NPR邊聽(tīng)邊練60:適量脂肪有利于健康

以下段落是摘自新聞里的一些重要信息,并不是一個(gè)段落的聽(tīng)寫(xiě)?？諆?nèi)信息可在本新聞中全部找到,大家可以根據(jù)這些信息復(fù)述新聞。

一、泛聽(tīng)建議：

1、完整聽(tīng)一遍，掌握大意。

2、繼續(xù)聽(tīng)，特別注意關(guān)鍵信息。遇到相似的詞，寫(xiě)下來(lái)。

3、復(fù)述新聞。

OK, and let's turn to another study about weight. You might want to listen closely here. It suggests that _1_ may _2_ in favor of living a longer life. That's right. Researchers say there may be some benefit to having a little extra body fat. But not so fast.As NPR's Allison Aubrey reports, no one is suggesting you _3_ your exercising or end the diet.

This isn't the first time that researchers have raised questions about the link between body weight and how long someone will live. While there's no debate that _4_ will raise the risk of all kinds of illnesses and even cut some lives short, it's less clear what happens to people who are less overweight.

When Katherine Flegal, of the CDC, _5_ to answer this question, she wanted to include as many people as possible in her study, from as many places around the world as she could find. We searched all the literature, thousands of articles, found almost 100 articles with almost three million people that really addressed this question head on.

And she concludes that being overweight is actually _6_ a lower risk of death. It's certainly not dramatic, but about a six percent decreased risk. It's statistically significant.

So, who are we talking about here? A lot more people than you might think. About one-third of all Americans fall into this category of overweight. And Flegal found that even among those who are technically slightly obese, there was _7_ risk of death.

詞匯解析：

1、Concludes：結(jié)論

So what can we conclude from this debate?

那么從這場(chǎng)辯論中我們能推斷出什么呢?

2、category：n. 種類，分類;[數(shù)] 范疇

This book clearly falls into the category of fictionalized autobiography.

這本書(shū)顯然類屬自傳體小說(shuō)。

1、being a little overweight 2、tip the odds 3、ditch 4、being severely obese

5、set out 6、associated with 7、no increased