Пища для ума - Food for thought. Коломейцева Е.М - 9 стр.

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1. _____ at 140 sandwiches on sale and found over 40 % had 2 g or more of salt or a third of an adult's recommended daily
intake.
2. _____, but cheese and ham as well as chicken salad also featured.
3. _____ it had been working hard to reduce salt levels and the study was misleading. Asda's Extra Special Yorkshire Ham and
Hawes Wensleydale sandwich topped the list, with nearly 4 g or 65 % of the recommended daily salt intake, according to the
Consumer Action on Salt and Health survey.
4. _____ by Pret a Manger's All Day Breakfast sandwich with 3.54 g of salt and the Tesco's Finest version of the same with
3.5 g.
5. _____ that as a standard bag of Walkers Ready Salted Crisps contains 0.5 g of salt, these sandwiches contain the equivalent
of seven bags of crisps.
6. _____ in the survey were Co-op Healthy Living Tuna and Cucumber and Tesco Healthy Living Chicken Salad, with 0.6 g or
10 % of the recommended daily amount.
E x e r c i s e T h r e e
. Read the article below and choose the best word to fill each gap.
Salty fillings
The British Sandwich Association was (
dramatical
/
critical
/
indecisive
) of the findings.
"Sandwiches (
involve
/
take
/
consist
) the assembly of ingredients," said Jim Winship, director of the organisation.
"The fact is that the salt is already in the ingredients e.g. bacon or ham so if consumers (
sell
/
choose
/
give
) a sandwich
containing these they are bound to have a higher salt content."
But he stressed that on average, the sandwiches surveyed had 2 g of salt or a third of the (
given
/
offered
/
recommended
)
daily intake – and that these levels were not unreasonable.
Cash admitted that, given a sandwich was often the main (
point
/
thing
/
constituent
) of one of three meals in the day, containing
a third of the recommended daily intake of salt was not necessarily a problem.
"But it (
does
/
is
/
has
) often combined with other things," says Jo Butten, the group's nutritionist.
"Once you have had a packet of crisps with your sandwich and finished off with some biscuits, you may well have gone over
your (
limit
/
point
/
taste
)".
E x e r c i s e F o u r
. Read the article below and write one word to fill the gap.
Changing the bread
She said the discrepancies in salt between different manufacturers of the same sort of sandwich showed it 1. _____ possible to
reduce the salt content while still being able to sell the product.
2. _____ instance, Somerfield's Prawn Mayonnaise sandwich contained 43 % of the daily intake of salt, while Morrison's version
had 22 %.
"One of the easiest way to reduce the salt content would probably be 3. _____ use a different sort of bread, as that can be a
significant factor," said Ms Butten.
Cash singled out Pret a Manger for particular criticism, noting that two of its sandwiches had a very high salt 4. _____ but that it
did not spell out nutritional details option," he said. on its boxes.
The sandwich chain rejected the criticism outright, saying it saw itself as a deli not a "factory" as the products were 5. _____ on
site, and that in a deli such details would not be available.
But all customers who 6. _____ interested could ask at the tills for nutritional information, said Simon Hargraves, commercial
director. 7. _____ any event, people know that when they buy an All Day Breakfast sandwich it's not the healthiest
"It's just not the kind of sandwich you'd eat all 8. _____ time."
The British Sandwich Association also stressed that it was "it is not the sandwich industry's job to dictate 9. _____ consumers
what they choose to eat". The government recommends that adults 10. _____ eat no more than 6 g of salt a day. However, the average
11. _____ of salt is between 9 g and 10 g a day. Some experts estimate that if 12. _____ consumption was cut to 6 g a day it would
prevent 70,000 heart attacks and strokes a year.
But not all scientists sign up to those estimates, and some suggest salt does not play a significant role in those conditions.
E x e r c i s e F i v e
. Read the article below and choose the best word from the given below to fill each gap:
concern
,
professionals
,
prior to
,
in particular
,
growth
,
mineral
,
ageing
,
brittle
,
reduced-fat, full-fat
,
skimmed
,
ensure
.
The importance of calcium
Calcium is a 1. _____ that strengthens your bones and teeth, and ensures everything runs smoothly with your muscles and
nerves. It's especially important for 2. _____. Calcium can continue to add to the strength of your bones until you reach the age of 30
to 35, when peak bone mass is reached.
After this point, as a natural part of the 3. _____ process, your bones lose their density and grow weaker. If you haven't had
enough calcium in your diet 4. _____ this, there's an increased risk that your bones won't be strong enough to cope with any
weakening, which can result in the 5. _____ bone disease, osteoporosis.
Health 6. _____ estimate that one in three women and one in 12 men over the age of 50 suffer from osteoporosis. There's also
7. _____ that the diets of teenage girls and young women, 8. _____, aren't high enough in calcium. Some experts predict the future
could bring an osteoporosis epidemic in women.
The Department of Health recommends that both men and women get 700 mg of calcium every day to 9. _____ good health.
Realistically, this means one of the following:
a pint of milk;