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The Newsweek, April 2nd, 2003.

The Trendy Diet that Sizzles

By Richard Turner

For those who consider it a food of the gods, bacon has long been existential proof that life among mortals is shabby and meaningless .Why else would something that provides such a gustatory pleasure turn out to be supposedly the worst thing you could ever eat? Things got so bad that a few years ago one nutritionist said bacon wasn’t technically a ‘meat’ anymore. It didn’t belong to any food group at all. It was a salty, nitrate-ridden, fat-laden carcinogenic thing.

But in the improbable ‘90s, when the stock market won’t go down and the crime rate won’t go up, Americans aren’t just bringing home the bacon, they’re eating it every day to lose weight. Steak and butter, too. The trade-off: no pasta or white bread or potatoes or those little gateaux things that are passed around on a plate after dinner. Oh, and on other trade-off: the evidence of higher odds of heart disease and cancer hasn’t changed.

Dieters tend to have a single focus, though, and often don’t care that many nutritionists abhor high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate, low-sugar diets, which have been around for more than a century. The recent gurus differ on the details. Of the six diet books on last week’s USA Today list of 50 best sellers, all were seditious tracts aimed at toppling the traditional low-fat, food-pyramid orthodoxy – two by Dr.Robet C.Atkins o, two by actress Suzanne Somers, plus “Protein Power” and “Sugar Busters” Actress Jennifer Aniston’s recent weight loss , if you’d noticed it, reportedly stems from a low-carb diet. So does Al Gore’s more lean appearance(neither has confirmed they’re on this diet).

Nutritionists say the weight loss is artificial because much of it is water that normally would be retained by the carbs, and that much of the reason these diets can work is that the ingestion of fat makes you less hungry. But proponents have counterarguments, and pursue their diets with the same analytical zeal they used to apply when they were forcing down tofu and high-fiber grain. Low-carb dieters say one of their favorite things about the regimen is that it makes eating out fun again.

The proprietors of Lockkeeper’s Inn , a trendy steakhouse outside of Cleveland, say up to half of their patrons are on some form the Atkins diet. Tony Stallion, a local pediatric surgeon, says he lost 70 pouns.” Any diet that allows me to eat pork rinds and meat is OK in my book.” Not every user finds it so successful, of course. As with most diets, many practitioners put pounds back on when they get tired of cookie withdrawal. But for now, the latest diet craze is a way to have your steak and eat it, too.

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Glossary:

Gustatory pleasure

Nutritionist

Nitrate-ridden

Fat-laden

Carcinogenic

Stock market

Dieters

To abhor sth.

Low-carbohydrate

Seditious tracts

To topple sth.

A low-carb diet

Ingestion

Proponents

To pursue the diet

Zeal

Regimen

Proprietors

Task 1. Give definitions to the vocabulary from the glossary.

Task 2. Describe the situations from the text where the active vocabulary is used.

Task 3. Give the summary of the text using as many active words a spossible. Task 4. Translate.

1.Многие люди считают, что бифштекс даёт им невероятное гастрономическое удовольствие.

2.Диетологи всей страны полагают, что бифштекс – то полная соли, нитратов и жира, приводящая к образованию раковых клеток вещь.

3.В то время как диетчики с рвением придерживаются безуглеводной диеты, диетологи питают к ней отвращение.

4.Сторонники здорового образа жизни предпочитают спорт и особый режим питания.

5.Владельцы модных ресторанов получают хорошую прибыль благодаря особым меню для сторонников безуглеводной диеты.

6.Учёные провели ряд экспериментов и обнаружили, что сторонники безуглеводной диеты испытывают гастрономическое удовольствие от употребления белковых продуктов.

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7. Диетологи считают бекон канцерогенным продуктом.

7.Мой врач испытывает отвращение к тому рвению, с которым я следую своей диете.

8.Мы утверждаем, что существует связь между вашим режимом питания и образованием раковых опухолей.

Task 5. Discuss the following issues:

1.What is your attitude to the low-carb diet? Whose opinion do you support?

2.What other diets do you know? What is their main purpose?

3.Sometimes doctors prescribe the patients some special diet – low-carb, low-fat, low - protein. Which is the reason for them?

4.What are other components of healthy lifestyle?

Debating outline: “Scientific development makes a negative impact on people’s health and lifestyle”

Divide into two groups – affirmative (supporting the resolution) and negative

(opposing the resolution.). Make up the presentations on your team’s opinion using all the necessary guidelines stated in Part 1. Be ready to refute, ask and answer the questions.

2.4. Public speaking

Martin Luther King Sr.'s speech at the Lincoln Memorial

I Have a Dream

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice . It came as a joyouos daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that Negro is still not free. One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the menace of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself am exile in his own land.

There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights .The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

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I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:" We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal".

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama will be transformed into the situation where little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hand with little white boys and little white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made plain, and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed , and all flesh shall see it together.

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join their hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thanks God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Glossary

Score

Beakon light of hope

To be seared

Captivity

To be crippled

To languish

Whirlwinds of revolt

To emerge

Creed

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To swelter

To be exalted

Flesh

Prodigious

Mighty

To speed up

Gentiles

Spiritual

Hamlet

Task 1. Find the definitions to the words from the glossary list.

Task 2. Research the extra materials devoted to Martin Luther King Jr. and discuss the following issues:

1.Who was Martin Luther King?

2.What was King’s philosophy? (holding the world together, nonviolence as away of life).

3.Martin Luther King – civil rights, human rights and racism.

4.Martin Luther King – education and culture.

Martin Luther King Web Sites

MLK, Jr. Papers Project at Standford University – www.standford.edu/group/King/

The King Center – www.thekingcenter.org

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center – www.thekingcenter.com

Nobel Laureates: martin Luther King, Jr. – www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1964

Martin Luther King ,Jr. : A Biographical sketch – www.lib.lsu.edu/hml/mlk/

Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute – www.life.com/Life/mlk/mlk.html

Martin Luther King, Jr. – American Civil Rights Leader –

www.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96jan/king.html

MLK Online – www.mlkonline.net

Seattle Times: Martin Luther King, Jr. – www.seattletimes.com/mlk/

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Task 3. Choose a topic connected with social, political or economic issues in this country or in the whole world and make up a speech” I have a dream!” Before making your own speech you can examine a number of other speeches by MLK.

The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

5 December 1955

MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church

17 May 1957

“Give Us the Ballot,” Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

23 June 1963

Speech at the Great March on Detroit

28 August

“ I Have a dream “ , Address at March on washington for Jobs and Freedom

10 December 1964

Acceptance Speech at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

25 March 1965

“Our God is Marching On!”

4 April 1967

“Beyond Vietnam”

16 August 1967

“where Do We Go From Here?”

2 April 1968

“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”

www.standford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches