英语高级口语教程 Should We Diet in Order to Keep Fit?

Should We Diet *** Order *** Keep Fit?

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How Does It Feel *** Lose Weight?
Here is a ***nversation between a heart specia***st and a heart patient.

V***: I've been fee***ng very lo***ly. I can't expla*** it, I'm *** a crowd but I
feel lo***ly. And so ***day, .I tri*** *** get *** ***uch with it . The
lo*********ss and sad***ss are there bec***se several th***gs are ******g on.
O***, I don't ***ke my body. Two, I am very angry with my body f*** h*****g
heart disease.
　

Dean: Do you want *** do an imagery exercisel?
V***: Yes.
Dean: Okay, Please close your eyes and put yourself *** a ***ditative
state. If at any ti*** you feel ***ke this is not so***th***g you want ***
do, I'11 rely on you *** tell *** that. Beg*** by ***sua***z***g your
body. What k***d of image do you get?
V***: Just mounds of flesh. A wall of fat.
Dean: Imag***e that your body has a vo***e of its own. Tell it hello.
Ask it *** just say hello *** you, just *** identify itself. Does it?
V***: [p***se] it says "hello" back. I'm amaz***l Its vo***e is different from
m***e.
　

Dean: Ask it if it has a na***.
V***: It says, "Fat ."
Dean: Ask "Fat" what is its purpose *** your ***fe.
V***: [p***se] It says, "To give *** supp***t. To shield ***. To protect ***."
Dean: Ask it what it is shield***g you from.
V***: It says, "From everyo***. I'm your best friend."
Dean: In what way is it your friend?
V***: It says, "I've been protect***g you."
Dean: Ask it what it has been protect***g you from.
V***: It says, "You don't h**e *** do a lot of th***gs bec***se you're fat. "
Dean: Ask it if it's protect***g you from anyth***g else?
V***: [p***se] Yes, it says it's been protect***g *** from my fee***ngs.
Dean: Okay-ask it if it's protect***g you from any fee***ngs *** part***ular.
V***: [p***se] It says, "From lo*********ss."
Dean: When it says that, do any other images *** fee***ngs ****** *** your
aware***ss?
　

V***: So***how I re***mber gett***g fat when I was seven. I see myself ******g
****** a room fee***ng ***ke I was all right, and f***d***g out I was not
all right . So my ***fe has been about justif***ation. Justif***ation
about be***g all right. Be***g a***ept***. So I us*** food as a friend.
My fat says it protects *** from fee***ng bad. I h**e a lot of
resistance *** change. I h**e a lot ***vest*** *** this fat. And *** give
it up is ***ke gi***ng up a friend. It's been a barrier but it's also
a friend. It's a friend that gets *** the way so***ti***s, but it
also serves *** really well. But my size ***mits *** *** what I want ***
do now.
　

Dean: Stay with those fee***ngs now. Ask "Fat" what it ******s from you now.
V***: [p***se] It says that it ******s *** be ***ld it's all right the way it is.
Dean: Maybe you ***uld start by thank***g it f*** shield***g, protect***g you from
lo*********ss all these years.
V***: [p***se] All right.
Dean: Does the wall say anyth***g *** reply?
V***: It agrees. It says, "It's about ti***."
Dean: Good. Now ask if it would be wil***ng *** open up, *** s***p shield***g you
all the ti***. If you ***uld f***d a different way *** shield yourself
when you ****** it-o*** that is easier *** open and close.
　

V***: A replace***nt-is that what you are say***g?
Dean Yes. So***th***g that you ***uld use *** shield yourself when you ****** it,
but isn' t there all the ti*** when you want *** open up. See what it says.
V***: [p***se] It says, "Yes."
Dean: Ask it what you ****** *** do f *** it *** beg*** open***g up.
V***: [p***se] To get massag***. To be, perhaps, m***e vul***rable. To allow myself
*** be ***uch***.
Dean: What images *** fee***ngs ****** *** m***d of your body *** that way?
V***: I'd feel freer.
Dean: How would you look? Ask "Fat", the o*** that protects you and shields you,
if it would give you a different image of your body. How your body
would look if you were m***e open and less shield*** all the ti***.
　

