetable curry, lasagne, stir-fry or casserole.
Next time you're shopping, buy one new fruit or vegetable you've never tried before or
didn't like as a child. Tastes change and by exploring new foods you'll be giving your taste
buds a treat and doing your body a favour.

A Kent school is hoping to woo pupils away from burgers and pizza at lunchtime.

Three teenage girls are giggling and nudging each other on a school canteen bench, as they gaze at one of their friends, who is evidently performing an extraordinary feat. As they watch in astonishment, Vicky Iden places a forkful of cabbage and butter beans into her mouth, and chews. Aged 15, she has never seen a butter bean before, and looks pleased at her bravery. Her classmates are stunned.

"I can't believe it. Vicky never eats vegetables," gasps Amee Russell, also 15. "She only ever has chips or a chicken tikka sandwich." But, over four days, the eating habits of Vicky and around 100 of her fellow pupils are being challenged by an innovative scheme at Medway Community College in Chatham, Kent.

The eat.retro project is taking the children back to the Sixties and Seventies era, with a traditional, nutritionally

balanced menu: minced beef cobbler, cheese Scotch eggs and vegetable stews have been served up, followed by such nostalgic treats as tapioca and Wells pudding with custard. Jugs of water have replaced the cans of carbonated drinks the children usually buy. The youngsters are also given free milk at breaktime.

"I 'm hoping that this project will make the children more aware of choosing healthier options," says headteacher Andrea Ferris. "It's also about re-educating their tastebuds; a lot of them eat so many burgers with chips that other flavours are unfamiliar to them. What they eat also affects their learning abilities, and I'm sure the staff are looking forward to teaching students who aren't full of fizz."

"Today, children don't consider vegetables as a necessary accompaniment, and often choose pizza or pizza and chips, which they regard as a square meal," says Aylin, the nutritionist at Medway College. "Change is going to come slowly, but it's important that we work towards a compromise."

''watershed - an event or thing that causes great changes, turning point (przełomowy)

Recent Changes in British Eating Habits

• Consumption of semi-skimmed milk overtook whole milk in 1993.

• Bananas overtook apples as the fresh fruit market leader in 1996.

• Over the past ten years we've started buying more non-traditional types of bread, such as French, naan and pitta bread, ciabatta and bagels.

• We're drinking 12 times as much bottled mineral water at home compared to the mid-980s.

• In the 1980s we made our move from butter to soft margarines and today, reduced-fat spreads are the preferred option.

• We've also switched from harder cooking fats to vegetable oils such as olive oil, which, believe it or not, 25 years ago was only available in chemists.

Newly available vegetables, such as mushrooms and exotic salad leaves (such as rocket, radicchio, chicory and baby spinach) have grown in popularity compared with traditional veg like swedes, parsnips and Brussels sprouts.

PYTANIA:

1. Recent Changes in British Eating Habits implies that the British habits are becoming healthier. Could you say the same about our diet? Justify your opinion?

2. Should junk food advertisements be banned, like those of alcohol and cigarettes? Why? Why not?

3. If you could write the menu for your school canteen, what would you like it to serve? Do you think that your menu would be popular with yourfriends at school? Why?

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