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surface. tektonische Platten
    agriculture – farming. Landwirtschaft
    pottery – pots, dishes, and other articles made of earthenware or baked clay. Keramik, Töpferei
    aid – help in the form or money and food. Hilfe
    classified – ‘to classify’, assign (someone or something) to a particular class or category. klassifizieren, einordnen
    diversity – difference, variety. Vielfalt
    subsistence farming – farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without anything extra to sell. Subsistenzwirtschaft
    supplement – ‘to supplement’, add an extra element or amount to: "she tried to supplement her husband's income". ergänzen, aufbessern
    limited – ‘to limit’, to restrict. limitieren, begrenzen
     
    Questions about the text
    1. Which language in Papua New Guinea has the most speakers?  
    2. With which other country does Papua New Guinea have a close relationship?
    3. Papua New Guinea was ruled by three different countries. What were they?
    4. Other than farming, how do people get extra food?
    5. What three natural disasters are mentioned in the text?
    6. What is the capital city of Papua New Guinea?
    7. What are the official languages of the country?
    8. Why is an airplane often the easiest way to travel around the country?
    9. What did the Austronesian speaking peoples bring when they migrated 2500 years ago? Name two things.
    10. True or false? – The highlands of Papua New Guinea are uninhabited.
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The Paleo Diet
     

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    From the Atkin’s diet to the South Beach diet, it seems that every year a new way of eating becomes popular as people in the Western world try to lose weight or be healthy. This article looks at one such diet, the Paleo diet.
    The Paleo diet (shortened from Palaeolithic diet) is also known as the Caveman diet or Stone Age diet. It is a diet which tries to copy what we believe our ancestors ate during the Palaeolithic era. This era lasted for two and a half million years until about ten thousand years ago, when modern farming began.
    The Paleo diet contains mainly fish, some meats like chicken and beef, eggs, fruit and vegetables, fungi (mushrooms), roots, and nuts. It excludes grains (like wheat), legumes, potatoes, dairy products, refined salt, refined sugar, and some oils.
    Protein makes up 15% of the calories in the average western diet, which is considerably lower than the average of 19-35 % of hunter-gatherer diets. This is one of the key features of the Paleo diet – a much higher amount of protein.
    Another key feature is the amount of fibre. The Paleo diet contains much more fibre from vegetables and fruit but not grains. In fact, supporters of the Paleo diet believe that grains are bad for humans as they are relatively new to us (the last 10,000 years) and our bodies are still not adapted to eating them. This is the same with all dairy products.
    So what would a Paleo diet meal look like? On the website www.thePaleodiet.com , there are recipe ideas. For example, for breakfast they suggest an omelette containing onion, peppers, mushrooms, broccoli, free-range eggs and diced turkey or chicken breast. While for lunch they suggest a salad made from spinach, radishes, peppers, cucumbers, carrots, avocadoes, walnuts, almonds and sliced apples or pears with meat or seafood.
    In the modern world there are still human populations who eat a diet which is similar to our Palaeolithic ancestors (examples include the indigenous tribes in Papua New Guinea and the people of the Amazon rainforest). Supporters of the Paleo diet believe that these people are free from many harmful diseases which are found in modern western societies.
    However, there are some dieticians who disagree with the diet and believe it could even be harmful. One study by Professor Thompson in 2013 looked at mummies from about 5000 years ago and from four different cultures (ancient Egyptian, ancient Peruvian, Ancestral