V***: Okay.
Dean: What does it say?
V***: [p***se] If I'm wil***ng, it's wil***ng.
Dean: Good . W hat image do you see? You can always *** back *** the fat image if
you ****** it.
V***: I see a th******r body.
Dean: What does it look ***ke?
V***: It looks th******r. But it looks di**igur*** The fat is very di**igur***.
Dean: How so?
V***: It's full of stretch marks. Saggy sk***.
Dean: Okay. What does that body h**e *** say?
V***: [p***se] To try and atta*** it anyway. To try *** achieve it. That it's okay
*** h**e a th******r body that' s not perfect.
Dean: Do any other images *** fee***ngs ****** *** your aware***ss?
V***: I feel un***mf***table and sad...

II. Read
Read the follow***g passages. Under****** the imp***tant ***ewpo***ts while read***g.

1. We Should All Grow Fat and Be Happy

Here's a fami***ar version of the boy-***ets-girl ***uation. A young man has at last pluck*** up ***urage *** ******te a dazz***ng young lady out *** d******r. She has a***ept*** his ******tation and he is overjoy***. He is determ****** *** take her *** the best rest***rant *** ***wn, even if it ***ans that he will h**e *** ***ve on ***m***ies and hopes dur***g the month *** ******. When they get *** the rest***rant, he dis***vers that this etherial creature is on a diet. She mustn't eat this and she mustn't dr***k that. Oh, but of ***urse, she doesn' t want *** spoil his enjoy***nt. Lct him by all ***ans eat as much fatten***g food as he wants: it's the surest way *** an early gr**e. They spend a truly ***m***able even:ng ***gether and ***ver see each other aga***.

What a miserable lot dieters arel You can always re***gnize them from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their tix*** turn***g their noses up at food. 'They are f***ever ***nsu******g cal***ie charts; gaz***g at themselves *** mirr***s; and leap***g on *** weigh***g-mach***es *** the bathroom. They spend a ***feti*** fight***g a los***g battle aga***st spread***g hips, protrud***g tummies and double ch***s So*** wage all-out war on fat . Mere diet***g is not enough.

They exh***st themselves do***g exercises, sweat***g *** s***na baths, be***g pum***ll*** and massag*** by weird mach***es. The really wea***hy diet-mongers pay vast sums f*** "hea***h cures? F*** two weeks they can enter a "nature c***n***" and be starv*** *** death f*** a hundr*** gu***eas a week. Don't th***k it's o***y the middle-ag*** who *** *** f*** these fads either. Many of these bright young th***gs you see are suffer***g from chron*** malnutrition: they are ******ng on. noth***g but air, water and the ***odwill of God.

Dieters undertake *** starve themselves of their own free will so why are they so miserable? Well, f*** o*** th***g, they're always bungry. You can't be hungry and happy at the sa*** ti***. All the h***rible ***n***ctions they eat ***stead of food le**e, them perma***nily dissati**i***. "Wonderfood is a ***mplete food,'~ the advertise***nt says. "Just dissolve a teaspoonful *** water..."

A ***mplete food it may.be, but not quite as ***mplete as a ju***y steak. And, of ***urse, they're always miserable bec***se they feel so gui***y. Hunger just proves ***o much f*** them and *** the end they lash out and devour five huge gui***-***duc***g cream cakes at a ***t***g. And who can bla*** them? At least three ti***s a day they are expos*** *** temptation. What utter ***rture it is always watch***g others tuck***g ****** piles of mouth-water***g food while you munch a water biscuit and sip unsweete***d lemon ju***e!

What's all this self-***f***ct*** ***rture f***? Sa***tly people deprive themselves of food *** atta*** a state of grace. Unsa***tly people do so *** atta*** a state of misery. It will be a great day when all the dieters *** the w***ld abandon their s***mm***g ***urses; when they hold out their plates and demand se***nd help***gs!

2. I Feel Better with Vegetarian Food

I grew up *** Texas on double cheeseburgers with h***k***y s***ce, chi***, fri***. ch***ken, T-bo*** steaks, and eggs. Many people rep***t that they lose the taste f*** animal foods after eat***g a vegetarian diet f*** a while, but it hasn't fully happe***d *** ***. I still enjoy the way animal foods taste and s***ll, but I usually don't eat them.
Why not? Bec***se I ***ke the way I feel when I don't eat these foods so much m***e than the pleasure I us*** *** get from eat***g them. I h**e much m***e e***rgy, I ****** less sleep, I feel cal***r, I can ma***ta*** an ideal body weight without w***ry***g about how much I eat, and I can th***k m***e clearly (a***hough so*** might debate the last po***t).

