Yes/No questions

Is healthy eating important?

Well in actual fact, if I think about it, I guess that in many ways it's fairly important, especially when you consider that a healthy diet can help to prevent a variety of disease and health problems such as diabetes and obesity. But you also have to understand that eating unhealthy food in moderation is not overly harmful. In fact unhealthy food is often tastier that healthy food so I guess it's fine to eat a little junk food now and then. So all in all I guess my answer would have to be yes and no.


Opening phrase:
Well in actual fact, if I think about it, I guess that in many ways...
OK, well in reality, I suppose that to some extent...
Alright, I guess that on the one hand....
Well certainly in some ways...

Develop the first statement using a linking structure:
...especially when you consider that..
...particularly if you think about the point that...
...especially with regard to the point that...
...and this is definitely the case with...

introduce No answer
But you also have to understand that...
Even so, you could also say that...
At the same time you could say that...

round-off the answer with one of the following phrases:
So all in all I guess my answer would have to be yes and no.
So on the whole I suppose the answer has to be yes and no.
So all things considered I guess the answer is both yes and no,.
So in the main, I suppose the answer is probably yes and no.