A fried breakfast is the healthiest start to the day, say scientists
A breakfast of bacon, sausages, eggs, mushrooms, and beans could be the healthiest start to the day, according to new research.
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Scientists believe that breakfast programmes the metabolism for the rest of the day, and a fatty meal will help the body break down fat later on.
Carbohydrate rich foods in contrast appear mainly to prepare the body to break down only carbohydrates, the International Journal of Obesity reports.
Dr Martin Young, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham,(UAB), said: “The first meal you have appears to programme your metabolism for the rest of the day.
“This study suggests that
if you ate a carbohydrate-rich breakfast it would promote carbohydrate utilisation throughout the rest of the day, whereas if you have a fat-rich breakfast, you (can) transfer your energy utilisation between carbohydrate and fat.”
The team of researchers found
there may be some truth in the old saying: “'eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper (= a poor person)' – it may be the key to a healthy body and mind.”
Their study looked at the effects of
eating different types of food
– and of
eating them at different times in the day.
Mice fed a high-fat meal after waking
remained healthy , but those given a carbohydrate-rich breakfast,
followed by a fatty dinner,
did not do so well.
Co-researcher Professor Molly Bray added: “Our study seems to show that if you really want to be able to efficiently respond to mixed meals across a day,
a meal in higher fat content in the morning is a good thing.”
The report shows HOW
a high-fat breakfast of bacon and eggs
may be the healthiest start to the day:
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"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper" may in fact be the best advice to follow
to prevent metabolic syndrome,
Metabolic syndrome is characterized by abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, insulin resistance and other cardiovascular disease-risk factors.
The UAB research revealed that mice fed a meal higher in fat after waking had normal metabolic profiles.
In contrast, mice that ate a more carbohydrate-rich diet in the morning and consumed a high-fat meal at the end of the day saw increased weight gain, adiposity, glucose intolerance and other markers of the metabolic syndrome.
Don't worry! Even NA students make occasional mistakes with family vocabulary. But you should know the basics!
Here is Cindrella's family problem : Her Mother died. Her father married again: Her ........?..-mother. The good woman already had two daughters: Cinderella's ............?-sisters. (check below)
FAMILIAR is a FALSE FRIEND
The first nine + words are the most important
Male
female
generic
Spanish
father , or diminutives such as Paw,Pa, Dad, Daddy, etc
mother or diminutives such as Ma, Mum, Mummy, etc
parent
padre
son
daughter
child *
or Kid
hijo/a/os/as
brother
sister
sibling**
hermano/a etc
-
-
cousin
primo/a etc
uncle
aunt
- say uncle and aunt, uncles and aunts, etc
nephew
niece
- similar to above
sobrino/a
* 1 child, plural children
*2 remember also:
male : boy
girl
child or kid
niño/nene, etc
** sibling, officially out of fashion but has come back again recently
Difficulty: your brain looks for an individual equivalent for yerno, suegro, padrino, etc BUT ENGLISH DOES IT ALL WITH AFFIXES
Use those first nine etc words with the following affixes
Prefixes:
Gran(d)- for 2 lineal generations:
los abuelos: grandparents, a grandparent, grandmother, grandfather, grandfathers, granpa, granma, etc etc
los nietos: grandchild, grandchildren, grandson, grandsons grandaughter, grandaughters, etcetc
Step- for relationships deriving from remarriage.= the Spanish suffix-astro/a Think of cinderella!
God- for relationships deriving from baptism. Think of Al Pacino! Half- same as in Spanish
Suffix -inlaw mother inlaw, brotherinlaw, soninlaw etc etc for relationships from marriage, like the Spanish adjective politico Difficulty: your brain looks for an individual equivalent for yerno, suegro, etc
Stages of standard Relationships between a man and a woman
Stage
Male
female
generic
Group ( very rarely , pair =couple)
Married
Husband
Wife
Spouse, "better half"= 1/2 naran
A married couple
For many centuries, couples just “living together”
Common-law husband
Common-law wife
A ( commonlaw) married couple
Wedding-day and honeymoon only
Groom or bridegroom
bride
A Newly-wed couple, a just married couple, “newly-weds” “just-marrieds”
Formally engaged , but single
Fiancé
Fiancé or fiancée
?fiance?
An engaged couple. Cf to be engaged
Going steady/ going out together/ dating? , but single
(+or - steady) boy-friend
(+or - steady) girl-friend
My/etc steady
A (?) couple
Once: a courting couple
NB "boy and girl " talk in relationships now covers people 90 or 100 years old. A genertion ago, husband and wife could be old man or old woman at 18!
