es it mean?
Lucy: I stopped eating cakes, pies and ice cream.
Jane: What are you allowed to eat?
Lucy: A lot of vegetables and fruit, a little boiled meat or fish, no fried potatoes, no chocolate and very little salt.
Key:
The girls were speaking about the Weight losers club, the right food for losing weight. One of the girls said that one may eat a lot of vegetables and fruit, boiled meat or fish, but no fried potatoes, chocolate and little salt.
Task5
And now each group should analyze the information from the text and share it with us. To retell the main points.
What is calorie?
Nowadays, it seems, everybody is "watching the calories". There are even restaurants which print the number of calories each dish contains right on the menu. To understand what a calorie is and the part it plays in the body, lets start with the subject of nutrition in general.
Today, science is still not able to explain exactly how a cell transforms food into energy. We just know it happens. And we also cant explain why the cell in the body needs certain foods, and not others, in order to function properly.
We do know that food is broken down in the body by combining with oxygen. We might say it is "burned" up like fuel. Now, the way we measure the work a fuel does is by means of calories.
A gram calorie" is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree centigrade. The" large calorie" is 1,000 times as great. In measuring the energy value of food, we usually use large calorie.
Each type of food, as it "burns up", furnishes a certain number of calories. For instance, one gram of protein furnishes four calories, but one gram of fat furnishes nine calori
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