CLOZE TEST: HEALTHY EATING

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Healthy eating 'alters landscape'

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More healthy eating habits would [0] ____alter the face of the British landscape, research suggests.

Health officials recommend eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.

But the University of Reading study suggests if everyone[1] ____ so, the UK would need 100,000 hectares of polytunnels to [2] ____demand for fruit.

And following advice to eat[3] ____ red meat and dairy products would mean 1.5m fewer cattle were needed, which would lead to large areas not [4] ____ grazed.

Walkers

The UK Research Councils' Rural Economy and Land Use programme, [5] ____funded the research, said there [6] ____be "unintended consequences of policies".

Researchers told BBC Radio 4's Farming Today that if the government's guidelines [7] ____followed, demand for red meat would drop by 20% and dairy products by 40%.

That would mean 1.5m [8] ____heads of livestock, leaving the upland hills, favoured by walkers and tourists, un-grazed, the report suggests.

[9] ____would mean the land, if left alone, would become inaccessible to visitors. The researchers [10] ____ said that in Wales, cattle numbers would fall by some 400,000 head and sheep numbers would be [11] ____. In the north of England [12] ____ sheep and cattle numbers would fall by 200,000 head each, the research suggests.

Professor Bruce Traill said: "Undoubtedly the UK government has a duty to promote the health of the population and within this research project we have [13] ____ looking at the most effective [14] ____ of doing that, whether by fiscal measures, social marketing, or by [15] ____ to improve the nutritional qualities of the foods that people eat.

"There is potential in all of these approaches, if they are targeted [16] ____. But we do also have to consider the potential unintended consequences of policies.

"For rural communities, [17] ____ as the dairying industry of South-West England and upland areas of the UK these could be far-reaching and need to be [18] ____ into account."

The report also says that increased production of fruit and vegetables in the East and South East of England would be [19] ____ to bring more employment.

This is because machinery [20] ____ be used for many of the required horticultural operations and, where labour is required, farmers would probably rely on casual workers.

Pressure would also increase on water supplies because of the need to irrigate crops.

WRITE YOUR ANSWERS HERE:                0.- dramatically				1. did	2.  meet
3.  less	4.  being	5.  which	6.  may	7.  were	8.  fewer
9.  this	10. also	11. halved	12. both	13.  been	14. ways
15. trying	16. effectively	17. such	18. taken	19. unlikely	20. can