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Ex. 2. Read and translate the text.
Mother knew best
after Michael Castleman
«Eat your vegetables», Mom always said. «They are good for
you». But even she didn’t know how good. During the last decade,
evidence has accumulated that a diet high in fruit and vegetables
helps prevent several cancers. Gladys Block, a professor at the
University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health,
assembled all the studies on diet and cancer into a coherent whole.
The result made a compelling case that, except for quitting smoking,
the best way to prevent cancer is to eat more fruit and vegetables.
Every study showed that as fruit and vegetable consumption increased,
cancer risk decreased.
The National Cancer Institute recommends that we «Strive
for Five»: five servings of fresh fruit and vegetables a day. «It’s not
difficult to get your five», Black says. «Orange juice with breakfast,
a salad for lunch, two fruit snacks, and a salad or vegetables with
dinner will do it». But surveys show that only about 9 percent of
Americans get their daily five, and a recent one-day analysis of the
diets of 12,000 showed that 41 percent ate no fruit at all, and only 25
percent ate a fruit or vegetable rich in vitamins A or C.
Conscientious vegetable-eaters might worry about the chemical
residues on their five-a-day. But the major source of the typical
American’s pesticide exposure is not fruit and vegetables, but meats.
Pesticides or other toxic residues in an animal’s food are stored in
its fatty tissue, and concentrate there over the creature’s lifetime.
Humans who eat beef, pork, lamb, veal, duck, chicken, turkey, or
fish (or drink other than nonfat milk) consume all the pesticides
stored in fat. Fruit and vegetables, however, are extremely low in fat
and pesticides are unlikely to accumulate in them at the levels found
in fatty tissue.
You can cut back on pesticide-laced meat and dairy items by
doing what Mom told you to do: have some broccoli. Eat a fruit salad.
Put down those tortilla chips and pick up a carrot stick. If you eat five
servings of fruit and vegetables a day, every day, you’ll cut your
cancer risk in half. Mom was ahead of her time.

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