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Choose the best alternative.
The significant other?
The Swedes have created a list of new and useful words to describe how relationship statuses work nowadays. Modern dating is a minefield (1) the best of times, and it only seems to be getting more (2). Are you someone's roommate, friends with benefits or a booty call? (3) English language just doesn’t have the scope required to accommodate such variable romantic situations.
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Referring to someone as your girlfriend or boyfriend after 12 solid years of “going out” seems infantile but calling (4) your partner would feel equally unfitting. Luckily, the (5) have got it all figured out.
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If you’re fully committed to someone and have moved far beyond “seeing (6)” for a few months but don’t live together you can now refer to them as "särbo".
“Sambo” is one for (7) who hate the idea of “unwed cohabitation”, which fuses "samman", meaning together, and "boende", meaning accommodation. (8) “sambo” explains that you’re at a greater stage in your relationship and that you live together but aren’t married.
Interestingly, this term (9) since the 1800s when women would live with men without (10) them as a loophole to greater financial security.
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If, like a huge majority of people in (11) 20s and 30s, you live at home with your parents you can avoid (12) about why you’re still shacked up with your mum by using the term “mambo”, (13) is used to describe a person who lives with a parent.
Lastly, the Swedes have (14) a term for that truly intimate relationship the English so eloquently describe as co-tenants. Calling the person you share your (15) life with platonically as a "roomie" seems to cheapen the relationship. (16), refer to them as your “kombo”; a combination of "kompis", meaning friend, and "mambo", a person who lives with a parent.
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Watch your weight in a new way
Fitness fanatics and weight watchers alike (17) conditioned to believe that it’s bad to eat carbs (18) the evening - until now.
Bodybuilder Nate Miyaki, from San Francisco, drew up the (19) plan that means you only need to watch what you eat for just half the day. The athlete wrote on his website: "(20) how easy it would be to diet for just half a day. And doesn’t that make so much more (21)? Because your ancestors spent the day (22) for food, they 'dieted' only half the day while they (23) at night."
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Munching on protein and green-based meals during daylight and eating a carb-rich meal before bed, Miyaki claims that the Half Day diet (24) on the back of research from the Obesity Journal in 2011.
In the study, researchers had a test group place most of their carbohydrates at dinner, (25) all throughout the day like the control group. The results showed that the night-time carb eaters showed (26) greater losses in total body weight, body fat and waist (27).
Of course, there is a catch. (28) you can eat carbs doesn’t mean you can gorge on all your favourite starchy foods - it’s important to remember that (29) total calorie intake will also a play a part as well as regular exercise. Also, keep in mind that the quality of your carbohydrates matter: while the occasional trip to the chippy (30), as a rule opt for sweet potatoes, rice, quinoa and oatmeal.
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