1. Do you follow a diet?

2. Answer the questions: When do people usually follow a diet ? Do men or women usually follow a diet ? Who follows a diet in your family ? Do you always eat healthy food ? Do the members of your family eat healthy food ? Why is the problem of food very important for the healthy way of life ? What do doctors usually advise us to eat ?

3. To keep fit To be healthy To look wonderful Not balanced To cause health problems To eat more vegetables and fruit To ear a variety of food To be thin and beautiful Not to overeat To have anemia

4. Vegetarian A vegetarian is someone who avoids eating the flesh of animals (meat, poultry, or fish, including shellfish. Most vegetarians will also not eat eggs or cheese or use cosmetics or toiletries which contain animal ingredients or are tested on animals. The word "vegetarian" coined around 1842, comes not from "vegetable" but from the Latin word vegetus meaning "whole, fresh, full of life". People are vegetarians for a number of reasons. Some think that it is wrong to keep and kill animals for use as food and in other products. Others choose to be vegetarians because they believe that a vegetarian diet is healthier than a diet that includes meat. Indeed, a vegetarian diet fits in very well

5. with modern medical advice to cut down on fat, salt, and sugar, and to eat more fibre and fresh vegetables. It is also cheaper than meat. Some people are vegetarian because of their religious beliefs. Some people have chosen to be vegetarian for ecological reasons. They argue that the growing of vegetables takes up much less valuable space than the raising of livestock1; moreover, it is easier to provide food for all the people on Earth by growing vegetables for food rather than raising vegetable-eating animals.

6. Energy rich foods (fats, oils, and carbohydrates (углеводы) +Body-building foods (proteins) + Protective and regulative foods (vitamins and minerals)