Unusual Diets

Unusual diets

There are a lot of vegetarians in Britain. About 8% of teenagers don’t eat any meat or fish and you can always choose a vegetarian meal at school. But there are a lot of other special diets, too. Here are three of them.

Lucy Friend: a fruitarian Fruitarians don’t want to kill living things – plants or animals – for food. We never eat meat or dairy products and we don’t eat many vegetables. When you eat a carrot, the carrot plant dies. But tomatoes and cucumbers are OK because the plant doesn’t die. We eat a lot of fruit and nuts. Unfortunately, the human body can’t get much calcium, iron or vitamin B from a fruitarian diet, so I need a lot of vitamin pills, too. There aren’t many fruitarians in Europe, but there are millions in India.

insight Elementary Student’s Book Unit 5 pp.58–59 © Oxford University Press 2014 1 Tim Jenson: a locavore The transport of food around the world uses a lot of petrol and that causes global warming. I am a locavore and I only eat food from the area near my home in Glasgow because local food doesn’t use much petrol. I only eat food produced within fifty kilometres of my home. I can buy fantastic local beef, salmon, bread, apples and yoghurt. But I can’t have chocolate cake, coffee or orange juice because the ingredients come from abroad. That’s sometimes difficult for me. I love chocolate cake! But it’s the right choice for the environment.

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