What kind of food do you eat Are you conscious of the types of food you consume or do you stuff yourself silly with whatever is available Today, we are constantly bombarded with media reports about research on the right diet to follow to help us maintain a healthy lifestyle or lose weight - but its hard to know which one to pick and, once chosen, its harder still to stick to it. And now theres another choice to get our teeth into.A flexitarian diet involves eating plant-based foods and only occasionally eating meat and fish. You might think this is a halfway1 house to being a vegetarian2 by not completely abstaining3 from meat. But if vegetarianism4 is hard to swallow and you fancy chomping5 on the occasional lean steak, then this could be the choice for you.This eating style allows you to supplement some ingredients that you wouldnt get in a stricter vegan diet another trend growing in popularity. And like veganism, flexitarianism isnt about eating carefully to help you lose a few pounds - its something people choose for ethical6 reasons, to help the planet. And a study into the global food system and how it affects the climate, has found that eating mainly plant-based foods is one of three key steps towards a sustainable future for all by 2050.This research found that food waste will need to be halved7 and farming practices will also have to improve to achieve this. But without a single solution, a combined approach is needed. Dr Marco Springmann from the University of Oxford8 was one of the lead authors of the report. He told the BBC We really found that a combination of measures would be needed to stay within environmental limits and those include changes towards healthier more plant-based diets.But whereas vegans think its wrong for animals to be killed for food, flexitarians believe eating meat once in a while is acceptable. And Dr Springmann agrees - as long as we treat it as a luxury, its probably OK but you shouldnt have more than one serving of red meat, which includes beef and pork, per week. And heres another fact to digest: If we moved to this type of diet, the study found that greenhouse gas emissions9 from agriculture would be cut by more than half.
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1 halfway adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途 参考例句： We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。 In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最禁忌的是有始无终。
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