First( ‘) date(s), between single people
My/etc date
A couple on a date (?) cf a blind date,
double-dating(2 couples) etc
Other words :
Picking-up, chatting up
A pick-up * be careful= casual tabu, offensive
Cf to pick up, to chat up, many other more tabu synonyms
Irregular and extramarital liasons
Toyboy , gigolo
Very old fashioned:
Mistress, kept woman
Lover
At any moment or condition, as in Spanish “amante”, the relationship will be physical or not depending on the context
Self-explanatory:
A one-night-stand
Politically correct :
Anthing modern &/or , indefinite and /or indescribable
Partner
This covers, say 5 men+ 3 women+ + 3 indefinables+ a gorilla .They’re all partners!
I 'm My Own …….. It sounds funny, I know, But it really is so, Oh, I'm my own …………….I'm my own ....... (x2)
Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three, I was married to a ……………….who was pretty as could be.
This ………………..had a grown-up …………………who had hair of red.
My……………….. fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.
This made my …………….my ………………….and changed my very life,
My ………………..was my………………., cause she was my ………………s wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy, I soon became the …………………….of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a …………………….to…………..,
And so became my……………….., though it made me very sad.
For if he was my………………., then that also made him ………………
Of the …………………….s grown-up…………………., who, of course, was my. …………………..
………………..'s wife then had a …………….who kept him on the run, And he became my……………………, for he was my ………………..'s son.
My………………. is now my……………….. s…………….., and it makes me blue,
Because, although she is my…………….., she's my………………………., too.
Now if my …………is my………………., then I'm her …………………………..
And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw As ………………….of my………………….., I am my own……………………!
I'm my own…………(x2)It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so, Oh, I'm my own ………………………
Put in:Grandpa widow father uncle Dad son daughter husband wife mother' grandmother grandchild, stepmother brother-in-law brother son-in-law
You also need this vocab: widow, = viuda; to wed, wed/wedded, wed/wedded = to marry=to get married, cf a wedding=una boda; wild=savage, not domesticated, in a natural state; idiom: a bouncing baby boy, to bounce = rebotar, like a ball; idiom to keep s.o. on the run, = to keep them very busy, leave them no time; Note Dad=Father=Pa=Paw
Recognize all the family words, repeat them to yourself
Nor can you rely on most encyclopedias. St Patrick was a Romanized Celt, a Briton He was born about 390. AD This was near the end of Roman rule in Britannia, the Roman province which covered the modern countries of England and Wales, or about 50% of the area of the islands.
In his own lifetime, the germanic tribes of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, began their genoicide and occupation of what is now England . In Britannia, Christianity was now permitted and increasing, after Constantine in 315.A.D. At the same time, there was a great pagan revival, of both Roman and Celtic religion. However, Ireland still had Druids. Britannia did not. Ireland also had a number of delightful cultural practices, such as human sacrifice. If you like that sort of thing.
His very name, Patricius, indicates that his parents were among those who wished to retain as much Roman culture as possible. At 16 Irish Pirates captured him, and took him to Ireland They sold him as a slave. He was a slave in Ireland for six years. Slaves usually suffer terrible treatment. In his confessio(click) he says he looked after his owner's animals , which gave him the opportunity to pray. That doesn't sound too bad. He doesn't mention much abusive treatment. But we can suppose that as a slave, he got it. After six years' slavery he escaped.
He returned Good for the Evil done to him. He became a priest,spent time with St Germanus in France, Recieved Rome's Ok to evangelize Ireland and was ordained a bishop. He was immensly sucessful. Not without problems ... captured and put in chains a dozen times. He used the shamrock , which has a trifurcate leaf, as a symbol of the trinity. It has become a symbol of Ireland, and so has the colour Green .
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Today is the National Day for the Irish all over the world .
St Patrick's Day Parades in Boston began BEFORE USA independance (1776)
Now they have them all over the USA.
They are more secular every year! Shamrocks and leprechauns and bagpipes and beer. A Disneyland vision of a plastic Ireland.
The Scots are not the only ones to have tartans and bagpipes. (Irish bagpipes are slightly different from Scottish ones which are different from Asturian oneswhich are different from Gallician ones....)
But it seems to be more the Irish ouside Ireland who wear kilts.
At least the St Patrick's day parade pictures on internet have boys and men wearing sporrans with their kilts. (The modern custom of men aping females, sporranless kiltwearing is disgusting)
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