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刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-10-15
难易度:Medium
关键字:recipe, fiber, digestion, consume, supplement, Alzheimer's
OK, friends, welcome back from the break.
You know, the reason why proverbs are created is the same reason why they're
worth remembering - because there's some truth in them.
Well, what's the truth behind the famous 19th century Welsh proverb "An apple a
day keeps the doctor away"?
Join us as we continue looking at the many health benefits of apples down on
line 6.
(Music).
Celebrating the Apple.
Fiber helps decrease your risk of cancer, is good for digestion and benefits
your heart.
It also helps you feel full, so eating apples may help you lose weight.
Apple peels also contain lots of antioxidants, chemicals that help your body
resist disease.
Some studies indicate that these antioxidants may be even more helpful for your
body than vitamin supplements.
Eating apples can help protect your teeth.
Studies suggest that consuming apples regularly can help prevent several
diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
(Music).
Friends, apples are very delicious, but also they are very good for you.
We're going through many of the health benefits of apples and why you should eat
them and include them in your diet.
That's right.
First we said that they are full of fiber.
Now it's important to eat apples so you get that kind of fiber because fiber
helps decrease your risk of cancer.
And it is good for digestion and benefits your heart.
So fiber has so many great things about it.
You should be eating your apples so you can do that.
Now Kaylah, I already finished my first apple.
Can I have some of yours?
Maybe later.
OK. All right.
Well, fiber does help with cancer and of course, like Kaylah said, with
digestion.
Now "digestion," kind of like what we talked about earlier, is how your body
takes all of the energy out of the food that you eat and gets rid of the waste.
That's right.
Digestion is what your stomach is doing.
So you're stomach when it... sometimes you eat too much and your stomach makes
weird noises.
Those are the digestive system making those noises.
It's trying to break up all that food you just ate.
OK. And so this has many benefits for your digestion so that your body can get
all the energy it needs.
And apples have benefits for your heart.
They're good for the health of your heart.
That's right.
We've... we're talking about health a couple of different times this month.
And we need to remember how important our heart is.
It's a very important part of your body.
So working to have a strong, healthy heart is very important.
Heart disease is one of the number one causes of death in the world every year.
So keeping a strong and healthy heart is definitely a benefit.
So friends, eat your apples.
Yes. Now if you are interested in maintaining your weight, then here's another
reason: Apples help you feel full.
So they're very beneficial for weight loss.
Oh, so they help you feel full.
When you feel full, that means you've eaten enough food and you are no longer
hungry.
You don't need any more.
So eat an apple, maybe an hour or so before dinner, and it will help you feel
full.
You'll eat less.
You'll get good fiber and all the benefits of the apple as well as not eat as
much food.
OK. So that's our first health tip for the apple:
You get a lot of fiber.
They make you feel full.
And they'll help you stay awake and have a lot of energy.
Well, apple peels also contain lots of antioxidants.
Now quite often we like to peel an apple because you might not like the outside
layer.
Now the peel is the outside part of an apple.
It's this red or this green color that is on the outside.
And some people like to take that off because they don't like the taste of it.
It feels sometimes a little strange in your mouth.
But you should really just wash the apple really well and then eat it because
it's full of antioxidants.
Yes. And friends, if you cook your apples, then all of those antioxidants go
away.
Now antioxidants are very good for your body.
They are chemicals that help your body resist and fight disease.
I think that's wonderful.
Why would you not want antioxidants?
So keep the peel, or at least eat half of the peel while you're eating your
apple.
Now even more than that, some studies indicate that these antioxidants,
the ones in the apple peel, may even be more helpful for you than a vitamin
supplement.
Ooh. Now that's... that's good to know, friends, that she'll are better than
supplements.
Now "supplements" are certain things that you eat in order to get more energy or
more health than regular foods.
So let's say you want to be healthy, well, you eat healthy food.
But you need even more energy or more vitamins, and so you take supplements to
get extra.
So that would be like pills or maybe taking a certain juice drink that adds
extra vitamins to your body.
Those are supplements.
But we take supplements to really increase our health.
But this apple peel may actually have more antioxidants than any of the
supplements there are because it's natural and it's... it's made to do that.
