B1 – Intermediate
There are many types of dietary habits that people are trying to adopt in order to stay fit and healthy and one of those is the low-protein diet. However, this type of dietary habit could result in overeating, according to new research.
Read the article and listen to the audio to learn more about “protein hunger”.
https://eslnewsstories.com/articles/2022-12-18-protein-hunger-and-overeating/
Vocabulary Questions:
- What does “prevalent” mean, “Eating more of the food that is prevalent in modern supermarkets, also means eating more calorie-dense types of food.”? Give 2 at least 2 synonyms of this word and use them in your own sentences.
- What does “dietary” mean, “Researchers from the University of Sydney followed the dietary habits of almost 10,000 Australians for one year.”? Use this word in your own sentence.
- What does the expression “make sense” mean, “It makes sense that our bodies want protein because it does many things for us.“? Use this phrase in your own sentence.
Discussion Questions:
- What is your reaction to the new research mentioned in the article?
- Have you tried a low-protein diet? How was it?
- Do you have a dietary habit? If yes, what is it? If not, why?
- Do you think you get enough protein? What foods do you get your protein from?
- Which healthy and unhealthy foods do you often eat?
- Do you often eat processed food? Why/why not?
2 replies on “Protein Hunger and Overeating”
Vocabulary_1. What does “prevalent” mean, “Eating more of the food that is prevalent in modern supermarkets, also means eating more calorie-dense types of food.”? Give 2 at least 2 synonyms of this word and use them in your own sentences.
> In summer is frequent go to the beach.
> In Spain bread is predominant food in bakeries.
Vocabulary_2. What does “dietary” mean, “Researchers from the University of Sydney followed the dietary habits of almost 10,000 Australians for one year.”? Use this word in your own sentence.
> The dietary habits of spaniards change in summer.
Vocabulary_3. What does the expression “make sense” mean, “It makes sense that our bodies want protein because it does many things for us.“? Use this phrase in your own sentence.
> When Mark suggest me about corrections in my conference I understand it make sense to change the public target
Discussion Questions:
Questions_1. What is your reaction to the new research mentioned in the article?
> I believe it is true. It is logical to think when your body is feeded with proteins you are going to feel full of food.
Questions_2. Have you tried a low-protein diet? How was it?
> I tried a high protein diet before, low protein is a bad idea.
Questions_3. Do you have a dietary habit? If yes, what is it? If not, why?
> I am not to strict dietary habit. I my case we usually eat some protein in the breakfast, and in the lunch a bigger amounts of proteins and we often have dinner vegetables and yogurt. That is our usual way to eat. I don’t know the reason.
Questions_4. Do you think you get enough protein? What foods do you get your protein from?
> I don’t know if I eat enough protein. I have eggs, milk derivates, jam, fish, and meat like usual source of proteins.
Questions_5. Which healthy and unhealthy foods do you often eat?
> I eat healthy the much more meals, but I have a problem avoiding sweet foods like cup-cakes or cookies in the mid afternoon.
Questions_6. Do you often eat processed food? Why/why not?
> Usually we don’t eat high processed food beacuse produce stomachaches and looseness
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