6 Minute English <Food and mood>>

Read the following fragment and answer the question:

'Comfort food is a type of emotional eating – eating lots of food because we feel sad, not because we’re hungry.'

Which of the following is TRUE ?

• We eat comfort food when we are hungry.

• We eat comfort food when we feel upset or unhappy.

• We eat comfort food when we are emotional.

Read the following fragment and answer the question:

'Even though he’s surrounded by food, Danny says that working under stress actually decreases his appetite – the feeling that you want to eat food.'

According to the text, which of the following is TRUE ?

• when you're under stress your appetite is lower.

• when you're under stress your appetite is higher.

• when you're surrounded by food your appetite decreases.

Read the following fragment and answer the question:

'In a busy kitchen there’s no time for a sit-down meal, so Danny has to grab and go – take something quickly because he doesn’t have much time, although he knows this isn’t very healthy.'

According to the text, which of the following is TRUE ?

• when you don't have time for a sit-down meal you eat something unhealthy.

• when you don't have time for a sit-down meal you eat on the go.

• you grab your meal and go when the kitchen is busy.

Read the following fragment and answer the question:

'Professor Felice studied the effect of eating a healthy diet – food such as fresh fruit and vegetables, wholegrain cereals, and olive oil – on people suffering from depression and found that the patients whose mental health improved were the same patients who had also improved their diet.

According to the text, which of the following is TRUE ?

• people who suffer from depression don't eat fruit and vegetables.

• eating healthy foods helps people who suffer from depression improve their mood.

• an improved diet causes patients to suffer from depression.

What is the meaning of the phrase in blue?

So I proposed to do this for my PhD study, and everyone thought I was a bit bananas, you know, and there was quite a bit of, I guess, eye rolling maybe

• they thought she was silly or crazy

• they thought she was funny or hilarious

• they thought she liked eating healthy

Choose the best word to complete the sentence:

So, it very often grabbing something on the .......... is obviously, as we know, not great for us nor our health.

• go

• drive

• walk

• run

What is the meaning of the phrase in blue?

So the next time you’re feeling down and your brain is calling out for a donut, you might be better off eating an apple instead!

• you're feeling unwell

• you're feeling nervous

• you're feeling sad or unhappy

• you're feeling stressed out

Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence:

Our brain ...............two percent of our total body weight.

• makes up

• makes

• uses up

• consists

Complete the correct word in the sentence:

If you grab and ............., you take something quickly because you don’t have much time.

Complete the correct word in the sentence:

But unfortunately, most comfort food is high in carbohydrates and sugar and, after a few minutes, it leaves us feeling even ................... before.

• worse than

• worst than

• more bad than

• worst that