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Broccoli, spinach, kale, and Brussels sprouts are all considered healthy. Loaded with minerals, vitamins, and fiber, they are a dietician's dream - a dietician that hates you and wants you to be miserable by (1) ______ all the sweet pleasures of life. On the other hand, stuff that you love, - fries, burgers, desserts, and even red meat - are right at the bottom of the (2) ________. These junk foods, the health experts say, (3)_______ more than once a week. I guess, like me, you are wondering why only the food that is so flavorful is always considered bad! The reason is that, most 'tasty' foods are high (4) _____ in fats, sugar, _____ salt; or some combination of them. And the reason our taste buds prefer them, is that we (5) _______ to love them. Our ancestors (6)______ in the prosperous times that we live in, and back then, these three things weren't so abundant. So, prehistoric man and his body learned to (7)_______ them. The reason we love to eat fatty food They store energy. Fats are very (8) _______ in calories - they contain twice the calorie content of carbohydrates. But since they take longer to digest, the body likes to store them for use when we (9) _______enough food. Our ancestors' food supply (10)______ very irregular. The day they killed a mammoth, for example, there was enough food to feed the tribe for several days. But that happened pretty rarely, (11) ______ our ancestors evolved to store as much as they could, and depended on the fat stores in times of food shortage. The person whose body was most equipped to store fat, was, by an evolutionary point of view, the fittest. He/she could (12) _______ through the harshest of times, and hence, our brains and taste buds love fat. The reason we crave sugar (13)_____ our body, sugar is energy. Always on the lookout for food, ancient man also was an expert at detecting the most energy-rich sources. Usually, this meant ripe fruit, which are sweeter and easier to (14)______ than unripe food. Many scientists speculate that sweetness is also a sign of abundance. Hence, when we eat something sweet, the pleasure receptors in our brain (15)______, releasing dopamine. In fact, the effect of sugar is linked to drugs like (16)______. The reason we like salt It was not (17)______ like how easily it is now. Salt is the best source of sodium, a mineral essential for the muscles and nerve cells to work. Besides table salt, sodium is only found in small (18) _______ in animal blood, meat, and eggs. Hence, it was prized, and actively craved for. Some scientists also speculate that it releases dopamine in the brain, (19)_______ sugar.

1) a- taking off

b- taking on

c- taking away

2) a- stomach

b- food pyramid

c- food chain

3) a- shouldn’t consume

b- shouldn’t be consumed

c- shouldn’t have consumed

4) a- either .. or

b- neither .. nor

c- both .. and

5) a- evolved

b- have evolved

c- have been evolving

6) a- don’t live

b- didn’t live

c- were lived

7) a- love and hate

b- take and dismiss

c- value and preserve

8) a- high

b- low

c- small

9) a- didn’t have

b- don’t have

c- doesn’t have

10) a- were

b- is

c- was

11) a- but

b- so

c- when

12) a-run

b- go

c- survive

13) a- For

b- Despite

c- To

14) a- eat

b- grow

c-digest

15) a- is activated

b- are activated

c- activate

16) a- heroin

b- vitamin

c- beer

17) a- rare

b- hard

c- avaible

18) a- cells

b- quantities

c- groups

19) a- much like

b- as

c- instead of

ANSWER KEY: 1) C

2) B 3) B 4) A 5) B 6) B 7) C 8) A 9) B 10) C

11) B 12) C 13) A 14) C 15) B 16) A 17) C 18) B 19) A