Thursday, April 3, 2008

Activity 30 (group A)

1-. The first reading expresses the problem of global obesity more strongly than other readings because it shows more specific details such as percents, numbers and concret examples about this problem.

2-. Yes, we were. China is a surprise for us. What we thought about obesity in China was that they had a small number of obese people and also one of the lowest obesity rates in the world. Also, this is a suprise for us because it supposes China has different eating customs from American people. But according to the reading, the situation has been changing rapidly since 1980. This is the reason why we choose China from those many countries in the list.

3-. To mention their ideas, they use references like CNN and an opinion of a doctor in Delhi, and they let us know the certain number in examples of obesity. The most plausible reasons is the children don't have education about nutritional needs. (Why?) This influences in their lifestyles.
Yes. they did

4-. We think the hardest part to change in this problem is eating customs. People have been used to their lifestyle since they were born. And it's not easy to change their patterns in a short time.

5-. Yes, they do. Because people can look at the information in the reading such as graphs like piramids and compare it with their own diet pyramid. By comparing, we can realize which are enough or not, and we can improve our eating customs.

-Nina, Valentina, Eugene

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