FATEC 2003 – Questão 29

Linguagens / Inglês
Leia o texto a seguir para responder:
 
It ́s Not the Carbs, Stupid

In the mid-19th century, William Banting first popularized the low carbo-hydrate weight-loss plan that has once again grabbed the media ́s collective attention. Banting was a well-meaning London undertaker whogrew so fat in middle age that he could not descend astaircase face first, for fear of being toppled by hiscopious paunch. His friend and physician, the notedBritish aural surgeon William Harvey, prescribed a regi-men focused on meat, small amounts of fruit and libe-ral lashings of Claret, sherry and Madeira, which hel-ped Banting drop 35 pounds in 38 weeks.–
BY ELLEN RUPPEL SHELL
Newsweek, August 5, 2002
De acordo com o texto, a dieta de William Banting
a) não foi aprovada pela mídia.
b) foi criticada pelos médicos da época.
c) foi popularizada no início do século 19.
d) fazia uso de moderadores de apetite.
e) continha baixo teor de carboidratos.

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