I began mak***g so*** dietary and ***festyle changes dur***g my se***nd year of ***llege and h**e been eat***g this way ever s***ce. I wasn't w***ri*** about ***ronary heart disease at age n***eteen-my cholesterol leve***hen was o***y 125 (and it still is). I began fee***ng better after I start*** eat***g this way, so I ***nt***ue *** do so. Eat***g this diet probably will help *** *** ***ve longer, but it,s not my primary motivation. Fee***ng better is.

In my c***n***al experience, I often f***d that fear may be enough motivation
f*** so*** people *** beg*** a diet, but it's usually not enough *** susta*** it. As I've said ear***er, who wants *** ***ve longer if you're not enjoy***g ***fe?
S***ce I began mak***g these dietary changes *** 1972, eat***g this way has be****** ***creas***gly a***ept***. Beans and gra***s are be***m***g, be***eve it *** not, high-status foods.

3. High-fat Diet, Little Strength

You br***g o*** of our football players *** and put them on a stationary exercise b***ycle and tell them *** w***k as hard as they can f*** as long as they can, and you'll ti*** them. Say the guy lasts f*** eight m***utes, and then he's just exh***st***. Then f*** three days you put him on a high-fat diet. He ******s back ***, ***es on the bike and he'll last probably o***y six m***utes. He's lost that much strength.
Then put him on a high carbohydrate, low-fat diet f*** o***y three days, and he' 11 probably *** up *** 12 m***utes. It makes that much difference.

4. I Feel Great Bec***se I've Lost All That Extra Weight!

Dur***g my first year of ***llege, I ga****** f***ty pounds when I began throw***g the j**e***n. F*** the ***xt twenty years, I carri*** all of this extra weight and kidd*** myself that I was *** ***od shape s***ce that's what I weigh*** *** ***llege. Now that I've lost all that extra weight, I feel great!
People say all the ti***, "Well, how do you ***ve without eat***g cheeseburgers *** this *** that?" and I say, "You just don't. It's not even an option." It's not that hard once you get on it.

The most diff***u*** parts f*** *** are the social aspects of eat***g. F*** example, hamburgers were hard *** do without at first bec***se I identifi*** eat***g them with fun ti***s-***t***g on the flo*** with the kids watch***g tele***sion, *** *** a fun place with people ***t***g around l***gh***g, dr***k***g beer and eat***g burgers.
It's the sa*** at a tailgate p***n*** at a football ga***. It was hard--not bec***se of the foods there, but bec***se of the social fac***rs. But once you understand that, then you can say, "I can enjoy the social part without h*****g *** eat that food." It's m***e what you're do***g than the food itself.

5. Weight Watchers

Jean Nidetch was a professional dieter, a housewife who tri*** every ***nceivable .s***mm***g fad, lost weight with each o***, then rega****** it thanks *** her habitually "promiscuous?eat***g habits. In 1961, when she sought help from the obe***y c***n*** run by New Y***k City's Dept. of Hea***h, she was 38 years old and weigh*** 214 lb. The c***n*** put her on a diet by Dr. N***man Jol***ffe, best known.f*** his "prudent diet". ***n***nc*** that she ***uldn't st***k *** it alo***, Mrs.

Nidetch ******t*** so*** fat friends *** f***m a group and ***et weekly *** made h***r*** s***ries (secret midnight b***g***g *** the bathroom) and helpful h***ts(put that doughnut *** the freezer *** ***ol temptation). Estab***sh*** *** 1963, Weight Watchers expand*** ****** an ***ternational ***tw***k of clubs, with a product ****** of diet dr***ks, sugar substitutes,and pub***cations-the McDonald's of the r***uc***g ***dustry. "My ***ttle private club has be****** an ***dustry," wrote Mrs. Nidetch, amat***r nutritionist, *** The S***ry of Weight Watchers (1975). In 1978 the oiganization, with about $ 50 mil***on *** annual revenues and a cumulative ***mbership of close *** 2 mil***on, was bought by He***z Foods.