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Too much glucose.
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coming to the cell, The cell wall develops insulin resistance.
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You've heard of insulin resistance?
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It's as if the cell says, "I'm sick of the side of you." And so the glucose stays in the cell.
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In the blood, sorry.
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In the blood.
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can't get out of the blood and into the cell because of insulin resistance.
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AND SO THE BRAIN SEES There's still too much glucose in the blood, so it starts screaming at the pancreas, "More insulin!
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More insulin !" And so the pancreas is releasing more insulin, more insulin.
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The problem isn't that we need more insulin, the problem is we've got insulin resistance.
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And what's the body going to do now with all this glucose in the blood?
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It'll just spill out in the urine.
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Did you know that diabetes mellitus means sweet urine?
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The glucose can't get into the cell so it's spilled out in the urine.
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because they noticed that the ants were feeding on urine.
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So they tested the urine.
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This is back in the early 1800s.
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when they first diagnosed diabetes.
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Diabetes was not around until sugar was refined.
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And they noticed that this problem didn't happen in the little villages with the poor people, because they couldn't afford sugar.
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It was only the wealthy ones that could afford the sugar, and it was the wealthy clients were getting the diabetes.
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There's no doubt about it.
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This refined sugar has played a huge role in diabetes.
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Mm -hmm.
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Thank you.
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There's a book called Sugar Blues.
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It's a fascinating book by William Dufty and he gives the history of sugar.
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But something else has happened.
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Something else has happened that has caused this explosion in diabetes.
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And it's something to do with the grain that is in the majority of cereals, the majority of breads.
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all the cakes, biscuits, donuts, cookies, in fact we've got a lot of ticks there, what majority of pizzas are made out of,
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what the majority of pastas are made of, It's wheat.
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So what's the problem with wheat?
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One lady said to me, "But Barbara, God made wheat good." I said, "He did." "And Jesus is called the bread of life." I said,
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"He is." But the bread that Jesus referred to is not the bread we have today.
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It used to be called the staff of life.
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I'd like to suggest, as you will see, it's almost the staff of DEV today.
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Except for Tristan's bread, of course.
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Thank you. So why?
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Well, back in the 1950s, Wheat was put through intensive crossbreeding.
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They wanted to create a plant with a high yield of grain.
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To help with the starvation crisis in Africa, Mexico, India, And they put this through intensive crossbreeding.
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Now at first, because when I was a little girl, the wheat used to grow that high.
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And at first, the stalk would break under the weight of the heavy load of grain.
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So back to the drawing board.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “The Truth About Sugar and Wheat”. Las palabras que más se repiten: insulin, diabetes, sugar, cell, glucose. Este vídeo tiene 45 frases y 498 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:39. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 136 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
insulin sustantivo/ˈɪnsəlɪn/insulina
diabetes sustantivo/ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/diabetes, diábetis
glucose sustantivo/ˈɡluː.kəʊz/glucosa
urine sustantivo/ˈjʊɹɪn/orina, micción
wheat sustantivo/ˈwiːt/trigo
grain sustantivo/ɡɹeɪn/grano
crossbreed verbo/ˈkɹɑːsˌbɹiːd/cruzar
pancreas sustantivo/ˈpæŋ.kɹi.əs/páncreas
refine verbo/ɹɪˈfaɪn/refinar
spill verbo/spɪl/derramar, verter
intensive adjetivo/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/intensivo
biscuit sustantivo/ˈbɪs.kɪt/galleta, bísquet
diagnose verbo/ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/diagnosticar
fascinate verbo/ˈfæsɪneɪt/fascinar
starvation sustantivo/stɑɹˈveɪʃən/inanición, hambreada

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
get out of verbosalirse de, ponerse fuera de
put through verboponer con

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewas refined · are made · is called
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraYou've heard · has played · has happened

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 11 contracciones y formas reducidas, como can't, we've, couldn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spill /spɪl/, starvation /stɑɹˈveɪʃən/, scream /skɹiːm/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: intensive /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/, starvation /stɑɹˈveɪʃən/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: diabetes /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/, glucose /ˈɡluː.kəʊz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como insulin, diabetes, glucose.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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