It is hard to eat a healthy diet when you eat at fast-food restaurants often, the site goes on to say. Many foods are cooked with a lot of fat, even if they are not trans fats. Many fast-food restaurants do not offer any lower-fat foods.
Lithuanians will speak Russian automatically, Polish is a different language but they will have learnt Russian in school in the same way that English children learn French, that is - because they're the immediate neighbours. In the Old DDR, they taught Russian as the second language automatically. Some schools there still do.
Yiddish is, above all, the paradigmatic Jewish language -- the insider's way of communicating to fellow Jews about day-to-day things (talk about God and faith is reserved for Lashon Hakkodesh - the holy tongue of Hebrew). It is at once sarcastic and dark, yet it is ultimately full of vigor, hope, and charm.