Name: Eating for two ⏲️ 6 Minute English
Uploaded: 2024-05-08T06:47:58.000Z
Duration: 6 min 22 s
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Learning English. I'm Phil. And I'm Georgie.

the phrase has a very specific meaning. You're asking

'Are you pregnant?' and, like many of the idioms we commonly use in English,

this phrase contains a little bit of truth.

A pregnant woman really is eating for two - herself

The female human body is amazing. During pregnancy

it protects the growing baby by allowing it to take whatever nutrients

it's the mum-to-be, not the baby, who experiences any nutritional problems.

It is also the reason why it's so important that pregnant women eat well.

In this programme, we'll be finding out how a woman's relationship

to food changes during pregnancy and, as usual,

we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary, too.

finding reliable information on what food to eat can be hard. Finding out

about harmful foods to avoid, on the other hand, is much easier.

which of these foods should pregnant women not eat?

Is it A. chips, B. oily fish or C. smoked salmon?

OK, Phil. We'll find out the correct answer at the end of the programme.

Although eating healthy and nutritious food is important for mums and babies,

the story gets complicated because of the changes

a woman's body goes through during pregnancy.

Radio 4’s, The Food Programme, reporting

my body's just gone a bit haywire, and there are things that my body is doing

[laughs] that are frankly weird... Nosebleeds is a really good example.

I can count the amount of nosebleeds pre-pregnancy

it stopped working properly. For example,

she had lots of nosebleeds, whereas before being pregnant,

she had on one hand. The idiom to count the number

of something on one hand emphasises that this doesn't happen very often,

or that there is a small number of something -

after all, you can only count to five on one hand!

the strong desire for some particular food,

"I know I should be eating healthily, but all I want is chips!"

Here’s Jaega Wise again speaking with nutritional therapist,

Henrietta Wilson, on the best way to deal with guilty feelings:

is more the question for that late night chocolate binge

when your body is telling you, ‘I need cake!’

Listen, I think the most important thing is to not get out the

cat-o’-nine-tails, is to absolutely be kind to yourself,

particularly in that first trimester. It is a very critical window, but at the same

time it can be the time when all you want to do is to eat chips because

your body is going through what it perceives to be physiological stress.

it's absolutely not about giving yourself a hard time.

Jaega’s food cravings led to a chocolate binge.

A binge is an occasion where you do something in an extreme way,

Henrietta’s advice is to not use the cat-o’-nine-tails. In the past, the

cat-o’-nine- tails was a whip made of nine strings

Nowadays, when someone talks about the cat-o’-nine-tails,

people sometimes use to punish themselves

pregnancy isn't about giving yourself a hard time, treating yourself badly

Pregnancy is a special time of life, and all a baby can ask

is that mum does her best. And, of course, avoids some foods,

which reminds me of your question, Georgie.

I guessed it was smoked salmon... Which was... the correct answer!

Smoked salmon is best avoided because of the risk of bacteria,

we have learnt in the programme, starting with the idiom,

eating for two, which means to be pregnant.

If something goes haywire, it stops working properly

If you say you could count something on one hand,

you're emphasising that something does not happen very often

or that there are only a few of those things.

A binge is an occasion where you do something to excess, for example,