Yeah. So this is actually a better idea.
Eat apples.
Eat the inside of the apple and the peel, the outside.
OK. Our next tip is to... it says that eating apples may actually protect your
teeth.
You might think: Oh, it's too crunchy. It kind of hurts when I bite down.
But it cleans your teeth, it helps your gum stay healthy.
So it's not only good for your whole body, it's also good for your mouth.
That's very true.
So it might not just keep the doctor away but also the dentist.
Studies also suggest that consuming, or eating, apples regularly can help
prevent several diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
Now we're going talk about that sentence.
But first, we need to visit Liz with Grammar on the Go.
Hello, friends.
It's time for Grammar on the Go.
My name is Liz.
I'm in Nova Scotia, Canada, at an apple farm.
Speaking of apples, we read in today's article:
Studies suggest that consuming apples regularly can help prevent several
diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Notice the word: suggest.
Normally when we use the word "suggest," we're talking about giving people ideas
or plans for them to think about, like:
I don't know which one to choose; what do you suggest?
But in the case of today's sentence, to say that "Studies suggest..." means that
the results of these studies are almost certain about something,
but the information is not completely proven true.
We use "suggest" like this whenever we want to talk about how studies, research
results or reports seem to show a certain information that we're almost certain
about,
but we still need more proof in order to be 100 percent certain.
For example:
Although the police are still investigating the mysterious break-in at the
museum, evidence suggests that it was an inside job.
Or: Although most research suggests that the species had died out because of
diseases, the scientist believes they died as a result of climate change.
If you turn to today's Grammar Tip section in your Studio Classroom magazine,
you'll find more example sentences there.
That's all the time we have for today.
Thanks for joining me here.
This is Liz with Grammar on the Go, signing off, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Bye-bye.
Thank you, Liz.
Well, apples can help prevent diseases, such as Alzheimer's, which is a disease
that makes people lose their memory.
That's right.
We said it "by consuming." And you mentioned very quickly that "comsuming" means
to eat something or to use something.
So when you consume an apple, that means you are eating it.
And friends, we say you should eat the whole apple.
Leave the core out, but eat the whole, all the peel and the flesh of the apple.
Now Kaylah, earlier you said I could share some of your apple.
May I have some?
OK, I guess.
I guess I can...
My friend in high school taught me this special trick of actually... of actually
breaking... an apple in two pieces.
You just broke an apple in half.
Well, friends, join us tomorrow when we keep learning more about the apple.
Mmhm. There's nothing as good as the taste of a fresh, ripe apple.
A nice, fresh apple?
Yes, especially in the fall. Mmhm!
Delicious, right?
And you can find apples in lots of recipes, like apple pie.
And you know what they say: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Yeah, everybody says that.
But is it really true?
Oh, yes. Scientific evidence shows it really is true.
Exactly what evidence are you talking about?
Well, apples have high amounts of fiber.
Does fiber prevent health problems?
It sure does.
Fiber helps prevent cancer.
It's good for digestion, and it's good for the heart.
Hmm, so apples are good because of fiber.
Yes. Apple also contain antioxidants.
Oh. Are antioxidants good for you?
Yes. They help your body resist disease.
They may be more helpful than vitamin supplements.
Wow! What else do you know about apples?
Well, apples help clean your teeth.
Oh! So an apple a day keeps the dentist away.
Ha...
And that's not all.
Consuming apples regularly helps prevent other diseases, like Alzheimer's.
So it really is true.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
So uh, how many apples do you want?
Well, let's see, an apple a day... I'll take 365.
Oh? Oh!
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.
(Chinese).
And I guess we're running out of time.
I'll see you next time.
Bye-bye.
Thank you, Michelle.
We always appreciate those tips.
Now one of the more famous moments in apple history was way back in 1666 when an
ordinary apple fell off an ordinary apple tree.
The story goes that Sir Isaac Newton saw that apple fall, not on its head, but
in a straight line to the ground,
and he became inspired in his understanding of gravity.
So thanks to the apple, we know more about how our universe works.
Good job, apple.
OK, more about this inspiring fruit - the apple - tomorrow.
Until then, I and everyone else here at Studio Classroom hope you have a great
day.