Personalised diets - 6 Minute English

Many diets claim to improve health or help you lose weight, recent research shows that what counts is not what you eat but how your body reacts. Neil and Sam discuss how microbes matter when it comes to food, and teach some related vocabulary.

This week's question
How long exactly is the average adult’s gut?
a) 3.5 metres
b) 5.5 metres
c) 7.5 metres
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.

Vocabulary
gut (informal)
intestines; long tube inside the body which starts below the stomach and helps digest food

microbes
tiny, microscopic organisms living inside the human body

calorie
unit measuring the amount of energy that food provides

flimsy
weak and difficult to believe; not convincing

skinny
very thin

stick out of the crowd
be very easy to notice, in a positive sense

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VOCABULARY

1. Microbes : tiny, microscopic organisms living inside the human body
2. Calorie : unit measuring the amount of energy that food provides
3. Flimsy : weak and difficult to believe; not convincing
4. Skinny : very thin
5. Stick out of the crowd : be very easy to notice, in a positive sense
6. Unconvincing :
7. sequenced : to arrange in an order
8. genetically: In terms of origin or development.

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The phrases especially worth remembering from my perspective could also be:
to follow a diet
to digest food
small intestine (I also call it small bowel)
no two people have the same gut
poo (informal) - I usually call it excrement or feces

In general, very useful topic for psychologists. Many patients nowadays suffer from food disorders

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Your Gut is watching you :P
Many thanks!

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I used to have diet with pne fruit a day. It's not about personalized diet. It was hard to me not to eat other foods. I should've controlled my diet during that time. Many people don't like that kind of diets. I don't like it either honestly. Nowadays there are many information about we don't have to follow any diets. Sports and good habits can help. There's the easiest diet to follow in my opinion is mono diet. On YouTube many people gave reviews about that diet. Thanks BBC

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[yesgreen]

Why did my bio teacher tell the length of intestines is 7 meters

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Thanks!
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[HossamMohammed.]

I'd love to consume fresh foods diet

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Blood is thicker than water το αίμα νερό δεν γίνεται turn back the clock hit the roof pull out of be on the tip of your tongue flimsy

[ThiagoRodrigues-ilvs]

Flimsy = unconvincing

The prime minister's argument about going to a party during the first lockdown imposed on England in 2020 is quite flimsy. So he thought there woudn't be a problem? Just a little reunion?

I'm not british. Do you agree with me?