Questões de Inglês

HOW DO PARENTS' CHILD-FEEDING BEHAVIOURS INFLUENCE CHILD WEIGHT? IMPLICATIONS

FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY POLICY

H. R. Clark, Research Associate,

E. Goyder, Reader in Public Health,

P. Bissell, Senior Lecturer in Public Health,

P. Bissell, Senior Lecturer in Public Health,

L. Blank, Research Associate and

J. Peters, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health

+AuthorAffiliations

 

School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK Address correspondence to H. R. Clark, E-mail: heatherclark22@hotmail.com

ABSTRACT

Parents have some responsibility for children's dietary habits and they are often the focus of public health interventions designed to improve children's diets and thereby reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity. The current UK interventions promote awareness of healthy food choices, but offer little guidance for parents on childfeeding behaviours.

Research methods involved a review of recent literature regarding child-feeding behaviours and child weight. Parents report using a wide range of child-feeding behaviours, including monitoring, pressure to eat and restriction. Restriction of children's eating has most frequently and consistently been associated with child weight gain.                  , there is substantial evidence for a causal relationship between parental restriction and childhood overweight.

Parents may inadvertently promote excess weight gain in childhood by using inappropriate child-feeding behaviours. We recommend the development of interventions to increase awareness of the possible consequences of inappropriate child-feeding behaviours. Parents who are concerned about their child's weight will also require guidance and support in order to adopt more appropriate child-feeding behaviours.

(Adapted from: Oxford journals; Journal of public health) http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/2/132.full?sid=7855085f-d782- 45fa-a90c-d8a99a480542

Tick the INCORRECT alternative:
The text concludes that

HOW DO PARENTS' CHILD-FEEDING BEHAVIOURS INFLUENCE CHILD WEIGHT? IMPLICATIONS

FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY POLICY

H. R. Clark, Research Associate,

E. Goyder, Reader in Public Health,

P. Bissell, Senior Lecturer in Public Health,

P. Bissell, Senior Lecturer in Public Health,

L. Blank, Research Associate and

J. Peters, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health

+AuthorAffiliations

 

School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK Address correspondence to H. R. Clark, E-mail: heatherclark22@hotmail.com

ABSTRACT

Parents have some responsibility for children's dietary habits and they are often the focus of public health interventions designed to improve children's diets and thereby reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity. The current UK interventions promote awareness of healthy food choices, but offer little guidance for parents on childfeeding behaviours.

Research methods involved a review of recent literature regarding child-feeding behaviours and child weight. Parents report using a wide range of child-feeding behaviours, including monitoring, pressure to eat and restriction. Restriction of children's eating has most frequently and consistently been associated with child weight gain.                  , there is substantial evidence for a causal relationship between parental restriction and childhood overweight.

Parents may inadvertently promote excess weight gain in childhood by using inappropriate child-feeding behaviours. We recommend the development of interventions to increase awareness of the possible consequences of inappropriate child-feeding behaviours. Parents who are concerned about their child's weight will also require guidance and support in order to adopt more appropriate child-feeding behaviours.

(Adapted from: Oxford journals; Journal of public health) http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/2/132.full?sid=7855085f-d782- 45fa-a90c-d8a99a480542

Read the statements below and tick the CORRECT alternative:
I. According to the text, there is no substantial evidence to say that parents may inadvertently promote excess weight gain in childhood.
II. According to the text, it is correct to state that the current UK interventions for healthy food choices offer little guidance for parents on child-feeding behaviours.
III. According to the text, there is no substantial evidence that parents report using a wide range of child-feeding behaviours, including monitoring, pressure to eat and restriction.
IV. According to the text, it is recommended the development of interventions to increase awareness of the possible consequences of inappropriate childfeeding behaviours.

HOW DO PARENTS' CHILD-FEEDING BEHAVIOURS INFLUENCE CHILD WEIGHT? IMPLICATIONS

FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY POLICY

H. R. Clark, Research Associate,

E. Goyder, Reader in Public Health,

P. Bissell, Senior Lecturer in Public Health,

P. Bissell, Senior Lecturer in Public Health,

L. Blank, Research Associate and

J. Peters, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health

+AuthorAffiliations

 

School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK Address correspondence to H. R. Clark, E-mail: heatherclark22@hotmail.com

ABSTRACT

Parents have some responsibility for children's dietary habits and they are often the focus of public health interventions designed to improve children's diets and thereby reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity. The current UK interventions promote awareness of healthy food choices, but offer little guidance for parents on childfeeding behaviours.

Research methods involved a review of recent literature regarding child-feeding behaviours and child weight. Parents report using a wide range of child-feeding behaviours, including monitoring, pressure to eat and restriction. Restriction of children's eating has most frequently and consistently been associated with child weight gain.                  , there is substantial evidence for a causal relationship between parental restriction and childhood overweight.

Parents may inadvertently promote excess weight gain in childhood by using inappropriate child-feeding behaviours. We recommend the development of interventions to increase awareness of the possible consequences of inappropriate child-feeding behaviours. Parents who are concerned about their child's weight will also require guidance and support in order to adopt more appropriate child-feeding behaviours.

(Adapted from: Oxford journals; Journal of public health) http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/2/132.full?sid=7855085f-d782- 45fa-a90c-d8a99a480542

Match the rhetorical elements of the abstract of the academic article with its corresponding elements:
A - Background
B - Methods
C - Results
D - Conclusions
( ) cause/consequence pattern developed between parents’ and children’s behavior concerning food restriction and weight gain
( ) children may gain weight due to parents’ responsibility
( ) parents’ responsibility on children’s weight
( ) literature review on children’s dietary habits

If You Can’t Master English, Try Globish

 

    PARIS — It happens all the time: during an airport delay the man to the left, a Korean perhaps, starts talking to the

man opposite, who might be Colombian, and soon they are chatting away in what seems to be English. But the native

English speaker sitting between them cannot understand a word.

    They don’t know it, but the Korean and the Colombian are speaking Globish, the latest addition to the 6,800

languages that are said to be spoken across the world. Not that its inventor, Jean-Paul Nerrière, considers it a proper

language.

    “It is not a language, it is a tool,” he says. “A language is the vehicle of a culture. Globish doesn’t want to be that at

all. It is a means of communication.”

    Nerrière doesn’t see Globish in the same light as utopian efforts such as Kosmos, Volapuk, Novial or staunch

Esperanto. Nor should it be confused with barbaric Algol (for Algorithmic language). It is a sort of English lite: a means

of simplifying the language and giving it rules so it can be understood by all.

BLUME, M. Disponível em: www.nytimes.com. Acesso em: 28 out. 2013 (fragmento).

 

Considerando as ideias apresentadas no texto, o Globish (Global English) é uma variedade da língua inglesa que

The Road Not Taken (by Robert Frost)

 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Disponível em: www.poetryfoundation.org. Acesso em: 29 nov. 2011 (fragmento).

 

Estes são os versos finais do famoso poema The Road Not Taken, do poeta americano Robert Frost.

 

Levando-se em consideração que a vida é comumente metaforizada como uma viagem, esses versos indicam que o autor

Masters of War

 

Come you masters of war

You that build all the guns

You that build the death planes

You that build all the bombs

You that hide behind walls

 

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know

I can see through your masks.

You that never done nothin’

But build to destroy

You play with my world

Like it’s your little toy

You put a gun in my hand

And you hide from my eyes

And you turn and run farther

When the fast bullets fly.

 

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain.

BOB DYLAN. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. Nova York: Columbia Records, 1963 (fragmento).

 

Na letra da canção Masters of War, há questionamentos e reflexões que aparecem na forma de protesto contra