新托福考试听力特训 CD1-Track14

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W: Do I ever need to lose weight? I could not believe the scales¹ when I got on this morning. I weight ten kilos more than I did last year. I am not sure it is because I eat fast food in the university cafeteria² all the time or if it is because that I no longer belong to the swim club. All my clothes are too tight³.

M: I have gained a lot of weight myself since starting university. But I think we are too young to diet. Exercise is the key. I am going to the gym three times a week. I started two weeks ago and I have already lost a kilo.

W: I think you have to eat the right food and exercise. The diet really controls what you eat. But my parents lost tons of weight on it. I am thinking about going on it.

M: No, I disagree. You can eat whatever you want if you burn it off. Exercise burns calories⁴, if you exercise more, you lost weight. It is that simple.

W: Yes, you lost weight, but eating junk⁵ food and fast food like I have been doing, it is also not good for the heart. Diet impacts⁶ the body in lots of ways. Sugar is also very bad. I have noticed that it impacts my moods. The trouble is, it seems to take a lot of willpower to diet. I just love chocolate, I could eat chocolate bars all day long, but the energy they give me seems to be short lived. I wish I get diet. I started watching what I ate after I gain the first five kilos. But instead of losing that five kilos, I gained another five. My self discipline⁷ is awful. I got my mother to stop sending me care packages of cookies from home. But my friends of the university residents⁸ I live in still get them and they share, so I’m still eating with many sweets.

M: Just exercise more. Almost all the people at the gym are slim and look fit.

W: Yes, but just because they are slim, that doesn’t mean they are fit. It is important what you put into you body. I read you should have at least ten servings of food and vegetables a day to stay healthy. Also, it is important to eat a lot of fish. We need to start thinking about when we get older. My grandmother has all still process, a really harm fat and her doctor said it was because she didn’t enough calsil when she was young.

Man: You worry too much. We are young. Maybe I will start to worry more after I am in my thirties. Right now I am going to eat what I enjoy and exercise. Exercise is the most important thing for the heart.

W: Maybe. But the right food is also important for the heart and many other healthy issues⁹.

M: I like sports drinks for energy. Also I get energy bars that taste like chocolate and I take a multi wide of middling supplement¹¹ everyday. Having enough air in your body is especially important for women like you. Supplements¹² are not expensive and they give you what you need. It is a lot quicker and easier to take a supplement and stand over the stove cooking a full meal.

W: I am not so sure about supplement being useful. Often they just pass through your body. It is much better to get your nutrition¹³ from eating the right foods. I understand if you are an athlete, you need a little more fat, but just going to workout in the gym three times a week doesn’t make you an athlete, Paul. I don’t think you really look that much overweight, but I think you should read up on healthy eating.

M: Yeah, yeah, you sound like my mother.

W: As I said, diets are very hard to stick to, but sometimes you just have to buy the bullet¹⁴ and set up a proper diet. I have an appointment next week with the college dietitian¹⁵. He would drop me a daily diet and tell me what to have for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. I don’t think I will have trouble following for breakfast and lunch. But mid¹⁰ afternoon I just can’t stop snacking. Also, I like to eat before I go to bed which I know is un-good for you. Nonetheless¹⁶, I am determined¹⁷ to lose these extra ten kilos in six months.

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