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I'm Dan, and joining me this morning is Catherine.

Hi, Catherine.

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So what's the story?

Well, today's story is about diet and health.

Two very important things.

Let's find out more from this radio.

One news report experts warning about the dangers of fussy eating.

It's after a medical journal reported the case of a 17 year old who suffered severe damage to his eye sights after living on a diet of chips and crisp since leaving primary school, tests revealed he had severe vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition.

So this is a story from the UK Now a boy of 17 has permanently damaged his eyesight.

This is a result of him eating very little as except chips and crisps.

Since he was a primary school age, tests have revealed that the reason for this eyesight damages because his body didn't have enough vitamins and minerals so serious consequences of a very restricted diet.

Yes, Speaking of that diet, there's some confusion chips and crisps.

Could you, uh, just define those for everybody?

Yes.

So there's chips and crisps mean different things in different countries Here in the U.

K.

Crisps are made of potatoes sliced and fried in oil.

You buy them ready, made in pockets on dhe chips are cooked.

Their served hot usually buy them freshly cooked.

They are sticks of potatoes, sometimes called french fries.

Old fries in the UK chips are hot.

Crisps are cold sliced potato.

So I would get my chips from a fast food outlets such as McDonald's or Burger King Or where?

Or I would buy my crisps in a supermarket.

Exactly that.

Perfect.

All right, well, we've got three words and expressions that our viewers can use to talk about this story.

And what do we have for them?

Catherine, we have go blind, fussy on dhe deficiency.

Go blind, fussy and deficiency.

Okay, let's have our first headline, please.

Okay, so we're at news 18.

The headline is thine.

First in UK to go blind Death after being on junk food diet for 10 years.

Ripple two go blind, become blind.

Now go is obviously a verb.

And I'm quite familiar with it, but I don't know it.

In this context.

Nobody is moving anywhere, so okay, yes.

Oh, go.

It's a really flexible and useful verb in English.

There's pages and pages of dictionary definitions of it because we use it in so many contexts.

So the core meaning of go is to move from one place to another.

This is about moving the sense of change.

So is about changing from warm condition to another.

So if you go blind, you become blind.

You lose your eyesight.

Okay, so this is obviously quite a negative changes that.

Is that a theme?

It often is.

Yeah.

If you the changes usually from from one state to aware state in this case losing your eyesight, you can go blind.

You can go death.

You can.

If you're losing your hair, you can see you're going board or going gray like silver on the sides.

Quite distinguished.

It works for a lot of celebrities s Oh, yes.

Changing you can go crazy.

Congar O C and I.

And there's lots of ways that you can change your physical or mental condition.

And is it only for people?

It's often for people, but No, not just for people.

We can talk about food going bad.

Your food can go cold.

Your food can go off something and starts to go rotten and smell horrible.

Like this morning when I went to my fridge to get some milk for a cup of tea and I found that the milk had gone off.

Uh, horrible.

Shocking.

The morning black tea.

You can also use it in a business contacts.

You can go broke.

You can go bankrupt, you can go out off business.

OK, so it's quite a common useful word for changing states.

Yes, of this.

All right, let's have a look at our second headline then, please.

All right, we're going to Buzz now on the headline is fussy eater.

17 left blind on death after diet off chips, sausages, aunt crisps.

Fussy.

Not easily pleased regarding certain things.

This is an unusual word for C.

Is it in an objective?

It is an objective.

It spelled f u double s.

Why, it means yeah, you're really particular about whatever it is you're fussy about.

Objectives that have the similar meaning off particular.

Choosy, picky, fastidious.

So someone who's fussy only likes things the way that they like them.

Exactly that there's only certain areas.

Firstly, people are quite perceived is very difficult.

Okay, so if you're a fussy easy, you only like certain foods and they have to be cooked a certain way.

Maybe they have to be arranged a particular way on your plate or you eat them in a particular order.

And if you're kind of trying to cook for somebody or shop for somebody who's a fussy eater is quite difficult because they really and they make a first.

I get upset and angry if you don't have the food the certain way.

So doesn't that just mean that they have high standards?

Is that no?

Are they not the same thing, A kind of a negative college connotation?

You can call yourself first.

See, I think about food.

There's a cross over into your two first.

You're so firstly that it's not about high standards.

You're just difficult.

You can say you're fussy about the kind of clothes you wear your fussy about the people you meet mixed with on that coming high standards.

But often a fussy eater in particular is quite a difficult person.

Yeah, you know anymore.

I used to be as a child.

I was quite fussy about what I would eat.

Yeah, I didn't really like vegetables very much.

Lots of cereal, sugar, chocolate.

And how was your How is that affecting your relationship with your caregivers at the time?

Uh, to be honest, my mom just gave up and said, OK, here.

Just get on with it.

Too fussy for May.

But these days I grew up, and now I don't make a fuss anymore.

Great little phrase Don't make a fuss if you don't make a first.

It means that you accept what's happening and you don't panic or get upset.

Or, you know, make drama about what?

It yet.

Thank you very much.

Right?

Let's move on to our next headline.

But before we do, Did you know that this is not the first time that BBC learning English has covered the dangers of processed food?

Isn't that right, Katherine?

That's right.

So if you want more vel couple on this topic, click the link and go straight to the show.

Thank you very much.

All right, let's have a look at our third and final headline.

Okay.

Mail Online boy, 17 goes blind because of a veteran deficiency caused by years of eating only french fries.

Pringles white bread on dhe sausage deficiency.

Not having enough of something.

Yes.

What type of word is this?

This is also a noun.

It's about D f I C i e N c.

Why on it means not having enough of something.

The clue is in the prefix d, which often means not without the opposite of a deficiency is a sufficiency.

It means you've got enough of something.

Okay, There are objective forms on there, sufficient and deficient.

Yes, absolutely.

If you are deficient in something, you don't have enough of it.

Okay?

So eventually, presumably, as we can stick, continue to use natural resources from the Earth, the Earth will become deficient in certain national reach.

It already is deficient in certain things.

Yeah, that is likely content to continue if things go the way they are, as we're told.

So deficiency means not enough of something we can use in medical and nutritional terms.

You can have a vitamin deficiency.

You can have an eye in deficiency just like this boy in this story, not the iron deficiency.

The vitamin D.

That's what they say happened to him?

Yes.

Um, and it could also mean if we take it away from a medical context, it could mean about standards generally not being high enough.

So this is kind of the opposite of fussy, but he's kind of artificial standard, But if you're deficient in something, you don't have enough of it.

So a business might have a deficiency in a particular area.

Maybe their payroll.

Maybe they're not paying their staff.

Amar enough or they're paying them too much.

Yeah.

Either way, it's bad for business.

Some kind of systemic problem in the business, something they're not doing enough off or they're not doing it correctly.

Okay, what kind of language we use to try and solve that problem so we can talk about words that go with deficiency?

Oh, you can address a deficiency.

You can remedy a deficiency.

You can tackle it efficiency.

You can correct a deficiency well done to everybody who got the answer.

Correct.

Now could we recap the vocabulary, please?

Sure, we hade go blind, which means become blind, fussy, not easily pleased regarding certain things on dhe deficiency, not having enough off something.

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