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.
Latvians and Livs are the indigenous people of Latvia. Latvian is an Indo-European language; it and Lithuanian are the only two surviving Baltic languages. Despite foreign rule from the 13th to 20th centuries, the Latvian nation maintained its identity throughout the generations via the language and musical traditions.