31 a making your kids follow the same rules as you b not eating many kinds of food that don’t meet certain criteria c an essential activity for daily life d only used to make you more fit and healthy The sentences below come from the first part of the interview with Steven Bratman (see coursebook, p. 62). Put them in the correct order, then listen and check. a So, a person with orthorexia will brag about their diet, a person with anorexia is hiding what they are doing. b They may not count calories. It just so happens that they are eating a diet that’s very low in calories. c What happens in orthorexia is people begin by trying to follow what they believe to be a healthy diet. d Just as with anorexia people become obsessed to the point of ill health with counting calories and losing weight, in orthorexia people become obsessed to the point of ill health with the pursuit of healthy food. e But then, somehow, they go beyond the point of health to where they activate a kind of perfectionistic, obsessive, excessive, never-ending quest for the more perfect diet, which could end up leading to a variety of physical and psychological problems. f Or they may not primarily think about weight, but they think that being thin is healthy. Now match the following sentences to the sentences above that express similar ideas. People who suffer from orthorexia … 1 … often started out by eating more healthily. 2 … are so focused on eating healthily that it becomes a problem for their life. 3 … think less about becoming thinner than people with anorexia. 4 … believe it’s healthy to be very slim. 5 … follow a diet that doesn’t give their bodies much energy. 6 … talk a lot more about what they eat than people with anorexia. Listen to the next part of the interview and read along. Match the underlined expressions from the interview with the explanations below. LISTENING 6a 37 74r8kk b 7 38 74r8kk “That’s the psychological and social problem of orthorexia, which is much more common than there being actual medical problems. People will go on a (1) restrictive diet, so they can’t engage in that (2) basic human process of sharing food with family and friends. People may have to spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about their food, planning their food, preparing their food, and then people will (3) place these requirements on their children so that there are five-year-olds going to birthday parties who come with a long list of what they can and can’t eat. Food is no longer for pleasure, it’s only (4) for the utilitarian purpose of improving physical condition.” Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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