外教領讀課丨Laura傳授減肥秘籍

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A friend of mine wants to lose weight and recently started a new diet. For this diet, she only ate blended up fruits and vegetables and one or two granola bars per day. She』s very excited because she』s already lost 5 kilos, but I』m a little skeptical. I don』t think this diet is very healthy. There are a lot of fad diets like this one. They are often extreme and are popular only for a short time. And these diets almost never work. That』s because you can』t eat blended up fruits and vegetables forever! It』s just not sustainable. It』s also not very balanced. This diet doesn』t give your body everything it needs. Sure it may have plenty of vitamins and minerals, but it doesn』t have much protein or fat.

我的一個朋友想減肥，最近開始節食。她每天只喝果蔬混合物，再吃一到兩個燕麥棒。她非常高興，因為她已經瘦下來5斤，但我卻有點懷疑。我覺得這種飲食習慣並不健康。我知道有許多極端的節食方法，但它們往往過於極端，僅僅風靡一時。但這些方法幾乎從來都沒有用，因為你不可能每天只喝果蔬汁。這些方法並不持久，不具有平衡性，並且無法提供身體所需的所有營養物。果蔬裡面含有大量的維生素和礦物質，但卻沒有足夠的蛋白質和脂肪。

If you really want to lose weight, you need to make small changes in your lifestyle and your eating habits. It』s important to eat consistently throughout the day. That means three meals and probably some snacks. Your meals should have lots of vegetables, some grains, and lean proteins like chicken. You should cook with oil and not butter. You shouldn』t eat too much sugar and you should avoid junk food like chips. Instead of junk food, maybe you could have some fruit.

如果真的想減肥，那你必須逐漸改變自己的生活方式和飲食習慣。你需要每天不斷的攝入食物，除了一日三餐，還要吃些零食。你的食物里需要有蔬菜、穀物、以及精益蛋白質類的食物，如雞肉等。做飯的時候要放油，但不要放黃油。不要吃含糖量高的東西，儘可能避免垃圾食品，多吃些水果。

Making small changes to balance your diet will lead to a much healthier diet than most fad diets. People like fad diets because they want fast results, but small changes will keep you healthier for longer.

逐漸改變自己的飲食習慣，平衡飲食，這會使你的飲食習慣更加健康。大家喜歡極端的節食方法，這是因為大家希望能快速取得效果，但事實上，小的改變反而會讓你保持長久健康。

Now I want a healthy snack! Let』s review some new words we heard.

我現在想吃健康的小零食。還是先回顧一下單詞吧。

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Summary

To be slim and beautiful has always been the ultimate goal for many young girls. The summer is coming, are you ready to wear your beautiful dresses or you are worried about gaining weight? In this passage, I will talk about good ways and bad ways to try to lose weight and be healthy. We will talk about some fad diets and other suggestions on how to eat well. Now I want a healthy snack! Let』s review some new words we heard.

變美變瘦是無數少女追求的終極目標。夏天就要到了，小仙女們準備好穿上自己美美噠的裙子了么？或者你還在為長胖而發愁？在今天的文章中，我將為大家介紹減肥的正確和錯誤打開方式，以及如何保持身體健康。我將首先介紹幾種極端的減肥方法，然後再給大家一些建議：如何才能吃得好，吃的對！我現在想吃健康的小零食啦。讓我們先回顧一下單詞先。

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Reading Material

If you really want to lose weight, you need to make small changes in your lifestyle and your eating habits.

如果真的想減肥，那你必須逐漸改變自己的生活方式和飲食習慣。

Making small changes to balance your diet will lead to a much healthier diet than most fad diets.

在飲食的平衡上做出小的改變會比極端節食帶給你更健康的飲食習慣。

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Vocabulary

skeptical: adj. 懷疑的；懷疑論的，不可知論的

I was skeptical about Mobike at first, but now I see that it is a good service and very popular.

我起初懷疑摩拜腳踏車，但現在我發現這個不僅能提供好的服務，而且很流行。

fad diet: 極端節食法

Fad diets like the cabbage soup diet just aren』t very realistic.

極端節食法，比如捲心菜湯減肥法就很不現實。

sustainable: adj. 可以忍受的；足可支撐的；養得起的

It』s not sustainable to cut down all the trees in the forest. Soon there will be none left!

將森林裡的樹木全部砍到並不符合可持續的原則。很快那裡就會什麼都不剩了!

balance: v. 保持平衡；相稱；抵銷

It』s important to balance time at work with time with your family.

重要的是去平衡工作和陪伴家人的時間。

junk food: 垃圾食品

Kids like junk food because they don』t understand how bad it is for you.

孩子們喜歡垃圾食品,因為他們不明白這些對身體多麼的有害。

result: n. 結果；成績；答案；比賽結果

My company put new advertisements in the subway and we are seeing great results.

我們公司把新廣告展示在捷運里，並得到了顯著效果。

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