Healthy eating (IELTS speaking) What foods do you consider are good for you? Why? I think that good foods are all that considered to be good and healthy all over the world. I don't differ from other people physiologically. Main groups are meat, milk products, fruits, vegetables, cereals. But not only the choice of products makes the food healthy. The way it is cooked is also important. For example, boiled potatoes are considered to be more beneficial than fried ones, raw fruits and vegetables are better than canned and so on. It's crucial to diversify your food also. The fact that vegetables are healthy food doesn't mean that if you will eat only vegetables you would be good. And you should try to avoid 'junk foods' as chips, pizza, soda and others. But from time to time (not often) you can indulge yourself with some of it, it's ok :) (Personally I adore fried potatoes and pizza) That wouldn't be a big problem. What kind of things do people eat that are bad for them? Why do you think people eat such things, if they are not good for them? That's abovementioned junk food. People eat it because it's very tasty because of food additives or sugar or just because it contains much fats. And people like fat food because of their instincts, I think. That is on subconscious level inherited from the times of humans wild life, when there was a lack of food sometimes. Fat equals more energy equals "Great!". Now we have enough food and know that much sugar and fats are bad, but our brain and taste want us to eat some of them :)